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Tuesday, May 5 2009 - Editorials
In Congress We Trust...NotThe former FBI translator and whistleblower suggests blackmail may be at the heart of Congressional refusal to bring accountability and oversight to its own members - such as both Hastert and Harman - in matters of espionage and national security Guest Editorial by Sibel Edmonds The people do indeed look at Washington and know that this city is 'badly' broken, Senator Kerry. The public confidence in our Congress has been declining drastically. Recent poll results highlight how the American people's trust in their Congress has hit rock bottom. A survey of progressive blogs easily confirms the rage rightfully directed at our Congress for abdicating its role of oversight and accountability. Activists scream about promised hearings that never took place - without explanation. They express outrage when investigations are dropped without any justification. And they genuinely wonder out loud why, especially after they helped secure a major victory for the Democrats. The same Democrats who had for years pointed fingers at their big bad Republican majority colleagues as the main impediment preventing them from fulfilling what was expected of them.
Saturday, May 2 2009 - Civil Liberties-Police State
The EFF digs deep into the FBI's 'everything bucket'A new EFF report pulls together everything that's now known about the FBI's monster internal records system. Earlier this week, the EFF published a new report detailing the FBI's Investigative Data Warehouse, which appears to be something like a combination of Google and a university's slightly out-of-date custom card catalog with a front-end written for Windows 2000 that uses cartoon icons that some work-study student made in Microsoft Paint. I guess I'm supposed to fear the IDW as an invasion of privacy, and indeed I do, but given the report's description of it and my experiences with the internal-facing software products of large, sprawling, unaccountable bureaucracies, I mostly just fear for our collective safety. The idea behind the system, which the FBI has been working on since at least 2002, is that the Bureau can dump all of its information in there so that it can be easily searched and shared. IDW contains more documents than the library of congress—a stew of TIFFs with OCRed text, multiple Oracle databases, news streamed in from the Internet, reports and records in various in-house data formats, watch lists, telephone data, and an alphabet soup of smaller databases and records repositories—all accessible as one sprawling system that processes batch jobs, runs queries, and issues alerts.
Saturday, May 2 2009 - 9/11 A/V Galleries
Richard Gage Interviews Architects at AIA Convention, April 30, 2009 On May 2 we will stream the convention from 10AM to about 1:30PM Pacific, then at 4PM we will live stream Richard's talk at the Westin Hotel, before a large group of convention architects. http://www.justin.tv/ae911truth (Also linked at www.AE911truth.org Thanks again to all our supporters!
Thursday, April 30 2009 - Get Involved
NYC CAN Update: Now 35,000+ signatures, Promotional Postcards availableUPDATE 5/2/09: Promotional postcards are now available through NYCCAN.org for help in promoting this effort. Image of the cards is posted at the end, with a note from the NYC CAN director.
– Ed.
Dear Friends Around The World, Thanks to your generous support and ongoing efforts to keep 9/11 front and center, NYC CAN eclipsed the milestone of 35,000 signatures on Sunday, April 26, 2009. We continue to charge ahead collecting hundreds of signatures everyday, but we can only continue with YOUR support.
Thursday, April 30 2009 - Truth Movement News
AE911Truth Making History in San FranciscoAE911Truth.org Press Conference/Speaking Engagement Saturday 5/2 at 4pm, Westin Market Street Hotel Live coverage available via a link at www.ae911truth.org Berkeley, CA, April 25, 2009 -- More than 640 Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth (AE911Truth) are calling for a new, independent investigation into the destruction of the World Trade Center high-rises. These building professionals cite evidence of explosive demolition at all three WTC high-rises on 9/11 and document the evidence at their website. Michael Heimbach, assistant director of the FBI's counterterrorism division, wrote that their claims and conclusion were "backed by thorough research and analysis." AE911Truth will host exhibitor's information booth #2609 at this year's annual convention of the prestigious American Institute of Architects (AIA). The convention, with more than 800 exhibitors and more than 20,000 participating architects, will take place in San Francisco's Moscone Center, April 30-May 2.
Thursday, April 30 2009 - Truth Movement News
Steven Jones Presentations in California, April 30 & May 1STEVEN JONES, PhD, Professor Emeritus from BYU with a doctorate in physics, co-editor of the peer-reviewed Journal of 9/11 Studies, and member of Scholars for 9/11 Truth & Justice, will give presentations in Sacramento, CA, on April 30th, and in Davis, CA, on May 1st. "WHAT IN THE WORLD IS HIGH-TECH EXPLOSIVE MATERIAL DOING IN THE DUST CLOUDS GENERATED ON 9/11/01?" Janette MacKinlay, a wonderful artist who lived across the street from the Towers on 9/11 and has been an active, persistent advocate for 9/11 ever since, will also give a powerful 10-minute presentation entitled "Together we CAN." She'll also speak on "Getting the Dust to Where it Needed to be" -- the journey of the dust from her apartment and beyond. Details follow.
Thursday, April 30 2009 - In the Media
German Daily Newspaper on Political Leaders for 9/11 TruthApril 29, 2009 In Germany the daily newspaper Junge Welt on March, 4 2009 published following article on the new petition. 9/11 - Today's Project of Investigation At long last politicians from several countries succeeded to unite in calling for a "new, really independent investigation to find out what happened on 9/11." In the petition 12 politicians from seven countries call on US president Barack Obama to authorize such an investigation. The investigations until now were conducted only by people who "were closely connected with the Bush/Cheney administration, or where even working in it."
Wednesday, April 29 2009 - Other Important News
Jury clears men of conspiring with four bombers over London 2005 explosions that killed 52Because many of our readers continue to study, and demand honest investigation into, the London bombings, here is an update on a bit of news there.
– Ed.
28 April 2009 Three British Muslims were today cleared of helping the 7 July bombers choose their targets by carrying out a reconnaissance mission in London seven months before the attacks that killed 52 people and injured almost 1,000. A jury at Kingston crown court unanimously found Waheed Ali, 25, Sadeer Saleem, 28, and Mohammed Shakil, 32, all from Beeston, Leeds, not guilty of conspiring with the four bombers to cause explosions, after deliberating for eight days. . . . Survivors of the attacks and family members of those who died said today's verdicts strengthened the case for an independent inquiry into the bombings. The end of the trial clears the way for the publication of a long-awaited report into whether the attacks could have been prevented, which is expected to be critical of the way MI5 and West Yorkshire police responded to earlier intelligence linking some of the suicide bombers with a group who were plotting to explode a series of huge fertiliser bombs.
