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Vinewood was not a good fit for my son. There was very little structure, a lack of expectations, and poor enforcement of rules. All the classes are together for the first hour or so of the day. There are plenty of teachers to make the ratio 1 to 10, however it was over stimulating for my son. Instead of doing any activities that there were to do, he would just play and act out. I was constantly told that my son was not doing well and was having behavioral problems and he was...along with most of the other kids. While visiting the classroom I saw that when kids acted out they were seldom, if ever, taken to the side and spoken to about rules and the way we should behave in the classroom or outside. When asking about expectations, rules, and structure I heard, "They're 3!" over and over again as if a 3 year old was just not at a stage in their development to impose such ideals. Over all, I felt like my son was not learning. When I asked him about his day he would say, "I don't know" or "I didn't do anything." He wasn't doing anything. I was told he was not ready for preschool and teachers even implied that he may need help of some sort, and so I pulled him out.
Absolutely the best Pre-School. A very loving and nurturing environment. My daughter can't wait to get to school everyday!
Both my daughters attended here and we just loved it. The teachers are so loving and our kids cried if they were sick and couldn't go to school! Our third child will be attending in a few years.
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Willie Young moves from right to left side of the defensive line
Paula Pasche – The Oakland Press
Willie Young says playing right defensive end is a lot like brushing his teeth with his left hand.
It works, but it's not comfortable.
And yet the Detroit Lions defensive end started on the right side the first two games this season. Ziggy Ansah got the start on Sunday in Washington.
Johnson, Bush change calculations for Bears
Matt Bowen – Chicago Tribune
The Bears defense has produced in its blitz schemes throughout the first three weeks of the season. However, with a matchup versus Calvin Johnson and the Lions, the Bears may choose to play some Cover-2 to limit the deep ball in Detroit.
As shown here, the Lions have their Ace personnel (two wide receivers, two tight ends, one running back) on the field in a Doubles Slot formation with running back Reggie Bush offset to the open side. The Bears counter with the base 4-3 personnel playing Cover-2 in the secondary. With the Lions working Johnson and Bush on the flat-7 (corner) combination, Mel Tucker's defense has to play disciplined football to prevent an explosive gain.
Top 10 Lions Jerseys You'll Regret Wearing To Ford Field
On your way to your seat at Ford Field this Sunday, you'll have to navigate through a graveyard of jerseys on the backs of Lions slappys young & old. The draft picks that just didn't pan out. The trades that reeked of hope but didn't produce much on the field. No matter what the season gives us — valiant victories, crushing losses, hopefully a deciding win against the Bears this Sunday — we'll always be reminded of past failures. That's why we've compiled this list — to remember, to forget, to scratch our collective heads and wonder aloud, "What happened to him?"
Here's to the Detroit Lions winning the Super Bowl this season. And here's a roll call of all the jerseys we wish you'd leave at home.
Detroit Lions rookie punter Sam Martin planning to kick away from Devin Hester
Justin Rogers – MLive.com
Punter Sam Martin might only be three games into his professional career, but he knows better than to kick it to Chicago Bears return man Devin Hester.
The lethal Hester holds the NFL record with 17 special teams touchdowns, which includes 12 on punt returns.
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Asthma Drug Soothes RSV-Related Cough
Robert Welliver, MD, professor of pediatrics in the division of infectious diseases at the Women's and Children's Hospital of Buffalo, says this is only the first attempt to use this class of drugs to treat RSV-related complications. And he suspects there might be a much broader application for them.
"In this study, they only looked at treating infants after they left the hospital, but this might be treating the wrong end of the illness," says Welliver. "What if you take high-risk kids and put them on these drugs to prevent hospitalization? There is a high percentage of kids with [RSV] who had been in the doctor's office a day or two before they were hospitalized."
Giving these children a leukotriene-inhibitor early on, Welliver says, might prevent some of the inflammation from occurring in the first place.
Joe Spahn, MD, a pediatrician at National Jewish Medical and Research Center, agrees that much more study is needed.
This study found only a modest benefit from using Singulair, but Spahn says RSV-related wheeze involves a very complicated set of variables that no one really fully understands yet.
He says some people think using inhaled steroids, which are also frequently used to prevent asthma attacks, might work in treating this condition. But Spahn says there are just as many studies that say they work as say they don't.
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The weirdest thing - when I posted that sentence, I thought, 'That sentence is so terrible, I wonder if J0hn will correct it'. I recall the last time he corrected one of my sentences, back in about 2003. At the time, I thought he was an English teacher. Anyway, J0hn, thanks for trying, but it's still a terrible sentence so let me try to again.
