What a Twat!
The face of GREED!
Don't worry about that pesky oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, BP CEO Tony Hayward said: It's "relatively tiny" compared to the "very big ocean."
Salary £1,045,000.00 Bonus £2,090,000.00 Restricted stock awards £0.00 All other compensation £23,000.00 Option awards $ £0.00 Non-equity incentive plan compensation £0.00 Change in pension value and nonqualified deferred compensation earnings £0.00 Total Compensation £3,158,000.00
This is what the CEO (Tony Hayward) of BP earned in 2009! Forbes.com
No wonder he now says he wants his life back
Don’t forget these corporate ^%$@#*s !!! are destroying our children’s future because of their psychology of ‘MORE’!
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Back to the Future
Australopithecus sediba
http://news.discovery.com/human/human-ancestor-australopithecus-sediba.html
A new species of human ancestor discovered in the South African series of Sterkfontein caves and who lived circa 1.95 million years ago; they had smallish teeth and walked upright, smaller brains (about a third of - ) and longer arms than ‘modern man’. Interesting too is that the 500 caves in the area of Sterkfontein (Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site) were to be found by Google Earth.
http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2010/04/08/using-satellites-to-find-skeletons/?hpt=Sbin
Truly new technology aiding discovery of that which we, up to now, did not even know existed (under our noses so to speak) and providing more pieces to the puzzle of human evolution.
From the pelvis it can be determined that they walked upright. Could they talk? No, and we know that from the size of the entry from the spinal court into the brain. Too small to contain the bundle of nerves that is necessary for speech. Maybe just as well!
http://news.discovery.com/human/human-ancestor-australopithecus-sediba.html
A new species of human ancestor discovered in the South African series of Sterkfontein caves and who lived circa 1.95 million years ago; they had smallish teeth and walked upright, smaller brains (about a third of - ) and longer arms than ‘modern man’. Interesting too is that the 500 caves in the area of Sterkfontein (Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site) were to be found by Google Earth.
http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2010/04/08/using-satellites-to-find-skeletons/?hpt=Sbin
Truly new technology aiding discovery of that which we, up to now, did not even know existed (under our noses so to speak) and providing more pieces to the puzzle of human evolution.
From the pelvis it can be determined that they walked upright. Could they talk? No, and we know that from the size of the entry from the spinal court into the brain. Too small to contain the bundle of nerves that is necessary for speech. Maybe just as well!
Friday, April 2, 2010
Massachusetts Hooligans
Are we breeding a generation of bullies?
I am sure you saw it on the news, the15 year old girl in Massachusetts that committed suicide after she was relentlessly bullied by some school students. One tends to forget how very vulnerable you are at that age and that we erroneously believe society is supposed to step in and look after children.
My 2 cents’ worth is that parents have lost control over their offspring and that discipline is now contravening human rights.
Sure there are bullies, there will always be bullies, but the main object of parenting is to prepare a child for life. It is not an easy task and life is difficult and gets more difficult by the day. How can you prepare a child for life if you don’t discipline them and teach them self discipline?
What do these bullies look like? Pretty ordinary I would say! Not too smart and not too pretty!
Here is a picture and I hope it goes round forever (and gets updated) until they eventually die one day!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,590111,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a4:g4:r5:c0.000000:b0:z5
I am sure you saw it on the news, the15 year old girl in Massachusetts that committed suicide after she was relentlessly bullied by some school students. One tends to forget how very vulnerable you are at that age and that we erroneously believe society is supposed to step in and look after children.
My 2 cents’ worth is that parents have lost control over their offspring and that discipline is now contravening human rights.
Sure there are bullies, there will always be bullies, but the main object of parenting is to prepare a child for life. It is not an easy task and life is difficult and gets more difficult by the day. How can you prepare a child for life if you don’t discipline them and teach them self discipline?
What do these bullies look like? Pretty ordinary I would say! Not too smart and not too pretty!
Here is a picture and I hope it goes round forever (and gets updated) until they eventually die one day!
Their names and photos will be in cycerspace FOREVER!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,590111,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a4:g4:r5:c0.000000:b0:z5
Friday, March 26, 2010
As evidence.............
I have always wondered since the advent of digital photography to what extent will photographs be allowed as evidence in a court case. Especially with programs like Photoshop. Because once you have ‘ photoshopped’ an image, unless you have / find the original you will never know if it is the original.
