lol <:o) brb :'(

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any ideas? its pretty much impossible...

you will unfortunatly have to work your way from the beginning of the tim tang test to get here 'cause im not allowed to tell you the password for this level...but all the levels before this are pretty easy so you should be ok...

TheMishMash.com: So Many Signs, So Little Time

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These are fairly good, and nicely seasonal...

Mugabe's Zimbabwe

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So yea, how right is the archbishop?

Firstly, how messed up is Zimbabwe?

• "Pretty terrible for most people"
• "Hundreds of thousands are going hungry."
• -annual inflation rate is 3,700%
• bread, sugar, petrol are often not available in local shops.

But does anyone care?

• The US and the EU imposed targeted sanctions on Mr Mugabe and his close associates
• African countries have been reluctant to openly criticise Mr Mugabe

Its like the archbishop said, where are the people out protesting, what is the world doing to stop this atrocity?

Its weird we look back on the 70's, 80's etc. and think what a crazy bunch of people, but at least people cared about stuff, there where protest marches, people tried to do something. The apartheid in South Africa was a massive international issue, this is a similar scale atrocity, the 'elected' ruler of the country is killing millions of people, people are starving. And yet the best we can come up with is a few travel sanctions on Mugabe and his mates...

Also interesting how when there was something truly terrible the only way the governments of the world could convince their people it was something worth fighting for, they had to lie and scare people with stories of WMD's (admittedly there were quite likely to be some other objectives, but if at the same time as securing your oil supply you can take out a ruler like Sadam Hussein I don't think its such a bad thing)

So yea, do you care about this? that people are being starved by their own governments? Zimbabwe is the only country despartly in need of some help, there are many more around the world.

Do you care enough to get off your arse and protest, write to your MP, give some money?

-Q&A: Mugabe's Zimbabwe

-Archbishop of York CUTS up HIS DOG-COLLAR!!!

fi yuo cna raed tihs...

...yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too
Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.
i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

An Overview of Great Lakes Outreach

I once met this guy, and he gave a very hard hitting talk. I still recieve his prayer letters, and they are always full of the amazing stories of Gods works in Brundi. But along with the amazing miracles, there are always really sad stories of the terrible things happening there.
Pray for these people, pray for Gods work and those doing it.

Sierra Leone bridge house

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I thought i was done for the day, but here is one more great link from the BBC for today

Bush pledges to keep Cuba embargo

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A few of my favorite snippets from the artical

• "Mr Bush said he looked forward to a world without Cuban leader Fidel Castro" - and im sure many people look forward to a world without Mr Bush

• "Cuba rejected Mr Bush's appeal and accused him of promoting violence to bring about a change of regime." - Well if you read the next quote...

• "It is a confirmation that the current policy of the Bush regime is regime change in Cuba, including through the use of force," - You'll find that despite the failures of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, that America has yet to learn its lesson on force other countries to accept their ideas.

• "Mr Bush spoke of citizens there who, he said, had no freedom of employment or expression, who lived in dire circumstances and who feared beatings for pursuing the lives they wanted." - Again, Im sure many Americans feel themselves in similarly desperate situations

• "Mr Bush mentioned the names of dissidents who had been imprisoned for long terms, harassed or persecuted for speaking out against the Cuban communist regime." - Like those at Gantanamo bay

• "The dissidents of today will be the nation's leaders," - We could rephrase "This to the terrorists of today will be the nation's leaders" - and get an interesting view on this war on terror...

Official quits over Iraq security

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I find something quite bizzare about a job where the moment anything goes wrong, you run away. Even if nothing happend, but you get a few complaints you are expected to leave.

I know democrazy is about the kinda trust thing, and when people no longer think you are doing the right thing then you have to leave, and let them choose someone new, but in some ways i think the way this works, just be constant resignations takes away from this. Because people dont have to clear up there own mistakes they are less account able than they might be if they where expected to take the critisism and deal with it, rather than running out and never being seen again, and leaving some mess for the next guy to pick up and try to deal with. But then as i said not long ago, i think maybe democracy as we know it abit outdated, look at the way the wikipedia has replace the regular, controled by a few people encylopidea, maybe goverment could be the same. In this world where communication is so fast and far reaching, maybe the idea of representative goverment is no longer needed, and everyone can represent themselves.

London Baby

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Well, not much in the news to write about, at least i havnt read it for about 3 weeks, so have no idea if there is...thats mostly 'cause ive been really busy livin' it up in london!

Just thought i'd try to remind myself of all the crazy things we've been doing since 100 or so of us where randomly put together in Garden and Weeks halls ("Probably the best hall in the world") here in South Kensington. Basicaly everything is great, lots of cool people, I think last night was pretty much my first night in, been to lots of places, a boat party, pub crawling, clubs, china town, comedy store, gay bar, church, and a little bit of uni, lectures and stuff, thrown in for good measure. Not too much work so far, mostly just relax, still don't really know my way around Kensington, let alone london, though im managing the night buses back from lester square and the like...Got new glasses today, first time in about 5 years, kinda wierd, also been nice to talk to some peps on skype from home (ukraine...)

Well, not much more, check out a few pics on flickr...

Priya

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this is priya!!!!

Modern Democracy

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Just reading this and thinking of the possible fun...

But more seriously, maybe the idea of representational goverment is outdated...what if laws, policy's, budgets... could be proposed, debated, and ultimatly written by everyone and anyone? No need to vote for someone to represent your views in a parliment of 500 odd people, everyone gets their say, the loudest voice wins...

Team America: World Police

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Maybe they would do better to sort some of the problems back home...come on, killing your own citizens is abit extreme...