Music industry pundits have gamely tried to imagine models which could, in some way, monetise the digital distribution of music. Nothing seems to have worked so far. For example, until recently, some commentators were suggesting we look to the porn industry as an example of how to do business on the net. However, now that even the porn industry is having its own problems due to the propagation of free content on various high traffic amateur porn sites, that argument is harder to make. Also down the tubes, apparently is the notion that most bands can monetise touring on the back of internet promotion. Touring income for all but the very big acts appears to be down in 2007, with no signs of bouncing back. My impression (I read hundreds of tour budgets a year as part of my day job) is that most bands lose money on touring, or earn less than they would had they worked a low-paid job for the duration of the tour.
Stetching further back, before Myspace, discussions revolved around direct artist sales from their own websites, and how to construct a site to maximise custom. Also, there was the 'music like water' idea, also before Myspace, where people would subscribe to a service providing unlimited downloads at, say, $20 per month. That idea is fraught with obstacles, relying as it does on cooperation and agreement on the part of the RIAA and other orgnaisations and record companies. Attempts to monetise Myspace through Snocap have also gone down the tubes. Looking at the Prince and Radiohead stunts, even if we grant that either were successful as a commercial venture, it is not apparent that less well known artists could follow the same path. And so on.
To take these lessons and get really pessimistic, we could say that it is impossible to monetise digital distribution of content. If this is the case, it is a potential threat to all content providers whose product can be digitised. That would include music, porn, the press and all publishing, film, video and photography, and TV. The consequences of all those businesses disappearing, along with the music industry, would be interesting. Here it all gets very speculative. It would seem that search engines and social netowrking sites become very powerful insofar as they harvest a great deal of information,w hich they could then sell. That may be where the real internet money lies in the future. Where does that leave the artist? Who knows at this stage.
― moley, Thursday, 3 January 2008 00:54 (6 years ago) Permalink
Feel free to correct any grammar or spelling mistakes you may find in that post. I believe there's at least one.
― moley, Thursday, 3 January 2008 00:55 (6 years ago) Permalink
There was an interesting thread recently -- on ILM, I think -- about creative options for the music industry in the digital age (the thread was eMusic -- C/D, perhaps; I'm out now, so it's harder to search for it). Anyway, there were some innovative ideas, e.g., a Stock Market Model, a Patronage Model. I have no idea, obv., if these would work, but they're certainly worth further consideration, and they're better, PR-wise, than the RIAA suing its potential customer base.
I know that discussion is one step prior to where you begin your analysis, Moley, but it's in the same vein and was v. interesting.
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 3 January 2008 01:45 (6 years ago) Permalink
Thanks Daniel - I think this is it:
EMusic - C/D
― moley, Thursday, 3 January 2008 01:54 (6 years ago) Permalink
As for the majors, I doubt that they view patronage (or anything else involving good faith) as even a plan z but their relentless moustache-twirling is not only burning that bridge but irradiating and vacuuming the remains of the bridge; they're wearing out their stick before they've even planted the carrots. I wonder if a quasi-patronage model could work on a smaller scale, or if it is is already working on a smaller scale with say, 'indie' labels which have always had self-selecting fans and built-in good faith rhetoric working for it to some extent.
― tremendoid, Thursday, 3 January 2008 02:10 (6 years ago) Permalink
they will become content feeders for corporate advertising. the madonna sponsorship thing is just the first, it'll be like stock car drivers soon. or else ditch the role of the artist entirely and go to music created by genetic generative algorithms. there is no way to monetize digital distribution of content without DRM in hardware (and even then)
― the galena free practitioner, Thursday, 3 January 2008 21:21 (6 years ago) Permalink
― Alba, Sunday, 27 January 2008 15:36 (6 years ago) Permalink
― The Reverend, Sunday, 27 January 2008 15:38 (6 years ago) Permalink
For anyone who's really interested in these cases, Recording Industry vs. The People covers them pretty comprehensively.
― felicity, Sunday, 27 January 2008 16:35 (6 years ago) Permalink
― Alba, Thursday, 31 January 2008 15:06 (6 years ago) Permalink
it's particularly ironic that they'd mention 'let it be' in there; if they're talking about the film, that's one of the only places to fucking get it! it's hardly eating into the beatles' sales since they won't put it on dvd legally.
― akm, Thursday, 31 January 2008 15:10 (6 years ago) Permalink
shocked, I tells ya
― StanM, Thursday, 21 February 2008 10:13 (6 years ago) Permalink
I'll have my CD with. Whatever you've got - drugs, a couple of guns... say, can you hook me up into your criminal network? What's that? I'm now a high ranking executive in the music industry? That's great! Let's party with what's left of our coke budget! Actually, you know what, just keep the CD, it's worthless anyway.
― moley, Thursday, 21 February 2008 11:18 (6 years ago) Permalink
large-scale piracy of DVDs is just another black market commodity. it's not surprising that you'd get drugs and other stuff going through the same channels, and it's not surprising that hezbollah or whoever would be involved in those channels, that's how they make their money
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 21 February 2008 12:39 (6 years ago) Permalink
now i'm imagining hezbollah recording an album full of international smash hits, netting them millions -- it would be like that movie about the internet murderer where every website hit injects more poison into his victim or whatever -- "please, america!! stop listening to this infectious music! every CD you buy endangers the lives of us all!" -- until the govt. realize they can stop this insane money mill by encouraging rampant piracy
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 21 February 2008 12:51 (6 years ago) Permalink
You're saying Nickelback should be deported, right? OTM.
