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What does it means if you get a Bible scripture of Ezekiel 40? How is it related to my problem?
I'm born-again and married, but my husband is staying with another woman. What should I do in this matter? I found out last year that he was sleeping around with my born-again sister in Christ. I ask him to leave the house because it was a big scandal for me. We were serving God together and praying together and then this happen to me.
He left the house last February, 2005, and for the whole year we did not speak to each other until I phoned him to tell him that I want to speak to him about our marriage. He believes what he is doing is right and he doesn't care about me. Last month we went out for lunch together and he told me that he is still in love with me and I still love him very much. We were married for a second time, but he is again staying with another woman.
What should I do? I don't believe anything about God's things anymore because of my marriage. Please help me.
He said he changed; that God has spoken to him; that God has restore him, but he is staying in adultery, drinking, and lies. What kind of life am I living?
I'm living in the darkness. I want to divorce him. According the Bible I should do so. Nothing happens to the ones who hurt the children of God because that lady is still with someone else and my husband is still going hurting me. I pray. but does God hears my cry anymore? I love God with all my heart but I'm starting to doubt my faith. Please reply.
"Truly God is good to Israel, To such as are pure in heart. But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled; My steps had nearly slipped. For I was envious of the boastful, When I saw the prosperity of the wicked. For there are no pangs in their death, But their strength is firm. They are not in trouble as other men, Nor are they plagued like other men. Therefore pride serves as their necklace; Violence covers them like a garment. Their eyes bulge with abundance; They have more than heart could wish. They scoff and speak wickedly concerning oppression; They speak loftily. They set their mouth against the heavens, And their tongue walks through the earth. Therefore his people return here, And waters of a full cup are drained by them. And they say, "How does God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?" Behold, these are the ungodly, Who are always at ease; They increase in riches. Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain, And washed my hands in innocence. For all day long I have been plagued, And chastened every morning. If I had said, "I will speak thus," Behold, I would have been untrue to the generation of Your children. When I thought how to understand this, It was too painful for me- Until I went into the sanctuary of God; Then I understood their end. Surely You set them in slippery places; You cast them down to destruction. Oh, how they are brought to desolation, as in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors. As a dream when one awakes, So, Lord, when You awake, You shall despise their image. Thus my heart was grieved, And I was vexed in my mind. I was so foolish and ignorant; I was like a beast before You. Nevertheless I am continually with You; You hold me by my right hand. You will guide me with Your counsel, And afterward receive me to glory. Whom have I in heaven but You? And there is none upon earth that I desire besides You. My flesh and my heart fail; But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. For indeed, those who are far from You shall perish; You have destroyed all those who desert You for harlotry. But it is good for me to draw near to God; I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, That I may declare all Your works" (Psalms 73:1-28).
You asked what does Ezekiel 40 mean in regards to your problem. The answer is that it means you are mishandling the word of God. "Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth" (II Timothy 2:15). The idea that you can simply flip your Bible open to a random page and find an answers to life's difficulties is not taught by God. God has given us words of wisdom, but wisdom comes by studying His teachings. You won't become wise by treating God's book like taro cards.
Jesus stated, "And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery" (Matthew 19:9). The fact that your husband is living with another woman is sexual immorality. Jesus gives you permission to divorce your husband in this case. I really don't know why you married him a second time when it seems apparent that he has not changed. I know he claims he has repented, but repentance means a change in life. Nothing changed. "You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Therefore by their fruits you will know them" (Matthew 7:16-20). Allow me to be blunt, your husband lied to you for his own profit.
You claim that you still love him, but the fact is that your husband does not love you. "Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things" (I Corinthians 13:4-7). Your husband is behaving rudely, seeking his own gratification, has his mind in the sewer, and living a sinful life. This is not love!
If you still desire him, kick him out of your home and tell him that when he demonstrates that he want to be your faithful husband, you will have him back (I Corinthians 7:10-11). If he returns date him for a year or two to see if he really has changed before marrying him a third time. If you rather not wait for what is likely never to come, you can move on to someone else who will be faithful to you and to the Lord. The decision is yours to make.
See also:
Questions and Answers regarding Marriage
Questions and Answers regarding Divorce


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In Way Kambas, saving the Sumatran rhino
Indra Harsaputra, The Jakarta Post, Bandar Lampung, Lampung | Environment | Tue, October 22 2013, 11:48 AM
All in the family: Andatu (right) and his mother, Ratu, at the Suaka Rhino Sanctuary.
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In Way Kambas National Park in East Lampung, a conservation center has sprung up to save the Sumatran rhino.
Sumadi, the manager of the Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary (SRS), spoke fondly of Andatu, who was born on June 23, 2012.
The calf is only the fourth in the world — and the first in Asia — born in semi-in-situ captive breeding.
"Andatu is in good health with a good appetite. Now he weighs 352 kilograms, almost the size of Ratu, his mother, who is over 500 kilograms," Sumadi said at the inaugural Asian Rhino Range State Meeting in Bandar Lampung earlier this month.
