This record is most definitely fun, catchy, upbeat, and at times a bit childish. But by all means, being childish is something I hold near and dear to my heart these days, It is truly the cornerstone to living a happy and fun-filled life.
BLOGOSPHERE NEWS:December 3 2008THE SCOOP:* Jeb Bush Considers Senate Run* 5000 Dow?* Saxby Chambliss Wins Big* CDC at Fault if Terrorists Strike USA?* India Demands Mumbai Mastermind* GM Doomed?* Norm Coleman now Slightly FavoredA WORLD OF NEWS JEB Bush to Run for Senate? From Jeb: I am considering Senate run:Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush — the younger brother of the president — is weighing a
I am making myself brief in words... I will not spare another heartbeat for you, Sea.I was caught flat-footed. The Sea's sojourn is not in the cards... I am already benumbed. There are no doors opened for you, so never come. You bothered though, but I care not...You heard me Sea, I will not spare another heartbeat for you.
There were tabloid reports that the Yash Raj banner film tentatively titled Hadippa starring Rani Mukherjee and Shahid Kapoor had been shelved because of producer Aditya Chopra not happy being with debutante director Anurag Singh’s work on the film.
There were also reports that Rani was ghost directing the film and the next schedule was being [...]
I know most of you people reading this are Republicans but I had to vent so here I go.It looks like people care more about economics and white guilt than they do the safety of this nation and voting in experience. At the time of this post, it appears Oslobma will win the election. Also, it looks like the dems and Nancy Pelosi, their head goon, will control the House. Between the White House and th
Dee Snider In next weeks Steppin' Out magazine, Sirius radio host and rock legend Dee Snider sits down with Chaunce Hayden and tells why he thinks Sirius is doomed. Snider also tells Hayden how he feels about not getting invited to Howard Stern's wedding and why Howard stopped returning his calls.Chaunce Hayden: What is happening with Sirius? The stock is sinking faster than the Titanic. Will it
We’re all about the developmental milestones around here now. Maddie is now able to sit up! She can’t yet get herself into a sitting position, but if we put her in it, she’s good to go. It’s so stinking cute.
Madeline has become quite good at crawling. TOO good, in fact. She still hasn’t figured out [...]
That's the thing with having a little teething baby around. They put everything in their mouths.. anything but their teether. The one thing designed for them and most importantly, SAFE. But nooooooo.. this little tyke, just like other little 'uns I believe, prefer the TV remote control, game consoles, air-con remote, handphones.....
So now, my handphone is soaked with "Allie spit" and I hope it
We are all familiar with the end of Google Pages for new users as of August 08 as well as Googles advice suggesting that users switch over to Google Sites. Unfortunately it appears that Google Sites is more business and group oriented which means that bloggers may be out of luck. Currently, I am searching for additional options for Google Page users and I hope to have some solid alternatives. I am
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Whether I support the war in Iraq or not is immaterial. What I do support are our troops, our men and women in the military fighting and often giving their very lives. I support them and respect them. No, they’re not all worthy of that respect but in general, I [...]
Sturm und Drang bei Los Campesinos!. Schon das zweite Album innerhalb eines Jahres. Doch während Hold On Now, Youngster noch ein Rauschen und Brausen, ein rhythmisches Hacken war, hoffe ich bei We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed immernoch auf eine zweite Sturmböe. Und bekomme stattdessen manchmal eher ein laues Lüftchen präsentiert. Das Warten war eigentlich [...]
01. Ways to Make It Through the Wall02. Miserabilia03. We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed04. Between an Erupting Earth and an Exploding Sky05. You'll Need Those Fingers for Crossing06. It's Never That Easy Though, Is It? (Song for the Other Kurt)07. The End of the Asterisk08. Documented Minor Emotional Breakdown #109. Heart Swells/Pacific Daylight Time10. All Your Kayfabe Friends www.myspace.com/losc
In the latest example of financial market madness, the recent government “bailout” of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae has perversely resulted in a sharp rise in the value of the U.S. dollar. If the markets were functioning rationally, the transference of staggering new liabilities to the U.S. Treasury would have been immediately seen as catastrophic for the dollar. Instead the markets have ignored
The scientific world is shocked today as Michael Zeller—a professor of physics at Yale who has been working at the Large Hadron Collider—reportedly misquoted the Star Trek tagline "Where no man has gone before" and, further shattering the Universe time-space fabric, attributed it to Star Wars.read more | digg story
Europe’s economy is weaker, yes. The rise in the euro’s value has hurt exports. However, the vast majority of economists agree that the ECB will not reduce interest rates until the second half of 2009. That’s a long time from now. A lot can happen between then and now. The US economy, in contrast, continues [...]
