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Something to look forward to: Skydive Algarve
Read more: Something to look forward to: Skydive AlgarveJust booked a trip to Skydive Algarve: View Larger Map This trip is expected to be 2, 3 and 4-way formation work, without coaching, from altitudes as high as 22,500 feet. Exciting. Carbon-neutral of course.
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House of Lords: rise of CCTV is threat to freedom
Read more: House of Lords: rise of CCTV is threat to freedomThe steady expansion of the “surveillance society” risks undermining fundamental freedoms including the right to privacy, according to a House of Lords report published today. The peers say Britain has constructed one of the most extensive and technologically…
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Snow, again
Read more: Snow, againSnow, again, Walters Ash 2009, originally uploaded by stevenjbaker.
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Blueprints | Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence
Read more: Blueprints | Center for the Study and Prevention of ViolenceVia Blueprints | Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence | CU-Boulder. Demand for effective violence, drug, and crime prevention programs continues to grow. Across the country, a raft of programs aimed at preventing violence and drug abuse…
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£18 billion scandal as Whitehall’s IT plans spin out of control – Times Online
Read more: £18 billion scandal as Whitehall’s IT plans spin out of control – Times OnlineIt is time government discovered agile software development: Some of Whitehall’s biggest computer projects have spiralled out of control, with total cost overruns of more than £18 billion, an investigation by The Times can reveal. Plans for new…
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David Cameron: Capitalism with a conscience
Read more: David Cameron: Capitalism with a conscienceSo I think it’s time to update the free market orthodoxy that has dominated the past few decades. It’s time to assert a fundamental truth: that markets are a means to an end, not an end in themselves.…
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Starving Zimbabweans face food aid cut
Read more: Starving Zimbabweans face food aid cutVia Starving Zimbabweans face food aid cut | World news | guardian.co.uk : The World Food Programme is to cut the core maize ration in February from 10kg to 5kg a month – or just 600 calories a…
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Vladimir Putin attacks Western rescue packages – Times Online
Read more: Vladimir Putin attacks Western rescue packages – Times Online“Interference of the state, the belief in the omnipotence of the state: That is a reaction to market failures,” Mr Putin said in his keynote address at the opening of the four-day meeting. “There is a temptation to…