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Ex-Conservative Party treasurer Lord Ashcroft says his new book about David Cameron is "not about settling scores".</div>
The unauthorised biography, serialised in the Daily Mail, includes allegations about the PM's student days.<br />
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former Tory donor admitted to having personal "beef" with the prime
minister after not being offered a major job in the coalition
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The prime minister's spokeswoman said she did "not see the need to dignify the book by offering any comment".<br />
"The author has set out his reasons for writing it," she added.<br />
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'Raw revenge'</h2>
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the book, Lord Ashcroft, who donated millions of pounds to help the
Conservatives fight marginal seats, says Mr Cameron was aware of his
non-domiciled tax status, which was heavily criticised by Labour, in
2009.<br />
The following year Lord Ashcroft released a statement <a class="story-body__link" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8542744.stm">confirming he was a "non-dom"</a>, a status he <a class="story-body__link" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10535852">gave up</a> in order to remain in the Lords.<br />
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book also includes allegations of drug-taking and an initiation
ceremony Mr Cameron is said, by an unnamed source, to have taken part
in, involving a dead pig.<br />
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sources said Mr Cameron was never a member of the club in question, the
Piers Gaveston Society, during his time at Oxford University, BBC
assistant political editor Norman Smith said.<br />
He added that the as
yet unpublished book, Call Me Dave, was "less a story about stupid
student pranks, and more a story about raw political revenge".<br />
This was denied by journalist Isabel Oakeshott, who has co-written the book.<br />
She told BBC Radio 4's <a class="story-body__link" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0332t86">The World at One</a>: "If this was just a revenge job, Lord Ashcroft and I could have published it before the election."<br />
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Oakeshott also said the Piers Gaveston Society did not have a formal
membership list, saying "people go along" to society gatherings.<br />
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Analysis by Laura Kuenssberg, BBC political editor</h2>
Two powerful men need each other, and then one of them becomes more powerful, and doesn't need the other anymore.<br />
The understanding which they had comes to break down, recriminations follow, and sometimes, full throttle revenge.<br />
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the roots of the embarrassment that has sent social media into
overdrive in the last day were laid before Twitter was invented.<br />
In fact, the origins of the spectacular parting of ways are 15 years ago.<br />
<a class="story-body__link" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34318242">Read Laura's blog in full</a><br />
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In the <a class="story-body__link-external" href="http://www.lordashcroft.com/call_me_dave_preface.pdf">preface to his book</a>, Lord Ashcroft says that after David Cameron became PM in 2010, he was offered the job of junior Foreign Office whip.<br />
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putting my neck on the line for nearly 10 years - both as party
treasurer under William Hague and as deputy chairman - and after
ploughing some £8m into the party, I regarded this as a declinable
offer," he wrote.<br />
"It would have been better had Cameron offered me nothing at all."<br />
But he added: "Despite my disappointment, my new book about Cameron is not about settling scores."<br />
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Who is Lord Ashcroft?</h2>
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<li class="story-body__list-item">Ennobled by William Hague in 2000</li>
<li class="story-body__list-item">Has been deputy chairman and treasurer of the Conservative Party</li>
<li class="story-body__list-item">Donated millions of pounds to the party</li>
<li class="story-body__list-item">Gave up his non-domiciled tax status, which had been attacked by rival parties, in 2010</li>
<li class="story-body__list-item">Stood down from the House of Lords earlier this year</li>
<li class="story-body__list-item">Ranked 74 in the 2015 Sunday Times Rich List</li>
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According to Lord Ashcroft's
account, Mr Cameron told him Lib Dem leader and former deputy prime
minister Nick Clegg had vetoed his appointment to a government role.<br />
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'Awkward decisions'</h2>
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's The World at One, Mr Clegg said he did not recall being asked.<br />
"I'm
now used to Conservatives - they certainly did it for five years -
using me as an alibi for awkward decisions that they had to face within
their own party and I'm certain they fell into that category," he said.<br />
Lord Ashcroft was deputy chairman during Mr Cameron's period as leader in opposition.<br />
In
July 2010, he gave up his non-domiciled tax status to remain in the
Lords after a law was passed requiring peers and MPs to be tax resident
and domiciled in order to remain in Parliament.<br />
His tax status had long been criticised by his opponents.<br />
Labour's
shadow minister Jonathan Ashworth has written to Downing Street asking
whether Mr Cameron was, as Lord Ashcroft claims, aware of his tax
arrangements in 2009.<br />
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said
Mr Cameron should "address directly" the claim, describing it as a
"serious allegation".<br />
In March Lord Ashcroft said he was stepping down from the House of Lords because he could not devote enough time to it.<br />
In recent years he has built a reputation as an independent pollster.</div>
prkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06792514651945330604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5575877079690289632.post-74934922889028288222015-09-15T00:43:00.003-07:002015-09-15T00:43:42.573-07:00Riddle: 8 Pills of same size and color<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>There are 8 pills. They are all of the same size and colour. One pill weighs slightly more and is poisonous. You have a balanced scale and can only use it twice. How can you find the poisonous pill?</b><br />
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take 6 of the pills. I weigh 3 against 3. If the scale is balanced I
would weigh the remaining 2 pills I did not pick up against each other
and see if one was heavier. If not, I can assume one of the 3v3 sides
weighed more. I would take the side that weighed more and take 2 of
these pills and test the weight. If one outweighed the other then it was
the poisonous pill, if the scale was balanced then the final pill I did
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prkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06792514651945330604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5575877079690289632.post-61734385255657300082015-09-15T00:37:00.000-07:002015-09-15T00:41:13.658-07:00Riddle: You’re in a room with no windows or doors with answer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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You look in the mirror to see what you “saw”, take the “saw” and cut the piece of wood in half. Put the two halves together to make a “whole”, and then just crawl out through the “whole”.</div>
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By default Windows's Sticky Notes cannot be minimized to the tray. When I was searching the way to minimize it to tray, I found an utility which would add feature to window's sticky note to minimize it to tray.<br />
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Sticky Notes Taskbar Hider allows you to recover that lost taskbar space used by the awesome Windows 7 Sticky Notes feature.<br />
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With complete functionality like launching on system startup, hotkeys, along with the super easy usability Sticky Notes Taskbar Hider can make your use of Sticky Notes a hell of a lot easier.<br />
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Sticky Notes Taskbar Hider allows you to easily from hotkeys, or via the system tray icon, show or hide the Sticky Notes item from the taskbar. Other hotkeys allow you to launch Sticky Notes and also bring Sticky Notes to focus.</blockquote>
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Organic video marketing has been the biggest concern of today’s marketing sphere where most of the marketers believe in social marketing. According to Social Media Examiner (socialmediaexaminer.com), 76% of marketers plan to increase their use of YouTube and video marketing. Though the organic video marketing costs you more time and patience, it pays you enduring result.<br />
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<b> Sharing:</b><br />
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This is the vital act of video promotion where you can share your videos over the leading social networks which bring organic viewing experiences. Similarly, you can share your videos among the YouTube communities for more visibilities. Viral email campaigning and embedding your videos on several websites or blogs help you share.<br />
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<b> YouTube advertiser:</b><br />
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<b> Stay Consistent:</b><br />
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