The calf — who topped the scales at 25 kilograms at birth — was the focus of attention at the meeting of Asian and European specialists. In attendance were representatives of the major Asian nations with rhino populations: Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Nepal.
Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hasan was enthusiastic. "The birth of Andatu has opened the window of conservation for us all, because this is a very difficult undertaking due to the solitary nature of rhinos."
Zulkifli said that semi-in-situ captive breeding for rhinos was possible — and Indonesia had proven it.
Occupying an area of 100 hectares of tropical forest in the 125,621 hectares of the national park, the sanctuary was established as part of the government's Indonesian Rhino Conservation Strategy and Action Plan.
"Andatu" is a portmanteau of his parents' names: Andalas, the father, who was born in the Cincinnati Zoo in USA in 2001 and has lived at the sanctuary since 2007; and Ratu, who was born and raised in Way Kambas.
It's not easy to breed Sumatran rhinos in captivity, according to Indonesian Rhino Foundation Executive Director Widodo S. Ramono: Ratu had two miscarriages before delivering Andatu.
Bonny baby: Andatu, a 16-month-old Sumatran rhino calf currently tops the scales at 352 kilograms, up from 25 kilograms at birth.
Watchful: Some species are hanging on by only a thread, with single populations numbering less than 50 animals.
Endangered: Andatu stares at the camera. There are far fewer rhinos in Asia: only 3,500, versus 25,000 across Africa.
On hand during Ratu's delivery were Benn Bryan from Australia's Taronga Western Plains Zoo, Scott Citino from the White Oak Conservation Center and Paul Reinhart from the Cincinnati Zoo in the US, Susie Ellis from the International Rhino Foundation and Bibhab K. Talukdar from the Asian Rhino Specialist Group of International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
"The birth of Andatu has inspired Indonesia to become a Sumatran rhino conservation center," Widodo said. "Experts have also agreed to undertake bull conservation at the same time through a semi-natural ex-situ breeding program."
Widodo said that the state of the rhinos in Asia was critical, and that Sumatran, Javan and the greater one-horned rhino of India needed to be protected.
Christy Williams from the World Wildlife Fund's Asian Rhino and Elephant Program said that while the international community had paid significant attention to the plight of the black rhinoceros and white rhinoceros in Africa, relatively little focus had been given to Asian species.
There are far fewer rhinos in Asia: only 3,500, versus 25,000 across Africa, as of March. Some species are hanging on by only a thread, with single populations numbering less than 50 animals.
However, there are proven examples of rhino populations bouncing back from the brink.
Committed action by governments has doubled the number of rhinos in West Bengal in India over the last 13 years, for example. Crackdowns on poachers have also given a boost to rhinos in Nepal and India.
After a lunch of bananas, Ratu and Andatu walked out of their cage to spend their time outdoors in the 100-hectare sanctuary, which is surrounded by an electrified fences that spans 4 kilometers.
The five rhinos at the sanctuary — Andatu, Ratu, Andalas, Rosa and Bina — get daily checkups to ward off common ailments such as tuberculosis, hepatitis and salmonella.
TLC: The five rhinos at the sanctuary get daily checkups to ward off common ailments such as tuberculosis, hepatitis and salmonella.
All-Indonesia Zoo Association secretary-general Tony Sumampau said that the sanctuary needed an additional stud rhino to meet a goal of a 3 percent population increase by 2020.
"The male rhino and Rosa will be mated so as to produce a generation unrelated to Andatu," Tony, who is also director of the Indonesian Safari Park, said. "It's also necessary to protect the Sumatran rhinos previously discovered in East Kalimantan."
Also on the agenda for the specialists at the meeting was the establishment of teams to set up rhino sperm banks, among other things.
According to Tony, Kalimantan is also home to Sumatran rhinos, as per the research of Hermann Witkamp, a Dutch geologist. "Witkamp is recorded to have proposed the protection of a two-million-hectare zone as a roving rhino region, but after the big wildfire in 1982, everybody thought the rhinos were nowhere to be found."
Tony has plans with the Forestry Ministry to create another sanctuary, this one for Javan rhinos, in Ujung Kulon, West Java. "This second habitat is meant to anticipate the dangers from an eruption of Mount Krakatau."
According to the ministry, only 50 Javan rhinos currently live in Ujung Kulon, much less than the population of about a 100 Sumatran rhinos that lives near Mount Leuser, Way Kambas and Bukit Barisan Selatan.
Not all the news is good, however, Tony said that rhino poaching was on the upswing in South Africa, with the number of poached animals soaring from about 20 earlier in the decade to over 668 in 2012.
— Photos by JP/Indra Harsaputra
– In Way Kambas, saving the Sumatran rhino
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Disability and the Sovereign Goodness of God (Free eBook)
In one sense the Olympics are a global celebration of perfect bodies. But we know the Olympics do not represent real life. In the real world most bodies don't look and work like that.
Disabilities are a reality. They break into our lives in various forms: as the product of genetic misalignments in the womb, as the result of tragic accidents, as the byproducts of infectious disease, and from the degenerative effects of old age. They affect joints, bones, nervous systems, lungs, hearts, and brains. And even in the United States — a country that leads the world in medical innovation and technology — roughly 20% of citizens live with a disability.
