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The Bookworm Beat — 08/28/14 comprehensive round-up (and Open Thread)
Despite my rather chronic worries about the state of our nation and the state of our world, I seldom have nightmares. Last night, though, I had a doozy. It was short, vivid, and had me waking dripping with sweat. I dreamed that my son and I got off a bus in San Francisco only to find ourselves surrounded by Muslim teenagers who proceeded to beat my son to death.
When I awoke, I calmed myself by looking around my peaceful home and said out loud, "That can't happen here." But of course it can happen here. It can happen anywhere that radical Islamists — who are incredibly proud of their slaughters — get their tentacles.
It shouldn't happen here, in the country we once thought of as the "land of the free and the home of the brave" but not only are we rather quickly ceding our freedom to the federal government, a nation that's terrified of letting children play in parks or of candy in schools really can't be considered very brave any more.
In this, the beginning of the 21st century, it's even more likely to happen here because we have an administration head by a man who manifestly feels an affinity for Islam, and encourages his government to do the same.
And now for your regularly scheduled round-up:
The moral inversion of Israel hatred
Six million Jews died at Nazi hands. Those European Jews who survived suffered horribly: exile, torture, imprisonment, slave labor, etc. Because the oldest hatred never dies, the anti-Semites of the world have found a new use for this apocalyptic tragedy. After decades of denying the Holocaust, they're now kind of acknowledging that it happened, solely so that they can liken Jews to Nazis.
Martin Kramer explains the phenomenon of "Holocaust Inversion," which is making its way to an over-priced, over-subsidized college campus near you. I'll share with you his conclusion in case you don't have time to read the whole thing:
There is such a thing as legitimate criticism of Israel, and there is such a thing as crossing the line into demonization and, to put it plainly, Jew-baiting. The analogies spewed by Columbia's tenured professors are of the latter kind, and are obscene. Jew-baiting covers a wider range than anti-Semitism, and Holocaust inversion is its favorite technique. Jew-baiting is the demand that Israel and its supporters explain why Gaza isn't like a Nazi extermination camp or a starved ghetto for the doomed, or why a targeted air campaign isn't just like the incineration of Dresden. That it should be practiced so openly by tenured professors at New York's Ivy League home is a scandal, and a warning.
The IDF's comprehensive site with information about Operation Protective Edge
In this, the first war that has seen the IDF circumvent hostile reporters and communicate directly with the public through the web and social media, the IDF has done a consistently excellent job using the these new media. A good example is its comprehensive Operation Protective Edge information site.
And yes, Obama hates Israel
Peter Wehner tries desperately hard to be a temperate, rational voice over at Commentary. Not for him reflexive Obama criticisms.
Wehner's growing problem, though, is that Obama deserves a lot of those criticisms. Thankfully, Wehner is honest enough to recognize when criticism is due, and man enough to make it. Recently, he's started acknowledging that Obama's conduct towards Israel is not just part of some overarching Progressive game plan but, in fact, rests on a solid bed of real dislike for that tiny, beleaguered nation:
In a neighborhood featuring Hamas, ISIS, Hezbollah, Syria, and Iran, just to name a few of the actors, President Obama was "enraged" at … Israel. That's right, Israel–our stalwart ally, a lighthouse of liberty, lawfulness, and human rights in a region characterized by despotism, and a nation filled with people who long for peace and have done so much for so long to sacrifice for it (including repeatedly returning and offering to return its land in exchange for peace).
Yet Mr. Obama–a man renowned for his lack of strong feelings, his emotional equanimity, his disengagement and distance from events, who New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd refers to as "Spock" for his Vulcan-like detachment–is not just upset but "enraged" at Israel.
Maybe Obama would like Israel more if he understood history better
Today, I have a twofer on Obama's ignorance about all things historical. Both posts allude not just to Obama's ignorance, but to his complacent belief that, if you just sit back and do nothing, the mere fact that we're living in the 21st century means that good will inevitably triumph, without any requirement for action from the world's good people.
Victor Davis Hanson phrases it this way:
Obama often parrots Martin Luther King Jr.'s phrase about the arc of the moral universe bending toward justice. But King used that metaphor as an incentive to act, not as reassurance that matters will follow an inevitably positive course.
Another of Obama's historical refrains is his frequent sermon about behavior that doesn't belong in the 21st century. At various times he has lectured that the barbarous aggression of Vladimir Putin or the Islamic State has no place in our century and will "ultimately fail" — as if we are all now sophisticates of an age that has at last transcended retrograde brutality and savagery.
In Obama's hazy sense of the end of history, things always must get better in the manner that updated models of iPhones and iPads are glitzier than the last.
The Streetwise Professor, meanwhile, says that Obama's speech after James Foley's death reveals the "progressive dialectic" that props up Obama's belief system:
Obama's progressivism, in many senses of the word, shines through here. According to Obama, ISIS is an atavism that is destined for extinction, because it does not fit into the 21st century. Through some sort of (unstated) dialectical process, such people "ultimately fail." Humanitarians prevail, as the world progresses to higher and higher states of development and consciousness. This is profoundly ahistorical. Atavistic forces have repeatedly toppled far superior civilizations.
What Obama's vacations really mean
Conservatives have harped for years about Obama's vacations — their scope, frequency, frivolity, and expense. Periodically, Leftists will announce that Bush and Reagan vacationed more frequently and at greater expense. I don't know if these claims are true and neither do I care. Instead, my visceral feelings about Obama's vacations is that they are too showy, frequent, and costly for a nation in a recession and a nation at war. There was and is something indecent about them. Matthew Continetti feels the same way and has written a really marvelous article expanded on that feeling.
Foley was not the saint he's painted as being
Nothing, absolutely nothing, excuses ISIS's heinous execution of James Foley. Still, it's worth knowing who he was and, I'm sorry to say, he may not have been the saint he's portrayed as being.
According to Daniel Greenfield, who provides the evidence to back up his charges, Foley was a Leftist activist masquerading as a journalist. His unswerving support for Sunnis against Shias in Syria's civil war blinded him to the evils of both. Along the way, as his Twitter feed shows, he was hostile to America's effort to contain Islamic terrorism and cold to the slaughter of Christians:
Foley came to Syria to support the Sunni Islamist rebels against the Syrian government. He was a vehement advocate and while he didn't necessarily side with any single group, he echoed the one sided narrative rather than telling the truth about the Islamists. His Twitter feed was full of urgings to arm the Jihadists.
Meanwhile he sneered at America's War on Terror.
He cheered on the Sunni Muslim terrorists fighting to ethnically cleanse the Christians of Aleppo. In the conflict between Israel and Hamas, his tweets and retweets were chock full of pro-Sunni Syrian terrorist propaganda.
Given the above, it should come as no surprise that Foley also supported Hamas over Israel.
Haters got to hate
Andrew Klavan is back with a video helping conservatives understand some of the Leftists' favorite catch-phrases. You'll enjoy it.
The only problem I have with the video is that Klavan didn't include the word "hater" in the list. I freely admit to being a "hater." Indeed, I think more people should be "haters." It's not the fact that you hate; it's those you choose to hate.
I hate ISIS and other radical Islamist groups and their members. I hate pedophiles. I hate finding black widows in my house. I'm a hater, but I'm a smart, focused hater. Where I differ from Democrats is that, within the American political system, I strongly disagree with what they advocate and do but, unlike them, I do not "hate" my political opponent.
