Owners of Sidekick phones, made by a Microsoft subsidiary and sold by T-Mobile USA, may have lost all the personal data they stored on the phone, including contact numbers.Apparently their backup
The companies say the data is "almost certainly" gone after a failure of servers operated by Microsoft wiped out the data. The companies said they hoped to update customers on recovery efforts Monday.
Gaza City zookeepers have found a creative way of drawing crowds to their dilapidated zoo — by painting their donkeys. The Marah Land Zoo's only two zebras died of hunger earlier this year when they were neglected during the Israel-Hamas war.With judicious use of paint
John Tabutt, 62, told investigators he got his gun when he thought he heard an intruder, then fired at a figure in the hallway, according to Brunelle. It was Tabutt's live-in fiancee, 62-year-old Nancy Dinsmore, who family members say he was going to marry Saturday. Tabutt told authorities he thought she was next to him in bed the whole time.If you don't wake up quickly... if it takes a while to perceive reality clearly... if you frequently wake up in a panic... be careful about keeping a loaded gun near your bed.
Two people died and an estimated 19 others were taken to hospitals after being overcome while sitting in a sauna-like sweat lodge during a Sedona spiritual retreat, authorities said Friday.They haven't figured out what went wrong yet.
A horror play in its 4th year...
Dream Theatre’s Annual Horror Play takes a horrific new twist by taking the Audience out of Anna’s living room and into the bowels of the basement…
A young teacher has barricaded herself in the basement while the entire bloodthirsty town masses to kill her… And lucky you... You're down in the darkness with her...
Study: Choose an Educated Wife for a Longer LifeI'll be living longer because
...the post of a blogger who receives cash or in-kind payment to review a product is considered an endorsement. Thus, bloggers who make an endorsement must disclose the material connections they share with the seller of the product or service.Oddly, from what I've heard, the regular press isn't covered.
Yet these liaisons were apparently consensual. The women were older than 21. There was no banishment post-affair. Letterman was not married. And this is network TV, not your local Wal-Mart.It was making sense until that last sentence.
A photograph of the Iranian president holding up his identity card during elections in March 2008 clearly shows his family has Jewish roots.A self-hating Jew!
Because my dog is less than human, he wants and needs the security of a leash and master. Granted his nature, the one thing my dog does not need is liberty.As for me, I holler
What about us and our nature? Throughout history people have had their human potential choked off by a leash that autocratic rulers placed around their necks. The first country to set the individual free and to put the government on a leash was America.
Piston engine goes boing boing boingYou don't really need your pump
but the Mazda goes mmmmmm.
Over the past two years, Robic, who is 40 years old, has won almost every race he has entered, including the last two editions of ultracycling’s biggest event, the 3,000-mile Insight Race Across America (RAAM). In 2004, Robic set a world record in the 24-hour time trial by covering 518.7 miles.Here's the crazy part:
Around Day 2 of a typical weeklong race, his speech goes staccato. By Day 3, he is belligerent and sometimes paranoid. His short-term memory vanishes, and he weeps uncontrollably. The last days are marked by hallucinations: bears, wolves and aliens prowl the roadside; asphalt cracks rearrange themselves into coded messages.His bodily vitality
In the darkness of the city, one light refuses to be extinguished.In some ways, silent acting
...the basic idea is no longer esoteric. In the 1970s it was made popular by Werner Erhard through est: "EVERYTHING A LIVING CREATURE EXPERIENCES IS CREATED UNIQUELY BY THAT LIVING CREATURE WHO IS THE SOLE SOURCE OF THAT EXPERIENCE." To be sure, this point, which is made most emphatically on the third day of the four-day training, is qualified on the final day when people are told:"You're machines.... Your lives are meaningless."Kaufmann thinks the purpose is to give people a "jolt" through Zen-like "paradox".
How can I, that girl standing there,Speaking of Yeats, here's a pic of me at his tomb:
My attention fix
On Roman or on Russian
Or on Spanish politics?
Cast a cold EyeVery simple, but who is this horseman guy? Is it one of the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse? Or is it just an imagined traveler - like me - who stops to look at his grave?
