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There was a time when it did not make much sense to tax income from agriculture. That was before India's economic reforms.
Why not?
There was a time when it did not make much sense to tax income from agriculture. That was before India's economic reforms.
India followed, along with a number of other developing countries, a policy of squeezing agriculture to transfer the sector's surplus to industry for capital formation.
This involved repressing farm prices even as industrial prices were kept high through protection. The non-farm sector bought farm produce cheap while farmers had to buy all the industrial output they bought — fertilisers, pesticide, tractors, medicines, plastic mugs, etc — at inflated prices.
Such taxation through adverse terms of trade was sufficient for agriculture in those pre-reform days. Things are different now.
Industrial tariffs have been slashed even as the prices of a variety of Indian agricultural produce have been allowed to rise to global levels and more. The terms of trade have vastly improved for agriculture.
There is little justification for according income from farming a treatment any different from that of non-farm incomes. The vast majority of farmers would fall below the tax threshold.
But there is little reason why those who supply tonnes of grain or tomatoes to the food processing industry or lettuce to restaurant chains or grapes to wineries or cane to a booming sugar industry should not pay tax on their sizeable incomes.
The issue is not just horizontal or vertical equity among taxpayers. Exemption of farm incomes from taxation becomes a conduit for largescale evasion of tax on non-farm income.
People pass off large chunks of their income as farm income and escape tax on a sizeable proportion of their income.
Removing the exemption of farm income from taxation would end this form of evasion. Of course, this would entail cooperation between the Centre and the states, with the states empowering the Centre to collect tax on farm incomes, a state subject as per the Constitution.
Such federal cooperation is not a pipe dream: it resulted in the states agreeing not to levy sales tax on textiles, sugar and tobacco in the past. All we need is a little bit of political resolve.


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We loved the HD 5870 in single form and we love it even more now. CrossFire manages to scale extremely well and if this is an idea of what we can be expecting from the HD 5870 X2, then NVIDIA had better be worried! Once companies like Sapphire start attacking the model with new cooling and overclocks, it's only going to get better for the model.
We really made the HD 5870 CrossFire setup work as well. Since we compared it to the most recent GTX 295 we had on hand, the massively pre-overclocked offering from Galaxy, it was going to be an uphill battle for the stock clocked HD 5870s. But they rarely struggled with some good numbers being seen across the board.
Really, the only time we saw the HD 5870 CrossFire setup fall behind the GTX 295 was at the lower resolutions. At 2560 x 1600 the HD 5870 CF setup managed to win almost every contest. To be completely honest, this is the kind of resolution you would be running when it comes to spending this much money on a setup like this, so it's really the most important resolution to look at when we're testing cards like this.
Really, all we want now is a third HD 5870 so we can see what happens when CrossFire X is added into the mix. The other thing we want to start seeing is pre-overclocked offerings which are no doubt going to carry with it even more improvements.
At launch it looks like the HD 5870 CF setup is going to cost $250 - $300 US more than a GTX 295. The first thing you're going to be getting is more performance, which for the most part is the most important. The other main feature you're going to be getting over the GTX 295 is Direct X 11 support and while it might not be ready to use yet, there's no doubt that towards the end of this year and the start of next we will see the technology being implemented.
With the price of the setup at the moment, we would probably wait a few weeks for price to settle down as we've been told that quantity is quite limited at the moment and could be the main reason for the slightly higher price tag, but we don't doubt that with the Catalyst driver team on the job the model is going to become even more and more powerful over the coming months.


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War and Peace Volume 3, Part 1, Chapter 16 Summary
- Meanwhile, Natasha is so sick that even Countess Rostov comes to Moscow, and they all rent a house to wait for Natasha to get better.
- There are lots and lots of doctors. Each one prescribes some different medication.
- Shmoop aside: obviously, this is in the days before medicine became the evidence-based science that it is today. Back then "medicine" could be just about anything – often things we now consider harmful, like opium or cocaine.
- The doctors seem to have an effect, mostly because Natasha feels taken care of. Since her problem is basically mental, she just needs some time and love to feel better.
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A free music series is receiving enthusiastic praise from all corners in its first summer of existence.
On Thursday, Aug. 16, a world music band, the Polyrhythmics, will play the eighth Live at Lakeview concert at Lakeview Commons in South Lake Tahoe.
"It's been going great, the turnout has been phenomenal, just the vibe," founder and promoter Rob Giustina said. "There's just good energy from all the locals, saying that this is one of the coolest things South Shore has ever had."
After an opening party June 20, the first official Live at Lakeview kicked off June 28th with North Tahoe's Dead Winter Carpenters. The band is a regular act at another free summer music series, the long-running Concerts Commons Beach shows on Sunday in Tahoe City.
"I didn't have any idea what to expect," DWC guitarist Jesse Dunn said of Live at Lakeview. "I think we were all thrilled with the event, really immaculate venue. You could really sense the enthusiasm of the community there, for the event and also for the area."
Other performers have included Fruition, Keyser Soze, Huckley, and the Congress, playing music varying from bluegrass, reggae and surf rock to blues.
Last week, the Bay Area's Forrest Day brought its edgy blend of hip-hop, jazz, rock and beyond to an easy-going crowd of hundreds at Lakeview Commons. Vendors sold a variety of apparel and crafts, an enclosed beer garden with a great stage view served beer and wine, and the bike valet area was bustling with concertgoers storing and retrieving bicycles.
"The bike valet has been overflowing," Giustina said. "To me it's one of the best things. The bike valet is run by a different nonprofit every week, so they collect donations. They've been making good money."
Guests are encouraged to bike or walk to concerts if possible. With crowds occasionally exceeding a thousand, the event has significantly impacted parking in the Lakeview area. This is one of a few issues concert staff and the city seek to address.
"It's the smoking, cigarettes and marijuana," Giustina said. "Parking is an issue. Now there's construction so there's even less space."
"We're trying not to be too much of a security force there," he added. "We're putting up signs, but it's a public park you know, we want everyone to be able to police it."
Interim City Manager Nancy Kerry was enthusiastic about the concerts and the community response.
"This is the most extraordinary, positive, wonderful outcome we could've expected, beyond our wildest expectations," she said. "Live at Lakeview is doing a wonderful job of bringing people to Lakeview Commons. We had no idea that thousands of people would be coming out."
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Giustina is hopeful that Live at Lakeview will continue in 2013. He said he's happy with both the audience turnout and the response of vendors and sponsors.
"I started out slow with sponsorships, and I'm super happy with everyone that came out and supported it," he said. "Now it seems like everyone wants to be involved."
