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Operating a small business can be a very worthwhile venture for any individual seeking financial independence. Mainly because a small business can be the source of a full or part time income for any entrepreneurial person who desires to put in the work and effort to make it prosper.With the advent of the World Wide Web operating any type of small business has suddenly become available to anyone wishing to fulfill their dream of financial liberation. The Internet has opened up a whole realm of possibilities that never existed before the Information Highway became more than just a figment of Al Gore's imagination.However, starting any business (big or small) does take some initial capital or funds to get started. Setting up an office or workplace, even if it's located in one's own home, does take some ingenuity especially if funds are limited.Despite limited resources, most budding entrepreneurs will realize presenting and projecting a professional business image is extremely vital to the success of any business. More importantly, your patrons, customers and clients must be able to reach you with one click of the button or mouse.Using Internet Fax is one way of achieving this professional image for your small business. Internet fax is simply using the Internet and your current email system to send and receive faxes anytime, anywhere. You receive a local or Toll-free fax number for your business and an online interface (site) where you can store your faxes. Internet fax is quickly becoming the way business faxing is done.Plus, one of the biggest advantages of using Internet fax is the low set-up costs: there is no extra phone line and no cost of a fax machine. If your faxing requirements are very modest you can even get a fax service for under $20 a year!Another advantage of using an online fax service is accessibility, as our businesses and our lives become more mobile, we want to be connected at all times. Internet fax gives you this quick connection to your business and to your customers, no matter where you are or the time of day.Using Internet fax with your small business is simply a smart way to proceed. Lower costs, easy accessibility, convenient and efficient… these are some of the reasons most start-up businesses are using or switching to Internet fax for all their faxing needs.The different Internet fax service providers have many affordable plans and services available to any business. Most fax business services are completely scalable, as your business grows your faxing requirements can be easily adjusted to match your needs.Most fax services also offer fax broadcasting and a whole range of communication services should your growing business require them.There are many well known fax service providers. The major ones you have probably heard of before: eFax, MyFax, Trustfax, Send2Fax, RapidFax… however, there are other smaller fax service providers you should be made aware of if you're looking for a fax service for your business.For example, don't ignore smaller fax service providers such as MetroHiSpeed out of Seattle, or Faxage out of Denver… you might find you get more personal service with a smaller company rather than with a larger company which handles millions of clients.Regardless of which fax service you choose for your small business, make sure you find one that suits your needs and it is a service which you are comfortable using. Make sure you shop around and compare the different companies and plans. Don't forget you're purchasing a long term business service, any savings will be greatly multiplied over the long haul — so choose wisely.Just remember, starting up any business can be a daunting task but with the proper tools and services that task can be made easier. Using Internet fax should be one option that is at the top of your list mainly because the rewards and benefits are well worth it.
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IntroductionPeople are going to be traveling more during certain points during the year, particularly during the summer and the winter holidays. During these parts of the year, they're going to want to make traveling as easy on their wallets and as easy on their minds as possible, since traveling is both notoriously expensive and notoriously stressful. A number of different travel tips can make all the difference in the vacation plans of travelers who do not have to become weary travelers.Travel SuppliesBringing the right things on a traveling trip can make all the difference. People should be sure to bring some form of accessible deodorant, since sweating is just going to be part of traveling. Rubbing baking soda or fresh lemon juice on one's armpits can actually be just as effective as using the unnatural brands of deodorant that are more difficult to replace. People will often spend a lot of money on coffee and other beverages during their vacations. Bringing a reusable cup and some spare teabags can help people with that, since hot water is going to be free everywhere. These are some great items to enjoy with travel.Organizational TipsLosing things happens all the time during vacations, and it is often due to a lack of organizational skills on the part of the person organizing the trip. People who bring jewelry with them are going to get things lost all the time. Old pill containers are perfect for organizing jewelry, and twin sheets of cellophane wrap can store and protect necklaces and other pieces of jewelry very well.People almost always bring power cords with them today, and it's also a good idea to carry an extension cord because of inconveniently located outlets. An empty toilet paper roll can help hold these cords together.One of the best tools that people can bring with them today are the large reusable canvas shopping bags that are now available at all sorts of grocery chains in order to help people save on plastic bags. Bringing those with you is a good tip for travel, since these bags can be used to protect all sorts of other things that you're bringing with you.Plastic, however, can be everyone's best friend during a long bout of traveling, especially when it comes to cleanliness. People are usually going to want to bring their own toiletries with them, especially because the hotel situation with these toiletries is going to be so unstable, and unlikely to satisfy everyone. Putting a layer of plastic between the caps and the contents of shampoo or cream bottles can help protect the contents and stop them from leaking onto anything within a suitcase. Naturally, the toiletries deserve their own bags as well.ConclusionTraveling is fun, but it is also a process that requires a lot of preparation and foresight. These sorts of traveling tips can make a huge difference for the people who are interested in having a safe journey free of the inconveniences that scare people away from traveling.
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With the evolution of technology, people are continually presented with new mode of entertainment to have fun and relaxation. The Internet has proven itself as one of the best medium through which any kind of entertainment can be enjoyed besides procuring information on various subjects. Generally the Internet is mostly used for games and so if you are sick with your monotonous life all you have to do is visit the different gaming sites on net.Generally the reasons to attempt online games may vary from person to person but the common thing all of them want playing such game is fun and relaxation. Whatever your reasons for playing online games remember that playing free online game will engage your memory and stimulates your intuition. Free games online have made tremendous progress rapidly replacing most other forms of entertainment with its addictive nature. Besides this they are cheap and most importantly free. Recently it has been confirmed that mostly busy women feel the impact of Internet games. What can be the reliable reason behind such attraction? These games are generally interesting and easy to play. They are free from any complication that is what appeals the busy women who do want to tire their brain in their leisure period playing games. As a result of this explosion of popularity, there are many platforms offering many kinds of free online games with no need for downloading thus allowing the gamers with many possibilities of a broad range of free games encompassing all categories.The formula behind the addictive feature of online flash games is several. One of the main upsides to flash games is that you can pick up and play whenever you want. They are so easy to control that even an Internet unaccustomed person can also play. Free online games allow you to play in an Arcade style competition where you get the chance to better yourself and rank higher than before. Unlike normal game you can never 'complete' most of the flash game. In flash games you yourself can only set your goals and once you achieve them, you can always set a higher one. It does not matter if you use Windows, MacOS, Linux or any other web-ready operating system because flash games allows users on different platforms to directly compete in a field, that is something rare in modern OS-specific gaming. Many Flash games are clones of Arcade favorites enabling us to feel that we are somewhat re-living our past with these games.Apart from these features online free games also appeals human instinct of enjoying something for nothing. By playing these games it is sure that if there is no gain then there is no loss, we can simply move on and try another one.


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Free wifi is available at the convention center in public spaces and meeting rooms. The SSID for the event is: ALA2007. There is no encryption on the wireless network. Simply need to open their browser to start an internet sessions. Need a Place to Blog? The LITA Blogger's Room, located in WCC Room 154B, will be available Friday through Tuesday from 8:00am-6:00pm, with a table and chairs who those bloggers who are tired of sitting on the floor balancing their laptops next to any unused plug they might find!
