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But, in their battle to regain public trust, chief executives will have to fight some unexpected enemies. When young US opinion leaders were asked to choose the most credible source for corporate information, a surprising 55 per cent mentioned Wikipedia. The free online encyclopedia, written by users with minimal editing, came out above traditional outlets such as television and radio, and even above much-trumpeted “new media” such as blogs and social networking sites. Only articles in business publications scored more highly.
For Mr Edelman, Wikipedia’s status as a fount of knowledge on corporate matters is a function of the democratisation of modern media. “Wikipedia, just like Google, represents the vox populi,” he says.
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Συλλυπητήριο τηλεγράφημα για το θάνατο του μακαριστού Αρχιεπισκόπου Χριστοδούλου απηύθυνε ο Ρώσος πρόεδρος Βλαντίμιρ Πούτιν στον πρόεδρο της Δημοκρατίας Κάρολο Παπούλια, χαρακτηρίζοντας την πρόωρη εκδημία του προκαθημένου της Ελλαδικής Εκκλησίας "δυσαναπλήρωτη απώλεια".
"Η με αυταπάρνηση διακονία του για το καλό της Εκκλησίας και της ενότητας της ορθοδοξίας", σημειώνει στο μήνυμά του ο πρόεδρος Πούτιν, "τα διαδοχικά βήματά του για την εδραίωση των ιστορικών δεσμών φιλίας μεταξύ των λαών της Ρωσίας και της Ελλάδας, του χάρισαν ευρεία αναγνώριση και σεβασμό".
"Είμαι πεπεισμένος", δηλώνει μεταξύ άλλων στο μήνυμά του ο Ρώσος ηγέτης, "ότι η φωτεινή μνήμη για τη Μακαριότητά του θα πολλαπλασιάσει τις κοινές μας προσπάθειες για την περαιτέρω ανάπτυξη της ρωσο-ελληνικής συνεργασίας, τον εμπλουτισμό των μακραίωνων πολιτιστικών και πνευματικών σχέσεων των δύο χωρών".
Από την Τρίτη αναμένεται να ανοιχθεί στην ελληνική Πρεσβεία στη Μόσχα βιβλίο συλλυπητηρίων. Πολυάριθμα ηλεκτρονικά και έντυπα ΜΜΕ της Ρωσίας μεταδίδουν και αναδημοσιεύουν τις συλλυπητήριες δηλώσεις του Προέδρου της Δημοκρατίας Κ.Παπούλια και του Πρωθυπουργού Κ.Καραμανλή, που μεταφράστηκαν και διανεμήθηκαν χθες από το Γραφείο Τύπου της Πρεσβείας της Ελλάδας στη Μόσχα. Αναλυτική και ευρεία είναι η κάλυψη τόσο του θανάτου του μακαριστού Χριστοδούλου, όσο και των διαδικασιών για την εκλογή νέου Προκαθημένου της Εκκλησίας της Ελλάδας.
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"But why did you stay?"
"Once," the priest said, "I asked myself that. The fact is, a man isn't presented suddenly with two courses to follow. One good and one bad. He gets caught up. The first year—well, I didn't believe there was really any cause to run. Churches have been burnt before now. You know how often. It doesn't mean much. I thought I'd stay till next month, say, and see if things were better. Then—oh, you don't know how time can slip by." It was quite light again now: the afternoon rain was over: life had to go on. A policeman passed the entrance of the hut and looked in curiously at the pair of them. "Do you know I suddenly realized that I was the only priest left for miles around? The law which made priests marry finished them. They went: they were quite right to go. There was one priest in particular—who had always disapproved of me. I have a tongue, you know, and it used to wag. He said—quite rightly—that I wasn't a firm character. He escaped. It felt—you'll laugh at this—just as it did at school when a bully I had been afraid of—for years—got too old for any more teaching and was turned out. You see, I didn't have to think about anybody's opinion any more. The peoples—they didn't worry me. They liked me." He gave a weak smile, sideways, towards the humped Yankee.