Concert staff are focused on reducing the event's impact on Lakeview commons and the surrounding area.
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View the original article at: http://www.countryweekly.com/news/ashton-kutcher-breaks-out-cowboy-hat-again-kennys-show
Looks like Ashton Kutcher really might like country music after all.
You might recall the Hollywood hunk kicked up a little dust by wearing a big cowboy hat and western wear when he presented an award at the Academy of Country Music Awards [1]. That led Miranda Lambert to ask on Twitter whether Ashton was making fun of country music—and Ashton responded that he is one of country's biggest fans.
As if to prove the point, Ashton showed up—again, wearing a huge cowboy hat [2]—on Saturday (July 14) for the Kenny Chesney/Tim McGraw concert in Anaheim, Calif.
And again, Ashton got in a little dust-up, this time with a photographer outside Angel Stadium. Ashton ended up hurling the contents of his cup at the photographer, and another shooter got a picture of it.
Sigh. Maybe Ashton should stop wearing cowboy hats.
[1] http://www.countryweekly.com/news/miranda-was-ashton-making-fun-country-music
[2] http://www.eonline.com/news/330773/ashton-kutcher-splashes-er-lashes-out-at-paparazzo-throws-water-at-cameraman
[3] http://www.countryweekly.com/news/pop-star-demi-lovato-covers-american-honey
[4] http://www.countryweekly.com/news/jason-aldeans-flying-high-recent-chart-topper


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Tim Blair
–, Sunday, December, 23, 2012, (6:30pm)
Jane Caro – Australia's third-most influential female voice – discusses the Sandy Hook massacre with her daughter, who is a teacher:
Last Saturday, my 24-year-old daughter rang me and told me the story of 27-year-old Victoria Soto. She was the teacher who shielded her class of five- and six-year-olds by hiding them in a cupboard during the appalling massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. She lied to the gunman, telling him her class was in the gym, knowing full well that he would then shoot her. Which he did.
I cried as my daughter told me the story and when she had finished telling me all about the wonderful Ms Soto, I said this to her; "You are never to do anything like that."
Don't save the children. Inspirational, Jane. As to what her daughter should do in such circumstances, Caro doesn't say. Make a run for it, presumably.
I doubt there is a teacher in America who wants to carry a gun at school.
Wrong, Jane. Our correspondent clearly graduated from the Jonathan Green Academy of American Ignorance, one of few educational facilities in this country without the internet.
I am tremendously proud that my daughter is a teacher. She is brilliant at it and loves her work. If we lived in the US, I would do everything I could to stop her being one.
So might school administrators, if her daughter is inclined to follow Caro's child-safety advice.
Have Your Say
I said this to her; "You are never to do anything like that."
Wouldn't you love to live in the kind of world that would exist if Jane Caro was in charge?
It's a credit to her daughter's spirit that she turned out seemingly normal and compassionate. Bravo.
Sun 23 Dec 12 (07:59pm)
Mon 24 Dec 12 (08:01pm)
What I don't understand is how a hack freelance ad writer ends up on talk shows pretending she knows anything about anything. Apparently continually proving she knows nothing has propelled her to national acclaim in the eyes of the sisterhood.
Remind me again why we send our kids to school?
Sun 23 Dec 12 (08:12pm)
Mon 24 Dec 12 (08:33pm)
Occasionally they're lucky enough to have teachers like the above Victoria Soto.
And, as in the Virginia Tech massacre, Liviu Librescu, a Romanian-Israeli-American scientist and professor. A prominent academic & Holocaust survivor, he held off the Virginia tech gunman, giving all but one of his students enough time to escape through the windows. He was shot but most of his students lived.
Excuse my ignorance but I have not heard of her.
She sounds like a very selfish person, and not the type of woman I would listen to anyway. Does she have connections to the Emily listers?
Sun 23 Dec 12 (08:33pm)
Mon 24 Dec 12 (07:51am)
That makes sense, DD. Well spotted.
A policy of 'If you miss 'em in the womb, let nutters get 'em at school' sounds very like the Emily's Listerines in the Lab front bench.
Mon 24 Dec 12 (08:38am)
Caro is a loudmouth feminist whose favourite topic is herself.
I haven't really narrowed this down much, have I?
Mon 24 Dec 12 (11:21am)
Mate they all do. That 20 doesn't represent women but a collective of wymmyn.
Mon 24 Dec 12 (12:09pm)
Pops up on 7 and the ABC from time to time. Thinks JG is a genius. Very painful, hurts the brain.
But this would be the Caro we hear every week on their ABC?
Sun 23 Dec 12 (08:50pm)
Sun 23 Dec 12 (09:51pm)
God forbid anyone who dares to present an alternative view to yours Blair !
You call yourself a conservative. I see nothing conservative in your rabid defence of gun culture. Certainly not in an Australian context where gun ownership of the likes the US has to contend with has never been mainstream. Indeed, for an australian commentator your views are extremely radical.
Anyway....given your thorough knowledge of the Internet I'm surprised you haven't seen what the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association have to say about guns in schools.
Sun 23 Dec 12 (10:00pm)
Mon 24 Dec 12 (12:58am)
What about Bill Clinton's views in 2000
'WASHINGTON — Marking the first anniversary of the shooting deaths at Columbine High School, President Clinton announced $120 million in new federal grants Saturday to place more police officers in schools and help even the youngest kids cope with their problems"
Clinton also unveiled the $60-million fifth round of funding for "COPS in School," a Justice Department program that helps pay the costs of placing police officers in schools to help make them safer for students and teachers. The money will be used to provide 452 officers in schools in more than 220 communities.
"Already, it has placed 2,200 officers in more than 1,000 communities across our nation, where they are heightening school safety as well as coaching sports and acting as mentors and mediators for kids in need," Clinton said.'
Clinton also unveiled the $60-million fifth round of funding for "COPS in School," a Justice Department program that helps pay the costs of placing police officers in schools to help make them safer for students and teachers. The money will be used to provide 452 officers in schools in more than 220 communities.
The man's obviously a radical extremist loon.
Mon 24 Dec 12 (01:28am)
AFT and NEA are teachers' unions. they are "progressives" (formerly "liberals" until their actions trashed that reputation), mostly Democrats, opposed to guns and our 2nd Amendment.
Not a good/valid reference, Tony.
Mon 24 Dec 12 (01:43am)
Being Australian, perhaps you're not aware that those organizations largely have been taken over by "progressives" (i.e., leftists), and they no longer represent the opinion of the majority of Americans.
