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Det är inte ett år sen hennes debutalbum släpptes. Redan är hon en internationell stjärna som samarbetar med Kanye West, uppträder i tv hos Conan O’Brien och snart gör sin andra USA-turné (det här var avslutningen på Europaturnén).

Was it racism? Gardner says it was placism, not racism. “I had never gone to college, did not come from a politically connected family and had no money of my own. That’s placism, not racism [because] that could affect anybody.

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“Placism

The first thing we can do is extend the usual bases for unjust discrimination - sex, race, age, etc., - to include location. The home and the womb are locations, places. I therefore propose the word “placism” (rhymes with racism) to denote discrimination against stay-at-home mothers and unborn children. Societies are placist when they devalue unpaid work in the home. Governments practice placial discrimination if they tax single-income homes more steeply than others. Judges are placially intolerant when they deny rights in the womb that they affirm in the cradle. The feminist movement is a cauldron of placism because of its support of abortion.

Placism is more common than we might think. We are apt to overlook it because until now it has lacked a name. The tendency of socialist governments to subordinate rural to urban interests is placially inspired. Country bumpkin, in fact, is a placial epithet ep·i·thet  
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a. A term used to characterize a person or thing, such as rosy-fingered in rosy-fingered dawn or the Great in Catherine the Great.

b. . Tariffs that enrich industrialists in one part of a nation at the expense of consumers in another might well be placist. So might subsidies that discourage workers from moving out of depressed areas.”

“The application of the death penalty has been shown time and again to be fundamentally flawed. It is bound by racism, whether the participants in the machinery of death are white or black; by “placism,” where one lives in Nebraska or across the river in Iowa; and by classism, whether one is rich or poor. Capital punishment is an inherently flawed and barbaric practice. The NAACP remains steadfastly committed to common sense, morality, and justice. The NAACP,
therefore, calls upon this Legislature to abolish capital punishment. Thank you.”

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Naacp spokesperson at a public hearing.
(Leola J. Bullock, on behalf of the NAACP, the Lincoln branch)
Wednesday, January 31, 2007, in Room 1113 of the State Capitol, Lincoln, Nebraska,

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I Volvos fall har ju marknadsföringen (F&B) snarare påskyndat fallet än förhindrat det. Man har helt struntat i de traditionella Volvoköparna – som känt sig vilsa i all corny lifestylereklam och i stället köpt en Audi.

Tingsrätten skriver i domen att de anser att det är bevisat att Trond Sefastsson agerat som journalist på TV4. Mannen som anlitade Trond Sefastsson döms inte för bestickning, eftersom det inte ansågs uppsåtligt.Trond Sefastsson döms för att ha mottagit 406 000 kronor av sonen till en narkotikadömd man. Sefastsson har hävdat att han tog emot pengarna som jurist, inte journalist.

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the first Hispanic to be named to Obama’s Cabinet.

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As someone who has worked in the White House as an advisor to President Bill Clinton, Terry Edmonds knows politics. He also knows from which he speaks when it comes to how race and politics have co-existed in America. In the aftermath of what has been an amazing historical event, with the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States of America, he offers his unique perspective.

I, along with many of my baby boomer African-American friends listened in semidisbelief. For as long as we could remember, whenever talk at the kitchen table or barber shop would veer into speculation about a possible black president, the conversation would inevitably abruptly end, punctuated by four final words—”not in our lifetime.”

Telefonbolagen lockar med allt lägre samtalskostnader. Men bakom de låga priserna finns dolda kostnader som gör att priset för mobilsamtal i stället ökar.Talar du i telefon i en minut och en sekund så tar två av tre abonnemang i dag betalt för två minuter, enligt SVT:s Rapport. För bara fyra år sedan betalade åtta av tio en samtalskostnad som exakt motsvarade samtalstiden, men i dag får en majoritet betala per påbörjad minut.

Förnedrings programmen har inga gränser och hur kommer det här utvecklas bland ungdomar som växer upp med skiten?

Matlagningschefen tjänar mellan 675.000 och 845.000 kronor per år.

Endast 6 procent tror att donationerna leder till ett bättre samhälle, skriver Wall Streets Journals kolumnist Robert Frank.

Med fasa upptäckte lärarna på Spånga gymnasium hur Mastiffs casting urartade till förnedring. En av eleverna fick en svabb, som använts till toalettstädning, satt i munnen. “Det var en riktigt dålig idé”, säger Mastiffs vd Karin Hellström till Dagens Media.

It was act two in the rehabilitation of Joe Lieberman.

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Why did you decide to join the family business?It was sort of obvious for me to work within the family company. We are working on some of the most significant, the sexiest jobs around the world now. And my father is the best at what he does in an industry I always wanted to enter.

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- I saw the headline, spontaneously thought about McCain: and it was him they were referring to!