"Go on," the lieutenant said moodily.
"You'll know all there is to know about me, at this rate," the priest said, with a nervous giggle, "by the time I get to, well, prison."
"It's just as well. To know an enemy, I mean."
"That other priest was right. It was when he left I began to go to pieces. One thing went after another. I got careless about my duties. I began to drink. It would have been much better, I think, if I had gone too. Because pride was at work all the time. Not love of God." He sat bowed on the packing-case, a small plump man in Mr. Lehr's cast-off clothes. He said: "Pride was what made the angels fall. Pride's the worst thing of all. I thought I was a fine fellow to have stayed when the others had gone. And then I thought I was so grand I could make my own rules. I gave up fasting, daily Mass. I neglected my prayers—and one day because I was drunk and lonely—well, you know how it was, I got a child. It was all pride. Just pride because I'd stayed. I wasn't any use, but I stayed. At least, not much use. I'd got so that I didn't have a hundred communicants a month. If I'd gone I'd have given God to twelve times that number. It's a mistake one makes—to think just because a thing is difficult or dangerous ..." He made a flapping motion with his hands.
The lieutenant said in a tone of fury: "Well, you're going to be a martyr—you've got that satisfaction."
"Oh, no. Martyrs are not like me. They don't think all the time—if I had drunk more brandy I shouldn't be so afraid.
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Ο 58χρονος είχε καταφέρει να υποκλέψει το λογισμικό το 2002, το οποίο πωλούσε σε ανταγωνιστές της εταιρίας στους τομείς της αυτοκινητοβιομηχανίας, της αεροναυπηγικής σχεδίασης και του στρατιωτικού εξοπλισμό αντί 700 ευρώ.Είσαι ανταγωνιστής μεγάλης πολυεθνικής εταιρίας με έδρα στη Γαλλία, καίγεσαι να αποκτήσεις το λογισμικό σχεδίασης μηχανολογικού σχεδιασμού που έχει αναπτύξει, ώστε να κάνεις επιτέλους σεφτέ στην αυτοκινητοβιομηχανία, στην αεροναπηγική και στους στρατιωτικούς εξοπλισμούς.
Δικογραφία σε βάρος 58χρονου χάκερ
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American military researchers are working to uncover and harness the most terrifying chemical imaginable: that most primal odor, the scent of fear.
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Βγήκαν τα πιστόλια. Ο Ταρζάν βάζει απόψε φωτιά στο ξέφωτο της “Ζούγκλας”. Συνταρακτικές αποκαλύψεις για δωροδοκίες και εκβιασμούς.
η αποκάλυψη του Μάκη Τριανταφυλλόπουλου, ότι μετά από ένα γεύμα στο Ψυχικό ο επιχειρηματίας Θ. Αγγελόπουλος του έκοψε μία επιταγή πολλών εκατομμυρίων δραχμών 'για τα τρέχοντα έξοδα' και όσα είπε για το πώς εξαγοράστηκε η ψήφος Λιβανέζου 'αθανάτου' άναψαν νέες φωτιές. Όλα τα ξένα κανάλια περιμένουν συνέχεια στην αποψινή 'Ζούγκλα'
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Αλέξης Κούγιας και Μάκης Τριανταφυλλόπουλος αντάλλαξαν οξύτατες εκφράσεις («κωλοτούμπας») και υπονοούμενα περί χρηματισμών ειδικά μετά τα περί «λίστας δημοσιογράφων που χρηματίζονταν από τον Θεόδωρο και τη Γιάννα Αγγελοπούλου» όπως τον «είχε πληροφορήσει ο Κων. Αγγελόπουλος». Χθες ο δικηγόρος χαρακτήρισε «απόλυτα ύποπτη τη συμπεριφορά Τριανταφυλλόπουλου», που «μάλλον έχει συνεργασθεί με άλλους για να πληγεί η αξιοπιστία της οικογένειας». Σε απόδειξη του ισχυρισμού ότι ψεύδεται ο δημοσιογράφος, ο κ. Κούγιας δήλωσε ότι «ο κ. Αγγελόπουλος δεν έχει επιταγές»!Δε λέω, καλός ο Τσοβόλας. Αλλά σαν τον Κούγια δεν είναι.