And no church is immune. Every church leader must be prepared to answer very hard questions about the goodness and sovereignty of God.
Does God have a good design in my disability?
Disability and the Sovereign Goodness of God is a free ebook that seeks to answer that question. It includes four John Piper sermons and an interview with the father of a disabled son. With a focus on John 5:1–18 and John 9:1–38 this ebook is designed to serve pastors who will be called on to minister God's Word to God's people at decisive points in broken lives. The question is not if disabilities will surface in your church, the question is how will you respond when they do? At those decisive moments, what will you say?
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Disability is the theme of our upcoming conference in Minneapolis, November 8. Speakers include Nancy Guthrie, Greg Lucas, Mark Talbot, and John Piper. Find conference details and registration information here.


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Same Doctors, Same Staff, New Name: Skyline Vision Clinic & Laser Center
Colorado Springs, CO (PRWEB) April 1, 2017: Buckley Chang Eye Institute has changed its name to Skyline Vision Clinic & Laser Center to reflect the expansive list of physicians on the team and the full range of services offered. This change took effect on April 1, 2017.
The practice, which has served the Colorado Springs area since 1985, now comprises a team of eight ophthalmology, oculoplastic and optometry specialists, allowing patients to stay with one practice for general eye care and vision correction as well as all of their changing eye care needs that arise due to aging, trauma, disease, etc. The practice has grown to include five locations in Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Dillon, Trinidad and Canon City.
"We felt the Skyline Vision Clinic & Laser Center name is a better representation of who we are as a practice," said Dr. Britt Buckley, the founder of Buckley Chang Eye Institute. "Patients can expect to receive the same personalized treatment, advanced technologies and excellent vision results from Skyline that they received from Buckley Chang Eye Institute. We're excited about this new chapter in our 32-year history book."
Britt Buckley, MD, and Matthew Chang, MD, welcomed James Burden, MD, as a partner in the practice in 2014. The Skyline Vision Clinic & Laser Center name reflects the cohesive team they have assembled and continue to expand.
"Our staff is here to help manage any vision problem that develops, combining our extensive knowledge base with compassionate care," said Dr. Chang. "Together our physicians have over 78 years of experience performing literally tens of thousands of procedures. Patients will be in excellent hands when they choose us for their eye care."
- Britt Buckley, MD: Board Certified Ophthalmologist, LASIK-Refractive Surgeon
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Over 250,000 people have chosen Buckley Chang Eye Institute (now Skyline Vision Clinic & Laser Center) for their vision care needs. Their team of eight ophthalmologists and optometrists offer blade-free LASIK vision correction as well as diagnosis and treatment for dry eye, glaucoma, diabetic eye care, corneal diseases/conditions, cataracts, eyelid surgery and more.


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NEFF S513G60X0G Full-size Integrated Dishwasher
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Designed with flexibility in mind the Neff S513G60X0G Integrated Dishwasher features two Flex baskets, cutlery drawers and added foldable elements. You can enjoy convenient loading for 12 place settings.
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Technical specifications for NEFF S513G60X0G Full-size Integrated Dishwasher
|Full-size integrated dishwasher
|Manufacturer's guarantee
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|Number of programs
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|- Auto 45 - 65°C
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- Pre rinse
- 1 hour 65°C
|Quick wash time
|60 minutes
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|43 kg
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Rixx In Local
Yesterday I was teamed up with a new Stay Frosty pilot named Sam Record. Sam had just joined us and had never really PvP'd before, so I was showing him the ropes and we were having a blast. There was a Retribution in Asakai that kept showing up on d-scan and eventually landed in a plex. I had Sam align as I warped in to tackle. Sam was in a T1 fitted Executioner and I was in my Comet. I caught the Retri and began working on it and then called Sam to come in and assist. The Retribution would have exploded with or without his help, but again, I was trying to show him the ropes and encourage his first day of PvP in Eve. Retribution exploded and we let the pod go. Immediately local exploded in anger and nasty words. Based on the vitriol, I must have had a Falcon.
And then I got this sweet tear filled email:
"From: MaryJane Andersen
To: Rixx Javix
Rixx shitting himself on comms: " help help i need help i cant do solo pvp" hahahahahhahahaahah XD
Kill: Numitor Eto (Dramiel)
whats ure best solo kill today? an atron? hahahaha scrub"
And shocker, I'm blocked from replying. Now this person obviously has no idea who I am or that I have over 4k more kills than they do. Or that I could have brought a bunch of other people to that fight and blobbed her properly. Or that I don't use links. Or anything else about me. Which is fine. This is why we encourage our pilots to give "gf" in local win or lose. Nothing is more pathetic than a sore loser.
