Google’s Sergey Brin: Facebook and Apple a threat to Internet freedom
April 15, 2012 by admin
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Google’s Sergey Brin
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In an interview with the Guardian, Google co-founder Sergey Brin warned that the “open” Internet is in danger from very powerful forces, including Facebook and Apple.
“I am more worried than I have been in the past … it’s scary,” he said
Brin identified the serious threats to the open Internet as repressive governments trying to control access to the Internet, entertainment industry crackdowns on piracy and so-called “wall gardens” that maintain more strict control over what can be done on their technology platforms, citing Facebook and Apple.
He said that Facebook and Apple are stifling innovation and risk Balkanizing the Web, and went as far as to say that Google would never have come into existence if Facebook were dominant.
“You have to play by their rules, which are really restrictive. The kind of environment that we developed Google in, the reason that we were able to develop a search engine, is the web was so open. Once you get too many rules that will stifle innovation.”
Of course, there is some self-interest and sour grapes in Brin’s assessment. He would like to make all the information inside Facebook and Apple apps accessible to Google’s search engine. A more open Web is certainly very good for the world but it’s also very good for Google’s bottom line. And, Google’s main effort at social networking, Google+, has a long way to go to catch Facebook, which has more that four times the number of users and continues to gain momentum, including its recent purchase of the mobile photo-sharing app, Instagram. In addition, Apple, which has ridden it’s proprietary approach to become the most valued company in the world, is Google’s main competitor in the smartphone and
tablet arena, another area critical to Google’s business success.
Brin also complained about Facebook making it difficult for users to move their data to other services, presumably Google+. “Facebook has been sucking down Gmail contacts for many years,” he said.
Brin’s comments on his chief competitors may be the start of an escalating war of words and technology as the giant colonizers of the Web continue their competitive quests for dominance. Keep in mind what the Web’s inventor Tim Berners-Lee has said:
A related danger is that one social-networking site–or one search engine or one browser–gets so big that it becomes a monopoly, which tends to limit innovation. As has been the case since the Web began, continued grassroots innovation may be the best check and balance against any one company or government that tries to undermine universality.
The Brin interview is part of the Guardian’s week-long investigation, “Battle for the Internet,” which will cover the “struggle for digital control that is being played out across the globe between governments, companies, military strategists, activists and hackers.”
Article source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57414316-93/googles-sergey-brin-facebook-and-apple-a-threat-to-internet-freedom/
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Lady Gaga stirs up Twitter
April 15, 2012 by admin
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Some of the pop singer’s followers have interpreted her comments as encouragement to avoid eating in order to lose weight. PHOTO: FILE
LOS ANGELES:
Lady Gaga has stirred a debate over pop stars, diets and eating disorders with a tweet that some of her millions of fans have interpreted as insensitive.
On Tuesday, the “Born This Way” singer tweeted “Just killed back to back spin classes. Eating a salad dreaming of a cheeseburger.” She then added the hashtag #PopSingersDontEat.
Some of her followers interpreted the inclusion of the hashtag as encouraging fans to avoid eating in order to become thin. But it upset those who recalled her admitting earlier this year to having suffered from bulimia as a student and imploring people to stop an obsession with being overly thin.
“I’m gonna say this about girls: the dieting wars have got to stop. Everyone just knock it off,” Gaga said at the conference held in Los Angeles and hosted by former California First Lady Maria Shriver.
The singer has been an outspoken advocate for empowering youth who feel like outsiders, and the irony between what the singer has said in the past and her tweet was not lost on her more than 22.7 million followers in the Twitterverse.
One post from @StuddedBlack on Friday read “I was on the verge of becoming bulimic and now I just might because of YOU.
Others, like this from @fluffness said, “People are taking the #PopSingersDontEat thing way too seriously! Acting like Gaga promotes that. She didn’t mean it that way…”
A separate blog post on proud2beme.org, which is affiliated with the National Eating Disorders Association, said “If it was meant to be a joke, there are plenty of people who aren’t finding it so funny.”
Since the April 10 tweet, Lady Gaga has failed to address the flood of comments. She has only tweeted a few times, telling fans about listening to Radiohead and thanking them for buying tickets to her shows.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 16th, 2012.
