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RE: [OS] IRAN/SYRIA/ISRAEL - Ahmadinejad: Zionist regime is approaching a dead-end
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Date | 2010-02-25 15:57:42 |
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Last update - 10:56 25/02/2010
Ahmadinejad: Zionist regime is approaching a dead-end
Iran's president met with President Bashar Assad in Damascus on Thursday,
opening a two-day visit that follows U.S. efforts to break up Syria's
30-year alliance with Tehran.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is also scheduled to meet senior
officials from the militant groups Hamas and Hezbollah, Syria's state-run
news agency said.
Before leaving Tehran, Ahmadinejad told reporters that 'the Zionist regime
and its sponsors' are rapidly approaching a dead-end, according to the
Iranian Students News Agency. Ahmadinejad also said that Iran and Syria
have common viewpoints and stances and Syria is on the frontline against
A string of high-profile visits to Damascus in recent months - from the
U.S., France, and now Iran - shows Syria's strategic importance in the
Middle East.
U.S. President Barack Obama is determined to engage with Syria, a country
seen as key to peace in the region but which the State Department has long
considered a state sponsor of terrorism.
A Syrian government newspaper stressed the alliance between Damascus and
Tehran. After more than three decades of brotherly relations and
friendship, Syria and Iran can confirm again their confidence in each
other, the state-owned Al-Baath newspaper said in its leading article
Ahmedinejad's trip comes on the heels of several important overtures to
Syria by the U.S., including the nomination of the first U.S. ambassador
to Damascus since 2005.
Assad could be open to a breakthrough with the Americans. He is hoping for
U.S. help in boosting a weak economy and for American mediation in direct
peace talks with Israel - a recognition that he needs American involvement
to achieve his top goal of winning the return of the Golan Heights,
captured by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War.
But Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday that the
decision to send an ambassador to Syria does not mean U.S. concerns about
the country have been addressed.
Speaking to lawmakers, Clinton said the nomination of career diplomat
Robert Ford is a sign of a slight opening with Syria. But she said
Washington remains troubled by suspected Syrian support for militant
groups in Iraq and elsewhere, interference in Lebanon and Syria's close
relationship with Iran.
Former President George W. Bush withdrew the last U.S. ambassador to Syria
in 2005 to protest its actions in Lebanon after the assassination of
former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, which his supporters blamed
on Syria.
Washington also has retained its sanctions on Damascus. The sanctions were
first imposed by Bush and renewed by Obama in May.
Ahmadinejad's last visit to Syria was in May
Emre Dogru


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12 And all the people go to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great joy, because they have understood concerning the words that they made known to them. | 12 Then all the people went away to eat and drink, to send portions of food and to celebrate with great joy, because they now understood the words that had been made known to them. |
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I should have done this a long time ago, because the advantages are so great, such as writing code that others can reuse for their addons, security!, and much greater operability.
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Steele rejected the notion that the incident may make any association with the Tea Party Movement a danger.
"It's not a danger," Steele told NBC's "Meet the Press on Sunday." "It's certainly not a reflection of the movement or the Republican Party when you have idiots out there saying stupid things."
Folks are quite rightly upset by the Tea Baggers in Washington D.C. hurling of racial epithets at civil rights icon Representative John Lewis and calling Barney Frank a "faggot." The Tea Party health care brigades were thorough as they also spat upon and threatened other members of Congress.
What befuddles me about this episode is how some among the public seem surprised and shocked by the Tea Baggers dropping their mask and showing us who they have always been. As I said before, these are a bunch of neo-John Birchers whose grandparents were likely members of the Klan or White Citizens' Councils (the younger members of the tea bag cadre were likely more benign as they merely threw rocks at black school children trying to integrate schools in places like Boston). So please, spare me the gasps at their foul behavior. To paraphrase Forrest Gump, "White trash is as White trash does."
What I find more interesting, not so much as it is a surprise, but it begs a question, is how Michael Steele, Chairman of the GOP can continue to support this movement? Once more, Black Conservatives vex me: you have one more instance in a clear pattern of abusive and racially reactionary behavior by the neo-populist Palin Tea Party Right wing and the titular head of the (Black) Republican establishment continues to make excuses.
To illustrate the point, here is one of the masters to whom Mr. Steele is beholden:
Pray tell Mr. Steele, how much is your soul worth? Did you sell it to the Devil for 50 dollars? Did you sell it for a million? To black conservatives more generally, when will you publicly denounce the Tea Party? Are you ashamed of Michael Steele's excuse making? What more will it take for you to say "not in my name?"
From Fox News (so you know it must be true) here is an account of the Tea Party love fest in D.C. on Saturday. As is my tradition, here is the Vox populi aka the peanut gallery…once more the rabble makes clear the depths of their stupidity and bigotry:
Totally fake. Those racial slurs were made by dems pretending to be tea party attendees. Dems can only win when they cheat, they can only succeed with their plans when the steal and lie. How do they sleep at night? Pray they will have a day of judgement soon.–kate999
Representative Rangel draws attention to himself through his comments. There certainly are African-Americans involved in the Tea Party. He's either not watching or is in denial. This isn't about race, it's about taxes and spending. The fact that Rep. Lewis may have been targeted for his past history with the Civil Rights movement raises another suspicion that this was an orchestrated attack designed to discredit the Tea Party movement and make a race concern out of a "tax and spend" issue. These red flags just keep popping up.–mdm12
Typical Democrat trick used over and over again. It is really getting old. Remember these Progressives and their fellow travelers will stop at nothing as they believe that the end justifies the means.–munimula
While it is true that almost anyone is capable of almost anything, it is hard to accept that people who align themselves with the Tea Party movement would in that way. Especially after the very large public gatherings a few months ago. I would not be surprised if those who behaved badly were planted there in order to cast a negative on the Tea Party and the Repulican party.–rodz1
Is this report confirmed? If so, it should be condemmed. I would bet money that it is a Dem plant though… I don't put anything past these guys. They (Dems) are as crooked as a dog's leg.–raketenmann
Enough coverage of this bogus BS. It was yet another SEIU set up. No one but the hard left is falling for it.
