Monthly Archive for January, 2011
The Kroger Co. Headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, Kroger (NYSE:KR) is one of the nation’s largest grocery retailers, with fiscal 2009 sales of $76.7 billion. The company’s operations span many U.S. states with store formats that include grocery and multi-department stores, convenience stores and mall jewelry stores. The company also operates under nearly two dozen banners.
This savvy corporation operates a disaster planning and preparation function within its logistics department that should put many levels of government to shame.
I have to add the following 3 sites to my list of sites to search for hooker ads in the Toronto area:
Censorship: You be the Judge
Google Ad-sense sent an automated notice that their machines were going to stop serving ads because I listed the sites that we often search for telephone numbers as explained above. Of course machines can’t read, but they can find links. Now Google is censoring content because they don’t like to place ads on anything that has links to sites that they don’t like, in this case so-called ‘adult content’. I can understand not wanting to be involved in promoting pornography or the sex trade, but this is only a machine telling me what to write and there is nobody to talk to and no living person at Google ever read this article.
It seems every time I go into a large Toronto-area apartment building to conduct inquires, I come across a small brothel. This is becoming a problem in some buildings.
Awhile back, a woman fell or was pushed from the balcony of one such establishment. More recently, the CBC did a piece about a building near Sheppard and Yonge where the brothels have become a nuisance.
Private Investigators, Adjusters, and insurance companies get a lot of bad press due to bias, ignorance, and a desire to sensationalize the news.
In today’s Toronto Sun an article titled, How Facebook can screw you by Alan SHANOFF, the author states,
I wouldn’t be surprised to see insurance company adjusters and investigators trying to become a claimant’s “friend” to obtain inner circle access. Instead of a private investigator hiding in a van on your street or behind a bush, he might very well be tracking your movements in cyberspace.”
It’s obvious that SHANOFF would be surprised to learn that Private Investigators and Adjusters in Canada wouldn’t do this to a represented claimant. I have written on this subject twice, and all the PI’s and Adjusters I have spoken to about this know that they may not “friend” the subject of an investigation if he or she is represented. Simple fact checking would have corrected this.
We’re in the dead of winter and I’m slaving over a hot computer. But the digital hermit must stay fit and that doesn’t require a gym.
I have spent a large portion of my life in a gym. One thing I noticed was that the faces around me didn’t change much, but neither did the abilities of most people who went to the gym. The reason their abilities didn’t change was because they didn’t really train — they just went to the gym as if that would miraculously transform them into an athlete.
Here are some suggestions that will allow you to get stronger and more fit.
These programmes are properly scaled for the average person. However, you may find that you get stuck and have to repeat a particular workout a couple of times before progress is possible.
Two books offer similar programmes:
This seems to be the best general-purpose body weight exercise book:
The demise of the “Erotic Services” section of Craigslist in Canada has led to a rush to fill the vacuum. This has made it harder to identify prostitution ads being run by people who are carrying out other scams such as exaggerated or fraudulent insurance claims.
As these ads move to other venues, a predominate source will rise to the top. At this time I predict that it will be Duttslist or the Toronto Backpage site.
The following is a list of 25 sites vying for the position of top prostitution ad site in Canada:
Some of these sites are easy to search by telephone number and some are not.
Censorship: You be the Judge
Google Ad-sense sent an automated notice that their machines were going to stop serving ads because I listed the sites that we often search for telephone numbers as explained above. Of course machines can’t read, but they can find links. Now Google is censoring content because they don’t like to place ads on anything that has links to sites that they don’t like, in this case so-called ‘adult content’. I can understand not wanting to be involved in promoting pornography or the sex trade, but this is only a machine telling me what to write and there is nobody to talk to and no living person at Google ever read this article.
Anonymous Searching
In the past I have written about hiding your tracks as you search the Internet and about the Google SSL search interface.
Scroogle via SSL
Now let me introduce you to the SSL version of Scroogle. Like the SSL Google, it hides your search terms from IP logging. No one snooping between your browser and Scroogle can figure out what you were looking for, because the information is encrypted. Unlike the SSL version of Google, your IP address is dropped before your search terms are sent to Google. Therefore, Google has no idea who is conducting the search.
