Vladimir Putin showed off his cuddly side to the world last night - a 20lb tiger cub given to the Russian Prime Minister as a birthday present. Just weeks after he was shown shooting the big cats with a tranquiliser gun, the former KGB chief introduced a band of Russian journalists to the female - to be named Mashenka or Milashka - at a midnight press conference. After asking reporters "not to make noise, make a clatter or squeal," the Prime Minister ushered reporters to meet the two-month-old. Mr Putin would not say who bought him the cub, who was curled up in a wicker basket. But he said it would be found a good home, presumably in a zoo.
Vladimir Putin showed off his cuddly side to the world last night - a 20lb tiger cub given to the Russian Prime Minister as a birthday present.
Just weeks after he was shown shooting the big cats with a tranquiliser gun, the former KGB chief introduced a band of Russian journalists to the female - to be named Mashenka or Milashka - at a midnight press conference.
After asking reporters "not to make noise, make a clatter or squeal," the Prime Minister ushered reporters to meet the two-month-old.
Mr Putin would not say who bought him the cub, who was curled up in a wicker basket. But he said it would be found a good home, presumably in a zoo.
A Norwegian politician has said she will not seek re-election after running up a large phone bill ringing fortune-tellers at parliament's expense. Saera Khan, an MP for the ruling Labour Party, admits calling pay-per-minute fortune-tellers 793 times in one nine-month period, for a total of 133 hours. In one three-month period, she spent 48,000 kroner (£4,590; $7,750), the daily Verdens Gang newspaper reported. Ms Khan, 29, who is on sick leave, has said she has paid the money back.
A Norwegian politician has said she will not seek re-election after running up a large phone bill ringing fortune-tellers at parliament's expense.
Saera Khan, an MP for the ruling Labour Party, admits calling pay-per-minute fortune-tellers 793 times in one nine-month period, for a total of 133 hours.
In one three-month period, she spent 48,000 kroner (£4,590; $7,750), the daily Verdens Gang newspaper reported.
Ms Khan, 29, who is on sick leave, has said she has paid the money back.
Do I open the original?: "me, Mail, Mail (7) ... Hello Friends"
I have reported it as spam, and to the serv provider, changed security items. What else do I do?
P.S. Frank, I won´t answer you until this is cleared up. Our knowledge has surpassed our wisdom. -Charu Saxena.
I have just seen the culprit spam by default: My Italian friends newsletter received it as an entry and sent itself to me.
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These pests have physhed from a Madrid recycling forum, through two providers, but the providers don´t offer effective measures except ´go read the forum´!
I´m really sorry about the bother because I protect people´s information. I don´t even want to send apologies for fear of making it worse. Any more effective and direct way of reporting to the majors? Our knowledge has surpassed our wisdom. -Charu Saxena.
I'm gonna make a backup email addy cos I've had friends get their accounts frozen cos they've been spammed and the nuisance is not trivial. keep to the Fen Causeway
One sense of the word seems to be the part of an investment not loaned but coming from the own pocket, e.g. what translates literally from German or Hungarian as 'own capital'.
But elsewhere, it is used to mean the balance of assets and debts. And then there are "equity markets". It appears to me there must be multiple senses of the word. And the more sources I read, the more confused I become.
So, could someone please boil it down to something clear? *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
"Equity markets" are places you buy and sell shares... e.g. the London Stock Exchange.
in a small company this equity might have come out of your own pocket, but in a larger one it might have come from selling shares.
To underline how unfamiliar this is for me, here are the same concepts in German -- each has a different word root (the same is true in Hungarian but no one would recognise those...):
(ducks for cover) Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. Gandhi
Equity means your dollar has as much say as other people's dollars in how a company is run... Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères
as in....people tapped into the equity of their houses, borrowing money against their supposed worth. ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