This week I am holed up in Rome in the Centro Storico on the final leg of my summer vacation which has been something of a minor Grand Tour taking in Moscow, St Petersburg, Salisbury, Bath, London, Inverness, Edinburgh, Pisa, Florence and Rome. Travel broadens the mind and provides new insights as well as passing [...]
For those in the J2EE world, one of the hottest, most contentious topics that has arisen is what went wrong with EJB, version 2. For those not familiar with the subject, I’ll try to provide a brief description. In 2001, Sun released a specification for connecting a Java object, called an Enterprise Java [...]
CHRISTIAN BALE, who plays Bruce Wayne and his caped crusader alter-ego in blockbuster The Dark Knight, says everyone involved in the new Batman franchise at one point thought it was doomed. Bale, 34, said it had been a huge...
The only sustaining support possible for the human spirit, the one pure unsullied good men can hope to attain [in Norse religion] is heroism; and heroism depends on lost causes. The hero can prove what he is only by dying. The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.Such an attitude toward life seems at first sight fa
Bananas may soon cost $1 a pound, a price that may turn the everyday favorite back into the exotic fruit it once was in the continental U.S.
The immediate reasons for the price increase are the rising cost of oil and reduced supply caused by floods in Ecuador. But more importantly, a virulent strain of banana-killing Panama disease has begun to spread across the world, and banana companies have be
This is what happens when 'experts' tell the government how people should live.
'THREE glasses of wine during dinner is about to be redefined as a binge-drinking episode under the Federal Government's new official drinking guidelines to be released next month.'
Keith Dunstan often warned about wowsers and how they will if given the chance interfere with [...]
Many have voted for John McCain over Ron Paul in the primaries because he is seen as being more “electable”. But just how electable is John McCain?
Do you think we should stay in Iraq for 100 years? Do you believe it’s perfectly safe there now? Watch this astonishing video, produced by Ron Paul supporters, of John McCain’s own words.
The third and final satellite forming part of a new high bandwidth military communications network will be launched into orbit. It will have coverage in all areas where British forces operate, it will be very secure, able to block attempts to "jam" the communications and has cost close to £3.6bn.It will, however, fail miserably. Why? Because they called it the dumbest and potentially most provoca
Phil Harrison, who was dead on with his predictions that the DS and Wii were gimmicks doomed to quick deaths, has predicted an end to the single-player video game. I can see the future. Just not very well. Former Sony Computer Entertainment America front man and current Infogrames president Phil Harrison made the bold claim Wednesday that the games industry will soon move away from single-player
Jessica Simpson hinted that her romance with sports star Tony Romo was coming to an end in a new interview with Glamour magazine. Despite her denials, insiders insist the couple has separated,[...] Read more!
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We'll leave the clever stake metaphors to everyone else. According to Variety, CBS has officially cancelled Moonlight, citing unhappiness with the show's creative direction "and turnover behind the scenes among producers and scribes and tussling between the network and studio over budgetary issues. The final straw was the show's sagging ratings perf during the past few weeks after
Item:A model helicopter outfitted with a light array used in "Independance Day"(1996). This is the helicopter that first tried to make contact with one of the alien ships before things got ugly.Auction ends:May-18-08 16:18:00 PDT Auction link:ID4 Helicopter
A number of psychological experiments over the years have yielded terrifying conclusions about the subjects. No, not the occasional psychopath who turns up. We're talking about you.read more | digg story
Psychologists know you have to be careful when you go poking around the human mind because you're never sure what you'll find there. A number of psychological experiments over the years have yielded terrifying conclusions about the subjects. Oh, we're not talking about the occasional psychopath who turns up. No, we're talking about you. The experiments speak for themselves: #5. The Asch Conformity Experiment (1953) The Setup: Solomon Asch wanted to run a series of studies that would document the power of conformity, for the purpose of depressing everyone who would ever read the results. Subjects were told that they would be taking part in a vision test, along with a handful of people. The participants were then shown pictures, and individually asked to answer very simple a
"You can't be wright and wrong at the same time" - TCOOO I don't know how many of you have seen the comments from American Revolution trying to coax me to give my take on Obama outright shunning Re...