Got hold of a book called ‘Adobe Photoshop Forensics’ by Cynthia Baron (371 pages) and then the plot thickens. Even official documents and ID documents can be faked …………a starter pack would be a digital camera, files in PDf format , good quality colour printers, card laminators, a blank wall and you could be in business. you can even fake a birth certificate if you konw what I mean?
Now what if you buy medication over the internet? Well maybe not so much in
S A - (as far as I know ?) but they do so in other countries. This seems to be a lucrative trade. How do you know you are getting the real thing?
(In my foot note I will leave what writer says. Maybe it comes in handy one day, who knows. )
I found some ‘great’ photographs of actresses before and after too! Hahahaha! What you see is not what you get or is it what you see is not the real McCoy!
Another thing I have learned is that before you click on a link, place your curser on the link and look carefully at the address at the bottom….it could save you from fraudsters.
Now this is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but – Wine in the making..
Cheers!
Footnote:-
The following hints should help. To take the most advantage of them, save the packagingand at least one dose of a drug you are certain is real for future comparisonbefore you buy online.
1. Don’t buy from companies that promise an amazingly cheap price, particularly
for an in-demand drug like Viagra or Lipitor.
2. Don’t buy from companies that send you unsolicited e-mail.
3. Check the new packaging before you use the drug. Is the package sealed? Is
the seal broken?
4. Compare old and new packaging. Is the new packaging the same size and
shape? Is the design the same, and is the printing in the same typeface and the
same color? Logos, in particular, should be identical (refer to Figure 1-22).
5. Be wary if the new packaging is printed on cardboard or paper that is thinner
or less substantial than the old material.
6. If the old packaging has raised or indented lettering or color-shifting ink, so
should the new.
7. Are there holograms on your old drug, either on the package or on a blister
pack? If so, don’t trust even the most professional-looking packaging that
comes to you without them.
8. Check for the expiration date. All drug packaging has one. Has a label been
placed over the original? Many counterfeiters buy real but old drugs and
resell them as new.
9. If your drug comes in a sealed bottle, check for stickiness on the container.
Labels can be switched, but the process may leave a residue on the bottle.
10. Compare the pills or capsules themselves. Are they the same as the old ones?
Unless you have changed from name-brand to a generic, they should be
identical in color, size, and shape.
Got hold of a book called ‘Adobe Photoshop Forensics’ by Cynthia Baron (371 pages) and then the plot thickens. Even official documents and ID documents can be faked …………a starter pack would be a digital camera, files in PDf format , good quality colour printers, card laminators, a blank wall and you could be in business. you can even fake a birth certificate if you konw what I mean?
Now what if you buy medication over the internet? Well maybe not so much in
S A - (as far as I know ?) but they do so in other countries. This seems to be a lucrative trade. How do you know you are getting the real thing?
(In my foot note I will leave what writer says. Maybe it comes in handy one day, who knows. )
I found some ‘great’ photographs of actresses before and after too! Hahahaha! What you see is not what you get or is it what you see is not the real McCoy!
Another thing I have learned is that before you click on a link, place your curser on the link and look carefully at the address at the bottom….it could save you from fraudsters.
Now this is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but – Wine in the making..
Cheers!
Footnote:-
The following hints should help. To take the most advantage of them, save the packagingand at least one dose of a drug you are certain is real for future comparisonbefore you buy online.
1. Don’t buy from companies that promise an amazingly cheap price, particularly
for an in-demand drug like Viagra or Lipitor.
2. Don’t buy from companies that send you unsolicited e-mail.
3. Check the new packaging before you use the drug. Is the package sealed? Is
the seal broken?
4. Compare old and new packaging. Is the new packaging the same size and
shape? Is the design the same, and is the printing in the same typeface and the
same color? Logos, in particular, should be identical (refer to Figure 1-22).
5. Be wary if the new packaging is printed on cardboard or paper that is thinner
or less substantial than the old material.
6. If the old packaging has raised or indented lettering or color-shifting ink, so
should the new.
7. Are there holograms on your old drug, either on the package or on a blister
pack? If so, don’t trust even the most professional-looking packaging that
comes to you without them.