Oh, and before I forget, here's the Klavan video:
And let's be honest for once about who the real racists too often are
While we're on the subject of racists, you have to see this video, in which a couple of conservatives turn the table on a Latin American reporter looking for racism.
Also on the subject of hate, you have to see the article about the Democrat newspaper that someone let slip past a photo of Asian Americans with made-up racist names that would have worked perfectly in any Hollywood film or newspaper from the 1870s through the 1930s. I suspect that a crew of juvenile Leftists working at the paper were playing around and, before they could correct their little bit of fun, the issue ran.
The fact is that Democrats hate Asians because Asians put the lie to Leftist myths about white tyranny oppressing non-white peoples. Asians also kill the myth that growing up in the slums means generations in the slums without government help. And of course, they destroy the myth that growing up in a poor neighborhood means you'll be a psychopathic gang banger. Asians, in turn, respond to this race hatred by worshiping the Democrat Party's assurance that Asians are victims of white hegemony and must vote for big government to protect themselves. In other words, just like Jews, Asians are the world's smartest dumb people (or the world's dumbest smart people?).
Fear of being called racist allows British town to ignore hundreds of pedophile abuse crimes
Back when I lived in England, Yorkshire, unlike large swaths of Southern England, was very, very English. There weren't even many tourists there.
That's all changed, of course. Thanks to Labour's open door policy for the Muslim parts of the former British Empire, Yorkshire has morphed in Little Pakistan. Combine this influx of hard core Muslims with Britain's politically correct culture and you get a miscarriage of justice on a grand scale: Social workers in the medieval south Yorkshire town of Rotherham closed their eyes to more than 1,000 cases of child sexual abuse because the abusers were Muslims, and the social workers were afraid they'd be labeled as racists if they acted to protect the children.
This evil has been exposed in only one Yorkshire town. You don't have to be psychic to know that it happened in many others too.
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Europe may simply be damned
In France, 10% or so of the population is Muslim. I assume that 100% of that 10% is part of the 1 in 6 French people who support ISIS. That still leaves 6% of the non-Muslim French population that supports ISIS just because….
I truly think Europe is damned. That is, without even the excuse of themselves being Muslims, significant numbers of Europeans support an ideological/political/military entity that is, as Jonah Goldberg insists we admit, "evil."
Class warfare rhetoric breeds hatred
I'm not actually sure that class warfare rhetoric had anything to do with the horrible scene described at a WalMart that was accepting Kiwani's and Salvation Army vouchers for school supplies for poor children. It's just that I cannot think of any other thing to describe the dishonesty and ingratitude that the Lonely Libertarian witnessed.
The Justice Department may have a problem arguing that Michael Brown was "executed."
Eric Holder has chosen to fling himself into the Ferguson uproar on the side of Michael Brown, never mind that Holder made this decision immediately, without benefit of any actual facts. As facts are emerging, Holder may regret his hasty decision. Why? Because in a shooting with a bullet-in-corpse pattern remarkably similar to the Michael Brown case, Holder and his team argued vociferously that there was nothing execution-y about even a shot to the top of the head.
When it comes to corporations, I agree with both the Left and the Right
One of the things Leftists like to point out about American corporations when conservatives raise the issue of inordinately high taxes is the fact that corporations get so many taxpayer subsidies. On this one, both the Left and the Right are correct. Subsidies put the government's heavy, often wrong, thumb on the scale and lead to cronyism and monopolies. And heavy taxes chase away businesses, wealth, and jobs. We should therefore do away with both of them says Stan Collender.
Yeah, the media hates us (Republicans, that is)
There's a reason Ed Driscoll is one of the premier media analysts in the conservative blogosphere — he's good at what he does, helped by an incredible knowledge base about the American media.
Today's evidence of that truth is a flashback to a time when media members were as open in their condescension towards Americans and their disdain for Leftists as they are today, with the difference being that there was no internet to disseminate their attitudes to all Americans.
The safest school in America
In Argyle, Texas, the school district is arming its teachers and making that fact well-known:
I'd be surprised if there's ever a mass shooting at an Argyle, Texas, school.
Pigs fly moment on San Francisco public radio
San Francisco's public radio and TV channels are notoriously Leftist. I mean, what can you expect when you combine San Francisco and public media? That's why a conservative woman I know almost crashed her car the other day when she tuned into Michael Krasny's notoriously Left-leaning forum, and heard a spirited discussion in which host and panel took turns excoriating Obama's conduct regarding ISIS.
Just to confirm that the show really was hostile to Obama, just peruse the comments from an audience accustomed to tuning into the KQED radio and hearing the usual Progressive mix of Obama and Muslim worship, along with Republican and Israel hatred:
Forget the ice bucket challenge. I have the Michael KRASNY Challenge: Invite the eminent foreign policy analyst John Mearsheimer on to your program!! If it is a foreign policy issue, he can speak to it in depth, in plain yet scholarly language, and it is a view you are apparently never exposed to. Try it some day Michael!! Please?
[And in response to the above, another commenter said:] And Norman Finkelstein, Noam Chomsky, Max Blumenthal, with Israel's UN Ambassador Ron Prosor
IMO we in the US shouldn't be supporting any regime or movement that doesn't first endorse and implement gay marriage.
(That last was my personal favorite, because it shows someone figuring out that Islamists and their countries are not user-friendly. I may not support gay marriage — preferring that states do civil unions only, leaving marriage to religion — but I do not support regimes that routinely marginalize, torture and execute gays either — and that would be all sharia regimes.)
A new challenge, even better than the ALS one (and one that wastes less water and harms no one):
(I was not surprised to learn that the man issuing the challenge is a Marine.)
Shop for the stuff you need and help the NRA at the same time
I ought to be telling you to shop at Amazon using a Bookworm Room link, but I recognize that doing so is convenient and, honestly, it doesn't bring me a lot of money. Here's a better thing to do if you're an Amazon shopper: Shop through a portal set up so that, that every time you make a purchase, Amazon donates a portion of that purchase to the NRA. Yes, you heard that right. I honestly don't know how it managed to do so, but the NRA is enrolled in the Amazon Smile program. Under that program, shoppers can set up their account so a fraction of every purchase is given to their designated Amazon Smile charity.
Here's what you need to do:
1. Log on to the Amazon Smile page.
2. Click on Your Account to the right of the search bar.
3. Under Settings category: Select Change Your Charity
4. Search for "The NRA Foundation, Inc."
5. Click Select next to The NRA Foundation, Inc.
6. Start shopping.
(Not to detract from the NRA, but using that same "Amazon Smile" portal, you can also give other America friendly charities such as Wounded Warrior.)
I get the free speech aspect; I just don't get what the joke was
The University of Oregon charged a student with all sorts of speech crimes after she spotted a couple walking past her window on a summer's day and yelled "I hit it first." The gal claimed it was a joke, but the couple (or some bystanders) took offense. After a blast of publicity, UO backed down, which is a good thing.
I fully understand the basic facts, but there are two things I don't get. How is yelling out "I hit it first" a joke? And why would anyone find that joke or phrase offensive? Please explain.
The Caped Crusader picture round-up
(With help this time from Sadie and from Earl.)


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The Grade 2 Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes gives 2012 Kentucky Derby hopefuls the opportunity to compete under the Twin Spires and morning line favorite Ever So Lucky gets the acid test.