And believe me, I explode in a lot of ships. I know. I am not an elite PvPer by any stretch of the imagination. I do not aim to be one. What I am is a workhorse, the content provider for my Corporation and those that fly with me, and an unstoppable force that PvPs every day. I don't care about losing ships. I have no fear. That is who I am. And I have become extremely good at that specific game-style. (Just the other day someone pulled a Recon trap on me solo in my Comet. I killed the bait ship and then started killing the Rook. He was in deep structure when I exploded. That is how I play Eve in a nutshell.)
So what kind of people do I encounter on a daily basis? Let's make a list. And yes, I have names for them all.
Trophy Hunters
These people want to fight me so they can have my name on their killboard. Which is fine, I enjoy these fights. The only issue, and something I have to always be aware of, is just how much they want it. They might have links in system, they may be using Slaves, or have back-up, or ECM. Any potential loss is a future link in local, so I have to be careful of Trophy Hunters. But most of the time I take the fight anyway.
When I enter a system with people in local and then suddenly they are all in a safe spot or docked up, these are what I call Gophers. They pop their heads up to see if local is clear and then go back into their holes when it isn't. You can't blame them, and I don't. I can always come back later when things have calmed down, or warp somewhere and wait. I'm very patient like that.
So there is usually a T1 Frigate in a plex they shouldn't normally be in, like a Kestrel in a Medium. This can be a Recon trap, but it can also be a Percher trap. You an easily tell when there are about 5-6 other people in local all holed up in a safe spot. I attack the bait and then they all warp in to blob me. This one is easily avoided. Or sprung. Sometimes its fun just to let traps happen.
Pirates Helper
This also happened to me yesterday. An Ishkur was approaching me from about 80k away. I was in my Comet and waiting patiently. I figured he would attack, people in Ishkurs are usually very confident people. At about the 40k mark however he stopped, aligned out and warped to a safe. No spike in local. Nothing changed. This is a perfect example of a moment when someone looks up your killboard, or uses Pirates Helper. And then suddenly decides that they better not engage.
They warp off but then they feel bad about it and want to explain that normally they would stay and fight, but y'know, not right now. The excuses can be rather hilarious, from my wife is coming home, the tea is ready, the dog needs a walk, my low slots are empty, I need reps, I already killed you a gazillion times and another one would be silly - those are all real ones by the way. I get it dude. You don't have to fight me, it isn't called non-consensual for no reason. I'll catch you later.
Hang On A Sec
These are the "gimme a minutes", the people who want to fight me... eventually. Y'know, once I give them time to get links up in local and call for back-up. Believe it or not, if I'm otherwise bored, I often do wait and take the fight anyway. Beggars can't be choosers. It is always a bad idea though to give the enemy time and nine times out of ten I lose these fights. But again, you take what you can get. And I don't care about losing.
We currently have a lot of these around the neighborhood. These are different than Trophy Hunters, these are people trying to prove their own self-worth. The difference is obvious because Provers never travel alone, always have links up and running, and always bring more to a fight than they need. I bring a T1 Frigate, they bring an AF, etc. These are among the most annoying people in all of Eve. All you can do is keep exploding their ships and hope they change their ways. Or failscade, which is usually what happens.
The Angry Avoider
The other day in Ishomilken one of these showed up. They are rare, but it still happens from time-to-time. The Angry Avoider talks forever in local about how awesome they are, they will link kills that might even have your name on them, and they won't shut up. But they will never actually fight you. And nor will I fight them. It is always a bad idea. What I will do is wait for them in another system and then catch them and explode their ship later on. Funny, they don't talk much in local after that.
This list doesn't include Blobbers, Gate Campers, Recon Trappers, or that huge Goonswarm gang that caught me fighting a Slicer on the gate the other day. Those are just the kind of normal things you find in low sec these days.
Thing is, all of these people are awesome and they make Eve a fascinating, weird, funny and constantly challenging place to play. I wouldn't change a thing. Keep doing what you are doing, even when it makes no sense at all. Please don't stop.
What would I write about if you did?
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Part of the Signal Cartel Credo is a "No Tears" policy and I'll get pretty harsh with any of our members that I see not living up to that. Katia coined our salute to each other in "Fly Clever" and I've always taken that to mean that our brand of PvP happens before the first opponent ever lands on grid. If we get caught and killed, so be it, just means we lost that round. If we get camped in a station, just means we should have taken steps to avoid that beforehand. There's no reason for rage out over it. And honestly, I'll never understand why people rage out over losing a few space pixels.ReplyDeleteReplies
I understand that Eve can be frustrating, that it can be very difficult, and even that people can become extremely passionate about it. Those things are easy to understand. So I suppose it isn't a leap to see how those emotions can often get the better of some people in certain situations. I try not to be judgemental and try to deal with them with good humor, it isn't always easy.Delete
I've seen a whole lot of tears while I've been in Fade. My reaction to a fight itself is always "gf", maybe talking about things that could have happened ("Wow, that was close! If you'd have abandoned drones, you'd probably have had me!"). But when people toss those salty tears out, I admit I'm not strong enough to just take it. I definitely milk it, egg them on, and get them to produce more.ReplyDelete
On the other hand, SMA have been very talkative, and most of what they've been saying is positive, showing them eager to learn and holding no hard feelings about us hanging out in their space. I've been impressed by the attitudes of individual pilots. One of them, I gave a Scythe Fleet Issue and told him to solo roam until he lost it. Another convo'd me for advice how to avoid getting killed next time. One guy good-naturedly asks me what I'm flying every time he sees me - on the off chance I'll answer.