Article source: http://tribune.com.pk/story/365175/lady-gaga-stirs-up-twitter/
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Courtney Love apologizes to Frances Bean on Twitter
April 15, 2012 by admin
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Guess they couldn’t just hug it out.
Courtney Love made a bold gesture toward estranged daughter Frances Bean Cobain Saturday morning following a few days of intense media buzz, using her favorite channel of communication: Twitter.
“Bean sorry I believed the gossip,” the Hole singer wrote for her more than 55,000 followers to see. “Mommy loves you.”
Love, 47, went on a Twitter rampage Tuesday night after she claimed she heard from multiple sources that Foo Fighters front man Dave Grohl had hit on her daughter, calling him a “gross old man macking on Kurt Cobain‘s only child.”
“Dave’s a piece of sh-t, but he’s a really good drummer,” she told the Daily News Wednesday, adding that she was “certainly not going to retract anything.”
Grohl released a statement in response to Love’s claims, noting that “unfortunately, Courtney is on another hateful Twitter rant.
“These new accusations are upsetting, offensive and absolutely untrue.”
Frances Bean similarly slammed her mother for the “gross” accusations.
“While I’m generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has takena gross turn,” she wrote Thursday. “I have never been approached by Dave Grohl in more than a platonic way.
“I’m in a monogamous relationship and very happy,” she added.
Frances Bean, 19, is reportedly engaged to Isaiah Silva, the frontman of rock band the Rambles.
In a tweet immediately afterward, she snidely remarked that “Twitter should ban my mother.”
No word so far on whether Love has been restricted from releasing her 140-character haikus.
jchen@nydailynews.com
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Ship code or ship out
April 15, 2012 by admin
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Congratulations, recruit! It’s time to learn the ropes of your Facebook engineering job.”¶”Take a seat at one of Facebook’s long, white desks and look at the piece of paper taped on your monitor: “Welcome to Facebook!—¶”Underneath, printed in big, bold, red letters, are slogans like: “We Hack Therefore We Are,” or “Move Fast and Break Things.” Within days, your software code will be in front of our more than 845 million users.
And so begins the six-week journey of a new employee class in Facebook’s “Bootcamp,” an experience shared by every engineering hire, whether they are a grizzled Silicon Valley veteran or a fresh-faced computer science grad. Since 2008, hundreds of Facebook’s engineers have passed through Bootcamp, which may lack the physical tests of military basic training but does provide the same kind of shared experience and cultural indoctrination into the world’s largest social network.
Bootcamp is one part employee orientation, one part software training program and one part fraternity/sorority rush. When new engineering recruits are hired at Facebook, they typically do not know what job they will do. They choose their job assignment and product team at the culmination of Bootcamp, a program that exemplifies Facebook’s adherence to founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s “Hacker Way,” an organizational culture that is supposed to be egalitarian, risk-taking, self-starting, irreverent, collaborative and creative.
Each new recruit needs to take a deep breath. Within a few days, all are expected to be pushing live software updates out to the better part of a billion users. If a Bootcamper crashes part of Facebook doing that, well, it won’t be the first time.
“I would describe it as a way for us to educate our engineers not only on how we code and how we do our systems, but also how to culturally think about how to attack challenges and how to meet people,” said Joel Seligstein, the head of the Bootcamp program, who might be described as Facebook’s answer to Yoda. “We like to teach what’s important very early on, on Day One. I would say it’s even more of a cultural program than it is a teaching program.”
From “the HP Way” to Google’s (GOOG) sense of what’s “Googley,” company culture is a mainstay of Silicon Valley life. With workplace perks like free gourmet food and other amenities, life at Facebook doesn’t look much different on the surface from Google, Zynga, Twitter or many other young, fast growing Internet companies.
But Facebook takes its zeal for culture one step further. It plasters the walls of its offices with slogans like “Code Wins Arguments” and “Move Fast and Break Things,” Facebook’s version of Chairman Mao’s Little Red Book of quotations. Rather than top-down commandments, however, employees are encouraged to tweak those messages or add their own opinions in chalk or paint, a ritual called “Hacking the Space.”