Ever So Lucky, conditioned by Jonathan Sheppard, turned heads with a smashing local debut sprint tally Nov 11. The $600k son of Indian Charlie could be any kind but is worth trying to beat on the win end at 5-2 in his stakes route bow.
Cyber Secret also began his career with a sharp victory and he showed determination in the Belmont mud that day. Chad Brown's $110k Keeneland sales grad earned a competitive number in that Oct 20 affair and is bred to route. He seems worth a shot at 6-1.
Gemologist is 2-for-2 and might get brave if able to shake loose early. He should face pace pressure from Ever So Lucky, Mr. Prankster, Fine, and maybe Saint Honore from the outside post, but Todd Pletcher's $310k colt exits a course/distance tally and could be the speed of the speed.
Timely Tally rallied for the place behind Gemologist last time and did not get much pace help that day. He figures to save all of the ground under Borel and today's expected honest fractions should help his cause. The improving sort can threaten these at 10-1.
Wayne Lukas gives Optimizer another shot on dirt after his charge finished 8th in the BC Juvenile. Distance is not a question but the son of English Channel might be better on synthetic or turf. He removes the hood and will try to get involved late.
Atigun is getting better for Ken McPeek and he appeared to enjoy the Churchill main track in his flat mile graduation run Nov 6. He is playable at 10-1.
Africanist ran into the likes of Currency Swap and Alpha in his first two outings at the Spa. He exits a course/distance maiden win in the slop and can compete for a spot in the Trifecta at 10-1.
The field is completed by maiden outsider Seve.
The $30 Play:
$12 to win Cyber Secret
$8 to win Timely Tally
.50 cent Trifecta Cyber Secret, Timely Tally with Ever So Lucky, Cyber Secret, Timely Tally with Ever So Lucky, Africanist, Timely Tally, Cyber Secret, Optimizer, Atigun, Gemologist

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The principal part of anything as distinguished from its subordinate parts, as in the main part of an instrument. An individual, an organization, or an entity given legal recognition, such as a corporation or "body corporate." A compilation of laws known as a "body of laws."
BODY. A person.
2. In practice, when the sheriff returns cepi corpus to a capias, the plaintiff may obtain a rule, before special bail has been entered, to bring in the body and this must be done either by committing the defendant or entering special bail. See Dead Body.


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While it's easy to understand the appeal of watching a fast car run a blisteringly fast 1/4, occasionally it's fun to watch a vehicle run a painfully slow 1/4. That is of course as long as the vehicle in question is a 1954 GM Futurliner.
Originally designed by Harley Earl for General Motor's "Parade of Progress", 12 Futurliners were built to travel the country and showcase modern achievements in the 40s and 50s. Of the 12 built, nine are known to exist, including one that sold at Barrett-Jackson in 2006 for a whopping $4.1 million (before buyer's fees).
This example is #10 of the 12 built which appeared at this year's Pontiac Nationals in Norwalk, Ohio. As you can see from this video, appearing wasn't all the Futurliner did at this year's event. The owner of this rare and valuable piece of history threw caution to the wind (kind of) and decided to run the massive GM down the 1/4 mile. The final result? A very slow but entertaining 48 second trip down the track during which the Futurliner managed to reach 28 MPH.
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HONG KONG — Asian stocks markets were narrowly mixed Thursday, as President Barack Obama's $75 billion lifeline to homeowners did little to boost optimism about the outlook for the global economy.
Investors nibbled at some beaten down shares but enthusiasm was tempered by another dose of negative economic data in the U.S. and Asia, as well as Wall Street's sideways session. Oil prices languished below $35 a barrel, while the dollar was lower against the yen after advancing strongly overnight.
In Japan, the central bank kept its key interest rate on hold at 0.1 percent, as widely expected, and extended several emergency measures to increase liquidity, including its operation to buy corporate bonds from firms to help ease the funding crunch.
The Bank of Japan also warned conditions in the world's second-largest economy, already struggling with its biggest contraction in more than three decades, were unlikely to improve anytime soon. In Taiwan, meanwhile, bleak economic data confirmed the country as Asia's latest to slip into recession.
In New York overnight, U.S. markets ended a volatile session mostly flat after Obama unveiled his relief plan.
The program would provide incentives to mortgage lenders to help borrowers reduce their payments in an effort to counter a souring housing market at the core of the economic crisis.
While a number of analysts said the program might limit the hemorrhaging in housing prices, the market's cool reception seemed to show how much investors have lost confidence in government bailouts.
"We are still dealing with a lot of bad news. We all should be concerned what is going to happen in the economy," said Winson Fong, Hong Kong-based managing director at SG Asset Management, which oversees about $2 billion in equities in Asia. "Things are still getting worse this year, so we're seeing a lot of markets drifting down slowly."
In Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 stock average closed up 23.21 points, or 0.3 percent, at 7,557.65, buoyed by a weaker overnight yen that improves repatriated profits of the country's many exporters. Markets in Australia, India and Taiwan were higher as well.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng fell 0.9 percent to 12,893.50, while South Korea's Kospi lost 0.6 percent to 1,107.10. Shanghai's benchmark was up 0.7 percent in a choppy session.
In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average edged up less than 0.1 percent to 7,555.63. For a second day, the blue chips managed to finish just above their November closing low. The Standard & Poor's 500 index dipped 0.1 percent to 788.42, and the Nasdaq composite index fell 0.2 percent to 1,467.97.
U.S. stock futures were up slightly, suggesting modest gains when Wall Street opens Thursday. Dow futures rose 36, or 0.5 percent, to 7,519 and S&P500 futures gained 2.6, or 0.3 percent, to 782.10.
In oil, light, sweet crude for March delivery was up 13 cents at $34.75 a barrel in Asian trade.
Overnight, the contract lost 31 cents to settle at $34.62 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The March contract expires on Friday, and most of the trading was for the April contract.
In currencies, the dollar weakened against the yen, falling to 93.43 yen compared to 93.65 yen earlier. The euro rose to $1.2583 from $1.2560.
Asian Stocks Mixed Over Obama's Home's Plan
HONG KONG — Asian stocks markets were narrowly mixed Thursday, as President Barack Obama's $75 billion lifeline to homeowners did little to boost optimism about the outlook for the global economy.


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Chicago police shot and killed a man in the Old Town Triangle neighborhood before midnight Saturday night, according to police and a union spokesman.
The off-duty officer lives in the area and saw a man on the porch of a vacant apartment about 11:30 p.m., Fraternal Order of Police Spokesman Patrick Camden said.
The officer called 911 twice during the incident, Camden said.
He called out to the man to see what he was doing and the man replied "you don't want no part of me," Camden said.
The man had a bag or sack over his shoulder and his hand on his waistband, Camden said, but repeatedly ignored the officer's commands to come down after he identified himself as an officer.
"So he comes downstairs and the officer says, 'Let me see your hands.' The guy keeps telling him, 'You don't want no part of me,'" Camden said. "And a neighbor is standing there and tells him, 'He's a police officer, he's a police officer, show him your hands.'"
The man turned down a gangway and started to walk away but the officer told him there was no way out of that gangway, Camden said.
The man, in a dark gangway, grabbed his waistband and threatened to kill the officer while continuing to ignore the officer's demands to show his hands, Camden said.