Wednesday, April 29 2009 - Other Important News
FAA Memo: Feds Knew NYC Flyover Would Cause PanicThreatened Federal Sanctions Against NYPD, Secret Service, FBI & Mayor's Office If Secret Ever Got Out Furious Obama Apologizes: "It Will Never Happen Again" April 28, 2009 NEW YORK (CBS) -- A furious President Barack Obama ordered an internal review of Monday's low-flying photo op over the Statue of Liberty.CBS 2 HD has discovered the feds will have plenty to question. Federal officials knew that sending two fighter jets and Air Force One to buzz ground zero and Lady Liberty might set off nightmarish fears of a 9/11 replay, but they still ordered the photo-op kept secret from the public. In a memo obtained by CBS 2 HD [Ed: posted below] the Federal Aviation Administration's James Johnston said the agency was aware of "the possibility of public concern regarding DOD (Department of Defense) aircraft flying at low altitudes" in an around New York City. But they demanded total secrecy from the NYPD, the Secret Service, the FBI and even the mayor's office and threatened federal sanctions if the secret got out. (Emphasis added)
Monday, April 27 2009 - Other Important News
Bin Laden could be dead, whereabouts unknown: ZardariApril 27, 2009 ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -- Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari said on Monday that the whereabouts of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden remained a mystery and there was a suspicion that he could be dead. Speaking to international media, Zardari said U.S. officials had told him that they had no trace of the al Qaeda chief, although they habitually say he is most likely in Pakistan. Pakistan's own intelligence agencies were no wiser, either, Zardari said.
Monday, April 27 2009 - 9/11 Commission
Newly Released Memo: Government 'Minders' at 9/11 Commission Interviews 'Intimidated' WitnessesApril 27, 2009 A recently released 9/11 Commission memo highlights the role of government "minders" who accompanied witnesses interviewed by the commission. It was added to the National Archives' files at the start of the year and discovered there by History Commons contributor paxvector. The memo, entitled "Executive Branch Minders' Intimidation of Witnesses," complains that:
Saturday, April 25 2009 - Accountability
On Torture, the Pressure BuildsApril 25, 2009 Apparently, a NYTimes "exposé" requires a 21-month gestation period; just by way of pointing out that the substance of the Times "exposé" appeared in an article the July 2007 issue of Vanity Fair. Katherine Eban, a Brooklyn-based journalist who writes about public health, authored that article and titled it "Rorschach and Awe." It was the result of a careful effort to understand the role of psychologists in the torture of detainees in Guantánamo. She identified the two psychologists as James Elmer Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, who she reported were inexperienced in interrogations and "had no proof of their tactics' effectiveness" but nevertheless sold the Bush administration on a plan to subject captives to "psychic demolition," essentially severing them from their personalities and scaring them "almost to death."
Saturday, April 25 2009 - 9/11 Consequences
Torture Used to Link Saddam with 9/11April 23, 2009 Hayden had confirmed that the Bush administration only waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Abu Zabaydah, and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashirit for one minute each. I told Franks that I didn't believe that. Sure enough, one of the newly released torture memos reveals that Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times and Zubaydah was waterboarded 83 times. One of Stephen Bradbury's 2005 memos asserted that "enhanced techniques" on Zubaydah yielded the identification of Mohammed and an alleged radioactive bomb plot by Jose Padilla. But FBI supervisory special agent Ali Soufan, who interrogated Zubaydah from March to June 2002, wrote in the New York Times that Zubaydah produced that information under traditional interrogation methods, before the harsh techniques were ever used.
Saturday, April 25 2009 - Truth Movement News
Major 9/11 Breakthrough in Japan, Spectacular Support for Yukihisa FujitaApril 24, 2009
Yukihisa Fujita, a member of the Upper
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States are required to establish one set of guidelines (by law or judicial or administrative action) for setting and modifying child support award amounts. More
Quarterly E-update including the following articles: What Can NCSL Do For You and Your State, Early Learning Fellows Kick Off a New Year of Work Together, Home Visiting Update, Spring Forum Wrap Up Plus a Look Ahead to Legislative Summit, FY 2012-13 State Budget Actions in Early Care and Education, Early Childhood Data Systems, 2013 Legislative Action: Quick Close-of-Session Summary. More
What happens to children -- especially in their early years--echoes over the long haul across a broad range of social policy areas. How children fare today will be felt in all parts of society--in schools, the economy, health, welfare and criminal justice systems. In addition, polls suggest that voters are dissatisfied over governmental responses to the needs of children and families. To address these concerns and help legislators support families in their communities, NCSL tracks state and federal policies and programs in four key areas: early childhood care and education, welfare and poverty, child welfare and youth programs. In addition, we offer resources on child support, marriage, domestic violence and family law. The human services federal affairs staff represents state legislatures on the full range of federal human service issues in Washington, D.C. Child Care and Early Education has captured the attention of policymakers, researchers, educators and parents in recent years. The increase of mothers in the workforce, along with new information about brain development and the long-term benefits of early education programs, have contributed to the prominence of these issues. Sixty-one percent of children under age 6 in the United States are in some kind of care outside the home. We offer the latest information on prekindergarten programs, child care subsidy systems, and descriptions of states' funding and policy choices. Child Welfare is a critical state responsibility and includes protecting children from abuse and neglect, and ensuring that children have safe, stable and permanent living situations. States and the federal government spend about $20 billion every year on child welfare services. State legislators play a major role in funding, structuring and overseeing child welfare systems and enact more than 300 child welfare bills every year. NCSL tracks these issues in six major categories: system reform, prevention of child maltreatment, child protective services, foster care, kinship care and adoption. Child Support is an important source of income for the millions of children living in single-parent households, especially those who are also living in poverty. States play an important role in collecting child support through child support enforcement programs and by providing services to noncustodial parents. NCSL offers an online clearinghouse for state legislators with resources on child support policy, financing, laws, research, and promising practices.
Welfare Reform has resulted in significant welfare caseload declines in recent years. The shift from welfare as a cash entitlement program to a work-first program gave states unprecedented spending flexibility. States succeeded in moving many parents into employment in the mid-1990s and have since expanded their services to support low-income working families, both on and off the welfare caseload. Beyond work supports, some states have created fatherhood and marriage programs to encourage the formation and maintenance of two-parent families. The federal welfare reform legislation is up for reauthorization in 2010.