Within the company, it is an article of faith that the culture of constant change embodied by those sayings differentiates Facebook from its competitors, and will allow the company to remain nimble even as it goes through a landmark initial public offering of stock this year.
“It’s a quasi-religious iconoclasm,” said David Kirkpatrick, author of “The Facebook Effect,” a 2010 book about the rise of the social network. “Facebook takes its culture deadly seriously. They know the pace at which they arose and became dominant in their field was even faster than Mark Zuckerberg expected. They also know that things on the Internet are constantly changing at an extremely rapid rate, and the only way any organization can stay alive is to be unbelievably dynamic.”
Nothing encapsulates that culture better than Bootcamp, a program started in 2008 by Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, a burly and gregarious Saratoga native with a map of California tattooed on his forearm who was one of Zuckerberg’s teaching assistants at Harvard. One of the keepers of Facebook culture, Bosworth started Bootcamp when Facebook’s engineering organization passed 150 people, a threshold known as “Dunbar’s number,” the maximum number of people with whom humans are believed to be able to maintain stable social relationships.
Almost immediately after reporting for Bootcamp, new hires get assigned by Seligstein to work independently on a few real software bugs and problems, between lectures and other Bootcamp activities. The expectation is that some of their code should be ready to go live within days — one way Bootcamp tries to unlearn habits that don’t fit with Facebook’s urgent, ship-it-now culture.
The program is so important that Zuckerberg included an explanation in his “Hacker Way” letter on Facebook’s philosophy that accompanied the company’s IPO filing in February.
“There are a lot of folks in the industry who manage engineers and don’t want to code themselves, but the type of hands-on people we’re looking for are willing and able to go through Bootcamp,” Zuckerberg wrote.
Now that Facebook is growing so fast — about one-third of the company’s roughly 3,200 employees have been hired since the start of 2011 — Bootcamp has become a critical way to expose new hires to the company’s values and culture.
Beyond all else, Facebook executives say, employees have not just the freedom, but the obligation, to try new things and fail, because “shipping code” — adding new software that runs the website — as quickly as possible is crucial to the company’s success.
What other Silicon Valley companies “don’t do is let their employees take risks, and have failure be OK,” said Jocelyn Goldfein, a Facebook director of engineering. “I think that is part of the secret sauce at Facebook. I didn’t understand this one until after I got here — that the tolerance for failure, that ‘Move Fast and Break Things,’ is actually what keeps us open to continue to innovate.”
“Can you think of another site that routinely pisses off such a large percentage of their customers?” she asked, referring to the user outrage that greets every Facebook change. “But you can think of lots that had plenty of happy users, and eventually dwindled into irrelevance.”
Even though she was a longtime manager at VMware and high-profile hire in 2010, Goldfein went through Bootcamp like everybody else. By her first week, she said, she had shipped more software code at Facebook than she did in her seven years at VMware.
And, as has happened before, a fellow Bootcamper, working on one of the software bugs that new recruits are typically assigned to fix, made a mistake that crashed part of Facebook.
“That was a really scary experience for him,” Goldfein said. “But no one said, ‘You idiot; you don’t belong here.’ They said, ‘Hey, you tried, and here’s what we’re going to do to try to fix it, and this is what you’ve learned.’ That experience of having people rally around you is really tremendous, and what it teaches you to do to is rally around other people.”
A Bootcamp class, which can range from three to 40 new engineers, doesn’t look much different during the program from any other group of Facebook engineers. There are lectures and talks from top executives like Vice President of Engineering Mike Schroepfer, and Bootcampers learn about the various product groups in preparation for deciding where they want to work. But for the most part, they work independently mastering Facebook’s software code base, the long tables that support their large monitors cluttered with cans of Red Bull and Starbucks iced coffee.
One current Bootcamp attendee, Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, was most recently the director of the programming systems lab and senior principal engineer at Intel (INTC) Labs.
“You have people coming into the company, they are engineers, but within the week you are allowing them to change a part of the product that then becomes visible to millions of users,” said Adl-Tabatabai. “One thing that really surprised me was how open the culture is. It seems there are no secrets inside.”
An early lesson in Bootcamp is that it’s fine for any employee to walk up to Zuckerberg or Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg to talk about an engineering problem or a company issue.