The officer opened fire after the man grabbed his waistband, striking the man, Camden said. He died at the scene, and the officer was not injured.
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"It was pretty loud to be heard inside his apartment, so it had to be super loud for it to be heard," said Taimur Farasat, 27, who was at a friend's house on Lincoln Avenue when he heard two gunshots.
The Chicago Police Department released a statement about 4 a.m. confirming Camden's account of the shooting.
It's not clear whether a gun was recovered at the scene. As of 5 a.m., the Cook County medical examiner's office identified the man as Rickey Rozelle, 28, of the 6100 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue.
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The shortfin mako (Isurus oxyrinchus) is believed to be the fastest-swimming of all sharks (4) (5) (3), thought to be capable of attaining bursts of speed of up to 35 kilometres per hour (6), and famed for making spectacular leaps of up to six metres out of the water (7) (8). The shortfin makos' high tail produces maximum thrust to propel the shark rapidly forward, both in extreme bursts of speed, and for sustained, long-distance travel (3) (9). The shortfin mako also has a heat exchange circulatory system that enables the body to be warmer than surrounding water, and thus maintain a high level of activity (4). This large, stream-lined shark has a distinctively crescent-shaped caudal fin, a long, conical snout, large black eyes and razor-sharp, blade-like teeth (2) (5) (3). The upper body is a brilliant metallic blue, while the underside is snow-white, with older, larger specimens tending to be darker with reduced white areas. Juveniles are therefore generally paler than adults, and also differ by possessing a clear black mark on the tip of their snout. The shortfin mako can be distinguished from the only other mako shark, the longfin mako (Isurus paucus), not only by having shorter pectoral fins, but also by the white colouration on the underside of the snout and around the mouth, which is darkly pigmented in the longfin mako (3).
Given this shark's relative notoriety, particularly among anglers, surprisingly little is known of its biology (9). Reproductive knowledge of the solitary shortfin mako is sparse, largely because pregnant females usually abort embryos upon capture, making study difficult (3). Reproduction is ovoviviparous, with embryos being nourished in the uterus by a yolk sac rather than placenta. Once the young have hatched, uterine cannibalism known as oophagy occurs, in which the growing young feed on unfertilised or less-developed eggs (3). Litters of between 4 and 25 live young are born in the late winter and early spring, after a 15 to 18 month gestation period. This is followed by an initial relatively fast growth rate (2) (5) (7). Females are believed to rest for 18 months after birth before conceiving again (7). Females appear to become sexually mature at around 17 to 19 years of age and males mature around 7 to 9 years. The maximum known age of a shortfin mako is 32 years (8).
The shortfin mako primarily feeds on a wide variety of fishes, such as swordfish, tuna, mackerel, cod, sea bass, and even other sharks, including blue sharks (Prionace glauca), grey sharks (Carcharhinus species) and hammerheads (Sphyrna species). However, squid, sea turtle heads, and a 'porpoise' (probably a pelagic dolphin) have also been found in the stomachs of these sharks (9).
This is a wide-ranging shark found in tropical and temperate waters throughout the world's oceans (3). In the Western Atlantic, the shortfin mako occurs from the Gulf of Maine to southern Brazil, including the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean (2) (5). In the Eastern Atlantic, the distribution ranges from Norway, down past the British Isles, the Mediterranean, the Ivory Coast and Ghana to South Africa (2) (5). In the Indo-Pacific, the shortfin mako shark is found from East Africa and the Red Sea to Hawaii, including waters around Pakistan, India, Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand (2) (5). In the Eastern Pacific, the range includes waters south of the Aleutian Islands and from Southern California, USA, to Chile (2).
The shortfin mako is usually pelagic, but can sometimes be found close inshore. Although normally occupying surface waters down to around 150 metres, this shark has been recorded at depths of up to 740 metres (2). There is evidence to suggest that this species migrates seasonally to warmer waters (3).
The shortfin mako is classified as Vulnerable (VU) on the IUCN Red List (1).
The shortfin mako is caught both by targeted fisheries and as significant bycatch, being the major bycatch component of tuna and swordfish fisheries (1) (3). The species' is valued for its high-quality meat, its fins are marketed for shark-fin soup in the Far East, and its liver oil is extracted to make vitamins (2) (3). The jaws and teeth are also sold as ornaments and trophies, and the hides may be processed into leather (2) (9). Sadly, the shortfin mako is also considered one of the great game fishes of the world, prized for its beauty, aggressiveness, and spectacular aerial leaps when struggling against the fishing line (3). The highest recreational catches occur off southern California, the north-eastern United States, Australia and New Zealand (3). Most commercial catches are inadequately or un-recorded, and conflicting data make it difficult to evaluate the exact impact fishing is having on population numbers of this shark (1) (9). However, like other sharks, this species' relatively low reproductive capacity makes it vulnerable to population declines due to over-fishing (1). Fortunately, this shark's fast growth rate means it has a mid-range rebound potential (9).
The U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has included the shortfin mako on their list of managed pelagic sharks, and reduced the number of commercial and recreational catches allowed per year by 50 percent. Although it is hoped that this measure will help to counteract declining numbers, the regulations only apply to the United States and Gulf waters, while the other populations remain as vulnerable as ever (3). A short-lived experimental longline fishery was once used to target early juveniles off California, but it was closed in 1992 due to concerns over the exploitation of immature fish. Targeting juveniles means these individuals are killed before ever reproducing, exacerbating the species' decline (9). Currently classified only as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List (1), the shortfin mako, like any other shark, is susceptible to over-fishing if not carefully managed (9). Thus, protective measures and fishing quotas implemented by other fishing nations would greatly help to safeguard the future of this magnificent, leaping shark, for years to come.
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UFO Update (34)
Posted by dandare on March 22, 2008
Welcome to UFO Update (34)………..
and a happy Easter to you all….
Inexplicata.blogspot.com (the journal of Hispanic Ufology) has "Roundup: the 2008 UFO wave of Argentina" (march 12th,2008).
In "A UFO cold case" (posted 18th march,2008….latimes.com) investigators are searching for Raji, who allegedly photographed a UFO drone, and then disappeared on the internet… I do not know why this is being discussed or investigated, as it is a well known fact that these photos are fakes.
A similar article can be seen at upi.com "detectives seek ufo answers" (posted 18th march,2008).
From airshippilot.blogspot.com "UFO…no just a blimp" (posted 20th march,2008).
in blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com "Discussion on UFOs" (posted 16th march,2008) is a thought provoking post. I agree with this statement especially "In general, if someone is bent on pursuing such a frustrating subject they fall into one of three categories.
They may be digging for proof of alien life, they may be trying to uncover dark world governmental activities relating to unidentified objects, or their drive may be a combination of both, the search for proof of alien visitation and contact and the government's hidden knowledge of that fact along with its pursuits of harnessing alien technology" (extract from article).I would, as has been mentioned before on this blog, have to fall into the 'both' category. The comments at the end of this article…. worth a glance. A later article by the site is also worth a look "UFOs and what to do" (posted 19th march,2008).
azcentral.com has "UFO buff explores Chandler crop circles" (posted 19th march,2008);
It says "Polani said he regrets not being able to photograph the Chandler phenomenon from the air; the crop was harvested hours after he spotted it.