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NCSL staff can provide comprehensive, thorough, timely and in-depth information on critical human service policy issues. Staff working on human services includes the Children and Families Program in Denver and the human services federal affairs staff in Washington, D.C. We provide services to legislators and staff working to improve state policies affecting children and their families. D.C. staff track and analyze federal legislation and policy for the full range of human services issues and represent state legislatures before Congress and the Administration. In D.C., Sheri Steisel and Lee Posey can be reached at 202.624.5400 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Denver staff focuses on state policy, tracking legislation and providing research and policy analysis, consultation, and technical assistance specifically geared to the legislative audience.
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December 8, 2006 Urban Word of the Day
A weekend devoted exclusively towards playing a Nintendo Wii. Hey I just ordered a Wii on Amazon.com, it arrives Friday so I'm going to have one sweet Wii-kend! :D
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A completely made up word which is a part of viral marketing to increase the exposure of the Nintento Wii console. Marketer1: how do we spread the word about the wii better?
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The development of exhaustion after extensive playing of the Nintendo Wii Afte playing four hours of Wii Boxing, I felt very Wii-kend
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IntroductionThe EFA is a member organisation of festivals. The aim of this organisation is to promote the work of artistically high quality performing arts festivals across Europe. In this way, the European Festivals Association hopes to make your search for Festival information easier than ever before. The EFA represents an organisation of more than ninety high quality festivals in 31 European countries and 4 non-European countries. StructureThe Association has a permanent secretariat in Gent (at the Castle of Borluut). Among other responsibilities, it disseminates information about member festivals and edits different publications on the Association. The General Assembly meets once a year. By changing the Statutes in 1997, EFA opened the way to developing into a representative umbrella organisation of European festivals. New categories of membership were introduced for 'collective' members. Eleven national associations joined EFA (representing over 500 festivals). Further applications are in preparation from recently created associations. AimsThe aim of EFA is to promote the highest ideals and significance of festivals through common publicity and by any appropriate means to maintain and develop the high artistic quality of festivals and their important role in international cultural co-operation. ActivitiesAs an organisation of important festivals in Europe, the EFA seeks primarily to:


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Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy for Kidney Stones
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Reasons for Procedure
- Are too large to pass
- Cause constant pain
- Block the flow of urine
- Cause an ongoing infection
- Damage kidney tissue
- Cause bleeding
Possible Complications
- Blood in the urine
- Bruising in the back or abdomen
- Infection
- Pain as the stone fragments pass
- Failure of stone fragments to pass, requiring additional surgery
- Need for additional treatments
- Reaction to anesthesia
What to Expect
Prior to Procedure
- Physical exam
- X-ray of the abdomen
- Blood and urine tests
- Intravenous pyelogram (IVP)—an x-ray of the urinary system taken after the injection of contrast material
- Spiral CT scan—a type of x-ray that uses a computer to make pictures of structures inside the body
- MRI scan—a test that uses magnetic waves to make pictures of structures inside the body
- Aspirin or other anti-inflammatory drugs
- Blood thinners, such as clopidogrel (Plavix) or warfarin (Coumadin)
Description of the Procedure
How Long Will It Take?
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Postoperative Care
- Drink plenty of water in the weeks after the procedure to help the stone pieces pass.
- You will likely be able to resume daily activities within 1-2 days.
- Take oral pain medicine as directed to help manage pain and discomfort.
Call Your Doctor
- Extreme urge or inability to urinate
- Excessive blood in your urine
- Signs of infection, including fever and chills
- Nausea and/or vomiting that you cannot control with the medicines you were given after the procedure
- Pain that you cannot control with the medicines you have been given
- Cough, shortness of breath, or chest pain
- Pain between your ribs and back as the stones pass
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Canadian Urological Association http://www.cua.org
The Kidney Foundation of Canada: Northern Alberta and the Territories Branch http://www.kidney.ab.ca
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Leo: 2012 International League – Young Guns
As we start to look ahead to the season, let's take a look at some of the top pitching prospects that we may see at Huntington Park this year. These pitchers are not listed in any particular order, but all are considered the "best of the best" in their respective organizations. All of these pitchers seem to be headed to Triple-A this season.
Drew Smyly (LHP) (22 years old) – Detroit Tigers
Smyly signed in 2010 after the Tigers scooped him up in the 2nd round out of Arkansas. The former Razorbacks pitcher will battle with fellow youngsters Jacob Turner and Andy Oliver for the final spot in the Tigers rotation, with Turner looking like the favorite. Smyly combined 21 starts between High-A and Double-A and thoroughly dominated with a 2.07 ERA. His fastball, curve, slider, change-up repertoire already makes him a formidable opponent for hitters in the upper levels if the minors, despite having logged only one professional season. Mud Hens fans will enjoy watching Smyly and Oliver pitch at the top of the rotation, especially competing in the same division with the Clippers excellent young arms like Zach McAllister, Jeanmar Gomez, Scott Barnes, etc.
It's worth noting that the Louisville Bats will be sans RHP Brad Boxberger, who would have been Cincinnati's top pitching prospect, but he was traded in the deal that sent Mat Latos to the Reds for Yonder Alonso, Edinson Volquez, and Yasmani Grandal. That leaves the Reds without any upper level pitching prospects.
Kyle McPherson (RHP) (24 years old) – Indianapolis Indians (Pirates)
McPherson is the Pirates 14th round draft pick from 2007 and should be ready to get his feet wet in the International League after posting a 3.02 ERA in Double-A last season. He features a mid-90s fastball with a curve and change-up that he used to garner the Buccos Minor League Pitcher of the Year Award last season while leading the organization in strikeouts. McPherson should benefit from pitching at Victory Field, the largest ballpark in the league.
Matt Harvey (RHP) (22 years old) – Buffalo Bisons (Mets)
Harvey is on the fast track to the majors after the Mets selected him with the 7th overall pick in the 2010 draft. His first professional season was split between High-A and Double-A, where he combined for a 13-5 record with a 3.32 ERA. Harvey struck out 10.3 batters per nine innings and added a change-up to his arsenal of fastball, slider, and curve. He will be in the Bisons rotation, trying to improve his command and develop the change-up.
