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I am beating those Black Flaggers around the block to come from behind and kick their butts.
(kidding.)
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http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/17/healthscience/17mund.php
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I am beating those Black Flaggers around the block to come from behind and kick their butts.
(kidding.)
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http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/17/healthscience/17mund.php
Some news about bisphenol A in plastic ...
http://www.newsanchormom.blogspot.com/
...and cans.
Get your safe drinking water bottle here.
Sigg, the little company with the big brand
CHICAGO (Reuters.com) -- A company doesn't have to be big to go global, but it helps to catch the right wave..
caffeinated"What time did I kill your friend?"
A healthy person can eliminate 15 ml of alcohol per hour, the equivalent portion found in a single 355 ml of beer.
So, if she were twice the legal limit two hours after the accident...
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Roberts, a vehicle mechanic with the 3rd Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, was waiting to be deployed to Afghanistan next February.
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http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=1e5dc745-6998-47a3-b901-e2b53df4e0e8
special4 copies left.
Malachite Casket: Tales from the Urals (Paperback)-- -
"In 1992—the 500th anniversary of the Spanish conquest of Guatemala—the Guatemalan Catholic Church issued a public apology for abuses committed against the Indians during its evangelization of Guatemala."
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caffeinatedIn addition to since 2006 having an actual police helicopter,
(http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200607/24/eng20060724_286031.html)
Shenyang is poised to become the city in China to use a robot receptionist, armed with state-of-the-art technologies.
Measuring 1.6 meters high and weighing 50 kg, the robot's main equipment includes six sets of sonar, one microphone, two LED lights, two driving wheels and a directive wheel.
Running on a single 3-4 hour battery charge, he can work ten hours straight.
But can he smile like this?
This situation in China isn't funny. Anymore.
sharpThe most interesting things... you find on the way to someplace else
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The Wierd, the wacky..but the not so wonderful
A high-profile obscenity trial in the U.S. has been tossed into limbo after it was discovered that the top federal judge presiding over it had used his personal website to host sexually explicit material including footage of a semi-naked man cavorting with a sexually aroused farm animal.
It does sound a bit co-opted from the David Letterman Show doesnt it?
coolShe is a Harvard-educated economist and grandmother of eight who had been exiled to Nigeria and is the continent of Africa’s first freely elected female head of state. Nicknamed the Iron Lady (didnt we already have one of those?) , meet Johnson Sirleaf..
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Winner, Investigative and current affairs category
Meeting the Taleban
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR8bclqexbY
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Remember the startling results of researchers info seek on Americans geographical knowledge of the world?
"When filmmaker Steven Okazaki took to the streets of Tokyo to ask people what important historical event had occurred on Aug. 6, almost no one knew the answer."
http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/int/2007/08/06/okazaki/
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Sex & the City star Kim Cattrall .....wait, back up and lets repeat
Sex & the City star Kim Cattrall was in Banff recently
to collect an NBC Universal Canada Award of distinction.
If youre a Hollywood star and you havent been to Banff, you aint ^&&*!
This dreamboat picked up a special accolade
The Award of Excellence. Congratulations Sofia!
This show was also recognized for an Award.
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"Turkish for Beginners" is a German TV-Show (called "Türkisch für Anfänger")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfgoBgGj6hM
and also picked up an Award.
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For the complete list of the 22 category winners, special jury prizes and other awards visit http://www.banff2008.com.
don't askOle Andersson, the Swedish-born racer best known for his Toyota-based European rally teams, died yesterday when his 1957 Volvo crashed during a vintage rally event in South Africa
http://jalopnik.com/395908/ove-andersson-rally-hero-1938+2008
"Ove was an inspiration to our team and to many in motorsport," -Toyota Motorsport chairman Tadashi Yamashina
 The 1957 Volvo Andersson was driving in classic rally in South Africa |
accident proneDuring the 1790s post-Revolution American merchant shipping began to be harassed by France and thus America began thinking about constructing a force to defend her merchant marine fleets.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Act_of_1794
Meanwhile across the seas in Britain, a contigent of anti-slavery men are lobbying and seeking an end ban to the practice of slavery.
But to speak of human rights in 1793, the year France declares war on Britain, is to risk being labeled a friend of the French Republic.
Virtually all abolitionist acts and activities were prohibited with Parliament's passage of severe civil liberties restrictions like the Seditious Meetings Act and the Treasonable and Seditious Practices Act of 1795.
Due to these acts, the organizing activities required for the abolition movement - meetings, debates, circulating petitions - were now viewed as seditious and subversive.
The anti-abolition lobby in Parliament was allowed to defend slavery by saying if the slave "trade" (Europe<->Africa<->West Indies) were abolished this would be like granting the French to have all the West Indies. i.e. Haiti
With ongoing hostilities with France, slavery was seen as essential to the empire.
Meanwhile on January 1, 1804, Haiti proclaimed its independence to became the second independent state in the Western Hemisphere (U.S. was the 1st) and the first free black republic in the world.
The accompanying losses of a major source of western revenue shook Napoleon's faith in the promise of the western world, encouraging him to unload other French assets in the region including the territory known as Louisiana. Many of the freed slaves of Saint-Domingue landed and settled in New Orleans.
It would have to be until 1806-07, when maritime lawyer and abolitionist James Stephen, recently returned from the Indies, suggested a (anti-French!) Bill, preventing and curtailing French commerce by prohibiting British slavers from selling their slaves to American or French planters with the Foreign Slave Trade Act which quickly passed and had the effect of prohibiting two thirds of the British slave trade.
The next year, a bill to abolish the slave trade altogether finally passed.
Ending the slave trade would lead to the abolition of slavery with
the Slavery Abolition Act in 1833.
source(s): Wik
http://www.bluemassgroup.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=6794
note: British captains who were caught continuing the trade were fined £100 for every slave found on board. However, this law did not stop the British slave trade. If slave-ships were in danger of being captured by the British navy, captains often reduced the fines they had to pay by ordering the slaves to be thrown into the sea.
