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Denver Depending Upon Less Lethal Weaponry at Democratic Convention
WOW...the Denver Police Department ordered pepper spray guns and extended-range tasers and weapons that incapacitate people with high-intensity sound?
Hmmm...extremely interesting to me that they chose these less lethal weapons when it comes to incapacitating an aggresive person. Appears that a message is being sent here that they're good enough to stop an attacker in their tracks.
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/jun/17/denve... WOW...the Denver Police Department ordered pepper spray guns and extended-range tasers and weapons that incapacitate people with high-... more -
How to survive a long distance relationship
A funny video chronicling the plight of those involved in LDRs.
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Disaboom offers 5 tips to live forward with disabilities
“I think most able-bodied people would say that they’d rather die because they have no point of reference. So the thought of disability is scary and intimidating,” said Whitney Sivill, a Disaboom blogger. “But if they were ever put in the situation, the majority would react like the rest of us - go through the grief process, adapt and thrive.” “I think most able-bodied people would say that they’d rather die because they have no point of reference. So the thought of disabili... more
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FAMU BAND CAMP
MARCHING 100
The Marching 100 is a marching band at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) in the United States. The first band at FAMU was organized in 1892 under P.A. Van Weller. From an original 16 instruments, the Marching "100" has grown to over 360 members. The band has been credited for 30 innovative techniques which have become standard operating procedures for many high school and collegiate marching band programs. cONTINUED ON WIKIPEDIA
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Seven Bizarre Mating Rituals
It is amazing to learn about these bizarre mating rituals that you probably did not know about.
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Helen Mirren, still sexy in her sixties
What is the essence of modern womanhood, the one hard-to-define component that makes us all want to cheer the loudest, ecstatic with gratitude for the changes wrought over the past few decades? What is the thing that has made the most difference – the right to vote, equal pay or the elusive promise thereof? The pill? Abortion? Divorce?
Or the possibility that we may, at 62, perhaps look like Helen Mirren in a bikini?
And if you think that’s shallow, I would humbly posit that you understand nothing at all about real women’s hopes and ambitions.
Today we all have fortysomething, fifty-something, even sixtysomething friends who dress in such a way that they look about 15 from the back. We think it’s perfectly normal. It was not always so, even within living memory. What is the essence of modern womanhood, the one hard-to-define component that makes us all want to cheer the loudest, ecstatic with g... more -
Climate change to affect health care?
We know about the rising temperatures. The floods and hurricanes, the diseases and the droughts. Now a new EPA studies is released that reiterates all of that, but it also makes the claim that the poor, elderly, and the young will suffer the most in terms of health care.
They won't have access to it, to treatment for climate-change related illness. And that, is another effect of global warming, the EPA says. So it is now, finally, a consideration amongst our policy-makers that the change occurring around the globe is going to affect who gets medical treatment and how. Katrina, anyone? We know about the rising temperatures. The floods and hurricanes, the diseases and the droughts. Now a new EPA studies is released tha... more -
Music from Nazi concentration camps brought to life
You don't think of music when you think of the Nazis or their death camps. Music is supposed to be joyous. but music was also used as a way to control the masses. A way of controlling them. Monitoring them.
Francesco Lotoro has been pulling music together from death camps around the globe since 1991. Not just from Poland and Germany, but from Italy and from as far away as the Phillipines. Death and music. It makes you wonder what these symphonies sound like. Does Some are written on toilet paper. Some have mistakes that Lotoro must correct.
What did they intend? What were they thinking of when they wrote it? Where were they?
What did they sound like? Lotoro has spent the better part of two decades trying to find out, digging through his findings. Bringing their music to life. But it's expensive, and compiling musicians and orchestras is not a small undertaking.
Somebody find this man a Rockefeller. You don't think of music when you think of the Nazis or their death camps. Music is supposed to be joyous. but music was also used as ... more -
Teachment
This might or might not be interesting. It's original Title was miscellaneous brilliance from me and my Friends' Asses because that's what this piece is. We are funnier on camera. This might or might not be interesting. It's original Title was miscellaneous brilliance from me and my Friends' Asses because that's ... more
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Real Talk Poets
Poets from every where feature Go Hard Entertainment
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Money, money, money
Is it realy true that money makes the world go round?
money in my words is evil, people are forced out of their homes, murdered, conned and cheated because of money so why do we have it???
I know in a way we need it otherwise everyone would be spoilt because you could have anything you want and we couldnt all be equal because some people deserve less because they dont work for their money so i suppose money was the only solution but how could one small thing cause so many big problems??
Would you lie for it?
Would you steal for it?
Would you KILL for it?
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Can we trust anyone???
How can we tell if we can trust someone, i've had an experience that kind of gave me a realy big trust problem and it made me get thinking, How can we trust anyone???
Ignoring the big thing that happened to me and just looking at small things its kind of hard to trust, i was in a town centre when i saw a begger, he was wearing shabby clothing and he looked in an awful state so i gave him 2 pounds, he said he was gonna buy some food and he thanked me for my generosity.
Later on in the day i went into a shop and i saw the man again, he wasnt buying food, he was buying cigarettes and to think that i trusted him to look after himself and spend the money on something useful and he was buying fags instead.
Has a friend ever told your secrets???
I think everyone has had some problem with trust but how bad was yours?
Let me know and i'll tell you what i think. How can we tell if we can trust someone, i've had an experience that kind of gave me a realy big trust problem and it made me get thin... more -
Mars once had oceans, and was "a great place to live"
The image of barren, rocky, frozen plains we have come to associate with the 'Red planet' does not so much as hint that it could ever have supported life.