Jhan Marinez (RHP) (23 years old) – Charlotte Knights (White Sox)
Marinez has an interesting story to tell. He made his Major League debut on July 16, 2009 with the Marlins and pitched in four games that season. Since then, he hasn't pitched above Double-A. Marinez was traded in the off-season to the White Sox as compensation for Ozzie Guillen becoming the manager in Miami because Guillen had one year remaining on his Chicago contract. Last season, Marinez pitched 56 games in relief for Double-A Jacksonville of the Southern League (3.57 ERA, 74K, 42BB, 58IP). He throws a 96mph fastball and a deceiving slider and will be a "go-to guy" in the Charlotte bullpen.
Chris Archer (RHP) (23 years old) – Durham Bulls (Rays)
A former Cleveland Indians farm hand, Archer has risen to the top of the Rays always impressive minor league system. He went from the Indians to the Cubs before the 2009 season, dealt for Mark DeRosa. He became Chicago's #1 ranked prospect before being traded to the Rays for Matt Garza last winter. He can touch 97mph with his fastball and compliments it with a dynamite slider. He also throws a change-up, which is a work in progress. Archer made two regular season starts with Durham last year, his Triple-A debut, and lost his only playoff game against the Clippers in Game #2 of the IL first round (5.2IP, 5ER, 7H, 3BB, 11K). If Matt Moore makes the major league club's rotation, Archer will be the ace.
Julio Teheran (RHP) (21 years old) – Gwinnett Braves (Braves)
The Braves think Teheran, the reigning "International League Pitcher of the Year" could be their ace of the future. He features a 97mph heater, a remarkable change-up, and solid breaking pitches (slider and curveball). Atlanta's player development staff has worked to temper his deliver, making it less violent and therefore reducing his risk of injury. That will be a point of emphasis again in 2012 as Teheran will probably start in Triple-A, waiting for his name to be called in Hot-lanta. He did pitch in five games (three starts) with the Braves at the end of last season.
Randall Delgado (RHP) (22 years old) – Gwinnett Braves (Braves)
Delgado will be attempting to capitalize off his outstanding September in the majors when he competes for a rotation spot with Atlanta. He made a couple of emergency starts last year and parlayed that into an extended stay (1-1 with a 2.83 ERA in seven starts). Delgado throws a 94mph fastball, curveball, and change-up. He only made four Triple-A starts after pitching in 21 Double-A games to start last season. The quantity of arms in Atlanta may keep in Gwinnett a little longer. The Braves have a boatload of pitching between MLB and Triple-A, so there's a log jam that could give the G-Braves the best staff in the International League for the second straight season.
Phillippe Aumont (RHP) (23 years old) – Lehigh Valley IronPigs (Phillies)
Aumont pitched in 18 games for Lehigh Valley last year, the 6'7" French-Canadian reliever's first taste of the International League. He was the Seattle Mariners first round pick (11th overall) in the 2007 draft, but was sent to Philly in the December 2009 Cliff Lee trade. He throws a 96mph sinker, solid curve, and has a change-up that doesn't get much use. He was placed on the Phillies 40-man roster this winter and will get plenty of work from IronPigs skipper Ryne Sandberg. Meanwhile, two of the Phillies top pitching prospects, Trevor May and Jonathan Pettibone, will likely start in Double-A.
Alex Wilson (RHP) (25 years old) – Pawtucket Red Sox (Red Sox)
Wilson turned things around in his sophomore season of Double-A ball and now seems poised for a spot in Boston soon. He was 4-5 with a 6.66 ERA in 16 starts with Double-A Portland in 2010, but returned last year and went 9-4 with a 3.05 ERA in 21 outings. He also made four starts with Pawtucket. Wilson's fastball is considered the best in Boston's minor league chain, reaching 97-98mph. He also throws a great slider and decent change-up. He'll probably be in Pawtucket's rotation come April, but could wind up as a two-pitch reliever in the majors.
Liam Hendriks (RHP) (23 years old) – Rochester Red Wings (Twins)
The Australian born Hendricks was the Twins 2011 Minor League Pitcher of the Year and got his first taste of both Triple-A and the majors. Since signing in 2007, he's overcome knee injuries and an emergency appendectomy to pitch a career-best 163 innings last year. Hendricks throws a low 90s fastball that he complements with a curve, slider, and change-up. With names like Pavano, Liriano, Baker, Blackburn, Duensing, and Marquis ahead of him on the depth chart, Hendricks looks to be on target for Rochester's rotation.
Manny Banuelos (LHP) (20 years old) – Scranton Wilkes-Barre (Yankees)
Banuelos was an international signing in 208 by the Bronx Bombers and he's just about ready to make his Big Apple debut. The Mexican-born southpaw made seven starts for the SWB Yankees last season after carrying a 3.59 ERA in 20 Double-A appearances. He can touch 95mph with his fastball and has great break on his curve. The addition of a change-up gives Banuelos everything he needs to make the next step. He'll get the ball every fifth day for Dave Miley club until New York calls, probably sometime soon.
Dellin Betances (RHP) (23 years old) – Scranton Wilkes-Barre (Yankees)
Betances pitched in two games, making one start for New York last season. He's a 2006 Yankees draft pick (8th round) that has struggled with command during his six-year career, but his ability to reach the upper 90s with a heater has made Betances lethal. The key will be controlling his curveball and fine tuning the change-up. He pitched 136 innings last season and should get that again with SWB in 2012 if he's healthy.
Did I miss anyone? Let me know at email@example.com
That's all for now, but stay tuned… I'll take a look at some of the top position players around the league later this week!


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Thank you SOOOO much!! I hope this will be useful in trying to locate my father's surname, Pizinger. I will be traveling to Prague this summer to study there at one of the universities and plan on doing some research as well. Any good tips? I have several surnames and a few locations to start with thus far. You have done a wonderful job with this, Blanka, thanks again!
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Feb. 29,2012 I am learning how to use the Prague Archives and doing fairly well. However, I do not know how to skip pages by typing in a higher number to advance to a certain year.It says to confirm the new number and I can't figure out how to do that. Could you please cover this in your next article on the Archives? Thank you. Your informative articles are teaching me exactly what I want and need to know about my Czech Heritage.
ReplyDelete Hi, "confirm" just means "press enter after writing the number" - this will start loading the page number you have entered into the field. Hope it will work!
Leza: Tips? Be carefull with the public transportation system if you plan to go to some small villages. :o) The public transport isn't always too good here, there are often only two buses going to the village (one in the morning, second in the afternoon) and two buses going out of the village. It's good to be prepared to this (and I prefer travelling by car in cases when I plan to visit small villages).