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Phobos, Mars' largest (but still tiny) moon, is doomed. Hanging in a low orbit, tidal forces will eventually break up the moon, forming a ring around Mars. Hang on for 100 million years or so, and you can see this ring, too. Phobos is likey a captured asteroid, and this high-res view of the moon from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows it's resemblance to other asteroids that have been photographed at high resolution.
The large bowl-like feature is Stickney Crater, named after Chloe Angeline Stickney Hall, mathematician, and wife, of astronomer Asaph Hall. For a large (13 Mb) photo of Phobos, click here. The large (3.5 Mb) photo of Stickney crater is here.
Phobos found at NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) here, and Stickney crater found at APOD here.
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Here's something I read at "Affiliate Confession" that kinda brought a unique view to the floor about Entrecard this very evening.
"Is Entrecard doomed because of new pricing system?"
Entrecard is supposedly "an easy way to network with other blog owners." In other words, it's a traffic generating blog widget.
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But seriously who gives a crap about this? Is there really a Yankees fan out there who is worried about this? If there is, please stop rooting for the Yankees, we don't need your kind.The Post even called the report "EXCLUSIVE," this happened last August, and I'm almost certain I read about it then, but seriously, if something is this stupid, I think removing the "exclusive" tag would be wise.The new Yankee Stadium may be cursed! A devilish Boston fan working on a concrete crew at the $1.3 billion stadium covertly buried a Red Sox T-shirt under what will become the visiting team's locker room to jinx the Yanks, two construction workers told The Post yesterday.How devilish... OH NO, he buried a SHIRT, what on earth are we going to do?!? "In August, a Red Sox T-shirt was poured in a slab
A wise man once said, "If there is one thing we've learned from history it's that we haven't learned from history." A part of me wants to believe this man was a historian himself, otherwise one would need to question whether or not he is repeating a statement that was already in history or making that statement without knowledge of history himself.
That is what a commentator at The Register's post about Josh Silverman, current CEO of eBay price comparison tentacle Shopping.com, will take Skype over on 24 March. Ebay is hoping Silverman can do something to justify its multi-billion dollar purchase of skype, Which is now a very crowded profitless pit. Josh Silverman, wrote: "Skype is one of the defining internet technologies of our era... it's changing the world. You don't look forward to something like that. You drop what you're doing and jump aboard." But I prefer the Registers definition of Skype, "Skype certainly is one of the defining internet technologies of our era. It was over-hyped, overvalued and has no discernable business plan, other than to recruit more free users."One of my humble ideas, SIP enable your Skype and sel
This is rich! When insanity is abound it is abound. Here is some insanity for you.
Tim Couch a Kentucky lawmaker is proposing a bill that would criminalize Internet anonymous posting. What it would entail is web site and forum operators being forced to collect and disclose publicly all identifying information about all visitors who post [...]
This is rich! When insanity is abound it is abound. Here is some insanity for you.
Tim Couch a Kentucky lawmaker is proposing a bill that would criminalize Internet anonymous posting. What it would entail is web site and forum operators being forced to collect and disclose publicly all identifying information about all visitors who post [...]
Smart Buyers Collection is a collection of words of wisdom by various Singapore property watchers.By: SeanPosted: 4-Mar-2008Singapore property market is doomed to fall/decline this year and next year. The main reasons are as follows: (a) There are still a significant number of speculators (estimated at 30%) still holding to their existing properties with the hope of making quick bucks before TOP. Unfortunately, there will be 30-40 condo developments numbering up to 20,000 units which will go TOP this year or next year. Its real unfortunate that in 2008-2009, the global economy will not improve. There will be over-supply on top of the existing sales that we see on Classified Ads every Saturday...We shall also see pages and pages of auction sales or files for bankruptcies. As such, some desp
The arrogantly titled Blog Council, managed by GasPedal, Chicago, IL, is the most ludicrous and ill-conceived idea to ever come out of a backward-thinking corporate cesspool that’s so desperate to get a piece of the pie, it’s willing to inject archaic web 1.0 sensibilities into the flourishing social phenomena the rest of us call blogging.
