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Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:37:33 +0000
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Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:37:33 +0000
Die-Cut Business Cards Giveaway

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Giveaway Prize:

250 Die-Cut Business Cards for One (2) Winners

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Die cutting options available: Rounded Corners, Leaf, Rounded One-Corner, Half-Circle Side, Circle

Paper Type: 14pt Cardstock Gloss, Matte, or High Gloss; 13pt Cardstock Uncoated

Color: 4Color Front, Blank Back; 4Color Front, Black Back; 4Color Both Sides

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Sun, 22 Aug 2010 02:46:15 +0000
Some Final Thoughts On Election Eve 2010 #Ausvotes
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Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:06:47 +0000
2010 Deep Research Report on China Wind Farm Operation

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2010 Deep Research Report on China Wind Farm Operation was a professional and depth research report on China Wind Farm Operation. In this report we focus on China domestic market and make comprehensive and objective reflection of China's current status of wind farm operation. We also make a forecast of China Wind power market.( http://www.bharatbook.com/detail.asp?id=101660&rt=2010-Deep-Research-Report-on-China-Wind-Farm-Operation.html )

At first, we make an introduction of the background knowledge of wind farm operation, including wind farm site layout etc, then in the theme part of the report, we make a detailed analysis of national wide wind power installed distribution, and introduce the wind farm operators systematically.20 main wind farm operators were detail analysis including their whole wind farm, installed Capacity, wind turbine manufacturers, wind turbine models, lifting time etc. In addition, we also made analysis on China wind power policy and development plan.

In the second chapter of the report, we made a statistics of China Top 11 wind farm operators’ cumulative installed capacity (MW) and new installed capacity (MW) during 2009-2014, and give their respective market share. We also made statistics of wind turbine installed distribution of major wind turbine manufacturers during these years.

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Sat, 08 May 2010 04:16:21 +0000
Heckler exposes 'celebrities' thin skins

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I recently watched a documentary on SBS TV called "Heckler". In this program, a series of well known entertainers and comedians recount their reactions to hecklers and also, that most loathsome of all television denizons: critics. Celebrities such as George Lucas, Bill Maher, Mike Ditka, Rob Zombie, Howie Mandel are interviewed.

Heckler is initially interesting as an account of how entertainers deal with the disruptions of hard core hecklers. Some deal with audience antagonists with skill, firing back one liners and making the disruption an amusing part of the act. Others become overwhelmed with rage and descend to exchanging obscenities; allowing the heckler to win in doing so. As the program progresses the focus is more and more on critics and how they are the lowest form of life.

 

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Tue, 04 May 2010 02:28:14 +0000
Software Piracy
Copyright is a form of intellectual property protection for a variety of literary and artistic endeavours. Everyone who has used the internet has at one time or another copied material illegally. This is due to the popular misconception, that once material is posted to the internet it can be freely copied: this not the case. Unless the author of the material has stated that is available for public use, then permission has to be obtained from the author for the material to be used. File sharing sites, is another issue that ...

Copyright is a form of intellectual property protection for a variety of literary and artistic endeavours. Everyone who has used the internet has at one time or another copied material illegally. This is due to the popular misconception, that once material is posted to the internet it can be freely copied: this not the case. Unless the author of the material has stated that is available for public use, then permission has to be obtained from the author for the material to be used.
File sharing sites, is another issue that concerning copyright laws. These sites/programs allow people to share material over the internet, this allows for copyrighted material to be shared and copied form one person to another. Some people believe this is okay as there is no transaction of money for the material: this is not true. File sharing is one of the biggest problems concerning copyright laws on the internet as there is no way to monitor all the information being shared between people and block and copyrighted material from being sent.
Now days because it is so easy to share copyrighted material over the internet and it is so frequently done many people do not see it as a crime that affects the authors finically. Although many people would not steal a cd from a store, download free music from the internet is socially acceptable on the internet.
The reason why people copy and break copyright laws is because they don’t want to pay for it. What most people don’t think about while there waiting happily as their download finishes, is that they are part of a mass group that is stealing from the author. This author has probably spent many hours of work developing a program hoping that in the end he can share with all of us and maybe get paid, to earn a living so he can continue provide us with software we want and need. But all those people who pirate software and wish for everything on the internet to be free or cheaper, are really just saying , we value what you have created but could you just do it for free? Would you do your job for free? Or cheaper? Highly unlikely, but that being said people that claim authors aren’t protecting their material enough, well all that can be said about that is, if people really want something enough, they’ll do anything, even if it might cost them jail time or a $50,000 fine.