glad to see that most posters realize that the so called slurs were probably a plant by SCIU or union thugs. The media dreams that they really happened because everything to them is about the glorius stuggle against the evil white man. These femmy media phonies always ignore hate crimes commited againsy white people.It probably turns these white media fairies on that hate crimes are ignored when their against anyone with there mommas skin color. When they cannot win an aguement they scream, racist sexist anti gay, so I tell these squeeling white fem boys fly away.–daniel7778
I awould like to think these racial slurs are from plants thrown in by those wanting to give a negative image to we Tea Party Patriots. Too many people do not understand the integerity of the most of those involved in the local Tea Party groups. I feel this type of outbursts are not from our people–kdwain
Only a democrat would make a racial slur.–tomos
Is this what is necessary to get the press to report on the massive Tea Party movement? If it's anything negative, even unsubstantiated, it gets reported? I agree with the other posters who have made comments such as, "IF THERE WERE RACIAL SLURS SAID, IT WAS PROBABLY A PAID UNION PLANT THUG."–americanadian
Please stop hiding behind supposed racial predjudice.–loisdad
As for the true colors of the tea partiers, I was educated on that pretty directly here in Strongsville, Ohio, when the President came to this/my conservative suburb to sell us and Kucinich on the bill. Not having had any direct contact with the tea partiers, I had sort of expected my own upper middle class suburban neighbors to take part in the orchestrated protests of the tea partiers. But at the venue where the President was to speak (I was working as an usher), it soon became clear that there was this cultural/socioeconomic distinction between the conservatives I know personally--the ones who send their children to private schools and eat out at fancy restaurants and live well--and the tea partiers who'd come in to town from parts south. It is almost impossible to convey this distinction without using the awful and stereotypical expression "white trash." My own conservative neighbors did indeed attend the event, mostly simply to get close to a POTUS, but the others were all that we've seen on TV and more: rude, abusive, caustic, crass. I won't get into detail, but I can tell you this: I recognized them a mile away, and they did not come as a group. I could pick them out one by one, using the cultural cues that are verboten to speak of, such as the screaming flag-decorated clothing, unkempt hair, cigarette-saturated clothing. It's all so awful to contemplate that I'm spelling it out so callously, but it was honestly a revelation to me.
So the question becomes: when do the "thoughtful conservatives," the "respectable and respectful conservatives," the "decent conservatives" tell the tea partiers to take a hike? I was proud of my actual neighbors for listening to the President respectfully, for welcoming him dutifully if not entirely enthusiastically. And I must say there existed a kind of acknowledgment of the unseemliness of their ideological counterparts, but I wonder to this day: Was their discomfort out of a sense of ethics, a sense of indignation at the lack of respect shown the President and the process? Or was it simply a social snobbery related more directly to class? Can one separate the two? I worry about that.
The irrational use of the term "socialist" is really a substitute for the "N-word" and is used with the same emotional bigotry.
That is why the collection of vehement anti-Obama people are really advocating a form of government called an Idiocracy based upon mob rule and innuendo (public lies). These same irrational critics are the ones who still believe the lies of Weapons of Mass Destruction and the virtues of Enron, the danger of a responsible SEC, love the malapropisms of George Boob #43, and the deviousness of Dick Cheney.
I am not surprised that one vehement anti-Obama critic that I know is the daughter of a Klu Klux Klan Grand Dragon.
And Steele's hypocrisy further substantiates that the Republican Party has done more harm to our country in the last 9 years than the Communist Party ever did.
I'm not so sure. Don't you think the fringe right would be throwing around the "socialist" term had Hillary Clinton won? I have relatives who called her that in the nineties, when she wasn't even the one making policy.
trunky: Who's talking about restricting free speech? Castigating bad behavior and speech, highlighting it for all the world to see, criticizing it: these are not the same thing as calling for laws against it. As for the expressions you mention: You touch on the very thing I was wondering about: At some level, is this just a class war after all? Whether we're talking about African Americans (who, by virtue of their skin color, have a history of oppression) or "white trash," we're talking about a people who are not in power. In the meta sense.
I think you and caracalla are dismissing the influence of environment on habits and behavior. It's not so easy simply to renounce an entire cultural experience and move over to a way of being that someone else calls acceptable. You and I might define it as such, but who is to say we're right? You need to think deeper, imo.
In my opinion, Steele sold out real bah.
He's a cohort with Beelzebub and flies.
He cares zilch for his race? Ask Steele?
Who wimp? Steel cowers at the white?
Who else do? O cower, plead mercies?
O abolitionist? O Kow tow? Ask MLK?
Gandhi, Willian O Douglas? O Momma.
It's dang clear. They are wimpy wastrels.
As for that other actor, Michael Steele, pretending to integrity and respectability, fawning and scraping, while he seethes with jealousy -- imagine what goes on in his mind as he sees Barack Obama.... Racist whites have always found people of color to be their puppets -- Native folks know this one all too well. And these Tea Party bloggers who were awake in their grammar school history classes for perhaps the one day they were interested? Anything with "rebellion" or "taxation" in it woke them up out of the sullen torpor they live in, but context is so boring to deal with -- and facts? Please.
This is just the same old hysterical entitlement and selfishness hiding behind false names and avatars. And this is an old tradition, too. In Colonial America, anonymous writers made incendiary and libelous comments with impunity -- it's easy to say vile, racist and homophobic things if you don't have to be accountable for your words. No one is trying to silence these people. But I do wish Steele would shut up. He's a disaster and, sorry, as they said in the 19th century, a "shame to the race." Let's update it and make it the human race.
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Watch Mary J. Blige's 'Mr. Wrong' Video, Now With 100 Percent More Drake
This time, Mary J. Blige gets it right. The stoic R&B queen originally released a video for throbbing electro-soul jam "Mr. Wrong" back in December, only that time without the guest performer from the version of the song that appears on latest album My Life II... The Journey Continues (Act I). Showing a magnificently blonde-coiffed Blige, black-clad backup dancers, and (why not?) a stripper pole, the clip was perfect for the Drake-phobic,but it missed out on the Eve-and-her-serpent element that helps make the original track work.
We should've known Blige couldn't go long without her own Mr. Wrong — in this case, the ladies' man recently not-so-sonned by conscious rappers everywhere (or at least Common). Yes, we're talking about Aubrey Drake Graham. The Take Care rapper-singer turns up, remarkably not wearing a ridiculous sweater, in the opening seconds of a revamped "Mr. Wrong" video that recently hit Nah Right. It's Drake's puppy-dog-eyed manipulator routine that keeps Blige's powerfully wounded vocals grounded in reality: She may fall in love with the wrong guys, but she does it for good reasons. Just not the right ones.
The rest of the video looks little changed from its precursor. More stripper pole, more synchronized dancing, more color-changing lighting. And the song, of course, remains the same (this ain't no remix). Glad to see Mr. Wrong was able to take a little time out from living it up in San Francisco to check back in on his Missus. Wait, wasn't he supposed to be married to Nicki Minaj?


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An engineer gives a demonstration on transverse waves.
A video about waves. Includes slow motion footage.
Reviews the definition of a transverse wave, its crests and troughs, and what an S wave is.
Practice Transverse Wave questions
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Lebron James got one bit of business to take care of
June 21, 2012 in Uncategorized
I wanted to wait until a team was a declared a NBA champion before writing this blog but after watching Game 4 where the Miami Heat moved within one game of winning their 2nd title I just couldn't help myself. Why you may ask would I want to do that now with 3 games still left in the series? (Potentially ofcoz) Well, I have this confidence that the Heat won't lose it this year. Not after they right all the wrongs they made in Game 4 of last year's finals. Not when they showed much against popular belief that this is a team that plays together, for each other. And most certainly not coz no team has come back from a 3 – 1 deficit to win a NBA Championship. In a sense this Heat team remind me of the '08 Olympic basketball team that won the gold medal after they were humiliated the previous Olympics by collecting the bronze. This Heat team can be the Redemption team 2.0 should they win the title this year after that miserable meltdown in last year's finals.
And as usual right smack in the middle of everything is non-other than Lebron James.
