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Country cutie Taylor Swift proved she's more than a pretty face with a super singing talent when she flexed her comedic muscles on "Saturday Night Live" over the weekend. And on Monday night, Shakira reacted to Taylor's impression of the Colombian chanteuse.
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Jan. 22, 2013 -- Crime Stoppers
Authorities asked for help finding two fugitives.
In the first case, police said they are looking for Ralph R. Guzman, 52.
Authorities said Guzman is wanted on a Missouri parole violation warrant on a charge of promoting child pornography.
Police said Guzman is white, 5 feet 7 inches tall, 145 pounds, and has black hair and brown eyes. He has tattoos on his arms and back.
Investigators said he was last seen at the Kansas City Community Release Center, where he fled.
Police said they consider him dangerous.
In the second case, police said they are looking for Jessica Blackstone, 27.
Blackstone is wanted on a Kansas parole violation warrant on a charge of possession of hallucinogens and a federal U.S. Marshal's warrant on a charge of selling amphetamine.
Blackstone is white, 5 feet 4 inches tall, 160 pounds, and has blond hair and blue eyes. Police said she has tattoos on her chest, back and right arm. The one on her lower back says "Daddy's Girl."
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Exploring a personal, eclectic path by looking at the intersection of three great traditions.
"I don't have crushes."
I accepted long ago that my friend has achieved a higher level of consciousness than I. But, seriously? No crushes?
"But when you were a teenager, surely…"
It turned out the reason was not her high-mindedness, but her feeling that crushing on someone was unsafe, reviving an ancient, powerful fear of rejection.
That threw me. I crush early and often and am always vaguely ashamed of having done so. I certainly enjoy all the pleasures of a good crush, but I'd never considered that my crushes might reveal a belief in my own potential. Yet if a crush allows us to see the beauty in someone else, perhaps it also helps us see our own. At some level when we dream of someone, we also dream of who we can become in their eyes or at their side.
On the down side, a crush can feel out of control and self-indulgent. During yoga training, I fell into a completely inappropriate crush (considering I was and am very happily married). I could barely speak to the object of my obsession, and yet we had to work together. All sorts of energies were rattling through me, with shame at the top of the heap. I was convinced I was derailing my entire spiritual development.
Luckily I confessed to an advisor, who laughingly told me to enjoy the joy of "being 14 again." She went on to suggest that admiration for someone else could be understood as a longing for wholeness, as the soul's recognition—in another—of qualities lying dormant within oneself. So maybe I wasn't a lost cause after all. Maybe I just wanted to be a better person. Maybe I already was.
I tried to keep that in mind when I realized that I also crush on divinities, and have allowed my hunger for this experience to shape my spiritual life. As a young Christian I had a suitably devout crush on Jesus. Suffering, compassionate and willing to die for me—he was my type. Later, there was the Pagan Dying God, a gently sensual figure who also gave up his life, and in a less guilt-provoking way. Loki, Dionysos and Shiva were bad boys—worshipping them had its own risky, secret thrill. And they too suffered, with plenty of satisfying angst there to be mined in their mythologies. (Buddha, leading an exemplary life and dying of food poisoning at 80, didn't make the cut).
It sounds flippant, but there's more to it than that. These divinities, their stories and images, have drawn out my sense of longing. They speak to the space inside me that aches to be filled and yet is not meant to be. In their elusiveness as well as their power they teach me a lesson that's Buddhist in its paradox: "The art is not to satisfy our longings, but to learn how to cherish them." (Susan Swan)
Longing feels very precious to me. When I am all in my head, or tightened up in petty resentments, connecting to the well of longing slakes my soul. Even if there's the taste of sorrow, there's also a balm there, a return to the deeper flow of life and feeling. I know myself vulnerable and open, loving and needy. In that moment, I know and I can honour the terrible/beautiful/inevitable dissatisfaction we all share: that of being human, and so fated to be in love with the divine.
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Two strangers make life-saving connection on Facebook
North Reading man finds kidney donor on Facebook page
A North Reading man is recovering at home after a California woman stepped forward with a life-changing donation.
"I'm grateful. I'm very, very grateful that I came through and I'm home now and re-cooperating," Eddie Beatrice said. "It's a whole new start again."
The two were strangers before January when they found each other on the Living Kidney Donor Network's Facebook page.
Beatrice, 51, suffering from kidney failure after 2011 rotator cuff surgery lead to an infection and septic shock. Kelly Wright, a 44-year-old Veternarian and mother feeling a pull to make a gift her family and friends struggled to understand.
The donation required that she leave her husband and young children for several weeks and undergo major surgery.
"It means the world to me just to see him feeling better," Wright said. "You can do kind things for people and not expect something in return and it just makes the world a better place to live in."
Wright and Beatrice's families waited anxiously together at Mass General Hospital during the surgeries. Beatrice had some post-surgery complications but is healing well and the kidney took immediately. He will need a variety of medications but otherwise looks forward to a full life.
As for Wright, she has one more check up on Friday. Then she'll be heading back to California to be reunited with her young family.
But it's clear the bond between this donor and recipient has expanded their definition of family. They hope their positive experience will inspire others to donate as well
"Anybody can help another human being to live a new life," Wright said.
Beatrice who was in dialysis for four hours every other day said Wright has given him a brighter future.
"Talk about impacting someone's life that's in a tough position," said Beatrice. "Yes, it was a heck of a sacrifice. We just hope and pray people will follow suit of what Kelly's doing."


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Orphan girl Heidi is sent to live with her grandfather in the alps under the false promise that she would eventually return to her aunt, who in actual fact cannot care for her anymore. She's excited for her trip, but is surprised to learn that her people who know her grandfather don't think much of him. He's a hermit with a bad temper, and there are all kinds of nasty rumors about the man floating around in the nearest village. Heidi is happy to give him the benefit of the doubt, however, even if his reluctance to accept her into his home couldn't be more obvious.


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It does not get much better than this – an incredibly busy period throughout the continuum of our projects.
Beginning with our grateful thanks to Adrian and Roll out the Barrel for their magnificent support in supplying the sponsorship to build much needed toilets at the David Tyler School, Uganda.
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The passage of legislation to allow the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to collect user fees to fund advisor exams in the current political environment is "very unlikely," Tom Selman, executive vice president of regulatory policy at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), said Monday.
Speaking at the Insured Retirement Institute's (IRI) government, legal and regulatory conference in Washington, Selman said that contrary to popular belief, the advisory and brokerage industries are not in "horrible disagreement" on whether advisors need to be examined more frequently. "The only area of disagreement [between the two industries] is how you go about it," he said.
