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From an article on privacy in a Norwegian computer magazine, When you consider the historic attitude toward privacy rights in the Judaic tradition, Israel’s position at the forefront of privacy protection is not surprising. In his book The Unwanted Gaze: The Destruction of Privacy in America, George Washington University professor Jeffrey Rosen writes that hezzek re’iyyah is a concept in Jewish law meaning “the injury caused by seeing.” Quoting the Encyclopedia Talmudit, Rosen says, “Even
Source:The Jewish Law of Privacy in the News
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At the Starting Line – American Velodrome Challenge. Hellyer Park Velodrome, San Jose, California. June 26, 2009. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved. Intense concentration on the faces of riders waiting at the starting line for their event to begin. This is a close up shot of a group of riders at the starting line just seconds away from starting their qualifying heat in the keirin event at the American Velodrome Challenge. For those who aren’t familiar with bicycle track rac
Source:At the Starting Line – American Velodrome Challenge
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The former President, Mr. John Agyekum Kufuor has threatened to kick against any monthly meeting with the party leadership in his private residence, to avoid misconceptions against him. The information gathered from the camp of the ex-President was that he is upset by reports in the public domain that sought to malign him, following [...]
Source:Angry Kufuor distraught about leaks
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Two interesting pieces in The Times give pause for thought. They make you think, ‘What is a Jew’ and ‘What is an Israeli’. The first is a blog by Ruth Gledhill about the Jewish antecedents of the composer, Felix Mendelssohn . His music was dismissed as ‘Jewish’ by the Nazis, even though he himself was not. In her brilliant fashion, Ruth links this conundrum to the recent refusal of a Jewish school in London to allow entry to a prospective pupil who was not regarded as Jewish in Jewish l
Source:To be an Israeli, or not to be a Jew - that is the question
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My neighbours that I was paying for my wireless connection I might add. Well, about ten yesterday morning their wireless hub abruptly vanished leaving me high and dry. I wandered over to see what was up, and they were packing up and moving. Gee, nice of them to give me a heads up that they were going to turn off the wireless hub and leave town. As I’ve said before, common courtesy is a lost art. I got back at them though, I put some open cans of tuna in their furniture when they weren’t lookin
Source:How did I find out my neighbours were moving?
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June 29, 2009 | Filed Under Public Domain | No Comments
Keirin Sprint- American Velodrome Challenge. Hellyer Park Velodrome, San Jose, California. June 26, 2009. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved. The group comes through a turn part way through the sprint portion of a keirin qualifying event at the American Velodrome Challenge, Hellyer Park, San Jose, California. This is more of a “straight” bicycle racing photograph than the two I posted earlier and than the others that I will likely post soon. This was shot during a qualifying
Source:Keirin Sprint- American Velodrome Challenge
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OUP USA President Tim Barton has published a detailed overview and position statement regarding the AAP/Authors Guild Settlement with Google which can be found here (warning, subscription site). Below is a brief excerpt from the piece. “…What once seemed at least debatable has now become irrefutable: If it’s not online, it’s invisible. While increasing numbers of long-out-of-date, public-domain books are now fully and freely available to anyone with a browser, the vast majority of the scho
Source:OUP USA on The AAP/ Authors Guild Settlement With Google
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I know it’s borrowing trouble and there’s no point in thinking about this, but being a little funny about money I can’t help laying out some plans in the face of the possible shutdown of my employer, the Arizona state government. It will happen this week if our craven legislature can’t quit playing political games by tomorrow. After going through the credit union accounts, I see I have a substantial amount of unused cash laying around, enough to stave off having to raid retirement savings
Source:Borrowing Trouble: Planning for a government shutdown
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