Man I want this guy to win it all so badly. Not just to silent all his critics and haters (and there are thousands of them which will probably continue their merry way even if he does get a title) but because in this playoffs & finals series no one deserves a title more. Guys like Garnett, Nowitsky, Pierce, Kidd, Allen & Wade got their ring and will probably be hall of famers. Guys like Kobe & Duncan (the greatest of their generation) got their rings and legacies locked down. Durant, Rose & Griffith still got lotsa time on their hands to achieve what some of the guys above did or come close to it. But for Lebron, it's about winning now!! Winning Game 5 or 6 or 7 and with one ring can he bury all his past season's disappointments, failures & demons and immediately enshrine him in the NBA elite. And fair or unfair, that is what is expected from him.
The kid from Akron's margin of error is so small; he's lack of appreciation so little that winning titles is all that matters, for him, his critics and everyone in his circle. Mind you, he didn't help himself when he told Heatles' fans that they're gona win not 3, not 4, not 5, not 6, not 7 (nba titles) before he, Wade & Bosh even played one game together as team mates. But in his defence, he did get them to the finals in his 1st season with Miami since 2006 AND they're now one win away from title nr. 1 as the Big 3. Anyways, my point is no one got it worse than James. Kobe doesn't win? His team is too old. Chris Paul doesn't win? His team is too young. Durant & Rose doesn't win? They'll get comforted and encouraged that their time will come. Lebron doesn't win? Nope, sorry got nothing for you except a HAHA, you lose again!! Some want him to fail, expect him to fail and if he doesn't they'll just say: Big deal, so what!?
But Lebron James stopped caring what his naysayers are saying and writing about him and just went about his business. And by business I mean:
- Capturing a 3rd MVP trophy in one of the most efficient seasons a nba player EVER had
- Adding a new nickname (by his coach) to his many namely: 1 through 5 (coz he covers all positions offensively AND defensively)
- Coming through for his team when they needed him most: the 40+ points & 18reb effort against the Pacers in Indiana, the 45pnts, 15rbs, 5asts game in Boston when his team was down 3 – 2 & a 3 pointer in Game 4 of the NBA finals that gave his team the lead with 2 & ½ min to go & stretch their series lead to 3 – 1 on a leg that gave in on him just minutes before he took the shot.
The only business left to take care of is getting another win & reserving one of Miami's best nightclubs for the weekend party!!
Ofcoz the Thunder will not make it easy. Last time I checked they're still the same team that eliminated last season's champs in the Mavericks, blew by the Bryant & the Lakers & took care of the Spurs, a team that had the best record in the NBA, a team that led them 2 zip in the Western conference finals & were riding a 20 game winning streak before they lost 4 straight against the team from Oklahoma City. And the Thunder's big 3 of Durant, Westbrook & Harden still has to play a game in this finals where they click on all cylinders so it's not going to be easy for the Heat.
But it looks like the stars are finally aligned for NBA's biggest star and I'm sure he'll do anything and literally everything to get that elusive ring. He's been so unstoppable in this year's edition of the NBA Playoffs & another big night (or 2 or 3) from James, he could finish with a playoffs average of 30 points, 10 boards & 5 assists. Something no other player has EVER done in the modern era!! In fact only 3 other players averaged James' current average of 30 points and 9 boards in the playoffs and they were all centers. Not just any centers: Abdul Jabbar, Olajuwon & Shaq!! Throw in his game high 12 assists he dished out in Game 4 & do you understand now why his latest nickname fits like a glove?? And if he didn't get injured with 5 min left in the game he probably would've finished with a triple double (26pnts, 12ast & 9 reb).
I'm sorry haters but I love the game of basketball!! I don't play it anymore so I now watch the shit out of it and there's no else I enjoy watching more because of his skills and talents (couldn't help myself Cleveland). The complete baller playing a complete game at the highest level with everything at stake. And that's why I'll set my alarm once again for 2.30 tomorrow morning to buoyantly be a Witness (Sorry again Cavs fans) to watch Lebron James hopefully & rightfully become a NBA champion.
I'm outy


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The Montgomery GI Bill (Chapter 30)
The Montgomery GI Bill (Chapter 30): Active Duty Educational Assistance Program, generally for individuals who entered active duty after June 30, 1985 and served continuously for three years or by serving two years on active duty followed by four years of Selected Reserve. To be eligible, veterans must have contributed $1200 during their first year of military service. Veterans or service personnel cannot withdraw money paid into the fund.
The Montgomery GI Bill (Chapter 1606)
Selected Reserve Educational Assistance Program, for members of the Reserve elements of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and the Air National Guard. To be eligible, reservist must have a six-year obligation to serve in the Selected Reserve signed after June 30, 1985. No contribution is required.
Chapter 1607 (Reserve Educational Assistance Program [REAP])
The Secretaries of each military service, Department of Defense, and Department of Homeland Security (Coast Guard) determine the criteria for eligibility. The law requires DoD to give you written notification of eligibility for REAP. A member of a reserve component who serves on active duty on or after September 11, 2001 under title 10 U.S. Code for a contingency operation and who serves at least 90 consecutive days or more is eligible for Chapter 1607. National Guard members also are eligible if their active duty is under section 502(f), title 32 U.S.C. and they serve for 90 consecutive days when authorized by the President or Secretary of Defense for a national emergency and is supported by federal funds. Individuals are eligible as soon as they reach the 90-day point whether or not they are currently on active duty. DoD will fully identify contingency operations that qualify for benefits under Chapter 1607.
Survivors' and Dependents' Educational Assistance (Chapter 35)
Educational assistance available to spouses and children of veterans who died or are permanently and totally disabled as the result of a service-related disability.
Disabled Veterans Assistance (Chapter 31)
Vocational Rehabilitation for service-connected disability of 20% or greater. Benefit provides a monthly stipend and covers the cost of tuition, books and supplies. Eligibility is determined on an individual case basis.
Veterans Education Assistance Program (VEAP Chapter 32)
For individuals who entered active duty service between January 1, 1977 and June 30, 1985 and served a continuous period of 181 days or more plus contributed toward the education program..
Chapter 33 (Post 9/11 Veteran's Educational Assistance)
Effective August 2009 for more information please see GI Bill website.
Vietnam Era GI Bill (Chapter 34)
For individuals who entered active duty prior to December 31, 1976 and served a minimum of 181 days active duty after January 31, 1955. Benefits must have been used by January 1, 1990.


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Auditório Ibirapuera, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Architect: Oscar Niemeyer
Why It's Cool: The United Nations co-designer conceived the Auditório Ibirapuera in 1951 for Sao Paolo's 400th anniversary, but it wasn't completed until 2005, after $12.8 million in funding materialized. (Fortunately, Niemeyer lived to see it—he's now 101 years old.) Still, modernity hasn't tempered the building's offbeat, utopian spirit. With a doorstop shape and a wiggling tongue of a red-metal marquee, the venue also features a 60-foot-wide backstage panel that can open to allow for free outdoor concerts.
How to Visit: Enjoy the exterior from a blanket in the park, or buy a ticket to get a peek inside.
Zubin Shroff
Taipei 101, Taipei, Taiwan
Architect: C.Y. Lee and Partners Architects
Why It's Cool: For years, Taiwan, like much of eastern Asia, shunned skyscrapers over worries that earthquakes or typhoons might topple them. But new, high-grade mineral-flecked concrete that allows buildings to grow tall without sacrificing strength was put to ample use in this 2004 dart. At 1,667 feet, Taipei 101 is the planet's tallest building—and will stay that way until Burj Dubai debuts later in 2009.
