Did you know that October was Domestic Violence Awareness Month?
Domestic violence can be done by men or women, occurs with married couples or in informal relationships, heterosexual couples or gay couples. As a doctor, I’ve treated cases among all ethnic groups, among the rich and poor, and in educated and uneducated people.
Yes, fellows, I […]

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Ah, the great Tina Brown, finding she is passe in the “old media”, has decided to imitate the social climbing Huffington in the “new Media” by getting her own group blog.
It will probably be a hit.
But I have a long standing dislike of Tina Brown, because she is a bigot.
Years ago, she moved to Washington […]

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The Brookings Institution hosted a less-than-entirely pessimistic discussion today of how to cope with the global financial crisis.   
Treasurer Wayne Swan of Australia pointed out that few countries had reformed their financial systems in response to lessons learned from the 1998 Asian financial crisis, but Australia had reformed and so has thus far escaped the full brunt of the new crisis.  […]

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Buddy films are the bread and butter of Hollywood.  They can be anything – action, comedy, drama, anything you can think of, I’m sure they’ve done it.  There’s just something about that interaction between two people, especially when they’re just the right amount difference from each other.  Now there’s a new buddy film out on […]

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Starting October 7th, now available on DVD from PorchLight Home Entertainment comes a timely tale about frogs and how important family is.  A Tad Of Christmas Cheer is ready to leap out of your television screen and teach you a holiday lesson.
Tad is a four year old tadpole, but there’s a new baby in his […]

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By Pam Siegfried
Special to The Stiletto Blog
As a convenience store clerk who works the graveyard shift I have been robbed seven times. Because I am willing to walk home from work alone, I have been sexually assaulted twice. Sexual assault covers two crimes – an aggravated assault (in my case, stabbing) and/or a sexual act […]

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Global Markets Panic
Following yesterday’s U.S. market disaster, global markets have dropped some 6 to 10% or have been closed down. Only Iran thrives. Obama is far ahead of McCain in polls regarding capacity to handle our economy and the Iraq war: http://www.usaelectionpolls.com/
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“A war is just if there is no alternative, and […]

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Even some of my die hard republican friends are expressing shock after reading an investigative report linking Governor Sarah Palin to gun toting separatists posted by investigative journalists Max Blumenthal and David Neiwert at Salon.Com. The very depth and intimacy of Sarah’s relationship with these radicals but for black and white documentation would make for […]

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A panel of 44 men and women armed with dials numbered from 0 (most negative) to 100 (most positive) assembled by CBS to watch the veep debate at its TV City research facility in Las Vegas yielded an unexpected finding: Biden did better than Palin when he talked about the Iraq war, but the tables […]

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A cleanup to remove asbestos containing plaster from a veteran’s home in Illinois has recently taken place. The asbestos was discovered when work was taking place to fit a new call light system in August at the Illinois Veterans Home at Manteno.
Asbestos was found in the plaster at the thirty eight bed unit. Asbestos containing […]

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Democratic candidate Barack Obama was a member of the socialist New Party during the 1990s, according to new evidence unearthed by web bloggers, receiving the party’s endorsement for his state Senate run in 1996. Reports earlier this summer that Obama was associated with the New Party were vigorously denied by the Obama campaign and the […]

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That debate at Belmont University in Nashville, TN, was no town hall meeting. It was highly ritualized Kabuki Theater.
To begin with, instead of just letting the first 5,000 people to show up into the Curb Event Center and taking questions from the audience at random, The Gallup Organization hand-picked 80 uncommitted voters from the Nashville […]

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One does of course understand that no reporters are allowed into Zimbabwe, making actual reporting difficult.
But that doesn’t excuse the AP from their admiring reporting on Mugabe.
Analysis: Zimbabwe’s Mugabe confident on Cabinet
Yup. Not stubbornly refusing to cooperate with the agreement: he is confident!
It’s a waiting game, and no one is better at outlasting his competition […]

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The recent report that USPTO has sent a notice to US legal firms that they need to obtain “Export License” before outsourcing Patent drafting work to India has raised doubts whether this could be a deathknell for the fledgling LPO industry in India. The industry which is estimated to be worth around US $640 million  […]

