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lunes, 28 de abril de 2008

The most funny president. It's BUSH

The most funny president. It's BUSH

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DANCING JAPANESE PANDAS ARE SO MUCH FUN

Respect the religious beliefs of others.

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Holy Name Church, Manchester


Moss Side, Manchester, 1969


The Old Refuge Assurance Building at Manchester


Manchester Library



Justice Building, Manchester



How to make a Quick Buck

Here is my first way to make money fast:
HOMEMADE PIXIE STIX!!! You'll need:

Sugar
Extracts for flavor
A bowl
A very small funnel or you can use a rolled up piece of paper
A toothpick or something of the kind
Straws
Spoon
Lighter
Needle nosed pliers
scissors

Step 1: Take The lighter and melt one end of the straw. Quickly clamp the end with the needlenosed pliers to make an airtight seal. make sure it's airtight by blowing into it.

Step 2: Take the scissors and cut off the bendy part of the straw. If it's not a bendy straw, you can charge more!

Step 3: make a bunch of these and store them somewhere

Step 4: In a bowl, mix sugar with a little bit of the extract of your choice. Stir well with a spoon, and wait to dry. Let it sit overnight.

Step 5: Take out the bowl and crush down all of the dried sugar into the littlest bits you can.

Step 6: Using the small funnel, put the sugar into the straw until about a half an inch before it ends. Use the toothpick to push the sugar down the funnel.

Step 7: Use the same method from step 1 to seal the end. make sure you have no leaks.

Tips:
Use the bendy part you cut off; sell them as 'Sugar Shots'.

When selling, watch out! teachers don't know what they are, and could mistake them for drugs. if you want to, you can add food colouring.

If you have extra straws, let your friends buy them off of you and sell them.

You can sell stuff you bought at the store for twice as much. Some suggestions are:

Gum: around a buck, you can easily get 2, maybe 3 dollars.

Beef jerky: I've gotten as much as 5 bucks for a 3 dollar bag.

Sharpies: Make sure they won't "sniff" them. The mini ones can go for 3 bucks where as they only cost 1

Soda: Buy Cans of pop for like 50 cents, walmart has them for 25, and sell them at school for 2 or 3 dollars.

Pencils: Not exactly a big seller, but mechanical ones sell better and lead for them sells pretty well.

Laser pointers: They aren't allowed in my school, but i never got caught. I sold them for 3 dollars, and i got them 1 dollar at the dollar store.

Erasers: Once again, not exactly a big seller, but when kids want them, they want them bad.

Office Supplies: surprisingly enough, i made money off of selling Paperclips, superglue, tape, etc.

Sell V-Wad packs: Make packs of pre-torn paper and rubberbands and sell them as "V-Wad Battle Packs".

Heck, you can even sell stuff you made from this site.

Almost anything can sell. Chips, nempty notebooks, cheap calculators, even low memory or used memory sticks can fetch some money in your computer class.

Sell free softwareNow, it may be illegal, but nobody's going to know.

Download GIMP to a cheap flash drive or burn to a CD and sell it as image editing software.

Put a collection of free games onto a memory stick or CD and sell it. Might I recommend the Fallingsand games such as wxSand, burningsand, or free downloaded games from free online game sites.

Download a Trial version of AVAST or other antivirus software, or find a free antivirus software and sell it.

You can put 'Mac-on-a-stick' on a CD or Flash drive. It is a real emulator for one of the original versions of mac. I think it's pretty cool. Below i attatched the EXE file. It's self extracting, so just choose what directory and let it do it's work.
Also, include the readme i put below, too, so that the buyer knows how to use it.

Other IdeasSubmitted by dchall8 (he posted it in the comments, but i figured that i'd give him his own page):

This is GREAT! Reread the software licenses carefully, but I think it can be done if you do it right. But check. If you advertise the CD as a convenient collection of free software and be crystal clear that you are selling the CD as a service, it might be okay. Personally I think GIMP is too clumsy to use. There are other free offerings that are easier to use - think Photoshop Elements, not Photoshop Pro.