On Life, on Death.
Horseman, pass by.
I would encourage you to pick something, whether it’s health care, education, the environment, you know, there’s four key areas that the corporation has identified as the areas of service."The Corporation" being the NEA itself.
The unfortunate fact is that American academics have until recently shown little curiosity about conservative ideas, even though those ideas have utterly transformed American (and British) politics over the past 30 years.He goes on to describe some interesting academics attempts to overcome their aversion and actually study the strange ways of right-wing thinking.
"Look, I know this probably sounds arrogant to say," the president said, "but I redefined the Republican Party."In retrospect,
The play... is responsible for introducing the word "panache" into the English language.Originally, panache meant simply the sort of plume a soldier might wear in his helmet. After Rostand, it meant a "dashing confidence of style."
He is the very pineapple of politeness!"Pinnacle" was what she meant to say,
A Massachusetts Democratic state rep who voted to raise alcohol taxes and slap the increased state sales tax on hootch on top of that is caught buying bottles across the border in New Hampshire. . . . It’s a thing of beauty.I think that's fair. Just because he thinks citizens should pay, why should legislators have to do so?
"Putting numbing medication where the incisions will be. Making first incision right now," Corizzo tweeted at the beginning of the procedure.Fortunately, it's not the surgeon that's doing the tweeting.
Besides which, I know from experience that my boy is going to tune out any speech lasting longer than 30 seconds in favor of poking the little kid sitting next to him.Even when you let your rhetoric soar,
In Chicago, for example, once you factor in the federal, state, county and city manufacturing taxes, as well as sales taxes, more than 25% of the cost of a $30 bottle of spirits is tax - not money to the manufacturer, distributor, or retailer - taxes.I suspect this will lead to more people buying whiskey out of state
Gordon Brown’s government made the decision after discussions between Libya and BP over a multi-million-pound oil exploration deal had hit difficulties. These were resolved soon afterwards.After the oil deal hit a snag,
Edward Klein, speaking to WAMU guest host Katty Kay, said one of Kennedy's "favorite topics of humor was, indeed, Chappaquiddick."They say it's good to laugh at your failings, but...
"He would ask people, 'Have you heard any new jokes about Chappaquiddick?'" said Klein, a former Newsweek foreign editor and former editor in chief of the New York Times Magazine.
Various studies have found that people in depressed mood states are better at solving social dilemmas.Advice columnists should be assessed,
Why are inert pills suddenly overwhelming promising new drugs and established medicines alike? The reasons are only just beginning to be understood. A network of independent researchers is doggedly uncovering the inner workings—and potential therapeutic applications—of the placebo effect.My theory's incontestable:
The plant lures in the rats with the promise of sweet nectar. When the rat leans into the plant to drink the saccharine liquid, it slips on the pitcher's waxy interior, and gets stuck in the gooey sap. Once it is trapped, acid-like digestive enzymes break down the still-living rodent.At the link, there's a sad photo of a trapped rat, and fine time-lapse video of the growing plant.
They're talking, in the first place, about an attitude toward responsibility: we should not think of ourselves and others as self-responsible but as collectively responsible. “Brother” is used metaphorically, with the idea that the partially-collective ethic of the family should be extended across all of society.Won't they please accept
And they're talking, in the second place, about using compulsion to enforce their notion of collective responsibility.
There's something about August going into September where everyone in Washington gets all wee-weed up.Apparently he's expecting things to improve soon.
He was allegedly huffing from an aerosol can (and running through traffic near the Kmart and Kroger) shortly before the Tasering, so we can probably assume that was the X-factor.Fortunately the fire was of brief duration.
Wood was taken to Fairfield Medical Center for treatment of burns to his chest. He then was taken to the Fairfield County Jail and released at 11:20 p.m. Monday night on his own recognizance.Be careful, when you tase -
QALYs have been criticised because there is an implication that some patients will be refused or not offered treatment for the sake of other patients and, yet such choices have been made and are being made all the time. However big the pot, choices still have to be made.You put taxes in "the pot".
