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		<title>Come on over, the sun&#8217;s out, the water&#8217;s warm, and there&#8217;s a Piña Colada waiting for you on the beach.</title>
		<link>http://ampers.wordpress.com/2011/06/22/come-on-over-the-suns-out-the-waters-warm-and-theres-a-pina-colada-waiting-for-you-on-the-beach/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As many of you know, Ampers&#8217; Rants has moved to www.ampers.me.uk and we will be living there from now on. At the same time, I decided to register my own name for the Ampers&#8217; Rants website. This way, if we decide to move again, you won&#8217;t have to worry as this link will always find [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ampers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=165885&amp;post=1631&amp;subd=ampers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>England won the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest &#8211; The UK lost.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 07:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United Kingdom (they came 11th) may have lost the contest but England were the real winners. 43 countries voted, and 41 of those voted in English not French. France, of course, voted in French, and the Belgian representative was a Walloon (a French speaking Belgian) so naturally did as well, but no one else [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ampers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=165885&amp;post=1588&amp;subd=ampers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Children &#8211; should they have &#8216;rights&#8217;? &#8211; A compelling answer to this question&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 07:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mirna is an educational psychologist from Stellenbosch. She taught at several schools, amongst others Stellenbosch High School, Bloemhof Girls’ High and Jan Kriel School for learners with barriers to learning. She is a mother, loves art, the ocean and children. Children I have been writing on the effects of divorce for the last couple of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ampers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=165885&amp;post=1584&amp;subd=ampers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I watched this and didn&#8217;t know whether it was exciting or frightening &#8211; you decide!</title>
		<link>http://ampers.wordpress.com/2011/04/30/i-watched-this-and-didnt-know-whether-it-was-exciting-or-frightening-you-decide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2011 10:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sony showed this to attendees at their Annual Shareholder&#8217;s meeting in 2009 but I have only just come across it and think it needs a wider audience. The&#160;frightening&#160;thing is when they talk about first year and third year students&#8230; Tell us what frightened or excited you below in the comments! Ampers Filed under: A Rant, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ampers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=165885&amp;post=1579&amp;subd=ampers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Which is best for Britain? A monarchy or a republic? You decide!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 10:19:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is part of an article from the Adam Smith Institute and you can read the rest of the article here. Camden Council has effectively banned a street party planned by republicans to coincide with the royal wedding. This is a shame, since those opposed to the monarchic principle should be allowed to express [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ampers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=165885&amp;post=1575&amp;subd=ampers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lest we forget – Ishinomaki – Black Water</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2011 07:38:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A short documentary film about Ishinomaki in Miyagi prefecture one of the hardest hit areas of the 11th March 2011 tsunami. This documentary deals with the city, the people and relief efforts completed by individuals living in Tokyo to send relief supplies to a center for disabled people in Ishinomaki. Filed under: Charities, General, Overseas [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ampers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=165885&amp;post=1573&amp;subd=ampers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One 71 year old that leaves our politicians standing &#8211; a man to be greatly admired.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Colour and excitement returned to the City yesterday as Glencore announced a former French foreign legionnaire, Algerian war veteran, author, explorer and financier as its new chairman. Simon Murray (pictured) will be tasked with leading the firm’s up-to $11bn (£6.7bn) float, valuing it at about $60bn, the details of which were confirmed yesterday. The move [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ampers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=165885&amp;post=1562&amp;subd=ampers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The left, and right, are getting into a real tizzy over the NHS, there is an answer&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone is asking the wrong questions. The right questions are: 1. Is the NHS working? And, 2. is it working to the best of its capacity? We really need to answer these questions, not just of the NHS as a whole, but of each section or department. Once we have these answers, and only when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ampers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=165885&amp;post=1540&amp;subd=ampers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>28 MPs  who secretly handed their fiddled expenses back, and the civil and criminal crimes of other MPs.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:21:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an article in the Daily Telegraph, of all the Members of Parliament who fiddled their expenses, twenty-eight MPs have been given the money they publicly handed back, back to them quietly and without publicity. These are substantial amounts, and the top five who received their &#8220;cash backs&#8221; in terms of amounts, the total came to £29,910.98! [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ampers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=165885&amp;post=1537&amp;subd=ampers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Education, education, Education &#8211; he had that part right&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://ampers.wordpress.com/2011/04/11/education-education-education-he-had-that-part-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 12:36:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; pity he didn&#8217;t follow it up. Pity nobody has followed it up, both before him, and afterwards. The girl in this video probably went to a private school. The video is all about changing outcomes from using the right words. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but this is not&#160;necessarily&#160;true if [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ampers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=165885&amp;post=1534&amp;subd=ampers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nightmare in Elm Street</title>