While the advisor industry would prefer a user fee approach to help pay for more advisor exams, the brokerage industry would rather see FINRA become the SRO. "The real question is whether the [advisory] industry is willing to accept the status quo of inadequate exams" or go for an advisor SRO "that would focus on exams and less on rulemaking" and be overseen by the SEC, Selman said.
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Firbowl will be on the first Saturday in October. Game options will again be; unlimited bowling or pay per game. The lanes only allow one method at a time, so again we'll have a list to sort everyone planning to bowl in order to prevent confusion.
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When the first Nissan Micra appeared more than 30 years ago, it marked a revolution in the small hatchback segment and opened a new chapter for Nissan. This fifth generation Micra, we're told, is just as revolutionary, and is intended to raise expectations for what a small hatchback can, and should, deliver to its customer.
The little Micra is a very significant car in Nissan's history. Originally launched in the early Eighties, in second generation form it became the very first Japanese model to win the European Car of the Year award, the first Far Eastern supermini purpose-built for Western tastes. To make absolutely sure, Nissan decided to build the car in Britain and style the second and third generation models with a daring flair that perfectly suited a small car market becoming ever-more image-conscious. These were cars perfectly in tune with their times. That was less the case though, with the fourth generation version, which arrived here at the very end of 2010. Out-sourced for build in India, this MK4 model was intended to be cheap as a result. The problem was that it rather felt it and as a result, sales were disappointing. The Micra should have been one of Nissan UK's top sellers. Instead, it lagged behind the company's niche Qashqai, Juke and Note models. But forget all of that now. This French-built 'Gen5' version is a very different proposition - as we're about to discover....
Driving Experience
Under the bonnet, buyers get a 1.0-litre petrol engine in two flavours. Most choose the IG-T 100 unit, which develops 100hp and is offered with either 6-speed manual or automatic transmission. There's also a perkier DIG-T 117 unit borrowed from the Juke SUV developing 117hp and only offered with manual transmission. Of great importance here are the efforts that have been put in to improve the way that this Micra 'Gen5' drives. This model features what Nissan calls 'Active Ride Control' for enhanced ride comfort - particularly over sharp undulations and speed humps. There's also 'Active Trace Control' for reduced understeer and sharper handling - both features borrowed from the brand's larger Qashqai and X-Trail models. A clever brushless electric power steering system - for greater steering feel and response - is also available. And much attention has been paid to reducing noise in the cabin. Nissan has focused on improving noise insulation and optimising the car's aerodynamic performance. Enhanced aero efficiency has been achieved thanks to the combined roof and side spoiler. As a result, this Micra has achieved a Cd of 0.29 - impressive for a supermini of this class.
Design and Build
If you're used to the conservative design of the old fourth generation Micra, you may need to sit down and have a cup of hot sweet tea after looking at this one. The styling remains faithful to that of the 2015 Geneva Motor Show 'Sway' concept car that led to the development of this one. It's a riot of emotive curves and creases, with design cues including a distinctive V-motion grille, from where a sharp-edged character line runs through to the rear end with its boomerang-shaped lights. There's a so-called 'floating roof', an effect created by blacked-out rear C-pillars that hide the rear door handles so as to create a 'coupe'-like look. All of this is matched by a wider selection of more vivid colours, including a particularly vibrant 'Energy Orange'. Inside, much attention has been paid to driver comfort, with a lower driving position for a more secure driving feel. It should be easy for all drivers to achieve the perfect driving position thanks to greater seat adjustment, the fully adjustable steering wheel and the optimal positioning of the pedals and shift lever. The car's extended width and wheelbase means cabin space is now among the best in class. The gliding wing-shaped dashboard gives the cabin a light, sleek and spacious look.
Market and Model
Prices start at around £14,500 and there are four grade levels to choose from - Visia+, Acenta, N-Sport and Tekna. Buyers will be limited to a five-door hatch bodystyle. Nissan hope that the car will appeal to 'downsizers', people trading out of larger cars into smaller ones that remain plush and technologically savvy. To make it appealing to these people, there's what the brand hopes is class-leading levels of electronic safety and media connectivity. Safety features include 'Lane Departure Prevention' and 'Intelligent Emergency Braking with pedestrian recognition', as well as an 'Intelligent Around View Monitor', 'Traffic Sign Recognition', 'High Beam Assist' and 'Blind Spot Warning'. As for the media stuff, well Micra 'Gen5' comes with a 7-inch full colour central display, providing access to the audio system, satellite navigation, mobile phone connectivity, downloadable apps and Siri voice control via Apple CarPlay. Nissan has also worked with Bose to develop a bespoke 6-speaker 'Personal sound system' for the car, with two Bose 'UltraNearfield' speakers, combined with Bose 'PersonalSpace Virtual Audio Technology' built into the driver seat headrest for a remarkably immersive listening experience.
Cost of Ownership
However style-led and fashion-conscious any modern supermini might be, it's not going to sell unless its running costs remain pragmatic. Here, that's not an issue. The entry-level 0.9-litre 90bhp IG-T 100 unit achieves a good combination of performance and WLTP efficiency - up to 48.7mpg on the combined cycle and 126g/km of CO2 in manual form; it's up to 44.1mpg and up to 140g/km as an auto. The DIG-117 version manages up to 47.9mpg and 133g/km. As you'd expect, Nissan has developed a Stop-Start system for the car to cut the engine when you don't need it, stuck in traffic or waiting at the lights. If you've got a top version with the optional 'Connect' sat nav set-up, then you'll also have a navigation system with so-called 'eco-routing', a feature that sees it able to calculate the route likely to use the least fuel. What else? Well residual values won't be quite as strong as some more established rivals in this segment, but the high specification on offer will help here, as it prevents buyers from diluting their residuals by adding expensive options.
