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Can Gauck be Germany's president 'while living in sin?'
Post Date: 2012-02-27 08:24:51 by Tatarewicz
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Germans generally agree that Joachim Gauck is a good choice for president. But can the ex-pastor be the nation's moral authority while staying married to one woman yet living with another set to become First Lady? Have your say. In Germany the president’s role is mainly a ceremonial one, but from time to time he’s expected to step in and provide the country with some direction. Former President Christian Wulff used his soapbox to promote integration of Germany's Muslims. Others have expounded on various aspects of German society. But some conservative politicians – particularly in the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) – have said Gauck’s personal ...
Extend your German vocabulary with Vocalex
Post Date: 2012-02-27 07:58:18 by Tatarewicz
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Innovative Swedish software can help you expand your German vocabulary rapidly, using words and images. It is generally accepted that the best way to learn any foreign language is by living in the country in question. However, it is not always that simple, especially these days, where many Germans not only speak English fluently, but all too often want to use you as an audience for their linguistic talents. So even if you are thinking moving to Germany, or are already here, simply immersing yourself in the daily life of the country will not be enough. Luckily, help is at hand, in the shape of Vocalex, a new form of teaching software from Lingusoft. Quite simply, learning a new language ...
Data hacking by China likely led to demise of Canada IT giant Nortel
Post Date: 2012-02-27 02:03:36 by Tatarewicz
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An electronic stealth operation allegedly based in China hacks into Nortel Networks Inc., Canada’s high-flying telecom superstar, loots its secrets for a decade and, says one cyber-security expert, contributes to the company’s fatal implosion. Queen’s University professor David Skillicorn points out that after the hackers penetrated Nortel around 2000, they began stealing technical papers, research and development reports, and strategic business plans. After that, Nortel couldn’t compete for contracts “because the hackers had their technical knowledge, their financials, their bids, before they submitted them,” Skillicorn told Postmedia News. “How can you ...
We Want $2.50 Per Gallon Gas—We Want Newt Gingrich!
Post Date: 2012-02-26 22:57:07 by wudidiz
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Apostrophe Abuse
Post Date: 2012-02-25 10:32:13 by christine
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"your so kewl lets get 2gether sumtim" Sometimes a person can wonder if anyone knows how to spell anymore. Sometimes a person has to wonder if teachers have just given up on grammar and punctuation altogether. Sometimes a person wonders what all the fuss is about if other people can figure out what's being said. Are you well-versed in homophones, possessive pronouns, and punctuation? Do you know why apostrophes are being overworked and underpaid? Do you spend so much time text messaging on your phone that you no longer know how to spell without numbers? Do you wonder why the non-word "gooder" is in the title? Go on, take the quiz and see what the teacher would give ...
'It's not the life I want to live', says Chinese worker
Post Date: 2012-02-25 02:50:12 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING - With no idea about her future, Liu Ye walked along the country road that took her home in Central China's Hunan province in July. The 25-year-old migrant worker was returning from neighboring Guangdong province because her parents expected her to date a local man, marry and settle in her hometown to support them in their old age. Liu took her first job in a shoe factory in Shenzhen eight years ago after graduating from a junior middle school. "I wanted to relieve my family's financial burden. It was costing my parents more than 20,000 yuan ($3,174) a year to have four children in school," Liu said. In 2003, as a new assembly line worker in the factory, she ...
New York Man 'Grows' Six Inches Through Surgery
Post Date: 2012-02-25 00:38:04 by Tatarewicz
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At five foot, six inches, Apotheosis was shorter than the average American male and very unhappy about it. So he did something other men who feel short might consider unthinkable: he opted for costly, painful surgeries to make himself "grow" a total of six inches. "I realized that the world looked at me a certain way that I didn't look at myself in that certain way," said the 37-year-old New Yorker, who goes by the pseudonym "Apotheosis" in online forums and asked that "20/20" not use his real name. "I wanted the way I felt about myself and the way the world felt about me to be similar." Apotheosis is one of a "growing" ...
... just adjust your attitude & Thank God you have a job
Post Date: 2012-02-24 12:14:29 by uselesseater
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... just adjust your attitude & Thank God you have a job ".... It's sobering to realize that this has been and is happening everywhere in this country to people with far less stamina or intent to control their own life. ... " That line is brought up front to keep focus on my intent, what I am trying to communicate while some shill prepares their posts for reply ... what the hell chance does a person have of breaking out of this if they are completely oblivious to it all and blaming themselves for failing, blaming themselves for not being strong enough, blaming themselves for letting the stress get to them, etc., etc.? ********************* I tried explaining to boss ...