- An example of when the concept of reinvention goes terribly wrong (or is simply abused)

From The Siege (1998/I)General William Devereaux: Are you questioning my patriotism?Anthony ‘Hub’ Hubbard: I am questioning your judgment!General William Devereaux: [after a pause] I am here serving my president, and quite possibly not in the best interests of our nation. My profession does not allow me to make that kind of distincti

It was also notable that Cosby’s race was never an issue in any of the stories.[1] Nor was his character in any way subservient to Culp’s, with the exception that Culp’s “Kelly Robinson” was a more experienced agent. (Culp revealed in his audio commentary on the DVD release that he and Cosby agreed early on that “Our statement is a nonstatement” regarding race, and the subject was never discussed again.)

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Emotionell intelligens, känslans intelligens eller EQ, som det i dagligt tal kallas, är ett begrepp som myntades för tio år sedan. Det handlar om samspelet mellan känslan och förnuftet och kan till skillnad från IQ inte mätas.

Bill Clintons sista finansminister, den geniförklarade Harvardprofessorn Lawrence Summers, 53,

The Swedish Model består av flera oberoende skivbolag som vill förändra hela musikbranschen – med positivt tänkande. Politikerna har redan spetsat öronen.

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Om man ska kunna konkurrera med gratis måste man helt enkelt ha bättre paket.

Så, vad är lösningen?

- Jag tror på streamad musik som är gratis eller näst intill gratis, men det handlar inte om att hitta en lösning, lika lite som det finns en lösning på miljöproblemen. Vi har sett att det går att bygga artistkarriärer på nätet. Allt utom skivorna finns kvar: konserter, merchandise, filmer, tv-serier, reklam och radio. Dessutom har det blivit jättebilligt att driva skivbolag

Pro-life and quality of life, apparently, are two separate issues. In many cases, these same groups will attempt to block the removal of a feeding tube from a terminally ill brain-dead woman, but will simultaneously stand behind legislation which blocks the medical treatment of otherwise healthy children doomed by nothing more than being born to parents holding fundamentalist beliefs?

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direct contact between individuals, typically when one person advises another about completing a specific task,” says Haas. “The defining characteristic of this mode is that the handover of knowledge requires direct contact between the provider and receiver — through meetings, by phone or via e-mail.” Direct contact allows for the transmission of tacit or non-codified knowledge that may be difficult to put in writing.

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• NEW: Only 16 percent think the country is headed in the right direction
• NEW: Three-quarters believe President-elect Obama will be a good president
• Over three-quarters, 76 percent, disapprove of President Bush
• Bush approval rating is lower than President Nixon’s after Watergate

• Barack Obama har sagt att han ska anlägga en basketplan när han tar Vita huset i besittning.DN

…såg nyblivna föräldrar sin chans att hedra den nyvalde och samtidigt ge ett värdigt namn till sina nyfödda söner.Kanske trodde föräldrarna att deras namnidé var unik, men faktum är att hela sex av tio nyfödda pojkar på det största sjukhuset i Freetown, Sierra Leone, under natten och förmiddagen gavs namnet Barack Obama

– Under de 30 år som gått sedan dess har jag förfinat verktygen och arbetat ut kuren in i minsta genomtänkta och beprövade detalj. Vilket inte är gjort på en kafferast som man kanske kan tro, eftersom det inte handlar om ett gäng knappar att trycka på utan en process.

För vilka barn är sova hela natten-kuren lämplig?
– Alla. De två barn av ca 800 jag inte lyckats så bra med under åren hade fått nervmedicin utan min vetskap. De skulle ha avgiftats först.
– Myten om att små barn inte skulle vilja, kunna eller behöva sova på nätterna är lika seglivad som otäck. Det har blivit en läskig truism - med barn i huset kan man säga adjöss till både egentid och nattsömn!

Det är svårt att arbeta mot ett mål när det jag tänker och känner ändras flera gånger om dagen.

började kontrollera obehagliga känslor genom att inte äta och skära sig. När hon flyttade hemifrån för att gå på gymnasiet accelererade hennes självskadande och hon klarade inte skolan längre. Efter ett par självmordsförsök skrevs hon in på en sluten psykiatrisk avdelning och blev kvar där i närmare ett år.

- Så här efteråt tycker jag att det var jättedåligt att de inte hade andra resurser än slutenvård. Jag var ju bara 17 år.

Avdelningen blev hennes liv, och det som fanns utanför spelade allt mindre roll.

- Tonåren är ju en ganska känslig tid och jag hade min tonårsrevolt inom psykiatrin. Men när jag protesterade mot de väldigt inrutade reglerna med destruktivitet, så såg man det som tecken på min sjukdom i stället för en kanske sund reaktion på en onormal omgivning.