We are not the gun-happy cowboys your type likes to imagine, Tony.
Mon 24 Dec 12 (02:02am)
Oh wait, well if the UNIONS are against it then there ya go. Because lord knows the union leaders always take a vote of the membership before spouting their 'official' position...Not.
The fact that they are leftists by trade and emotional age level shouldn't be taken into account at all of course.
Now an example of unions who did take the responsible approach are the US airline pilots unions who pressured the govt into allowing armed cockpits. That was 10 years ago and nobody who didn't belong there has gotten into a US airline cockpit since. Partially because the passengers have decided they aren't going to acquiesce to being figuratively marched off to the showers anymore, but more so because the hijacker has no idea if that cockpit is one of the armed ones or not.
Terrorists, like the sick schools killers, do it to "make a statement" which gains them attention and noteriety for their cause and/or for themselves. The more horrific and unthinkable the better to garner that 24 hours plus of exclusive press coverage they crave. However, they get no credit for attempts, only completions. Which drives them to environments where that completion isn't likely to be interfered with.
A dead nut with a rifle, 2 pistols, and 20 pounds of homemade explosive lying in a pool of his/her own blood outside the front door of a school where they were stopped and killed by armed citizens won't make the news for more than a brief mention on one cycle. Which is why they aren't likely to try it where people are, or may be, armed.
Putting up a ridiculous sign like 'This Is A Gun Free Zone' is like waving a red flag in front of a bull. "Please come shoot us, we'll die panicked and bloody in order to promote your quest for infamy."
Mon 24 Dec 12 (02:37am)
yes yes, by all means the leftoid run unions federations are totally representative to what real world teachers (most forced to join the unions, by force not by choice, so they can work) feel themselves.
Mon 24 Dec 12 (06:37am)
"God forbid..." Obviously, He didn't because here you are. Come on in. Sit down. Put your feet up. And feel free to advocate for cowardice and abandoning children in their moment of terror and oncoming death to your heart's content.
I know the position of the NEA and AFT on guns in schools: They're a'gin 'em. Which is of exactly no utility when an evil, sick man ignores their wishes and brings a gun into a school and murders people with it. Their 'position' on what to do in that event appears to be: die.
Mon 24 Dec 12 (08:26am)
Gun ownership in Australia has never been maintstream?
What rock have you been living under?
A small example: Around 750,000 SKS and SKK "assault rifles" were imported into Australia, only around 100,000 were captured by the "Buy Back". In short around 1 in 10 adult Australians owned an "assault rifle".
As for Tim's views being "extremely radical", in my circle of friends and associates, Tim's views are considered absolutely commonsense/obvious.
Only the idiots in the inner city "don't get it", claiming that the buyback has been a success while the criminals and gangs have been arming themselves and killing people (120 ytd) at a prodigious rate.
If I was a parent in the US, I would be absolutely OUTRAGED that the school rules are running roughshod over the CCW laws of pretty much the rest of the country.
Mon 24 Dec 12 (01:54pm)
for an australian commentator your views are extremely radical.
God forbid anyone who dares to present an alternative view! Quick! Someone get the fainting couch!
Once you've had a lie down then you can respond to the idea with a better argument than declaring you haven't heard other commentators address it or you declare it to be radical or that you think it is 'un-conservative.'
So, the AFT says "Guns have no place in our schools. Period." Will they demand the police disarm before coming onto school grounds or will they expect the police to be armed to potentially use force to protect them?
If the latter then that would mean they recognize that the quality of the person holding the gun makes all the difference. It isn't a badge that creates that distinction.
Australia's third-most influential female voice
I note that all the listed influential female voices in the link are merely commentators, none doing a real job of producing wealth for the country and its people - except for verbal fodder.
Why does Gail Kelly of Westpac Bank not feature as a female with influence, or Heather Ridout??
I notice that the TV presenters claim to be subject to sexism too - and wonder if looks have anything to do with them getting the job.
Australia's third-most influential female voice
Sun 23 Dec 12 (10:39pm)
We're alive for only a short time. In such circumstances, if my death would directly save the lives of 20 students, I would gladly make that choice. * And I suspect that 95 percent of adults would make the same decision.
*note that this statement does not apply to cultural studies students or anyone at Harvard. However, I will write a letter to the Age or New York Times on their behalf expressing my outrage in the strongest terms
Sun 23 Dec 12 (10:46pm)
Mon 24 Dec 12 (08:28am)
I would gladly make that choice to, but I would more gladly SHOOT the murderous bastard and move on.
What can you expect from a representative of the most selfish generation in world history? And a feminist to boot! Lets just curl up in a corner and die in a pool of our own solipsism, shall we? The decline of the West has only taken three generations...scary, but perhaps there's some encouragement in that fact - it might only take three generations to rebuild.
Sun 23 Dec 12 (11:02pm)
Mon 24 Dec 12 (12:50am)
There are plenty of good and rational people left. They're underrepresented in academia right now, but that's just a fad, the pendulum will swing back from postmodernism and the sheep will follow it.
The Left is so incompentent and philosophically unsophisticated that they're not a threat to anything any more, unlike the age of Mao and Brezhnev. It's become a self defeating idiocy that will collapse on itself. Just look at the Gillard government.
Mon 24 Dec 12 (09:21am)
"Just look at the Gillard government."
In just 5 years of 'government', Rudd and Gillard have done damage to our nation on every level that counts, with no worthwhile achievements at all to balance that. The financial damage alone will take at least a generation to fix, and that's just to get back to where we were, and that assumes that everything goes well economically in that time (an impossible assumption).
And, sooner or later, people with the same sort of 'thinking' will be back in power - probably before the damage caused by this lot has had time to be fixed. If I were you, I'd be taking the threat of the Gillard government and those like them a little more seriously.
"Cato" corrected to "Caro" - thanks to many readers.
Sun 23 Dec 12 (11:07pm)
Where did this ratbag pop up from? she's more ubiquitous than toenail fungus, and about as well informed, and she's sodding everywhere.
And just what exactly qualifies someone as a "social commentator"?
From what I've seen, complete absence of a single original thought.
Sun 23 Dec 12 (11:47pm)
Mon 24 Dec 12 (08:28am)
If I turn anything on and this woman is on there that is the last time I ever turn it on.
This rampant nutjob is so full of her own self importance and ALP bias that she is totally unwatchable and unlistenable.