Also people in the country mostly don't speak English and are often afraid of visitors, because there were too many cases when they were robbed after such visit and so on. It's better to at least call or write a letter before your visit - or to make an appointment in the municipal office first.Dear Blanka,
If I type the village Rouchovany, nothing happens, there is no drop-down menu... Can you help me, why?


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Wielded with hate and shrouded in the blood of the cursed acts they've committed, the Demon Blades doom all those who use them to madness and a tragic end. As a conflict over the sinister swords erupts, the world slips further into chaos. Beasts emerge from the netherworld, summoned by the Demon Blades. And you're the lucky one who gets to fight them. Choose to play as a male ninja or female kunoichi and enter a side-scrolling 2D world based on a little-known Japanese mythology. Use your ninja skills in a combat-filled storyline with branching paths and all the beauty, grace, and power of ancient lore.
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Muramasa: The Demon Blade is one of those games that is instantly captivating. Being a fan of Vanillaware and the company's rich history I remember seeing first glimpses of Demon Blade out of TGS, instantly recognized the game as being one of Vanillaware's own, and stubbornly demanded that I get to...more
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Alright, so I was pretty excited about this game when it was announced, but now that i've played it, i'd say it could have been done a little better. Keep in mind that I haven't played Odin Sphere. Story: 7 Feh... Typical Japanese folklore. Nothing really new. Graphics: 10 The visuals for Muramasa...more
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Sunday, September 02, 2007
IPPR & the Minimum Wage
UPDATE: The ususal ignorant idiots have infested the comments, deliberately twisting what I wrote. I am not advocating a lower minimum wage for the North East and Wales, I am merely pointing out the perverted logic of the IPPR. Sigh.
56 comments:
- Theo Spark said...
Farm wages need to go up!!
- September 02, 2007 12:22 pm
- NewWelshRight said...
The minimum wage has to provide a better income than benefits or too many people are going to claim handouts and the soft touch Labour government is going to carry on giving them for fear of alienating their sclerotic sponging base. A cut in Wales has to be accompanmied by an even greater benefit cut. It would be an idea to put it up in areas like Wales and the North East to help end the vast sponging problem that we have.
- September 02, 2007 12:55 pm
This woudl be inline with teaching pays that give a higher salary to those in central/inner/outer areas of london. Stop trying to batter the welsh and the north. There are obvious reasons why londoners should receive more than other parts of the country but no reasons whatsoever why this should be at the detriment of welsh and northern collegues
- September 02, 2007 1:04 pm
theo, you're such a dirty communist. Why don't you just shut it?
- September 02, 2007 1:17 pm
Let's face it Iain. The Tories would be happy to be still paying people peanuts and £2 an hour. Your government ruined the North,(that's why you have no support in the region) so i would hardly advocate giving the people a reduced wage.
- September 02, 2007 1:22 pm
I am told by a cousin who used to live in West Wales that when the minimum wage was first introduced some local wages went down. The argument was, "By law, we no longer have to pay you more than £x".
- September 02, 2007 2:08 pm
Usual tory boy small minded nonsense.
In the 97 election the tories assured us that if a minimum wage was introduced , 3 million jobs would be lost.Ah, as if.
Lets get some punitive tax rates for the useless overpaid tossers running British business, recent research shows they are virtually unemployable internationally, and for their overpaid brats in the city - September 02, 2007 2:09 pm
- Chris Paul said...
The current minimum wage is not I think a "living wage" for most people even in the "cheap areas". The IPPR should be calling for a living wage everywhere and not just cherry picking London.
- September 02, 2007 2:10 pm
Re: new banner. Iain, I'd touch up that bit of grey hair on the left if I were you. It would make you look 8.5 years younger.
- September 02, 2007 2:42 pm
- Man in a shed said...
The BBC ran a story 24th July 07 that the government was considering lowering the minimum wage in NI, Scotland, Wales and the north east of England.
Much as I wish the current government was Tory, I'm afraid it isn't.
My question would be why not regional benefit's levels also based on actual need rather than socialist greed ? - September 02, 2007 2:49 pm
the remaining great taboo of the left, mr paul.
why do the public sector jobs all have to be paid at the same rate, from islington to aberdeen?
differential pay rates, which can tuned to local conditions and demand, are the way forward - September 02, 2007 2:51 pm
- Geezer said...
"Lets get some punitive tax rates for the useless overpaid tossers running British business"
Usual Labour boy class war crap!
You clearly have no understanding of the real world of business, as you no doubt spend your days idling away in some publicly funded job.
The socialists, should really do some growing up. Non-productive managers, are eventually found out in modern businesses, the shareholders demand value in big businesses and smaller businesses cannot afford to carry passengers. Redundancy is an often used tool to clear out the dead wood.
This is, of course, the complete opposite of the Public sector, which waste 10s of billions of pounds of taxpayers money every year so that more parasites will vote Labour by offering them a job for life and a untouchable pension, just for surfing the net all day! - September 02, 2007 2:53 pm
Wer ist der (oder die) I P P R
- September 02, 2007 3:04 pm
Comments like yours explain why there are no Tory MPs in the NE of England.
Our industry was deliberately destroyed by your precious party.
That is why you are so despised. - September 02, 2007 3:06 pm
- Hughes Views said...
I have a set of mugs lovingly preserved from the 2001 GE campaign. One has a picture (rather faded by frequent visits to the dishwasher) of William Hague. On the other side is a quote from him: "The minimum wage is the height of irresponsibility".
Given that Dave's career as your glorious leader seems to be following an uncannily similar (and, we must hope, just as unsuccessful) path to William's time as ditto, can you get him to come up with a similarly reactionary quote on this topic? - September 02, 2007 3:08 pm
- steppenwolff said...
Here's a story everyone missed except BBC Northern Ireland:
"Prime Minister Gordon Brown is considering plans which could see the minimum wage reduced in Northern Ireland, it is believed."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6914470.stm - September 02, 2007 3:10 pm
Could it possibly be that the ignorant idiots are taking their cue from you Iain?
- September 02, 2007 3:18 pm
- Ethelred the Unhinged said...
If the Tories are to win more seats in the north of England, they need to make an attempt to understand the place.
Comments like yours show how far away you are from doing so.