Till slut skrevs hon ut av psykiatrin som ett hopplöst fall. Det kan ha varit ett utslag av språkförbistring men orden från en utländsk läkare blev ödesdigra: “Nu har vi försökt allt, det är fel på din personlighet och vi kan inte hjälpa dig, sa han”.

Frågan om hur ert gemensamma liv ska utformas är inget som ensidigt kan dikteras av dig utan något ni behöver prata ihop er om.

Jag är 26 år gammal och jag har aldrig förut haft ett seriöst [???] förhållande. Men jag letar alltid efter den perfekte killen och gång på gång väljer jag en kille som egentligen inte är intresserad av mig.

I början är jag helt uppfylld av honom och övertygad om att han förr eller senare kommer att inse att jag också är perfekt för honom. [???] Men det händer aldrig.

Den senaste tiden har jag umgåtts med en kille som jag blev kär [???] i, men sedan fick jag veta att han inte kände likadant och som alltid blir jag helt knäckt.

Jag förstår att det här egentligen är ett problem hos mig.

Jag har en sådan dålig självkänsla att jag ser ett förhållande som en bekräftelse på att jag är värd något, men jag begår samma misstag gång på gång och jag orkar inte ha det så längre.

Jag vet inte vad jag ska göra för att undgå att hamna i den här situationen hela tiden.

[Sofie]

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Vad sägs om ärlighet? Handlar om självbedrägeri och bedrägeri, inte självkänsla.

Jenny Clevström är journalist utbildad i New York. Här bloggar hon från valrörelsen, finanskrisen och vardagen i USA.

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Men för Barack Obama kommer besöket knappast att handla om att diskutera heminredning. Obama och Bush väntas ha överläggningar om det utomordentligt allvarliga läget för den amerikanska ekonomin. Både Bush och Obama har hållit radiotal i helgen som fokuserat på hur USA ska kunna bemästra den svåraste ekonomiska krisen i landet sedan 1930-talets depression.

Enligt Amnesty International har bara ett litet antal irakier sökt asyl i Danmark. Under 2006 var antalet 519 medan det under 2007 steg till 1.071, men det är inklusive de 374 tolkar och andra irakier som arbetade för de danska trupperna.

Södertäljes kommunalråd Anders Lago (s) träffade Barack Obama i april i år då kongressen höll en utfrågning om mottagningen av flyktingar från Irak. Lago var inbjuden att berätta om Södertälje och de många irakierna där.

Enligt Lago sade Obama att han skämdes över att USA inte tagit ansvar för civilbefolkningen i Irak och flyktingarna från landet.

Förutom Skanditek uppger DI att Bure Equity — där Tigerschiöld är styrelseordförande — den finländska finansfamiljen Ehrnrooth, Skandia Liv och finansmannen Gustaf Douglas väntas ingå i ägarkonstellationen.

a fake BBC News page appeared to claim the rapper had been shot dead.

Britney Spears has launched a new section of her website, Britneyspears.com, dedicated to mocking the paparazzi photographers who follow her.

Spears is awarding a weekly “paparazzie” award to the photographer who she thinks has made the biggest fool of themselves.

Los Angeles (E! Online) – Will.i.am debuted his new Barack Obama-inspired music video, “It’s a New Day,” this morning during a live broadcast of The Oprah Winfrey Show.

Earlier this year, the Black Eyed Peas frontman had an online hit with “Yes We Can,” a video showing celebrities such as John Legend, Scarlett Johansson, Common, Kate Walsh and Eric Balfour reciting an Obama speech.

So how’d Will.iam end up on Oprah this time around?

“I was [in Chicago] on election night, and I was standing next to Gayle King,” the artist said at last night’s Songs of Hope V benefit for City of Hope at L.A.’s Esquire House. “She asked me if I had anything [more] planned, and I pointed to the cameras behind me and I said, ‘I’m doing a video right now, and I have a new song called ‘It’s a New Day.’ And then two hours later, Gayle and Oprah called and asked me to debut the song on Oprah’s show.”

The buildings were put up for sale earlier this fall for $44 million, with plans to replace them with a high-rise. The construction plan fell through amid the turmoil in the economy, but the possibility of losing the historic block hastened efforts to push for landmark status for Tin Pan Alley.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – Miriam Makeba, the South African singer who wooed the world with her sultry voice but was banned from her own country for 30 years under apartheid, died early Monday after a concert in Italy. She was 76.The Pineta Grande Clinic, a private clinic near the southern city of Naples, said the singer died after being brought there. The ANSA news agency reported that Makeba apparently suffered a heart attack after performing for 30 minutes at a concert against organized crime.

According to the fansite Backstreets.com, the yet-to-be-titled set will be a follow-up to 2007’s multiplatinum Magic and may contain material left over from those recording sessions with producer Brendan O’Brien.The track list will also likely feature “Workin’ on a Dream,” a duet the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer debuted with wife Patti Scialfa last weekend at an Obama rally in Cleveland.

