why Robins are so territorial? I have watched ours expending so much energy in chasing away other birds ( namely sparrows) that he's hardly had the chance to actually eat. I wondered if the similarity in size explained his singling out the sparrows, but he seems to leave the blue tits alone. Add to this the fact that my Jack Russell-not a fruit eater usually-finds chunks of pear irresistible when placed out for the birds. Thus have the mysteries of nature perplexed me on this freezing morning.

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La verdad es que es muy difícil encontrar un regalo que sorprenda a tu pareja, que no sea impersonal sino que le demuestre que la conoces y sabes que este regalo tendrá un gran significado para ella. Encontrar un regalo personalizado que demuestre que no es el dinero lo importante, sino el tiempo que dedicaste a encontrarlo o a pensar en esa idea es mucho más romántico que un regalo convencional.

Quizás organizar un plan especial para esa persona que tanto te importa, puede ser una gymkhana o rally en el tiene que encontrar las pistas para llegar a un restaurante especial donde tu la estaras esperando o recibir su regalo.

La forma de encontrar ese regalo especial es estar conectado con las necesidades de tu pareja, puede que haya tenido una etapa de mucho estrés y un masaje puede ser el regalo perfecto.

También puedes dar un toque especial a tu regalo con una tarjeta hecha por ti, en vez de comprar una o escribir un poema o canción, atrévete con todo y se tu mismo, es lo que tu pareja más desea.

Recuerda que es muy importante mantener el factor sorpresa latente en una relación para mantener la llama del amor viva.

Te invito a construir una lista con idea originales en el foro de AstroUnion en el link http://www.astrounion.com/foro/ bajo el tema Amor y Parejas

 The Cleveland Cavaliers remain the NBA's only undefeated team on their home court (7-0) with a 110-96 thrashing of the Atlanta Hawks at the Q on Saturday night to move their record to 10-3 on the young season.

 The Cavs jumped out early scoring the first 11 points of the game and never looked back. After the Hawks finally scored a bucket the Cavs came right back with Zydrunas Ilgauskas feeding LeBron James with a nice bounce pass around the defender who found Ben Wallace for the dunk. And before you knew it by the end of the quarter the Cavs held the Hawks to just 12 points in the first period playing stifling defense lead 49-32 at the half.

 The Cavaliers had four players scoring eight points or more in the first half. Reading this it would be safe to assume King James was one of them right? Wrong, this is a different basketball team in Cleveland.

 With the new editions to go along with James he is able to rest more and pick his spots when he's ready to dictate and take over games. And he decided to do that in the second half scoring 19 of his 24 points in the second half.

 King James delivered a couple of jaw dropping rim shaking dunks to send the Cavaliers bench and fans into a frenzy, once taking on two Hawk defenders James drove down the lane against Al Horford and Solomon Jones and crushed a dunk with his left hand posterizing the two teammates as if they were little boys playing a man's game.

 Another one came later that period when James blew past Maurice Evans faking a pass behind his back went up and smashed the ball through the hoop sending Evans ducking for cover trying to avoid a fat head shot.

 The Cavaliers biggest lead of the night was 28 at 68-40 but the Hawks manage to wilt it down to 11 with the gritty play of backups Evans and Acie Law who finished with 21 points and 20 on the night. Joe Johnson the Hawks leading scorer was held to just four points on 1-of-8 shooting.

 The Cavs had great balance tonight with Mo Williams 23 points, Delonte West 19, and Big Z finished with 17. James also had eight assist and seven boards. The Cavs continue to shoot the ball well shooting 51% from the field 41-of-81 and 91% from the foul line 21-of-23 on the night. Another all around solid effort from the Cavs who are now faced with a four games in five nights stretch.

 Starting on Tuesday they will play the New York Knicks who everyone outside of Cleveland thinks the King will take up residency with in 2010, followed by games against Oklahoma City Thunder, Golden State Warriors, and the Milwaukee Bucks.