― StanM, Thursday, 21 February 2008 12:53 (6 years ago) Permalink
Any chance of the Israelis following a policy of targetted assassination of members of Nickelback?
― Tom D., Thursday, 21 February 2008 12:54 (6 years ago) Permalink
the ironing
― StanM, Friday, 29 February 2008 07:28 (6 years ago) Permalink
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 29 February 2008 07:35 (6 years ago) Permalink
Potential turnabout.
― Rock Hardy, Sunday, 16 March 2008 16:41 (6 years ago) Permalink
Their probable future strategy:
― StanM, Sunday, 16 March 2008 16:49 (6 years ago) Permalink
Glad people are paying attention to this.
― felicity, Monday, 17 March 2008 19:46 (6 years ago) Permalink
Shocked, I tells ya! (again)
― StanM, Thursday, 27 March 2008 08:35 (6 years ago) Permalink
Holy Shit!
From Gizmodo:
The RIAA and MPAA have submitted a plan to the Office of Intellectual Property Enforcement. It's basically a plan that they want the government to enact, and it's terrifying.
Here are some of the lovely things that they're calling for:
* spyware on your computer that detects and deletes infringing materials; * mandatory censorware on all Internet connections to interdict transfers of infringing material; * border searches of personal media players, laptops and thumb-drives; * international bullying to force other countries to implement the same policies; * and free copyright enforcement provided by Fed cops and agencies (including the Department of Homeland Security!).
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 15 April 2010 20:15 (4 years ago) Permalink
Is this possible?
― Jacob Sanders, Thursday, 15 April 2010 20:36 (4 years ago) Permalink
probably not
― fuckin' lame, bros (latebloomer), Thursday, 15 April 2010 20:36 (4 years ago) Permalink
File sharers=Terrorist
― Jacob Sanders, Thursday, 15 April 2010 20:38 (4 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, its not going to ever happen, but imagine the balls to even ask.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 15 April 2010 20:40 (4 years ago) Permalink
― bug holocaust (sleeve), Thursday, 15 April 2010 20:47 (4 years ago) Permalink
"* spyware on your computer that detects and deletes infringing materials;"
I can't even imagine how this would work. . . .
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 15 April 2010 20:47 (4 years ago) Permalink
love these fucking guys
― mdskltr (blueski), Thursday, 15 April 2010 20:48 (4 years ago) Permalink
Imagine the lines at the Canadian border when the enforcers have to go through every iPod song-by-song to check for infringement.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 15 April 2010 20:50 (4 years ago) Permalink
if you start your bargaining high enough you might get something passed that's not quite as bad but would have seen to be too extreme if you had asked for that in the first place. That's the reasoning behind it.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 15 April 2010 20:53 (4 years ago) Permalink
* spyware on your computer that detects and deletes infringing materials
How would such spyware determine what mp3's/mpeg's a user has downloaded and what ones he's ripped himself for personal use? These organizations have really shit the bed this time.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 15 April 2010 20:53 (4 years ago) Permalink
Probably pretty simple, they have programs in commercial use even now that can detect a track and detect whether it is a commercial recording or not, and then take automated steps to get rid of it. If you have ever uploaded a video with a commercial song to youtube in the past few years, it gets taken down within minutes.
I'm sure all they would need to do is search for the itunes purchase tag or whatever kind of DRM is supported by the companies paying into the program, and it could work!
― Adam Bruneau, Thursday, 15 April 2010 20:54 (4 years ago) Permalink
But what about stuff that you burned yourself from CDs/LPs? Or would it just indescriminantly delete that?
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 15 April 2010 20:56 (4 years ago) Permalink
they want you to buy from itunes etc not rip your own cds. They want you to buy it twice.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 15 April 2010 20:58 (4 years ago) Permalink
How would such spyware determine what mp3's/mpeg's a user has downloaded and what ones he's ripped himself for personal use?
This is the biggest problem, and perhaps the scariest. What if they took this method:
"Any authorized content needs to have this encrypted code embedded in the file. The RIAA and MPAA both mandated this code in all of their products, therefore, if your binary file does not have the code, it could potentially be an illegal file."
It would be one more step towards eliminating the freedom of production that the internet has democratically given to the entire world. The solution, of course, would be to dump the internet before it becomes something like cable TV, and go underground yet again. I bet there are plenty of hackers ready and willing to work on such a system.
― Adam Bruneau, Thursday, 15 April 2010 20:59 (4 years ago) Permalink
pfunkboy OTM. You bought the LP, you bought the cassette, you bought the CD, why the hell aren't you buying the MP3?
