tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24550529275433600102009-10-21T21:22:41.425+01:00Outside the Boundaries - is a collection of business, service, US Election, entertainment and living abroad features by Wales-based US journalist and author Denis Campbell, a contributor to EU and US based newspapers, magazines, blogs and e-zines.Ouside the Boundarieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05186143020802184772noreply@blogger.comBlogger53125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2455052927543360010.post-28282986080331608192008-04-22T22:20:00.001+01:002008-04-22T22:22:33.954+01:00

Click here to be taken to my new web magazine.Please bookmark it and visit again.Best wishes,Denis Campbell

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I just saw the final layout for the new site and we're rolling midweek with it. I love Blogger. It was a great place to start and it is very limiting. I love The Huffington Post even more and wanted something in a more newspaper style but less busy that would give us a chance to dialogue on issues of the day.We're changing our name from Outside the Boundaries to Vadimus Post.Quo Vadimus is one of

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Limited ImmunityIn honour of former SecDef Donald Rumsfeld, who will, according to The Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan on Chris Matthew's Hardball program, will likely face War Crimes tribunals (perhaps in absentia) for their Iraq War approval of "harsh interrogtion techniques" which The Geneva Convention and others would describe as "torture." Based on today's news of who was in the room, former AG

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Former Vice President Al Gore of An Inconvenient Truth fame has an updated speech and slide show which he recently shared on the website TED.When talking about oil shale exploration he said, "when junkies' veins collapse, they inject the drugs between their toes."

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From Yahoo/Reuters...BT voted worst home phone poviderBy Jennifer Hill Reuters - Tuesday, April 8 12:10 pmLONDON (Reuters) - Consumers in a YouGov poll have voted Britain's largest home telephone provider, BT, the worst in the market.The telecommunications giant, which has a 43 percent share of the home phone market, came bottom of the survey for the first time since 2005.Some 30 percent of BT

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From the New York Times online...Megan Simpson, a Penn State senior, had not been able to budge her father, a Republican. But the day before the deadline for registering for the coming Democratic primary in Pennsylvania, she handed him the forms and threw in a deal-sweetener as well. “I said, ‘Dad, if you change your party affiliation in time to vote for Obama,’ ” recalled Ms. Simpson, 22, an

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"Recorded Live"It's either live or it's recorded. My faourite opening was to the semi-fictional (another oxy-moron, hmmmm) HBO series The Larry Sanders Show when the announcer says, "Live, on tape, before a studio audience, it's The Larry Sanders Show..."

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Denver International step aside, the crown for worst opening has passed 12+ years on to Heathrow's Terminal Five and this green guy is either rolling in his grave or laughing his tail off. He was most proud of the number five in his happy song. BA Chairman Willie Walsh probably never wants to hear that number again. Terminal Five has been in the news these last two weeks for everything but the

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Hillary and John McCain on US late night telly charm offensives laced with alleged humour. You be the judge who is funniest.

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That's the number of Super Delegates since February 5th that have declared for Sen. Obama vs. Sen. Clinton in the Democratic primary races. Margaret Campbell (no relation), a state legislator from Montana added yesterday to this growing group and trend. With Obama gaining about 1 Super Delgate per day and Mrs. Clinton losing ground, the "come from behind, I'm more electable" plan to lure prized

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We are coming shortly with a new website and e-zine which will link to a number of exciting sites around the globe. The growth in traffic and readers to this primitive full article only viewing format has been heartening. The problem is, as great a starting point Blogger has been, we need a format that gives the roughly 2,000 viewers visiting over the last month, the chance to more quickly browse

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Easter morning the kids scurried around the house in search of sweets. They excitedly rushed around the house to find chocolate eggs and bunnies, jellied eggs, frosted cookies and a false-bottomed plastic form in their Peter Rabbit Collection bucket showing only 50% of the product one thought was there. I walked into the local Tesco on Saturday, where there was a sea of green Easter product boxes

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Just silly. No No No! Put your cash in your mattress? Yes! Yes! Yes!

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Grab a cuppa and take a 37-minute break that may touch you. Read and follow along here. It will open in another window.

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NEXT week spring training wraps and harkens an annual rite, baseball’s Opening Day, with the US regular season beginning in Tokyo!Its annual 2,450-game slog towards October’s World Series, which, most duly note, isn’t a “world” series since only one team resides outside the US. But when you’re arrogant enough to foist so many commercials on viewers that they extend a two-hour break into a

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When the line is crossed, it needs to be called. This was how he closed last evening's "Countdown" show.It had to be very tough for him to do because he was an early critic of George W. Bush and the war (still signs off every broadcast with the words "that's it for Countdown on _______, the 1,xxxth day since Victory was Declared in Iraq"). Both Clintons very publicly supported his right to say

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I feel like I’m watching one of those retro cartoons where the two characters are being slowly nibbled away from the ground up until the only thing left will be two talking heads and one of them disappears.Yes, it is the most exciting and dramatic campaign in the history of modern US politics. Every Tuesday night, millions from around the globe watch the results and ad nauseum analysis on CNN and

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I really do wish I could do something about the audio pop at the beginning of each clip. Trust me in that I begin by saying, "Hello and welcome to Outside the Boundaries". Hey at least the clutter behind me is gone and I actually look into the camera. I'm not the YouTube old guy with a million hits and... we'll see what happens.

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The story ended just the other day with UPS again failing to deliver (yes, I know, a horrible pun) on their promise to refund the duty payment because, "they decided you are not entitled to the refund check as originally stated by them on 1/28/08." And they decided also neither to tell their customer (Casual Male Group) nor me. This is another unpleasant aspect of the slippery slide of customer

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CASUAL Male Group’s Rochester Big and Tall chain has had my custom for 20 years. As my girth crept upwards, the US firm’s selection is hard to duplicate.Their hallmark is providing exceptional one-to-one in-store service through dedicated and knowledgeable men’s fashion experts.The online business though falls short because web business is often the poor relation of many a retail organisation and

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although I did have a long conversation with a lady in his office today. That has to be one of the most thankless jobs in the world, handling complaints that go to the Office of the Chairman. In 1981 I sat two cubicles away from George Harland, the most even tempered person on the planet. He was the bank's Vice President handling complaint calls that came into the President's office. He never

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Fast Forward to 13:05 minutes where Barack Obama begins to speak of the 81-year old man from Uganda and understand my post below and why this is such an important election to the US and the rest of the world.

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