 The scary part about this start by Cleveland is that their not even playing their best basketball yet according to LeBron and yet they are ranked fourth in the league   averaging 101.2 points a game and ranked sixth in defense giving up only 93.0                                                                                                                        

Cavalier fans hope the team keeps winning in the fashion that they are doing and the King will be raising banners at the Q and not in other places that he is rumored to be heading to.

dudes and lady dudes alike, if Jeff is not going to wrestle and has a concausion because oh HHH and Kozlov!!!! i will be very infuriated!!!!

 

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CLUB XL PLAYLIST FOR 11/22/08

•  PLUMMET - DAMAGED
• PRECIOUS - PRECIOUS LITTLE FANTASY
• ASTROLINE - CLOSE MY EYES (DJ X RMX)
• DJ ENCORE - I SEE RIGHT THROUGH TO YOU
• FOO FIGHTERS - CONFESSIONS (D'LERIUM & FAZE RMX)
• TIESTO FEAT. BT - BREAK MY FALL
• BENASSI BROS - FEEL ALIVE
• THE KILLERS - HUMAN (ARMIN VAN BURREN RMX)
• BABY - SHE SAID
• SAVAGE - SWING
• THE PRODIGY - OUTTA SPACE (CUT & RUN RMX)
• CS  JAY - IMPETUS VISCUS (BRAD SMITH RMX)
• ARMAND VAN HELDEN - I WANT YOUR SOUL (WIZARD'S BREAKS MIX)
• FAITHLESS - INSOMNIA
• CLUB  4 MATION - LONELY RAVER
• BRAD SMITH - ANGEL IN MY HEART
• TUBE AND BERGER - STRAIGHT AHEAD
• LISA MISKOVSKY - STILL ALIVE (PVD RMX)
• WILLIAM ORBIT  - BARBERS ADAGIO FOR STRINGS
• FORD – PURE  IMAGINATION
• TOMMY WHO VS. MARIO LOPEZ - LIVING A LIE
• WAY OUT WEST - THE GIFT
• SHARAZ - WHITE POWDER
• DJ TATANA - IF I COULD (JOEY B RMX)

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Dishonest law firms in the "asylum industry" are submitting concocted asylum claims, coaching clients in false stories and even offering to alter people's fingerprints to help them avoid detection

A law firm in Brick Lane – the heart of London's Bangladeshi community – suggested its clients could buy a range of illegal services.

"The firm offered a whole file with a new name and a concocted story that would be signed and sent to the Home Office. They even offered an introduction to a man who could, it was claimed, alter their fingerprints."

Another law firm in the capital submitted identical asylum statements for people claiming to be political refugees from North Korea, with only the name altered in each submission.

During one appeal an asylum-seeker told the judge he was getting confused because he could not remember what his solicitor had told him to say.

UKBA staff also overheard one barrister telling his client to "go home and learn his story" otherwise he would fail in his claim.

The Legal Services Commission (LSC) confirmed there are currently 263 firms authorised to receive Legal Aid for asylum and immigration work, with spending running at about £76 million a year. It means that, on average, each firm receives £289,000 a year in Legal Aid.

If, as is claimed, this fraudulent practice is going on, why have no lawyers and barristers been charged with aiding and abetting. Could it be that most of them are from ethnic minorities and are labour ministers and ex-ministers, and this government are shit scared of upsetting them.

 

 

On November 24 2007 Hawthorne Heights' guitarist Casey Calvert was found dead on the band's tourbus. Autopsy reports state Casey died of Combined Drug Intoxication while sleeping. Tomorrow this grievous loss is one year ago. Let's think of him!

Check out the song "Four Becomes One" which was written by the band for their friend. It's beautiful.

R.I.P. Casey!

 

 

Hello everyone,this is another version of my top 5!

This week's top 5 is the following...

5)JBL wins!-- Kane may did all the work on Cryme Tyme but in the end it was JBL who won for his team with a clothesline from hell on JTG!

4)He is NOT balliiiin! -- MVP lost again,this time from an unknown wrestler here on WWE,thanks to his new feud, the Great Khali!!