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Last week the infamous “Ignoble Prize” went to scientists who studied how the crunch of potato chips improve their taste, investigated how income is related to the monthly cycles of lap dancers, and investigated how slime mold figures out how to solve Mazes.
But today’s actual genuine Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to three scientists […]

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The estimated US 2.2 billion LPO industry in India has been shaken with a report appearing in Economic Times today about th USPTO move to put restrictions on export of information regarding Patent applications. According to the report US law firms outsourcing their patent related work to India would now require “Government Clearance”.
While some have […]

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Today Cindy McCain decided to become vocal in the debate over candidate character. While I sympathize with the sense of desperation team McCain is feeling. Pushing her into the spotlight is a serious mistake. The media abided by a mutual desire of both candidates to leave family out of the fray.
By joining the mud fest herself […]

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The family of a woman that died as a result of secondary exposure to asbestos dust and fibers has been told that it can seek damages and compensation over her death. The woman died after being exposed to asbestos from her father’s work clothing since she was born, and her family have been told that […]

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 FreeMediaOnline.org and Free Media Online Blog October 8, 2008, San Francisco – Unlike the Voice of America (VOA), which had eliminated radio broadcasts to Russia shortly before the Russian invasion of Georgia, the BBC has decided to continue producing Russian-language radio programs while also expanding its Internet and video production.
FreeMediaOnline.org has obtained the details of the new British broadcasting strategy for […]

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I caught Fox spew master Sean Hannity’s hate radio program for the first time this afternoon. It was a delight to hear him label Barack a terrorist and boast in the same breath, he’s been invited to join Governor Palin and her running mate on the campaign plane.
It tells us the Senior Senator from Arizona […]

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By John Donovan
7 October 2008
Shell employees will need to be even more on their guard when communicating by email or using instant messaging systems. Shell Global Security managed by Ian Forbes McCredie OBE, a former senior officer of the British Secret Service, will now have access to an archive of all such communications.
The new security […]

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Most of the people that know me think that I am a technology lover. This likely stems from the fact that I hate screws, once taken out, they rarely get put back in. I also love to tinker with stuff. But the stuff I tinker with tends to be out of warranty by at least […]

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Will the bailout enacted last week do the job?  The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 1 vests in the Secretary of the Treasury liberal freedom to essentially run a $700 billion hedge fund.  Consider the following,
- The act “establish[s] the Troubled Asset Relief Program … to purchase, and to make and fund commitments to […]

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 Thomas Palfy lives an enviable life.  The Hungarian born photographer, now living in Australia, constantly travels the fifth continent in search of new material for his series of photo journals.  In his latest book, Australia Illustrated: The Eastern States, Palfy sets out from his home in Melbourne on a tour of myriad cities, architectural monuments […]

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If there is one thing I have often wondered, it has been why mean behavior seems to be catching or contagious. We see it amongst us and people always seem to think its funny and a way of entertainment. We watch it on television, want more of it and allow it to filter into our […]

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“A Toon Book” written by Art Spielgelman is aimed at early readers and tells the story of three rabbits. There is a Mom rabbit, a Dad rabbit and a boy rabbit named Jack. They walk on two feet, live in a house like a human family, dress like a human family and act human in […]

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David Schussler
newsweaver
This is a quote attributed to Barry Goldwater Jr. because that is where I heard it last week. The statement was from Mr. Goldwater, as part of a TV interview, in reference to the economic breakdown of our nation now ensuing. I believe it to be right on the money.
Now I’ve had a lot […]

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If you like blood and gore this movie is for you. With the rating of ‘Unrated’ pretty much the gloves come off in the gratuitous violence department  Director John Gulager is no beginner in this genre, and puts his experience to good use in Feast II. Backed up by the writing skills of Patrick Melton […]

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My late Mother a devout Irish catholic who attended mass daily thought the world of Charles Keating. He was a very public supporter of Mother Teresa and catholic charities here in Phoenix. She assumed as did many of the elderly that since her banker said the bonds were government insured and he worked for that […]

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Today’s Hope is a national nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide families of children who have Autism Spectrum Disorders with access to early intervention services, specifically early intensive behavioral intervention (EIBI).
According to the Association for Science in Autism Treatment (ASAT), EIBI for children who have autism consists of 20-40 hours per week of individualized […]

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