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- Solid - Ivory
- Solid paint
- Body coloured bumpers
- Absolute cloth upholstery
- Soft knee pad with stitching
- Body coloured door mirrors
- 4 pocket halogen headlights with signature finisher
- Absolute cloth - Black with grey inserts
- 16" alloy wheels
Body Glass
- Rear privacy glass
- Front and rear electric windows
- Rain sensor windscreen wipers
- Rear wiper with reverse link
- Hill start assist
- Intelligent emergency braking with pedestrian recognition
- ABS+EBD+Brake assist
- Forward emergency braking
- ESP + ASR traction control + CSV understeer control
- Bluetooth system
Driver Aids
- Cruise control
- Lane departure warning system
- Rear parking sensors and rear view camera
- Traffic sign recognition
- Adjustable speed limiter
- Lane departure prevention
- Power assist steering
Driver Convenience
- Stop/start system
Driver Information
- New Nissan Connect touchscreen navigation and Entertainment system
- Nissan connect sat nav system
- Outside temperature gauge
- Trip computer
- Smartphone integration with Apple CarPlay and Android auto
- Advanced drive assist display 5'' TFT coloured screen
Driving Mirrors
- Electric folding door mirrors
- Heated door mirrors
- Electrically adjustable door mirrors
- Auto dimming rear view mirror
- Steering wheel mounted audio controls
- DAB Digital radio
- Aux-in socket
- USB/iPod connection
- BOSE sound system with 6 speakers
- Audio system with MP3
Exterior Body Features
- Rear roof spoiler
- Antenna
- Body colour front door handles
- Concealed rear door handles
Exterior Lights
- LED daytime running lights
- Front fog lights
- Automatic activation of hazard warning lights
- LED indicators in door mirrors
- High beam assist
- Automatic headlights
- High mounted stop lamp
- Automatic air conditioning
Interior Features
- Front console storage box
- Leather wrapped gear shift knob
- Leather wrapped steering wheel
- Satin silver air vents
- Height adjustable steering wheel
- Parcel shelf
- 3 cupholders
- Boot compartment cover
- 12V power point front
- Gear shift indicator
- Front and rear door pockets with bottle holders
- Synthetic leather instrumental panel inserts
- Chrome interior door handles
- Tilt/telescopic adjust steering wheel
- Synthetic leather front door pads
- Leather wrapped parking break
Interior Lights
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- Boot light
- LED ambient lighting
- Map reading lamp
- Illuminated electric window switch
- Tyre pressure monitoring system
- Driver/Front Passenger airbags
- Height adjustable front seatbelts with pre-tensioners and load limiters
- Rear seatbelts with pre-tensioners and load limiters
- Front and rear curtain airbags
- Warning triangle and first aid kit
- Passenger airbag deactivation system
- Front side airbags
- Three 3 point rear seatbelts
- Seatbelt warning
- Crash sensor
- 2 height adjustable rear headrests
- 60/40 split folding rear seat
- Reclining front seats
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- Driver's seat manual height adjust
- Height adjustable front headrests with satin sliver decoration
- Remote central locking
- Intelligent key with push button ignition
- Anti-theft immobiliser
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- 0 to 62 mph (secs) 13
- Engine Power - BHP 100
- Engine Power - KW 74
- Engine Power - PS
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- Engine Torque - LBS.FT 106
- Engine Torque - NM 144
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Is APFS supported?
- Asked by Anthony J from LA Crosse
- on 1 Mar 2020
Will this work with the MacBook Pro 13-inch, Mid 2012?
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- on 11 Mar 2018
It will work with any computer with a standard USB port.
Please note, that in order to get the ad It will work with any computer with a standard USB port.
Please note, that in order to get the advertised speed, you need to use at least a USB 3.0 port.
I believe the 2012 MacBook Pro was the first Apple laptop with USB 3.0.
You can confirm that by:
Hold down the option key (keep it pressed)
Click mose on the Apple Icon in top left.
Choose 'System Report'
Scroll down to USB, and see if it is USB 3 .0 Hub, or USB 2.0 Hub.
If it is not USB 3.0, I do not recommend such an expensive product, as any cheap external hard drive would work just as well, for a fraction of the cost.
If you do have USB 3.0, then this little drive will likely be faster than the internal mechanical drive in your MacBook Pro.
I am not sure whether this old a MacBook supports USB 3.0 UASP (USB Attached SCSI Protocol).
If it does not, you would still get reasonable speed, but not the advertised 500 MB/Second.
- Answered by Jerold A from Nashua
- on 23 May 2018
The G-Drive is pre-formatted to Apple's HFS+ file system. Can I reformat it as APFS and still use it with Time Machine? (I'm using Mojave)
- Asked by Francois P from Greensboro
- on 23 Mar 2019
Is this G-drive bootable through a Thunderbolt connection?
- Asked by Jonathan S from Victoria
- on 22 Oct 2018
Yes it is - using it now on a 21" iMac with Mojave with great results.
- Answered by Marius P from Bucuresti
- on 29 Nov 2018
Is this G-drive bootable so I can bring my own OSX and travel between Mac's on different locations- and countries?
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- on 12 Dec 2017
It is bootable, but booting up different Macs with the same disk image will likely cause problems.
It is bootable, but booting up different Macs with the same disk image will likely cause problems.
If you wanted to put just your data files on the external drive, you could create OSX sym-links from your home directory, on all the systems, such that they point to the external drive.
The systems would all still boot with the internal drive, but all of your important files would be in a singular location.
For Example:
Documents -> /Volumes/GDrive/Documents/
Pictures -> /Volumes/GDrive/Pictures/
Music -> /Volumes/GDrive/Music/
- Answered by Jerold A from Nashua
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Most shows posted gains, including a middle pack of offerings — such as "Chicago" ($451,569), "Grease" ($426,214) and "Legally Blonde" ($407,965) — that saw individual rises in the $50,000 range. "The Lion King" ($1,097,103) stepped up by more than $105,000 to rejoin the millionaires' club, while "Monty Python's Spamalot" ($415,770) and "Gypsy" ($634,669) climbed by nearly $100,000 each.
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Supremo's court: Lucky rules the 216 stage
If somebody told you that Lucky Supremo was the name of a pantyhose-clad superhero, somebody lied.
They're not that far off the mark, though– after all, it is the name of Moses Dada's alter ego, the pantyhose-clad drag queen who won top honors at Club 216's pageant last month. And, as if the name alone wasn't proof positive of the towering Nigerian-American's sense of humor, a recent press release lauded the winner's accomplishments and only divulged the nature of the competition after having spent several paragraphs treating the event as though it were a run-of-the-mill beauty pageant.
That's precisely how both Dada and Lucky think it should be, though. Dada is quick to point out the dichotomy of stage coexisting with reality– she's very secure in her masculinity.
"Once I am done performing and I am off the stage, you will never catch me alive or dead wearing a woman's dress," she says. "I'm a very secure and stable man, and I love every minute of my real life as a man."
With all the success he's been meeting with recently, he's probably loving every minute of his life as a woman, too. Lucky has found herself a hot ticket at venues in Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, like Club Chaos and The Hippo, and has even performed as far away as New York City.
He's also been active here at home. She's performed several times at Club 216 since he first caught the eye of show coordinator Jennifer D'Ville at a Halloween party several years ago, and is a regular at the club's monthly drag night events. Having won the pageant, he's now a figurehead and spokesqueen of sorts for the club, an entirely appropriate status given the fact that it was at Club 216 that his hobby first met with success.