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International Bridge-to-Bridge operates on VHF Channel 16 worldwide. It is the one radio channel that is openly broadcast and repeated throughout the length of the Arabian Gulf. Because of the repeater system operated by the Gulf States and Iran, ship captains from Kuwait City to Qatar to Bandar Abbas can generally hear the same communications. Channel 16 is also filled with bored sailors who listen and comment on events as they occur. I cannot tell you how many times on Channel 16 I have heard the famous “Filipino Monkey,” a veteran Filipino sailor (or series of sailors) who I can safely assure you operates from the harbor tower at Dubai Port (the strongest transmitter in the Gulf), comment on whatever activity happens to be the most exciting or endless taunting of ship crews about the gymnastic characteristics of the opposite sex. In this incident it was most likely not the Filipino Monkey. The comment “You will explode after some minutes” most likely came from the empty super tanker seen three to five miles away in the distance that could see the whole event and decided to have some fun. In my experience, nothing is more amusing to many bored merchant tanker crews or harbor monitors (like Filipino Monkey) than real time commentary on an incident between two navies. Filipino Monkey once commented at the height of a naval battle in 1988 “Uh-Oh, Ayatollah! The US Navy is kicking your ass!” as reports of burning oil platforms and Maydays from sinking Iranian ships were broadcast from all over the gulf. News reports and commentaries from recent days about the lack of wind or engine noise on a three man high speed boat also correctly indicates that that transmission came from an enclosed bridge. Based on signal strength of the transmission on the US Navy ship’s bridge radio, relative to other traffic, the transmitting vessel was probably operating in visual range of the incident and was inserting an unwelcome level of tension that could have proven calamitous.
Bowling for Boghammars… 2008 Edition
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Spirou added: “I don’t think there was any way for anyone to predict the generation of 100,000 new voters, independents and students who showed up in Iowa, as well as Republicans who crossed the line to vote [for Obama].”
He made it sound as though it was a bad thing. If so, the Clinton era is heading for extinction.
In happier times when public diplomacy seemed unnecessary, the U.S. government had divested itself of the Hellenic-American Union in Athens. Spirou recognized HAU as a gold mine thanks to its right to sell the English-language competency certificates Greeks need for a government job. Armed with photographs autographed by Bill Clinton, Spirou had himself appointed to the board of HAU. He engineered a takeover, ousted board members alert enough to question his management practices, and presided over HAU's transformation into a personal fiefdom.Μετά βρήκα λεπτομέρειες για τον γιουγκοσλαβικό βίο του Σπύρου, με τον χαρακτηριστικό τίτλο "THE CLINTON-GORE-MILOSEVIC CONNECTION", αλλά συγκρατώ ότι ήταν σύμβουλος του ΠΑΣΟΚ στις εκλογές του 93
Later, Spirou used the same photographs to persuade the late Slobodan Milosevic, the despot of Serbia, to appoint him his personal advisor at the Dayton talks. Back in Athens, he wrote articles in Greek newspapers sharply attacking America's Balkan policy from a Greek/Serbian nationalist perspective. Now, in an interview to leading Athens newspaper To Vima, (VMen, 12/9/07) Spirou's picture with you in Manchester is next to a picture of current President Bush with puppet strings added. Spirou claims personal credit for having "tied down" Presidential candidate Clinton on the Macedonian name issue in 1992. Is this true? Is it loyal?