“That is actually very hard to teach people,” Seligstein said.
But it is a significant lesson.
“What makes (Facebook) flat is that Zuck is very hands-on with the product,” Goldfein said. “When he wants to find out what’s going on in his organization, he doesn’t go talk to the VP, who talks to the director, who talks to the manager, who talks to the engineer. Zuck goes and talks directly to the engineer.”
Contact Mike Swift at 408-271-3648. Follow him at Twitter.com/swiftstories or facebook.com/mike.swift3.
The ‘Hacker Way’ and Facebook’s engineering culture
CEO Mark Zuckerberg and others at Facebook believe the company’s culture is an important element of its success. A look at some of Facebook’s key internal values:
Egalitarian: Facebook lacks hierarchical titles like “principal engineer” or “senior engineer.”
Flat: At no time should there be more than three layers of management between an engineer working on a product and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Even for a major product like Facebook’s new Timeline feature, engineering teams begin as a dozen people or fewer.
Just Do It: Engineers are expected to tackle problems on their own accord, to build a prototype that fixes a problem, rather than debating how to do something, or spending too much time trying to get it perfect.
“Hackathons” and “Hack-a-months”: Every few months, Facebook engineers pull an all-nighter called Hackathon, trying out software ideas that sometimes turn into real products. Employees are encouraged to do temporary tours with other product teams, something called “Hack-a-month.”
Facebook slogans
Starting with Bootcamp, Facebook recruits are exposed to a series of slogans that are intended to encapsulate the company’s values. Among the sayings posted on red-letter posters around any Facebook office are:
Move Fast and Break Things
What Would You Do If You Weren’t Afraid?
The Foolish Wait
Our Work Is Never Over
We Hack Therefore We Are
Are You Fearless?
Done Is Better Than Perfect
Code Wins Arguments
Article source: http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_20399127/facebook-bootcamp-software-code-engineers-employee
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Prober uses Facebook to nail perv, goldbrick NY teachers
April 15, 2012 by admin
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EXCLUSIVE
Facebook is giving more Big Apple teachers a black eye.
As the city Department of Education prepares to release it’s first-ever social-media policy, Schools Investigator Richard Condon has tallied a rapid growth in complaints about improper Facebook usage by city school employees — 120 in the past 18 months.
Some teachers got in trouble for posting dumb jokes tinged with sex or violence.
Others were busted after their own or students’ Facebook comments tipped officials to wrongdoing.
Chancellor Dennis Walcott has hinted the policy will bar teachers from becoming Facebook friends with students on their personal pages.
Meanwhile, Facebook is an occupational hazard. Patricia Dawson, an English teacher at the HS of Economics and Finance in Manhattan, is fighting DOE termination on misconduct charges for jesting 15 months ago on her Facebook page, “I’ll bring a gun to school” to get into security-controlled elevators. Several students joined in the banter — one offering to bring a gun to help her.
“No one took it seriously,” an insider said.
Colleagues say Dawson should not lose her career over a wisecrack, but her words, which the DOE deems harmful, are carved in cyberspace.
That’s what makes Facebook an investigator’s friend, Condon noted. “There’s no dispute about what was actually said.”
The social-network site also can give damning evidence, such as a photo of a teacher who called in sick “drinking a pina colada in San Juan,” or others who sent sexually suggestive messages to students.
“Those are the ones that concern us the most,” Condon says.
Among his latest findings:
* Jessica Osborne, 31, quit The School for Classics in Brooklyn after a student told a pal on Facebook she made out with the teacher in her car. The student also texted she “had sex with the teacher in every room except the bathroom” at Osborne’s house.
* Understanding Sowerby, 40, a ex-teacher at the MS for the Arts in Crown Heights, sent a Facebook friend request to a girl he supervised in detention, then chatted about her breasts.
“BTW U need more den a sports bra 2 hold dem ‘twins’ down!” he posted, a probe found. He was put in a substitute pool.
* Derek Sacerdote, an Earth science teacher at Kurt Hahn Expeditionary Learning School in Brooklyn, posted this: “Considered bashing a student’s head in this morning . . . for the first time in my entire career.”