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Det var i onsdags polisen anlände minuterna efter skottlossningen i St Johns, ett samhälle med 4.000 invånare 25 mil nordöst om Phoenix. Där hittade de en man skjuten utanför dörren och den andre död en trappa upp.

Pojken hade tagit sig till grannarnas hus och berättat att han trodde att hans far var död.

Melnick sade att polisen fått ett erkännande från pojken, men pojkens försvarsadvokat Benjamin Brewer sade att polisen förhört honom utan att han fick ha förälder eller advokat med sig och att han inte upplystes om sina rättigheter.

- De anklagade honom väldigt tidigt i förhöret, sade Brewer. Två poliser med vapen vid sin sida, det är mycket skrämmande för ett åttaårigt barn.

Nov 7, 2008, 06:40 PM ETNASHVILLE — There is credence to ongoing speculation that Michael Jackson might be booked for a long engagement at the O2 Arena in London, though no deal has been reached nor performances contracted.

Producing mood changes or distorted perceptions; hallucinogenic: a mind-altering drug.

I noticed a very similiar effect, I used to bring a small notebook around and write all my observations down, but I did also make a note of lowered creativity and imagination long term, and times on the substance where I didnt notice anything.

human brain enculturation.

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Any of a range of substances, natural or synthetic, administered to humans and animals as therapeutic agents: to diagnose, prevent, or treat disease, or to assist recovery from injury.

Legal highs are nothing new. Paul Anand, manager of Shiva, the shop in Greenwich, London, where I bought my salvia, has been selling them for 15 years,

These shootings have three things in common: 1) The shooters are young males. 2) The shooters exhibit a mind-numbed disconnect with reality. 3) The shooters have a history of taking psychiatric medications.

Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is perhaps the best known fictitious disease invented to sell psychotropic drugs, but there are many other made-up diseases such as General Anxiety Disorder (GAD).

The first hard evidence of psychoactive drug use in the ancient Andes has been discovered in mummies’ hair,

Lachenmeier and his colleagues analyzed 13 samples of absinthe from old, sealed bottles in France, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and the United States dated back to the early 1900s before the ban. After uncorking the bottles, they found relatively small concentrations of thujone in that absinthe, about the same as those in modern varieties.

Absinthe’s mind-altering mystery solved - LiveScience- msnbc.com

absinthe — the kind once quaffed by the likes of van Gogh and Picasso to enhance their creativity

green liqueur

The century-old absinthe contained about 70 percent alcohol

psychedelic nature

Absinthe was notorious among 19th-century and early 20th-century bohemian artists as “the Green Fairy” that expanded the mind.

toxic compounds

a chemical named thujone in wormwood, one of the herbs used to prepare absinthe
Thujone was blamed for “absinthe madness”

“absinthism,” a collection of symptoms including hallucinations, facial tics, numbness and dementia.

researcher Dirk Lachenmeier, a chemist with the Chemical and Veterinary Investigation Laboratory of Karlsruhe in Germany.

“All things considered, nothing besides ethanol was found in the absinthes that was able to explain the syndrome of absinthism,” Lachenmeier said. (Ethanol is a word for common drinking alcohol.)

The scientists are set to detail their findings in the May 14 issue of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.

Mind-altering drugs at the Olympics

performance-enhancing

recombinant human erythropoietin (rHuEPO)

 endurance athletes

gives endurance athletes more positive feelings about themselves

psychological consequences

Philippe Connes, a sports scientist at the University of the French West Indies in Guadeloupe

 injections

hedonic effect

Erythropoietin

A synthetic recombinant form

The volunteers receiving rHuEPO felt much better about their physical condition and strength than control subjects.

endocrine functions

EPO receptors in the brainld.

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- Det var inte så att vi inte var intima, vi var det inte bara helt och hållet,

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How is she holding up? She avoids burnout by escaping to her husband’s family farm in Sweetwater, Tenn.

“I find it so stunning that the very people who introduced us to Sarah Palin, who told us she would make a great Vice President, have now turned on her with a vengeance,” Brown said. “They are the top advisers to John McCain’s failed campaign and they are desperate right now to find someone to blame for their long list of mistakes.”

On Comedy Central’s election special Tuesday night, Stephen Colbert appeared to tear up after Jon Stewart announced that Barack Obama had won the election.

If John McCain’s top economic adviser doesn’t think he can run a corporation, how on Earth can he run the largest economy in the world in the midst of a financial crisis? Apparently even the people who run his campaign agree that the economy is an issue John McCain doesn’t understand as well as he should.

If John McCain’s top economic adviser doesn’t think he can run a corporation, how on Earth can he run the largest economy in the world in the midst of a financial crisis? Apparently even the people who run his campaign agree that the economy is an issue John McCain doesn’t understand as well as he should.