Mon 24 Dec 12 (12:29pm)
Channel 7 had a short political banter session on weekend mornings hosted by super leftie Andrew O'Keefe. Prue MacSween was often a guest that didn't tolerate their global warming, politically correct Julia worshipping nonsense. Out of the blue Prue is tossed and the nodding head of Caro turns up. 7 is a waste of space, a bit like ABC, SBS, 9 and 10.
I find it ridiculous that some guns are referred to as 'assault weapons' and others not. All guns can be assault weapons, even a stick can. Gun control advocates would be taken more seriously if they used more precise language.
Sun 23 Dec 12 (11:57pm)
#$%^&&()()#$@@#$%$%^+)(*&^^$#@ you, Jane Caro.
Mon 24 Dec 12 (12:14am)
Mon 24 Dec 12 (07:45am)
Don't hold back! Tell us what you really think of this woman!
Thanks for the correction, Tim. I got needlessly excited, thinking we were in for some Sellers genius.
Mon 24 Dec 12 (12:35am)
I think it's hard for people not raised in the United States to understand how difficult it is to live up to the ideal of American citizenship. We have these God-given freedoms of speech, worship, assembly, and yes, firearm ownership, that are not granted by the government, but are expressly forbidden for the government to legislate, except for certain stated limits (libel, slander, etc.).
But with these rights come responsibilities, and what the US is suffering right now is an abdication of personal responsibility in favor of having the State take care of everything. Thus the press for gun control legislation in the wake of this mass murder. Certainly the mother, God rest her soul, showed poor responsibility by having easily accessible firearms around a mentally disturbed sociopath that she was trying to have committed.
We surround our President with guns for protection when he travels through his own citizenry. Celebrities routinely hire armed bodyguards for protection. The mayor of New York city says that Wayne LaPierre, the VP of the National Rifle Association (NRA) paints a "paranoid, dystopian vision of a more dangerous and violent America where everyone is armed and no place is safe."
That pretty much IS most outsiders' vision of America, isn't it? But actually, no place IS really safe—we only have an illusion of safety because no nut case has decided to make our corner of the world his last stand.
The bottom line is that it's not the appropriate response to a tragedy of this scope to further reduce the liberties of the law-abiding portion of the country. If we deem the President and Brittany Spears important enough to allow them to surround themselves with firearms, why not our most important treasure, our children?
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Mon 24 Dec 12 (12:18pm)
Elegantly put James.
Sadly many other citizens of democracies have also forgotten the personal responsibilty their citizenship entails. Like many non citizens I am ashamed at the foreign nanny staters assumption non US citizens even have anything to contribute to this debate. This is a business for US citizens alone to rule on. I have suggested possibly a mandatory plebicite (esspecially on some of the more extreme military grade weapons).
Citizens not politicians to decide!
Mon 24 Dec 12 (12:25pm)
Well said, JamesS of DC.
Mon 24 Dec 12 (02:29pm)
Excellent and well written comment James.
I am also curious to know if the schools the Presidents' daughters go to are "gun free", zones. Do the Secret Service Detail have to leave their guns in the car while they're standing in the hallways or at the back of the classroom.
If the same thing happened at their school, would the Secret Service let it run until the perp reached the Presidents' daughters and then let bullets fly, or would they do their utmost to stop the monster in his tracks.
I know which scenario I would believe.
Tue 25 Dec 12 (12:45am)
Indeed, James, well said. I've copied it for friends.
Catwoman, the second picture in this Ace of Spades post demonstrates the hypocrisy Obama and our other "leaders" live by. day in, day out.
Does Ms. Caro imagine that running away in that situation would have saved her daughter? Extremely unlikely, and even if she did manage to save herself, she would spend the rest of her life trying to explain why she abandoned her students.
I wonder what Ms. Caro would say if someone else used a gun to defend her daughter?
Personally, I wish with my whole heart that Victoria Soto had had a gun and a good shooting stance.
Mon 24 Dec 12 (01:46am)
Mon 24 Dec 12 (06:08am)
She's from the George Costanza school of "Save yourselves, bugger everyone else!"
Mon 24 Dec 12 (06:42pm)
Looking in the mirror, and liking what you see there might pose a problem to anyone who abandoned their students.
I cried as my daughter told me the story and when she had finished telling me all about the wonderful Ms Soto, I said this to her; "You are never to do anything like that."
The mindset of the moron left in a nutshell. Let someone else be selfless.
Mon 24 Dec 12 (02:44am)
Mon 24 Dec 12 (10:44am)
[Say it on your own site, Tony. Please. You're boring everyone here to acts of self-harm - Tim]
Mon 24 Dec 12 (10:52am)
Not just the mindset,JPK but the emotionalism as well.
p.s Dallas rocks and Fort Worth is a gem.
Mon 24 Dec 12 (11:59am)
To many people, Victoria Soto is an exemplar of love, duty and courage; someone you perhaps hope you could behave like if you were confronted with the same awful choices that she was.
To Caro, Ms Soto is a segue to a rhetorical flourish to emphasize how much the author really, really, really disapproves of US gun ownership - even to the extent that she approves of John Howard. You are supposed to be in chastened awe of her steely principle.
Mon 24 Dec 12 (03:26pm)
shucks, I missed Tony's brilliant answer.
I've been in TX since 2004. love it out here on the horse ranch (owned by a lady in Scotland no less).
I wish she had never had to decide that by never being in that position, and instead had to decide whether or not to Mozambique or just fill the chest
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3. Margaret Court, Minister of religion and leading pro-Israel advocate
4. Bronwyn Bishop, politician,
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Mon 24 Dec 12 (03:06am)
Robert Heinlein once wrote (among many other thing):
All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly which can—and must—be dumped in emergency to preserve this prime function. As racial survival is the only universal morality, no other basic is possible. Attempting to formulate a "perfect society" on any foundation other than "Women and children first!" is not only witless, it is automatically genocidal. Nevertheless, starry-eyed idealists (all of them male) have tried endlessly—and no doubt will keep on trying.
Caro proves him on wrong on only one point, and a minor one at that: that "starry-eyed idealists (all of them male)" keep on trying to prove that children are not our most precious resource. In this case, it's a starry-eyed female idealist.
Well, Heinlein was only human, after all. Caro, I have to wonder about.
Mon 24 Dec 12 (03:39am)
She suffers from the delusion that she is the secular and female version of someone with the same initials as her.
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and the kid/dog argument is ridiculous, that shouldn't even be a serious consideration by anyone.