		<link>http://ampers.wordpress.com/2011/04/06/nightmare-in-elm-street/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 23:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just had to split two blogs from WordPress as someone else needed to adminster one of them. What a nightmare. I&#8217;m too old for all this. Still all working OK now &#8211; I think. Ampers. Filed under: Uncategorized<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ampers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=165885&amp;post=1532&amp;subd=ampers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amazing and incredible technology arriving from Japan in the near future!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 13:35:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You  will not be able to know what is ahead  until  you  have seen the four pictures and read the  explanation of what  they are, our future is here, incredible! what  an age we live in. Look closely and guess what they  could be&#8230; Are they pens with cameras? Any wild guesses? No clue  yet? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ampers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=165885&amp;post=1503&amp;subd=ampers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Devil take the hindmost</title>
		<link>http://ampers.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/devil-take-the-hindmost/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 07:33:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is nothing new about the idea of an Alternative Voting system. When the idea was last mooted in 1931, Winston Churchill spoke up against it as elections being determined by “the most worthless votes given for the most worthless candidates.” Churchill said of AV “it adds new features of caprice and uncertainty to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ampers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=165885&amp;post=1499&amp;subd=ampers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A civilised rally against debt in London 14 May 2011</title>
		<link>http://ampers.wordpress.com/2011/03/31/a-civilised-rally-against-debt-in-london-14-may-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Join their Official Page here for updates and debate: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rally-Against-Debt/215405205140114?sk=wall A well mannered, polite rally for civilised people who don&#8217;t wish to see their hard earned money being spent on pointless government initiatives and instead would like government spending to actually fall and our national debt to be cut. They don&#8217;t think that it&#8217;s fair [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ampers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=165885&amp;post=1496&amp;subd=ampers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A fascinating South African newsletter</title>
		<link>http://ampers.wordpress.com/2011/03/28/a-fascinating-south-african-newsletter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I get this regular newsletter from PeterJasie in South Africa. (Make sure you click on the English link!) He is retired and spends a lot of his time holidaying all around Southern Africa and his newsletter is a mixture of useful information, travel information, recipes, often a &#8220;letter from Zimbabwe&#8221; Mirna van Wyk articles (she [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ampers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=165885&amp;post=1489&amp;subd=ampers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Die ware Suid Afrika &#8211; vandag (in die Engels se taal)</title>
		<link>http://ampers.wordpress.com/2011/03/20/the-real-south-africa-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2011 11:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The song is sung in Afrikaans but you don&#8217;t have to know the language to understand what it is all about, the video explains it very well Now ask yourself what story does the video tell and reflect, is it the truth or is it a lie &#8211; ask yourself, is it really happening in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ampers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=165885&amp;post=1481&amp;subd=ampers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An army of Lions lead by a sheep?</title>
		<link>http://ampers.wordpress.com/2011/03/19/1477/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 12:25:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An old African saying reads: An army of sheep led by a lion can defeat an army of lions led by a sheep. The question to ask here is, which of the following seems like a sheep, and which one seems and sounds like a lion? David Cameron &#8211; sheep or lion? Nick Clegg - [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ampers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=165885&amp;post=1477&amp;subd=ampers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cuddly furry animals explain Quantitive Easing</title>
		<link>http://ampers.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/cuddly-furry-animals-explains-quantitive-easing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 10:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please don&#8217;t drink your coffee anywhere near the keyboard when watching this&#8230; Ampers Filed under: Education, Finance, Politics<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ampers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=165885&amp;post=1474&amp;subd=ampers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Unions in schools is about</title>
		<link>http://ampers.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/what-unions-in-schools-is-about/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:46:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[But, relax, this isn&#8217;t about Britain. It is about America. I mean, surely it can&#8217;t apply here&#8230; can it? Ampers Filed under: Education, Humour, Simplicity<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ampers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=165885&amp;post=1471&amp;subd=ampers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ebaynomics</title>
		<link>http://ampers.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/ebaynomics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 07:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Anton Howes We&#8217;re all now familiar with the way the online exchange market eBay works. However, it should also be seen as an example of how unregulated free markets can work. In 2010, 90 million people from across the world, often unable to speak the same language, and totally unknown to each other due [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ampers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=165885&amp;post=1469&amp;subd=ampers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It could never happen here.</title>