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- Chronicles of Bean (RSS) by Cindi Trainor
- Chronicles of the (almost) Bald Technology Trainer (RSS) by Maurice Coleman
- A Digital Outrigger by Steve McCann
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- Lauren's Library Blog (RSS) by Lauren Pressley
- Librarian Like Me (RSS) Librarian Like Me by Jami Haskell
- Librarian on the Edge (RSS) by Terry Ballard
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hi. i forgot to tell you that i did a detox story for vegetarian times. the issue is out on newsstands now. these are a couple of shots from the story. there's more. i'll show you. it was a great assignment. they gave me the story and then let me run with it. i shot over an entire weekend. i tried to do the detox (which seemed pretty cool), but as it turns out it's hard to shoot, style, detox and think all at the same time.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
vegetarian times
Posted by jen gotch at 9:01 AM
8 comments:
- chelsea said...
Loving all your new photography projects! Can't wait to see them in print.
- May 19, 2009 at 6:50 PM
- Jules @ Lovely Las Vegas said...
very cool, will have to check it out on the stands!
- May 19, 2009 at 6:51 PM
- Chris said...
The pix are awesome! I adore your style, and it always inspires me :)
- May 20, 2009 at 8:51 AM
Hi there luv your blog. ive been following it for some time now. im trying to figure out if all your pics are polas or are some of them also digital like the ones from todays post.just wondering as im also a pola loving girl! tanks!
- May 20, 2009 at 9:58 AM
Hi. A busybody here. We're both on Tina's English Muse in left sidebar. I kept noticing (for a while) that your feed coming through is stuck on 'i heart twine'. I just checked & it's from January. You might want to say something to Tina. She's busy with her Dad being ill but I think if you let her know something is wrong, she'll fix it asap.
I'm sorry I've not been over to see things...i thought you were away or something.
great about veg times...will return.
- May 20, 2009 at 11:01 PM
- Jenny at Dos said...
Your blog is so lovely!
- May 20, 2009 at 11:13 PM
so beautiful!
- May 24, 2009 at 11:44 AM
- OwlFace said...
wow, that is funny! i've never picked up a copy of vegetarian times in my life (as i am a carnovore) and i saw a copy of that issue at my friends' house. the ONLY story that caught my eyes was the weekend detox (asparagus yumyum!) and i think i'm going to do it. lovely shots!
- May 27, 2009 at 11:02 PM


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Fabric Friday
A bit of eye candy for you this Friday! There have been a few bundles coming in over the last several weeks. One collection that I didn't even know existed until Quilt Market was Anna Maria Horner'sTrue Colors. These are blenders designed by Anna Maria, made to coordinate with her fabrics. Which I love. So I had to buy these, really I had no choice!
I can't wait to start working with them. I already have the quilt planned and ready - I'm just waiting for my neutral to arrive in the mail and then I will be off and cutting.
Below you'll see Carolyn Friedlander'sBotanics. I bought this fat quarter set at Quilt Market and am already planning on ordering more. I love how she worked a little gold into some of the prints. Yardage will be available in December.
I was also lucky enough to receive a fat eighth set of Oakshott Cottons in the Lakes colorway. (Thanks Oakshott!) I loved working with these fabrics the first time around on my Nightshade quilt. They have such a great sheen. Aren't the blues pretty?
You can find many of these fabrics at my sponsors. Botanics yardage is coming soon, but some shops do have precuts and preordering available.
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Recently, I updated my system and some other applications on my laptop and I found that some program on my system began gobbling up huge amounts of disk-activity. I looked at Gnome's system-monitor and found that extremely unhelpful. Yeah, I could discovered what was taking the CPU and Nice readings but neither of these told me what was causing all the spin up activity of the hard-disk. This may not be a big deal for modern disks but for old computers it brought it to a halt and kept it that way minute(s) at a time. An easy way to monitor programs use of disk-activity is to use block dump.
First set block dump active in /proc:
sudo sh -c "echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump"
Looking at the syslog now will tell where resources are going:
tail -f /var/log/syslog
Looking at this I discovered that Firefox-3.01 was taking all the disk resources:
Sep 3 12:18:23 partridge-ibook kernel: kjournald(2443): WRITE block 7152 on hda11 Sep 3 12:18:23 partridge-ibook kernel: kjournald(2443): WRITE block 7160 on hda11 Sep 3 12:18:25 partridge-ibook kernel: firefox(3655): READ block 2234472 on hda9 Sep 3 12:18:29 partridge-ibook kernel: firefox(3655): READ block 649144 on hda9
For some unknown reason Firefox-3.01 was reading and writing to the disk far more than Firefox-3.0-beta5 was. What an incredible disappointment. Firefox-3.01 literally made my laptop come to a complete halt. This is incredibly disappointing because the beta version performed alot better with very little I/O activity.
I looked this up a bit but never really found the answer. Firefox uses fsync to save data (history, bookmarks) during a session, sometimes excessively. Because of inherent problems with fsyncing and the ext3 filesystem not much can be done with it. Fsyncing can be disabled by entering a Preference Name "toolkit.storage.synchronous" in "about:config" and inputting a value of 0, but this didn't fix the problem. It turns out that Firefox-3.01 just uses alot more memory and re-allocates memory a good deal more often, so swap is being used and paged about every 2 minutes and can take minutes to finish.
Turning block dumping off is the opposite of turning it on:
sudo bash -c "echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump"
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Montréal, Québec
I got back from my BC trip and headed straight to my new condo. I hope to have some before and after posts soon-ish! During the following week, with help from my family, the condo was cleaned and painted. After one of these cleaning sessions, Elle and I went searching for food in my new neighbourhood of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce (NDG) - also my old neighbourhood as this is where I grew up. We walked down Sherbrooke and went to one of Elle's favourite restaurants for pasta.
Pasta Casareccia has a great reputation for pasta because it makes its own pasta in-house. Not only is it a restaurant, but also offers Italian goods, including fresh homemade pasta to bring home. We sat down at one of the outside tables and admired the herb planters on the tables.
Pasta Casareccia.
Elle and I both started with a Cesar salad ($6) each. The dressing tasted homemade but the anchovies flavour was a tad strong for my taste.
Cesar salad.
The menu offered a few pasta and sauce choices that patrons can combine to their liking. In an attempt to have a light dinner, we decided to share the medaglioni di ricotta ($16) because Elle was intrigued by this unfamiliar pasta. The dish consisted of 4 large medallions that we shared.
Medaglioni di ricotta.
When we sliced into the medallions, we were amazed by the thin layers of pasta alternating with ricotta and spinach filling. We tried to figure out if the pasta was cooked before putting the medallions together, or if the pasta was rolled uncooked and baked. We couldn't figure it out. We also agreed that it would take a lot of skill to spread a very thin layer of filling and roll it into such a nice medallion. We might have to try our hand at medaglioni's! The medallions were topped with tomato sauce.
Delicate layers of pasta.
I am very excited to further explore my new neighbourhood, and Pasta Casareccia was a great start! I can't wait to go back and try other homemade pasta. It's also good to know that I have access to great pasta nearby. This will be very convenient if I ever have to throw an impromptu dinner party.


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After many renovations (although, we are still facing many more), I can report that no money has been found in the walls. We do have a near mint condition Prince Albert can from 1918, a bottle of Three Feathers Pre-War Whiskey (blended with neutral spirits and distilled from potatoes), and several newspaper clippings, but no cold, hard cash. I have decided that aside from the riches of the original woodwork, hardwood floors, claw foot soaking tub, and wavy panes of the old windows, our best score with this house has been the established asparagus bed in the backyard.