Public concern about effects on youth of TV dramas
Post Date: 2012-02-24 08:06:01 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING - More than 80 percent of respondents to a survey reported concerns that unwholesome TV dramas could negatively affect and mislead teenagers, according to results released Thursday. The online survey, conducted among 1,210 people by the China Youth Daily Social Investigation Center, showed that 60 percent of the participants believed that TV dramas have had negative effects on teens, with only four percent of respondents saying the dramas have had positive effects. Song Jun, a senior middle school student in east China's Jiangsu province, said that she has many classmates who are addicted to such TV dramas. "Some of my female classmates dream every day of marrying a ...
Australian woman turns tables on Nigerian scammers
Post Date: 2012-02-24 07:43:30 by Tatarewicz
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Nigerian email scams have become nearly as commonplace as the Internet itself. But one Australian woman wound up in jail after turning the tables--to the tune of $30,000--on a group of con artists. The Courier-Mail reports that Sarah Jane Cochrane-Ramsey, 23, was employed as an "agent" in March 2010 by the Nigerians, but didn't know they were scam artists. Her "job" was to provide access to an Australian bank account opened in her name where the Nigerians could then transfer money they had received from a phony car sales website. Cochrane-Ramsey was told she could keep eight percent of the transfers. But, then she decided to steal from the thieves themselves. ...
Romney Paul Ticket? Would you hold your nose or do it gladly? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2012-02-23 03:43:54 by titorite
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On the very off chance of a Romney Paul Ticket.... Would you do it? As I think about it...That would be I victory of sorts...... Although I wouldn't want to be Romney on that ticket...... I vote for it. Gladly... But thats me... Would you hold you nose or vote for paul in a vp position with pride?
Plenty of Learning Options for New Wave of NY Urban Beekeepers
Post Date: 2012-02-23 02:21:54 by Tatarewicz
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NEW YORK—As new beekeepers pop up around the five boroughs two years after a city law was amended, taking introductory classes can help newcomers avoid mistakes and learn what beekeeping entails. “Once urban beekeeping became legal [in New York City] … a lot of people just got the bees and they were very, very excited about it,” said Andrew Coté, founder of two groups dealing with bees, including the New York City Beekeepers Association. “And two weeks later they forgot that they had bees on the roof.” During a talk at the Horticultural Society of New York, Coté described the classes the association offers. “[You] learn about how to be ...
Tell me now...
Post Date: 2012-02-22 20:01:58 by Eric Stratton
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Anyone want anything from the Fox News store at the Minneapolis airport while I'm waiting for my connecting flight? LOL The koolaid cooler in there was empty, ... sorry. I can see if they have mugs w/ a pair of large spheres and a long trunk to suck your favorite hogwash from. And yes Virginia, there really is a Schlock Ooze store here. ... amazing what shrilled in this kountry are preoccupied with.
Police technique for avoiding drunk driving charge
Post Date: 2012-02-21 05:02:44 by Tatarewicz
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VANCOUVER — According to an addiction expert, Benjamin "Monty" Robinson suffered from severe alcohol dependence at the time of a fatal crash 3 1/2 years ago. It was "quite obvious" Robinson was also depressed, Dr. Paul Sobey told a B.C. Supreme Court judge in New Westminster Monday. Robinson, a 41-year-old RCMP corporal, is charged with obstruction of justice in connection with the incident that killed motorcyclist Orion Hutchinson, 21, in Delta, B.C. Robinson is best known as the officer in charge of three other Mounties at Vancouver International Airport who Tasered distraught and disoriented Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski in October of 2007, shortly before ...
Never Forget Your Keys, Phone or Lipstick Ever Again
Post Date: 2012-02-20 23:48:04 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (Feb. 20, 2012) — RFID tags are becoming ubiquitous, shops, warehouses, libraries and others use them for stock and inventory control and to reduce the risk of theft. Now, a team in Dubai has developed the concept of an IPURSE, a mobile platform that keeps track of tiny RFID tags you stick to or insert into your personal possessions, mobile phone, camera, laptop, keys other gadgets and even mundane objects such as notebooks and cosmetics. Writing in the International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications, Mohamed Watfa of the University of Wollongong in Dubai and his research team in the faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, Manprabhjot ...
Scroogle.org down?
Post Date: 2012-02-20 15:16:37 by Eric Stratton
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Scroogle.org seems to be permanently down. It's been down for days. I know that they've had trouble with Google for a few weeks. Anyone know anymore? Big Brutha?