When you click on any of the links in the Scroogle results on the secure results page, SSL does not allow the browser to record the address of where that secure page came from, and attach it to any outgoing non-SSL links on that page. Using SSL blanks-out this referrer, so that any non-SSL site you click on from a Scroogle SSL page won’t even know that you arrived at their site from Scroogle or anywhere else.
Using Scroogle
In practice, Scroogle isn’t the greatest for finding video and clicking on a link does not open a new window in Firefox. This makes it somewhat awkward when doing high-volume searching, but it offers excellent security.
An article on URL shorteners was recently published in the Share section of FUMSI.
The FUMSI article doesn’t address the security issues surrounding the use of these things. For the security issues, see these articles on Evil URL Shorteners and How to Preview Shortened URLs. The ability to preview the shortened link is key to the proper use of URL Shorteners.
Now you know everything you need to know about URL Shorteners.
The shooting of U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Gifford and the others is a deplorable event. However, we have heard the ensuing nonsense about political rhetoric before.
In 1995, a deranged knife-wielding man broke into 24 Sussex Dr. as then Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien and his wife, Aline, were sleeping. Afterward, former Prime Minister Joe Clark said, “I think this is an increasingly dangerous time. I think people are very frustrated and the extent of angry rhetoric in the country can lead people to extreme actions. On the other hand, that is part of the risk one runs in a democracy. You can’t cordon yourself off.”
The suspected shooter, Jared Lee Loughner’s YouTube channel makes him look like a lunatic who probably believed he was subject to mind control. At least The Catcher in the Rye didn’t appear in his list of favorite books.
Stand back or you will be run over by the stampeding conspiracy theorists and political pundits advocating everything from more gun control to the arrest of Sara Palin for inciting this, and a wide variety of fund raising on the back of this tragedy.
Nothing new happens in politics.
Open the Search settings at the top right of the Google Search page. This brings you to the Preferences Page. In the Number of Results section select 100. Next go to the last section for Google Instant, select the second option, “Do not use Google Instant“.
By disabling Instant, the full 100 search results should appear.
I have previously written about Canadian Criminal Record Searches and how some provinces don’t link previous criminal records to a name change. Legally changing one’s name is a Provincial matter, one has to be wary of checks for criminal records.
While the person’s finger prints and photograph will certainly turn-up any serious criminal conviction, a search by the subject’s current name alone may not. Recognition of this has resulted in delays for many people seeking a police certificate for employment.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) maintains the Canadian Police Information Centre (CPIC) which is Canada’s centralised depository of criminal conviction data. Currently, only Alberta and British Columbia require people to notify the RCMP when they get legal name changes. There are some exceptions to this process, such as names that are changed as part of getting married. In these cases, if the person has a criminal record, the RCMP will add the new name to the criminal record. No other provinces or territories require people to notify the RCMP when they change their names. In some cases, such as Ontario, applicants for name changes must get criminal record checks, but there is no requirement to notify the RCMP once the name change is completed.
Name changes appear to fall under Provincial Powers according to The Constitution Act of 1867, S.92(16) which reads, “Generally all Matters of a merely local or private nature in the Province.” This is because this matter impinges upon the recording of Births, Deaths, and Marriages.
Generally, a name change is done through an application under the Province’s or Territory’s Change of Name Act. People who have reached the age of majority in the province or territory where they live (usually 18 or 19) can apply to change their name. Those younger than the required age, can still change their names if they have been married, have a common-law relationship, or have their guardian’s consent.
One must have either been born in the province or territory, or have lived there for a certain period of time (between three months and a year) before the application was submitted.
Incorporation In Canada
The Constitution Act, 1867, S. 92 (11) Awards the provinces the power to allow “The Incorporation of Companies with Provincial Objects”.
You will notice the term “Provincial Objects”. This means that the federal government may also allow the formation of corporations with federal or national objects. The territories may also form corporations.
This means that in Canada, 10 provinces, 3 territories, and the federal government have mechanisms to form corporations.