		<link>http://ampers.wordpress.com/2011/03/13/it-could-never-happen-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 10:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was watching the story unfold in Egypt over the last few days and thought “This could never happen in England.” For one thing, successive governments have made us far too reliant on the state and no matter how evil the politicians become, the people who actually have the time to take to the streets [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ampers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=165885&amp;post=1459&amp;subd=ampers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wine tasting at home.</title>
		<link>http://ampers.wordpress.com/2011/03/12/wine-tasting-at-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2011 19:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is sometimes difficult for an amateur to go to an wine tasting event with so many professionals using such flowery language but it doesn&#8217;t matter too much. When you taste wine and you feel you haven&#8217;t the ability to smell the nose or taste the wine in such an expert way, don&#8217;t worry about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ampers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=165885&amp;post=1454&amp;subd=ampers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>For our new immigrants</title>
		<link>http://ampers.wordpress.com/2011/03/12/for-our-new-immigrants/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2011 13:22:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You are probably wondering about all the terms for this country. England, Britain, United Kingdom and the British Isles. So here is the definitive description. Great Britain consists of England, Scotland, Wales and various islands scattered around the landmass. The United Kingdom consists of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. That&#8217;s right, Northern Ireland is not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ampers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=165885&amp;post=1452&amp;subd=ampers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why I moved to OpenSource</title>
		<link>http://ampers.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/1448/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am often asked why I moved over to Linux from Windows. A question which is difficult to understand when replied to verbally, but a little easier when written down. A few years ago I had a wonky hard drive and kept on having to reformat and reload Windows. After I had done this a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ampers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=165885&amp;post=1448&amp;subd=ampers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Batteries in mobiles and laptops to run 100 times longer</title>
		<link>http://ampers.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/batteries-in-mobiles-and-laptops-to-run-100-times-longer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 09:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A team of electrical engineers at Illinois University in the US believe their method will enable mobiles and laptops to run for up to 100 times longer between charges. It focuses on changing the way a device&#8217;s digital memory works, as this consumes much of the charge. At the moment mobile phone memories contain thin [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ampers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=165885&amp;post=1443&amp;subd=ampers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The big Society is all about ubuntu</title>
		<link>http://ampers.wordpress.com/2011/03/07/the-big-society-is-all-about-ubuntu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 16:22:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m from Africa, you will know about what the Big Society is all about if you come from that neck of the woods.. We called it Ubuntu. The following is a short description &#8211; it&#8217;s very hard to describe it in a shorter fashion &#8211; I am not religious and am a committed &#8220;deist&#8221; &#8211; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ampers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=165885&amp;post=1439&amp;subd=ampers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The case for decriminalising drugs &#8211; by Milton Freedman PhD.</title>
		<link>http://ampers.wordpress.com/2011/03/05/the-case-for-decriminalising-drugs-by-milton-freedman-phd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 17:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although I have been saying everything he says in the following video, he says it a lot better than me.watch the video and look at some of the benefits I have listed after the video&#8230; This is excellent and I have downloaded it from YouTube and put it on my phone to show others. There [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ampers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=165885&amp;post=1436&amp;subd=ampers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The difference between Barclays Bank and the Gardian Media Group</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 08:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following has been lifted unashamedly from Guido Fawkes website, Order-Order.com &#160; On Saturday morning The Guardian decided to give UK Uncut a front page boost.  The protestors managed to shut down three dozen of the 1,720 branches of Barclays bank. Surprised they found any branches to occupy given Saturday opening hours. The gist of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ampers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=165885&amp;post=1428&amp;subd=ampers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The truth behind the Barclays Corporation Tax furore.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Feb 2011 09:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Telegraph: Barclays paid out just £113m in corporation tax in 2009, despite making a pre-tax profit of £11.6bn, according to chief executive Bob Diamond. The revelation came in a letter to Chuka Umunna MP, a member of the Treasury Select Committee (TSC), who put Mr Diamond under pressure to declare how much of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ampers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=165885&amp;post=1424&amp;subd=ampers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How fast is your laptop?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 23:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watch this video for true enlightenment. Ubuntu Light: Live fast from Immprint ltd on Vimeo. As you can see, this is the way to conserve your laptop battery each and every day. Ampers. Filed under: Computers, Education<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ampers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=165885&amp;post=1422&amp;subd=ampers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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