However the giant cayons which cut through the planet's surface have long been interpreted by scientists as evidence that water once flowed, as they bear many classic features of fluvial erosion on Earth. But it's extremely hard to determine when, if at all, it was present, for how long, and what caused it to disappear.
Now though, a professor at Brown University, after examining the very latest data from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, has deduced that Mars was once "a benign, water-rich environment", and importantly it was so "for a long time". This supports the theory that at one point (from 4.6-3.8 billion year ago) Mars could have supported microbial life, in a similar way as did our young planet.
Some of the most exciting evidence was the observation of hydrated clay-like minerals, which were "clearly lain by water." These minerals were deposited in "fans and deltas", which further indicates that flooding once took place.
The next test the team want to carry out is to search for organic chemistry, the fingerprint of life, on Mars, to continue to build evidence that it could have supported life. The image of barren, rocky, frozen plains we have come to associate with the 'Red planet' does not so much as hint that it could ever ... more -
READ THIS TO WIN A PRIZE
Why is it that poeple fool you with pop ups on your computer saying you've won or press this to collect your prize, the only reason you're reading this is probrably because you saw the win a prize.
If you've got anything to comment abbout in life that you dislike tell me (Write to me) and i'll write back and tell you what i think.
I promise to read every comment, good or bad so write and tell me what you think. Why is it that poeple fool you with pop ups on your computer saying you've won or press this to collect your prize, the only reason yo... more -
Lies
How seriously do you take lies, i take lies realy seiriously but still in my life i have told a lie, even when i take it so seiriously.
Nevermind, thats not important. How seriously do you take lies, i take lies realy seiriously but still in my life i have told a lie, even when i take it so seiriously... more -
Hey, this is me
I dont know who will bother to read my comments but i hope someone will.
I've had an eventful life, i wouldnt say it was terrible because i know other people have worse problems than me but i wouldnt say my life was or is great if you get what i mean.
If when you've read any of my comments you want to write to me and give me your ideas and comments you can write to...
Abbie Watson
7 Orchid Avenue
Norfolk
Toftwood
Dereham
NR19 1JT
and i will try my best to write back.
I'm happy to hear about your problems and to write back, i hope that i can help lots of people feel and look at things the way i do. I dont know who will bother to read my comments but i hope someone will. ... more -
Lost and alone
If you look around yourself and in the world you live in you will see that thousands of people are alone.
Old men and women are left to die alone, children are put in care homes, how is it possable that in a world with too many people so many can be lonely.
Forget about the other huge problems, like global warming, poor countries and wars and just think about where you live, do you ever see a person walking down the street alone?
I dont quite understand how but lonelyness is a growing problem and you can make a diffrence, say good morning to people on your way to the park or help an old lady find what shes looking for on a supermarket shelf, its not hard but just theese 2 minutes you could spare a day could make all the diffrence.
THINK If you look around yourself and in the world you live in you will see that thousands of people are alone. ... more -
Would you rather be blind or deaf?
This pod asks a question I have tried to answer all of my life, and it's essay style filmmaking keeps the viewer connected to the material on several levels.
As soon as begin to think "I choose blindness" as my answer, I change my mind and realize I couldn't handle it. I'm a visual artist, but on the other hand I love music.
So, I set out to ask those around me and observe unlikely situations and objects that surround the topic of being blind or deaf.
My niece, who was temporarily blind for a day, gives a child's perspective on the topic.
Check it out.
This pod asks a question I have tried to answer all of my life, and it's essay style filmmaking keeps the viewer connected to the mate... more -
The 10 Worst Corporations of 2007
Neither Honest Nor Trustworthy: The 10 Worst Corporations of 2007
by Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman
The U.S. public holds Big Business in shockingly low regard.
A November 2007 Harris poll found that less than 15 percent of the population believes each of the following industries to be "generally honest and trustworthy:" tobacco companies (3 percent); oil companies (3 percent); managed care companies such as HMOs (5 percent); health insurance companies (7 percent); telephone companies (10 percent); life insurance companies (10 percent); online retailers (10 percent); pharmaceutical and drug companies (11 percent); car manufacturers (11 percent); airlines (11 percent); packaged food companies (12 percent); electric and gas utilities (15 percent). Only 32 percent of adults said they trusted the best-rated industry about which Harris surveyed, supermarkets.
With the 10 Worst Corporations of 2007, we aim to show - again - that Big Business is out of control and to connect comparable abuses to the failure of government overseers, regulators and enforcers.
Presented alphabetically, here are the 10 Worst Corporations of 2007:
http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/mm2007/112007/mokhi... Neither Honest Nor Trustworthy: The 10 Worst Corporations of 2007 by Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman ... more -
EU Parliament warns Italy over Gypsy fingerprinting
"The European Parliament on Thursday called the fingerprinting of Gypsies in Italy a clear act of racial discrimination and urged the authorities to stop it.
In a resolution, the EU assembly said the measure is not supported by EU human rights treaties and that EU citizens of Roma, or Gypsy, origin must not be treated differently from others in Italy, who are not required to submit their fingerprints.
The Italian government has begun the Gypsy fingerprinting as part of a wider crackdown on street crime. Italian newspapers have published photographs of gloved officials taking fingerprints from the ink-stained hands of Gypsies living in around Naples, and authorities are expected to move in on camps in other cities in the coming days.
Early examples of the papers filed in Naples showed local authorities also were identifying those fingerprinted according to their religion, ethnicity and education level..."
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