From Freakonomics:Killer Cars: An Extra 1,000 Pounds Increases Crash Fatalities by 47% The Actual report name is “Pounds that kill: The external cost of vehicle weight. Well, anyway, the study shows the obvious: If you have a big car that collides with a smaller car, the small car folks are toast. Well, duh. Yes, all [...]

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It is with great joy, yet the stigma that I have reached the lofty position of Grandfather is obviously weighing on my mind! I must be getting old! My son Paul and his lovely wife Josee have a child. Rowan Aesc Barrett joined the world last Saturday. Congrats to Rowan, but he has a long [...]

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I recently had the opportunity to review a DVD Made In Cuba. This got me into a reflective mode about Rick Wakeman and his music. I thought it might be fun to explore his career as I remember it. I was born in 1955, and by about the age of thirteen had started to take [...]

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An Unauthorized History I am the first to admit that I am a 55 year old man that still acts like a two year old. There is a one word question that I ask over and over again, Why? It is a simple three letter word, and I have used it so often I am [...]

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During World War II, British women would go undercover working as agents in Nazi-controlled France, no matter how dangerous and risky it would be for them. They could lose their lives but it didn’t stop them, they were there when they were needed. These were the days leading up to the D-Day invasion. In this [...]

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This all new star studded movie collection, Agatha Christie’s Poirot: The Movie Collection, Set 6 starring David Suchet, as the infamous Hercule Poirot, hit the streets on DVD on July 12, 2011. Poirot is Agatha Christie’s elegant Belgian sleuth of unsurpassed deductive powers and peerless viewer appeal. Included in this collection is three baffling mysteries [...]

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Home security in the physical world is locks, cameras and a home security system. In the virtual world home security is protecting your homes wireless internet connection.   I’ve spoke many times of how hackers can invade your wireless internet and steal your identity by getting onto your computer. We’ve also touched on how pedophiles [...]

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“Simple device identification” relies on cookies or IP addresses to confirm that a customer is logging in from the same PC that was used to create the account. The Financial Federal Institutions Examination Council has explained the fallibility of this system: “Experience has shown this type of cookie may be copied and moved to a [...]

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There are by now innumerable psychological assessments of Breivik online. Practically every publication you log on to has one. And they are all rather laughable when one looks at the things upon which the various diagnoses are based: Breivik played violent computer games. So do a billion other men. Breivik did not relate well to [...]

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