Sarcastro wrote: I'd argue pigs are more important than dogs in this day and age. Pigs provide food, at a relatively low price, to millions of people. The majority of dogs in western society serve no other purpose than companionship. We're past the days of dogs as protectors or workers, 90% of dogs I see in the city are the size of a soccer ball and wear people clothes.
and the kid/dog argument is ridiculous, that shouldn't even be a serious consideration by anyone.
Bandini wrote: we invented dogs to help us. yes, they are special. yes, they serve the greater good.
Sarcastro wrote: Bandini wrote: we invented dogs to help us. yes, they are special. yes, they serve the greater good.
they were special, they were special when we needed to herd sheep, or to keep wild animals off our land, but unless you have a fox that keeps breaking into your apartment they don't serve much of a purpose other than to have a loyal, non-speaking friend whose shit you have to pick up.
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redball wrote: Give an age where it's socially acceptable, to you futuristxen, to go out in public. The fun part will be that it won't change anything. If you keep kids bottled up until they're 15, 18, 21 or whatever random number you pick then you'll end up with an entire generation of people who don't know what to do in public. They'd be every bit as annoying as younger kids are in public. Only they would be fully grown. Beyond that, they would possibly be dangerous at that point being so socially inept.
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futuristxen wrote: And parents would get to spend so much more time with their kids. Which presumably they'd like, because they just loooovvvvveeee kids.
jakethesnake wrote: Cats are fucking useless as shit. They don't even serve ANY good place in society other than to destroy shit, consume, and puke it back up.
Jascha wrote: futuristxen wrote: it's not a bad thing.
Why is it not a bad thing?
Because eating dogs is inherantly bad, or 'revering them' is inherantly good?


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WASHINGTON— A baseball bat and jersey from the Chicago Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa. Value: $350.
A painting from the singer Carly Simon. Value: $300.
Three golf drivers from the actor Jack Nicholson. Value: $1,377.
President Clinton accepted each of those gifts last year. In May, the items were listed on the President's annual financial disclosure form, along with the most valuable gift of them all: $2.6 million from his legal defense fund to help defray the $10 million debt owed by him and Hillary Rodham Clinton to a battery of Washington lawyers.
But next year, there will be no mention on Mr. Clinton's disclosure form of perhaps the most important financial favor done for him during his Presidency: the $1.35 million cash deposit made by Terry McAuliffe, one of Mr. Clinton's closest friends, to guarantee the Clintons' mortgage for the 110-year-old Dutch Colonial house they have agreed to buy for $1.7 million in Chappaqua, N.Y.
On Nov. 1, the day of the closing, the Clintons plan to make the $350,000 down payment. But without Mr. McAuliffe's help, the Clintons would have had trouble qualifying for a mortgage.
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Both the White House Counsel's Office and the independent Office of Government Ethics concluded that the deposit by Mr. McAuliffe is not a gift because the Clintons have not received any ''tangible benefit'' from it. Thus, they concluded it does not have to be listed in the gift section of Mr. Clinton's financial disclosure form.
''This is not a reportable gift because under the applicable statutes and regulations, there was nothing being exchanged here,'' said Jim Kennedy, a spokesman for the White House Counsel's Office. ''There was no way to quantify it. There is nothing you could put a dollar value on.''
The Office of Government Ethics was asked a very narrow question by the White House: Should the collateral be listed as a gift on Mr. Clinton's financial disclosure form next year?
No, the office said. ''Basically, this is a promise to do something in the future, if a particular event occurs,'' said an ethics lawyer in the office. ''We have viewed loan guarantees as not reportable items for financial disclosure purposes.''
By almost any measure, Mr. McAuliffe's generous gesture is an immense benefit to the Clintons, who have not owned their own home since 1983, and who are the least prosperous couple to live in the White House in many years. The Clintons have slightly more than $1 million in assets, but are still saddled by a $5 million legal debt. Mortgage experts say a $1.35 million mortgage is beyond the means of someone making $200,000 a year, as the President now does.
While attention is now focused here on the struggle to reform the campaign finance system, Mr. McAuliffe's help to the Clintons demonstrates that there are always unorthodox ways for people to assist politicians personally that fall outside the boundaries of Federal election laws.
PAST Presidents, and their spouses, have often accepted gifts from wealthy friends, everything from hearing aids to real estate. Charles ''Bebe'' Rebozo was essentially President Richard M. Nixon's real estate broker, and provided the Presidential retreat on Key Biscayne in Florida. Nancy Reagan was excoriated for wearing borrowed designer dresses. Ronald Reagan had help obtaining several homes, including a $2.5 million, one-acre estate in Bel Air, Calif. (he paid the rent on property that 20 friends bought for him). Mr. Reagan's innocent charm often made it easy to forgive his dependence on his wealthy friends' largesse. ''Never look a gift house in the mouth,'' Mr. Reagan quipped after his friends bought a house in Sacramento for him to use.
At the time Mr. Reagan accepted the Bel Air property, the Office of Government Ethics said that exceptions to Federal law allow a Government worker to ''accept a gift, gratuity, favor or thing of monetary value from a friend, when the circumstances make it clear that the personal relationship is the motivating factor.''
THAT language could have been used by the Clintons, ethics experts said, because Mr. Clinton and Mr. McAuliffe are longtime personal friends.
The question of whether or not the deposit should be considered a gift appears to be somewhat academic. Both the President and Vice President are exempt from strict gift rules that prohibit Congressmen and other senior Government officials from accepting gifts worth $100 or more. But critics say the White House had other motives to insist that it was not a gift.
Fred Wertheimer, the president of Democracy 21, a public watchdog group here, said: ''McAuliffe is giving up control of $1.35 million to help the Clintons. He is giving them something, but they are not getting anything. It fails Logic 101. The odd thing here is the President can accept any gift he wants. So why won't the White House just admit it is a gift?''


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"Always start something, continue it, and finish it—this is what it means to grow." A recent Spanish chapel hosted special speaker Pastor Alfredo Olivares. Originally from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Pastor Olivares now serves as the Spanish pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Madison, Wisconsin. He noted that "there is not an experience so beautiful" as working with the plentiful harvest and seeing people grow and change.
When Pastor Olivares first read I Corinthians 15:58 on his own, he was challenged to begin living out the verse, which has now become his favorite. He used the verse to encourage his audience in Spanish chapel by pointing out each key part: "steadfast," "unmoveable," "abounding," and "not in vain." "Many churches are leading their young people in bad music, inappropriate dress, and poor teaching," Pastor Olivares explained as he taught that, opposite to this, Christians are to remain steadfast—"maintained"—in their convictions and unmoveable in their faith.