He was able to walk into the field and capture patterns of downed stalks pointing in different directions among clusters of stiff, erect plants. And he picked up a few of the damaged stalks which appeared to be burned and bent in different places" (extract from article). For those interested, there is a good article here (by Andy Thomas on the UK 2007 crop circles).
wapakdailynews.com has "Spreading secrets" (posted 12th march,2008)… i'm afraid this was one post i missed in last weeks update.
thestar.com has an article, covering the recent Alien abduction festival "An ET invasion for a cause" (posted 21st march,2008).
In theindependent.com (santa Barbara) "Plasmatron oscillators and psionic helmets – available now!" (posted 15th march,2008). I think i'll turn down the offer however…..
MyFox has "UFO captured on tape in Pasco" (posted 14th march,2008); it comes with a video……
The telegraph.co.uk has "Prof Michio Kaku on the science behind UFOs and time travel" (posted 20th march,2008).
"But what is frustrating to scientists is that, of the thousands of recorded sightings, none has produced hard physical evidence that can lead to reproducible results in the laboratory. No alien DNA, alien computer chip or physical evidence of a landing has ever been retrieved" (extract from article)… however, it does go into some interesting theories, and possible outcomes.
Lastly, on a very serious note….. and i think an excellently made point about Tibet today comes from "Living nightmare of an alien takeover" (posted 20th march,2008)…….
It starts "You wake up to discover Britain has been taken over by aliens. The government and the royal family have fled into exile. National and local government, the army, the police, schools and universities, major banks and businesses and hospitals are now all run by aliens. They don't speak English " (extract from article)….it carries on with everything being destroyed…..by aliens and you can do nothing….
at the end it says"Then you wake up and realise it's a nightmare. But it isn't if you're Tibetan. If you live in Tibet or the western provinces of China, this is what is happening. That is why Tibetan men, women and children are protesting – and dying. For them the nightmare is real" (extract from article). Sorry, this is not about UFOs, but the alien effect was a clever slant on things… on an important issue.
Also of interest:
amandala.com (Belize) "Strange night sightings in Pan" (posted 18th march,2008)
timesonline "science fiction author arthur c. Clarke dies aged 90" (posted 18th march,2008)
restarfilms.blogspot.com "UFOs: to weird to be extraterrestrials" (posted 21st march,2008)
UPDATE: 26th march 2008
Further to the comments below, on the california drone sightings? i am in the middle of writing up a rather long post on the drone sightings…. this is taking longer than i thought… i hope to have it on here in the very near future (2 to 3 days)…. hence, i'm afraid (as this is taking up any spare time i have) i have been unable to add any new posts.
I have not gone away/given up,ect…… thanks for your patience.
17 Responses to "UFO Update (34)"
March 22, 2008 at 11:02 am
I'm one of the team that has hired the PI's. You presume too much I'm afraid. We have studied this matter since May 2007 and there are 5 of us in the team. We are well educated, mature and sensible people. The work we have done on this matter requires almost as much time as a full time second job every day including weekends. There is a great deal more to this case besides just finding a pole and Raj's house. Anyone who takes a armchair view of the videos made by people we know and the comments out on the internet could easily assume that this has been debunked, but it is not the case. There has never been any conclusive evidence provided that shows that any of the original photographs are fake. As I said, it is a very important interesting case. We have more information than we can publish at this time and so far the evidence we have shows that the witnesses and their reports is more viable than any other conclusion we can find so far and we have done a great deal of work on this matter. The final conclusions when our investigation work has concluded will be a big surprise to you I'm sure.
March 23, 2008 at 6:46 am
You are probarly paid by the goverment to tell that there is no connection betveen The Caret program and the picture of this drone.
Debunkers like you and Robert Sheaffer make me shake my head in disbelive.
You will get a suprise long before 2012.
Hopefully readers of this site will remember your name.
March 23, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Karen, im faily sure this is hoaxed. Around the time they were doing the viral advertising campaign for halo 3, a website with a picture of this drone was used. We found out it wasnt linked to halo 3 at all, but it was in fact linked to a viral advertising game site. The site with the picture of the drone was called 23.com. it has since then changed to a picture of a restaurant. I cant remember the site for the viral gaming. All i remember was that they were forums and they required an invitation to join them. You had to play a "dot puzzle" game that consisted of random sentences and dots to get an invite, it was extremely confusing i spent alot of time trying to solve it but i never did.
March 24, 2008 at 12:55 am
Dear Dan, dear Nick,
Thank you so much for taking this story with a big grain of salt, as I do not see any reason to dig much deeper into it.
You're correct that this is a major attempt to discredit the UFO phenomenon. It is IMO an orchestrated move to make believe first (on a very large scale – thank you very much you silly UFO Hunters for swallowing that big piece of junk) with the clear intend to debunk it later.
More international newspapers will cover this yet to debunked story very soon. The net result is already very predictable. Too bad…
BTW, Karen, why don't you throw your crystal clear cards on the table???
And Tom, I have great disbelieve in your disbelieve!!!
In case Robbie Williams reads this as well… Please stop peeking through that expensive telescope. I have better (and more expensive) ideas for you to help us all out. Just try me!
Best regards (as usual),
March 24, 2008 at 4:19 am
All i know is that this drone was used on that 23.com site and it only showed a portion of the drone showing the strange wording on it. after this other pictures and videos began surfacing and we all considered it a hoax since it was part of a viral advertisement/game. I thought this ended there but people are still seeing these drone pics and being misinformed. This takes away attention from the real footage and pics out there and makes ufos look dumb like they always have. I encourage you all to watch the "greatest story ever denied" ( http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5980990221766439646 ) and "out of the blue" ( http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5545276251937701731 ) if you havent already. Its great that interest is flaring back up for ufos but i dont think these drones deserve the credit they are getting.
March 24, 2008 at 5:53 am
ahh yes it was 27.com lol. well yah thats the site i meant, and its part of an online viral campaign nothing actually real. People work together using forums and IM to solve these online puzzles. Its all just part of a game.
March 30, 2008 at 5:07 pm
What about the markings on the large "wing". It seems to have 3 letters, I think the first two are "RA ", but I'm not sure. Can't that image be blown up and read? That is the first thing I would do if i was investigating this and had good imaging programs. You can't see the markings on the picture on this site because its too small, but if you look at the AOL picture, there are clearly markings.
September 10, 2009 at 9:49 pm
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January 26, 2010 at 9:24 am
You are probarly paid by the goverment to tell that there is no connection betveen The Caret program and the picture of this drone.
Debunkers like you and Robert Sheaffer make me shake my head in disbelive.
You will get a suprise long before 2012.
Hopefully readers of this site will remember your name.


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Coinciding with the current London exhibition – Treasures of Lambeth Palace Library (17 May-23 July 2010) – July's CABS book-of-the-month is a full-colour fascimile of the Lambeth Apocalypse (manuscript 209 in Lambeth Palace Library).
The Lambeth Apocalypse is a richly-illustrated copy of the text of the Revelation of St John, accompanied by extracts from the commentary of Berengaudus (9th century) on the allegory.
Apocalypses were amongst the most popular manuscripts used by the clergy and laity throughout the Middle-Ages. The Lambeth Apocalypse is one of about 20 apocalypse manuscripts still in existence that were produced in England in the 13th and 14th centuries.