I like that firing squad is avalible to some lucky people...personaly id say hanging has got to be the best way...but i dont live in a country where that is an issue...

Some interesting facts...

• Since 1973, 124 prisoners have been released in the USA after evidence emerged of their innocence of the crimes for which they were sentenced to death. There were six such cases in 2004, two in 2005, one in 2006 and one so far in 2007. Some prisoners had come close to execution after spending many years under sentence of death. Recurring features in their cases include prosecutorial or police misconduct; the use of unreliable witness testimony, physical evidence, or confessions; and inadequate defence representation. Other US prisoners have gone to their deaths despite serious doubts over their guilt. The state of Florida has the highest number of exonerations: 22.
• In 2004, New York's highest court found the state's death penalty statute unconstitutional. By early 2007, this law had not been replaced.
• Around 3,350 prisoners were under sentence of death as of 1 January 2007.

Facts taken from AI

War Money

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just some interesting notes about how much money america spends on its "defense"/attaking of other countries...for this year $190 Billion...

i just want to compare this to some others things...

• england...$66 Billion
• as a percentage of total spent money...graph US, graph UK
• compared to GDP (the value of all final goods and services produced within a nation in a given year) of countries...
  • Portugal - $192 Billion, so thats portugals total income, for the year, slightly more than US gov. spends on defense each year
  • Kiribati - $0.007 Billion - never heard of it ether, but the bottom most on the list...
  • more than the GDP of all but 3 african countries

what else could they do?

How a non-Neutral ISP could work

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just a note as to how big an issue this really could be...

Paralysed Gaza girl faces uncertain future

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Just reading this story...its really sad...and a reminder of the kinds of things that are happening to real people in this and other parts of the world everyday. I can imagine at the time this happenned, probably lots of news stories about the leader of the armed Islamic Jihad movement, who was killed outright, but nothing about the small girl, paralysed, most of her family killed...and all the other people who were killed, stop living, and are no more...their families, that now have to move on and live without that person. Parents who's children have been killed, children who's parents are killed...
we should remember these people more...when we talk about whether the war in Iraq was a good idea or not politically, remember what it has done to all the people living in Iraq...Pray for these people, they need our help, God's help.

Child star wins university place

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Yea, and unfortunatly its not me...but how crazy is this...9 year old kid goes to uni...for free an' all...surely not good for his real life..

but hey...something for the facebook readers...

The Black Button

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Can't remember if i already posted this, but its really good, so check it out if you havn't already seen it...

Also...MI7

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Yea, you have noticed mention of 3 projects in the last post...thats because just before we went to Siberia, we have MI7 in Cherkassy, "The Treasures of the Heart". This is the project that for the last 7/8 months I have been planning with a team of 4 others. And I can genuinely say it was a great project, about 150 young people from around the world came everyday for a week, ran around the city searching for treasure by day, and spending the evening's finding their spiritual treasure through some inspiring worship, the like of which has never been seen in Cherkassy before, and some great talks from Dave, not that we expect any less from him ;)
There were of course some difficultly, you don't forget you are in Ukraine trying to keep the project going smoothly, but clearly God prevailed, the project went on, and for the young people there were no noticeable problems, we hope. As a team we spent everyday running around after our people, helping them to solve clue's which had seemed so simple to us, and yet seem to lose completely all our beautiful, but not so clever Ukrainian kids...
On the final day all the teams where gathered on the beach to dig up the treasure that had been buried in late February, and exciting moment for all, especially the team the won!
A few days later our foreign teams left, going home for another year, always sad, but as more and more people keep coming back there are less tears, and more just bye, see you next time...

Hello!

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So I'm home...feeling i should write somethings, having been away for about 3 weeks...I've been to Siberia, to Irkutsk and some local villages...had an amazing time, maybe if you ask me I'll tell you all about it...
A team of 7 of us went, mostly Ukrainians, except me and Tim...the first week we were there we were running a 'camp' in a children's shelter, orphanage place. There we mostly had lots of fun, playing games, doing crafty things with the children. Ranging from about 5 to 16 it was quite a spread of different people and different needs. We talked each day about a different theme to everyone, but clearly there were different things to be done for 5 years boys and 16 year old girls. It was quite a tiering week, though really rewarding and I'm sure we made a difference, in many ways, to all the children in the shelter.
The second week we where on a real camp. Not far out of Irkutsk, but in a place with nothing, except the river and forest. We had about 25 young people in total, where cooking on a fire, staying in tents, a great way to spend time getting to know people. It turns out that only about 5/6 of the people there are non-Christians, so i think they were under quite a bit of pressure, but in a good way. Time was spent in 2 small groups, worship, various topics and talks, prayer, and just relaxing together. Everybody took there turn at getting up early and cooking, spend the day making the fire and always having tea ready...Other the course of the week much was said, and all the non-Christians said they were going to think more seriously about God, Jesus, go to church and although there was no direct calling for becoming Christians, they had defiantly been changed by the camp, it is now up to the local churches to follow that up...
We came back very tired, after 3 projects, time to get some rest, get over jet lag, having learned a lot about ourselves, how to be a leader in these types of projects, and with a new something of God.

More iPhone/general us mobile companys

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dev to all you americans, glad i dont live in a country like this...just hope mine dont end up like this...england is coming to close, ukraine mostly isnt...i cant imagine having to pay for some of these things, to recieve calls and sms's, and such limits on unlimited plans...i dont have a contact, dont pay for any calls within my network, and every $5 i spend i get 50 free sms's...now thats a good deal...