Each spring, I clear the leaves and winter debris from the slightly weedy spot. Nobody will accuse me of being a great gardener, and if not for the bricks laid carefully in what was once confused as the outline for a grave, you might not realize that the spot holds any significance. The grass grows well, even if it is stubborn in other parts of the lawn. But, it also parts and allows the tender shoots of asparagus to break through the earth. They spike upward in various shapes & sizes. Some are thick and hearty; some are thin and spindly. All are delicious.
A few years ago, I found asparagus seedlings at an area greenhouse and rapidly snapped them up. I carefully chose a bare spot in the existing bed and planted them. Each year, they come up again, but the results have been reed thin and not really harvestable. I am not sure if I did something wrong, or if the roots just need more time to mature. Regardless, even those fern-like shoots make me happy. Fresh asparagus in my backyard is a goldmine to me.
I just had my first cutting of asparagus over the weekend, and tonight added it to a delicately flavored pasta dish with shrimp. Usually, our shrimp dishes are very heavy with garlic, but I like this version because it allows the beauty of the asparagus flavors to shine through. Shallots, garlic (use more, if you must), butter, dill, and the starchiness of the pasta water create a light sauce that pulls together a really pleasant spring dish. The true jackpot is the asparagus patch in my backyard that allows me to create Shrimp and Asparagus Pasta with Dill Sauce On My Plate.
Shrimp and Asparagus Pasta with Dill Sauce
1 lb penne pasta
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 tablespoon butter
2 medium shallots, finely chopped
1/2 lb asparagus, trimmed and cut in 2 inch lengths
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 cup chopped fresh dill
1 lb medium shrimp,peeled and deveined
2 tablespoons olive oil
kosher salt, to taste
fresh ground black pepper, to taste
grated Parmesan cheese, to taste
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 tablespoon butter
2 medium shallots, finely chopped
1/2 lb asparagus, trimmed and cut in 2 inch lengths
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 cup chopped fresh dill
1 lb medium shrimp,peeled and deveined
2 tablespoons olive oil
kosher salt, to taste
fresh ground black pepper, to taste
grated Parmesan cheese, to taste
Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil.
Add the pasta and cook according to the pasta package or until the pasta is tender.
Meanwhile, heat the tablespoon of oil and the butter in a medium skillet until the butter melts and melds with the oil.
Add the shallots and garlic and cook until softened, about 2 minutes.
Add the asparagus and saute lightly, about 2 minutes.
Add 1 cup of the pasta water, raise the heat to medium-high, and boil until the asparagus turns bright green, about 2 minutes.
Add the dill and shrimp.
Remove from the heat and stir in the additional olive oil, salt and pepper.
Drain the pasta and toss in a serving bowl with the shrimp and asparagus.
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The routine is a bit Pavlovian. If it's lunchtime between morning and afternoon students, then the faculty of the Amarillo Area Center for Advanced Learning is making a dash to the nearby Pak-A-Sak at 5703 Gem Lake Road for soft drinks or tea.
Do something long enough, and the new starts to look familiar, the plain takes on a little bit of color - like the girl working the drive-thru window. Most of the time, we just see arms and an order. The AACAL faculty, especially since school began in August, saw something else.
"For a long time, I didn't even know her name," said Sue Sanborn, who teaches anatomy and physiology. "But when you pull up and she's so pleasant, you remember her. You drive up to a window and you can tell pretty quickly if a person likes their job or not. You could tell she was happy with what she did."
"She" is Megan Harris, 23, who passed the two-year mark working at the store this week. In 24 months, she hasn't seen the job as punch-the-clock dull, even when starting her shift at 5 a.m.
"I love my job and my customers," Harris said. "It's not a prestigious job, but if I can start them off with a smile with their Coke, maybe they will have a good day."
That effervescent personality grew on the AACAL faculty, which started to see her for more than a conduit between convenience store and car.
"You feel like Megan could be one of your best friends," said Alecia Litchfield, who teaches health science. "She is a light of goodness. She beams kindness. Someone who works at a window, that can't be the most pleasant job, but she's fabulous."
Fabulous and pregnant. She and husband Aaron are expecting their first child, a girl, on March 31 - Easter Sunday as Megan pointed out. Impending motherhood didn't escape AACAL teachers.
A couple of weeks ago, they were in a faculty meeting, where occasionally a good idea will spring forth. They all were there with their Pak-A-Sak cups.
Conversation began with this ought to be an advertisement for the store, drifted to maybe they could get future discounts, then to their drive-thru friend Megan and to her pregnancy. Being mostly women there, it was just a slight detour to the idea of giving her a baby shower.
But not just any old baby shower, though I've never been to any old baby shower. Someone at AACAL was creative. After checking with the store manager, it was a go. Maybe this was the first of its kind, a drive-thru baby shower.
So on Valentine's Day, around lunchtime, of course, Tammy Newsom, AACAL's graphic design teacher, drove her car to the Pak-A-Sak window and gave Megan a baby shower invitation, one Newsom had made.
"I was thinking it was an invitation for someone else," Megan said, "and I thought, 'Cool, I love baby showers.' Then I realized it was for me. She said, 'OK, see you in a minute,' and drove off."
Then up drove Litchfield, who gave her a corsage made from baby boots. Then another vehicle, where Megan was given a glass of punch and a cupcake.
As Sanborn drove up next with others in tow to give her the first of her shower gifts, Megan was already mixing crying and laughing.
In all, more than 30 faculty and staff piled into about 15 vehicles to give her whatever is given at baby showers - boxes of diapers, girl clothes, gift cards to Toys R Us and other outlets. It was a haul as cars circled the Pak-A-Sak bearing gifts.
Even math teacher Gerald Nipp, a former Caprock head football coach, and Josh Moody were among the presenters. If that's not a first, it ought to be. Then they all congregated inside Pak-A-Sak for some quick pictures before everyone went back to work.
"I admit, I cried like a baby," Megan said. "It's nice to feel appreciated. I didn't know they knew who I was. I didn't think you could be so kind and thoughtful to someone who gives you Cokes every day. I didn't realize they thought of me in that way."
Being friendly and cheerful doesn't cost a thing. And sometimes, in unusual circumstances, you get a whole lot in return.
Jon Mark Beilue is a Globe-News columnist. He can be reached at email@example.com or 806-345-3318. His blog appears on amarillo.com. Follow him on Twitter @jonmarkbeilue.


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The Batman animated series are, without doubt, the greatest superhero cartoons ever produced. The Superman and Batman Beyond series are also pretty good, but nothing can compare to the original stuff. So just what made the series so great? Well, a little bit of everything I guess. For starters, the animation was top-notch. Sure, the art style took a little getting used to at first, but once you got used to it, it was really quite elegant looking. For another thing, the voice acting and stories were always top notch stuff. It was the first show in recent memory that didn't take the kids who were watching it for granted, and because of that, it thrived. It only seemed natural before the powers that be parlayed the excellence of the cartoon series onto the big screen. The result? Mask of the Phantasm, a Batman movie made the way Batman was meant to be.
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm is a 1993 film based on the 1990s Batman: The Animated Series. As with The Animated Series, the film stars Kevin Conroy as the voice of Batman, as well as the voices of Mark Hamill, Dana Delany, Hart Bochner, Stacy Keach, Abe Vigoda and Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. The film's storyline introduces Andrea Beaumont, an old love interest of Bruce Wayne's, who returns to Gotham City, restarting their romance. At the same time, a new mysterious vigilante begins systematically eliminating Gotham's crime bosses, and due to the person's dark appearance, he is mistaken for Batman. Now on the run from the police, the Dark Knight must apprehend the killer, clear his name, and deal with the romance between himself and Andrea.
