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Something More Fun for a Saturday Night
Post Date: 2011-10-29 22:00:18 by Eric Stratton
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(Picture) Football in Central PA - 10/29/11
Post Date: 2011-10-29 14:52:00 by Jethro Tull
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Beaver Stadium as of 11AM this morning. The worst of the storm is expected to start at kickoff - 3:30P
Meet the World's Largest Gold Coin
Post Date: 2011-10-29 06:16:24 by Tatarewicz
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Australia reveals the world’s largest gold coin at Perth Mint to kick off the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. The coin weighs in at about 2,231 pounds, is 31 inches wide and over 4.7 inches thick. The coin is 99.99 percent pure gold, and is valued at $53.5 million. On one side the Queen is pictured, and the other side shows a kangaroo. The Queen is on a ten-day tour of Australia and will be at the opening ceremony for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting this week. "To cast and handicraft a coin of this size and weight was an incredible challenge – one which few other mints would even consider,” said Perth Mint chief executive Ed Harbuz, according ...
Educators turning Americans into useless zombies
Post Date: 2011-10-29 05:45:48 by Tatarewicz
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When the financial crisis of 2008 hit, we saw how state-managed capitalism works. Favored companies are allowed to make as much money as they can. But they are protected from going broke. Certain firms are deemed “too big to fail,” by virtue of the key role they play in the economy, or at least by the role they play in a politician’s plans for re-election or future employment. But state-managed capitalism is very different from the real thing. It is capitalism in a degenerate form. Real capitalism progresses in fits and starts, described by Josef Schumpeter as “creative destruction.” It is like a jungle...not like a zoo. It cannot be managed. You cannot take out ...
Germany marks first phone call anniversary - 15 years before Bell
Post Date: 2011-10-29 04:54:24 by Tatarewicz
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Move over, Alexander Graham Bell, Germany is marking the anniversary of the first phone call today – a century and a half after Johann Philipp Reis first transmitted a spoken sentence over a cable. The age of telephony was not hailed with Bell’s summons to his assistant, “Mr Watson come here – I want to see you” in 1876 – but by the surreal sentence “The horse does not eat cucumber salad” spoken on October 26 back in 1861 by Reis. It was a nonsense phrase which Reis made up during a presentation of his early telephone model – to prove to the audience that listeners on the receiving end of his device were not parroting a memorized dialogue. ...
I do not post at libertyflamer.com - that Rotara is a fraud. [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-10-28 16:19:19 by Rotara
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I've never registered there nor would I. I hope this PSA finds you all well and in good spirits.
Putin voices ‘disgust’ at Qadhafi coverage
Post Date: 2011-10-28 06:49:16 by Tatarewicz
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MOSCOW: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin expressed his “disgust” at the global media Wednesday for its graphic coverage of ousted Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi’s death. The overwhelming favourite in next year’s Russian presidential elections told an election campaign meeting that he found the TV coverage immoral and blamed journalists for failing a basic ethics test. “Almost the entire Qadhafi family was killed. His body was shown on all the world channels. You could not watch without disgust,” news agencies quoted Putin as saying. “What is that?” Putin exclaimed. “They show a bloodied man, wounded, still alive but getting beaten to ...
NYC man pleads guilty to kidney trafficking
Post Date: 2011-10-28 01:49:12 by Tatarewicz
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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A New York man pleaded guilty Thursday to what experts said was the first ever proven case of black-market organ trafficking in the United States. Levy Izhak Rosenbaum admitted in federal court in Trenton that he had brokered three illegal kidney transplants for New Jersey-based customers in exchange for payments of $120,000 or more. He also pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to broker an illegal kidney sale. His attorneys, Ronald Kleinberg and Richard Finkel, said in a statement that their client had performed a life-saving service for desperately ill people who had been languishing on official transplant waiting lists. "The transplants were ...
Khodorkovsky’s ex-cellmate applies for asylum in UK
Post Date: 2011-10-27 05:49:33 by Tatarewicz
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A former cellmate of jailed Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky has filed for political asylum in Britain, saying he is being harrassed and pressured by the authorities, his lawyer said on Thursday. Alexander Kuchma slashed Khodorkovsky's face when they were cellmates at a correctional facility in the remote Chita region in April 2006. Kuchma later claimed he had attacked on orders from the prison authorities. Kuchma has been released and now lives with his mother in Chita. His lawyer Vitaly Cherkasov said his client has recently noticed a number of suspicious incidents. “His house was searched without any legal grounds, and he was visited by two people posing as army draft ...