In addition to maintaining faith, Christians must also be "always abounding," which Pastor Olivares noted meant always moving forward in their work for God. He likened this forward motion to the movement of the earth. The earth always moves around in its orbit, but never moves from its orbit. Likewise, Christians should always be moving and keeping themselves focused on serving God, but never moving from faith and doctrine.
The main idea repeated throughout the message was that God uses Christians who adhere to this verse, whether they feel called into fulltime ministry or not. The chapel audience of Spanish students may not all be called as missionaries to Spanish-speaking countries, but Pastor Olivares reminded them that God could use them even in the United States. When Christians choose to be unmoveable in their convictions and yet always moving in their work for Christ, God promises their work will not be in vain. "Something in vain is something that disappears," Pastor Olivares pointed out. "It is possible we won't see immediate results, but by faith and believing God, we understand the recompense of God is waiting in heaven."
Students who attend Spanish chapel are given the opportunity to hear special speakers as well as sharpen their Spanish-interpretation skills. "Spanish chapel is a time that I get to work on what I've learned [and] a time to be challenged in God's Word," stated Hannah Griffith, a sophomore Communication Arts major. "It's neat to be able to recognize that you can praise the Lord in another language."
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I remember all my female friends going crazy trying to get a glimpse of Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper while they were in Schenectady filming "A Place Beyond the Pines". Well now we can finally see the trailer for the movie.
In Mohawk, Schenectady loosely means "place beyond the pines". So we got to host this crime drama featuring Cooper and Gosling. Gosling plays a motorcycle stunt rider who considers committing a crime in order to provide for his wife and child, which puts him in the cross hairs of a cop-turned-politician(Cooper). "A Place Beyond the Pines" comes out on March 20th but you can see the first trailer here.
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High Tide: From Standard Chartered's Slide to Deleting Posts for Cash
A roundup of corruption-related news from Dow Jones and other sources. You can also receive a newsletter version of Corruption Currents here.
Three employees of Chinese Internet company Baidu Inc. were fired when they were suspected of taking cash payments to delete material from its website. More here, here and here. (Wall Street Journal, The Next Web, IDG News, BBC)
The FCPA Professor runs a provocative guest post saying the FCPA could be doomed to repeal in the next five to seven years.
The FCPA Blog picks up the Huntsman declination, runs a post by Tom Fox about Gibson Guitars, picks up Teva Pharmaceutical's subpoena and selects some voices rising against corruption. Howard Sklar reminds himself to count to 10. The FCPAmericas blog has some guidance for complying with World Bank sanctions. Mike Volkov points out that the SEC is no shrinking violet.
The latest on an upcoming trial of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is here. (Detroit Free Press)
A businessman indicted in an alleged scheme to bribe of the head of a Louisiana parish is scheduled to plead guilty. (New Orleans Times Picayune)
More about the concern about logistics companies and potentially violating the U.K. Bribery Act is here and here. More coverage of the arrests in Operation Elveden is here. (SDN Logistics, Newsroom Panama, AP)
A former mayor of Upland, Calif., was sentenced to two years in jail in a bribery and extortion scandal. (LA Times)
Money Laundering:
Shares of Standard Chartered PLC fell sharply following Monday's accusations by a New York state regulator that the bank's U.S. unit engaged in a money laundering scheme with Iran's government. Part of the probe involved allegations that the company outsourced to India key jobs in scanning for suspicious transactions. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority said it's reviewing the New York report's findings. Standard Chartered's chief executive is bracing for a U.S. regulatory fallout. Will there be a fine? It may destroy the bank's reputation in one blow. More here, here and here. (AP, NY Times, PTI, Firstpost, Dow Jones Newswires, Dow Jones Newswires, Dow Jones Newswires, Guardian, Marketbeat, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider)
Who is the New York regulator behind the report on Standard Chartered? It's Benjamin Lawsky. (Financial Times sub req)
Switzerland continues to fight its reputation as a haven for dirty money.(Globe and Mail)
The myriad scandals in the banking sector show the urgent need for reform. The sector is more ambitious and less repentant for its misconduct than a common criminal. (Transparency International, NY Times)
Is Baba Ramdev, a key member of Team Anna, a tax evader? He didn't appear to be contacted for comment. More here. (IBN Live, India Ink)
Libya's National Transitional Council passed a law relating to the confiscation of assets. (Stolen Asset Recovery)
The secret history of America's 30-year conflict with Iran is laid out in a new book. (Al Monitor)
The inner circle of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad appears to still be intact despite Monday's high-profile defection of the prime minister. Supporters of Assad, or at least those who don't oppose him, are worried about their future. (McClatchy, Al Monitor)
White & Case LLP puts out a client alert on Iran sanctions. (JDSupra)
Two members of the Financial Task Force penned an op-ed about the importance of reform in the oil industry pegged to a key section of the Dodd-Frank Act. (CNN Money)
"The Daily Show" took a look at a key U.S. whistleblower case. More here. (video, The Raw Story)
General Anti-Corruption:
Graft fears are slowing down procurement in India's defense ministry, according to the union minister. (Economic Times)
A U.S. federal appeals court denied former Illinois Gov. George Ryan's last chance to seek his release from prison following corruption convictions. (AP)
Alexander Lebedev, a Russian billionaire facing criminal charges in Moscow, said he has proof that Russian officials stole tens of billions of dollars and that he intends to share it with U.S. and U.K. authorities. (Bloomberg)
Transparency International's Zimbabwe chapter castigated the country's government for failing to tackle corruption. (VOA)
What's the significance of David Plouffe taking money to give a speech from a company with ties to Iran? (Glenn Greenwald)
Australia's anti-corruption commission is to grill three former ministers on graft allegations. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Corruption allegations are flying faster than spaghetti in a food fight in Canada. Jacques Duchesneau, in his first day as a candidate, already stumbled. (Montreal Gazette, Globe and Mail)
Uganda's new challenge: ending police corruption. (Transparency International)


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The Lafayette Parish Sheriff's office says a man from Arnaudville is dead after he was shot in the back during a carjacking. They say 49 year old Michael Patin died in the parking lot of the Jockey Lot where he worked. Suspects are reportedly in custody but no other information on them is being released because of their age.
The State Department of Health and Hospitals will hold a public hearing today on new regulations on abortion clinics that have pro-choice activists upset. New Orleans lawyer Ellie Schilling says she opposes the new rules because they could prevent new facilities from opening and being licensed. She says by reducing the availability of abortion clinics, women's safety is at risk and access to information is eliminated.