It is believed to have been produced some time in the latter half of the 13th century and though its provenance is debated, one theory is that it was created under the patronage of Lady Eleanor De Quincy, Countess of Winchester, (c.1230 and 1274), presumed to be the kneeling figure beside the Virgin in one of the full-page images in the manuscript.
For a while the Lambeth Apocalypse was in the hands of the Elizabethan book collector, John, Lord Lumley (1534-1609). After his death, his book collection became part of the Royal Library, (which eventually formed the nucleus of the British Library), and it then passed on to become part of the founding collection of the Lambeth Palace Library.
The full-colour facsimile, in our CABS collection, was published in 1990 with an accompanying critical commentary by Nigel Morgan in a limited edition of 550 copies (which can be found on the open shelves at D2897.LAM MOR). Photographs of many of the images from the Apocalypse can also be found in the Conway Library.
As explained in the foreword by the Archbishop of Canterbury at the time, Robert Runcie, interest in the Lambeth Apocalypse also threatened its preservation. To preserve the original manuscript and to make it available to a wider audience, the Lambeth Librarian, Dr. E. G. W. Bill, decided to have the facsimile made.
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In a statement, Pentagon spokesman George Little said Panetta was "pleased to learn that allegations of professional misconduct were not substantiated by the investigation." He added that Panetta "has complete confidence in the continued leadership of General Allen, who is serving with distinction in Afghanistan."
"The Inspector General determined that the allegations against Allen were unsubstantiated," a Defense Department official said. The official said that with the determination, the case against Allen is closed.
Allen's spokesman in Afghanistan, Maj. David Nevers, did not have an immediate comment on the announcement.
Allen, a Marine general, had been under investigation since mid-November when it was revealed that he too had engaged in significant e-mail contacts with Jill Kelley, the Tampa socialite who was at the center of the scandal involving the affair between Gen. David Petraeus and his biographer Paula Broadwell.
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In an op-ed appearing in Wednesday's editions of the Washington Post, Jill Kelley and her husband Scott lamented their loss of privacy and labeled as "preposterous" the "innuendo and falsehoods" generated in the press that she had engaged in an extramarital affair.
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Four hectic and busy months have passed since I signed on for the 'Social Networking' summer 2012 campaign, and now my time here ends.
Hmmmm…. wrapping up….. well…. I've been mulling over what I would say to sum up my 4 month long adventure exploring the possibilities of the Mirrix looms.
I've made 25 video tutorials, and posted 35 blog posts about the things I have discovered while working with my Mirrix looms.
I've figured out some new ways of working with the looms ( 's' hooks for the no warp ends techniques) and enjoyed trying out as many ways as I could think of to use the looms in innovative and creative ways.
One of the loveliest things has been connecting with other Mirrix aficionados and making friends with dear people.
So, even though I won't be posting here or on Elena's blog anymore (where all the Weave Along posts are), I will continue to share my love of weaving and my pleasure in using Mirrix looms on my blog: www.tottietalkscrafts.com
Cheerio my friends, tootle pip, and fare thee well!
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This could be a much longer response, going over my background and
struggles with religion, how good it felt to believe that there was
always someone invisible watching over me, that there was someone who
saw all injustice and ensured that it all came out right in the end,
but frankly, I don't think there's anything there that you haven't
already read or experienced yourself.
The last straw for me, the reason I am an atheist today, is simple: I
refuse to worship any God who won't speak back to me. An omnipotent,
omniscient being who can't respond to a simple "Hello, God, are you
there?" either doesn't exist, or isn't worthy of worship if it does.
Intellectually, I understand that there is slim chance of the
existence of a deity. I comprehend the evidence for the development of
religions, and the logical arguments for why we invent anthropomorphic
I still want to believe in a God; whether that is a lingering effect
from a religious childhood or not, I cannot judge. I still call out to
God sometimes, hoping that I've been wrong for the past few years,
that there really is someone who can hear me when I'm alone – but
until I receive a real, audible, not just "feel-Him-in-your-heart!"
reply, an atheist I will remain.
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If you're able to bring an audience to a site, engage them with valuable and relevant content, and convert those prospects into customers, you'll be a huge asset to any company with an online presence. In this course, you'll learn the scope of digital marketing and dive deep into Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques.
In this course, you will learn how to write appealing content, understand the nuances of helping a site rank, and develop a conversion optimization framework to turn visitors into customers. By the time you complete this course, you'll be fully prepared to begin a career as an SEO focused digital marketer.
This course will also prepare you for the OMCP® certification exam. This course offers enrollment with or without a voucher. The voucher is prepaid access to sit for the certifying exam upon eligibility.
Avinash Kaushik is Google's Digital Marketing Evangelist and the co-founder of Market Motive. Through his blog and bestselling books "Web Analytics 2.0 Prime" and "Web Analytics: An Hour A Day," Kaushik is recognized as an authoritative voice on leveraging data. He has brought his insights to Unilever, Dell, Time Warner, Vanguard, Porsche, and IBM. He has delivered keynotes at Search Engine Strategies, Ad-Tech, Monaco Media Forum, iCitizen, JMP Innovators Summit, Web 2.0, and The Art of Marketing. Kaushik has lectured at Stanford University, University of Virginia, University of California Los Angeles, and University of Utah. He received the 2009 Statistical Advocate of the Year award from the American Statistical Association, and the 2011 Most Influential Industry Contributor award from the Web Analytics Association.
Bryan Eisenberg is the co-author of "Waiting For Your Cat to Bark?" "Call to Action," and "Always Be Testing," which have all been on the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, USA Today and New York Times bestseller lists. Eisenberg has been the keynote speaker for Search Engine Strategies, Direct Marketing Association, Webcom, and the Canadian Marketing Association, amongst others. He serves as an advisory board member of Search Engine Strategies, the eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit, and several venture capital-backed startup companies.
Jennifer Evans Cario is President of SugarSpun Marketing. She is a highly requested speaker and trainer and a regular fixture at the national online marketing conferences. She also serves as Adjunct Professor for the online Social Media Mini MBA program at Rutgers University. She is the author of three books, including "Pinterest Marketing: An Hour a Day."
Brad Geddes is the author of "Advanced Google Adwords" and founder of Certified Knowledge, an online source for PPC training, tools, and advice. Geddes makes it his mission to share his expertise in Paid Search with online marketers, so they can build successful online campaigns. He frequently writes columns for Search Engine Land and co-moderates the AdWords forum on Webmaster World. He has spoken at more than 35 conferences and has led more than 60 AdWords seminars.
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Jeff Hasen is the founder and president of mobile consultancy Gotta Mobilize. He was named one of the top Chief Marketing Officers on Twitter and is the author of two books, "The Art of Mobile Persuasion" and "Mobilized Marketing." He co-created the certification program for the Mobile Marketing Association and is one of two individuals certified to train professionals on mobile marketing definitions, techniques, and benefits.
Greg Jarboe is an authority on online marketing, with extensive experience in public relations, corporate communications, and digital marketing. He is the author of "YouTube and Video Marketing: An Hour a Day," and writes for Search Engine Watch and ReelSEO. Prior to co-founding SEO-PR in 2003, Jarboe was the Vice President of Marketing at WebCT, Director of Corporate Communications at Ziff-Davis, and Director of Corporate Communications at Lotus Development Corporation.
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By pre-ordering a Leicester City Football Club 2020/2021 'Thailand Smiles With You' Replica Home Shirt, you agree to these conditions together with any specific instructions which may be mentioned on the relevant section of the website or provided to you via email or SMS (using the contact details you provided at the time of placing your order).