Sacerdote, 37, told probers a student had “made a demeaning remark about my mother.” He later vented on Facebook, saying “it was his way of blowing off steam.” He was not removed.
* Michael Wolach, 30, still a teacher at the Jill Chaifetz Transfer School in The Bronx, wrote on a student’s wall that he had just watched a Penguin game. When the boy asked what sport it was, Wolach posted:
“It’s hockey moron. The only sport you know is ball licking. You’re a professional.”
* Donna Blaine, a teacher at IS 125 in Woodside, regaled Facebook friends about her trip to Puerto Rico last Thanksgiving. She had called in sick before and after the holiday, despite a warning not to play hooky.
The city is still fighting to fire Brooklyn teacher Christine Rubino, who ranted on Facebook about her rowdy students at PS 203 a day after a Harlem girl drowned on a class trip to the beach: “After today, I’m thinking the beach sounds like a wonderful idea for my 5th graders. I HATE THEIR GUTS! They are all the devils spawn!”
A hearing officer agreed to boot her, but a Manhattan judge ruled termination too severe. The city is appealing.
susan.edelman@nypost.com
Article source: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/naughty_teachers_hooked_sAZX9mzSfd2cBthom6WBaL
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Marine Faces ‘Other Than Honorable’ Discharge Over Anti-Obama Facebook Comment
April 15, 2012 by admin
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A Camp Pendleton Marine who criticized President Obama on Facebook is facing an “other than honorable discharge,” a move his lawyer said is an infringement on the tea party supporter’s right to free speech.
A federal judge on Friday rejected Sgt. Gary Stein’s injunction to halt a military tribunal’s recommendation that he receive the discharge following anti-Obama comments he made on a private Facebook page in March, according to court documents.
Stein, 26, has maintained a webpage for the last two years about the armed forces tea party group he founded, including a disclaimer that the views were his own and didn’t reflect those of his employer.
But according to his attorney, Stein never ran into any trouble until last month, when he wrote: “Screw Obama. I will not follow all orders from him.”
That was when an administrative separation board made up of three Marines recommended that Stein receive an “other than honorable discharge” from the Marine Corps, meaning he would not receive any benefits following his nine years of military service. His contract with the Marines was scheduled to expire on July 28.
Stein tried to stop the tribunal’s processes by filing a preliminary injunction in the U.S. District Court in the Southern California District, but on Friday federal judge Marilyn Huff denied the request.
She told one of Stein’s attorneys, “You understand it’s a pretty sensitive comment that he made,” adding, “He can’t do that,” according to ABC affiliate KGTV in San Diego.
“We were very diappointed because we feel very strongly that the Department of Defense regulation that was used to oust Sgt. Stein is not constitutional, because the law is really clear that a person does not give up their First Amendment right of free speech when they go into the military,” J. Mark Brewer, one of Stein’s attorneys, told ABCNews.com.
According to the injunction, “The statements were construed by [Stein's] supervisors as disrespectful and insulting to the President, in violation of Article 134 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice,” and that “[Stein's] supervisors “found the comments showed a lack of personal and professional discipline expected of an active duty Marine and were prejudicial to the good order and discipline of his unit as a whole.”
Assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Stahl of the Southern District of California, one of the attorneys representing the Department of Defense, wrote in an email that he would not comment on a case that’s currently in litigation.
In March, after posting the “screw Obama” comment, Stein was alerted that he’d made a possible violaton of the Uniform Code of Justice, but he then amended his comments, saying meant he wouldn’t follow unlawful orders from the president, KGTV reported.
On his Facebook page, Stein wrote: “I have said over and over that the words that I used were tasteless and I could have articulated my point more clearly. I am man enough to admit my mistakes which I did from the beginning.
“I have never been given an order to stop posting. … I firmly believe that Military members do enjoy the same rights guaranteed by the Constitution to every American. Furthermore I firmly believe my comments, no matter the tastefulness, are protected by the Constitution,” he wrote. “Service members do not lay aside their God given, Constitutionally protected, civil rights when they enlist.”
Ultimately, Brigadier Gen. Daniel Yoo of the Marine Corps Recruit Depot’s Western Recruiting Region will make the final decision about whether Stein will be discharged.
