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  • Flogging is a cruel and inhuman punishment that is banned by international law and conventions like the one against torture, to which the majority of countries in the world are signatories.

    Global Voices in English » Egyptians React to the Sudanese “Sin” 2009

  • There's a really useful critique blog called Flogging the Quill that encourages writers to grab readers' attentions on the first page.

    Writing is Hard: Beginnings, Show vs. Tell, Getting Graphic, Readers, Getting Published, Rewrites, Artists, the Next Project, and Marketing Michael May 2008

  • Happy St. Patrick's Day to All; here is what I'm thinking: bands such as Flogging Molly, Dropkick Murphy's and Carbon Leaf are way more cooler today than the other 364 days of the year

    Archive 2009-03-01 Liz 2009

  • It was in this spirit that he submitted an anonymous article on "Flogging," in which he asserted that the school's disciplinary practice of flogging students was satanic.

    Biographical Note on Robert Southey 2007

  • "Flogging": If upon rare occasions this punishment had to be resorted to, the culprit was first inspected by the medical officer to see if he were capable to undergo the sentence: usually the number of lashes was from one dozen up to six dozen with the cat-o'-nine-tails.

    Prisoners Their Own Warders A Record of the Convict Prison at Singapore in the Straits Settlements Established 1825 W. D. Bayliss 1869

  • Among the practices long frowned upon in the social media sphere that are now on the FTC's radar are: "Flogging," or creating supposedly-objective blogs that serve only to promote a product or service; "astroturfing," where advertisers posing as ordinary consumers share raving, but often misleading, reviews; and paying social media users to knowingly post inaccurate information about a product or service.

    Original Signal - The best of Web 2.0 2009

  • Among the practices long frowned upon in the social media sphere that are now on the FTC's radar are: "Flogging," or creating supposedly-objective blogs that serve only to promote a product or service; "astroturfing," where advertisers posing as ordinary consumers share raving, but often misleading, reviews; and paying social media users to knowingly post inaccurate information about a product or service.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Web 2.0 2009

  • As a longtime celtic-rock fan, from The Pogues to The Men They Couldn’t Hang to today’s rabble-rousing, pub-pint hosting lot such as Flogging Molly and The Dropkick Murphys, that’s what I was asking myself when I “discovered” Enter the Haggis great name, no?

    Buzzine » CD Spins 2009

  • Oh Yeah, when you're flying over the Cape in a six-seater and you hit that shitty turbulence and madras-whale-panted gentlemen next to you starts to freak out, you're also going to need some: Monster Magnet, Motorhead, Flogging Molly, The Hives, Fu Manchu and Afghan Whigs.

    Fishing with an iPod... Fair or Foul? 2009

  • Oh Yeah, when you're flying over the Cape in a six-seater and you hit that shitty turbulence and madras-whale-panted gentlemen next to you starts to freak out, you're also going to need some: Monster Magnet, Motorhead, Flogging Molly, The Hives, Fu Manchu and Afghan Whigs.

    Fishing with an iPod... Fair or Foul? 2009

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