The film was distributed by Warner Bros., directed by Bruce Timm and Eric Radomski (the creators of The Animated Series) and written by Alan Burnett, Paul Dini, Michael Reaves and Martin Pasko. The original idea was to release the film as direct-to-video, but the studio decided for a theatrical release, giving the filmmakers a strenuous eight-month schedule. Mask of the Phantasm received widespread acclaim from critics, who praised the film for its animation style, dialogue and acting, but it was a box office bomb due to the decision to release the film in theaters on such short notice, And Having a very poor advertisement budget. During the DVD release, It achieved grand success and the film broke even.
It's unfortunate that an animated series rarely gets serious attention, even when made into a movie, like Mask of the Phantasm. The writing is superior to the live action Batman movies, and the movie has more self-respect. We delve into Batman's past: not his why-I-became-Batman past which everyone knows; rather, we learn why he remains Batman despite the intense personal cost. This is a great movie, with a great voice cast. The score is wonderful, playing a little with the score from the first Michael Keaton Batman movie, then proceeding along its own course.
The Score itself, Composed by the Late Shirley Walker certainly fits the Film well, It full of chanting and perfectly timed tone changes make the film feel so much grander. The opening of the film itself quickly set the mood and some that plans on being a Dark Batman story that will impact the future of you you view the character and as a Matter of Fact it does.
The Film makes use truly feel for Bruce Wayne and the and the struggle we see him going through, As well as how the other character in his life are affected by it. Two notable Scenes are when Bruce pleads with his parents's at their graves, Begging that he can revoke his Promise, The one which he made about fighting crime and preventing what happened to him, for others. As well as ultimately being comforted by Andrea has to be one of the most powerful animated scenes I have seen in a film, And A film with such a younger target audience no less. According to writer Michael Reaves, this scene was to be a pivotal moment in Bruce's tragic life, as he is denied the opportunity to live a normal life.
Another Scene is where Bruce Wayne, For the First time in his life dons the Batman mask, Reaves also stated: "When Bruce puts on the mask for the first time, [after Andrea breaks their engagement], and Alfred says 'My God!' he's reacting in horror, because he's watching this man he's helped raise from childhood, this man who has let the desire for vengeance and retribution consume his life, at last embrace the unspeakable." This Also Comes into Play When Alfred Comforts Bruce After The Climax of The Film in which he feels guilty over Andrea's loss, "Vengeance Blackens the Soul Bruce, I always Feared you would become that which you always fought against."
The Ending once again makes the viewer know, that not everyone can have the happy ending they so deeply desire, Which goes double for Andrea and Batman who still love each other.
Though each film is not without it's flaws, There are some continuity errors here and there as well as a few moments that don't really much sense, Such as how Andrea got the locket into the Batcave or Why They never simply asked Bruce for the Money to help pay the Debts. But despite these Errors the film is still grand.
There is romance, sorrow, and introspection, in addition to the violence of Batman's confrontation with villains. This is simply a far more thoughtful movie than one might expect, and though it is well-done in this regard, it may not be what you are expecting. Overall, and even with the Nolan Films I feel it is one of the Best Batman Films ever made, Perhaps even the best out of them all. I give it a Strong 9.5/10


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Once I have set up a page with CSS Sculptor, how do I reenter CSS Sculptor to make a change to the layout?
Once I have set up a page with CSS Sculptor, how do I reenter CSS Sculptor to make a change to the layout?
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you could save the layout as a preset, then when you start css sculptor again, you can select he saved preset to make changes to the preset
Wow, this is a major limitation. Are there any plans to make it reentrant? I use another tool for this and I can edit pages I have created with it. Extremely nice although the tool has limitations. Thing is you guys are WAY better than those folks and I would love to see you knock it out of the park with a fully functional CSS Layout Editor tool. Any chance you could add this to the wish list, although I gotta believe it's already on it! :-)
If you save the layout as a preset, they you can recreate your layout using the preset as a starting point. you can then make changes to the preset and overwrite your existing layout.
Ok so the answer is no then. You are not considering having functionality as I outlined.
And btw, doing as you suggest and saving the preset, then using that preset creates a new page. I then have to copy over any content that I have added to the original page to the new page. This is not at all what I was wanting to do.
But fair enough, if you are not considering adding functionality as I explained then so be it.
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The Military Balance is the International Institute for Strategic Studies' annual assessment of the military capabilities and defence economics of 170 countries world-wide. It is an essential resource for those involved in security policymaking, analysis and research.
Patrick Cronin, Director of Studies, International Institute for Strategic Studies, welcomed participants and highlighted three specific issues to guide the discussion: to what degree those responsible for the Madrid and London attacks were 'home-grown' or 'imported' terrorists, or indeed both; whether Islam had a role in the attacks and whether it could play in preventing further terrorist recruitment; and how to the above issues affect the elaboration and implementation of counter-terrorism policy.
Chairperson Robert Whalley, UK Home Office Former Director of Counter-Terrorism and Intelligence, said the Forum was a great opportunity to hear different viewpoints on Islam and terrorism. He informed participants about the reports of the Intelligence and Security Committee, to which the government has responded, as well as the Home Office produced narrative of what happened on 7 July 2005. (!!!!!!)
The Spanish government was currently trying to understand the driving forces of terrorism. What drove someone who spoke Spanish, had lived in a country for more than ten years, still had links with their country of origin and suffered from no direct 'identity crisis', to perpetrate mass murder in a suicide-attack, he asked. Why had jihad as a concept settled in Muslim communities across Europe?
'The Madrid Terror Bombing' ? Fidel Sendagorta Gomez del Campillo, Head, Policy Planning Unit, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, stressed that the Madrid attacks had traumatised the nation on three levels:
- The scale of the Madrid attack was unprecedented in Spain, despite numerous terrorist attacks carried out by separatist group ETA.
- The change of government three days after the attack. He explained that the change of government, inextricable from the attacks, had created a divisive atmosphere in Spanish politics preventing a blame-free discussion on terrorism.
- The attack highlighted links between terrorism and integration. Immigration was a new trend in Spain; while ten years ago there were some tens of thousands of immigrants in the country, the number currently stood at an estimated three million. In fact, the immigration flow had been so quick that Spain had no consciousness of having a minority community. He suggested that this lack of consciousness was one of the reasons why Spain had seen no backlash against Muslims following the attack.
He suggested that mainstream observers of international relations now considered al-Qaeda less of an organisation and more of an ideology that could motivate without support from above. He agreed that so far there was no proof that the higher echelons of al-Qaeda had been involved in the two attacks. However he refused to believe that there were no links. He suggested that the coordination and intensity of attacks were evidence itself of outside involvement. Without outside involved, he believed attacks would be more random targeting bars and restaurants, as witnessed in Israel.
Ambassador Blackwill joined Barbour Griffith & Rogers in November 2004 after serving as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Planning under President George W. Bush. In this position, Ambassador Blackwill was responsible for government-wide policy planning to help develop and coordinate the mid- and long-term direction of American foreign policy. Bob also served as Presidential Envoy to Iraq, was the Administration's Coordinator for U.S. policies regarding Afghanistan and Iran, and traveled on Air Force One with the President in the latter stages of the 2004 Presidential campaign.
During his 14 years as a Harvard faculty member, he was Associate Dean of the Kennedy School, taught foreign and defense policy and public policy analysis, and directed executive training programs for business and government leaders from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the Palestinian Authority, Israel and Kazakhstan, as well as General Officers from Russia and the People's Republic of China.