No matter what you intended, your words were insensitive.
Those who have criticised you are not ignorant idiots.
It is you who are ignorant.
You clearly have no idea at all about this part of your own country. - September 02, 2007 3:18 pm
It's simply not the case that living costs are lower in the Wales and the North East. The minimum wage was introduced after two decades of take home pay in those regions sliding behind the national average. I vividly recall working for the council at the time and receiving correspondence from the now ex-MP for Langbaugh Michael Bates who claimed that low pay was better than no pay etc. (this was in response to some employers paying 1.50 an hour locally).
The IPPR proposals would not even raise London wages to the London Living Wage and would certainly not damage economic competitiveness.
I think we are seeing the real side to what a Tory Britain would look like here. - September 02, 2007 3:21 pm
- Chris Paul said...
The Northern Ireland story is not one I'd rely on. Would be useful to know Iain whether you now support (a) the minimum wage per se (b) the minimum wage with regional weighting (c) a living wage calculated in each area according to real cost of living.
- September 02, 2007 3:38 pm
- Johnny Norfolk said...
Thers should not be a minimum wage. It should be between the employer and employee and is nothing to do with the Labour government. I think it holds wages down for a mass of people.
- September 02, 2007 3:52 pm
- Colin D said...
No Iain: you are so correct. The minimum wage should be kept for wales! They do deserve it after all. The minimum wage for all welsh MP's failing to serve English constituencies properly, should be rewarded, accordingly.
- September 02, 2007 3:59 pm
- Colin D said...
Surely the Welsh do not need a minimum wage. See recent "panorama" prog.!!
- September 02, 2007 4:02 pm
- steppenwolff said...
The Telegraph also had the minimum wage story in July:
The reasearch was done by The Economic Research Council.
"The council's study, which used a raft of official labour market and price data, said the minimum wage for Londoners should be boosted to £6.90 an hour. It also said the level in the north-east should be cut by 57p to £4.78 an hour, while workers in Yorkshire should get a minimum of £4.95, employees in Northern Ireland should be paid at least £4.80 and those in Wales more than £4.84." - September 02, 2007 4:12 pm
Ignorant idiot from the north east,
The greedy and corrupt Union barons destroyed industry in the north NOT the Tories! Your heroic union commisars used the working class as an Army to blackmail the elected governments of the day, from the fifties on! The fat greedy union thugs destroyed industries like ship building with no thought of the workers. All those fat corrupt trade union barons are now on fat pensions and cushy nonjobs while the workers languish on the dole!
I am sick and tired of the lies and deceit that the leftists always trot out about how the Tories are to blame for the demise of heavy industry! If it werent for the class war leftists striking all the time for no other reason than to bring about a socialist revolution then we would still be an industrial giant! - September 02, 2007 4:48 pm
It was the Thatcher government which closed the coal mines, not the "union barons" of your rabid imagination, English "Democrat".
The complete absence of Tory MPs in the NE is due to people up here preferring the truth to regurgitated Thatcherite dogma. - September 02, 2007 5:10 pm
What of poor dear Oona, weeping because she never made it to Minister?
Poor woman is better out of the Commons. Such a tender plant. - September 02, 2007 5:14 pm
Ignorant idiot
Congratulations, you have chosen your name well.
When you look at what actually happened to various industries in this country had far more to do with nationalisation and union militancy than it ever had to do with Conservative governments. On the contrary the Thatcher administration set up the conditions to start the recovery of industry in the North East
You are just repeating the lies of the socialists who want power over you, and regret the loss of the influence of the unions. Those lies and gerrymandering socialist policy of keeping people in dependence on the state are what stop the people of the north supporting the party that would do far more for them than the Labour government is doing.
You might believe those lies, but don't expect others to be as naive as you are. - September 02, 2007 5:56 pm
Ignorant idiot from the North east,
I come from a Notts pit town and many of my family worked down the pit so dont go telling me what I know or dont know!
The Notts minors stood firm against Authur(plastic Joe Gormley)Scargill when he took out the miners without a vote AND without cause JUST to bring down the Tory government! He tried and failed to emulate the 1974 strike which destroyed Heath! Our family fought against the NUM scum who tried their level best to destroy our mines JUST to make a political point! I was there! Were YOU?
That bully boy Scargill destroyed the coalminers NOT Thatcher!
Its time you read a book or two instead of listening to the NUM scumbags!
The Labour regime you love so much has been stealing the miners compensation money and giving it to their crooked lawyer chums! so why dont you save your fake indignation for that Eh? - September 02, 2007 5:58 pm
ignorant idiot from the north east [3.06 PM] You say, "Our industry [in the north east] was deliberately destroyed by your precious [Tory] party.
Tell me, IIFTNE, why do you think the Tories would DELIBERATELY destroy the heavy industries of the north east? What would be their motives? A dislike of cloth caps and ferrets, perhaps?
Why do you think your shipbuilding yards lost out to Korea? Anything to do with late deliveries, sub-standard workmanship, lousy management, intransigent trade unions, etc.? etc.
No, don't tell me: None of it was your fault. It was all down to the wicked witch, MARGARET THATCHER. - September 02, 2007 6:03 pm
- NewWelshRight said...
The North, Scotland and Wales are going to stay 'ruined' until they grow up and stop expecting the government to do everything for them. Nationalised industry and handouts for people and business were not sustainable and were going to ruin the country in the long term.
If some vest-wearing cider-swilling fat men in Cwmbran and Hull and Glasgow (the ones who haven't worked since 1988 and expect the people of London and the South East and the one taxpayer on their street to pay for their sorry lifestyles) can't get over Margaret Thatcher it is their problem.
The new generation need to be given a pro-enterprise, work-for-yourself education with input at every stage from the private sector that the provinces both can't hack and rely on for subsidy and fag money. - September 02, 2007 6:13 pm
- Realpolitik said...
I have heard anecdotal evidence that immigrants are working informally for less than the minimum wage. They don't complain because it is still much more than they could earn at home.
This might explain why it seems to be having such little impact on the number of people claiming benefits.
It does occasionally break into the mainstream news.
Personally, like most people in the private sector, my pay has been set based on the local labour market for years so I don't see why public sector pay and DSS benefits shouldn't be the same. - September 02, 2007 6:36 pm
I grew up 200yds from one of the biggest, and best known, nationalised industries.