― Adam Bruneau, Thursday, 15 April 2010 21:01 (4 years ago) Permalink
I'm sure hackers would figure out a way to delete the spyware in the first place.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 15 April 2010 21:02 (4 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, I rip a lot of vinyl to my computer. Are they saying that any file not encoded with these RIAA codes are considered illegal?
― Jacob Sanders, Thursday, 15 April 2010 21:03 (4 years ago) Permalink
Well, that's my paranoid dystopian conspiracy theory. I think ripping an LP is safe by today's standards.
― Adam Bruneau, Thursday, 15 April 2010 21:04 (4 years ago) Permalink
That sounds like what they are saying.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 15 April 2010 21:04 (4 years ago) Permalink
I mean I don't see how the spyware could work any other way.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 15 April 2010 21:05 (4 years ago) Permalink
I may be totally wrong ripping an LP. *google search*
― Adam Bruneau, Thursday, 15 April 2010 21:07 (4 years ago) Permalink
I'm pretty sure it's considered Fair Use.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 15 April 2010 21:08 (4 years ago) Permalink
Actually I'm wrong. The RIAA does NOT consider that Fair Use. But they also haven't taken anyone to court over it. I can't imagine they'd win.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 15 April 2010 21:10 (4 years ago) Permalink
I'm sure playing the Beach House album this afternoon with my front door open also violates Fair Use. Frreal, eff these guys.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 15 April 2010 21:16 (4 years ago) Permalink
RIAA vs. Diamond has mostly settled that, I think?
― carson dial, Thursday, 15 April 2010 21:16 (4 years ago) Permalink
This is pretty telling:
― Adam Bruneau, Thursday, 15 April 2010 21:18 (4 years ago) Permalink
xp haha, yeah he said it. but you'd have to have some serious blinders on to be a world famous recording artist and not know about that stuff. his vocals are doubletracked on "the boxer," recorded in 1970.
― tylerw, Thursday, 11 April 2013 23:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh there you go. of course, that might be the producer just taking two vocal takes, not like it's an amazing overdub job. i like the idea of dylan hearing it with the two vocals and thinking: "who is that other dude singing with me"
― tylerw, Thursday, 11 April 2013 23:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
this is interesting...
Dylan and producer Tom Wilson were soon experimenting with their own fusion of rock and folk music. The first unsuccessful test involved overdubbing a "Fats Domino early rock & roll thing" over Dylan's earlier, acoustic recording of "House of the Rising Sun," according to Wilson. This took place in the Columbia 30th Street Studio in December 1964.[1] It was quickly discarded, though Wilson would more famously use the same technique of overdubbing an electric backing track to an existing acoustic recording with Simon & Garfunkel's "The Sound of Silence". I
never knew that but now I want to hear it.
― wk, Thursday, 11 April 2013 23:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
sometimes I think I really need to hear Self Portrait. Dylan doing Paul Simon lol
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 11 April 2013 23:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
I wonder if dylan was actually there though or ever heard it, or if wilson just did it on his own like he did with SoSxp
― wk, Thursday, 11 April 2013 23:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
i'm sure after he dies there'll be some big reveal about dylan avidly posting on yahoo groups about the civil war.
he went on rec.music.dylan o/w a few times in the 90s
― Devendra Bumhat (sic), Friday, 12 April 2013 00:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
i am bob dylan
― severely depressed robots are "twee" (Pat Finn), Friday, 12 April 2013 01:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
How big is your penis
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Friday, 12 April 2013 02:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
Have you been to Manhattan, and if so, what was it like
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Friday, 12 April 2013 02:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
i mean, i usually don't like to talk about "being bob dylan"; it feels tacky, like i'm bragging.
― Pat Finn, Friday, 12 April 2013 13:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's ain't braggin' if it's true.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 12 April 2013 15:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think I know what's going on here. 1) Pat Finn started out on burgundy. 2) He soon hit the harder stuff. 3) Weird, off-the-wall posting on a message board.
― clemenza, Friday, 12 April 2013 15:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah i thought i would be able to follow up the "i am bob dylan" comment with some funny posts. but i've got nothing.
― Pat Finn, Friday, 12 April 2013 16:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
Just confess that you--Bob Dylan--are addicted to youtube videos of celebrities falling off stages, and you'll be okay.
― Vol. 3: The Life & Times of E. "Boom" Carter (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 12 April 2013 17:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
that Juan Gabriel fall remains one of the funniest things ever
― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Friday, 12 April 2013 17:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
i like this video, i think it was posted here at some point, where nickleback walk onstage at a music festival and the lead singer tries to pump up the crowd saying "are you ready to rock?" or something, and it is just dead silent, no response from the audience. after a few minutes the band storms offstage, giving the middle finger to the crowd. i, bob dylan, watch that video every morning in order to laugh and "jolt" myself out of my morning depression.