A move to tweek the state's anti sodomy law is stirring controversy. Part of Louisiana's anti sodomy law lists consensual oral or consensual anal sex between humans, as crimes against nature. Representative Patricia Smith of Baton Rouge filed a bill to get rid that part of the law because the U.S Supreme court has already ruled it unconstitutional . However, Louisiana Family Forum leader Gene Mills is against changing the current anti sodomy law. With support from the state sheriffs association and the Louisiana district attorneys association, Smith intends to move forward with the bill in the upcoming legislative session to remove portions of the law.
The weekend death of Morgan City Police Chief Travis Crouch in a hotel room in Biolxi is being investigated as a suicide. Morgan City Police Department spokesman Lt. James Blair says the Biloxi police department does not believe there was anyone else involved in this incident at the Beau Rivage. Blair says whether or not it was an accident or intentional remains under investigation.
Sad story out of New Orleans. Police say a 6 year old boy died after he was struck by a hit and run car Monday morning while crossing a street. They say the child's 9 year old sister was injured but she will survive. Police have a suspect in custody.
Authorities in Lake Arthur say they've identified the body of a woman who was found lying face down in a ditch on Friday. They say they don't know how 27 year old Lacie Fontenot died just yet, but authorities are treating the death as suspicious.
Governor Bobby Jindal announced Monday the expansion of the LSU College of Engineering project has exceeded its private donation goal. He said more than 450 Individual and corporate donors pledged $52.5 million-dollars which fulfills the College of Engineering's commitment to match $50 million in state capital outlay funds. LSU Chancellor F King Alexander says this state of the art renovation of Patrick F Taylor Hall will attract the best and the brightest
A man on death row for killing his 6 year old stepson almost 20 years ago is going to wait another 90 days. The state has experienced difficulty in finding the approved drug used for all
lethal injections. Since the state is changing it to a two-drug system, attorneys for Christopher Sepulvado says they want to investigate that new plan to make sure it is not going to create any
cruel and unusual punishment questions.
A massive search is underway right now for two inmates who escaped from the St. Mary Parish Law Enforcement Center in Centerville. The Sheriff's Office says the men are considered to be dangerous. They are 28 year old Chris Horton of Bayou Vista and 36 year old Joshua Folks of Franklin. Horton is incarcerated for second degree murder.
According to a release from the Governor's office, the selection of Baton rouge for the IBM technology center project was one of the top 8 economic development deals in the nation in 2013. Governor Jindal also says Business Facilities magazine names Louisiana as runner-up for State of the Year.
The Powerball jackpot is getting high again. The Louisiana Lottery says the prize is up to $215 million for Wednesday's drawing. That's a cash value of $124.1 million.
A teenager from Baton Rouge has been arrested for posting a nude picture on twitter of another teen she was having an argument with. Seventeen year-old Hayley Douglas told Sheriff's Deputies she did not post the picture of the 15 year-old juvenile with any kind of maliciousness. She was booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Jail on one count of video voyeurism.
New York just hosted its first ever Super Bowl and now we're looking at when The Big Easy could get The Big Game for the record 11th time. New Orleans is a finalist to host the Super Bowl in 2018. Greater New Orleans Sports Foundation President Jay Cicero says they've got stiff competition in Minneapolis and Indianapolis. The Super Bowl was in Indianapolis in 2012 and the city received good reviews as a host city.
It is exactly one month away from Fat Tuesday! Because Mardi Gras is a state wide event, Lt. Governor Jay Dardenne hopes the new interactive web and print advertisements running in surrounding state will bring in additional visitors to partake in the Louisiana carnival. This is the first time the state has conducted an out of state advertising campaign to promote the Mardi Gras season. Dardenne says they are trying to take advantage of the later than normal carnival season.
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After years of complaints from employees, 137 companies and other groups have decided to get serious about the dearth of child and elder care in the U.S. The companies, including IBM, American Express, AT&T, Motorola, and Xerox, will commit a total of $25 million to develop programs in 25 states and the District of Columbia.
The coalition has spent a year drawing up guidelines that dependent-care programs must meet to gain funding. The goal: to boost the supply and quality of programs available in each community. A study last year by the Bureau of Labor Statistics found that 40% of working mothers age 23 to 39 must rely on relatives to care for their children.
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PC Health Advisor brings together high quality tools in one comprehensive program. This advanced software makes it easy to fix, clean and optimize your computer. PC Health Advisor gets things running right again by ejecting active malware, updating drivers, cleaning your Windows registry, defragmenting the disk, helping you update drivers, finding programs to open file extensions and getting rid of cached information that slows down your PC.


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At the island of Ameland, in The Netherlands, a group of sheep walk along the dick. As a traffic jam occurs, a sheep stops and look at us.
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> Does anyone know how to enable back/forward buttons of mx700 or any other
> mouse?
> I can use the wheel but I can not use the other buttons.
> Omer
First you X support for the buttons:
'man /usr/X11R6/man/man4/mouse.4.gz':
Option "Buttons" "integer"
Specifies the number of mouse buttons. In cases where the number of
buttons cannot be auto-detected, the default value is 3.
So you need the following in your /etc/XF86Config:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Logitech MX700"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Buttons" "8"
Now you need application support for the buttons. This obviously varies
from app to app so I can't say much about this here, other than you need
to 'bind' the mouse button to an application function.
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Hay Fever Linked to Depression
May 25, 2010 (New Orleans) -- If you suffer from a mood disorder and hay fever, don't be surprised if your mood worsens when pollen season rolls around.
Preliminary research shows that people with depression or bipolar disorder who are allergic to tree or ragweed pollen experience worse depression when exposed to that allergen.
"The worse the allergy symptoms, the worse their depression scores [on a standardized test used to assess depression and mania]," says researcher Partam Manalai, MD, of the department of psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore.
The findings were presented at a news conference here at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association (APA).
Studies show that as many as one in 10 Americans suffers from depression. As many as one in five may have seasonal allergies, or hay fever, Manalai tells WebMD.
Some studies suggest that people with hay fever are prone to mood disorders, he says.
Interestingly, there is a springpeak in pollen count due to tree pollen -- and a somewhat smaller fallpeak due to ragweed -- that parallels a spring peak and a somewhat smaller fallpeak in suicide rates across the world, Manalai says.
To further explore the relationship between hay fever and allergies, the researchers recruited 100 individuals who had been diagnosed with depression or bipolar disorder. Of the total, 53% tested positive for allergies to ragweed or tree pollen.
In people with allergies, scores worsened substantially from low pollen season to high pollen season. The worse their allergy symptoms, the greater the change.