3)Hardy on a role! -- Two week's in a row, Jeff Hardy has scored 2 big victories!first was when he defeated the Undertaker thanks,to the Big Show,and this week he defeated Triple H,now thanks to Vladimir Coslov!wow,Jeff knows how to win fare!

2)Punk's REVENGE!-- or maybe not?you see CM punk said last monday that he was gonna beat Randy Orton and take revenge from Randy for costing him the world title.But, thinks didn't go well for punk,since he lost to Orton,thanks to William Regal,in a lumberjack match.Now Punk have to get focused to his match at Survivor Series if he realy want to take revenge!

1)Sweet Chin Morrison!-- Well i thought that HBK's lost last week on that last man standing match was the worst thing that could happen to michael's.I guess i was wrong,because what could be worst then losing a match,from your own finishing move?

That's all for now see you next monday with my comments,on Survivor Series!

 

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Any reduction in VAT is welcome, especially when it's tacked onto a big bill, say estate agent fees. If you've been charged a commission of,  let's say, 1.5%, on a £200k house, then you not only pay the agent £3000, but pay an extra £525 on top  in VAT. That hurts, because unlike goods in the shops, where VAT is generally included, you knew what the base price was before the tax was added.

If the reports are correct, the Chancellor will reduce VAT from 17.5% to 15% tomorrow in his emergency Budget. One wonders how that will work out in practice, and whether it will really encourage us to spend more as he wants us to.

It's going to be a headache for any small shopkeeper who has his goods individually priced up on the shelves. Why? Because the conversion factor is 115/117.5 or 0.9787234. That means he will have to keep a calculator by the till, so when you go up with your box of A4 paper priced, let's say, at £3.85, he'll have to reduce the price to (115/117.5 x3.85)  ie  £3.77 (rounding up from £3.76808511). It'll be a nuisance for him, all for a saving of just 8p. Are you likely to buy more in the shop, simply because you have saved 8p on that paper?  Maybe buy a Bic biro? Or a Parker pen? I doubt it!

I'm sorry, Mr. Darling, but if a modest reduction in VAT is the jewel in the crown of your pre-Budget report,  aka emergency mini-budget, then you'll have done little or nothing to earn that salary of yours, except lumber future taxpayers with more borrowing. Reminder: since 2002 your Government raised National Debt from £400 billion to £650 billion. The interest alone on that second figure is probably £30 billion or more, which we, the taxpayer, have to find each year. It represents about 15p of the 20p standard rate of tax. That's without paying back a penny of the debt.

That's the main reason why this country's in the doodoo, due mainly to  irresponsible borrowing over many years, servicing an ever growing mountain of debt.  Hopefully tomorrow, we'll get some accurate up-to-date figures. They will not make pleasant reading. Some would say this country is well and truly b*ggered, and that we have your boss, Gordon Brown,  to thank for that. When he postured as Mr. Prudence  he said the days of boom and bust were over, while quietly going on a 5 year binge with the nation's credit card, piling on one stealth tax after another in a desperate attempt to balance the books. If you ask me, the best place for Gordon Brown right now is the Tower, if only for his own protection!

 

 

 

 

My EMOTIONS- I can feel things again. Good and bad. Mostly good though. There was a day where I was only sad when I had nothing to drink or drugs or elated when I did. But I was always lonely. Not anymore. I can feel all my EMOTIONS now. Sometimes I still don't know what to do with them but I'm working on that. The Big Book is teaching me how to deal with just about evrything. EDUCATION. I am very excited to be going back to school. Something I've wanted to do for a long time and now I am able. EMPOWERMENT. Today I have a voice and am able to speak, in a gentle way, what is in my heart and soul. ENTHUSIASM. Today because I am clean and sober I get excited about all kinds of silly stuff. Just like my speakers working the other day. YIPEE! ENERGY Not just my own. Which is nice cuz there used to be a day when I had none. I was either coming down from something or had a hangover. But it's just the energy I feel from the universe and my friends. It just feels good. ELECTRIC GUITARS. Something sexy about the sound of an electric guitar. :) Well that's my middle of the night E list. Hope everyone has a great Sunday. I will be sleeping all day getting ready for one more night of work. What's everyone doing for Thanksgiving? I know Mikki and Rachel will be together. I will be with all my kids and grandkids in Sacramento. I'm leaving Tuesday morning. Can't wait. You all know how much I love being with my kids and grandkids. Nothings better. Well whatever you do have a grateful heart. We're all very blessed here. Love, Julie

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BOSTON – Jeff Hardy was found unconscious in a stairwell at his hotel in Boston today, and was rushed to the nearest emergency room.