As a political consultant, Spirou's talents have been utilized not only by the Gore campaign, but also by the Socialist Party of Greece, whose 1993 candidate, Andreas Papandreou, faced the incumbent conservative Premier Constantine Mitsotakis. In this overseas battle of the American political consultants, Spirou found himself up against Paul Begala, James Carville, and Mary Matalin, who had hired themselves out to Mitsoakis, But quantity is not quality in the world of political consulting, and Spirou carried the day, moving on to effectively destroy the Bradley campaign in New Hampshire.Έχω μείνει με ανοιχτό στόμα, αλλά όχι από τις μακιαβελικές δραστηριότητες του Σπύρου. Δεν είμαι κανένα αναίσθητο ζώο. Αλλά, διατί να το κρύψωμεν άλλωστε, έχω ένα ψιλο-crush με τη Βάλερι Πλέιμ. Που κολλάει αυτή η ξανθιά Μάτα Χάρι;
I have no access to the blacked out portions of Fair Game so I can only guess at what is missing. Regardless, I find it ludicrous that even Plame’s dates and posts of service and where and when she met her husband Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, IV were considered national security risks if, in fact, the information had been included in her original text which I suspect it was. That information was already part of the public record – as the book’s lengthy "Afterward" by journalist Laura Rozen points out.
Ironically, it was hunky-dory for Plame to write that she had studied a hard language in preparation for a junior officer embassy assignment in an unspecified southern European country in the late 1980s yet she couldn’t name the country. Give me a break. At that time there was only one southern European country that fit the criteria where a difficult language was spoken. There was also a nice photo of her at the Acropolis one wintry day in 1990 - not exactly tourist season – in the event you hadn’t already figured out her Greek posting.
Clearly Plame served her first tour at the US Embassy in Athens. So did I. In my case as a public diplomacy junior officer with the U.S. Information Service (1970-71). I served in Athens again from 1981-84 as Executive Director of the Hellenic American Union (HAU). For years this was America’s sole binational cultural center in Greece but in 1996 it was taken over in a “coup” that need not have happened. The HAU has subsequently become a cash cow English teacher language testing center while perched on land in Athen’s swankiest in-town neighborhood. The building and the land were purchased with US taxpayers’ money.
Plame loved Greece, a country about which she claimed that too many of her Embassy colleagues and particularly their nonworking spouses complained of the country’s idiosyncrasies like “impossible driving habits, bizarre store hours, corrupt and nearly nonfunctioning telephone service and . . . sullen shopkeepers” while finding solace at the Hamburger Hamlet on the now defunct US Airbase.
Well, yes. I heard this too when I served there. Too many Americans still seem to think that Greeks wear togas, spout Plato over lunch, eat grapes at any time or live like Zorba. Then they arrive in Athens to find their romanticized notions in shards and that only the grape eating survives. These Americans become quickly disenchanted with everyday life in a city with far too much traffic for its tiny, winding streets and, oh my gosh, stores that don’t stay open 24/7.
True, Greece is not the US, but speaking even some of the language changes “sullen” into “smiling” shopkeepers, learning shop opening and closing times does not take a degree in rocket science, and the country is best appreciated outside its major metropolis. Thankfully, most US military bases are long gone and Athens itself has been considerably spruced up since Plame served there.
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Over the phone Wojtowiez gives numerous interviews, repling reporters wit 'h his opinions on capital punishment, which he favors, on his father, whom he hates, and on religion, in which he devoutly believes. He also believes in the power of the press to extricate him from the jam he is in.Ο κουμπαράς με τα πενηνταράκια.
Αμέσως μου θύμισε τη συμβατική μικροαστική καθημερινότητα.
"Is Sal dead?" she asks.
"Dead on arrival."
"Well," she says, "better him than me."
"You're right."
"Did you shoot him?"
"Yes."
She kissed Murphy on the cheek. She remembers he seemed embarrassed by the kiss.
Το σύνδρομο της Στοκχόλμης και πως να το ξεπεράσετε. Από την άλλη, το σύνδρομο γεννήθηκε ακριβώς ένα χρόνο αργότερα και λογικά δεν έχει αναδρομική ισχύ. Τυχερή Σίρλεϋ, και ακόμα πιο τυχερέ Μέρφυ που κονόμησες φιλί από το πουθενά.