"I abstained from voting in November," he wrote in an e-mail. "Living in Illinois, my vote means close to nothing as there was no chance Obama would not win the state." If he had to choose a politician to support, Alkhateeb said, it would be Ohio Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich.This young man, however, did not put the word "Socialism" under Obama's picture.
Following a furor over how the data would be used, the White House has shut down an electronic tip box — flag@whitehouse.gov — that was set up to receive information on “fishy” claims about President Barack Obama’s health plan.The fish are on a spree
U.S. and Canadian currency had the highest levels, with an average contamination rate of between 85 and 90 percent, while Chinese and Japanese currency had the lowest, between 12 and 20 percent contamination.We'd better switch to a cashless society soon!
Cahokians performed human sacrifice, as part of some kind of theatrical, community-wide ceremony, on a startlingly large scale unknown in North America above the valley of Mexico. Simultaneous burials of as many as 53 young women (quite possibly selected for their beauty) have been uncovered beneath Cahokia's mounds, and in some cases victims were evidently clubbed to death on the edge of a burial pit, and then fell into it. A few of them weren't dead yet when they went into the pit -- skeletons have been found with their phalanges, or finger bones, digging into the layer of sand beneath them.Be wary of "simpler times".
Frank Hatley, 50, spent 13 months in jail for being a deadbeat dad before his release last month. A judge ordered him jailed in June 2008 for failing to support his "son" -- a child who DNA tests proved was not fathered by Hatley.He wasn't the dad.
Meanwhile, the administration sought to regain control of the health care debate by asking supporters to forward a chain e-mail to counter criticism that's circulating on the Internet.I hope the email includes a curse -
Chuck Pelkie, a spokesman for the state's attorney's office, told the Chicago Tribune, "It was not a simple yawn - it was a loud and boisterous attempt to disrupt the proceedings."To avoid 3 weeks in the pokey,
You know a sales pitch is in trouble when it starts with, "Look, you gotta trust me, we’re not going to kill your grandparents!“In the bit, Stewart claims to have pulled this graphic from the White House website:
UPS and FedEx are doing just fine. ... It's the Post Office that's always having problems.Sure. And private health insurance will be superior. The question, however, is whether the law will slant the playing field against private insurance.
Kiva Systems provides automated order fulfillment and material handling systems for distribution centers that enable companies to simplify operations and reduce costs, while increasing strategic flexibility. Using autonomous mobile robots, movable shelving and sophisticated control software, the Kiva Mobile Fulfillment System enables extremely fast cycle times with reduced labor requirements. From receiving to picking to shipping—Kiva automates fulfillment without unwieldy conveyor delivering best-in-class order accuracy and improved safety. The result is warehouse automation that is quick to set up, inexpensive to operate and easy to change. World-class companies including Staples, Walgreens, Gap, Zappos.com, Diapers.com, Quiet Logistics and DJO medical devices use Kiva automated storage and retrieval systems to fulfill direct-to-consumer, retail re-stocking and business-to-business orders.I'm a firm believah
Needham said the digging up of remains and dumping them in a back lot was a longtime practice at the cemetery. His preliminary research indicates that many of the remains came from graves that were rented as a lower-cost alternative to buying a plot, he said. When the lease expired, the cemetery dug up the remains and buried others in the plot, he said.I hadn't heard of this practice, but here's a different news story claiming the practice as not unusual at historically black cemeteries:
"Because they didn't have the money they rented it for 20 years. And then after 20 years they dug up the bones and put it in a mass burial style," said Priestly.If your grave was always just a rental,
If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.If they want fishy, it won't be far to reach.
Instead of socialized medicine, they say "single-payer healthcare."Hey, why not use "single payer" more widely?
It reminds me of Friedrich Nietzsche’s reception by the philosophers at the University of Basel (I haven’t come across their names in the history books) when Nietzsche assumed his teaching position there. As biographer Marianne Cowen tells it, the professors told their students not to take Nietzsche’s courses since he was a lightweight and not really a philosopher:Dismissal is an easier move
“For a time, Nietzsche, then professor of classical philology at the University of Basle, had no students in his field. His lectures were sabotaged by German philosophy professors who advised their students not to show up for Nietzsche’s courses.”
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