Local can be a source of good engagement and interactions, and I've had a lot of convos with people who killed me or who I killed. But those tears... they do not reflect well on those who generate them!Replies
I never really get shitting in local, if I get blobbed I may say something like "cmon guys lets be fair now" but I wont rage and froth like some deranged individualReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 27, 2016 at 12:11 PM
Never been a talker much... but lately i been getting frustated when blobbed, mostly recons gets me... ecm the most...ReplyDelete
Those Recon traps are annoying as crap! Believe me, even I get a tad annoyed when it happens to me.Delete
- AnonymousJanuary 27, 2016 at 2:03 PM
There is one morw category of elite peeveepee. And that's the try hards. They might be totally cool when they lose. but they don't believe they will lose on a fair fight and that pride makes them as irritating as the rest. Rixx you fall in this category. Sorry to be blunt but you do.Delete
I have no idea what the heck you are trying to say, but I appreciate you trying hard to make a logical comment.Delete
so salty! go maryjane!!ReplyDelete
I like the content you put out on your blog most of the time, but these list submissions make you seem like an elitist who doesnt see their own faults.ReplyDelete
Yes that kind of people are around, but you and your corp do that same stuff too.Replies
I suppose that certain people are incapable of seeing the humor in things, even when I label a post "humor" to make it even more obvious. Most of this blog is self-deprecating humor aimed at myself as much as others. If you can't see that, then I don't know how to help you.Delete
Meh, none of the Stay Frosty's I've fought really fall into any of these categories.ReplyDelete


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Wednesday, June 5, 2013
We Breathe the Mingle (from the journal)
Flattened by many little feet,
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My suspicions were first aroused when my property manager told me not to panic.
The absentee landlord in Australia had decided to sell up, but not until much later in the year. That was late February. 28 days later, she wrote to say that the real estate guy had convinced the landlord to sell up right now. Within a week, any reasonable expectation of privacy at Pook Farm had been shattered.
The Residential Tenancies Act 1986 has this to say on the subject of when a landlord decides to sell a tenanted property:
47. Landlord to give notice to tenant of intention to sell
(1) If, at any time after entering into a tenancy agreement, the landlord puts the premises on the market for the purposes of sale or other disposition, the landlord shall forthwith give written notice of that fact to the tenant.
(2) When a landlord is offering residential premises as available for letting, the landlord shall inform prospective tenants if the premises are on the market for the purposes of sale or other disposition.
That's it. No mitigation for the sudden inconvenience. In fairness, this law was written years before all the cowboys rode into the landlord business following the Bolger government's state house sell-off in the early 1990's.
I had been living at Pook Farm for close to four years. For all its faults- threadbare original 1950's carpet, cardboard walls, an open fireplace I was contractually forbidden from using- it was a sweet flat. A lemon tree out the back, along with a prodigious plum tree which rained fruit every January. My three chickens provided fertiliser for both, as well as omelets for me. Out the front was a raised vegetable patch, which I was half-way through installing when the house pimps sold me out.
The current landlord had bought the property as a holiday bach at the wild heights of the beachfront property boom in 2003. He had bought at auction at a wildly improbable price, some 120-150 thousand above valuation. He chose the same real estate agent who sold it to him, to sell it for him too. Welcome to the double-dipping world of realty.
Although bitter with the real estate agent, I won't name names. Their nefarious tactics go with the territory. According to the Readers Digest Most Trusted Professions Survey 2014, real estate salespeople rank 44th, worse than journalists but better than insurance and car salespeople, sex workers and politicians. Housing Minister Nick Smith's latest brain-fart of a Clayton's Housing WOF- no bark, no bite- entirely justifies this placing.
My excellent property manager had been keeping an eye out for another hovel for me to move to, but the Keynesian make-work scheme of the Kapiti Expressway had put a strangle-hold on rent prices, not to mention all the former Wellingtonian poor who had been squeezed northwards due to the social housing stock in the capital being condemned as earthquake risks.
Fatalistic as ever, my one consolation was that it would all be over in a month. My home would be on the auction block in the first week of May, and one way or another I'd know whether I was sold with the land and chattels, or whether I'd be out on my ear with the legal minimum of 42 days' notice. Homeless with chickens. Auction day came and went, where it failed to reach the vendor's minimum. He'd settle for a seventy grand haircut, but not an eighty grand one. I paid anyway. Every Sunday afternoon between 1.15 and 1.45 was Open Home eternal, where strangers tramped through my home, casing the place, weighing it up like a piece of meat. Men from Porlock would randomly drive up to the gate in SUVs and stare at me staring at them. Bolder capital venturists would trespass the threshold, which wore thinner each time, to the point my bark would set off the neighbour's dogs. Things were getting increasingly sweary.