Brewer said the judge told them they could file in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, but that Stein and his attorneys were weighing their options.
However, on Friday following the injunction hearing, Stein wrote on his Facebook page: “The court hands it off to the 9th circuit,” perhaps indicating that he would file an appeal.
Article source: http://abcnews.go.com/US/federal-judge-rejects-marine-injunction-stop-discharge/story?id=16139979
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Titanic 100th anniversary: Twitter users who ‘just found out Titanic really …
April 15, 2012 by admin
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Daily Mail Reporter
21:03 EST, 14 April 2012
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05:29 EST, 15 April 2012
As the world commemorates the centenary of the Titanic’s sinking, thousands of people have taken to the internet to discuss the historic anniversary.
But the event has evidently proven more educational for some than others.
A number of tweeters have used the micro-blogging site to confess that they were unaware that the Titanic was a real ship.
The ill-informed netizens sparked an online backlash, with hundreds sharing their disgust at the apparent ignorance.
Ignorant: These tweeters had no idea the Titanic was a real ship
RMS Titanic sank in the early hours of April 15 1912, after being struck by an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York.
But for many of the younger generation, the ship is more familiar from the 1997 film about its demise starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio.
And it seems that several fans of the movie failed to grasp that it was based on a true story – albeit with invented characters.
A screenshots of tweets from people realising that the tragic tale is non-fictional was first circulated on social news site Reddit.
Revelation: It took until the centenary of the Titanic disaster for some internet users to discover the truth
‘Only just found out Titanic was real #wtf’ was one typical response to the revelation.
Another user wrote: ‘Is it bad that I didn’t know the Titanic was real? Always thought it was just a film’.
A third posted: ‘The Titanic was real holy s*** I’m never going on a cruise’.
Fact? Most historians agree that the Titanic was real and did hit an iceberg
Or fiction? Some people only know the story through the 1997 blockbuster
More knowledgeable tweeters were quick to latch on to the embarrassing error.
‘The ignorance is astounding,’ wrote one commenter.
Another joked: ‘Loving the people on Twitter who didn’t realize Titanic was a real ship. More secrets, so was the iceberg, kids. Celine Dion is fictional.’
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I would be ashamed to say I was a teacher today when you see how incompetent they have become when it comes to educating our children. Mind you……they are excellent when it comes to demanding even more pay, pensions and holidays.
- little ole me, searching for my country……………………. I teach History and all of my students know about the Titanic.. so i am not ashamed about being a teacher.. and pretty stupid remark saying that i seek the money, i just want to educate the future of this country
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All of my close friends are intelligent and well read. However I am Facebook friends with people I know who are pretty thick, cannot spell and say should OF instead of should have! Argh! I do worry when nurses with a degree level education simply don’t read widely and are a bit chavvy! At one time nurses were middle class girls from grammar schools…it’s embarrassing when some (not all) of the nurses today sit behind the nurses station discussing the soaps in loud, whiny voices and cannot even speak correct English! And why are some nurses so big and dressed so slovenly? Note that I say some, not all!
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A former workmate of mine knew that the story of the Titanic was real but he also thought that the characters played by DiCaprio and Winslet were real too. He was adamant it was a true story and no amount of telling could shift him from his version of the story.
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It getting to stage where some people should not be aloud to breed.
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comes as no suprise to me ,,, kids dont even know where milk comes from ,,,,- david jones, witney oxon~~~~~~~You have no idea how true that actually is, when living in Cornwall there were a group of kids from Plymouth at the cattle market in near Liskeard where I lived , the teacher was showing them a bunch of cows that were for sale…I heard one of the children ask ” but what are they FOR?” When I turned and asked “where do you think milk comes”? from they said ” the supermarket”…….Then when I told them where it came from BEFORE it got to the supermarket they were horrified….these were youngsters around the age of about 15- 15 years old. Little surprises me anymore when it comes to a lack of education.
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JenniferW, Anywhere and Everywhere, 15/4/2012 13:00 Do a lot of weeping do you? Pull yourself together LOL. So you hope everyone gets massacred because a few people haven’t been educated by a dumbed down comprehensive education system? You do realise that isn’t normal, don’t you?