How to Visit: Shops fill the lower levels, but the views are the reason to come. Take the elevators—the world's fastest—to the 89th floor to see a Volkswagen Beetle-size pendulum that keeps the building from shaking.
Dean Kaufman
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City
Architect: Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa/Sanaa
Why It's Cool: Before the current bust, New York's building binge was perhaps unequaled among Western cities. Breaking a tradition of using local talent, the city also signed up architects from overseas to freshen its look, such as this Japanese team, whose metallic 174-foot stack of six off-center boxes has no obvious peer. Inside the New Museum, tiny galleries eschew windows to maximize wall space, allowing for more art. And the brick-and-terracotta neighborhood visible from a seventh-floor terrace emphasizes the building's fish-out-of-water status.
How to Visit: Tickets are $12; lolling in the lobby is free.
Turning Torso, Malmo, Sweden
Architect: Santiago Calatrava
Why It's Cool: Frank Lloyd Wright used some guesswork to make sure Fallingwater didn't fall; today, computers do the heavy lifting. They also permit farfetched forms that may have once worked only on paper, such as this 2005 building, which makes a genre-defying 90-degree clockwise rotation as it rises. Like many recent horizon-altering structures, Turning Torso combines a mix of uses, which has been a sure way for development to get funded; in fact, the 656-foot high-rise, which is Scandinavia's tallest, tucks offices on floors one through 10, and apartments above them, allowing in-house commutes.
How to Visit: There no tours, but 30-person talks take place on the 7th floor (free, with reservations). The next-door shopping mall has an interactive exhibit on the tower, plus restaurants.
Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar
Architect: I.M. Pei
Why It's Cool: Packed with 1,200 years of sextants, silk carpets, and elaborately detailed pitchers, the Museum of Islamic Art dedicates only 10 percent of its space to galleries. Much else is left open, like a soaring 164-foot central atrium topped with a tiny round skylight that evokes the Cairo mosque on which the stone building was modeled. Alongside Doha's partly built high-rises in a development-crazed region, the museum's clean, elemental masses—which evoke an earlier Middle East—can seem quaint.
How to Visit: Open daily at 10:30. Tickets are free.
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Jewish Museum Berlin, Germany
Architect: Daniel Libeskind
Why It's Cool: Despite an understandably grim Holocaust focus, the Jewish Museum Berlin's 2001 addition has the logic of a carnival fun house. There are twisting halls, angled floors, and rooms whose windows are diagonal slits. Outside in the "Garden of Exile," 49 olive-tree-topped columns tilt 12 degrees sideways by the addition's sharply pointed walls, which from above suggest pieces of a Star of David. Disorientation is the desired effect, according to Libeskind, to echo what World War II–era Jews felt before being shipped to death camps.
How to Visit: Open daily at 10 a.m.; admission is $6 for adults.
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de Young Museum, San Francisco
Architect: Herzog & de Meuron
Why It's Cool: Some architects try metal cladding, but these two nail it. At the four-year-old de Young, they skip traditional glass and steel for 950,000 pounds of perforated copper, which fog hasn't yet turned green. The brown hue of the chunky nine-story tower, which rises from palms in Golden Gate Park, suggests a Mayan temple. Rooms, too, buck convention, with plenty of non-linear surfaces for Hudson River School landscapes. And ferns brush courtyard windows, which underscores the lush setting.
How to Visit: Open Tuesday through Sunday; tickets are $10.
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China Central Television Headquarters, Beijing
Architect: Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren
Why It's Cool: No two layouts of its 55 floors are the same. Only the Pentagon is a larger office building. Even in a country pushing architectural boundaries, this squared-off doughnut seems dizzyingly unique. And next fall, visitors could stand on glass discs in a cantilevered floor and stare down 500 unencumbered feet to the street (though a February fire at the Mandarin Oriental hotel next door could push back the already-delayed opening). "Amidst all the skyscrapers there, it's relatively low," said Koolhaas in 2006. "It will feel accessible."
How to Visit: 11 Fuxing Road; under construction, but much to see from the streets. Tours may kick off when it opens.
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BMW Central Building, Leipzig, Germany
Architect: Zaha Hadid
Why It's Cool: Modernism is a trend that shows no sign of ebbing—what else are those ubiquitous glass-walled apartments but takes on Philip Johnson's 1949 Glass House?Current designers also still seem keen on creating factories like the BMW Central Building, whose mass-produced goods embody Modernism's underlying aesthetic. But Hadid's confection, which knits together three outlying workshops, seems less mechanical than organic. Grooves ridge the skin along smoothly contoured edges. Tear-shaped concrete piers below resemble bones. And the overhead conveyor belts hurriedly hauling car frames could be blood vessels.
How to Visit: By appointment, Mon.–Fri., and occasionally Sat.; $154 for a 30-person group.
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Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain
Architect: Frank Gehry
Why It's Cool: The first glimpse of Guggenheim Bilbao's rippling titanium walls in 1997 was a game-changer. Never again would paintings be displayed in humdrum hallways. Indeed, museums from Denver to Davenport, Iowa, have tried to whip up a "Bilbao effect" so their own retooled buildings might become instant landmarks. Bilbao also spawned the term "star-chitect," as Gehry became an overnight object of hero worship. Ever since, developers of condos, offices and power plants have rushed to hire star-chitects, so their high-wattage imprimatur could sell products.
How to Visit: Open Tuesday to Sunday; tickets are $10.


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This winter was all about edgy hair. Sharp bobs and choppy pixie cuts were bang on trend, with the added benefits of being super low maintenance in spite of wind, rain and snow. But now that the sun is out, and we're all in the mood for summer, are you starting to feel hair cut regret? Are you wishing you could create those lushious beachy waves we all crave during the sunny seasons? Well, why not give extensions a try? They've come on a long way since the poorly disguised artificial hair of the early naughties – check out these celebs for some inspiration…
While we've never seen the any of the Kardashians with anything but flawless hair, we're especially loving Kourtney's not-so-natural locks. Rather than lengthening, Kourtney's extensions thicken, leaving her hair looking thick, shiny and full of life.
Selena fully embraces 'hippy chic', coupling extra long extensions with a floral headband and bare midriff. We think this would be the perfect look for a festival, particularly for those with a centre parting.
Rita shocked us all at the Oscars, swapping her trademark bob for some platinum waves in a more relaxed version of her classic retro look. Rita is living proof that blonde looks amazing with any skin tone – especially in summer!
We couldn't just pick one look for Beyonce – her hair changes far too often for us to keep track! Bey is a great example of the flexibility of extensions and weaves – they're changeable, they're dyeable and you're never stuck with one style for long.
Sorry – we couldn't resist! But hey, who says hair extensions are only for women? We actually think that Daniel has been something of a trailblazer in the male extension department – was Jared Leto copying his 'do at the Oscars last week?!