"I've been in the art of female illusion for about 9 years," he says. "A few years ago, female impersonation in my tribe was a taboo." Now, she says, everybody seems to be changing their tunes.
There's also a slightly less whimsical side to all this. On December 29, Dada visited the Kluge Children's Rehabilitation Center, and she brought with him an elf's workshop worth of gifts.
"I told myself that if I got the title, all my tips would go toward buying toys for the kids," he says.
Fun with pronouns aside, Dada decided not to go in costume, in part because he wanted to avoid controversy, and in part because he's not one to push his values or standards of decency on anybody.
"The purpose of the charity work is not to teach or impact anything– just giving," he says.
"My goal for this title for the next few months, before I have to relinquish it, is to channel some of Club 216's benefits towards children," he adds. "We've already started with the Kluge thing, and we're going to do some more."
This will likely start soon with visits to cancer patients at the UVA Hospital and continue until both personas are exhausted. One might never know which gender will be in play, but in a sense it doesn't matter. Either way, there's a heart underneath it all.
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People find most annoying about you? I have been criticized by a few people for being too kind to others.
Whom do you admire? Myself. I admire myself for being a survivor.
Favorite book? Your Erroneous Zones by Dr. Wayne Dyer
Subject that causes you to rant? Discrimination in all its forms. And the #1 factor to blame is ignorance.
Biggest 21st century thrill? Extreme Makeover Shows. It's amazing to see how people's self esteem can greatly be affected by their outward appearance.
Biggest 21st century creep-out? The gradual depletion of oil and nature.
What do you drive? Can you guess?
In your car CD player right now? Jody Watley's Off the Hook remix
Next journey? Louisa County
Most trouble you've ever gotten in? Driving a car in a snowstorm
Regret? Nothing
Favorite comfort food? Low calorie sherbet
Always in your refrigerator? Gallons of water
Must-see TV? A Different World, starring Jasmine Guy
Favorite cartoon? Tom & Jerry
Describe a perfect day: This will be a day where simply nothing goes wrong, just like my coronation night on December 17, 2004.
Walter Mitty fantasy? Becoming a real magician
Who'd play you in the movie? For now, I'll star as myself.
Most embarrassing moment? Watching the Clinton & Monica Lewinsky scandal
Best advice you ever got? Dream big and never underestimate yourself.
Favorite bumper sticker? "Don't have strong opinions about issues you don't understand."
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Ubuntu-steward Canonical has lost the executive heading up its enterprise business to cloud-floater Eucalyptus Systems.
Paul Holt, Canonical's director of corporate services, has been named vice president of sales for Europe, Middle East and Africa at Eucalyptus.
Holt replaced former Canonical executive Neil Levine on corporate services, after Levine left Canonical in May also for a cloud start-up – cloud systems-data venture Nodeable.
Nodeable, whose service was just released as a beta and which describes itself as offering "Twitter for machines", just received $2m in series-A venture funding.
Levine had been vice president of corporate services at Canonical while Holt was director. Levine is now Nodeable vice president of product development.
Levine ran tools and delivered services to enterprise customers and was responsible for Canonical's server and cloud strategy while Holt built and led sales, channel and marketing for the Enterprise unit, according to their bios.
Also going from Canonical, meanwhile, is global sales engineering manager Boris Devouge. It is not clear yet where Devouge, whose exit has been announced internally, is headed.
The moves comes as Canonical merges its OEM and corporate sales teams. A Canonical spokesperson told The Reg there had been an overlap between the two.
The spokesperson told The Reg Canonical was "extremely grateful" for Holt's work. "When you hire talent there is always the risk that they are going to move on," the spokesperson said.
Of course, Holt is going to Eucalyptus just as Canonical has demoted its support for spinning up private clouds based on Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) using Eucalyptus in the Ubuntu server core.
Instead, Canonical is prioritising OpenStack – a move that has paid an early dividend. Ubuntu has been named "lead host and guest operating system" on Hewlett-Packard's fledgling OpenStack-based cloud; HP, like Canonical, this year joined the OpenStack Project.
Canonical would not comment on Devouge's exit.
The spokesperson said Chris Kenyon, vice president of OEM services, had taken over sales "in what was a long-planned re-organisation" and promised there would be no disruption. Canonical is hiring pre-sales and direct sales people to the re-organised operation, the spokesperson said.
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Our game began with 32 brave players, but after a fierce, fur-flying frenzy, we have only eight strong competitors left. Yes, friends: Just four cats and four dogs remain, and we are one step closer to declaring a victor! Who will it be? Team Bow-wow or Team Meow? The remaining ballers are Tiger, Hobbes, Tuxedo, Tabby, Golden Retriever, Corgi, Dachshund and Mutt.
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Before we move forward, let us celebrate last night's winners: Tabby, the populist everycat from the Feline Conference, had no trouble swatting snooty Siamese right out of the game. Score one for the plebes!
Meanwhile, despite making appearances on thousands of sleeping bags and inventing his own Sno-Cone machine, Snoopy fell at the feet of the mighty Mutt. Congrats, Mutt! Snoopy, we're sure the Red Baron is behind your upsetting loss.
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If there is any brawl from which the mighty Tiger cannot emerge unscathed, it may be when she is pitted against herself. Because, you see, Hobbes is a toy tiger! A truly existential conundrum is at the heart of this battle. Hobbes is adorable, and playful, and the best friend you could ever have… but without the OG Tiger, would he even exist?
Golden Retriever (1) vs. Corgi (4)
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Pyongyang has issued a warning urging foreign nationals to evacuate South Korea, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported. The statement was followed by threats from North Korea of "thermonuclear" war on the Korean Peninsula.
North Korea has warned all foreign nationals to prepare to evacuate the South in the event of conflict. "We do not wish harm on foreigners in South Korea should there be a war," Reuters quoted KCNA news agency as saying, citing the spokesperson for its Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee.
Further,"all international organizations, businesses and tourists" were told to "work out measures for the evacuation."
The statement was followed by renewed threats of "thermonuclear" war on the Korean Peninsula, AFP reported.
"The situation on the Korean Peninsula is inching close to a thermonuclear war," Pyongyang's Asia-Pacific Peace Committee stated.
This marks the latest escalation in Pyongyang's rhetoric.
The Russian Embassy in South Korea said that it has no plans to evacuate Russians from the country over Pyongyang's warning.
"At this point we are working out our position on the issue. But our preliminary response has no signs of plans related to evacuation," RIA Novosti quoted Russian diplomatic spokesperson Nikita Kharin as saying.
China later said that it does not want to see chaos on the Korean Peninsula and opposes further escalation, Reuters quoted Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hong Lei as saying.
