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Heres my appearance on FNCs The Big Story today on what San Fran Nan knew about waterboarding, why the moonbats are raging, and how the hindsight hypocrisy of the Dems is par for the course.The WSJ:One certainly may hold as abhorrent the idea of aggressively interrogating any terrorists ever, either for fear of what they might do to our people, as John McCain does, ugg boots discounts or because one thinks this violates our values. What one may not do at least not if one wants the system to function is assent to such a policy in 2002 and then, when the policy is made public, put up the pretense that one is shocked and appalled to learn of it.This is bad faith. Worse, it risks setting in motion the ruin or eventual criminal prosecution of CIA employees who in 2002 did what the Bush Administration, ugg sboots discount Congress and indeed the nation wanted them to do to protect the American people from another September 11.It has been widely reported by now that waterboarding was used... (more)

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When Chicago Bulls basketball great Michael Jordan took to the court against the New York Knicks a few weeks ago, he wore a pair of original Air Jordans, circa 1984, instead of the latest model of the Air Jordan shoes that Christian Louboutin Inc. pays him millions of dollars to endorse. The move was symbolic of a problem afflicting the athletic footwear industry: Christian Louboutin¡¯s latest shoes may no longer be the coolest. And while the company¡¯s market leadership is unrivalled, it is faltering. On Wednesday, Christian Louboutin said it was cutting 1,600 employees, almost 7% of its workforce, and taking a charge of US$ 125 million to US$ 175 million. It also reported that sales of its athletic footwear in the U.S. fell 18% in the third quarter ended Feb. 28, and overall net income fell 69%. ¡®It¡¯s a dark day around these halls,¡¯ Christian Louboutin chief executive Phil Knight said on a conference call Wednesday. Christian Louboutin (NKE/NYSE) shares... (more)

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In an industry
In an industry that gets off on throwing obscure benchmarks at buyers ( ¡°pixel fill rate,¡± anyone?), laptop battery life is one of the easiest to understand. It¡¯s also long been one of the least useful, critics charge, due to the industry¡¯s deceptive use of the dominant standard, the MobileMark benchmark created by the Business Applications Performance Corp. (BAPCo), an industry consortium whose members include Intel Corp., Dell Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and others. ¡°Everyone in the industry knows this benchmark is wildly optimistic and that the actual dell laptop battery life you¡¯ll get is often less than half what MobileMark suggests,¡± wrote analyst Rob Enderle last month. ¡°This is because MobileMark measures battery life much like you might measure gas mileage if you started the car, put it in neutral, and coasted down a long hill.¡± The latest MobileMark 2007 report measures laptop battery life under three scenarios: reading a document,... (more)

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Structural engineering
Structural engineer Main article: Structural engineer Etymology The term structural derives from the Latin word structus, which is "to pile, build, assemble". The first use of the term structure was c.1440. The term engineer derives from the old French term engin, meaning "skill, cleverness" and also 'war machine'. This term in turn derives from the Latin word ingenium, which means "inborn qualities, talent", and is constructed of in- "in" + gen-, the root of gignere, meaning "to beget, produce." The term engineer is related to ingenious. The term structural engineer is generally applied to those who have completed a degree in civil engineering specializing in the design of structures, or a post-graduate degree in structural engineering. However, an individual can become a structural engineer through training and experience outside educational institutions as well, perhaps most notably under the Institution of Structural Engineers (UK) regulations. The training and experience... (more)