You should always make money with your formula. Basically you are buying by the pound and selling by the ounce. Most of the world's successful business owners started that way. Selling sugar and salt have always been profitable. Next time you're in the grocery store, look at the spices. Look for "Lemon Pepper" and check the ingredients. Basically it is flavored salt that sells for about a dollar per ounce. Regular salt sells for less than about $0.50 per pound. You are using the same concept.

Then in the same grocery store, go to the vegetables. You should be able to find small packages of sprigs of fresh herbs. One herb, rosemary, sells for about $10 per ounce. It also happens to grow like a weed in my neighborhood. My junior high had two hedges of rosemary that were 10 feet wide, 3 feet high, and 1,000 feet long. Get the idea? You don't have to live on a farm to sell produce.

When I was a kid (the 50s) some of my friends had a specialty candy store in their neighborhood that sold odd kinds of candy. They bought some and brought it to school to see if it would sell. All I had ever seen was grocery store candy so those guys had a pretty good business going for three years.

Another idea I saw on TV was a kid in NYC who sold fingernail polish to the girls at his school. If nothing else he knew every girl in the school.

We used to have garage sales (yard sale, tag sale, rummage sale). My daughters took an ice chest full of sodas, iced them down, and sold them for a dollar (half a quid?).

One of our friends makes necklaces. She has a degree in art and (duh) is very artsy. Her necklaces sell for $300 to $600 each (150 to 300 quid???). Of course she is selling them as 'one-of-a-kind' designer necklaces, but the idea is the same. She gets her stones from a special market in Houston because it is close by. She strings them on stainless steel wire and uses designer clasps. With about $20 in tools and $50 in materials, you could probably sell your first 20 custom necklaces for $10 each. See if you can find a class or at least a book. There really is an art to making them nice looking. Look for a book at your local Michaels or other hobby shop. Be sure to get some black stones for the goth crowd.

As an idea for closing your candy straws, instead of holding the straw in the fire and clamping it, you might hold the end of the pliers in a flame for a minute and try squeezing the straw closed with the hot pliers. If you clamp a long straw in the middle and cut it in the middle of the melt, you can make two short straws from the one straw. Fiddle around with time in the fire to get the right temp to soften and clamp without setting it on fire or melting it completely away. Or you could put a dab of super glue in the end and clamp it with pliers and no heat.

There are many Instructables that lend themselves to making money. One great one is how to build a computer. For example I just bought an HP Core 2 Quad for $1,700. After reading the Instructable I could have made it for about $900 including the 24 inch monster monitor and software.

We have a wholesale flower store nearby. They have unbelievable prices. Votive candle holders are about ten cents each. A tall plastic vase is $0.50. They have great prices on silk flowers, so if you can arrange them...arranged flowers sell for $10 to $20, but probably not at school. Of you could weave them into a wreath and sell them for more. Make them in seasonal colors. The people that work there have ideas - they see it all.

I've also seen a guy on the Internet somewhere who grows potted plants in his back yard and sells them on his driveway a couple times a year. Get seeds, get dirt, get pots, and water. They cost about $0.30 each and sell for a couple dollars each. Seems to me he claims to make $10,000 per sale. Of course that is his life.

This is more intense but sell cookies. Find a chocolate chip cookie recipe (look on the bag of chips) or oatmeal cookie recipe (on the box). Modify the recipe with different chips, extracts other than vanilla, or even try using a different fat source (Crisco or lard instead of vegetable oil), and sell fresh baked cookies in sealed bags, 2 for a dollar. Experiment with the recipe and time it takes to bake them.

offer services...
HI, im craz meanman collaborating with skate. So if your like me, and you go to school, many people are dumb. lol sad but true. And dumb people like things that seem advanced. sssooooo: look around instructables for things that you can do easily, and with some consistency.

Many people like ipod cases made for them, you can make one for around 2 bucks and sell it for 10.