These geniuses think that a closed community of clueless and anti-social corporate bloggers can get together and set the blogging world to rights, without having to engage with ‘outsiders’ who have serious blogging experience and valuable input to share - instead, opting to decide for themselves what the best practices for corporate blogging are.
GasPedal, the marketing firm who manage the Blog Council have a blog, and this post really made me laugh…
“It’s really too bad that being a grouchy cynic is often consider[sic] a badge of honor among major bloggers. The general level of pessimism and meanness is ju
Fun tshirts can often be a hit at Christmas time and the Lenko range feature the quirky Doomed Romance range with free shipping on all orders over $50.
Doomed Romance #32 - I went out with a cold but my parents thought he was too common.
Doomed Romance #30 - I went out with a zombie - what a mistake - I gave him a piece of my mind!
And for those Bedazzler fans - I told my mum I was having trouble making friends at work so while I was out she bedazzled all of my clothes. Classic!
By: kelly Price If you want to learn currency exchange properly then you need to make sure you know which way to place your trading signals and predicting will see you lose. Predicting is simply hoping or guessing and is a better way to make profits which is the subject we will cover here.If you learn currency exchange and want to learn forex trading correctly then you need to understand the next point.Don't predict prices act on confirmation and this will see you trade with the odds - if you don't trade with the odds you will lose.You can't predict so don't try, simply learn to act on the truth:The reality of price momentum.Before we cover this in more detail, let's dispel the currency trading myth that has led to so many traders trying to predict.Currency prices move to a scientific formula.Theories such as Fibonacci Gann and Elliot Wave promote this myth and there are plenty of vendors spreading it and making money out of it - Fact is neither Elliot nor Gann made money with the
November 6, 2007
Question: Someone did my chart years ago. She told me that I would never have a committed long-term relationship and that I would just be bouncing from one woman to another all my life. This was very bad news to me. I’ve always wanted to settle down with one woman and have a family. In fact there’s nothing I want more in life. But it hasn’t happened yet.
Birth date: 12/27/1960, birthplace: LAT 37N42 LONG 97W20, Birth time: 12:30 PM CST
Answer: Believe me, after looking at your chart, I can safely say that that person did not know what they were talking about.
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I've written an article on CNET this week that ponders whether Firefox is too late to the mobile market, and whether Opera Mini can survive."I wonder if 'Firefox Mobile' is too late. My hope is that it isn't. Opera certainly has reason to stand up and say, "Yo, we've done the whole mobile Web thing and we've done it well, so sod off", but Firefox has two things Opera doesn't: open-source foundations and extensions."Link: http://reviews.cnet.co.uk/natelanxon/0,139102300,49293334,00.htm
Us Weekly hears that Pink was heard telling friends at West Hollywood hot spot Eleven on September 14th that her marriage to Carey Hart is in trouble. "We're just not getting along anymore," the singer reportedly said. "We each need our space. We nee
A while back, I posted “7 reasons why Microsoft is doomed“. It got lots of attention. Another blogger even devoted a whole post to refuting it. It also got Dugg, and the first commenter in the Digg forum pointed out: “Microsoft tries to be everything to everyone. They are out of their depth, because they spread themselves too thin.”
Yeah, OK, maybe I’m wrong. Sure, maybe Microsoft will be with us throughout all of human history, like war. But I don’t really think so, and there are several others out there who don’t think so, either. Over at Wombat Diet in a post titled “What Can Microsoft Do To Survive?”, some of the same points I touched on and some more new points are made. The author ruminates: “Now, it seems, there are signs that Microsoft?s days as a hegemon could be numbered. Take just a few trends…”
That’s the thing, is that the Redmond Giant is showing a lot of trends that have been shown by fa
The creationists never give up. After the Supreme Court ruled that creationism cannot be taught in the schools they first tried to rename it as intelligent design. They ran into legal problems in Dover, and political problems in Kansas as the IDiots were voted out of office. PZ Myers believes that they have a new strategy which might be in use in Texas.