― Pat Finn, Friday, 12 April 2013 17:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
I got said email, luckily i didn't open it.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 17:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
same here.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 9 May 2013 03:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
How worried should I be if I got a copyright infringement notice from my internet provider (A+and+)? I've never gotten anything like that and I must say I'm feeling kind of distraught.
― "Turkey In The Straw" coming from someplace in the clouds (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 01:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
don't be, stop sharing the specific file(s) they called you out for, maybe avoid sharing files you get from wherever you got those files in general. probably best to avoid uploading anything you could potentially get a notice for for awhile.
― balls, Tuesday, 15 October 2013 01:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
pretty amazing http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/25/filesharing-site-anti-piracy-honeypot-uploadertalk-user-data
― piscesx, Saturday, 26 October 2013 17:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
Got a DMCA takedown notice for a song that was 100% wrote by me and I and recorded every instrument on it, which is a first for me!
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 21 November 2013 19:59 (11 months ago) Permalink
weird. was it called "stairway to heaven" or something?
― tylerw, Thursday, 21 November 2013 20:00 (11 months ago) Permalink
The file named I Love You But You Don't Love Me Back.mp3 is identified by the key (wnho6vndab12bkk).
Is there a song also called this that I am unaware of? It's a slow droney gospel sort of thing with those being the only lyrics.
I sent a counterclaim to Mediafire but who knows if anything will happen. I should probably just stop using it altogether and go w Soundcloud/Bandcamp.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 21 November 2013 20:02 (11 months ago) Permalink
"old man down the road"
― lorde willin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 21 November 2013 20:02 (11 months ago) Permalink
― koogs, Thursday, 21 November 2013 20:15 (11 months ago) Permalink
Oh great, apparently my files are listed in file crawler websites. I swear to god neither I.love.you.phillip.morris.ts.md.german nor [4shared,mp3] 09 Doctor Jones (Antiloop Club Mix).mp3 are on my mediafire account.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 21 November 2013 20:17 (11 months ago) Permalink
wow adam, thats pretty intense ..
must have felt very strange and yet, exciting ?
as it means you are on some filtering list of value.
in the glory days of blogging, i posted many a track that i was borderline with and never had a takedown notice ...
i always wanted one to print and frame ..
one day.
― mark e, Thursday, 21 November 2013 20:20 (11 months ago) Permalink
Hotfile to pay Hollywood studios $80m damages in filesharing settlement
― sleeve, Thursday, 5 December 2013 01:33 (10 months ago) Permalink
hotfile still exists?
― Number None, Thursday, 5 December 2013 18:33 (10 months ago) Permalink
oh i guess it doesn't now
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Government to levy heavier penalties for personal data leaksUpdated: 2014-03-11 06:40:52 KST
From the latter half of this year, financial institutions will only be able to ask for customers' resident registration numbers at the initial, application stage.
After that, people will not be asked to provide their registration numbers but instead be asked to verify their identity through other, safer means.
The registration numbers have been at the center of a recent series of high-level personal information security breaches, and toughening their use is a key part of a package unveiled by the government on Monday to fight widespread leaks of personal data.
Financial institutions will also not be allowed to keep collected information for more than five years after the final transaction.
"Apart from the information that's absolutely necessary, all other data that the financial institution either has or has provided to a third party will be destroyed. The police and the prosecution will jointly and indefinitely crack down on breaches."
The government has also tightened the penalty system.
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Han Solo didn't say "give the wookiee what he wants," he said:
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Not only did Han not say "give the wookiee what he wants," but he also didn't say "Let the wookiee win." 3PO said that after Han mentioned something about the risk of dismemberment associated with beating Chewbacca at the chess-like game.
Perhaps the real dialog makes Tim's point even more strongly. Maybe businesses should consider the needs of their customers more than the goal of winning and profiting. Otherwise they risk metaphorically having their arm pulled out of its socket by the larger and stronger entity that is consumer market.


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How our mind works exactly is one of the biggest mysteries in modern scientific community. Even though we humans have made so many artificial minds or Computers using our fullest effort not even the most perfect among them is not even near to the complexity and power of mind of a cockroach. This proves how much complexly our mind works.
Here is a simple visual illusion experiment to know how our mind works.
Basically our mind works by learning to work! I mean mind works by comparing things and situations that it has already seen. When ever our mind comes across new situations and things it collects information about it through receptors like eyes ears, nose etc and stores the data in the complex database of data that it perceived in different situation. And whenever it come across some other situation it relates the situation with the situation it had already gone through by relating the new data it gets with the data in its database, and in this way it manipulates new situations and things or it works.
Here is a simple experiment to show that.
A picture is shown below. It have four squares , in lower two there are two pictures which are the exact copy of each other with same color and shape with just one being flipped version of another. And in upper two squares there are two different colors.
So now, what you need to do is, stare at the dot between the upper two squares for about 30 seconds and then instantly looks at the dot between those two lower squares.