8. Check for the expiration date. All drug packaging has one. Has a label been
placed over the original? Many counterfeiters buy real but old drugs and
resell them as new.
9. If your drug comes in a sealed bottle, check for stickiness on the container.
Labels can be switched, but the process may leave a residue on the bottle.
10. Compare the pills or capsules themselves. Are they the same as the old ones?
Unless you have changed from name-brand to a generic, they should be
identical in color, size, and shape.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Friday, February 26, 2010
Human and humane is not the same
The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.
NAIROBI (AFP) - A baby hippopotamus that survived the tsunami waves on the Kenyan coast, has formed a strong bond with a giant male century-old tortoise in an animal facility in the port city of Mombassa , officials said.
The hippopotamus, nicknamed Owen and weighing about 300 kilograms (650 pounds), was swept down Sabaki River into the Indian Ocean , then forced back to shore when tsunami waves struck the Kenyan coast on December 26, before wildlife rangers rescued him.
'It is incredible. A-less-than-a-year-old hippo has adopted a male tortoise, about a century old, and the tortoise seems to be very happy with being a 'mother',' ecologist Paula Kahumbu, who is in charge of Lafarge Park , told AFP.
'After it was swept away and lost its mother, the hippo was traumatized. It had to look for something to be a surrogate mother. Fortunately, it landed on the tortoise and established a strong bond.
They swim, eat and sleep together,' the ecologist added.
'The hippo follows the tortoise exactly the way it followed its mother. If somebody approaches the tortoise, the hippo becomes aggressive, as if protecting its biological mother,' Kahumbu added.
'The hippo is a young baby, he was left at a very tender age and by nature, hippos are social animals that like to stay with their mothers for four years,' he explained.
'Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.'
This is a real story that shows that our differences don't matter much when we need the comfort of another.
BE KIND TO ANIMALS, YOU NEVER KNOW YOU MAY ONE DAY RETURN AS A FROG
NAIROBI (AFP) - A baby hippopotamus that survived the tsunami waves on the Kenyan coast, has formed a strong bond with a giant male century-old tortoise in an animal facility in the port city of Mombassa , officials said.
The hippopotamus, nicknamed Owen and weighing about 300 kilograms (650 pounds), was swept down Sabaki River into the Indian Ocean , then forced back to shore when tsunami waves struck the Kenyan coast on December 26, before wildlife rangers rescued him.
'It is incredible. A-less-than-a-year-old hippo has adopted a male tortoise, about a century old, and the tortoise seems to be very happy with being a 'mother',' ecologist Paula Kahumbu, who is in charge of Lafarge Park , told AFP.
'After it was swept away and lost its mother, the hippo was traumatized. It had to look for something to be a surrogate mother. Fortunately, it landed on the tortoise and established a strong bond.
They swim, eat and sleep together,' the ecologist added.
'The hippo follows the tortoise exactly the way it followed its mother. If somebody approaches the tortoise, the hippo becomes aggressive, as if protecting its biological mother,' Kahumbu added.
'The hippo is a young baby, he was left at a very tender age and by nature, hippos are social animals that like to stay with their mothers for four years,' he explained.
'Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.'
This is a real story that shows that our differences don't matter much when we need the comfort of another.
BE KIND TO ANIMALS, YOU NEVER KNOW YOU MAY ONE DAY RETURN AS A FROG
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Haiti is sad. Haiti is tragic – for people.
But this is nature and if you interfere with nature’s laws there will be a hefty price to pay.
You cannot completely eradicate vegetation (like totally) and not give anything back to the earth and then expect to be safe when an earthquake strikes. After all this a major earthquake region! A well known fact!
I hope part of the $100 mil that the USA is contributing will go to education?
And so by the way what will the now richest nations on this earth (not the USA take note) with the most cash contribute?
P S In China few regions have made terraces and cultivated vegetation with incredible success!
But this is nature and if you interfere with nature’s laws there will be a hefty price to pay.
You cannot completely eradicate vegetation (like totally) and not give anything back to the earth and then expect to be safe when an earthquake strikes. After all this a major earthquake region! A well known fact!
I hope part of the $100 mil that the USA is contributing will go to education?
And so by the way what will the now richest nations on this earth (not the USA take note) with the most cash contribute?
P S In China few regions have made terraces and cultivated vegetation with incredible success!
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