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Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:51:15 GMT
How To Create a Microsoft Access Macro to Export Information to Excel or Word:
1.Click on the "Macros" option in the "Objects" menu.

2.Click "New" in the upper-panel of the database window to create a new macro.

3.Click in the "Action" field.

4.Click on the drop-down arrow and go to "MsgBox".

5.Go to the "Action Arguments" pane by clicking in the "Message" field or pressing "F6". To toggle to and from the "Action Arguments...

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Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:18:12 GMT
Database Assessment Task 2010
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Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:20:15 GMT
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Thu, 2 Sep 2010 05:00:00 GMT
September Massacres Break Out in Paris (1792)
After an abortive insurrection in June 1792, French revolutionaries followed it with a decisive one in August. Under pressure from the insurrection, the Assembly suspended Louis XVI and ordered elections for a National Convention to draw up a new constitution. Mass arrests of royalist sympathizers were followed by the September massacres, in which frenzied mobs entered jails throughout Paris and killed approximately 2,000 prisoners, many in grisly fashion. Who was targeted during the massacres? Discuss

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Thu, 01 Jul 2010 12:05:09 +0000
Face Your Manga Face Your Manga: Make your Manga Avatar
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Wed, 07 Jul 2010 10:35:01 +0000
Mac MOV to iPad Converter, Convert QuickTime MOV to iPad on Mac
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Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:31:14 +0000
WordOff: cleans nasty Word HTML, generates nice clean code
Wordoff applies the following rules to strip the cruft that is pasted into WYSIWYG editors from Word: * Attributes are removed for all elements except s * s and s are removed * Empty elements are removed * Consecutive line breaks are reduced to two

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Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:06:18 +0000
Filter Forge: Very Cool Photoshop Plugin
incredibly powerful new Photoshop Plugin. It's simply amazing. It gives you the power to create your own filters (you must run them from inside Filter Forge though) without any programming knowledge at all.

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Mon, 12 Jul 2010 08:30:05 +0000
DevHub: Amazing free website builder, hosting, publishing platform and content editor
We bring publishing tools, API integrations, and monetization partners together into an easy to use ecosystem of reusable building blocks for accelerated development

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Tue, 03 Aug 2010 03:44:33 +0000
Huff Post Social News
Powered by Facebook Connect, Social News shares stories you’re reading with friends, produces stats on your habits and lets you track the content others are interacting with

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Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:00 pm AEST
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Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:55:05 GMT
Earl weaker, still powerful, winds hit Outer Banks (AP)

People stand on a pier as waves crash below them in Southern Shores, North Carolina. Hurricane Earl bore down on a vast stretch of the US East Coast on Thursday, as tens of thousands of people fled North Carolina's barrier islands to avoid dangerous winds and surf.(AFP/Getty Images/Mark Wilson)AP - Forecasters say Hurricane Earl is weakening as it passes over North Carolina's Outer Banks but is still packing powerful winds as it heads up the Eastern Seaboard.


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Thu, 2 Sep 2010 05:36:12 PDT
Immigration agency ponders S.F. opt-out request

U.S. immigration officials said Wednesday they will consider San Francisco s request to opt out of the controversial Secure Communities program that makes it easier for federal authorities to track down and deport...


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xml Herald Sun | Breaking News

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:58:55 GMT
Park rapist's sentence slashed
A MAN who raped a teenager on Christmas day and then carjacked a woman's vehicle has had a year slashed from his sentence.