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Blackwill, according to ciaonet.org, served as "Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, is the Belfer Lecturer in International Security at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is also Faculty Chair of the School's Executive Programs for U.S. and Russian General Officers and for members of the Russian State Duma; of the Kennedy School's Initiative on U.S.-China Relations; and of the Executive Program for Senior Chinese Military Officers. His last position in government was as President George Herbert Walker Bush's Special Assistant for Soviet and European Affairs
"Prior to his academic career, Blackwill spent 22 years in the foreign service and served at the State Department under Secretaries Henry Kissinger, Alexander Haig, and George P. Shultz. He was U.S. Ambassador and Chief Negotiator at the Conventional Force Negotiations with the Warsaw Pact in Vienna and was Special Assistant to President George Herbert Walker Bush for European and Soviet Affairs in 1989-90.
"The Rhodes Scholarship, established by the terms of Cecil Rhodes seventh will, are known to everyone. What is not so widely known is that Rhodes in five previous wills left his fortune to form a secret society, which was to devote itself to the preservation and expansion of the British Empire."
"There does exist, and has existed for a generation, an international Anglophile network which operates, to some extent, in the way the radical right believes the Communists act. In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table Groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so. I know of the operations of this network because I have studied it for twenty years and was permitted for two years, in the early 1960's, to examine its papers and secret records. I have no aversion to it and to most of its aims and have, for much of my life, been close to it and to many of its instruments. I have objected, both in the past and recently, to a few of its policies (notably to its belief that England was an Atlantic rather than a European power and must be allied, or even federated, with the United States and must remain isolated from Europe), but in general my chief difference of opinion is that it wishes remain unknown, and I believe its role in history is significant enough to be known."
"The chief problem of American political life for a long time has been how to make the two congressional parties more national and international. The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can "throw the rascals out" at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy."
""These methods can be summed up under three headings: (a) a triple-front penetration in politics, education, and journalism; (b) the recruitment of men of ability (chiefly from All Souls) and the linking of these men to positions of power; and © the influencing of public policy by placing members of the Cecil Bloc in positions of power shielded as much as possible from public attention."
"The powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements, arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was the Bank for International Settlements in Basle, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the worlds' central banks which were themselves private corporations. Each central bank, in the hands of men like Montagu Norman of the Bank of England, Benjamin Strong of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, Charles Rist of the Bank of France, and Hjalmar Schacht of the Reichsbank, sought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world."
"From this point onward, the Milner group increasingly emphasized the necessity for building up this Oceanic block. In England the basic propaganda work was done through The Round Table and Lionel Curtis, while in the U.S. it was done through the Rhodes scholarship organization, especially through Clarence Streit and Frank Aydelotte. In England, Curtis wrote a series of books and articles advocating a new federal organization built around English-speaking countries. The chief work of this nature was his Civitas Dei, which appeared in three volumes 1934-37. A one-volume addition was issued in 1938 with the title The Commonwealth of God. The first two volumes of his work are nothing more than the rehash and expansion of the older work The Commonwealth of Nations (1916). By a superficial and frequently erroneous rewriting of world history, the authors sought to review the evolution of the "Commonwealth" idea and to show that all of history leads to its fulfillment and achievement in federation. Ultimately, this federation will be worldwide but on route it must pass through stages of which the chief federation is of the English-speaking peoples. Writing early in 1937 he advocated that the League of Nations be destroyed by the mass resignation of the British democracies. These should then take the initiative in forming a new league, also at Geneva, which would have no power to enforce anything but would merely form a kind of international conference. Since it would be foolish to expect any federation to evolve from any such organization as this, a parallel, but quite separate effort should be made to create an international commonwealth, based on the example of the United States in 1788. This international commonwealth would differ from the League of Nations in that its members would yield a part of their sovereignty, and a central organization would function directly on individuals and not merely on states."
"We have before us the opportunity to forge for ourselves and for future generations a new world order, a world where the rule of law, not the law of the jungle, governs the conduct of nations.
When we are successful, and we will be, we have a real chance at this new world order, an order in which a credible United Nations can use its peacekeeping role to fulfill the promise and vision of the U.N.'s founders."
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In Norway, and probably in most of the rest of the world, the perception of US foreign policy as being staunchly pro-Israel is absolutely unchallenged. How is it possible that this perception has become so widespread, if in fact the opposite is true?
The reason a mistaken perception of US policy toward Israel (and US policy more generally) has taken hold universally is that the mainstream Western media, every day, repeats a million times the opposite of the truth. "US foreign policy is pro-Israel, US foreign policy is pro-Israel..." This kind of repetition, from sources that news consumers assume to be free of governmental interference, has a decisive effect on public perceptions.
Before the Nazi Third Reich in Germany plotted to create a Master Race from the European gene pool, Zionists had already established a racial purification program to create the perfect Jewish bloodline.
A shocking new study reveals how key figures in the pre-state Zionist establishment proposed castrating the mentally ill, sterilizing the poor and doing everything possible to ensure reproduction only among the `best of people.'
It turns out there was a great deal of enthusiasm here for the improvement of the hereditary characteristics of a particular race (eugenics). This support, which has been kept under wraps for many years, is revealed in a study that examines the ideological and intellectual roots at the basis of the establishment of the health system in Israel.
For example, in 1934 Dr. Meir published the following text on the first page of "Mother and Child," a guide for parents that he edited for publication by Kupat Holim: "Who is entitled to give birth to children? The correct answer is sought by eugenics, the science of improving the race and preserving it from degeneration. This science is still young, but its positive results are already great and important - These cases [referring to marriages of people with hereditary disorders - T.T.] are not at all rare in all nations and in particular in the Hebrew nation that has lived a life of exile for 1,800 years. And now our nation has returned to be reborn, to a natural life in the land of the Patriarchs. Is it not our obligation to see to it that we have whole and healthy children in body and soul? For us, eugenics as a whole, and the prevention of the transmission of hereditary disorders in particular, even greater value than for all other nations
castrating the mentally ill, sterilizing the poor and doing everything possible to ensure reproduction only among the `best of people.'