If the creationists cannot convince enough people to drop creationism their next plan is to embrace the word “evolution” but redefine what it means. On the surface it would appear that the recent decision by the Texas school board not to include intelligent design in science classes is a victory. If Myers is right, the evolution they will wind up teaching is not actually evolution:
It’s a cunning plan to sow confusion, which is ultimately all the Intelligent Design creationists are good at. If state education standards mandate instruction in evolution and if the laws of the land make teaching Intelligent Design creatio
Dating is supposed to be fun. It's supposed to be a chance to meet other people with a view to having a good time and perhaps, if that's what you're looking for, lead to something more lasting. There are however some dates that just shouldn't happen. With hindsight these dates could lead to nothing other than a bad dating experience! One of the worst doomed to disaster dates is one that's fixed up by a third party. At best it could be just the best friend of your brother's date. At worst it could be the boss's niece who's in town for a weekend and needs an escort to a party. These dates are not usually set up to accommodate what you look for in a date. They are usually set up for the convenience of someone else, a way to make their life a little easier (as in not having a 3rd person on a date, or having someone else responsible for taking care of their family member's social requirements), and are nothing to do with whether or not it's going to be a good experience for you. G
I reported in February the item on broken biometric passports in The Register, which noted that "we were told by our consultants that the use of current facial recognition technology with two dimensional images (as is the case for ePassports) is not sufficiently reliable to enable fully automated searches even in relatively small databases, and performance is known to decline as database size increases..." The use of the iris scan in the ID card biometrics were put on hold by the government last December, which left the good old fingerprint. Now - via 'File on 4' (31 July 2007) - we learn that fingerprint matching suffers from virtually the same problem as facial recognition: the government's ID card system will give thousands of "false matches" when more than six million people are registered on its database. A leading academic, Professor John Daugman, said 'using fingerprints as a key biometric measure will cause major problems' although the Identity and Passport Service has den
The RockStartup crew had a few extra minutes yesterday and somehow got talking about the old videogame "DOOM" and then Pete shot Alan with a Nerf gun and one thing led to another...Check it out!
Laser printing technology has long been a choice for medium and enterprise sized businesses, and that has been reasonable choice. Printing machines utilizing laser delivered high quality output at, which is crucial for larger businesses, high speed. Enter any corporate or government office to see those buzzing cubes of plastic cover and electronic inside – laser printers, copiers, and multifunction machines.
Laser has been absolutely dominating office premises, limiting inkjet printer use to home and small offices. One of the reasons of laser printers dominations was incredibly low price of black and white, printouts compared to those produced by inkjet printer. Yes, inkjet were perfect for accurate reproduction of colors, so important in a field of, say, professional photography.
However, with recent inkjet technology advancements, inkjet printers are easy to enter medium and large business sector and even dominate it.
Couple of years ago HP introduced Scalable Print Technology that
Or is it primed to make a comeback? Well, maybe somewhere in between lies the best guess. The first and last thing to always remember when we’re talking about real estate is that IT’S ALL LOCAL.
Who cares if the sky is falling across the country. So what if USA Today, WSJ and the nightly news talk doom and gloom. The saying goes all politics are local and while that may be true, so are real estate markets and Columbus is no exception.
2005 was the biggest year in real estate history in Columbus, Ohio. 2006 was third. 2007 is on track to be the 4th best real estate market in history. That’s not shabby, really.
Also, Ohio does NOT have the highest foreclosure rate in the nation, Colorado does. Ohio is number 8. At the same time, we here in Ohio did experience a 20% increase in foreclosures last year over the previous year. Fact: The foreclosure rate for Ohio stands at 1.7% of all mortgages.
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I always knew one of the kids would be a gifted athlete. I hate watching people play sports. It bores me silly. Thus, it seemed logical to assume that one of my kids would be really good at them. It is the universe’s way of balancing the karma of all the really bad band and orchestra concerts my mother had to sit through.
My guess is that it is going to be F.
We did a photo shoot at the mall studio today. (password is 0799) When offered a t-ball glove J. wanted nothing to do with it. F was immediately fascinated.
