Me permito FELICITAR al Presidente Hugo Chávez por sus recientes medidas.
Llegué a temer que las “3R” anunciadas por el Presidente Hugo Chávez luego de los resultados del referendum Constitucional* iban a caer en el safacón del olvido, gracias a la ineptitud fehacientemente comprobada de los “colaboradores” de su gobierno.
Los recientes acontecimientos, reflejados en decisiones, medidas, rectificaciones, etc. me han llenado de alivio y esperanzas de que el mandatario venezolano ha decidido dar el golpe de timón, desplazar al chavismo sin Chávez** y tomar por sí mismo el toro por los cuernos...
Muchas decisiones importantes y atinadas que merecen ser destacadas:
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The New York Post conducted a Question and Answer session with Rachael Ray to discuss what's going on for Rach these days. The first couple questions kinda crack me up, since they are so negative. Maybe the interviewer had a case of the Mondays or something?
Here are a few of the most interesting questions and answers, but you should go check out the full article.
How do you think you've managed to reach this level of success with no formal chef training?
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There are too many books piled up on my book shelves waiting to be read. Hence I joined From the Stakes Winter Reading Challenge. That way I can read atleast 5 books from that pile from Nov 1, 2007 to Jan 30, 2008.
My tentative list:
Roots by Alex Haily
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
Second Glance by Jodi Picoult
Deep Freeze by Lisa Jackson
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"What's In A Name?" Reading Challenge
Dates: January 1, 2008 through December 31, 2008
The Challenge: Choose one book from each of the following categories.
1. A book with a colour in its title.
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Talk about polarizing issues. While campaigning in South Carolina yesterday, presidential candidate Fred Thompson said:"I don’t think that it’s the primary responsibility of the federal government to tell you what to eat."Thompson: Don't Let The Government Tell You What To Eat
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Pearl Buck's classic, Christmas Day in the Morning, is a tale of the gift that keeps on giving. It begins with a 65-year-old man waking very early on Christmas morning and remembering the Christmas when he was fifteen.
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Powdered Whole Eggs, Scrambled. As I mentioned in the post detailing my discoveries regarding powdered whole eggs in baking, I have been experimenting with using these as scrambled or fritatta eggs to see if they are suitable for this as well. In short, I understand why my mom used these in baking but not for our breakfast eggs. However, I've been experimenting with the powdered eggs, and found some tips that make these usable for this purpose as well.
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I want to wish all of you out there in cyberspace a Very Merry Christmas. I hope Santa Claus is good to all of you, and you are able to enjoy this holiday with all of those people you love. I will be with my family, and especially with my nieces and nephews as they tear open their gifts. It's always a treat for me.
I've included here a two-minute clip from "A Charlie Brown Christmas" of that wonderful speech that Linus gives when Charlie Brown frustratingly wants to know what Christmas is really all about. It's something none of us should forget.
Merry Christmas, everyone.
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SAG Board member and regular U.H. contributor Justine Bateman sends this open letter to all WGA members. -JA
To the WGA membership,
As you prepare to examine the proposed deal points and assemble for your meeting tonight, if the decision is made to continue striking, I will see you on the lines Monday. If you decide to recommend the deal to the membership at large for a vote and it is ratified,
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Today, the Department of Labor released their latest read of Joblessness showing that seasonally adjusted “initial” unemployment claims decreased 9,000 and “continued” claims declining 9,000 resulting in an “insured” unemployment rate of 2.1%.
Historically, unemployment claims both “initial” and “continued” (ongoing claims) are a good leading indicator of the unemployment rate and inevitably the overall state of the economy.
The following chart (click for larger version) shows “initial” and “continued” claims, averaged monthly, overlaid with U.S. recessions since 1967 and from 2000.
As you can see, acceleration to claims generally precedes recessions.
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The Mississippi House of Representatives has floated a bill (HB 282, below) that would make it illegal to serve obese patrons.
The gentlemen below are the Bill's authors. From left to right: W. T. Mayhall, Jr. (R), John Read (R) , Bobby Shows (D). It appears to be a bipartisan effort.
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Dentro del mundo andino aymara existe muchas mitología sumadas en las creencias que hasta el día de hoy pervive y es patente en muchas de las poblaciones regadas en las altiplanicies bolivianas.
Decir que el ARCO IRIS o bien llamado como KURMI en el mundo aymara tiene doble sentido o significado, dependiendo del contexto de las cosas o circunstancias para el indígena; para unos podría ser de
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Senator McCain expects to be elected president because he supported The Surge™, and it's been a great success. I guess we all have different ideas of what constitutes success.
While we ponder whether growing violence throughout the country (including continuing deaths and injuries of U.S. troops), political disintegration and now a border war between Turkey and Kurdistan constitute success, I want to draw your attention to another surge in Iraq, specifically an outbreak of measles in Anbar province -- you know, the place where we have already won, although oddly a Marine was killed there yesterday in combat? UNICEF today reported a measles outbreak there.
For those of us in the wealthy countries, measles is pretty much history, due to widespread vaccination. When I was a child, it was generally nothing more than a nuisance. But it can occasionally cause permanent disability or death, and children who are malnourished are at much higher risk. Well, while we've been busy sending over tens of thousands more troops and winning the war:
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How many times have you heard real estate industry insiders say words to the effect of “you know, you can’t time the bottom”?
This notion has been so popularized that you may have even encountered it from non-realtor friends and family but what real evidence is there to suggest that you can’t actually time your home purchase to correspond, at least roughly, with the trough of a major downturn?
Let’s remember that regional housing markets are large and complex beasts where cyclical changes don’t take place overnight or even in several selling seasons.
Housing Busts, like their prior Boom periods, typically take years to transition through the major sales and price corrections only to be greeted by a lengthy phase of “bouncing” along the bottom of the subsequent trough.
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image by ilisu
Something Seth wrote quite a while back that still resonates with me today:
"As soon as they start using the tactics of the other guys, playing the game they play, they become them. As soon as they decide that they can buy (not earn) attention, it all changes."
Chances are that you've forgotten what made your company or services or products so different. So unique. So good.
Chances are that your success has driven you away from those early days, when being different from everyone else, when being better was what it was all about.
Back when taking care of every new customer was like going out on a first date.
Chances are that you're more focused on aligning your pricing to that of your competitors now than you ever were.
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"Rechazo el contenido de esta propuesta. Rechazo la manera como se está sugiriendo la reforma porque además considero que es una manera írrita de hacer esta convocatoria..."
Marisabel Rodríguez
Ex Primera Dama.
Ex Constituyente
Ex esposa de Chávez.
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