On Monday, a South Korean lawmaker Rep. Chung Moon-joon visiting the US said that nuclear support from Washington is needed to protect against North Korea's continued aggression and unpredictability, and to keep its neighbor in check.
Chung Moon-joon suggested that South Korea needs nuclear weapons of its own – not just to intimidate Pyongyang, but also to send a strong message to China.
Recent tensions in the Korean Peninsula further escalated after North Korea announced that 51,000 workers would be recalled from a joint industrial Kaesong zone shared with the South, a major severing of economic ties between the countries.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye said that she was resolved to break North Korea's "vicious cycle"of having their bad behavior rewarded with economic aid.
"How long are we going to repeat this vicious cycle where the North Koreans create tensions and we give them compromises and aid?" she said during a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday. "North Korea must stop its wrong behavior and make a right choice for the future of the Korean nation."
Tensions escalated further on Tuesday when North Korean laborers did not show up for work at the Kaesong joint industrial zone in the morning, effectively suspending operations. Earlier, Pyongyang refused to allow South Korean workers to enter the area, located a few kilometers inside the North's territory.
Pyongyang issued another warning last week advising embassies in North Korea to considerevacuating in the event of war. Currently, about two dozen countries have embassies in North Korea; most have said there are no immediate plans to withdraw personnel.
The aggressive rhetoric from North Korea has motivated neighboring Japan to deploy Patriot missiles batteries to protect the 36 million people who live in the Tokyo metropolitan area. Two Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) surface-to-air missile launchers have been stationed in the Japanese capital, reinforcing battery units on Okinawa and other Pacific islands, an official said Tuesday.
The weapons were authorized to shoot down any North Korean missile headed towards Japanese territory, Defense Minister Onodera Itsunori said on national television.
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Whether you are a wine geek who can differentiate the sub-appellations of the Loire Valley or just a happy-go-lucky daytripper winding along a New York State wine trail, you've probably experienced cabernet franc.
Long Island got me hooked some years back and I know I'm not the only one who marches up to tasting bars and skips ahead to this variety. Luckily for me, the Niagara USA region is starting to realize the potential of cab franc too as its young vines begin to produce. And, if you're a cab franc lover planning a visit to the area this season, good examples can be found at several Niagara wineries.
Of the 12 active wineries here, about half of them have released varietal bottlings of cab franc. Of course, because some of these wineries don't have producing vineyards at the moment, you don't find many estate bottles -- but they're out there.
Schulze Vineyards and Winery is just about to release its second estate CF (2007); their 2006 vintage sold out last fall. Freedom Run Winery has a 2005 for sale, a bold wine sourced from Long Island in barrel from 2006 and a silky smooth 2007 in barrel from its estate vineyards. Arrowhead Springs Winery harvested cab franc grapes from its young vines this past fall and Leonard Oakes Winery planted some but is currently blending it into a red table wine.
Honeymoon Trail Winery and Niagara Landing both have cab franc sourced from other New York vineyards, and don't plan to plant any soon. Finally, Chateau Niagara, which is in the early stage of building, has planted some franc along with a few other growers that don't have plans for a full scale winery operations at this point.
Then there's Eveningside Vineyards, the Biehl family's micro-winery in Cambria, NY. I've been a fan since the winery opened four years ago. Owner Randy Biehl's 2006 cab franc is his first released from estate vines and it shows great promise for the grape in this region.
In a style that mimics Ontario's, it's dark in the glass with jaw-dropping aromas of blackberry, cherry, black pepper and anise. Its lively acidity dances on the tongue while begging for game, grilled pork or red meats. The finish is its weakest link as it doesn't linger for too long, but in no way does it subdue my excitement for this wine. Indeed, Eveningside is a must-try for any cab franc enthusiast.
Overall, the release of the hot 2007 vintage of cab francs here should begin to reveal the grape's potential on Niagara terroir. If they start showing as they do in Ontario, their style will fall in between the bright style of the Finger Lakes wines and the bigger bodied Long Island Cab Francs, providing a happy middle ground for my palate.


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Is there an easy way to determine whether a set of elements in a field generates the whole field or only a subfield?
Specifically, I have a subfield of $k(x,y)$ described in terms of a canonical set of generators, and I have two other elements of this ring that I think should be sufficient to generate the whole thing but I need to prove it.
In particular, Muller-Quade and Steinwandt's paper "Basic Algorithms for Rational Function Fields" (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747717198902462) seems to describe exactly what I'd like to do (check if the canonical generators are inside the field generated by my two elements, and write one in terms of the other) but I'm not familiar enough with the notation they use in their algorithms to really follow them.
Has this sort of algorithm been implemented in a computer algebra program (eg Magma or Maple) that I could use, or is there another way to do it?
If anyone could shed some light on what's happening in the paper above that would also be appreciated, as I'd be interested in generalizing the approach to the q-division ring (i.e. rational functions in two $q$-commuting variables, $q \in k^{\times}$) if possible.


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We can't go on like this…
(Or: why we won't be spoofing the next Conservative poster)
Update: Following publication of the article below, many of you have been in touch to urge us not to close the site. We have no intention of closing it – and are still adding spoofs of the existing poster campaigns. But we are looking at alternative ideas for the future, rather than parodying every ad campaign.
By Clifford Singer
Oh, those naughty Tories. Stealing our ideas about co-ops (and messing them up in the process) was bad enough. But stealing our ideas about spoof posters (and messing them up in the process) is simply unpardonable.
Shortly after we spoofed the first Tory election poster, I acknowledged that this project had a limited shelf-life. And so the fact that the Tories are now trying to get in on the joke can only suggest one thing: we've reached our sell-by date.
At the start, we weren't even sure we were going to take our spoofs beyond the first poster. But when that ridiculous tombstone appeared, we just couldn't resist. And then when Tory bloggers promised the latest campaign would be "unspoofable" – well, how could we say no? We've also been overwhelmed by the support and activity that's gone on all over the internet, from the 38 pages of spoofs on Mumsnet to the work of people like Andy Barefoot, creator of our poster generators, and talented graphic artist Beau Bo D'Or. In the six weeks since we launched, we've had more than 250,000 unique visitors and received more than 1,500 posters.
So why stop now? Here are three reasons:
- The spoofs have a life of their own. Within minutes of the most recent "I've never voted Tory" posters arriving, there were several other websites and Facebook groups putting up their own parodies, and a highly popular Twitter campaign using the hashtag #ivenevervotedtory
- The law of diminishing returns. So far, we've been impressed - and surprised - by the high quality of contributions throughout the second and third poster campaigns. But the idea may start to feel tired if we keep doing the same thing each time round.