It’s been tried before and failed, and now if a group of men with more money then they know what to do with it try it again, mark it down - it will fail. If your not following, a report broke Wednesday that Dallas Mavs owner Mark Cuban and a group are looking into the shot at forming a new football league that would rival the NFL. The league would play their games on Friday nights, and would focus on players drafted lower than the second round.
Right off the bat, this possible league has failure written all over it. Never mind the fact that Friday night is, across the country, the night for high school football, but how about those players drafted lower than the second round that go on to solid NFL careers? Why in this day and age would a player pass up the shot to play in the NFL to jump to a league that looks more like something thrown together like a backyard game then a league that long run would succeed.
Cuban told the AP on Wednesday that “We think there is more deman
A subject that went into obscurity for some time, DC's unremarkable new Batwoman, Kate Kane, returned to memory after I stumbled over this thread on CBR's board. She may have appeared in the first issue or two of 52, but since vanished up until the last few issues.I don't know if it's because DC partially backed away in the face of deserved criticism, but here's my take on why this is a failure:They could've made her an Estonian or an Armenian. Instead, they made her a lesbian.They've could've made her a Coptic Christian. Instead, they made her a lesbian.They could've made her a fugitive from Putin's neo-communist Russia. Instead, THEY MADE HER A LESBIAN.Mind you, nationality alone would not a character make. But it would certainly be more creative than the sleaze they came up with that other year.But, there's another fatal flaw discovered that dooms this new Batwoman too: seems the reason Kate Kane's been out of the picture for a while was because...she'd been seriously w
The last time I talked to my mom she asked me to blog about this and I neither agreed or argued because I knew that a one day boycott is as useless as disagreeing with mom.From MSNBC courtesy of The Rite Wing Technopagan (God luv 'em)"The real problem with this idea is that — as some versions of this e-mail helpfully suggest —these "boycotters" simply top off their tanks May 14 or wait to fill them up May 16. All that does is shift sales from one day to another. Any money “lost” from lower gasoline sales on May 15 will be made up with higher sales on the days before and after the “boycott.”"The only way to affect gas prices is to reduce consumption. As this has a side effect of reducing funds to countries that support terrorism and improving air quality it's an effort that is highly worthwhile.Since the coffee is still brewing I'm just going to copy and paste a post I made elsewhere on how to reduce gas consumption painlessly:gasbuddy.com tracks prices all over America o
"Doomed to Die with Boris Karloff" on Google Video
Shipping magnate Cyrus Wentworth, downcast over a disaster to his ocean liner 'Wentworth Castle' (carrying, oddly enough, an illicit shipment of Chinese bonds) is shot in his office...at the very moment of kicking out his daughter's fiance Dick Fleming. Of course, Captain Street arrests Dick, but reporter Bobbie Logan, the attractive thorn in Street's side, is so convinced he's wrong that she enlists the help of detective James Lee Wong to find the real killer.
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The buzz about the success or failure of the new serial Drive on Fox seems to hinge on two contradictory lines of thought:
1) With the level of support given by Fox to this project (including a solid Sunday night slot for its premiere, and a high level of early promotion), this might finally be Tim Minear's "breakthrough" he has been waiting for;
2) Timing and placement in the spring lineup,
By Mimi Rothschild
Although it doesn’t seem that the mainstream media is interested in reporting this, I came across this innocent-sounding blurb at 21st Century Cyber Charter School, a Pennsylvania government-sponsored virtual school.
We have been notified by the Department of Education that we have once again made AYP (Adequate Yearly Progress). 21st Century Cyber was the only cyber school to make AYP last year, and is the only cyber school in PA that is not on the academic warning list. Congratulations to our students and staff!
Congratulations indeed! Out of the twelve public cyber charter schools based in Pennsylvania, only one is meeting AYP standards set forth in the No Child Left Behind plan. What a track record! This news comes hot on the heels of the HSLDA’s recent announcement that public virtual schools are performing worse than not only private schools and homeschools, but the very public schools for which they were designed to provide an alternative!
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In a 2006 Zogby poll, it was determined that 59% of voters self-identified as fiscally conservative and socially liberal. According to The World’s Smallest Political Quiz at the Advocates for Small Government website, this is the definition of a libertarian. So why do libertarians consistently fare so poorly in elections? Is a [...]