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Tue, 03 Aug 2010 23:46:25 +0000
Consume, Be Silent and Die: A Valediction Against Lurking
The vast majority of internet users are lurkers; passive users who never participate in never generate any content, never participate in discussions, never post comments. This to some degree explains the extraordinary success of Facebook.

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The vast majority of internet users are lurkers; passive users who never generate any content, never participate in discussions, never post comments.  This to some degree explains the extraordinary success of Facebook.  The ubiquitous Facebook ‘like button’ allows passive users to interact with online content with a simple click; you don’t need to comment, you don’t need to exercise your brain at all.  Perhaps it also why social media platforms such as MySpace have been less successful.  You can customise MySpace profiles a great deal more than you can with a Facebook profile, especially if you’re comfortable using a little html, but you really need to post some content to get anything out of it.  The simple fact is, most people just aren’t interested in how their profile pages appear.  Posting the odd trivial message, clicking ‘likes’ and playing games like ‘Farmville‘ is a rewarding social media experience for many. Just what is wrong with that?! I hear you ask with a rising tone of indignation and outrage.

Perhaps nothing, especially as far as the marketers and advertisers who happily manipulate mindless consumers.  Many who cooperate with such strategies have no idea they are putting money in other people’s pockets with little benefit to themselves.  Personal information is secretly gathered and used in a variety of contexts without knowledge or permission.  But there is more to the passive state of mind than this.

Passive internet users are also likely to be passive parents.  Kids are allowed to grow up with little direction.  They derive their values from the TV shows and ads they are constantly exposed to, not to mention games and an ever growing array of online media.  Passive parents are happy to park kids in front of a TV, computer or game console because it keeps them quiet, and quiet kids demand much less of your attention and time.  Children of passive parents are less likely to aspire to higher education and are unlikely to enjoy fulfilling relationships or well paid, satisfying careers.  They are more likely to fall into drug and alcohol abuse and comprise the majority of the prison population.

Passive internet users are also much more likely to be passive, swinging voters.  In countries where voting is not compulsory they are highly unlikely to ever vote at all.  If they do have to vote, they often make decisions based on the personal appeal of a candidate or on which side seems to be offering quick dollars.  They are usually unaware or the issues behind election campaigns and are likely to be easily influenced and manipulated by media commentators and advertisers.  They are often influenced into supporting platforms which are directly opposed to their own interests.

If these objections don’t really seem to be a problem, perhaps you have read the above passively if you have read it at all.  It is a truism that you get as much out of life as you put in.  The same goes for using the internet.  Becoming politically and socially aware is empowering and can help you to improve your quality of life, not to mention that of those you have influence over such as children and family.  Actively participating in online forums is an excellent way of sharing views and becoming more aware.

The reason sheep allow themselves to exist as objects of convenience for humans is because they are not capable of critical thought; think about it…

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Tue, 17 Aug 2010 21:59:00 +0000
Comment on Paris Hilton?s bid for The Pinkhouse by Terry Gronert
Paris Hilton is wild but does have lovely eyes

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Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:16:10 -0400
Apple and Google to clash in music space by Christmas
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Google Inc is in talks with music labels on plans for a download store and a digital song locker that would allow its mobile users to play songs wherever they are as it steps up its rivalry with Apple Inc, according to people familiar with the matter.

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Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:33:44 GMT
Memristor revolution backed by HP
A potentially revolutionary circuit component, once a laboratory curiosity, is to be mass-produced for the first time.

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Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:59:27 +0000
Crackdown 2 Toy Box DLC packs explosive fun for free

Ruffian Games is offering plenty of free content, from new arenas to expanded game modes, in Crackdown 2's newest batch of DLC. The Toy Box, available for download on Xbox Live Marketplace, includes a new Vehicle Tag mode, level 6 rewards, and the Keys to the City.

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Wed, 01 September 2010 18:35:16
"Fingers Cross Upcoming Goes Live Tomorrow" - @KevinRose
From the man himself "digg update: coders found a big bug in the promotion algo, fix going live soon. fingers cross upcoming goes live tomorrow"

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Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:04:33 +0100
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