There was no time to think, let alone write. Life on Vogshere is full of slappers. Time to leave. First thing to go was the chooks. They ended up out at an Otaihanga Farm, where they apparently amuse themselves now by breaking out of their pen and turning up at the neighbours' houses.
Next, there I went on reconnaissance for a new roof. After finding an alternative that did not completely suck, I moved. Yeah Napier, where I do not know a goddamn soul. For Lease signs for Africa through the CBD, but that's no different from most town centres these days. Box shops and free parking suck consumers out of the centres out to the periphery, while draconian liquor laws suck the remaining life out of the CBD.
At least there's hope, sometimes peace. But there's no rest for Generation Rent. We're the Walkabout People, the nomads.
Will de Cleene is a burned-out hospo droid re-purposed for political punditry, retired blogger at goNZoFreakpower.blogspot.com and former member of at least four political parties, and President to at least one of their youth wings.


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As I mentioned in an earlier post, I'll be traveling to South Korea in a few weeks. For a quick impression what the "most wired place in the world" entails watch the following video on the Internet, gaming and addiction.
When you follow this link you'll also find some links to some general and web statistics. For instance, apparently 43% of all Koreans maintain a weblog. South Korea has about 20,000 PC Bangs, Internet cafés. My infrequent experience with Internet cafes are abroad to check upon email. These PC Bangs however are predominantly used to play games. In the Netherlands there are so-called LAN parties where gamers meet to play. Apparently the popularity seems to decrease as broadband Internet access becomes cheaper.
Furthermore, the Korea Communications Commission is planning to boost wireless Internet up to 10 Mbps and connected Internet services to 1 Gbps. This also provides a better HDTV image. In the Netherlands the fastest regular Internet connection you can subscribe to is 120 Mbps and HDTV is just beginning to get adopted.


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I laid out a draft infrastructure project cutover plan for the 1/24 weekend and reviewed with the cross-functional team (two developers, 4 engineers, and project sponsor). After the meeting, I reviewed the updated cutover plan and noticed a missing task.
If we rollback B that means we have to rollback A too! I called one of the engineers and he said he was just discussing that with his colleague. He said he was surprised I caught it. This was a nice compliment because it meant he saw me as someone who understands infrastructure and the interdependencies.
I'm proud that I think of the big picture – analyzing all elements and factors in a project while applying my infrastructure knowledge/experience.


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Triber Francesca has written a very thoughtful post on how people do not choose to be depressed.
"Just remember that I love you." That was what my 11-year-old son said to me as he got out of the car at the bus stop this morning. Right before, he had responded to the news about Robin Williams committing suicide by grabbing my hand and saying, "Please, don't ever do that."
My son recognizes that I have depression, and he's seen me at times when I have been very low. However, neither of my children knows that—before they were alive—I tried to kill myself on three separate occasions. Actually, most people don't know that about me. For my children's sake, I'm glad they don't have to carry that burden around. As for everyone else, I guess I was protecting them and me from embarrassment. I am ashamed, although I wish I weren't.
Still, after my son's hand squeeze in the car, I tried to emphasize that I was not a suicide risk (today). I reminded him that I have doctors and medicine and therapies to help me. He reminded me—and, I think, himself—that his dad is also good at helping me when I am "sad." "Yes," I replied. "I have lots of people who can and do monitor my mood to make sure that I stay safe."
When we arrived at the bus stop, it looked and sounded the same as it did yesterday. Rowdy campers clad in backpacks, bathing suits, and water shoes were shouting and laughing, eagerly awaiting their counselor's word to climb aboard. As we pulled up to the curb, a couple of chipper kids greeted my son, shouting something about storming the bus and inciting a ruckus. My son smiled when he saw his friends, as he always does. Today, though, as he opened the door to join them, he stopped for a moment and turned back to look at me before urging me to "just remember…"
My son does not fully understand that depression and suicide are not choices that people make. He wants to understand, but the weight of that reality is just too much for him to bear. Still, before I dropped him off, I tried to think of a good analogy to gently illustrate how little choice is involved when you are ill. So, during our eight-minute car ride, I tried to tell him about two different experiences of mine with swarms of insects.
The first happened only a month ago, while I was on vacation. I was walking by myself on a long, twisting, uphill road when a mob of insects suddenly attacked me. Just as I was trying to figure out why they had chosen to descend at that moment, I reached the top of the hill and was pleasantly surprised to discover a serene but eerily desolate bog.
After identifying the bugs' source and seeing this broad expanse of shiny, unmoving, black water shot through with dark, branchless tree trunks, I wanted to relax and enjoy the strange but lovely scenery. Except, with a cloud of insects buzzing around my head, I couldn't. I didn't even stay long enough to take a photograph. Instead, I quickly turned around and headed back down the hill, and the bugs soon left me alone.
The other experience happened in 1993, when my husband Jay and I went mountain biking in a national forest in northern California. While I was riding alone, trying to catch up with Jay, I inadvertently rode over an underground hive. Instantly and seemingly out of nowhere, a huge, whirring mass of wasps flew up and began stinging me all over. I tried to turn my bike around so I could escape downhill, but the wasps did not let up, and I panicked. Not knowing what else to do, I dropped the bike and tried to run away.