Ordering process
From Monday 27 July 2020 you will be able to pre-order a limited edition Leicester City Football Club (the "Club") replica home shirt for the 2020/2021 season bearing the 'Thailand Smiles With You' slogan (the "Shirt") from the Club's official website.
You will be entitled to order a maximum of 1 Shirt / 1 Kids Shirt and 1 Adult Shirt in any one order or such other quantity as mentioned on the relevant section of the website. In the event that you exceed these quantities, the Club reserves the right to cancel your order.
At the time of your order, you will be required to make an initial payment of £10.00 per Shirt plus the applicable shipping fee (the "Initial Payment"). Details of the Club's shipping fees can be found in the Club's delivery policy (which can be found here: https://shop.lcfc.com/delivery/).
When pre-ordering the shirt(s), you are able to include other products from the Club's shop as part of your order. The non-pre-sale items will be shipped according to your selected delivery option.
If your order has non-pre-sale items included, at the time of your order, you will be required to make an initial payment of £10.00 per Shirt, plus the balance of your non-pre-sale items, plus the applicable shipping fee (the "Initial Payment").
On 16 October 2020, the Club will email you requesting the remaining sum (the difference between your order total and the Initial Payment) (the "Final Payment"). You will be required to make full payment to enable your product to be despatched.
By way of an example
If you order one Adult Shirt with personalisation, plus a pair of 2020/21 Replica Adult Home Shorts for 'tracked delivery in the UK', the total cost of your order would be:
Cost of Shirt: £55.00
Cost of Shorts: £30.00
Cost of personalisation: £16.00
Delivery cost: £3.95
Total Cost: £104.95
Your First Payment and Initial Payment would be as follows:
First Payment: £43.95
Final Payment: £61.00
This example is for illustrative purposes only.
Anticipated delivery date
The Club's anticipated delivery date of the Shirts will be in or around the middle of November 2020.
This anticipated delivery date is based on the best information available to the Club at the time of your order and the Club cannot guarantee that your order will be delivered within the timeframe set out above. You should refer to the relevant section of the website at the time of your order for the most up to date information relating to the anticipated delivery date.
The Club will keep you regularly updated about any information it receives that may impact on the anticipated delivery date of your order.
When the Club receives confirmation of the confirmed delivery date, it will notify via email or SMS. When you order has been dispatched for delivery, you will receive an email confirmation.
This anticipated delivery date does not apply to other versions of the Club's replica home shirt for 2020/21 season or any other products ordered via the Club's website.
Non-pre-sale products will be shipped in accordance with your selected delivery option.
Initial Payment
Your initial payment will be debited from the bank account registered to your payment card on the day of your order.
Final Payment
On the 16 October 2020, the Club will request the Final Payment amount by email. It is when you receive this email that you will need to use the link provided to 'purchase' the product in order to complete your payment for your Thailand Smiles With You Shirt.
You will receive an automatic email confirmation to confirm that your final payment has been processed.
You reserve the right to cancel your order at any time on or before 12 October 2020 and receive a full refund of your Initial Payment (£10.00 Shirt deposit plus shipping fee).
In the event that you do not make your Final Payment in 3 days, the Club will again contact you via email or SMS requesting that you contact the Club to for the Final Payment. In the event that you have not made payment within a period of 7 days from the Club's initial request on 16 October, then your order will be cancelled and the Club will contact you via email or SMS to arrange for your Initial Payment to be refunded to you.
Returns & Refunds
For further information, the Club's refunds and returns procedures policy can be found here: https://shop.lcfc.com/returns.
Orders placed for Foxes Fanstore Collection can be picked up from the main till points at the Foxes Fanstore, please ask any of our friendly shop floor staff for help to guide you to the correct area. All customers using our Fanstore collection service will receive an email when their order is ready to collect, this could take up to 5 working days. Please can customers ensure that a form of photo ID and the email confirmation are brought along with them when collecting their item(s). Orders can be collected during the store opening hours which will be confirmed within your collection email.
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Rest of the world (2-4 working days) - £15.95
All of our parcels are shipped with DHL EXPRESS, which requires a signature on arrival.
Once your order is processed and despatched, DHL EXPRESS will notify you by email and SMS on your shipment's progress along with a tracking number and estimated delivery date.
If this doesn't fit your schedule, you can customise your delivery via DHL ODD and decide how, where and when the delivery takes place at the time and location that suits you best.
Our policy is to ship DDU terms (delivery duty unpaid).


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"This is the new UNOFFICIAL music video from the 621 Family titled "Drag It Around". ft. Dj Doe Boy, Holly Hood, & C-Billz.The song is tearing up the streets & airways and got everybody dragin it around. this aint a dance no more, its a movement." FOR MORE VIDEOS CHECK US ON YOUTUBE @ YOUTUBE.COM/621FAMILY"
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Due to very high demand for custom tuned slots we have expanded our list of products to offer our customers over 20 options in teamspeak packages. We offer slot counts between 10 and 300 slots! All current and future customers now have the option of selecting any of these pre set packages to choose from so they can have instant setup on the exact slots for their needs.
We also have made several additions to the learning center. We will have several new fully illustrated guides to choose from and many new knowledgebase articles so everyone can stay as informed as possible. As always we are here 24 hours a day 7 days a week for any questions or needs you may have.
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Whether you have an annual conference, annual functions, wedding, celebrations, awards night, medical conference, sports events, sales conference, trade shows, party night, DJ, promotional event or if you want to simply host a monthly or quarterly meeting, your personal functions, we can design something totally unique that will meet both your budget and requirement, and will guarantee to leave lasting memories for all the right reasons.
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A new year brings a new attitude.
At EC Credit Control we are often approached by business owners for help in collecting their bad debts. Upon investigation we all too often find that the reason the business owner is having issues with late payments is due to the fact they have little or no protection in place in the form of customised Terms and Conditions of Trade. This limits the business owners ability to impose consequences on their debtor without going to court.
For these reasons it has been a great delight to help the likes of Marcus, the owner of a local window business in Miranda, and Stefan, who runs a large equipment hire business in Sutherland. EC Credit Control have assisted these new generation tradies with drafting and implementing Terms of Trade into their business BEFORE any problems arise with bad debts. By being so proactive (as opposed to reactive) Marcus and Stefan are giving themselves maximum protection and leverage for when they encounter a bad debt. This means they have their best chance to recover their money in full while making the debtor liable to pay all costs they incur in recovering the debt!
Both of these proactive young business owners are the way of the future, demonstrating a significant change in attitude. They are opting to put things in place in anticipation of the inevitable, rather than the "she'll be right" attitude which we at EC have sadly encountered too many times.
Good on you boys. For a minimal, one-off investment you have protected your business and it's all-important cash flow for many years to come.


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Redditch Community Lottery is jointly provided by Redditch Borough Council ('the Promoter') and Gatherwell Ltd ('Gatherwell'). The Promoter and Gatherwell are both classed as a data controller, which means that both organisations decide what information is needed from you to provide the Lottery.
The information Gatherwell needs to collect to enable you to participate in the Lottery is your name, address, email address and your date of birth. We need this information to verify your age and identity to ensure you meet the minimum participation age (currently 16 years for this Lottery) and to manage your Lottery account. We will also collect payment details from you to enable you to pay for your lottery tickets. If you do not wish to provide this information, unfortunately you will not be able to participate in the Lottery.