Many people like ipod hacks like changing their backround, or installing rockbox and doom. This is free to you, and exciting to them.

Many people like when you do things that take them lots of time, like making costumes, or organizing files (thats just an example... most people probably won't let you do that.)

Tons of people like to have personalized stuff. I modified the power rings on people's xbox 1s for around 15$ each.

So with instructables as your tool, you can make mass moula (spelled right?) and conquer THE WORLD!!!!! lol.

sábado, 26 de abril de 2008

Spiderman Tatoo

This dude must be crazy, but it´s really cool!!




Iron Age man's remains on display


The remains of an Iron Age man found nearly 2,000 years after his death have gone on display in Manchester.

Lindow Man, who has been nicknamed Pete Marsh, was found in peat on Lindow Moss near Mobberley, Cheshire, in 1984.

Chemicals in the bog preserved the body and researchers found his throat was slit and he was garrotted, possibly as a sacrificial victim.

He was in the British Museum in London but is now on long-term loan to Manchester Museum.

Lindow Man is the best preserved body of its era in the UK.

Study of the remains by scientists has improved knowledge of Iron Age activities and made it possible to see the face of a person from the prehistoric past.

The man, who died when he was about 25, has a distinctive furrowed brow with close-cropped hair and a beard.

He was naked apart from a fox fur armband.

Scientists discovered his last meal was a piece of unleavened bread.

He has been on display in the Manchester Museum twice before, in 1987 and 1991.

Lindow Man will be exhibited in a specially-designed space as part of the British Museum's Partnership scheme, which enables people from around the UK to see its collection.

Litter

LITTER louts are being named and shamed in a drive to keep the streets of Greater Manchester clean.

Councils in Manchester, Bury and Stockport have turned to the web to publish details of offenders.

Litterbugs caught dropping any type of waste can be hit with a fixed penalty notice. Those who fail to pay the fine can be prosecuted in court and fined hundreds of pounds.

Stockport is the latest council to take on the idea of naming and shaming offenders online.

Anyone now refusing to pay the £75 fixed penalty fine and convicted in court will have their name and address published on the council's website.

A new team of officers is spearheading the clean up drive, which has the message `waste will not be tolerated'.

It comes weeks after a man and woman, both from Reddish, were fined £334 each at Stockport magistrates following separate incidents of littering.

The man was in his car outside a pie shop and seen to throw several wrappers under the vehicle. The woman was seen dropping cigarette wrappers and walking off.

Stockport council's Stuart Jackson said: "The council takes littering offences very seriously and we will issue a fixed penalty notice to anyone caught dropping litter. It is a disgusting, anti-social habit."

Details of people convicted of a littering offence will also be sent to the local media.

Bury and Manchester have already introduced `name and shame' schemes in a bid to cut down on litter louts.

A spokeswoman for Bury council said: "We get a lot of complaints and we want the people of Bury to know we take this seriously. If we name and shame then hopefully they will not do it again."

Other Greater Manchester councils do not have a policy of publicising details of people convicted of litter offences.

But the M.E.N revealed in February how Oldham had introduced a scheme where litter louts were given the option of paying the fine or spending a day sweeping the streets.

The first person to take part was Gary Stevenson, from Delph, who was caught dropping chip wrappers.

This month the M.E.N reported how Samuel Grundy, 23, of Edmund Street, Seedley, Salford, was hauled before the courts and fined £200, plus £215 costs, after pleading guilty to littering and knowingly giving false details to an officer after being tracked down using CCTV.

Manchester supports China

Hundreds of Chinese students gathered in Manchester at the weekend to protest against the UK's apparently unfair portrayal of China.

On Saturday, at least 1,000 students gathered outside the BBC's Manchester headquarters on Oxford Road to demonstrate their support for the Chinese government. Another 300 congregated outside the Houses of Parliament in Westminster.

Protesters held a two-hour silent demonstration outside in Manchester before proceeding to read an open letter to the BBC accusing it of "tarnishing and demonising" China.