- The danger of playing into Tory hands. Some right-wing commentators, including Ian Dale and Tim Montgomerie, have suggested that we benefit Cameron by spreading his posters virally - irrespective of our anti-Tory spin. I've explained previously why I disagree - and it's been pleasing to see our spoofs coincide with a shift in the political mood away from Cameron, as the Tories repeatedly blunder and come under greater media scrutiny. But Dale and Montgomerie could become right over time: as the mock posters become more ubiquitous - and everyone and their dog joins in - our anti-Tory message may become more blunted.
This last point is pure conjecture - on both our part and theirs (and if the right really think our parodies are so ineffective, why are they so keen to imitate us?). So I'm certainly not suggesting that the ad spoofs cease - and we'll happily promote those sites that display them (although, utilising MyDavidCameron's new-found authority to sound like a patronising uncle, I would advise those doing it on the left to ensure the parodies stay funny and politically sharp - and leave the nasty stuff to our opponents).
But for us it's time to move on. We've got a few ideas up our sleeves but they are still highly confidential (aka they're still so half-baked that we can't really put them into words). In the meantime, be sure to vote for your favourite posters - we'll be showcasing the best on our revamped home page soon, and we still have some great unpublished spoofs waiting to go live. And please do use the comments form below to let us know your thoughts on what we've done so far, what we should do next, and on the wider issues around online campaigning.
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Posted 19 February 2010, 11.50am
Thanks for the good times, Clifford - a good time to stop.
May we only ever mean 'piss merchant' when we say PM to David Cameron.
You brought politics to the people.
Posted by Jo Wood at 05:14pm on 19 February 2010
'You brought politics to the people'
So sayeth the wise Jo Wood. She's spot on, MyDavidCameron.com through good and the bad has helped bring some life to the campaign, attract attention from all directions and (most importantly) led the way in making David Cameron look as daft to the public as he always has to the more politically aware Tory haters.
Posted by Jamie Khan at 05:21pm on 19 February 2010
As Jo Wood says, thanks for the good times, it was fun while it lasted.
Posted by Mark Wadsworth at 06:03pm on 19 February 2010
The 'I've never voted Tory but' poster parodies had made great coverage, both online, and nationally. They had spread across all manner of social networks and news sites, from Facebook to New Statesman. But I did wonder if this was exactly what the Tories wanted with the redesign of their posters?
That half sentence; "I've never voted Tory, but" pleads for defacement louder than a whitewash wall in the middle of a rough estate. The doctoring of the posters helped elevate public interest in the original campaign to levels well above what our political apathy often allows for, and at far lesser cost.
I wrote my full 10 cents over at http://chameleonpr.com. One thing really interesting about this week was the noise it made on Twitter, with both #ivenevervotedtory and #ivenevervotedlabour trending heavily.
Very interesting campaign, which I think all parties will take note too.
Posted by Brad Jordan at 06:12pm on 19 February 2010
Not only has this been one of the most exciting examples of collaborative creativity UK politics has ever seen, but by showing wisdom in knowing when to stop (and judgment in calling for restraint in petty nastiness), you also celebrate the power of people who know not to seek power for power's sake. Good work!
Posted by Becky Luff at 06:14pm on 19 February 2010
This is a ridiculous display of political maturity and integrity, and you should be ashamed of yourself. What will become of the cut and thrust and general nastiness of politics if everyone starts acting like you? Have you no shame, no thought for the consequences of your excellent sense of balance? This is a sad day for filthy political muck-raking at the expense of genuine 'progressive' policy.
Posted by Paul Cotterill at 06:29pm on 19 February 2010
Oh Paul Cotterill, lighten up. This website exists because of the damage done to politics by politicians. Satire will continue to survive long after the massed ranks of professional politicians have vanished to their think tanks.
Posted by Liam at 06:33pm on 19 February 2010
You certainly have an elevated view of yourself or your site as if you invented the idea of spoofing and everyone else has copied you!
Every poster has been spoofed since the dawn of Paint (or whatever you lefty mac users have) and yes, they are ineffectual, but it's fun. Fun is important so although you may have been sitting up their trying to concoct a spoof with intent to harm, everyone else is just having a laugh, so perhaps it's good that you stop and get out some more.
Posted by Percy at 06:33pm on 19 February 2010
I think you've got your timing spot on. Cleese and Gervais knew when to call it a day - when the audience is gagging for more.
Posted by Chris T at 06:34pm on 19 February 2010
I cannot believe that anyone with the slightest modicum of intelligence really wants Gordon Brown back in power?
It's beyond parody he and the party really are dysfunctional and need to be out of power for some time. Surely you can see that?.
Posted by Curbishly at 06:40pm on 19 February 2010
@Curbishly You're obviously not old enough to remember the last time that the awful shower that is the Tory Party did their level best to destroy all that is good about this country.
Posted by Chris T at 06:43pm on 19 February 2010
@Curbishly to clarify, 15% interest rates, 4m unemployed, public services starved of investment, "back to basics", section 28, Tebbit's "cricket test", manufacturing industry destroyed etc. Labour is by no means perfect, but compared to the Tories…well, personally I shudder to think of them running the country again. What we need is voting reform and then the natural centre-left majority in this country can keep the "nasty party" out of power for even longer.
Posted by Chris T at 06:52pm on 19 February 2010
Cheers Clifford,
It's been fun but I agree it's a good time to stop. And you can stop nicking my gags now.
Take care,
Posted by Andy Nix at 07:03pm on 19 February 2010
Im a conservative but great website. Thanks for doing it!!!
Posted by michael at 07:54pm on 19 February 2010
I think the posters have been a lot of fun and very ammusing. I think it is right to stop at a stage when people are still intrigued by them.
By the way, has anyone else seen Call Me Dave's greenhouse campaign on YouTube? Just type in David Cameron and you'll see it on his web shows, complete with recycling bin, trellis fencing and plastic garden chairs. And the standard white shirt, no jacket look, of course. All part of the 'I've never Voted Tory' campaign. I'm not sure if the Conservatives have done research into what a non-Tory voter's garden looks like, or whether Cameron just assumes normal people's gardens look like that!
Posted by Simon at 07:56pm on 19 February 2010
Jesus, this was hilarious.
Harden up Clif. Grow a pair.
Posted by Paul at 07:56pm on 19 February 2010
Your website has provided me with the always enjoyable experience of having my anti-Tory prejudices reinforced. There's nothing like a bit of savage satire to hit back at David "Call me Dave" Cameron and his fellow crypto-Thatcherites. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with next!