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I leave the task to find out the reason, why is it that even though the color of both lower square is same we see different colors?
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It boggles the mind.
Why would the Coast Guard decide to conduct a training exercise on the Potomac River, a stone's throw away from the Pentagon, where the president of the United States and others attended a memorial event, on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks???
The media, always on hyper-alert for anything terrorism related on the anniversary of Sept. 11, ran with reports of shots fired on the Potomac.
That unleashed never-far-from-the-surface fears of terrorism amid memories of that day 8 years ago when a hijacked plane crashed into the Pentagon, two planes crashed into the World Trade Center in New York and another into a field in Pennsylvania — shattering the country's sense of security.
It turns out the Coast Guard was conducting a training exercise. "Somebody said 'bang bang' on the radio" and no shots were fired, Coast Guard Vice Admiral John Currier said, calling it a regular training exercise.
But still, what were they thinking?
The Coast Guard's first line of defense over the incident was: "The best way that we in the Coast Guard can remember Sept. 11 and our security obligations to the nation is to be always ready and this requires constant training and exercise."


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Josh Harding returns to the lineup, Corey Perry is made of magic, and both the Coyotes and the Maple Leafs need to get it together.
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March 27, 2014
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Don't look now, but the terrible Canucks might not be as terrible as we think they are.
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It's crunch time in fantasy hockey and time is running out.
March 22, 2014
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They don't really miss Tyler Seguin, eh? The Bruins are prepared for another long Cup run.
March 21, 2014
Friday Daily Puck: Rise Of A Star
Matt Duchene has taken the league by storm since the Olympics, cementing his place among the NHL's top skaters.
March 18, 2014
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Martin St. Louis has just two points -- and no goals -- in seven games since joining the Rangers at the trade deadline.
March 16, 2014
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Kris Letang and Beau Bennett are expected back at Monday practice
March 14, 2014
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The Sharks are surging and destroying everything in its path. Are they the best team in California?
March 13, 2014
Thursday Daily Puck: The Canadian Line Dance
We take a look at what top lines are firing on all cylinders and which ones are struggling. Plus, the Flames beat the Ducks 7-2, just like I predicted.
March 11, 2014
Wednesday Daily Puck: Orcas Dying
Kevin Bieksa and Vancouver don't have much to smile about of late.
March 8, 2014
Sunday Daily Puck: Welcome To The Party!
Evgeny Kuznetsov, the best player outside the NHL, is coming to the Capitals. What's he worth and what can you expect from him?
March 7, 2014
Saturday Daily Puck: Quack Attack
The Ducks got faster by cutting Dustin Penner. But will it be enough?
March 6, 2014
Thursday Daily Puck: Trade Deadline Edition
St. Louis' a Ranger, Gabby a King, and Vanek a Hab, oh my! A flurry of action at the trade deadline and we're talking about what it means for your team.
March 4, 2014
Tuesday Daily Puck: Decision Time
The Rangers have to make a tough choice about captain Ryan Callahan as Wednesday's trade deadline approaches.
March 2, 2014
NHL Schedule Analysis: Quiet Ducks
Corey Perry and the Ducks have just two games this week, as do the Flyers.
March 1, 2014
Sunday Daily Puck: The First Domino
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February 28, 2014
Saturday Daily Puck: Miller Time In Missouri
Six teams have emerged as legitimate Stanley Cup contenders. Which team made a move to push them over the edge?
February 25, 2014
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The NHL kicks off its post-Olympic stretch run
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February 7, 2014
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"Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure."
-George Carlin
"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed".
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VATICAN CITY (AP) - Exorcists now have a legal weapon at their disposal.
The Vatican has formally recognized the International Association of Exorcists, a group of 250 priests in 30 countries who liberate the faithful from demons.
The Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano reported Tuesday that the Vatican's Congregation for Clergy had approved the organization's statutes and recognized the group under canon law.
More than his predecessors, Pope Francis speaks frequently about the devil, and last year was seen placing his hands on the head of a man purportedly possessed by four demons in what exorcists said was a prayer of liberation from Satan.
The head of the association, the Rev. Francesco Bamonte, said the Vatican approval was cause for joy. "Exorcism is a form of charity that benefits those who suffer," he told L'Osservatore.
(Source: The Huffington Post)
Pope Francis has asked for forgiveness for the rape and sexual abuse of children by Catholic clergy. However, no such forgiveness is possible until pedophile priests face criminal prosecution.
Speaking to members of the International Catholic Child Bureau, a non-profit international Catholic network of organizations engaged in the promotion and protection of children's rights, Pope Francis said:
"I feel that I must take responsibility for all the harm that some priests—quite a number, but not in proportion to the total. I must take responsibility and ask forgiveness for the damage they have caused through sexual abuse of children.
The Church is aware of this damage. It is their own personal and moral damage, but they are men of the Church. And we will not take one step backwards in dealing with this problem and the sanctions that must be imposed. On the contrary, I believe that we must be even stronger. You do not interfere with children."
