Experience: My dad ran me over. It was a beautiful spring day when I decided to go and sunbathe outside my parents' house – not a cloud in the sky. I was a 21-year-old university student at the time, living with my parents in Georgia. I'd spent the night before at my friend's house and when I came home the next day my mum said Dad was on his way over to have lunch with us – something he often did when he had time at work. That morning I went upstairs, put on my new swimming costume, grabbed a towel and pillow and went out to catch some sun. Mum and I always sunbathed in our driveway – unlike our back garden, it gets much more sun. I was lying on my back, with the top of my head facing the street, talking to my friend on the phone, when I heard Dad driving down the road.
But he didn't. That was it. Dad jumped out the car and that's when he realised he'd hit me. At first Dad thought he'd run over a bucket lying in the drive but when he realised he'd hit me, he started crying, saying: "Oh my God! The experience of Mary in Lima women's prison. Have we literally broken the English language? | Martha Gill. It's happened. Literally the most misused word in the language has officially changed definition. Now as well as meaning "in a literal manner or sense; exactly: 'the driver took it literally when asked to go straight over the traffic circle'", various dictionaries have added its other more recent usage. As Google puts it, "literally" can be used "to acknowledge that something is not literally true but is used for emphasis or to express strong feeling".
Did we, as genuinely hundreds of people are tweeting, just break the English language? Or did we, as totally tens of bloggers are writing, prove that the English language is a beautiful, organic creature that is forever slipping out of our control? Well, no: to be precise, we have done something mildly annoying. "Literally", you see, in its development from knock-kneed, single-purpose utterance, to swan-like dual-purpose term, has reached that awkward stage. 1. "Literally" has been playfully abused since the time of Walter Scott. 2. 3.
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It's called Immunicity - and it'll crack Cameron's porn filter too. With its ongoing efforts to censor the Internet, the UK has been developing quite a reputation recently. This week prime minister David Cameron’s announcement that ISPs will be instructed to implement a ‘default on’ filtering scheme to deny access to porn and other yet-to-be-defined content has only added to the controversy. Of course, it’s almost inevitable that when content is blocked there will be those who seek to unblock it.
But while dozens of proxy sites have appeared to offer workarounds, those too are slowly being added to the UK’s blocklist. Well now there is. Blair defines the new Labour | Politics. Tony Blair seemed likely last night to pull off the most sensational political coup for a generation as the Labour conference embraced his unexpected call for an overhaul of the party's time-honoured aims and objectives - including the controversial Clause Four commitment to nationalisation. If the initial response of most MPs, trade union leaders and delegates is confirmed - and opposition to the move confined to the hard left - a draft which would revise Labour's 1918 constitution could be ready by December and put to next year's party conference after widespread consultation.
Labour strategists believe that such an achievement would decisively convince the electorate that Labour has made a fundamental breach with its discredited past, if not with what Mr Blair called the community values of modern 'social-ism'. Once his purpose became clear, the miners' leader, Arthur Scargill, rushed to condemn it on BBC Television's Conference Live programme. NEGATION. Sigmund Freud Standard Ed. 19, 235-239 THE manner in which our patients bring forward their associations during the work of analysis gives us an opportunity for making some interesting observations. 'Now you'll think I mean to say something insulting, but really I've no such intention.' We realize that this is a rejection, by projection, of an idea that has just come up.
Or: 'You ask who this person in the dream can be. It's not my mother.' There is a very convenient method by which we can sometimes obtain a piece of information we want about unconscious repressed material. Thus the content of a repressed image or idea can make its way into consciousness, on condition that it is negated. Since to affirm or negate the content of thoughts is the task of the function of intellectual judgement, what we have just been saying has led us to the psychological origin of that function.
The function of Judgement is concerned in the main with two sorts of decisions. Norrms - Member blogs - Social Work Blog - Carespace from Community Care. Meg Jay: Why 30 is not the new 20. Vicky Pryce's correspondence with Isabel Oakeshott – the full documents | Law. How Bradley Manning Became One of the Most Unusual Revolutionaries in American History. In prison, Manning was far from the furor he’d set off. He had a few visitors. For a time, Manning’s father was one of them—he apparently wanted a relationship after all. For father and son, though, prison was not a place to grow close. “We talk pretty much all technical talk, and I was quite amazed at how he was current with it,” Brian Manning told me. “He was giving me some advice.” For Bradley, the conversation was little comfort, and two months ago, he took his father off his visiting list.
“It’s complicated,” was Bradley’s explanation. It wasn’t long ago that Manning had imagined a bright future for himself. Ecstasy does not wreck the mind, study claims | Society | The Observer. Ecstasy tablets induce a sense of euphoria and intimacy with others, and diminished anxiety and depression Photograph: David Allan / Alamy/Alamy There is no evidence that ecstasy causes brain damage, according to one of the largest studies into the effects of the drug. Too many previous studies made over-arching conclusions from insufficient data, say the scientists responsible for the research, and the drug's dangers have been greatly exaggerated.
The finding will shock campaigners who have claimed ecstasy poses a real risk of triggering brain damage. They have argued that it can induce memory loss, decrease cognitive performance and has long-lasting effects on behaviour. But experts who have argued that the drug is relatively safe welcomed the new paper. The study was carried out by a team led by Professor John Halpern of Harvard Medical School and published in the journal Addiction last week. But the drug still posed risks, he said. 1977 UK makes MDMA a Class A drug. US control is diminishing, but it still thinks it owns the world | Noam Chomsky. This piece is adapted from Uprisings, a chapter in Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to US Empire, Noam Chomsky's new book of interviews with David Barsamian (with thanks to the publisher, Metropolitan Books). The questions are Barsamian's, the answers Chomsky's. Does the United States still have the same level of control over the energy resources of the Middle East as it once had?
The major energy-producing countries are still firmly under the control of the western-backed dictatorships. So, actually, the progress made by the Arab spring is limited, but it's not insignificant. Take the US invasion of Iraq, for example. The United States was seriously defeated in Iraq by Iraqi nationalism – mostly by nonviolent resistance. Iraq was an attempt to reinstitute by force something like the old system of control, but it was beaten back. Declining because of economic weakness? Partly because the world is just becoming more diverse. Yes.