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As Trigger said, what about Ghandi – he only made one movie and that was it!
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Well they’re right in one sense, nothing Hollywood portrays comes close to the truth. Titanic the movie was fictitious and contained cowards, heroes and villains that either never existed or whose behaviour on film didn’t match reality.
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Ignorant, uninformed people like this is what got Obama elected.
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Another clear indication that our history is not being taught in schools!
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Devastated: Jockeys, trainers and celebs discuss yesterday’s Grand National on …
April 15, 2012 by admin
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The 2012 Grand National continues to be the talk of Twitter after a day of mixed emotions at Aintree.
Trainers, jockeys and even celebrities have been discussing yesterday’s events, including a win for Neptune Collonges and the deaths of Synchronised and According to Pete.
Here is a selection of what people are saying:
“Devastated after accordingtopete sadly had a fatal fall 2day at aintree! The highs and lows of jump racing ! 
a sad day 4 every1 involved!”
Jockey @HarryRHaynes expresses his upset at the death of his horse.
“It is wrong to wake up the morning after an event still upset about it. I am devastated for Peter Nelson family for JP Noreen McManus. According To Pete Synchronised were both home bred had given them such wonderful days.
“I am not going to go into depth here because I want to make a few points firmly clearly to the people who can make a difference… But they are going too fast and there are too many runners in the Grand National. When the fields were smaller, horses had room to land.”
Broadcaster @clarebalding1 says where she believes changes are needed to make it safer for horses.
“Animal rights activists have made the Grand National more dangerous with their interference. Lowering fences was a terrible idea.”
@edwalkerracing says fences are now too low at Aintree.
“Thanks for the tweets, sore dazed and very stiff but ok. Great win for paul Daryll the hales family Neptune and all in ditcheat.”
Jockey @Ruby_Walsh who missed out on yesterday’s National after a fall with Zarkandar in the Aintree Hurdle.
“Zarkandar is fine after fall yesterday.”
Trainer @PFNicholls confirms Walsh’s horse is OK as well.
“All the horses ok this morning,Thanx for all the well wishes,end of a long week!!”
Trainer @donaldmccain, whose horse Weird Al fell at the 27th fence.
“Thanks for all the tweets!! Seabass on his way home safe and sound what a day!!!!”
Jockey @katiewalsh9 on riding Seabass to third position in yesterday’s race.
“Big run from Seabass and the kid sister, heading home with Nina glad everyone is safe and sound. Happy that day is over.”
And trainer @TedWalsh80 on his day at Aintree.
“Today I am reminded why I don’t watch The Grand National. Sickening.”
Broadcaster and comedian @sueperkins on avoiding the race.
“I’m really disturbed by the Grand National. Couldn’t believe my eyes. So Cruel.”
@IAMKELLYBROOK gives her reaction to watching the race.
Synchronised – the Gold Cup winning horse and pre-race favourite – is put down at the Grand National
Grand National 2012: Heartbreak for trainer Jonjo O’Neill in dark day at Aintree
Grand National winner: how Neptune Collonges, Daryl Jacob and Paul Nicholls won at Aintree
Grand National full results: the winner, the finishers, the fallers
Article source: http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/horse-racing/twitters-response-to-yesterdays-grand-national-795838
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Fugitives Who Love Facebook: The Next Big Crime Wave
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“Especially in the mobile world, it becomes more difficult,” Ingalsbe said. “The Samsung Galaxy, the iPhone, you set up Facebook on these devices and you’re automatically logged in, all the time. It adds another dimension of confusion. You can say, ‘That wasn’t me, somebody must have picked up my phone and messed with it.’ ”
Article source: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/04/15/fugitives-who-love-facebook-the-next-big-crime-wave.html
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“Especially in the mobile world, it becomes more difficult,” Ingalsbe said. “The Samsung Galaxy, the iPhone, you set up Facebook on these devices and you’re automatically logged in, all the time. It adds another dimension of confusion. You can say, ‘That wasn’t me, somebody must have picked up my phone and messed with it.’ ”
Article source: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/04/15/fugitives-who-love-facebook-the-next-big-crime-wave.html
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