We love the versatility of hair extensions, hair pieces and weaves. Can't wait for your short hair to grow out – you don't have to! Which is why this year, we were thrilled to welcome the wonderful Tinu, the creator of Dilusso Hair Extensions, to join us! Tinu offers some of the best hair extensions in Manchester and is now on hand for customers of all hair types looking for great quality, all natural extensions and weaves.
If you're looking for summer makeover, and want to find out more about the hair that Tinu has to offer, contact us today on 0161 834 1422 or use our contact form to book an appointment. You can also pop into the salon on Peter Street – we're always available for a chat!
November is coming to a close and moustachioed men all over the country have their razors in hand, ready to shave away the efforts of Movember for a fresh start next month. There's nothing more satisfying than a clean upper lip after 30 days of itching, scratching and collecting crumbs – but why stop at the 'tache? Now's the perfect time to try out a new look on top of your head as well! But before you pull a Jose Mourinho, put down the clippers, ditch the DIY, and check out our top styles this Christmas…
- Retro: For a 60's rocker look, try a low number-one fade, with plenty of volume on top. This works best for curly-haired gents, and can be styled by combing forward to accentuate the shape.
- Bowl-cut: Believe it or not, those haircuts you despised as a child are back. Only this time, they're not done in your mum's living room. Again, short on the sides and heavy on top – only with minimal layering. Style with straighteners for a truly 80's look, or use texturising gel for a messy, modern feel.
- Fringe: Sharp at the sides and short on the crown, becoming progressively thicker towards the front, the fringe is set to be the biggest masculine hair trend of 2014. Already seen on the catwalk from multiple designers, the fringe is a versatile style that can be worn to suit your tastes. Slick it back for a vintage quiff, or wear it choppy over your face for an edgier look.
- Side Parting: For those growing out a shorter cut, but still wanting to maintain the clean-cut look, a side parting is key. And with the 20's trend still going strong, a side part can enhance the Gatsby vibe. Why not try a new colour like blue black or platinum white to really intensify the look?
- Silver Streak: Celebrities from George Lamb to Robbie Williams have embraced the grey. A silver streak through the front of the hair can compliment a quiff and give dark hair a pop of colour.
If any of these styles take your fancy, or if you have some ideas of your own, why not give us a call and celebrate the end of Movember at Peter Marcus? Nothing compliments a freshly shaven chin like a new 'do up top – and with Christmas approaching, you never know who you might want to impress under the mistletoe! We're open on Sundays through the month of December and will be introducing more late nights to fit in as many customers as we can over the festive period. D rop us a line to find out more – you can call us on 0161 834 1422, send us a message using our contact form or visit us at our salon on Peter Street.
Congratulations to everyone who participated in Movember and raised money and awareness for men's health issues. Go Mo Bros!
British seasons can take their toll on your hair, especially as the weather drops below zero in the winter. Cold wind and frost can leave your hair feeling dry, brittle and damaged, and with a season of festive parties ahead, now's the time we all need to look our best. Here are our top winter hair care tips to keep you looking fabulous well into the New Year…
Wash your hair less – It may sound crazy, but washing your hair fewer times per week can actually make your hair feel healthier during winter. Every time you wash your hair, you strip away natural oils and moisturisers. Hair can often appear dry during winter, and so now is the time you need those oils most. Try cutting it down to once or twice a week, and see if you notice a difference.
Oils, oils, oils! - There are so many great oil products available right now to help restore the natural balance of your hair and leave it looking silky and smooth. Try massaging some oil into the scalp – be it Argan oil or olive oil (yes – really!) – before washing out with shampoo a couple of hours later to condition and nourish the scalp.
Turn the temperature down - Now, we're not saying take cold showers, but turning down the temperature of the water from steaming hot to warm can prevent damage to both your hair and your skin. Extreme water temperatures can damage your hair, especially when coming in from the freezing temperatures outside.
Dry naturally - Wherever possible, letting your hair dry naturally is much better than using heat. If your hair is prone to dryness in winter, avoiding high temperature tools such as straighteners and curling wands is advised, as they only dry out the hair more. However, it is important not to go out in winter with wet hair, as this can actually cause the hair to freeze and snap! If you're in a rush, use a leave-in conditioner before blow-drying.
Try out the Topstyler - If you just can't bear not to sport your trademark curls this Christmas, why not ask Santa for the Topstyler? Far more gentle than curling irons or wands, the Topstyler encases your hair in heated shells, cooling down naturally, leaving you with beautiful curls with less of the damage.
Watch what you put on your hair - Products with high alcohol levels can leave your hair feeling brittle and dry – consider investing in some salon quality products for a touch of luxury this winter.
Have a trim - Trimming the ends of your hair keeps it looking healthy. You may also consider getting a more simple, easy-to-manage cut in winter. The less fuss you need to make over your hair daily, the less split ends and breakages you will end up with. Keep your haircut short and simple, and maintain a healthy, shiny look for longer.
If you want a 'new do' for Christmas, or just want a professional styling for a festive party, why not book in with Peter Marcus? We're a top Manchester salon, who welcome male and female clients. Check out our Christmas news post for information on our extra opening times during December. Feel free to give us a ring on 0161 834 1422 or call into the salon on Peter Street, Manchester. You can also contact us via our website.
Halloween is over which means it's officially time to start getting excited about Christmas!
Christmas is a busy time for everyone – ourselves included. With Christmas parties, New Year celebrations and family dinners galore, December is peak season when it comes to hair. As one of the top hair salons in Manchester, we get a lot of requests during this time and we just hate turning people away. Which is why this year Peter Marcus will be opening on Sundays throughout the month of December! Whether you're looking for a new colour for the new year or just a blow-dry for a bit of extra sparkle at the office Christmas do, we'll be here to help. We'll also be introducing more late nights to accommodate those who find it difficult to make it in during our usual opening hours.
And what is Christmas without gifts? Don't forget, we sell a fantastic range of luxury hair products with something to suit everyone. We'd be happy to answer any questions you have to make sure you walk away with the perfect gift for your special someone – what better way to show your loved ones you care? Pop into the salon or give us a call to talk about our current range.
Everybody deserves to have a glamorous Christmas, so why not treat yourself during this hectic time? If you need some inspiration, take a look at our blog for our favourite looks for winter or book a consultation. And don't forget our special introductory offer – we give first-time customers 25% off if you visit Monday-Thursday with selected stylists.
It's never too early to start planning so get booked in now to ensure a place over the festive period – don't miss out! Give us a ring on 0161 834 1422 or call into the salon on Peter Street, Manchester. You can also contact us via our website.
The Topstyler has become the ultimate must-have hair tool for Autumn and Winter 2013. With hair and beauty fanatics all across the country falling in love with the unique "C-Shell" technology, it's safe to say that the new release from the creators of Instyler has taken the UK by storm. Which is why we're so proud that one of our top stylists, Marcus Shamim, is the official Topstyler UK brand ambassador.
One of the greatest advantages of the Topstyler is its ability to create such a vast variety of styles. Unlike a curling iron, which can only create one size of curl, the Topstyler offers much more flexibility. It's all about how you form the curl, and how you brush the curl out. Rolling the hair around one finger, for instance, creates a tight ringlet. These can these be brushed through with your fingers to create natural looking, bouncy curls. Whereas rolling the hair around two or three fingers, before brushing out using a paddle brush, creates loose waves, for a relaxed, beachy look.