Posted by susan clements at 08:23pm on 19 February 2010
An incredibly wise and well thought decision, if this continued, it could help the Tories, as mentioned in the article. And by keeping it fresh and not letting the idea go stale, this project will be remembered favourably. Thanks a lot for the laughs,
Ragulan Vigneswaran
Posted by Ragulan Vigneswaran at 10:43pm on 19 February 2010
I remember the last conservative government, I was very very scared, even my true blue Dad turned into a Liberal.
There's a vast difference between labour's overwhelmed and tired and out and out savage viscious evil selfish beligerant pompous arrogant greedy incompetance.
International Economic Chaos and Cameron wants to go foxhunting instead ? Tallyho lads - crisis what crisis ? Tallyho!
May the wrath of Mary Poppins spank him into obscurity!
Posted by cameronxxxx at 12:44am on 20 February 2010
Clifford - thanks to you and your, erm, friends at MyDavidCameron.com. Just remember "tweet a fighting socialist alternative"
Posted by Betty Snake at 02:15am on 20 February 2010
Thanks for putting life into the campaign. For most of us apolitical types we look at what happens on the ground. In West Berkshire the Liberals screwed us on poor services and the Council Tax - the Tories got in because they stabilised Council Tax and improved services. Labour got zero votes in about 10 wards - they just aren't relevant. People don't care about Brown and Cameron they care what happens locally. Currently the "I haven't voted Labour before" posters are funnier than the ones you displayed…that will probably change several times over the next couple of months. Does it matter? Again thanks for the laughs.
Posted by Nash at 09:18am on 20 February 2010
Is there any truth in the rumour that, if the Tories win, Cameron will rename 10 Downing Street "Wisteria Cottage"?
Posted by Zeno at 03:17pm on 20 February 2010
I suppose enough is enough. Plus I am confusing my overseas readers with my enthusiasm for the spoofs. I know it comes from a dodgy source but the idiot son saying something to the effect (I haven't got it in front of me) of 'I've never voted Labour but they always did what I told them' was pretty on the money. Maybe an illustration of the thousand monkeys with a thousand typewriters principle…
Posted by white rabbit at 07:44pm on 20 February 2010
...and thanks for the laughs, hope and posters.
Posted by Philip Painter at 11:39pm on 20 February 2010
you've got our attention, you've got the media's attention - now expose the lack of commitment they have to spell out their policies, because their polices are nothing but old school tory.
when i ask friends what cameron's family friendly policies are - they don't know. They fall for the gloss and spin and you've exposed that - now expose the hollow empty rotting inside… (if I knew how I'd be doing it in a shot)
Thank you and good luck x
Posted by Phoebe at 12:13am on 21 February 2010
Cameron's now claiming that the Conservative's are the 'party for everyone' on his latest webcameron on YouTube, if anyone's interested in taking a look.
I'm not sure if this means before or after the cuts, whether he means every millionaire who will save thousands in inheritance tax, every fox hunter or everyone who thinks we should be on the fringes of Europe!
Posted by Simon at 01:47am on 21 February 2010
Thank you so much for all the comments.
Becky L: "this has been one of the most exciting examples of collaborative creativity UK politics has ever seen". What, just the UK??
Percy: us "lefty mac users" actually hand-draw everything and then scan it in. We invented scanning too.
Chris T: Cleese and Gervais - I hope you're not referring to that Orange ad and "The Invention of Lying"
Andy N: I don't know what you could be referring to.
Michael: You're the sort of Conservative we like (apart from the policies)
White Rabbit: Is this the one - http://bit.ly/9wUOUl Yup: Tories manage to produce funny spoof shock!
Phoebe: "when i ask friends what cameron's family friendly policies are - they don't know". We've still got some more posters lined up on this theme - not quite finished yet…
Posted by Clifford Singer at 02:33pm on 21 February 2010
Cheers Clifford - the site has been very entertaining, and I'm looking forward to the continuation of the production of spoof posters (of all parties) during the election campaign.
Posted by Kyle at 11:41pm on 21 February 2010
Excellent idea now exhausted in its Tory-ness.
SO when is there the promised Labour site to diss the pompous wonks of Browndom…
" Labour - a future fear for all " ( and I KNOW you'll do better….)
Posted by John Ross at 04:49am on 22 February 2010
Hardly seems fair to stop now that Labour's bad ads are up. A future fair for all. Not likely.
Mr cameron
Posted by Cameron at 03:09pm on 22 February 2010
At first i was really pleasantly surprised by your posters, but then i began to think that the Tory advertisers were actually very Social-media-savvy and had created the original posters to be easily editable in order to generate the sort of viral success that your posters have had. Apologies for thinking that you may have been propogating a Tory advertising drive, but the elemetns of the Tory posters were made so easily editable that anybody with a version of Microsoft Paint could make a reasonable go of superimposing some comedic text on the image.
Now it seems that the Tory advertisers, far from being Social-media-savvy, are simply poor. And their latest attempt to send-up labour posters has desperate 'Johhny-come-lately' feel to it.
Congrats on your campaign, but i too would share the fear of playing into Tory hands…
Posted by Paul at 03:20pm on 22 February 2010
I have never laughed so hard for such a long time…...thanks for that.
Posted by Justin at 04:37am on 23 February 2010
this is the only way I have found so far of rebranding the Tories as themselves, keep this light on please, its the only hope we have!
Posted by Greg Dance at 09:14pm on 23 February 2010
Thanks for all the laughs! XD
Posted by Miranda Fox at 01:47am on 24 February 2010
Hey, it's been great fun. My lunch break has been a laugh a minute. Hurry up and get your ideas together - we need more. I'll finish with the words from one of my favourite songs "Don't stop now, we're having such a good time, we're having a ball"
Posted by J Steer at 02:44am on 24 February 2010
For everyone who thinks the Tories might have been nearly clever to try to start a viral campaign with the spoofs carrying their message further afield: I really doubt it. Near where I live there was a billboard with the "I've never voted Tory but…" with the subsequent platitude painted out and the phrase "...because I am not a complete [c-word expletive often meaning a very silly person indeed]." I saw it from a car and rushed home to get a camera to take a picture but even in that short time, the billboard had been painted over. Maybe it was the offensive expletive, more likely the advertisers think they own the public sphere and won't tolerate political back-talk. In any case, neither the Tories nor the owners of the billboard wanted too many people to see that spoof.
The PR virus is more likely in the photos, where the problem the Conservatives face is to create images of British normality that their more rabid wing can identify with without alienating people who haven't, indeed, voted Tory. The words on the Tory posters are really just banal chatter; the virus is in the images. This is why the spoofs work so well: the words in the spoofs subvert the images.
Posted by Matt at 08:08pm on 26 February 2010
funny funny!
