EVER WONDERED WHY APPLE ISN'T FLASH -her's Steve Job's article

Apple has a long relationship with Adobe. In fact, we met Adobe’s founders when they were in their proverbial garage. Apple was their first big customer, adopting their Postscript language for our new Laserwriter printer. Apple invested in Adobe and owned around 20% of the company for many years. The two companies worked closely together to pioneer desktop publishing and there were many good times. Since that golden era, the companies have grown apart. Apple went through its near death experience, and Adobe was drawn to the corporate market with their Acrobat products. Today the two companies still work together to serve their joint creative customers – Mac users buy around half of Adobe’s Creative Suite products – but beyond that there are few joint interests.

I wanted to jot down some of our thoughts on Adobe’s Flash products so that customers and critics may better understand why we do not allow Flash on iPhones, iPods and iPads.

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Vote YES for fairer voting - Debate Day 1

Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill — Report (1st Day)

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A Top 500 list of poems and poets

Top 500 Poems
	Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou Still I Rise by Maya Angelou If You Forget Me by Pablo Neruda Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein Dreams by Langston Hughes i carry your heart with me by ee cummings I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You by Pablo Neruda Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost I Crave Your Mouth, Your Voice, Your Hair by Pablo Neruda Television by Roald Dahl One Inch Tall by Shel Silverstein Warning by Jenny Joseph As I Grew Older by Langston Hughes A Dream Within A Dream by Edgar Allan Poe Fire and Ice by Robert Frost If by Rudyard Kipling On the Ning Nang Nong by Spike Milligan Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth Alone by Edgar Allan Poe Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas All That is Gold Does Not Glitter by JRR Tolkien The complete list of Top 500 Poems >>

Top 500 Poets

Pablo Neruda Langston Hughes Maya Angelou Charles Bukowski ee cummings Shel Silverstein William Shakespeare Dylan Thomas Spike Milligan Billy Collins Emily Dickinson Khalil Gibran Sylvia Plath Dorothy Parker Elizabeth Bishop Ted Hughes Roald Dahl Robert Frost Walt Whitman Allen Ginsberg William Blake Edgar Allan Poe Mary Oliver Robert Browning William Wordsworth The complete list of Top 500 Poets >>

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Matthew Lipman one of the great educators has died - when will mainstream education grow up enough to see his genius?

Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children (IAPC)

Matthew Lipman, creator of the philosophy for children movement, during a classroom discussion in an undated phot

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How great was he? He was in the highest echelon of educators. His achievement was to bring developing civilization itself into the child's heart and mind and into the heart of the teaching process and into the heart of the classroom community.

There is no problem that you can point to, no suffering being endured, no apparently intractable problem that would not be ameliorated or solved by the great process and programme he engendered, inspired as it was from the person and teachings of Socrates himself.

Any child taught well with his system and any teacher fortunate enough to teach using his methods will carry light and the very breath of civilization with them throughout their lives.

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Is humour the way to dis-arm fundamentalism?

Is humour the way to dis-arm fundamentalism?

In a Guardian article, (21.08.03) Fiachra Gibbons took stock of Shazia Mirza;

Shazia Mirza is a good girl. She doesn't drink alcohol, she doesn't smoke, she doesn't go out with men. She attends the mosque regularly. And not since Quentin Crisp has anyone had the nerve to stand in front of a roomful of drunks and declare their virginity.

"I don't do jokes about sex because I have never had it," she says, in her deadpan nasal Brummie accent. Only if George Clooney converted in the morning and threw himself at her feet would she even consider changing that. It's marriage or nothing. "I'm serious!" she says.

I don't doubt it. Mirza is the unlikely trailblazer for what, until she started appearing in small clubs three years ago in a hijab, was an oxymoron - devout Muslim comedy.

I would like to think that humour from within, like compassion from within, might turn fundamentalists into balanced human beings but you don't have to dig very far to find that devout or not, virgin or not Shazia has attracted masses of male hatred.

Should I be hoping for transformation from elsewhere?

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Was Islamophobia an invention of the extremists?

The invention of Islamophobia

Islamophobia was invented to silence those Muslims who question the Koran and who demand equality of the sexes. By Pascal Bruckner

At the end of the 1970s, Iranian fundamentalists invented the term "Islamophobia" formed in analogy to "xenophobia". The aim of this word was to declare Islam inviolate. Whoever crosses this border is deemed a racist. This term, which is worthy of totalitarian propaganda, is deliberately unspecific about whether it refers to a religion, a belief system or its faithful adherents around the world.

But confession has no more in common with race than it has with secular ideology. Muslims, like Christians, come from the Arab world, Africa, Asia and Europe, just as Marxists, liberals and anarchists come or came from all over. In a democracy, no one is obliged to like religion, and until proved otherwise, they have the right to regard it as retrograde and deceptive. Whether you find it legitimate or absurd that some people regard Islam with suspicion – as they once did Catholicism – and reject its aggressive proselytism and claim to total truth – this has nothing to do with racism.

Do we talk about 'liberalophobia' or 'socialistophobia' if someone speaks out against the distribution of wealth or market domination.

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Eckhart Tolle Teachings | Eckhart Tolle | Teachings, Quotes, Interviews of Eckhart Tolle

Eckhart's Core Teachings

1. You are not your thoughts. You are the awareness behind the thoughts. Thoughts are often negative and painful, yearning for or fearing something in the future, complaining about something in the present or fearing a matter from the past. However, the thoughts are not you; they are a construct of the ego. Awareness of your thoughts without being caught up in them is the first step to freedom.

2. Only the present moment exists. That is where life is (indeed it is the only place life can truly be found). Becoming aware of the "now" has the added benefit that it will draw your attention away from your (negative) thoughts. Use mindfulness techniques to fully appreciate your surroundings and everything you are experiencing. Look and listen intently. Give full attention to the smallest details.

3. Accept the present moment. It is resistance to the present moment that creates most of the difficulties in your life. However, acceptance does not mean that you cannot take action to rectify the situation you are in. What is important is to drop resistance so that you let the moment be, and that any action arises from deeper awareness rather than from resistance. The vast majority of pain in a person's life comes from resistance to what is.

4. Observe the pain-body. Years of conditioned thought patterns, individually and collectively, have resulted in habitual emotional reactions with an apparent personality of their own. During "pain-body attacks", we become completely identified with this "pain identity" and respond from its agenda -- which is to create more pain for ourselves and others. Observing the pain-body is awareness itself arising, as it allows humans to separate from this unconscious identification with pain.

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