This vehicle manufacturer was a busted flush in the 1970s and everyone locally knew it. It was propped up by tax payers money (presumably from the affluent south). As soon as Maggie came in and stopped/slowed the subsidies, it fell over in slow motion.
In the real world, that manufacturer was trading while insolvent. There was very little self-sufficient 'heavy industry' when Maggie came in. Though there was a lot of terminally-loss making heavy industry.
Incidentally, I understand more manufacturing jobs have gone under Labour since 1997 than under the Tories. - September 02, 2007 6:58 pm
In fact, anon@6:58pm, taxpayers live in all parts of the country, not just in your beloved "affluent south".
To repeat a point (you obviously find it hard to follow an argument), we know who hit us hardest.
That is why we do not vote Tory. - September 02, 2007 7:22 pm
- Geezer said...
"It was the Thatcher government which closed the coal mines, not the "union barons" of your rabid imagination, English "Democrat"
OH Please!! Previous governments (including Labour) closed loads of coal mines, it had been in decline for decades. The bulk of the mining industry around Sedgefield, for example, had dissapeared by the mid-seventies, the arse end of it was left in the '80s.
Why the hell should tax-payers pay to prop up dieing and uncompetitive industries, when most of those taxpayers do not have that safety net to support them? How did the parasitic trade unions repay the generosity of the Taxpayer?? That's it, they went on strike all the time and tried to wreck the economy and he job security of the hard-working tax-payers who were propping up their jobs!
This country is soooooo much better for the decline of trade union dominated industries. The current Labour administration have definitely benefited from it, as they don't have Winter's of discontent to deal with anymore, that were created by their Communist revoluionary paymasters! - September 02, 2007 7:40 pm
Dear ignorant Etc Etc,
Instead of reading from the big red BBC book of socialist lies why dont you take the time to read about your heroic NUM commisars and how they took millions out of the union funds and diverted it for their own pension pot! Or how about the money they took from the KGB/USSR! where did that money go? because it didnt go to the foot soldiers in the NUM revolution!
I notice you have not had the balls to answer my question about the miners compensation theft by ex NUM commisars and crooked NULAB lawyers! Whats the matter ignorant, cat got your tongue?
Your union commisars live in comfort after feathering their own nests while the rank and file got nothing more than a few quid redundancy and a life on the dole or a job at Tescos!
The working class were betrayed by the leftists/socialists only you are too thick to see it! - September 02, 2007 7:52 pm
"I am not advocating a lower minimum wage for the North East and Wales"
Well you ought to be! In fact, you should be advocating a lower minimum wage nationally, say precisely zero, zilch, diddly squat. It's none of the state's business!
By the way, Iain, going by your new photo you appear to be gradually turning into Rob Halford.. - September 02, 2007 7:55 pm
It is people like you Sir that is slowing down our country.
Whatever happened to individual responsibility?
Silly me obviously it's much easier blaming the great institution that is "Government".
Dwelling on the past does not, and will never help anyone.
Remain ignorant - perhaps it's for the best. - September 02, 2007 8:02 pm
Dear English etc
I am afraid I missed your earlier comment.
I repeat my point, which is unarguable, that it was the Thatcher government which closed the pits, not the NUM.
Scargill waged a class war, true. He retired in comfort (unlike may miners), also true.
Was that a good reason to destroy the livelihoods of all miners?
There is a difference between being badly led by your own and attacked and destroyed by your enemies. - September 02, 2007 8:14 pm
Protecting Oonie, are we?
I think she'd do great in The Big Brother House, wailing about her lack of advancement.
She might even find a way to advance herself. - September 02, 2007 8:32 pm
What's the IPPR and what business is it of theirs what commercial enterprises pay their employees? Agree with Anon 7:55.
Anon 2:09 - What about some punitive tax rates for the jerks in Parliament who don't do a day's work and enjoy privileges the taxpayer pays for?
That Oona's a nasty piece of work and her father was a draft dodger. - September 02, 2007 8:50 pm
Don't think the days of the massive struggle at BL between Red Robbo and Michael Edwardes wasn't serious.
I interviewed Edwardes some years ago and he told me that the trades unions involved had received help from the Soviet government. He had evidence - including visits to Moscow - but claimed the papers at the time wouldn't touch it.
Of course, the Commies saw these industrial battles as way to de-stablise the UK.
The big BL strikes were seen by the state as so serious, Edwardes also told me, that whenever a Union meeting took place in a West Midlands pub during the strike, he had a transcript on his desk the next morning.
And think we can all work out how that happened....
From the impression I gained at the time, Edwardes might yet spill the full unbelieveable story of those times.
Perhaps 2010, when the records can be released (I think - 30 year rule?) will be the time for such a book. - September 02, 2007 8:53 pm
It would have been good to carry on, and perhaps even conclude, the debate, but with "moderation enabled" this is just not possible.
- September 02, 2007 8:57 pm
- towcestarian said...
As a director of a small company, I'm a recent convert to the concept of the minimum wage - and one set at a sensible level. Given the political reality that benefits can't be cut substantially, other financial ways must be found to encourage the underclass from welfare dependency into the workplace. A substantial increase in the minimum wage, coupled with a dramatic decrease in corporate taxation (ie remove emplyees NI contributions) could be a good win-win policy for all concerned. It would be good to see the Conservatives adopt some very radical ideas like this - almost fits in as one of Tim Montgomerie's "Politics of and".
- September 02, 2007 9:28 pm
- Travis Bickle said...
IPPR = a think tank consisting of idiots who have never lived in the real world.
However I'm touched that anyone in the North East thinks that the champagne "socialists" of this government give a stuff about them either, you all live way too far South for that pets! - September 02, 2007 9:51 pm
- Johnny Norfolk said...
The coal mines closed thanks to Scargill who was unable to see when he should have settled. He could have made all sorts of deals with the government, but no he led his men into a war they could not win. He was the bigest disaster for the miners.
When will Labour be opening the mines again then? - September 02, 2007 10:41 pm
Living (and housing) costs are indeed higher in London but that's not actually the main reason why we are arguing for a higher minimum wage rate for low paid workers in the capital.
The minimum wage has been a big success - boosting the pay of over a million and a half workers with no negative impact on jobs. But it is doing a far less effective job in London than across the rest of the UK.
London is the only part of the country where the gap between the low paid and average earners has got wider over the last decade (it has decline everywhere else).
This is because wages at the bottom have gone up slower in London than amongst low paid workers in every other region, while middle and higher earners in the capital have seen much faster than average pay growth.