Posted by Sharon at 06:04am on 27 February 2010
Fantastic run and I personally contribute the shift from right to centre not because of politics but because of the colossal screw up of that first poster which was so easy to deface which many people did (both via great sites like this or in some cases directly on the conservative paid space). So I want to say thank you for bringing us the funnies and the underlying political message.
Posted by Carl Ollerhead at 12:07am on 1 March 2010
Brilliant work you've done here - we first saw it in the newspapers and I've only just gotten around to checking the site out.
It's a shame that you're not making anymore, but I think you got your point across wonderfully (:
Posted by Lizzee C at 05:31pm on 1 March 2010
Well Done, Clifford you animated and re-animated Vox Pop - Keep the faith !
Posted by Danny at 03:16am on 3 March 2010
Refreshing, so funny….and wonderful to see Dave´s complacency and saelf-satisfaction punctured.
Not a Gordon fan…but honestly if Tories were back then its the end of the UK (Scotland will do a runner to a left wing party)
Posted by jennifer conway at 10:30pm on 4 March 2010
Please keep the site open, even if you aren't doing any more spoofs!
Posted by Daniel at 02:21am on 5 March 2010
Please come back all is forgiven - see the new Tory poster? It has GB with his hand full of money from unions supposedly
WHAT about a new poster with Cashcroft with Dave tucked under one arm and Haig (dressed as a schoolboy with cap) under the other.
Dave's mouth is stuffed with money and Cashcroft could be saying; MAKING MY MONEY WORK FOR ME or GET STUFFED, DAVE, BRTAIN IS MINE ALL MINE,NOW! Haig is reciting 500 times I MUST NOT BLAB; I MUST NOT BLAB; I MUST NOT BLAB!I want
another idea is to have Cashcroft using Dave and Osborne like a pair of Marracas
I wanna now buy A-me-ri-ca; I wanna now buy A-me-rica (in the style of Carmen Miranda)
Posted by Hookie at 05:50pm on 16 March 2010
"I've never voted Tory but this website is great"
Posted by Henry W at 10:29pm on 17 March 2010
You don't need to spoof the latest picture anyway. Can anyone say they honestly didn't immediately just think of Ashcroft when they saw it? Why take the mickey out of the poor lambs any more - they do such a good job of it on their own?
Posted by Sue Marsh at 01:41am on 18 March 2010
Your work is, has been and I am sure will continue to be for many years to come the perfect playground for the minds of many (if not all) to further disseminate politics, manifestos and government business. Super and thank you!
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While in a meeting with a colleague, I was surprised to discover five 2000's era Dell PC's running windows XP. After a brief discussion on what she is using the computers for and what she would like to use them for, we migrated all 3 to much nicer, safer, modern, and faster Lubuntu Linux.
About a week later I started my first Donors Choose project to bring a Raspberry pi computer center to the class room. It was such a big success that I have now gotten 5 Centers funded, with a 6th underway, not sharing a link for an unfunded project.
Just wanted to share as it's been a huge hit all over my school and it's simple enough for others to replicate.
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Almost nobody has campaigned so energetically for the poor in Africa as Bono, but when Bono spoke at a conference in Africa recently, he was heckled. Several Africans scolded him for demanding more foreign aid, saying that's not what Africa needs.
A handful of recent books and studies suggest that aid is sometimes oversold, including the superb new work called "The Bottom Billion," by Paul Collier, the World Bank's former research economist (it's the best nonfiction book so far this year). A forthcoming book, "Farewell to Alms," by Gregory Clark, a University of California economist, even argues that conventional aid can leave African countries worse off than ever.
And a study by two economists formerly of the I.M.F., Raghuram Rajan and Arvind Subramanian, forthcoming in The Review of Economics and Statistics, concludes:
"We find little robust evidence of a positive (or negative) relationship between aid inflows into a country and its economic growth. We also find no evidence that aid works better in better policy or geographical environments, or that certain forms of aid work better than others. Our findings suggest that for aid to be effective in the future, the aid apparatus will have to be rethought."
So does this mean we should give up on foreign aid?
No, not at all. On the contrary, I believe there is an urgent need for more aid. But this is an important discussion worth having, and the critics (though a minority of the experts) make some fair points. Plus, there's no doubt that aid can be made more effective.
Just to place this issue in context, consider a family I visited in a malarial jungle in Cambodia. The mother had just died of malaria, so the grandmother was left looking after five children — but she had only one mosquito net that could accommodate three children. So every night the grandmother had to decide which three children to put under the bed net and which to expose to malaria.
I left the grandmother money to buy another net. And since any of us would do the same to a woman in front of us, why shouldn't we donate a net through a group like www.MalariaNoMore.org?
Critics of aid worry that aid can jack up a poor country's exchange rate and thus undermine local businesses. That's a legitimate concern, but private aid flows are typically too modest to have an impact.
Another concern is that when aid groups move into a country, they grab all resources — sometimes turning scarce doctors into managers of aid bureaucracies. That's also a genuine problem.
But this is the 30th anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, and it's worth considering that foreign aid project.
The U.S. invested $32 million over 10 years in the global battle against smallpox. That sum is recouped every two months, simply because Americans no longer need to get vaccinated against smallpox. So that investment has yielded a 46 percent annual return since smallpox was eradicated.
In addition, an estimated 1.5 million people used to die annually of smallpox. So eradication has saved around 45 million lives over the last three decades.
Smallpox was a great success but not a fluke. Among other historical foreign aid successes are immunizations, oral rehydration therapy and the green revolution.
More broadly, when we pay a few hundred dollars for fistula surgery so that a teenage girl no longer will leak urine or feces for the rest of her life, that operation may not stimulate economic growth. But no one who sees such a girl's happiness after surgery can doubt that such aid is effective, for it truly saves a human being.
Look, it's true that aid doesn't always work — any more than other projects do. We spend billions on our military, yet it doesn't always succeed. But the lesson should be to deploy military power more wisely, not to give up on it.
So how do we make aid smarter? Health and education spending has a pretty good record. Some interventions, like school feedings run by the World Food Program, address both areas: For just 10 cents a day, a child gets a lunch that reduces malnutrition and improves attendance.
And we should commit more aid to nurturing manufacturing and business development, so that countries can grow on their own.
One great U.S. program, the African Growth and Opportunity Act, or A.G.O.A., does that and should be expanded. Another excellent U.S. aid program, the Millennium Challenge Account, nudges countries toward better governance — yet a stingy and myopic Congress is balking at funding it.
So let's accept that getting foreign aid right is harder than it looks — but also remember that 4,110 people didn't die today from smallpox. Aid can be cause for celebration, not embarrassment.


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