"Accordingly, once American leadership begins to fade, America's current global predominance is unlikely to be replicated by any single state. Thus, the key question for the future is "What will America bequeath to the world as the enduring legacy of its primacy?" ? Pg. 210
"Meeting these challenges is America's burden as well as its unique responsibility. Given the reality of American democracy, an effective response will require generating a public understanding of the continuing importance of American power in shaping a widening framework of stable geopolitical cooperation, one that simultaneously averts global anarchy and successfully defers the emergence of a new power challenge. These two goals-- averting global anarchy and impeding the emergence of a power rival-- are inseparable from the longer-range definition of the purpose of America's global engagement, namely, that of forging an enduring framework of global geopolitical cooperation." ? Pg. 214
"In brief, the U.S. policy goal must be unapologetically twofold: to perpetuate America's own dominant position for at least a generation and preferably longer still; and to create a geopolitical framework that can absorb the inevitable shocks and strains of social-political change while evolving into the geopolitical core of shared responsibility for peaceful global management. A prolonged phase of gradually expanding cooperation with key Eurasian partners, both stimulated and arbitrated by America, can also help to foster the preconditions for an eventual upgrading of the existing and increasingly antiquated UN [United Nations] structures. A new distribution of responsibilities and privileges can then take into account the changed realities of global power, so drastically different from those of 1945."? Pg. 215
"It is also a fact that America is too democratic at home to be autocratic abroad. This limits the use of America's power, especially its capacity for military intimidation. Never before has a populist democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion." ? Pg. 35
"A genuinely populist democracy has never before attained international supremacy. The pursuit of power and especially the economic costs and human sacrifice that the exercise of such power often requires are not generally congenial to democratic instincts. Democratization is inimical to imperial mobilization." ? Pg. 210
"Indeed, the critical uncertainty regarding the future may well be whether America might become the first superpower unable or unwilling to wield its power. Might it become an impotent global power?" ? Pg. 210
"Moreover, as America becomes an increasingly multicultural society, it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the circumstances of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat. Such a consensus generally existed throughout World War II and even during the Cold War."? Pg. 211
"It is also a fact that America is too democratic at home to be autocratic abroad. This limits the use of America's power, especially its capacity for military intimidation. Never before has a populist democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions of a sudden threat or challenge to the public's sense of domestic well-being. The economic self-denial (that is, defense spending) and the human sacrifice (casualties even among professional soldiers) required in the effort are uncongenial to democratic instincts. Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization." ? Pg. 35
"A possible challenge to American primacy from Islamic fundamentalism could be part of the problem in this unstable region. By exploiting religious hostility to the American way of life and taking advantage of the Arab-Israeli conflict, Islamic fundamentalism could undermine several pro-Western Middle Eastern governments and eventually jeopardize American regional interests, especially in the Persian Gulf. However, without political cohesion and in the absence of a single genuinely powerful Islamic state, a challenge from Islamic fundamentalism would lack a geopolitical core and would thus be more likely to express itself through diffuse violence." ? Pg. 53
"It is also noteworthy that international conflicts and acts of terrorism have so far been remarkably devoid of any use of the weapons of mass destruction. How long that self-restraint may hold is inherently unpredictable, but the increasing availability, not only to states but also to organized groups, of the means to inflict massive casualties-- by the use of nuclear or bacteriological weapons-- also inevitably increases the probability of their employment." ? Pg. 213
"These efforts will have the added historical advantage of benefiting from the new web of global linkages that is growing exponentially outside the more traditional nation-state system. That web-- woven by multinational corporations, NGOs (nongovernmental organizations, with many of them transnational in character) and scientific communities and reinforced by the Internet -- already creates an informal global system that is inherently congenial to more institutionalized and inclusive global cooperation." ? Pg. 215
"By pioneering in the integration of nation-states into a shared supranational economic and eventually political union, Europe is also pointing the way toward larger forms of postnational organization, beyond the narrow visions and the destructive passions of the age of nationalism." - Pg. 57
"In the current circumstances, the expansion of NATO to include Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary -- probably by 1999 -- appears to be likely. After this initial but significant step, it is likely that any subsequent expansion of the alliance will either be coincidental with or will follow the expansion of the EU. The latter involves a much more complicated process, both in the number of qualifying stages and in the meeting of membership requirements (see chart on page 83). Thus, even the first admissions into the EU from Central Europe are not likely before the year 2002 or perhaps somewhat later. Nonetheless, after the first three new NATO members have also joined the EU, both the EU and NATO will have to address the question of extending membership to the Baltic republics, Slovenia, Romania, Bulgaria, and Slovakia, and perhaps also, eventually, to Ukraine." - Pg. 81
"It follows, therefore, that states that are in a position to begin and are invited to undertake accession talks with the EU should automatically also be viewed henceforth as subject in effect to NATO's presumptive protection." - Pg. 83
"Given the growing consensus regarding the desirability of admitting the nations of Central Europe into both the EU and NATO, the practical meaning of this question focuses attention on the future status of the Baltic republics and perhaps also that of Ukraine." - Pg. 50
"A geostrategic issue of crucial importance is posed by China's emergence as a major power. The most appealing outcome would be to co-opt a democratizing and free-marketing China into a larger Asian regional framework of cooperation." - Pg. 54
"...the United States would do well to consider the adoption of an American-Japanese free trade agreement, thereby creating a common American-Japanese economic space. Such a step, formalizing the growing linkage between the two economies, would provide the geopolitical underpinning both for America's continued presence in the Far East and for Japan's constructive global engagement." - Pg. 192
"Tokyo can carve out a globally influential role by cooperating closely with the United States regarding what might be called the new agenda of global concerns, while avoiding any futile and potentially counterproductive effort to become a regional power itself. The task of American statesmanship should hence be to steer Japan in that direction. An American-Japanese free trade agreement, creating a common economic space, would fortify the connection and promote the goal, and hence its utility should be jointly examined." - Pg. 208
"A Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement, already advocated by a number of prominent Atlantic leaders, could also mitigate the risk of growing economic rivalry between a more united EU and the United States. In any case, the EU's eventual success in burying the centuries-old European nationalist antagonisms, with their globally disruptive effects, would be well worth some gradual diminution in America's decisive role as Eurasia's current arbitrator." - Pg. 200
"In brief, the U.S. policy goal must be unapologetically twofold: to perpetuate America's own dominant position for at least a generation and preferably longer still; and to create a geopolitical framework that can absorb the inevitable shocks and strains of social-political change while evolving into the geopolitical core of shared responsibility for peaceful global management. A prolonged phase of gradually expanding cooperation with key Eurasian partners, both stimulated and arbitrated by America, can also help to foster the preconditions for an eventual upgrading of the existing and increasingly antiquated UN [United Nations] structures. A new distribution of responsibilities and privilegescan then take into account the changed realities of global power, so drastically different from those of 1945." - Pg. 215
Bancor: The Name Of The Global Currency That A Shocking IMF Report Is Proposing
Sometimes there are things that are so shocking that you just do not want to report them unless they can be completely and totally documented. Over the past few years, there have been many rumors about a coming global currency, but at times it has been difficult to pin down evidence that plans for such a currency are actually in the works. Not anymore. A paper entitled "Reserve Accumulation and International Monetary Stability"" by the Strategy, Policy and Review Department of the IMF recommends that the world adopt a global currency called the "Bancor" and that a global central bank be established to administer that currency. The report is dated April 13, 2010 and a full copy can be read here. Unfortunately this is not hype and it is not a rumor. This is a very serious proposal in an official document from one of the mega-powerful institutions that is actually running the world economy. Anyone who follows the IMF knows that what the IMF wants, the IMF usually gets. So could a global currency known as the "Bancor" be on the horizon? That is now a legitimate question.
So where in the world did the name "Bancor" come from? Well, it turns out that "Bancor" is the name of a hypothetical world currency unit once suggested by John Maynard Keynes. Keynes was a world famous British economist who headed the World Banking Commission that created the IMF during the Breton Woods negotiations.
The Wikipedia entry for "Bancor" puts it this way....
The bancor was a World Currency Unit of clearing that was proposed by John Maynard Keynes, as leader of the British delegation and chairman of the World Bank commission, in the negotiations that established the Bretton Woods system, but has not been implemented.
The IMF report referenced above proposed naming the coming world currency unit the "Bancor" in honor of Keynes.
So what about Special Drawing Rights (SDRs)? Over the past couple of years, SDRs have been touted as the coming global currency. Well, the report does envision making SDRs "the principal reserve asset" as we move towards a global currency unit....
"As a complement to a multi-polar system, or even--more ambitiously--its logical end point, a greater role could be considered for the SDR."
However, the report also acknowledges that SDRs do have some serious limitations. Since the value of SDRs are closely tied to national currencies, anything affecting those currencies will affect SDRs as well.
Right now, SDRs are made up of a basket of currencies. The following is a breakdown of the components of an SDR....