In most cases, we will only have personal data that you provide to us. The legal basis for the collection and processing of your personal data is that you have given your consent and/or that it is our legitimate interest to do so as we could not operate the Lottery without it, and your rights and freedoms are not prejudiced by this.
You have the right to withdraw consent at any time and you can do this by notifying us in writing by email to [email protected]. If you do withdraw your consent, it will not affect the lawfulness of any processing for which we had consent before you withdrew it.
Gatherwell Ltd will share your name, address, date of birth and email address with Redditch Borough Council and the good causes you choose to support to enable the good causes to understand their supporter base. The good cause may also use this information to communicate with you about the lottery if you consent to it.
We don't use any computers or automated means to make decisions about you based on the information that you provide. We do not share information with third parties in other countries, however we do use cloud hosted software.
We will only keep your information for as long as is necessary to enable your participation in the Lottery. As standard we keep data for 3 years from the user's last point of activity on the website. As Direct Debit users come with a lifetime guarantee we as standard hold this user data for 7 years.
You have a number of legal rights in respect of your personal data which are: the right to be informed about how it is being used and why; the right of access to it to check that we are acting lawfully and, in some cases, the right to rectify it or to have it erased; the right to restrict our processing of it; the right of data portability; and the right to object to automated decision taking.


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(CNN) - A Mississippi judge has tossed out state Sen. Chris McDaniel's challenge to that state's June 24 GOP primary runoff results, ending another chapter in one of the most bitterly contested U.S. Senate primaries in recent memory and bringing longtime Sen. Thad Cochran one step closer to another term in Washington.
Special Judge Hollis McGehee ruled that McDaniel waited too long to file his challenge with state Republican Party. McDaniel filed the challenge 41 days after the election; McGehee said that under state law the challenge had to be filed within 20 days.
(CNN) - In his strongest words to date, Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, tried to quash talk that he would allow another government shutdown if he becomes Senate majority leader next year.
"Of course not. Remember me? I am the guy that gets us out of shutdowns," McConnell told CNN in an exclusive interview Wednesday.
"It's a failed policy," he said of shutdowns.
(CNN) - Jim Jeffords, who shifted the balance of power in the Senate when he left the Republican Party in 2001, died on Monday.
(CNN) - Ice water is starting to drench the political scene.
A number of political figures have taken on the Ice Bucket Challenge to raise money and awareness for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) – or Lou Gehrig's disease.
Washington (CNN) - Republicans already are steaming about President Barack Obama's expected executive action to potentially allow millions of undocumented workers to remain in the country.
But another debate on immigration will refocus on internal GOP splits and raise questions about whether the party is taking any of its own advice about being more open to Hispanics.
Washington (CNN) - Ken Cuccinelli, Senate Conservative Fund president, blames the stalemate in Congress on the Democratic "obstructionist Senate."
He says the House, at the very least, is voting more than the Senate, and he says the government should get out of the way.
Washington (CNN) - Four decades after President Richard Nixon resigned, a slight majority of Americans still consider Watergate a very serious matter, a new national survey shows. But how serious depends on when you were born.
The CNN/ORC International poll's release comes one day before the 40th anniversary of Nixon's resignation on August 9, 1974. With the Watergate scandal escalating, the second-term Republican president had lost much of his political backing, and he faced almost certain impeachment and the prospects of being removed from office by a Democratic-dominated House and Senate.
(CNN) - Longtime GOP Sen. Lamar Alexander easily won the Tennessee Republican primary Thursday, defeating tea party backed candidate state Rep. Joe Carr.
With nearly all precincts accounted for, Alexander held off Carr with just under 50% of the vote while Carr received just over 40%, according to the Associated Press.
(CNN) - The Republican primary in Tennessee on Thursday is the tea party's last chance - albeit a distant one - to beat an establishment incumbent this election year.
Longtime GOP Sen. Lamar Alexander is defending his seat against state Rep. Joe Carr.
(CNN) –– The GOP-led House Select Committee on the Benghazi terror attack shows no sign of backing down despite a report from another congressional panel that, according to a top Democrat, found no intelligence failures around the deadly 2012 assault.
"There is more work to be done and more to be investigated," a spokeswoman for House Select Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy told CNN on Wednesday.


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There's no doubt this new investment is an exciting sign of our commitment to providing our customers with the best quality and overall experience possible.
Kansas City, Mo. (PRWEB) January 09, 2013
Walsworth Publishing Company announced that its recently purchased Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 106 printing press has been delivered to the company's Printing and Bindery facility in Marceline, Mo.
"The purchase of our newest Heidelberg press is another testimony to our commitment to meeting our customers' needs by improving production time and raising the bar on quality," said CEO Don O. Walsworth.
The Heidelberg XL 106 is an 8-unit perfecting press that can print in four-color, and both sides of the sheet at the same time at 18,000 sheets per hour. The press has state-of-the-art quality controls, including automatic register and a closed loop color system, and will be the first press of its kind installed in the U.S.
The XL 106 is also equipped with automatic plate changers that can change plates in 60 seconds. It is configured with a Cut Star roll sheeter, which will allow web rolls to be converted to sheets and printed on the press in-line.
The XL 106 press is now being installed and is expected to begin production later this month.
"We're very excited about the additional production capabilities the Heidelberg XL 106 gives us," said President Don Walsworth. "The addition of the new press is a great way to cap off our 75th anniversary year. There's no doubt this new investment is an exciting sign of our commitment to providing our customers with the best quality and overall experience possible."
About Walsworth Publishing
Walsworth Publishing Company is among the 50 largest printing companies in the U.S. and top 10 book printers. The company is also the only American- and family-owned publisher of yearbooks. Started in 1937 by Walsworth brothers Don, Ed and Bill, current leadership is under the second and third generations: Don O. Walsworth, CEO, and his son, Don Walsworth, president. The company, which began printing yearbooks in 1947, operates from administrative offices and printing and binding facilities in Marceline, Mo., a prepress facility in Brookfield, Mo., a sales and marketing office in Kansas City, Mo., and a printing facility in Saint Joseph, Mich. Additionally, Walsworth owns the Donning Company Publishers in Virginia Beach, Va., a specialty book publisher, and The Ovid Bell Press in Fulton, Mo., a printer of journals and magazines.


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National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Chairman Jim Leach offered the following statement in response to the announcement by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy on February 22 of a new policy aimed at expanding public access to the results of federally funded research:
"The National Endowment for the Humanities welcomes and fully supports the spirit of the White House directive to increase access to publicly funded projects. For a society to have an energizing infrastructure of ideas, broad access to scholarship in the humanities as well as science is imperative. Accordingly, we have underway a review of how to make NEH-funded research as widely and permanently accessible as possible. Recognizing that there may be no "one-size fits all" approach that works for every field, we look forward to working with academic stakeholders and the Office of Science and Technology Policy in this endeavor."
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Video replay: ESA astronauts answer questions during inflight call
ESA astronauts Christer Fuglesang and Frank De Winne answered questions during an inflight call with a Swedish television station. The two ESA astronauts were reunited in space during the STS-128 mission for which Fuglesang was a mission specialist. De Winne is currently a member of the ISS Expedition 20 crew.
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