Playstation 3 is losing (as seen above), but are the slow PS3 sales a result of pricing and offered games or truly the result of a lack of supply. Xbox 360 has been on the market for over a year so of course it's numbers are higher, but the Wii? I think the Wii's performance is quite surprising...mainly because it is not targeted to the hardcore gaming crowd. Then again, it is targeted to a more casual and potentially larger market. I just expected Nintendo to keep fading in the console market (I mean that was the trend after all: NES>SNES>N64>Gamecube) while it continued to dominate the portable market. I guess the innovation of the portable DS has carried over with the Wii into the console market. Good for you Nintendo!So is the PS3 doomed because of its high pricing, Sony's arrogance, and buggy consoles? While I think these all contributed to Sony's shaky launch, they are not really perpetual or irreversible problems. For instance, I have always planned to buy a PS3, but
I've come across an interesting French blog, France-Echos: le blog in English, with News from France... that each day is confronted to islamization, jihad, intifada, invasion and intellectual terrorism, offering a glimpse on how truly out of control France is. Stuff the MSM media prefers to avoid talking about. Be sure to check out this post:Europe's Islamic future is now The Obin report, innocuously entitled "Signs and Manifestations of Religious Affiliation in the Educational Establishments" and headed by the inspector general of French education Jean-Pierre Obin, the study was actually finished last year but remained unpublished until leaked on the Internet a few weeks ago. It is easy to understand why the French government was unwilling to publish it. For the survey is a devastating indictment and an anxious wake-up call at the same time. The result of an extensive research and five months of field interviews in numerous schools in 20 French provinces by a distinguished gro
There are a few savvy web folks who have effectively used keywords and relevant content to generate a huge amount of links to their blog or website. These guys are mavens when it comes to keywords, they know how to choose them, and they know how to optimize for them. In this way, they have [...]
It’s easy to catch a whole plethora of links on the Web. In fact, some cutting-edge bloggers and writers have managed to garner a universe of links simply through their strong writing skills, while denser types slave away at writing volumes of dull content, only to find that no one cares. Simply put, the successful [...]
I've seen many experts and football fans predicting the Raiders doom now that we were shut out during our first regular season game. I've even seen Raider's fans calling for Walsh and Shell to be fired and declaring Robert Gallery a bust. It is way too early to be making those types of predictions and here are some reasons why:1) With our new coaching additions and offensive line shuffling we didn't know what to expectIn our first game no one really knew how well our offensive line would perform. This is hopefully the reason why we kept going with a seven step drop on passing plays. There is also the question of why we didn't "adjust" our offense at half time. I am unsure if this has to do with some rust on Walsh or maybe we haven't gotten that far into our playbook yet. Whatever the reason, give us another couple of games before judging Walsh or the offensive line too harshly.2) Both of our other Divisional oppenents lostDespite how badly we performed, there is only one
When I have sold my car, I have signed another contract witch stated that if the car had hidden flaws I am obligated to pay the new owner the reparation costs. Now, the new owner has come to tell me that his driver airbag is missing. Now comes the big question: how do I know [...]
Like a bunch of bullies, the current Canadian power mongers government in power has decided not to invite anyone out of the in-club to the upcoming major important meeting on climate change in Bali, Indonesia.
The reason? The last time they invited opposition MPs to an international environmental conference, they were ...
Well, it only makes sense. You build cars in former communist countries a stone's throw away from the world's most militant (and deeply entrenched) labor unions and it's only a matter of time before the union boys show up and the term "low cost" no longer applies to your Eastern European factories. After reporting the end of the 19-day strike crippling Renault's Romanian Dacia plant, the Financial Times says Eastern Europe's wage inflation mirrors the majors' Spanish/Portuguese experience. "In the mid-1970s... Ford, General Motors, Renault, Peugeot-Citroën, Volkswagen and Fiat all established operations or joint ventures in the Iberian peninsula. But by the late 1990s, Spain had priced itself out of the market as a result of demands for higher wage
The man who wrote this amazing essay about the card industry, has started his own blog. I think Ben Henry just became obsolete!
Also, there are three or four new blogs I will be adding to the Sports Cards Blog Directory. Give me a couple of hours and I will do ...