Treating Allergies May Help With Depression Symptoms
"In patients with allergy and depression, prophylactic treatment of these conditions may prevent worsening of mood during peak allergen season," Manalai says.
Manalai stresses that only people with mood disorders were studied; otherwise healthy people who feel miserable during allergy season shouldn't show up at their doctor's office demanding an antidepressant.
"But in people with depression and allergies, we think treating the allergies may prevent worsening of depression symptoms," he says.
Jeffrey Borenstein, MD, chairman of the APA's communication council and medical director of Holliswood Hospital in Queens, N.Y., tells WebMD that while preliminary, the study could "be very useful clinically for patients.


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But before there was any question of court proceedings being taken to enforce the tapes hand-over, the Moloney/McIntyre book, based on the words of a dead man, constituted a journalistic hand grenade hurled into contemporary Six County politics.
The explosion has not merely taken place during election campaigns, north and south of the border, it has also taken place in an unusually heightened period of loyalist emotion. We have already had the anniversary of the signing of the Ulster Covenant swearing to resist the introduction of Home Rule and this year's centenary commemoration of the Larne gun-running. Taken with the effect of the flags controversy stemming from restrictions on flying the union flag in the Six Counties, Dublin's lack of initiative, and the failure of the Haass mission, the North already felt as though a continuous twelfth of July snake-headedness was in progress.
The black ops swoop on Adams was part of a larger scene – probably masterminded by Belfast and London securocrats – and it has heightened tensions. The depressing scene needs to be alleviated by the addition of some counter-balancing figures from the Irish American world.
The peace process is in trouble.
Tim Pat Coogan is Ireland's best- known historian who has written many best sellers including definitive biographies on Michael Collins and Eamon De Valera and on the IRA.


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As Morrslieb waxes full, and the forces of Chaos sweep down from the north, reavers threaten a caravan of refugees. Only a witch hunter, a wizard's apprentice, and a handful of soldiers stand in their way. Can they stand against the dark army that opposes them, or will they become its twisted servants?
The Twin Tailed Comet is third Battle Pack installment in The Morrslieb Cycle for Warhammer: Invasion The Card Game This 60 card pack contains 20 different never-before-seen cards designed to augment existing decks and add variety to the Warhammer: Invasion metagame.
The Twin Tailed Comet brings a variety of tactics, units, and support cards to your Warhammer: Invasion deck. The mighty Dwarf Daemonslayer can bear wounds that kill his lesser kin, while the Orcs' Tribal Tattoos stand as a testament to their battlefield prowess. Meanwhile, the Celestial Wizard rains death on the foes of the Empire, and the Sorcerer of Tzeentch grows stronger for each shrine erected to his dark master!
CONTAINS CARDS 41-60 of "THE MORRSLIEB CYCLE."
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Are You An Untouchable?
want to be untouchable?In my business, you become an untouchable by becoming a made man. Nevertheless, anyone can still clip you, although they will suffer the consequences if they weren't sanctioned to take action. A Boss is an untouchable because he surrounds himself with people who are loyal to him. He has powerful and influential friends outside the famiglia , and doesn't have anyone clocking him directly because he doesn't do the dirty work anymore.
In legitimate business, you become an untouchable by standing out from the suits next to you. You are a big earner who contributes to the well-being of the company so that when things go wrong, you remain above the fray. You set yourself apart from your colleagues because you made the right connections and decisions. And let's face it, you know the right people; the decision-makers in your industry are your golf buddies. Dating Cindy Crawford wouldn't hurt either.
The most important character trait of an untouchable businessman is street smarts. That way, he'll see the corporate game and rules that the others around him have no clue exist. That will allow any wise businessman the luxury of distancing himself when the corporate flagship starts sinking, with his reputation and respectability intact (Enron anyone?).
So now you know — being a big earner and street smart, and having the right connections can give you a nice bulletproof vest.
stretch your untouchabilityHere is the Catch-22: Becoming an untouchable is a good thing for you and your tennis-bopping career, but it also places a nice big fat bull's eye on your head. You become a marked man by anyone who is jealous or feels that their need to be untouchable supersedes yours.
After everything I told you already, you know that you can't be an untouchable forever, but you can do your best to ensure you never get pinched by pigs or the babbo in accounting.
In my business, it's easy for people beneath the higher ups to start skimming. But what these useless beasts are doing is stealing food from our children's mouths, and no one has the harm to harm our little brats. But, that's a different article altogether.
Any grumbling lowlife that takes from you or criticizes you should be taken as warning that your days as an untouchable are numbered. To prevent that in my world, we keep our ears to the ground, find out what our associates have under their fingernails, and immediately eliminate the problem.
In the business world, it's the same thing — make sure any praise has your fingerprints on it; keep confidants at all levels of your organization so that you know what's going on or what is being said about you; surround yourself with people you can trust and whose motivations are different from yours; and when a problem arises, deal with it aggressively and quickly. Hey, if you set an example by firing someone, you'll only help yourself by becoming more feared.
Never show weakness, cover your tracks, DTA (Don't Trust Anyone), sleep with one eye open, and don't distance yourself from those around you. Did I mention cover your tracks? Remember; an untouchable never leaves a paper trail that can come back to bite him in the arse.
So you're untouchable, now what?


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Issue No.01 - January/February (2004 vol.8)
pp: 30-36
Mark Klein , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abraham Bernstein , University of Zurich

Online repositories are increasingly being called on to provide access to services that describe or provide useful behaviors. Existing techniques for finding the services offer low retrieval precision, returning many irrelevant matches. This article describes a novel service retrieval approach that captures service semantics via process models, and applies a pattern-matching algorithm to locate desired services.

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STEWART AIRPORT — The 105th Airlift Wing's Services Flight — that's the part of the unit responsible for food — finished second in a nationwide Air National Guard competition judging air wing food services operations.
The evaluation included an on-site visit by two inspectors from the National Restaurant Association.
Their inspection looked at all aspects of the Stewart Air National Guard Base's dining facility, including kitchen operations, the serving and dining experience, overall management, and the training and basic airmanship skills of the 30 members of the Services Flight.
In addition, 105th Airman First Class Luz Garcia was awarded the Hennessy Travelers Association Award, which entitles her to a weeklong training program at the Culinary Institute of America in Napa Valley, Calif.
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Our maintenance crew found some keys at ValleyView Park on Monday, 8/1. If you're in the park and hear of anyone who lost keys, please have them contact the Leisure Services office. Sure would like to get them back to their owner so they don't have to replace them.
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