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Pineapple Pastry
http://www.ehow.com/how_5871398_make-pastry-dough-bread-machine.html
- Bread machine
- 1 egg
- 1/4 cup water
- 3/4 cup milk
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 2 tbsp. butter
- 2 tbsp. sugar
- 3 cups of bread flour
- 2 tsp. dry yeast
Read more: How to Make Pastry Dough in a Bread Machine | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/how_5871398_make-pastry-dough-bread-machine.html#ixzz1TKFOwR6Qhttp://www.discusscooking.com/forums/f10/bread-machine-danish-pastries-110.html
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Murderer
From Bloomberg:
Charlie Beckett, director of the media institute Polis at the London School of Economics, said Rupert Murdoch’s answers were “either a brilliant act or he’s lost it.’’
About what it was like at a News Corp. newspaper, from one of the fallen, disgraced, or now dead (Sean Hoare):
Explaining why he had spoken out, he told me: “I want to right a wrong, lift the lid on it, the whole culture. I know, we all know, that the hacking and other stuff is endemic. Because there is so much intimidation. In the newsroom, you have people being fired, breaking down in tears, hitting the bottle.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/magazine/05hacking-t.html?pagewanted=1
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Facebook
On a daily basis, and in ways that the general public does not even recognize, our right to privacy is disappearing rapidly. Our political leaders allow companies such as Google and Facebook to continually infringe on this right. Both of those companies serve as data mines, selling information about their users. Facebook, behind a mask of individual privacy settings, has almost single-handedly killed privacy; founder Mark Zuckerberg has actually stated, according to reports, that he doesn’t believe in privacy. The government needs to get back to its roots: protecting the privacy of its citizens while encouraging the individual freedoms on which this country was founded.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn
As massive, legitimate suspicions about the the accuser are uncovered, we are witness to how the process worked and is still working.
As for the case, perpetrating a crime against a criminal is a relatively safe way to do it. And, as for what appears to be happening here, lies and suspect histories make both of them–the accused and the accuser–vulnerable.
Wall Street Journal article (good expose of the ethics and procedures of prosecutors):
“The day we stop being able to believe people is the day that we can no longer prosecute,” Ms. Iluzzi-Orbon said.
“We triumph with the truth.”
“… detectives’ duty to advocate for a victim.”
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2081364,00.html
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Rod Blagojevich Convicted
Corruption: breaking the public trust. The people depended on him and he failed them.
From the Chicago Tribune:
“As bad as you think it is, it gets worse with this guy,” Mendoza said. “You need to make an example of people who misuse their position like that.”
And:
Republican U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk said the “verdict is a stark reminder that no one is above the law.”
And:
“Rod Blagojevich abused the office of governor and made every attempt to capitalize on his public office for personal and political benefit,” Brady said. “His overwhelming conviction today should serve as yet another reminder that public officials are in office to serve the public and not their own personal interests and ambitions.”
One from The Post:
“Now the greedy and obscenity-prone governor faces up to 300 years in prison — longer than the lifespans of Kipling, Tennyson and Elvis combined. This would seem to be the end for the disgraced Democrat whose primary public service has been the entertainment of a nation for nearly three years.”
Another from the Washington Post; and the LA Times;
I have much more reading to do as obviously this story is all over the best news outlets on the web. The key: he had a higher responsibility and his selfishness hurt others.
(Unrelated, but a long one on Amanda Knox. Today was a fairly big day in her ordeal: Rudy Guede denied telling other inmates she was innocent. Biased journalism, for the defense, and videos, here.)