Due to privacy issues, WWE is not releasing the name of the hospital.

WWE.com will have more information if it becomes available.

What will this mean to the Triple-Threat Match at Survivor Series.

Keep checking my blog for more

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Yesterday around 10 am Tomax escaped out of the house and bolted for the rd. He was killed instantly by a moving truck. I'm so sad. Peanut and Xamot kind of realize he's missing I think. I love Tomax with all my heart. Please say a prayer for him to go to heaven. Thanks guys I love yall.

xoxo

Ash

 When clearing some files last week I came across the piece below, which I wrote in April 1994. It might be of interest to fellow bloggers who believe that our present crisis is rooted in the election of Blair and Brown. They are undoubtedly culpable for allowing the process to continue, but they did not set it in train. It might also interest those who share Milton Friedman's belief that economics is a science, on a par with physics.

ECONOTWADDLE.

As the ears of a weary British public ring anew with calls to vote, they should know that their true choice is constrained by an unhealthy consensus between the parties. One inheritance from Lady Thatcher's days as leader is the shared belief in a set of 'economic laws'. So established have these 'laws' become that to question them risks one's credibility, something which few politicians are prepared to do. Elevated to the status of 'common sense' they may be chanted as a discussion stopping mantra by cynical and ignorant alike. How can anyone but a madman deny that "You can't get away from supply and demand", or "We must have free trade"? Boloney!

Economics, as sold to the public, is a creed masquerading as science. There is no economics, only political economy. Divorce of the two parts of Adam Smith's original phrase serves merely to mask the political nature of nearly all 'economic' decisions. Such concepts as the guiding hand, enlightened self-interest, comparative advantage, and the free market are screens behind which the few hide their cynicism from the many. The nonsensical notion of government non-interference in the economy has been so successfully promoted that politicians who might argue otherwise are paralysed. Let us examine some of these 'laws'.

Take, for instance, the patently absurd idea that if everyone pursues a course of 'enlightened self-interest' all will benefit. The permeation of this canard through our society has been used to excuse all manner of government action and inaction. Deregulation set the pike among the minnows with a vengeance. Millions of 'small' people now rue their naïvity in accepting advice from spivs posing as professionals. Hopefully, these people will see the government's stance as the abrogation of responsibility that it certainly is. However, 'you aint seen nothing yet'.

Following their enlightened self-interest, British companies have been sacking consumers by the thousand, and moving production abroad. They then import the products for sale to those Britons still on work who find that their British purchase is actually made in Asia. One does not have to be a genius to see where the process will leave domestic producers as more and more consumers lose their jobs. All this nonsense is justified by reference to another icon of economics, free trade.  Behind the argument for free trade, and the free movement of capital, lies the concept of comparative advantage. If every country concentrates on producing that which it is best suited to make at the lowest cost, we all gain by trade. The notion is admirable for its theoretical elegance. Where does it leave us though when the only comparative advantage enjoyed by a country is the exploitation of its impoverished and un-free people by an authoritarian government?

We have already seen the beginnings of a governmental response to these 'economic' realities in the reluctance to accept European policy on workers' rights and conditions. British labour must be left free to compete with overseas workers who are unhampered by civilised conditions on hours, sickness, security, pensions, and so on. Let us be clear. The decision not to insist on certain standards in countries from which we import is a political judgement. No 'law' of economics is involved.

