grame swann who has been billed by spin legend shane warne as the one who holds the england’s ashes defence against australia this summer believes he was "rubbish" five years ago and wasn’t good enough to perform at the Test level!

http://cricket.yahoo.com/cricket/news/article?id=item/2.0/-/story/cricket.indianexpress.com/-was-rubbish-five-years-ago-says-swann-20101108/

read "greame" as "graeme"!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1050606/Pictured-The-curious-young-cow-got-spin-getting-head-stuck-old-washing-machine-drum.html

In the context of the news article below about NASA and a sky survey that they believe has identified all of the galaxies in about 400 million lightyears from us that have super-massive black holes in their center, how would some of these be inactive? Supposedly our own galaxy has an inactive blackhole. First, I know the idea of inactivity because all of the matter in the local space has been sucked out already, but we are talking galactic centers, the gravitational pivot on which the pinwheel (in our case) spins. So, how would something that is at the center of all that action, stars packed closer than icebergs on the north Atlantic, be inactive?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20061005/sc_space/nasacompletessurveyofnearbysupermassiveblackholes

I’m tempted to give it to Vitamin C and these links indicates my similar feeling. Gene Smith’s summary of the galaxy nucleus shows a very massive site and also "that the Galactic Center region is an unusually crowded place": http://casswww.ucsd.edu/public/tutorial/MW.html

http://rsd-www.nrl.navy.mil/7213/lazio/GC/

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/21feb_mwbh.htm

It seems far too "busy" to have built some static zone where it has eaten everything in reach already.

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/64910

I’m trying to find a good news article & event to use as an example of a global marketing fiasco. I want to find something that happened within the last year in which a company operated in one country went to another and failed magnificently due to differences in culture. Think Wal-Mart in Germany, but more recent. Any examples?
And by ‘global marketing fiascos’, I don’t mean business fiascos in general. I mean ones from when corporations went global with their product (as in brought their business to another country) and things went down the pie-hole. Corporate failures in general don’t answer this question at all!

My source spins quite a tale about the Met Office. The gist of it is this: The Met Office publicly published winter predictions for Europe for mild temperatures. At the same time, it apparently told the government (UK) in confidence that this winter would be more severe than average.

I realize my source is a skeptical website but regardless, does anyone have any concrete information on this? It would seem to me that if the UK government had this info yet did not bolster salt levels or winter maintenance budgets, I would imagine the public might be irritated by that.

(Note, this is my third attempt at this question. My links are obviously being the problem. This time, I only have a news source. If they stop questions with news sources as the links we have a problem.)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1343863/Met-Office-knew-Decembers-big-freeze-coming-hushed-up.html

Eric, I know that it (my previous question) has not been deleted but it has been removed from the main stream. Can you see it in the Global Warming section? I can’t.

Lowest approval and more debt by the 111th Congress than by the first 100 combined. It’s tough to spin.

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/111th-congress-added-more-debt-first-100

In a recent news article posted on Yahoo! "Historic anti-smoking vote to give FDA new power", it states that "The legislation [...] would give the Food and Drug Administration authority to regulate the content, marketing and advertising of cigarettes and other tobacco products.

I don’t smoke cigarettes, nor do I advocate them, but think is a gross abuse of government power. Tobacco products already have the strictest rules concerning advertising (in CA ads are practically limited to magazines and gas stations only). Now the government is attempting to regulate it even more.

Also, in an odd "change-of-the-poles" effect, the government now IS Big Tobacco. Picture this, the government is now in control of what Big Tobacco makes, how it makes it, what it markets, how it advertises, and profits from it substantially through 300%+ tax rates excised on tobacco products in cities such as New York.

Does anyone else see several very wrong things with this scenario? Please no heated remarks about how cigarettes kill – WE KNOW.
gomanyes – "do you think that requiring FDA approval to sell a drug is also an abuse of government power?"

Yes, I do think that is another example of the government’s abuse of power. I believe gov. should only act as a facilitator, never* an inhibitor. Build roads, build schools, but let the markets do as they please. If the FDA wants to put a stamp on things it approves, that’s fine. But making non-approved products illegal is an abuse of power, because people have the right to choose what they put in to their bodies, whether it be cigarettes, alcohol, or medicine.
Bill M – I would agree with you if corporations forced people to consume their products. However the fact remains that individuals have the ability to choose whether or not they use tobacco products, and in what capacity. Would you like to edit your comment to include a rebuttal?
Lea R – I did not know until reading your post how severe the circumstances were in Canada surrounding tobacco and alcohol. It is interesting to learn how different things are.
It worries me because we are continuously creating more restrictive laws, but hardly ever do we abandon them. We are losing our freedoms inch by inch.

Many think cigarettes should be bad because of the health implications, but where does that road end? Will they next ban chocolate, and butter, and candy, and steak, and ham, because they all in some way or another can be detrimental to ones health?

People cit how many people have died from cigarettes frequently. It’s as if people think "If it weren’t for tobacco, no one would ever die, so we should get rid of it." I fail to see the logic in fruitlessly attempting to prevent something that is inevitable. (death)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1341229/Bushs-memoir-sells-2MILLION-copies-just-month–nearly-Bill-Clintons-sold-years.html

Let the spin, begin.
Hey Paula, I post proof, how about you back up your statement.

I wonder how the right is going to spin this to avoid the R word.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1339315/President-Obama-snubbed-sources-reveal-invited-Prince-Williams-wedding.html