Study questions outsourcing traffic camera systems
Post Date: 2011-10-27 03:56:09 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON (AP) — One out of every five Americans lives in a community that pays a for-profit company to install and operate cameras that record traffic violations. A pro-consumer group says that practice could end up putting profits ahead of safety and accuracy. Some contracts require cities to share revenue with camera vendors on a per-ticket basis or through other formulas as a percentage of revenue. Suffolk County, N.Y., for example, diverts half of the revenue from its red-light camera program to its vendor, according to the report being released Thursday by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group. Another type of agreement — conditional "cost-neutral" contracts ...
T.J. Singh Unbelieveable Golf Shot
Post Date: 2011-10-26 16:07:10 by noone222
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www.dump.com/2011/08/15/v...er-and-in-the-hole-video/ Poster Comment:There was no embed available ... but the shot is worth viewing.
Bed bug hazard in Canada's Westcoast libraries
Post Date: 2011-10-26 02:29:46 by Tatarewicz
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Bed bugs are grey to reddish-brown, flattish, oval-shaped bodies with no wings and about the size of an apple seed. They feed on human blood and pierce the skin with a thin straw-like tube. (Photo at link) The New Westminster Public Library was closed Tuesday while steps were taken to deal with bedbugs. Blair Fryer, the city's communications manager, said staff discovered
Steve Jobs biography: 7 revelations
Post Date: 2011-10-26 02:02:08 by Tatarewicz
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Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson’s hotly anticipated bio of the Apple guru came out on Monday, but the media has already got its hands on the book. The notoriously private Jobs gave Isaacson unprecedented access, granting him over 40 interviews. Here, seven revelations: 1. He was really furious about Google’s Android Jobs said Google was guilty of “grand theft” when HTC released an Android phone that borrowed or approximated many of the iPhone’s popular features. Apple promptly sued Google, in one of the early shots of the ongoing mobile patent wars. “I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple’s $40 billion in the ...
'tube - Barbara from Harlem on immigration
Post Date: 2011-10-25 20:00:23 by Jethro Tull
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Poster Comment:PS: All u youngins' need to google the "Life of Riley."
Weirdly prescient 1987 sitcom predicted the death of Muammar Gaddafi
Post Date: 2011-10-25 05:27:55 by Tatarewicz
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There was no shortage of crappy, short-lived genre shows in the 1980s, but only one of them accidentally predicted the death year of a newly deceased Libyan strongman. In this bizarre scene from the pilot of the 1987 "guy comes back from the afterlife to make amends" series Second Chance, St. Peter tosses Gaddafi into the bowels of Hell in the far-off year of 2011. Excuse me for a moment, I'm going to read old episodes of Gobots like tea leaves. [Via Buzzfeed] As in 9/11 another sign of Jew "orchestration."
What choice of beer says about Ausies
Post Date: 2011-10-25 05:06:46 by Tatarewicz
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What's your beer say about you? THE beer you buy can be a pot, pint or stubbie full of social identity. Drinkers' favourite brands are shedding light on their personalities, pay packets and lifestyles, according to new Roy Morgan research. Iconic VB is a hit with the working-class, budget shoppers, pizza lovers and Dancing With The Stars viewers, while Carlton Draught's following is keener on fish and chips and V8 Supercars. Do you match the list? What's your favourite beer and what does it say about you? Tell us in the comments section below. High-income earners who frequent department stores and live theatres are likely to pick up a James Boag's. Book worms and ...
Shakespeare's hometown protests film challenging authorship
Post Date: 2011-10-25 04:20:41 by Tatarewicz
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Shakespeare's name is being removed from signs in Warwickshire in a campaign against a new film which questions whether he wrote his plays. The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust is taping over nine road signs for the day to coincide with the premiere of Anonymous at the London Film Festival. It criticised the film as an attempt to "rewrite English culture and history". A memorial in William Shakespeare's home town of Stratford-upon-Avon is being covered with a sheet. The sign on The Shakespeare pub in Welford, where the Bard is said to have enjoyed his last drink, is one of 10 pub signs that are being covered. 'Enormous legacy' The trust said it wanted to highlight ...