The BBC has said its coverage of China, Tibet and the Olympics torch had been "fair and balanced".

Protest organiser Tian Yang said protestors were not just targeting the BBC but all western broadcasters.

"All we want is more people to listen to our voice and Chinese people's voices," he remarked.

"The way they frame the story is biased. There is only one side of the story. They take their views from Tibetan government and the western petitions."

Manchester is home to one of the largest Chinese communities in Britain. The city's famous Chinatown is dominated by the Ming Dynasty Imperial Chinese Arch, which was a gift to the city

Manchester against crime

CRIME has been slashed by 10 per cent in Greater Manchester in just one year.

There were 301,032 offences in the year to March - compared to 333,776 the previous year.

Serious violent crime was down 14.6 per cent, burglaries 11.1 per cent and robberies 9.4 per cent.

The dramatic improvements were achieved almost entirely while Greater Manchester Police was under the control of Michael Todd (pictured).

The troubled chief constable was found dead on a Welsh mountain on March 11 after colleagues expressed fears about his apparent depression.

But the figures - seen only by a handful of police chiefs and published widely for the first time today - prove he had continued to slash crime since taking over in 2002. GMP met 11 of its 16 key targets.

A total of 21,686 burglaries were recorded, down from 24,385 the previous year. GMP put this down largely to an awareness campaign, called Lock Up, Keep 'Em Out.

Reflected

The number of robberies dropped to 7,471 from 8,250. Police said that reflected increased used of automated number-plate recognition, `hotspot' patrols, and Operation Tomahawk, which targeted offenders and shops used to trade stolen goods.

Serious violent crimes fell from 1,831 to 1,563, while less serious violence against the person was down 9.1 per cent, from 34,616 to 31,478. Only south Manchester and Wigan saw rises.

The five targets missed included a bid to cut firearm discharges from 120 to 114. There were 144 shots fired. Robberies aimed at financial institutions were also up, from 58 to 66. While detection rates for hate crime, rapes and robbery went up, it was slower than targets police set.

Assistant Chief Constable Dave Thompson said the figures were a `fitting legacy' to Mr Todd's leadership. "There are big reductions in crime but also we have very big improvements in detection rates.

"Since he became chief, burglaries have nearly halved. This year is a fitting legacy to him."

Amy Winehouse´s news


Amy Winehouse snubs jailed Blake's birthday and is living like 'a single woman'



Amy Winehouse's marriage is in tatters after she ignored her jailed husband's birthday this week.

The singer, 24, failed to send a card to or visit Blake Civil Fielder in Pentonville Prison when he turned 26 on April 16 and according to friends she is now living as a "single woman".

Blake, who is charged with assault and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, allegedly threatened Amy with divorce for repeatedly missing prison visits last year.

To make things worse, when she was scheduled to see her husband in January the troubled star was pictured out on the town with producer Mark Ronson.

A month ahead of their first wedding anniversary, he is now reportedly self-harming on a regular basis due to her continuing absence while he is behind bars.

A friend of the singer's told The Sun: "Amy does everything she can not to visit. She forgets she is married half the time. There are a few men she is close to and Blake can't stand it."

His wife's growing nonchalance towards their marriage could be why he has converted to Roman Catholicism in a private ceremony in the prison chapel.

"Blake has been taking the religion more and more seriously," a source at Pentonville prison told us.

"Blake has been seeing the prison's chaplain most days since he has been inside."

The source continued: "The whole prison experience has been extremely stressful for Blake.

"He stands out like a sore thumb with all the other prisoners because of who his wife is.

"Since he has been here he has been making a huge effort to kick his drug habit and get his life back on track.

"He was never interested in religion before, but the chaplain has been a friendly face he can turn to."

Blake never struck us as the Bible-bashing type, although he does dress a bit like a preacher.

We can also reveal that he has been writing for the prison magazine.

Our source said: "Blake has written for the magazine a few times, but this is regarded as a privilege and can be lost if any of the rules are broken, such as failing a drugs test."