Wages in London are pulling apart, while everywhere else the minimum wage has helped to keep the wages of those at the bottom of the labour market in touch with those in the middle.
Also, minimum wage workers in the capital earn just a third of the average London wage. The equivalent figure for all other regions is around a half.
In short, the London labour market is an outlier - justifying this particular policy response. There is no justification for lowering the minimum wage in other parts of the country - not least because there is no evidence that the minimum wage has had any negative impact on jobs in these areas.
Finally, London also has the highest percentage of working households that are still in poverty. And a minimum wage would - as some of your readers suggest - boost work incentives.
Thanks for your interest in the story
Researcher, ippr - September 02, 2007 11:20 pm
"a minimum wage would - as some of your readers suggest - boost work incentives"
So would a benefit cut. - September 03, 2007 12:46 am
Graeme Cook - Who gives a shit?
How is this the business of the government, which couldn't run a child's birthday party?
Trust the market. Cut "temporary charity payments" - aka by the friendlier, less judgemental word word "benefits" -completely (except genuine disability) and watch the market find its own level.
That's what it's all about. The market.
I'm also mulling the idea that charity would have to be repaid, in tiny increments, after work has been found (by force).
You've come to the wrong blog, Graeme, if you think anyone here thinks people deserve charity from the government or forced charity from employers.
The market decides. It's a cold, hard world out there, and those of us who aren't researchers for IPPR, whatever the hell that is, manage to make our own way. So whatever IPPR is should be shut the hell down.
No passengers, and that includes you. - September 03, 2007 2:21 am
- bgprior said...
Graeme, Has Gordon given the IPPR its own office at No.10 yet? Or does one not need to be that close physically to act as cheerleader for policies the Government want to implement? This Minimum Wage stuff sounds remarkably like a policy that Brown was said to be considering a month ago. And Jenny's recent report on Energy Security, it turns out, bases its technology assessments not on real examples but on DBERR's generalizations. I'm sure the Government won't be citing either of these reports to justify policy-announcements, will they?
- September 03, 2007 4:15 am
- bgprior said...
The "no negative impact on jobs" bit is a joke. The only way employment levels have been kept up is by creation of public-sector jobs to compensate for private-sector stagnation. According to government statistics (source linked from here), between summer 1999 and winter 2005/6, 1.5m jobs were added to the economy. That included 1.6m jobs in "Public admin, education and health" (PAEH). In other words, the number of jobs in the rest of the economy actually declined in the period, while the PAEH sector grew like topsy.
I suppose the 3 million or so people on disability benefit are really all sick from some anonymous pandemic that struck in the last few years, are they? The fact that 20% of households with working-age occupants are entirely dependent on benefits is an anomaly in a roaring employment market? Yeah, right.
For those arguing about manufacturing jobs, you can get the figures from the same place above. Manufacturing jobs declined as a proportion of the whole under Thatcher, but only because the total number of jobs grew strongly. The absolute number of manufacturing jobs did not decline dramatically. The real decline occurred first with a big step down in Major's early years (White Wednesday no doubt a major factor), and then an even larger sustained decline under Blair and Brown. - September 03, 2007 4:53 am
- Ordovicius said...
Strangely the IPPR does not advocate a reduced minimum wage in areas like Wales or the North East where living costs may be below the national average.
They're not. We earn less, but -surprise surprise- we don't get any discount on the cost of living. - September 03, 2007 5:49 am
- towcestarian said...
Graeme Cooke
You claim the current minimum wage has not affected employment, convieniently forgetting the 5 million+ who are "economically inactive".
The fundamental problem with your highly socialist analysis is that you see the minimum wage as a means of redistributing wealth. As a right wing supporter of the minimum wage I see it as a means of getting people off benefits (which are already too generous) and onto the bottom rung of the job market. However, without a commensurate reduction in employers costs it will continue being ineffective in creating jobs. - September 03, 2007 9:24 am
The vision is of a city and country where everyone in work is paid enough to provide adequately for themselves and their family. The Living Wage Campaign aims to make poverty wages history. - September 03, 2007 10:45 am
Ignorant idiot
Could you also add "hypocritical" to your name?
"To repeat a point (you obviously find it hard to follow an argument), we know who hit us hardest."
It is however you who are not following the argument, or even admitting there is an argument.
For a start you don't know who hit you hardest, you assert that it's Thatcher but you cannot justify that assertion with anything resembling a coherent argument.
On the contrary you ignore the strong arguments made against your point, to state that it "...is unarguable, that it was the Thatcher government which closed the pits, not the NUM". This is a blind - you are trying to get people to forget the cause of the pit closures, which was the communist Scargill, by focussing on the agent of the closure, which is not relevant. You either are unable to understand the distinction or you are being disingenuous.
Your irrational hatred of Thatcher is clouding your judgement. You cannot accept that she was right, that the fault lay elsewhere and she had the solution, because you have invested too much in your belief in socialism, an economic philosophy that has been proved to be fundamentally flawed.
It is obvious to anyone who looks objectively rather than with a predetermined answer, looking to for "proof") that the destruction of British industry predates Thatcher. She had no reason or capability in the time frame to destroy it. - September 03, 2007 3:41 pm
Oona King - dontcha just hate her?
Crap as a speaker - crap as a writer - so crap that no newspaper expect for MOSY is even interested in her self interested outpourings.
Shuck, Oonie babes - Mark Oaten got there before you -- such a nearly girl weren't you sweetie? - September 04, 2007 4:38 pm


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Is this just agent speak? Plan B if Plan A doesn't materialize?
He also qualified that statement with: "If the money is right". So my interpretation is: "I'd like to stay as long as the money is acceptable."
I guess it will depend on the demand for his services. Considering he only played a handful of games or so, I'm not sure what the demand would be.
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It's kind of funny that after winning the Super Bowl I haven't heard any Ravens players come out and say they don't want to come back (except #52, of course).
I question his motivation
the only thing sure is ravens don't have any options at LT besides Bryant Mckinnie. in his most recent showings he all but shut down some of the leagues best pass rushers.
if it wasn't for KO looking like a future pro bowler the O-line would be in a lot of trouble
Apparently the doghouse food is excellent.
In fairness to Bryant, he didn't know he was actually supposed to give any effort in practice until they told him. Once they told him he needed to work at work it was creame cheese.
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