Prayers for Lod [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2012-02-19 22:32:03 by christine
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I just received news that Jim was taken to the hospital several days ago for a bleeding ulcer and is not doing well. They have him on a respirator and he's not lucid. That's all I know tonight.
NASCAR demonstrates bias against Southerners
Post Date: 2012-02-19 18:28:05 by X-15
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NASCAR officials are refusing to allow professional golfer Bubba Watson to drive the ‘General Lee’ car at Phoenix as originally planned over ‘concerns about a negative reaction to an image of the Confederate flag on its roof.’ This is another example of cultural discrimination against the Southern people. NASCAR would bend over backwards to appease any other cultural or national group but the people from whose culture NASCAR actually arose are spit on once again. Officials said they want to be more ‘inclusive,’ which in the politically-correct language we now have come to expect from NASCAR actually means to discriminate against Southerners. Watson, apparently ...
Mysticism Claims More Victims
Post Date: 2012-02-19 18:22:09 by Jethro Tull
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CNN reports two recent atrocities: In central Nepal, a “40-year-old mother of two was burned alive . . . after she was accused of being a witch.” The woman “was attacked and set on fire by family members and others after a shaman allegedly accused her of casting a spell to make one of her relatives sick.” Meanwhile, Iran’s Supreme Court threatens a Canadian citizen with execution because the man “wrote a program to upload photos to the Internet.” That became a legal issue when a different party used the program “to upload pornography,” which, the court found, resulted in “insulting and desecrating Islam.” What enables such atrocities ...
Did anyone's gas prces rise 5 cents overnight?
Post Date: 2012-02-19 11:52:21 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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We jumped from 3.19 to 3.24 overnight. If it's this high this early in the year, summer's going to be a bitch.
Sweden snow: Man 'survives -30 two months trapped in car'
Post Date: 2012-02-19 08:13:14 by Tatarewicz
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The car in which a man was discovered who claims he was trapped inside for two months, in woods north of Umea, Sweden The cold, nutrition-deprived man may have gone into a kind of hibernation, said one doctor The car was found on Friday at the end of a forest track more than 1 km (0.6 miles) from a main road in northern Sweden. Police say the temperature in the area had recently dropped to -30C (-22F). The man, who was too weak to utter more than a few words, said he had been inside since 19 December. He may have survived by drinking melted snow. Police say they have no reason to doubt his story. Sleeping bag The man, who has not been named, is recovering at Umea University Hospital ...
Did Hitler father a lovechild? New claims emerge that Fuhrer had a son with Frenchwoman
Post Date: 2012-02-19 03:29:57 by Tatarewicz
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They share the same piercing gaze, defined jawline and stern mouth set off with a clipped moustache. But the Frenchman who believed he was the secret son of Adolf Hitler was never able to prove his family line before he died. He wasn’t even sure he wanted to. Now new information has emerged that adds weight to Jean-Marie Loret’s claim to have been Hitler’s son from a brief relationship with a French woman during the First World War. There is new evidence that Jean-Marie Loret, right, was the lovechild of Adolf Hitler, left DID HITLER ALSO HAVE A BRITISH LOVECHILD? Unity with Hitler in the 1930s - she became obsessed by him Sensationally, evidence that Hitler had a ...
IRAN WAR WHITNEY DEATH EURO DEBT
Post Date: 2012-02-18 17:41:07 by Southern Style
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Should the childless pay more tax?
Post Date: 2012-02-18 08:49:54 by Tatarewicz
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A group of young German MPs have proposed that people who do not have children should pay extra tax to help pay for social services in the future. In the light of Germany’s low birth rate, should those not producing offspring pay more? Have your say. In a detailed paper submitted to Chancellor Angela Merkel, the conservative group surrounding Marco Wanderwitz, suggested that from next year, Germans over the age of 25 who do not have children, should pay a share of their income as a special tax. Those with one child should pay half the rate, while the tax would be dropped altogether for people with two children. “In particular regarding health and nursing insurance, people ...
Shitstorm 'best English gift to German language'
Post Date: 2012-02-18 08:08:25 by Tatarewicz
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Germany needed Shitstorm, according to a group of language experts who elected the word as the top English contribution to the German language last year. The “Anglicism of the Year” jury defined Shitstorm as a public outcry, primarily on the internet, in which arguments mix with threats and insults to reach a critical mass, forcing a reaction. “This new kind of protest is clearly different in kind and degree from what could be expected in the past in response to a statement or action,” said jury member Michael Mann, who runs a language website called Lexikographieblog. The jury said in a statement on Monday: “Shitstorm fills a gap in the German vocabulary ...
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