PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd's historic ideas summit will look at slashing the number of bars in Australia and reducing their opening hours to break the binge drinking culture gripping the nation.

"Closing times need to be adjusted. The way we serve alcohol in a responsible way, the codes for serving alcohol, need to be tightened." Amid growing evidence of a drinking epidemic, Brisbane's Princess Alexandra Hospital said yesterday the number of drunken louts turning up injured had quadrupled in the past five years. Emergency Department director Phillip Kay said the main offenders were young men aged 17 to 25, although some were as young as 14.

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The earth is their higher power and they wake up every day in fear that unless we all work together to change our dirty habits we're all going to suffer the consequences. I found a few of the responses quite frightening – even threatening. Things like “you should be fired" or “I will see to it that you never post your stupid comments ever again" came with an amount of foreboding. And therein lies the discovery of enlightenment. The man-made-global-warming-climate-change campaign is a campaign of fear. We're not becoming a lazy society – my friends, we're already there. We've grown accustomed to thinking less with our hearts and minds and more on computers and “experts". Through the years, we've allowed them to enlighten us with “a better way" than before. We've thrown common sense out the window because we've convinced ourselves reasonable judgment just doesn't work anymore.

HolidayGaff.com Grand Launch

HolidayGaff.com is the newest upcoming holiday home & villa advertiser on the net. Boasting impressive advertising features & software, their prices start from just 40 for a single property advertisment.

Managing directors Steven Gardiner & Frank Travaini originally opened the site in March 2007 to a select number of owners using the site on a beta testing basis. As of February 2008, the initial test period concluded. Since then a radical server & software upgrade has taken place to completely revamp the site features. With an impressive layout and advanced search features the site is gaining fast momentum on it's competitors. The low prices and constant Search Engine optomisation are sure to make other emerging rental sites nervous as they continue to attract attention from property owners and users alike.

Spyware Costs Businesses More Than $8,000 a Year

Safe-computing education and training needs to come "not from the IT staff but from the C-level executives down to the administrators, employees, anyone who's on the network communicating via a PC or wireless or PDA," Ostrowski said.

The CompTIA report, "Making the Case for Managed Services: The Business Impact of IT Problems at SMBs," comprised two studies. The first was with 200 IT professionals, the second with 537 SMB end users with no IT responsibilities. Interviewees came from a range of industries, including health care, financial services, and professional services in the U.S. and Canada.
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Frank’s part of local folklore

Frank Smith of Franks Lakeview Inn and Anchor Club looks out over Lake Belton from the inns patio in May 1988. Nita Smith, Franks wife, said her husband was a visionary when it came to making decisions about their restaurant, eventually building it with a view of the lake. (Telegram file photo) .

The Katrina of All Fences

Having seen all three give speeches, it's hard for me to imagine how a prolonged side-by-side comparison will move voters into Clinton's camp. And, as the best-known of the leading candidates, she'll have the hardest time making a strong new impression anyway.

Good point. True, the tryout period promises to be much longer this time--but Chait does seem to have forgotten one crucial factor: the Iowa Dem caucusers are fools! Who knows whom they'll decide is "electable" this time? Still, that only makes their choice seem more random and less inevitable, no? ...