However, the possibilities don't stop there. Why not try and get creative with your Topstyler? Those with short bobbed hair can use the Topstyler to add volume rather than curl. By curling from the root around three fingers to create large pin curls, the Topstyler creates volume and body, whilst still maintaining a straight and choppy style. Alternatively, the EZ Wrap Styling Wand which comes with every Topstyler can be used to create an on-trend retro style. Wrapping the hair around the two prongs in a figure of eight creates a sharp finger wave, which can then be brushed out on longer hair to create a 40's style wave, or moulded using your fingers on short hair to create a traditional 20's style. The Topstyler can even be used in place of a crimping tool, by plaiting the hair before wrapping and securing with the C-Shell.
To book a consultation or appointment with Topstyler's UK brand ambassador, Marcus Shamim, or any of our other talented stylists, get in touch! Visit our salon in Manchester (located on Peter Street) or get in touch by phone on 0161 834 1422 or via our website.


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The integrity dialog, as any conversation, is a form of life, lived through words, that enables anyone who participates to move to a new understanding of themselves and their community.
Integrity is the essence of everything successful. The dialog has many possibilities.
The first possibility: We stop talking to ourselves.
As long as we assume others are like us, have the same background and share the same values, we talk to them as though we were talking to someone like us.
In effect we end up talking to ourselves.
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Meet Roger Wayne Beasley Jr., 30, not the first person to flee from one cop only to run into building full of cops, nor probably the last, but that's okay. It never gets old.
A look and some of the most ridiculous crimes and collars of the very drunk. Party too hardy, and this could be you on July 4 this year.
There are many who dream about their wedding day. These people will be having nighmares about theirs for years.
Air rage, assault, drunk and disorderly, even murder; many of the crimes that happen down here also happen up there.
In their defense, the chicken was jaywalking, and the officer was doing his job.
Awkward, compromising the stuff of nightmares. These are the world's most embarrassing arrests.
Immature, impetuous, illegal — and arrested — these days grandmas and grandpas aren't necessarily what they used to be.
A 70-year-old man in Cochranton, Pennsylvania, came to the attention of police on January 10, 2014, when alarmed passing motorists saw him lying out in a field, presumably with his pants down around his ankles.
When you are collared for driving under the influence, and you need a ride home, it should be obvious that you need a sober person to come and get you. Conversely, when you drive to a police station for any reason at all, you should be sober. With that in mind, this case shows how "the obvious" often slips by people when they are drunk.
Meet Kenneth Spangle, 62, sentenced to 262 months in prison for a 2012 bank robbery in Placentia, California. With a stocking over his head, he yelled, waved a fake gun and got about $10,000. He ditched his clothes near the bank, but left his ID with them. When arrested, in disgust he reportedly asked the officer to shoot him.


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A Lynnfield native reported missing after taking part in a Christian mission trip to Nicaragua was found dead Monday evening.
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Friends said she went for a walk with just a camera, a notebook and a Bible, and wasn't seen again.
Her parents, who still live in Lynnfield, said they received word Monday evening that her body was found and two people have been arrested in connection to her death.
Colclough moved to Wyoming after attending graduate school there.
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This edition of Library Look brings us LaGrange Park Public Library bookshop volunteer Shirley Long.
Q. How long have you been with the library?
A. I have been volunteering at the library for around six years. It all started when one day I was visiting friends who were working in the bookshop. Since I was just standing around, I started to help shelve books and do other things to help out. Before I knew what had happened, I was a volunteer, too!
Q. What is your favorite part of working at the library?
A. I enjoy meeting the customers. I have gotten to know some of them and their tastes in reading. Often, I see those same people in stores and around town. It gives me a sense of community, even though I've not lived here very long.
The biggest bonus I've gotten from volunteering has been a wonderful cadre of new friends, the other volunteers. I've gone to many lunches, plays and other activities with my new good friends outside of our library gigs.
Q. What is something library patrons may not know about you?
A. I took library science classes in college and worked as a special librarian for many years before switching to a health care career. I guess that is why I'm such a stickler for alphabetical order and neat shelves in the Bookshop.
Q. What do you think is an underused feature of the library?
A. I really enjoy audio books in any format. I may be retired, but I am always doing things with my hands and thus don't have as much time to sit and read as I would like. The library has a great selection of CDs and MP3s both in fiction and nonfiction. Listening to a book, while doing a chore, makes light work of any task. I don't see many other patrons in the audio section when I am picking out a book. I would hope I can convince some readers to become listeners as well.
Q. What is your favorite book and why?
A. I have always been interested in Abraham Lincoln since I was a child growing up in one of the towns where the Lincoln-Douglas debates took place. Thus, the book that has really fascinated me in recent years is Doris Kearns Goodwin's "Team of Rivals." This was the book on which the movie "Lincoln" was based. The movie was spellbinding, but there was so much more information in the book, including things about my hometown. The book has quite a hefty tone and I would still be reading it if I hadn't listened to it on CDs.
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Extract: The Communications sector will face a number of legal and regulatory challenges throughout 2013. Several members of the international team at Bird & Bird have identified the key issues of particular significance to the Communications sector in their respective jurisdictions, which are summarised below.
The 4G spectrum auctions dominate across the featured countries while developments relating to cookie regulation and net neutrality feature throughout. These issues require careful consideration in doing business and developing new propositions.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has issued a draft Proposal for Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) Business Trail for public comment on 8 January 2013. The Proposal relates to the "Implementation Opinions on Encouraging and Guiding Private Capitals to Further Invest in the Telecommunications Industry" (Opinions) issued by MIIT in June 2012. The Proposal opens the door for domestic non-state-owned companies. MIIT is soliciting public opinions until 6 February 2013.
Based on the provisions listed in the PRC Telecommunications Regulation and the Measures on the Administration of Telecommunications Business Operation and applicable to VATS, the draft Proposal sets forth the detailed requirements and requested documents for government approval. However, neither the draft Proposal nor other PRC regulations provides a definition of "domestic non-state-owned company". Thus, the draft Proposal does not introduce any changes to market entry thresholds for foreign investors. The trial period is initially set for 2 years, and the intended domestic non-state-owned companies can submit applications for the mobile telecommunication resale business within the first year after the trial begins. For a more in-depth summary of this development please click here.
A revised Telecommunications Act will be passed in 2013, updating the current legislation, dating from 2003. This will resolve certain issues that have negatively affected the competitiveness of telecom operators, penalizing the deployment of new networks, investment and service provision. Deep structural reform will be carried out, since the modification of the current regulations will result in greater ease of network deployment by operators and facilitate the spread of broadband, fostering a faster internet service. This will boost the digital economy and create new business models and economic growth. Moreover, users will see improvements in coverage, increased internet speed and cost reductions. User protection will be also improved.
A Digital Agenda for Spain will be adopted in the first half of the year. This policy document will focus on the following key points: removing barriers to deployment and investment in ultrafast networks; transforming the manufacturing sector through a more intensive and efficient use of digital technologies; putting the citizen at the centre of public administration through digital channels; ensuring privacy, trust and security in the digital realm; promoting R+D+I (Research, Development and Innovation) as an element linked to the development of talent and future opportunities in new sectors; promoting training for digital inclusion and the formation of new ICT profiles.