*U.S. Dollar (44 percent)
*Euro (34 percent)
*Yen (11 percent)
*Pound (11 percent)
The IMF report recognizes that moving to SDRs is only a partial move away from the U.S. dollar as the world reserve currency and urges the adoption of a currency unit that would be truly international. The truth is that SDRs are clumsy and cumbersome. For now, SDRs must still be reconverted back into a national currency before they can be used, and that really limits their usefulness according to the report....
"A limitation of the SDR as discussed previously is that it is not a currency. Both the SDR and SDR-denominated instruments need to be converted eventually to a national currency for most payments or interventions in foreign exchange markets, which adds to cumbersome use in transactions. And though an SDR-based system would move away from a dominant national currency, the SDR's value remains heavily linked to the conditions and performance of the major component countries."
So what is the answer?
Well, the IMF report believes that the adoption of a true global currency administered by a global central bank is the answer.
The authors of the report believe that it would be ideal if the "Bancor" would immediately be used as currency by many nations throughout the world, but they also acknowledge that a more "realistic" approach would be for the "Bancor" to circulate alongside national currencies at first....
"One option is for bancor to be adopted by fiat as a common currency (like the euro was), an approach that would result immediately in widespread use and eliminate exchange rate volatility among adopters (comparable, for instance, to Cooper 1984, 2006 and the Economist, 1988). A somewhat less ambitious (and more realistic) option would be for bancor to circulate alongside national currencies, though it would need to be adopted by fiat by at least some (not necessarily systemic) countries in order for an exchange market to develop."
So who would print and administer the "Bancor"?
Well, a global central bank of course. It would be something like the Federal Reserve, only completely outside the control of any particular national government....
"A global currency, bancor, issued by a global central bank (see Supplement 1, section V) would be designed as a stable store of value that is not tied exclusively to the conditions of any particular economy. As trade and finance continue to grow rapidly and global integration increases, the importance of this broader perspective is expected to continue growing."
In fact, at one point the IMF report specifically compares the proposed global central bank to the Federal Reserve....
"The global central bank could serve as a lender of last resort, providing needed systemic liquidity in the event of adverse shocks and more automatically than at present. Such liquidity was provided in the most recent crisis mainly by the U.S. Federal Reserve, which however may not always provide such liquidity."
So is that what we really need?
A world currency administered by an international central bank modeled after the Federal Reserve?
Not at all.
As I have written about previously, the Federal Reserve has devalued the U.S. dollar by over 95 percent since it was created and the U.S. government has accumulated the largest debt in the history of the world under this system.
So now we want to impose such a system on the entire globe?
The truth is that a global currency (whether it be called the "Bancor" or given a different name entirely) would be a major blow to national sovereignty and would represent a major move towards global government.
Considering how disastrous the Federal Reserve system and other central banking systems around the world have been, why would anyone suggest that we go to a global central banking system modeled after the Federal Reserve?
Let us hope that the "Bancor" never sees the light of day.
However, the truth is that there are some very powerful interests that are absolutely determined to create a global currency and a global central bank for the global economy that we now live in.
It would be a major mistake to think that it can't happen.
"The powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements, arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was the Bank for International Settlements in Basle, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the worlds' central banks which were themselves private corporations. Each central bank, in the hands of men like Montagu Norman of the Bank of England, Benjamin Strong of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, Charles Rist of the Bank of France, and Hjalmar Schacht of the Reichsbank, sought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world."
AmongTheThugs wrote:It was me who posted the "cash for gold" link. With the upcoming change in currency on the way
it does not surprise me that someone is buying up all the gold. Cash for gold has had a campaign running for years now(in the usa). i find it suspicious that they claim only "tens of thousands of transactions". Anyone have any thoughts on this?
Their site is: cashforgold.com
nonhocapito wrote:AmongTheThugs wrote:It was me who posted the "cash for gold" link. With the upcoming change in currency on the way
it does not surprise me that someone is buying up all the gold. Cash for gold has had a campaign running for years now(in the usa). i find it suspicious that they claim only "tens of thousands of transactions". Anyone have any thoughts on this?
Their site is: cashforgold.com
I can only say that I was always surprised to see Alex Jones selling gold from his radio network. For the little I understand to buy gold is not like buying groceries. You have to understand all the paperwork and certifications that come with it and you have to be able to see through it.
I wonder if and how many were easily cheated, buying one quality of gold for another in the panic of the "collapsing economy" and the preaching of one Ron Paul or one Alex Jones.
As to there being many entities that instead buy gold from people, this always happened in times of crisis. I can see it in every town I drive through in my country, how many shops there are that buy gold from people desperate for cash.
Personally, I hate the sole mention of this metal, and all the frenzy that surrounds it in one way or the other since the dawn of civilization.
p.s. Please in the future always comment/explain the links you post. It really looked like spamming.
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Inauguration speech promises nation's challenges 'will be met'
WASHINGTON -- Barack Hussein Obama became the 44th president of the United States on Tuesday, a confident young leader ushering in a new era with a promise of bold action to lift the country out of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
Taking the oath on the steps of a Capitol built in part by slaves, Obama became the first African-American to reach the pinnacle of American political life, fulfilling at last the full promise of a nation born with the pledge that all men are created equal.
He looked out over a sea of perhaps 2 million people, faces of every color, creased with age and fresh with promise, celebrating a turning point of history and looking eagerly for a new voice and vision to lead the country in a new century.
"Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real. They are serious and they are many," he said in a 19-minute inaugural address that was at turns sober about the nation's problems and uplifting about its prospects. "They will not be met easily or in a short span of time. But know this, America: They will be met."
To his countrymen, he urged "a new era of responsibility," but also a greater role for the government, help for the poor and a stronger hand in regulating private markets, which, he said, "without a watchful eye ... can spin out of control."
To the world, he vowed to protect American security without violating "the rule of law and the rights of man," and to talk even to hostile nations. "We will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist," he said.
To those who threaten the United States, he said, "you cannot outlast us, and we will defeat you."
The man he succeeded, George W. Bush, watched quietly from his seat, his time over and the legacy of the Bush era of 20 years in high office -- his eight years as president and his father's 12 as vice president and president -- now left to history.
The peaceful transfer of power was a majestic reminder of democracy at its finest, marking the public's wish to change course, from one political party to another, from one generation to another. At 47, Obama is the first American president who came of age after the turbulence and divisions of the 1960s and the Vietnam War.
Shortly after he became president at the stroke of noon, Obama placed his hand on the same Bible that Abraham Lincoln used at his 1861 inauguration and, following Chief Justice John G. Roberts, took the oath: "I, Barack Hussein Obama, do solemnly swear that I will execute the office of president of the United States faithfully, and will to the best of my ability preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
Obama paused for a second when Roberts placed the word "faithfully" at the wrong spot in the sentence, then repeated it as Roberts had, not as it was written into the Constitution more than 200 years ago, which is "faithfully execute the office."
He finished with the phrase that George Washington added and every president since has used voluntarily: "So help me God."
His wife, Michelle, and his young daughters, Malia and Sasha, stood beside him, smiling broadly. Artillery hailed the man and the moment with a 21-gun salute that echoed through the marbled monuments.
Bush, 62, left office one of the least popular presidents of the last century, economic turmoil the punctuation mark on a disappointing presidency. Eleven million Americans are out of work, and more than $1 trillion in stock values has been wiped out.
Bush's dismal standing with the American people rivaled those of Harry S. Truman when he left office in 1953 and Richard Nixon when he resigned in disgrace in 1974.
Bush left Washington quickly, his helicopter flying past the White House one last time, then turning past the Lincoln Memorial toward Andrews Air Force Base in the Maryland suburbs.