Yet despite the promise to impose "sanctions," the Vatican continues to protect and enable pedophile priests engaged in the sexual abuse of children, according to a scathing report recently issued by the United Nations.
If Pope Francis was sincere he would immediately release all records pertaining to the rape and sexual abuse of children by clergy, and immediately turn over for criminal prosecution all those priests suspected of abusing children, and the bishops who protected them.
Talk is cheap Francis: put your money where your mouth is and prosecute the pedophiles.
How typically Christian that he thinks he can just assume the guilt of his underlings and absolve them of their atrocities. Just a form of shielding the guilty while sounding pious. Sorry frank, doesn't work that way. All I hear is rationalization and obscurantism. Turn them over or renounce your fantasy of moral authority.
Liar or a fool? Pope Francis is defending the appalling record of the Catholic Church concerning the rape and sexual abuse of children by priests, claiming the church has moved with "transparency and responsibility" on the matter.
Transparency and responsibility? Is he serious? The Catholic church has been neither transparent nor responsible in their handling of the rampant sexual abuse of children by pedophile priests. To claim otherwise is ludicrous.
In fact, according to a scathing report issued by the United Nations, the Vatican, under the watchful eye of Pope Francis, continues to protect and enable pedophile priests engaged in the sexual abuse of children…
Despite the friendly facade of Pope Francis, the Vatican continues to protect and enable pedophile priests engaged in the sexual abuse of children, according to a scathing report issued by the United Nations.
The UN report demands that the Vatican "immediately remove" all clergy who are known or suspected child abusers, and turn them over to government authorities for criminal prosecution.
In the unprecedented report the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child said Catholic Church officials had imposed a "code of silence" on clerics to prevent them reporting attacks to police, and moved abusers from parish to parish "in an attempt to cover up such crimes."
The UN watchdog for children's rights denounced the Vatican for adopting policies which allowed priests to sexually abuse thousands of children. The report expressed its "deepest concern about child sexual abuse committed by members of the Catholic churches who operate under the authority of the Holy See, with clerics having been involved in the sexual abuse of tens of thousands of children worldwide."…
…The UN report demonstrates that Pope Francis has failed to address in any meaningful way the sexual abuse of children by clergy. As Pope, Francis continues the Catholic tradition of protecting pedophile priests from criminal prosecution, allowing the cancer that has destroyed any moral authority the church may have once claimed to continue to metastasize and fester.
The report offers compelling evidence that Pope Francis, and the Vatican, continue to protect and enable pedophile priests engaged in the sexual abuse of children. Francis may be a likable and charismatic leader, but he represents a product that is toxic, and obnoxious to reason and human decency. By continuing to protect and enable pedophile priests, Pope Francis indirectly sanctions and promotes the rape and sexual abuse of children.
Which I find odd, because there is perhaps no greater single contributor to the spread of atheism than the interweb.
Things Pope Francis has curiously failed to say.
While rebuilding the image of the church, it's strange that he has all but ignored the main reason for its disgrace in the first place; the likely reason for the resignation of his predecessor; You know, the whole aiding and abetting child rapists thing.
Pope Francis is reaching out to Atheists to unite with all religions to work towards peace. How about reaching out to your own followers? There's more of them and religion has caused much more warfare than Atheism ever has.
Support this. Please, I'm begging you.
I mean, you do realize that more people died during the 20th Century in wars started by atheists regimes than in any so-called Church supported wars in the previous 2000 years, right?
Actual, real historcal fact is not on your side. Stick to posting animals.
You do realize that wild-earth isn't committing association fallacy; you are though. Stalin and Mao didn't murder millions because they were atheists; if you want to blame something, blame their ideologies. Why was Stalin so opposed to the church? Because he was an atheist? No; because he recognized that a religion like Christianity exercises considerable clout and thus, to monopolize power, he saw it as necessary to oppose the church.
Holy wars were in the name of this or that god—Yahweh and Allah in particular. When the Arabs expanded their empire, they did it in the name of Allah—in the name of an obscure monotheism that eventually became Islam.
I am aware that you're a Catholic though; you need look no further than the OT to see bloodshed in the name of Yahweh. The Dark Ages did happen; the Crusades did happen; the Inquisition did happen; the Salem Witch Trials did happen. The Inquisition was so bad that even new converts to Christianity were killed! They were called New Christians or conversos; they were accused of secretly remaining Jews or Muslims though professing to be Christians. This and a lot more was done in the name of Christianity.
What Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot did was for the sake of politics, maintenance of power, and especially in Stalin's case sheer paranoia. The man sent men to another continent (North America to be exact; Mexico to be even more precise) to assassinate someone he suspected of attempting to impose his influence in the Soviet Union. That man was one Leon Trotsky. An article over at The Examiner called Stalin a religious opportunist; this is true because he eventually reinstituted the Orthodox Church to gain support.