Indiana identical twins give birth on same day
Post Date: 2011-10-24 05:16:06 by Tatarewicz
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BLOOMINGTON, Indiana (AP) — Two identical twins in Indiana now have another birthday in common: They delivered babies on the same day at the same hospital. The Herald-Times reports 21-year-old Jessica and Jennifer Patterson gave birth Wednesday at Indiana University Health Bloomington Hospital. Jennifer Patterson gave birth first to a girl, Adalynn Rose Patterson, who was born with a collapsed lung but is now doing fine. Eight and half hours later, Jessica Patterson gave birth to a boy, Mason Douglas Patterson, by Cesarean section. Jennifer Patterson calls the same-day births "kind of cool." Both women live in the tiny Lawrence County town of Judah. Hospital ...
Couple of ratings of Freedom4um
Post Date: 2011-10-24 02:20:16 by Tatarewicz
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If you can't go to sleep
Post Date: 2011-10-23 23:06:26 by abraxas
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Health, Education, and Learned Helplessness Options
Post Date: 2011-10-23 03:26:17 by Tatarewicz
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One of the greatest revelations that has come out of my research for my book The Natural Enterprise is something that should have been obvious, and should be obvious to all of us: Our education systems prepare us for dependence on employment by large corporations and government organizations. Why? Because this is the most ‘manageable’ way to run the system, and conveniently keeps us in our place. If the system were to equip us to be independent entrepreneurs, there would be a number of unpleasant consequences for the established wealth and power hierarchy: Large employers would have to offer a lot more to attract the top graduates: more money, more freedom, more flexibility. The ...
Run on Steve Jobs' German designer jumper
Post Date: 2011-10-22 08:34:53 by Tatarewicz
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In his last public appearance, Steve Jobs wore a sweater by exclusive Berlin label Von Rosen. Since his death earlier this month, the company has seen a huge rush in sales of the €420-cashmere turtleneck. The trademark black jumper is now nearly sold out, as Jobs fans worldwide are racing to own a slice of Apple history. In the spring of 2010, company director and self-confessed Apple-enthusiast David von Rosen sent one of their cashmere jumpers to Apple headquarters. “We felt that our design philosophy and Apple’s were on the same wavelength,” he said in an interview with Suddeutsche Zeitung. “We thought it would be awesome if Steve would wear our jumper, ...
Bike revolution in Germany sparks conflict with motorists
Post Date: 2011-10-22 08:20:37 by Tatarewicz
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Germany might still be known for its high-speed autobahns, but in cities, bicycles are now so popular that a war of words has broken out between drivers and cyclists over who rules the road. Ramsauer: helmet law for cyclists could be inevitable - Society (19 Oct 11) In Berlin, more than 500,000 of the 3.5 million inhabitants daily bike around the city – twice as many as a decade ago – making the most of an extensive network of cycle paths. On Unter den Linden, the capital's celebrated, tree-lined central boulevard, cyclists zoom up and down between the pedestrians and hordes of tourists admiring the Brandenburg Gate. 'Beer bikes' pedalled simultaneously by a dozen ...
Most young criminals re-offend after jail
Post Date: 2011-10-22 07:44:15 by Tatarewicz
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More than two-thirds of young criminals in Germany re-offend after being released from custody – largely due to insufficient preparation made for their release, according to new research. Delegates at a conference on youth incarceration in Greifswald heard that increased staffing of the 29 juvenile detention facilities since 1994 had reduced the re-offending rate by nine percent. “But many former criminals do not cope with their sudden freedom, are unsatisfactorily integrated into society and end up committing new crimes,” said criminology professor Frieder Dünkel at the conference. He said that up to 40 percent of re-offenders commit crimes serious enough to return ...
Woman assaulted with frozen armadillo
Post Date: 2011-10-21 23:03:33 by Armadillo
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Only in Texas: Dallas police are on the lookout for a man who could face assault charges for throwing a frozen armadillo at a 57-year-old woman near Dallas. The woman, My Fox Dallas-Fort Worth reports, met the man in a parking lot to purchase the armadillo carcass, which she planned to eat. During a fight over its price, he hit her with the animal in the leg and the chest, leaving bruises on her body. According to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Texas law prohibits the sale of live armadillos, but a few Texans still go after their meat. Click for Full Text!
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