He departed Andrews for Texas while Obama was still lunching in the Capitol. Bush flew aboard the familiar 747 jet, but found it stripped of the Air Force One radio call sign, which is used only when the president -- the current president -- is aboard.
The Capitol luncheon was disrupted when Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., who's battling a brain tumor, suffered a seizure. Obama rushed to the side of the Senate's "liberal lion," then spoke to the room after Kennedy was escorted out.
"Right now a part of me is with him," Obama said. "And I think that's true for all of us."
The ceremony was seen around the world, by American troops standing watch in such far-flung places as Afghanistan, Iraq and South Korea, and by countless citizens of other countries eager to see the new young president take power.
On his first full day in office Wednesday, Obama plans to attend a National Prayer Service, then meet at the White House with top military officials, including Defense Secretary Robert Gates; Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen; Army Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of the U.S. Central Command; and Army Gen. Ray Odierno, the commander of U.S. troops in Iraq.
Obama is expected to discuss the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the future of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He's also expected to sign an executive order this week ordering the closure of the detention center. It could be months before the facility closes, however, as the administration determines where to put the remaining 250 detainees.
The new president acted almost immediately Tuesday to order all federal agencies to put a freeze on all pending regulations until his administration can review them. The order, contained in a memo signed by White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, isn't unusual, but the Bush administration approved a number of last-minute environmental and other federal regulations.
For most Americans, the inauguration was a moment for hope. For black Americans, it was something more, the culmination of a centuries-long wait to see the Founding Fathers' promise of equality fulfilled.
Among those attending were several of the nine African-Americans who, as children, needed the protection of National Guardsmen when they integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Also among the honored guests were the surviving Tuskegee Airmen, the famed African-American aviators of World War II.
On the National Mall, children smiled and waved flags. Older Americans with memories of past struggles wiped tears from their eyes.
They stretched shoulder to shoulder for the two miles that separate the Capitol from the Lincoln Memorial, where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once spoke of the "dream" of such a moment when Americans would be judged by the content of their characters and not the color of their skin.
"We rejoice not only in America's peaceful transfer of power for the 44th time," said Rick Warren, a California pastor and writer whom Obama chose to give the opening prayer at the ceremony. "We celebrate a hinge-point of history with the inauguration of our first African-American president of the United States.
"We are so grateful to live in this land, a land of unequaled possibility, where the son of an African immigrant can rise to the highest level of our leadership. We know today that Dr. King and a great cloud of witnesses are shouting in heaven."
Obama put his achievement in the broader context of the American quest, ever facing new challenges, ever rising to them.
"This is the source of our confidence, the knowledge that God calls on us to shape an uncertain destiny," he said.
"This is ... why men and women and children of every race and every faith can join in celebration across this magnificent Mall, and why a man whose father less than 60 years ago might not have been served at a local restaurant can now stand before you to take a most sacred oath."
Obama warned that he took that oath "amidst gathering clouds and raging storms," and a crisis of confidence that's led to a "nagging fear that America's decline is inevitable and that the next generation must lower its sights."
He promised policies to create jobs and lay the groundwork for long-term prosperity. "The state of the economy calls for action, bold and swift, and we will act," he said.
To critics who question the scope of his plans -- more than $1 trillion to shore up banks and stimulate the economy -- he said "their memories are short. ... They have forgotten what this country has already done, what free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage."
Earlier Tuesday, Obama opened the day with prayer.
With his family, friends and vice president-elect, Joe Biden, Obama attended a morning service at St. John's Episcopal church across Lafayette Square from the White House, his attendance marked by the pealing of a steeple bell cast by the son of Paul Revere.
Since Franklin Roosevelt in 1933, all presidents have opened their first days in office by visiting churches in the capital city. Most have gone to historic St. John's, which held its first service in 1816 and has hosted every president since then at least once during his term of office. Most sit in Pew 54, designated the President's Pew.
"In time of crisis, good men must stand up. God always sends the best men into the worst times," said Bishop T.D. Jakes, senior pastor at The Potter's House, a Dallas church, one of several ministers at the service.
"The problems are mighty and the solutions are not simple. And everywhere you turn there will be a critic waiting to attack every decision that you make. But you are all fired up, sir, and you are ready to go. And this nation goes with you. God goes with you."
The Obamas then went to the White House, greeted at the North Portico by President Bush and Laura Bush. Michelle Obama came with a gift, handing a box wrapped with red ribbon to Laura Bush. It contained a leather-bound journal and a pen to start her memoirs.
Biden and his wife, Jill, were there as well, along with Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife, Lynne. Cheney was in a wheelchair, the victim of a strained back suffered while packing for his move from the vice president's residence to a private home in Washington's Virginia suburbs.
The couples visited for nearly an hour over coffee before leaving for the Capitol. As they pulled out, moving crews rushed in to remove the Bush family's belongings and move in the Obamas', which were to be all in place by the time they'd arrive there to live hours later.
As his family settled in, Obama was to meet Tuesday afternoon with his economic team and sign some executive orders. Later Tuesday, he and Michelle Obama were to attend 10 inaugural balls.


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A quarter of agencies that provide care to people in their own homes do not meet all five national standards of quality and safety, regulators said.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) found that 26% of agencies did not meet all the criteria set out to ensure people are being cared for properly. Charities said that more needs to be done to ensure that elderly people are treated with the "dignity and respect they deserve" following the new CQC report which flagged up some areas of concern in the sector.
The CQC said that some people who rely on carers do not feel valued when visits are cancelled or delayed. And some people were "resigned to accepting a level of unreliability within the service," the report states. Inspectors also raised concerns about about unsupported staff, poor care planning and lack of continuity of care workers.
The report, based on inspections of 250 domiciliary care agencies providing at-home support and care to around 26,500 people, also identified failures of providers to listen to people using services and their families and carers.
People who used the providers had a "reluctance to complain" if care standards slipped, with some people worried about getting their regular care workers into trouble and others may be concerned about reprisals, the report adds.
The CQC measured the agencies on respecting and involving people who use services; the care and welfare of people who use services; how the agencies safeguarded people who use services from abuse; how providers support their staff and how they monitor the quality of the services they deliver. Inspectors found 184 of 250 providers were meeting all five standards and are delivering a good service.
David Behan, chief executive of the CQC, said: "People have a right to expect to be treated as an individual, to be able to exercise choice, and to make sure their carers are aware of their specific care needs. We found plenty of evidence of this however we also found elements of poor care which happen too often."
The National Pensioners Convention said the Government and local authorities need to do more to improve standards of care. General secretary Dot Gibson said: "Local authorities have a responsibility to start commissioning services on the grounds of quality - rather than for the lowest price. Contracts should only be awarded to those who can guarantee that staff are properly trained and qualified to do the job - and the idea that services can be provided in blocks of 15 minutes at a time has got to stop."
Jeremy Hughes, chief executive of the Alzheimer's Society, said: "Good quality home care not only maintains dignity but also prevents people reaching crisis point and going into hospital unnecessarily or care homes early. If people are to be supported to live at home for as long as possible we must ensure that the good care highlighted in this report is being seen across the board."
Equality and Human Rights Commission chief executive officer Mark Hammond said: "Very many more people receive home care than residential care. Many older care users are reluctant to complain, so home care needs to be better managed and closely and carefully regulated, to protect their human rights. We are pleased that the CQC has put home care under scrutiny through this review. The CQC needs to continue this increased regulatory attention on providers and listen closely to the voices of home care service users."
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