The article also hits the nail on the head when concerning Pol Pot. He wasn't an atheist like I am an atheist. Though he didn't believe in gods, he was a Theravada Buddhist. Theravada Buddhists are involved in religious conflict in Burma; why not attribute their crimes to atheism? Because you obviously recognize that they're not atheists and thus, acknowledge that an atheist is more than just a nonbeliever in gods. It follows that Buddhists aren't atheists. Mao Zedong was raised Buddhist; he eventually embraced Leninism. So if you want to blame some ideology for Mao's and Stalin's crimes, you have to blame Marxism-Leninism.
Ultimately, I'm glad Pope Francis is taking a modern approach. However, wild-earth is correct in his point (though I would have justified it differently); in other words, I wouldn't have pointed to holy wars to make my case. I would simply point to religiously motivated oppression. For instance, if the Pope wants more peace, he should address anti-gay Catholics; he should address anti-choicers who are attempting to limit women's rights; he should address Catholics like some Tumblr Catholics, who aren't trying to find common ground with atheists, but rather provoking us at every turn.
So take your own advice. Historical facts aren't on your side. Stick to posting Catholicism and leave history to enthusiasts like myself.
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Re: Atheists, work with us for peace, Pope says on Christmas
The Vatican has secretly attributed a mystery miracle to the late John Paul II, clearing the way for him to be declared a saint.
Ridicule the ridiculous
A miracle i'd like to see would be the prosecution of the thousands of child molesting priests
The Catholic Church's leading exorcist says he will ask Pope Francis to grant all priests the power to perform the ritual amid what he describes as "a huge demand" for the service.
Father Gabriele Amorth, who claims to have carried out 160,000 exorcisms himself, says he was prompted to make the request after witnessing what he insists was the Pope carrying one out in St Peter's Square earlier this month.
Francis was filmed placing his hands on the head of a boy sitting in a wheelchair after a Pentecost Mass.
Father Gabriele Amorth claims to have performed 160,000 exorcisms himself
The boy, who was accompanied by a priest, appeared to convulse, with his mouth dropping wide open before exhaling deeply. (Scroll down for video.)
The Vatican played down reports Francis had applied the religious practice of evicting demons, with a spokesman claiming the Pope "didn't intend to perform any exorcism."
But in an interview with The Sunday Times, Amorth remains adamant an exorcism was carried out and appears to suggest the ritual will help balance the growth of atheism.
He said: "The Pope's exorcism is a splendid sign because one of the main causes of today's atheism is that people don't believe in the Devil any more. But Jesus said: 'Who is not with me is with Satan.' If you don't believe in Satan, Satan has got you in his pocket.
Pope Francis was filmed after a Pentecost Mass earlier this month
"The priest told Francis: 'Look, this is a young man who is possessed by the Devil.'
"And the Pope blessed him and prayed over him, it was a real and proper exorcism. The Pope prayed that the Lord liberate this man. It was a prayer of liberation."
The 88-year-old, who is the head of the International Association of Exorcists, told Italy's La Repubblica newspaper: "The Pope is also the Bishop of Rome, and like any bishop he is also an exorcist.
"It was a real exorcism. If the Vatican has denied this, it shows that they understand nothing.
Last year the Catholic diocese of Milan created a special exorcism hotline to cope with demand for the service.
Monsignor Angelo Mascheroni, the diocese's chief exorcist since 1995, told IncrociNews: "We get many requests for names, addresses and phone numbers; that's why we've set up a switchboard in the curia from Monday to Friday from 2.30pm to 5pm."
According to the Catholic Encyclopedia:
Exorcism is (1) the act of driving out, or warding off, demons, or evil spirits, from persons, places, or things, which are believed to be possessed or infested by them, or are liable to become victims or instruments of their malice; (2) the means employed for this purpose, especially the solemn and authoritative adjuration of the demon, in the name of God, or any of the higher power in which he is subject.
The former Pope, Benedict XVI never performed an exorcism, while Francis is on record as having performed them, as was Benedict's predecessor John Paul II, the Irish Independent reports.
Amorth's comments come as the Vatican was forced to clarify atheists will still go to hell if they reject God – after Pope Francis broke with tradition to deliver a homily stating non-believers who do good will be redeemed through Jesus.
The Pope's words made headlines around the world after he gave an unprepared speech in which he emphasised the importance of "doing good" as a principle which unites all humanity.
After international media attention, the Vatican attempted clarify how exactly one gets in to heaven, with Rev. Thomas Rosica, a Vatican spokesman, saying that people who know about the Catholic church "cannot be saved" if they "refuse to enter her or remain in her."
That is, atheists [and non-Catholics] are still going to hell.
However there was still hope for the sinful among us, as "every man or woman, whatever their situation, can be saved. Even non-Christians can respond to this saving action of the Spirit. No person is excluded from salvation simply because of so-called original sin."