I only managed to stumble 40 or 50 feet from the hive before I went into shock. I didn't pass out or collapse. I just became unable to register any sort of emotional or physical sensation. My body and mind could not take anymore. So, until Jay was able to find me, I stood frozen in place, my head in my hands as the wasps continued to attack.
Depression can feel like a swarm of wasps endlessly stinging you, or like a barrage of emotional and physical strikes coming at you from every direction, or like a torrent of negative emotions and ideas raining down on you and flooding your mind. Depression limits your ability to access rational thought, and pessimistic and critical thoughts get stuck. After a while, when your mind cannot absorb any more self-loathing, those feelings start to condense and gel. They form a sort of depression-sludge that coats all of your experiences and clogs most of your thinking. If you try to use logic or reason to dilute or escape from the viscous gunk, those ideas often just buckle and drown under the opacity and density of the sludge.
Finding a viable exit strategy is not impossible, but what works for some people some of the time won't work for everything or everyone. At the bog, I ended my discomfort and distress by simply turning around. In the forest, that didn't help.
I really tried my best to escape those wasps. But the stings kept coming, and despite my efforts to protect myself, my mind overloaded. Frankly, when I went into shock and didn't have to feel any more of the pain or fear, I was grateful for the reprieve. Still, I had not planned that defense. Believe me, if my shock-response had been under my control, I would have called it up and welcomed it a lot sooner. But, of course, people don't choose to go into shock; it simply happens. Just as people don't choose to be depressed.
Most of us can understand that there are chemicals in our brains that spike or ebb in response to stress, pain, and fear. When we talk about an obviously traumatic event like a bombardment of wasp stings or a car accident, we get why people go into shock. Maybe we even appreciate these mechanisms that send our systems into overdrive.
Somehow, though, some of those same people believe that abrupt attitude adjustments and carefully reasoned thoughts can reliably cure depression. These people assume that depressed people would be "happy" if only they would choose to think positively, approach things with a smile, or refuse to wallow in sadness.
I wish I could have promised my son that "just remembering" his love will always be enough to protect me. I won't lie to him, though, and unfortunately it just does not work that way.
I don't mean to imply that there are no ways to address mental health, that there are no treatments for depression. That idea is certainly not true. In fact, with the right kind of help from professionals, friends, and family, people with depression can and do get better.
Still, most people with Major Depressive Disorder cannot cure themselves, and suggesting that we can is unreasonable and cruel. Most of us need some help. People who are severely depressed feel awful. Do we really want to add to that by telling them that it is their fault, too?
My son is only a child, so his wishful thinking about his mother makes sense. For the adults out there, though, callowness, blind desperation, or lack of imagination are not legitimate excuses. If you can admit that doling out platitudes is an ineffective and illogical approach for treating blunt-force trauma or for evading an assault by wasps, then you should be able to see that slapping contrived, positivity Bandaids on depressed patients is just as unproductive.
Perhaps, for the few days following the suicide of a famous, successful, and talented man, people will be able to open their minds and hearts to the gravity of the situation. They may even want to advocate for better interventions and treatments for people with depression. And that would be great.
When all of this attention dies down, though, I hope people will remember that those of us with depression aren't "choosing" to be sad. Those of us who have tried to commit suicide—successfully or not—were not "choosing" death. At those times, we were just unable to "choose" life. If everyone could accept that idea, then maybe more people would be willing to acknowledge their struggle, fewer people would have to suffer in silence, and no one would be embarrassed about seeking or asking for help. If, however, we continue to blame patients for their illness, we will tacitly deny them access to nonjudgmental treatment, and in so doing, we will risk their lives.
If you'd like to read more, visit Francesca's blog and follow her on Twitter @ffmilliken.


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Lisa Christiansen Textbooks In College Curriculum
Today is an AMAZING day in God's grace, I am humbled on bended knee in gratitude because I just found out that my NLP books, business books, and theological books are now included in college curriculum and you can get your college textbooks here… This is an unexpected blessing. Thank you father God for your abundant blessings.
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Doctors across the North East claim they will be worse off under a new contract.
Practices in Newcastle and North Tyneside claim they will lose out on thousands of pounds to treat patients if the contract gets the go-ahead.
The contract was hailed as the most radical change to general practice since the beginning of the health service. But doctors say there may be a problem with the data used to work out which practices have the most expensive patients and should receive more cash.


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The year was 1982. Tron called out to gamers with its unique arcade cabinet and variety of content. The game was so successful that it out-grossed the film which inspired it. Capturing the attention of a proportionate cult following, the game burrowed from the cinematic namesake directly in its portrayal of a digital mainframe. Albeit aged, this very same mainframe later appeared as the structural influence for the Kingdom Hearts universe.