Setting up a single authority merging regulators from different economic sectors. A new regulatory agency merging the national competition authority and the sector-specific bodies governing telecoms, energy, postal services, broadcasting, rail transport and the airport sector will be operational before summer. This initiative forms part of the legislative package envisaged/adopted by the government in order to overcome the serious economic crisis Spain is going through. According to the Spanish authorities, the measure will be beneficial in terms of cost saving (approximately €30 million), legal certainty and efficiency by public administrations. The issue is controversial both a national and EU level (Brussels has recently called into question the compatibility of this initiative with the relevant Community directives, specially in the telecoms and energy sectors).
Review of the MVNOs market. According to the 2013 Action Plan of the Telecoms Regulator (CMT), the review process related to the MVNO market will conclude in the near future. CMT is currently working on a draft proposed measure that was subject to public consultation in 2012 and envisaged the elimination of the specific regulatory obligations imposed on the operators with SMP in the provision of the relevant wholesale services. In its draft proposal, the regulator considered that the wholesale access obligation contained in the new rules on spectrum (RD 458/2011), together with the positive evolution of the mobile market during the past six years, would ensure that MVNOs may continue offering their services. Moreover, if operators fail to reach mutually satisfactory agreements, CMT would continue to be responsible for resolving conflicts, as has been the case already.
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Here is my brown leather sofa....with a mix of upholstered chairs. The leather works for us with kids & 3 dogs. Coffee table out of old reclaimed wood & iron is in the works for the leather ottoman to slide under (our old sofa wasn't as dark but we love putting our feet up on the ottoman) Smiles:) |
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Texashottie, that certainly is a compliment coming from YOU!! Boopadoo, I am loving those beams in your room & the painting over your FP. Loribee - I love seeing pics of your home.....so peaceful & relaxing. Those leather chairs are awesome. Ttodd - I love seeing your house, too - you have such a way of putting items together & I love how you change things around!! (you wear me out, girl!!) Smiles:) |
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Here's mine.
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Thanks to ALL of you for posting. That's just what I wanted to see -- each of you has different colored walls with brown furniture, and they all work and look wonderful. Now I need to decide on my own color. Thanks again. |
Hey gracie -- my sofa in situ, as promised. Sorry, no way to get a good angle on it... My walls are Lenox tan. |
Thanks mcclarke; beautiful room. |
- Posted by scoobyruby (My Page) on Mon, Jul 6, 09 at 14:18
Why, Parma (in a perfect drawn out Southern' drawl) just what are you trying to say, my dear??!! Little ole' me?? Obsessive? Compulsive?? Let's just say it's a good thing my paint is flat & spackle is my new BFF ;) What a wonderful sofa, Mclarke! Smiles:) |
Mclarke - love your fireplace and bookshelves. Any chance you can post more photos of that room? I don't mean to hijack, perhaps on a new thread? Thank you! |
Oh, thanks, Joanie! I don't want to hijack the thread... but here's a photo of the fireplace at Halloween, which shows the fireplace and the bookshelves... |
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Eudora Welty Print SeriesAward-winning artist/illustrator Barry Moser is contributing to MDAH a series of five limited-edition, original relief engravings printed from the block. The series will depict Mississippi writer Eudora Welty at different times of her life. The sales of the prints will support the opening and operation of the Eudora Welty House in Jackson as a literary house museum. Moser's first print is available for purchase and is on display at the Old Capitol Shop, Old Capitol Museum, Jackson. The other prints will be offered in subsequent years. Each 4" x 7" print is in a limited edition of 100 and is signed and numbered by the artist. Twenty-five additional prints will be retained by the artist. To order this print, send a check made payable to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History for $250 plus $10 shipping and handling, to Eudora Welty Print, P. O. Box 571, Jackson, MS 39205-0571 or call 601/ 576- 6857. Eudora Welty gave her house to the Department of Archives and History, which is currently cataloging the contents of the Welty House, planning repairs, the installation of a central climate control system, and the development of a visitor center adjacent to the house. The house museum is scheduled to open to the public in summer 2005. Barry Moser's body of work includes almost 200 volumes that he has illustrated or designed, including Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, which won the National Book Award for Design and Illustration in 1983. In 1991 he won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for his collaboration with Cynthia Rylant on Appalachia, the Voices of Sleeping Birds. Moser's Pennyroyal Caxton Bible has been exhibited at the National Gallery of Art, the Israel Museum, and other galleries. | |||||||
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In a recent escalation of sectarian violence between the tech-giant love triangle (Microsoft, Google, and Apple), Microsoft has accused Google Chrome of "collecting every keystroke you make" while Internet Explorer 8 "keeps your information private through two address bars and In Private browsing."
The accusation – made in a post on Microsoft's TechNet Edge which now seems to have been unpublished – was accompanied with a video featuring a product manager at Microsoft showing exactly what happens with Chrome (and IE):
NOTE: This video was originally available only to users who have Silverlight installed. However, I have downloaded the video and uploaded it onto YouTube – unaltered – so everyone can view it, regardless of if you have Silverlight installed or not.
Emil Protalinski, of Ars Technica, explored in detail the validity of Microsoft's accusation and came up with this explanation:
Even though he [LePage] didn't really elaborate, the reason for the striking difference for IE8's and Chrome's behaviors is really that simple: IE8 has two boxes [address bar and search bar] and Chrome has one [address bar and search bar combined into one].
The same behavior [as Chrome's] occurs in IE8, but only in the search bar. LePage is only correct in his assertion that IE8 does not send information to anyone when the user types into the address bar.
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LePage makes an important mistake in his accusation against Google: his statement should not be "Chrome sends a request back to Google" but it should be "Chrome sends a request back to the search provider." He makes this distinction with IE8 but does not with Chrome. The information is being sent so that the search provider can help the user choose a query right in their browser.
We downloaded Fiddler to make some comparisons of our own. As we suspected, Chrome can be set to send information on every keystroke to Bing (or any other search engine that supports Search Suggestions) instead of Google.
So, to sum up, Microsoft is right to an extent; they have a valid point, but their argument has large holes in it. What is your opinion on the matter? Feel free to share in the comments below.
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Chromium is the open-source, NON-Google version of Chrome that doesn't leak. Unlike Iron (and another privately-maintained Chinese version — yikes!) it is based upon the same current development code used by Google (minus the leaks) and IS open-sourced so you can see what it is doing, if you care. Other than not being open-sourced, the biggest problem with Iron is that it is not current code AND it doesn't play well with extensions meant for Google Chrome.
Here's the SoftPedia link for Chromium 5 portable.
@Samuel: That's not really true though, tinyurl has been around a LOOOONG time, way before Twitter was ever heard of, but it did "bring them mainstream" so to speak.
Anyhow, this all has gotten way off topic, lol, but on the URL shortening, well there is nothing inherently wrong with them, and yes services like tinyurl are well established and trusted, the issue here is more simply that in a forum setting where the source of such links are of dubious question, clicking on them is a dangerous prospect since the obfuscate the real link, and it could be that the poster has malicious intentions and is sending you off to malware or some sponsored link.