 If 'enlightened self-interest' is a subjective political dictum rather than a disinterested economic law, what then of supply and demand, the price mechanism and market forces? Again, this item of faith does not bear close examination. To be meaningful, demand must mean 'effective demand'. A moment's reflection tells us that effective demand is unevenly spread throughout society, so the idea that an unfettered price mechanism can be relied upon to match resources to the community's needs is pure bunkum. What we actually have is a system in which the gratuitous wants of some take precedence over the life saving needs of others.

I still remember sharply one evening when this contrast was unintentionally illuminated on television some years ago. In one programme, an ex-soldier told of the deep love between himself and his wife, the lifelong companion who was having to watch him die. The machine that could have saved his life cost £14,000. A later programme revealed that some obscure baron living in England had spent £2m on a painting for his collection. Economic laws? Are we to believe that the marginal utility of kidney machines is lower than that for art works? Not for the community as a whole, it isn't. What is illustrated here is the partiality of effective demand, a partiality influenced by political choice. Given different political values, that soldier would have lived, and the baron would have had to stare at his wall.

 Demand, the 'law' which so many think of as omnipotent, is a product of political choice. We make it, and we can change it. No law is involved. The notion that we are captives of logical, blind mechanisms which must be allowed free play is foolish, as is the idea that the state has no place interfering in the economy. Overtly political judgements have to be made, and the price mechanism returned to its position as a useful tool in certain areas of our life that can be left safely to commercial imperatives.

A week in politics may be a long time, and memories may be short, but politicians in all parties, Tory included, should try to remember why our forefathers abandoned the guiding hand. It simply did not work. It is no accident that not a single advanced economy today follows genuinely free-market principles. Governments which do not intervene are making a political decision to leave the direction of the country and its people to the unelected occupiers of our boardrooms. Are we so confident that their self-interest will be so enlightened? Company directors owe responsibility to their shareholders, not to the rest of us. Voters should perhaps remember that in the coming weeks.

Electrified-------always upbeat

Ecstatic-------very happy in all lifes walk

Euphoria------sometimes I feel I am still tripping only now its with something better

Extraordinary----Cause I lived through some crazy sh___.

Exhibitionist------not really, but there is a reason we have an 8 foot privacy fence..LOL...thats why we have been together for 31 years

Energetic-------Always on the go

Exciting------what life is today

Educated-----learned many things over the last many years

Established-----I do have my goals set now and now where we are headed

Erect-----HA...Get your minds back right....Can walk upright these days, no need to hide

Elbow grease------It don't come easy, you have to work for it....

Emotional-----I feel some kind of emotion every time I visit these sites and my close friends,  I love you all for what you are to me...

 

 

We had been discussing the possible candidates to succeed Card. Murphy-O'Connor at Westminster the other day. And I have to say that, from a traditionalist and orthodox point of view, the list of potential Archbishops is not exactly inspiring and scarcely fills one with hope for a change in direction. It seems that the liberal/secular/modernists could well have the appointment sewn up. The prospect of further dumbing-down in the church cast a pall of gloom that I thought would never lift.   That is until I came across this...

http://www.traditionalcatholic.org.uk/2008RosaryCrusade/Introduction.html

I had thought that such public displays of Catholic piety were a thing of the past. I remember with great fondness the processions I took part in as a child. Enormous painted banners, brass bands belting out "Faith Of Our Fathers" and the Blessed Sacrament carried beneath a vast embroidered silk canopy. Every catholic child of the parish dressed in white processing through the town in serried ranks, giving answer to Stalin's question about how many legions the Pope had.

The only fly in the ointment of my delight in discovering this survival of "temps perdu" was the realisation that it had been happening anually for the last twenty four years. Six of which while I was attending Mass at Westminster Cathedral and not once did I hear about it. 

The hierarchy may wish to solely concern itself with conferences on Social Justice and Liturgical Renewal, but such "right-on" PC occupations do not satisfy or nourish the soul, and, more importantly do not fill churches or put "bums on seats".  The laity, on the other hand, know what is needed and simply get on with filling the gaps that our pre-occupied hierarchy ignore. "I'll sing a hymn to Mary..."