The news that Blake has decided to become a Catholic will probably be yet another blow for Amy's Jewish family, who have made no secret of their suspicions of him.

Meanwhile it has been reported that Amy will not release her third album until next year, after she cancelled recording sessions in the Bahamas.

Amy Winehouse cautioned for assault

Grammy-winning singer Amy Winehouse was cautioned for assault and released without charge on Saturday after spending the night in custody, police said.

A man said he was assaulted at in the early hours of Wednesday in north London and the singer presented herself at a central police station in central London on Friday for questioning.

Winehouse admitted common assault after slapping a man with her open hand and accepted the caution, her spokesman said in a statement.

"Amy was fully co-operative with enquiries and apologized for the incident," the statement added.

"She thanks the police for their professional handling of the matter."

The statement went on to say she was looking forward to recording new music. She is working on the theme song for the new James Bond film.

Winehouse, 24, whose private life and battle with drugs have overshadowed her recording success, is said to be worth an estimated 10 million pounds ($20 million) in the latest Sunday Times Rich List.

Her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, 25, appeared in court on Friday charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice and inflicting grievous bodily harm. He denies the charges.

BP shutting down major oil pipeline

A pipeline carrying nearly half of Britain's oil was being shut down late on Saturday ahead of a strike over pensions that has already closed a major refinery and prompted some panic fuel buying.

The Grangemouth refinery in Scotland produces a tenth of Britain's petrol and diesel but also provides the steam that allows the neighbouring Kinneil plant to begin processing the crude oil coming ashore from 70 fields in the North Sea.

Without that heat which starts the basic distillation process separating gas from heating oil and everything in between Kinneil cannot function and the flow ceases.

In preparation, for the complete shutdown which will coincide with the start of the two-day strike starting at 6:00 a.m. on Sunday several North Sea fields began to cut production on Friday.

"The shutdown is now underway. It should be completed by six am tomorrow," a spokesman for operator BP said.

The strike is the first to close a British refinery in more than 70 years.

The Forties pipeline carries an average of 700,000 barrels per day (bpd), close to half the 1.5 million barrels the country produces daily. One fifth of Britain's gas supply also relies on the Forties system.

The Forties oil alone is worth 50 million pounds a day and the pipeline's closure for the two-day strike will make a significant dent in already stretched government coffers which take half of the revenues in tax.

Management at the 200,000 bpd refinery, owned by international chemical company Ineos, met officials of the UNITE union on Saturday but failed to get a deal that would allow the pipeline to continue operating.

"We will provide full safety cover over the two days so the refinery can be fired up quickly after the strike but the Kinneil plant will not be treated any differently from any other facility on the site," a union spokesman said after the meeting.

He said no further meetings were planned with management.

On Saturday industry lobby group Oil & Gas UK urged the government to intervene to make sure North Sea oil kept flowing.

"It is now time for the UK Government at the highest level to step in and take all the necessary actions to ensure that the country is not held to ransom in this manner," said chief executive Malcolm Webb.

"This is now affecting some 80 companies and their operations which are in no way connected to or involved in this dispute. The impact ... goes way beyond Ineos and UNITE's immediate differences and is wholly disproportionate," he added.

The government says there will be no overall shortages of fuel but accepts that there may be some local supply problems, particularly in Scotland and northern England.

"There is plenty of petrol and diesel in Scotland to meet demand during this period of time. But of course that is going to be challenged if people change the way that they consume fuel," Industry Minister John Hutton said.

BP said that assuming it got power back as soon as the strike ended and Forties fields resumed production rapidly, the pipeline could be back in operation within 24 hours but might take a few more days to get back to full flow.

Ineos said on Friday that it had completed the shutdown at Grangemouth.

Talks to resolve the dispute collapsed on Wednesday.

European diesel prices have shot up this week on worries about a fuel shortage.

British gas prices have also jumped although the National Grid gas supply network said it did not expect gas shortages as warm spring weather has curbed demand.

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