Granted that it could be a "bad site just as easily as a bad site". tinyurl.com offers a free shortener; and has not yet got a bad reputation.
The ostensible reason for using them is that hefty URLs. such as academics often use, sometimes get "broken" in emails. &c.
I've tried another service called ohUrl, which is supposed to have a hit-meter, but it seems to be subject to the SNAFU syndrome.
Of course any such service will last only so long as its sponsor. That's true even of backup services, which is why Iuse both Carbonite and Dropbox
Perhaps Ashraf will do a survey of the available systems.xØx
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@Alex: You got that off word by word from 4free… -_-
…and you stole what I said… grrr….
Suspiscous… LoL.
Can you elaborate further on the use of tinyurl.com and similar devices? I use these extensively in coordinating work on a large translation project, for easy access to my public Dropbox pages; and find that other scholarly sources encourage their use. What are the negatives, if any? -
It seems this article has definitely brought out the Google conspiracy theorists, but I'm left with the impression that those commenting don't really fully grasp Emil Protalinski's explanation of the behavior Microsoft "found" in Chrome… In essence he is saying the same exact thing happens in IE, in the search box–the behavior is related to the "search suggestions" feature, and as Chrome has a integrated address/search bar, it happens anytime you use the bar if you have suggestions on. What he further explains is that the communicating happens with whatever is the default search engine–Chrome on first run ASKS YOU explicitly to choose who you want the default search provider to be. Meaning, you could choose Bing, and the suggestion requests would go to Microsoft instead. This is fairly typical behavior for anything that uses a suggestions as you type type feature. What's more, if it really bothers you you can go into the Chrome options and on the "under the hood" tab, you can easily on-tick the use suggestions option, and that should nip this in the bud, it's not hard.
The only surprise is that is anyone would be surprised! I do not use google products for this reason and will not in the future. Like redmaledeer, I use Scroogle Scraper for web searches.
Google now bundle a little spy file called 'google.updater.exe' when you download their products without informing you. It is ostensibly to help you keep up to date with versions …really…really ???
It is secreted in such a way that you are unaware it is active and almost impossible to get rid of when you discover its behaviour.
The recent fall-out google had with the Chinese government was only because the Chinese Government would not allow Google a monopoly as the prime search engine in China. They previously had several happy years of partnership in the spying game on the Chinese population; in particular Chinese dissidents.
Spying has become second nature to google and I dont think they can help themselves anymore. Google have no conception of privacy or the publics concerns over the privacy issue, as their CEO Eric Schmidt declared: (Schmidt) "suggests you alter your scandalous behavior before you complain about his company invading your privacy"
So now we know, to value our privacy is, according to Google, tantamount to being a filthy degenerate. -
If you are concerned about privacy on Chrome, you might check out the Iron browser. I am no definitive authority on this, but it is a variant Chrome which claims to eliminate the "phoning home" features of Chrome. There is also a program, whose name I forget, which claims to do about the same when applied to Chrome.
If you are concerned about Google, you might check out Scroogle. It is a special-purpose proxy which stands between you and Google and shields you from the Big G.
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Hi friends!
Warren has shared the news with us
Note that the annual ZoneAlarm 24 hrs promotion is not always about a completely free giveaway. We have no idea what this promotion will be about so all we can do is to wait until Tuesday.
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There are no polemics involved here! Google has been doing this since the days of their toolbar inception.
However, they did learn this trick from MSFT, they simply did it so much better. I have not used any Google or MSFT toolbars, or Live, or desktop search, or BHO's for about 7 years.
I saw something I did not like back then, and like these apps even less now.
There is an insidious element to this type of indexing. And, for the same reason I do not have a Facebook nor a MySpace account. And, will never have.
LOL, pot calling the kettle black, what about MS's index.dat files in every Win machine. I run a bit of security software in my boxes. This one has Avira AntiVir, Peer Block, Ad-Aware, Spybot-S&D, CCleaner, Glary Utilities, Malwarebytes, Firewall and A-Squared.
Almost always use FF. with NoScript, Better Privacy, Flagfox and Ghostry add-ons. On top of that I'm behind a hardware firewall, funny, not much malware gets through.
The best part is the programs are all free and legal.
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Great find but…. what about FIREFOX?
Look, I think that GOOGLE has become the BIG BROTHER of the web: they read our email on GMAIL, they know our daily online habits and what we search while surfing!!
So I'm honestly not surprised at all about this discovery made by Microsoft.
Do you know how many data GOOGLE knows about us?Look at here:
The version that lawmakers (especially in US) is foisting upon naive people surfing the web is that Governments and big Corporations should have control over your private information, but only the "right" people (Google boys, right??LOL!!) will be allowed to access it.
In my humble view both privacy and anonymity are a strong safeguard against totalitarianism, tyranny, oppression, and corruption and must be protected as essential rights at all costs.
Those who wish to strip the "protections" of a free society such as people's privacy should be viewed with the greatest suspicion, as you can't protect the freedom of speech by destroying the basis of a free society (free competition, people's privacy, free market etc…) for profit's sake.And it's also rumored that there is a close (and in my huble view worrying) liaison between GOOGLE and the CIA: did you know that, Ashraf?
It appears that GOOGLE was originally launched using the CIA money for a set of activities that have nothing to do with the open source…LOL!
But to make things worse in most cases people are completely unaware of this kind of threat while surfing the net!!!
Are we really FREE on the WEB??
I begin to have some doubts about it…LOL!!
What about you??
Good night from Italy!
@Ashraf: Srry, I didn't know I should post them on forums. Real sorry.
Oh, and ugh is shortening URLs bad? Probably because they won't hyperlink right? I understand.
Thanks you for telling me that, I'll be more careful next time. ;)
I never knew the two bars were combined in Chrome(as I've only used it once or twice in the past). I learn something new everyday…
ZoneAlarm is having a 24hrs giveaway on their product: http://tinyurl.com/ys8fsj
[[ Got the info from "you know who", but it's your choice if you want to post it or not… no wait, you can delete the sentences inside this bracket and you could just say "Joji got a newsletter from ZoneAlarm that they will be doing a 24hrs giveaway". I am so smart… I think? LoL. ]]Hope that helps. :) Posting same thing on AskVG, my other trusty techie site! :D
Don't care,really.I use Firefox.Occasionally Chrome(unchromed),and wouldn't use IE if M$ sent me a check every month.
First guy to comment… again.
I wonder how long this friendly fight between those 3 will last… kinda sad how Microsoft left such big holes behind. That was very careless of them. Though, with Keyscrambler on, I'm safe on the internet and Chrome won't log my keys in! XD


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Starring in the one-minute clip are classists like the E30 BMW M3, Ford Mustang Mach 1 and Chevrolet Camaro Z28 RS – all powering down a stunningly rendered patch of the California coast. There's also a segment of street racing through Paris, involving a heated exchanged with the McLaren MP4-12C and a Mercedes-Benz SL65 AMG, among others.
Click here to check out the exotic car-laden trailer, and see for yourself. Apparently pre-orders can already be accepted by your friendly local games merchant, and your choice in that regard will effect what sort of DLC you get to start off with. (Read thru our post on just that topic, here.)
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