But unlike SquareSoft's cross-over masterpiece, Tron feels absurdly out of place in today's market. After-all, it's only an emulation, which amounts to nothing more than the source material. Yet for the light charge of admission – only 400 Microsoft Points, as of this writing – it's sort of hard to complain.
But as a standalone product, time has not been kind to Tron.
With one subgame for every 100 MP spent, it would seem like a sound enough purchase at face value. However, seeing as Tron: Discs of Death was released separately over Xbox Live for the very same charge, one might wonder just how far we've come in the past couple of decades. Apparently not very far. Because Tron: Discs of Death was packed in with Tron and an all new game on a Game Boy Advance cartridge only just recently, the notion of combining the two seems reasonable enough to me. Because DoD was at first intentioned as the fifth subgame in Tron, but had to go it alone as the developers found technological problems not allowing for them to include the fifth.
A hub connects the four subgames through diverging paths. There are twelve levels of increasing difficulty, speed, enemy count, etc., which are marked by a new hub world with the same four level themes. Three of the games used a rotational control scheme in the arcades. In this emulation, the rotational control is poorly mapped to the right stick, making it painfully difficult to aim.
Armed with a gun (literally attached to the character's arm, it seems), I slaughter a mess of rapidly reproducing spiders, one after another, making my way to the center of the Inside/Outside room, in which a timer relays the countdown to my impending doom if I can't make it inside… or maybe it's outside… I'm unsure. Some mind game.
Afterwards, I'm piloting a light cycle. It leaves behind an afterburner-like trail and has a few speeds. It's never explained exactly why it's necessary to destroy the yellow bikes, but as the blue biker, I wrote it up to destiny.
Fans of Family Guy and/or Robot Chicken may recall the satirical pokes at Tron's light cycle game, in which characters veer about wildly, eventually meeting their demise as they intersect a trail of light. A stream of color follows your cycle, as you attempt to trap yellow bikers. This is broiled down to figuring out how to box-in the lackluster enemy AI, which can be easily tricked with a short-handed bag of practice.
Tron's tank battles happen to be somewhat reminiscent of one of my favorite arcade games, Vindicators, which was also Developed by Midway. But Tron doesn't quite get it right. The strange original development choice in giving the faster moving CPU tanks one shot kills and giving me three shot kills, aggravate the subgame without need. The broken rotation control doesn't help matters, making aiming a chore, as you bounce back and forth from behind a barrier, and the CPU's head in that general direction.
My favorite of the four is a Breakout-esque level in which you must shoot out the bricks of a revolving halo, while standing underneath it, as the screen pushes upwards. Through the holes, you must reach the top. This one's fun, but you must complete each game to move on to the next hub world, so it's unlikely you'll face more than a few variations of any type. Poor hit detection makes one of Tron's only qualities bittersweet.
The standard visuals are the same as the original. Enhanced visuals are mysteriously different than other XBLA emulations in that they don't really even sharpen things up, but rather opt for a look that seems to have been re-drawn without any marked improvement. If you're going to touch anything, why not just go for the complete overhaul?
Over Xbox Live, your opponent's reduced to a mere miniature rectangle to the side of your screen – and their action's aren't even visible. Not very involving. I found myself waiting upwards of an hour for matches – having to leave my 360 on and distract myself until the game could begin and lag out a minute or two afterwards. There's a light cycle vs. game as well, but again, the lag makes it near unplayable.
I suppose things could've been worse: they could've done a poorly emulated version of the Intellivision hit Maze-A-Tron.


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Sunday, December 08, 2019
The Church provides direct support (facilities, funding, and/or promotion) for the following local ministries on a regular basis. We also contribute to many short term or crisis ministries as the need arises in our community.
Silsbee Christian Care Center
Director: Janice Pattillo
Phone Number: (409) 385-2237
Hours: Monday, Tueseday, & Wednesday from 10:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Location: 415 W. Ave P in Silsbee
Notes: The Silsbee Christian Care Center assists residents of Silsbee and Lumberton with food, clothes, utilities, prescriptions, tooth extractions, school supplies, and Christmas presents. The Church provides financial support and donations of food, clothing, and supplies from periodic collection drives.
WIC (Women and Infants in Crisis)
Director: Letasha Jones
Contact Person: Angela Mayo
Phone Number: (409) 246-8383
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Location: Methodist Center , next door to the church office.
Hours: Mondays 7:30-4:30 and Wednesdays from 8:00 a.m. till 5:30 p.m.
Notes: WIC is a nutrition program that helps families eat well and stay healthy. They provide nutrition education, one-on-one nutrition counseling, vouchers to purchase healthy foods and support and help for breastfeeding mothers. WIC is for women who are pregnant, breastfeeding or have recently had a baby. They also serve families with infants and children from birth to their fifth birthday.
Hardin County Mediation Services
Contact: Jeanette Blackwell, 409/283-2877
Location: The Methodist Center, next door to the church office
Description: Provides low cost mediation services for those in conflict. Includes service for those going through times of family crisis.
U.M. Army
Contact: David Sabon (Houston area Coordinator)
Phone Number: (281) 479-0103
Email: email@example.com
Notes: The Church hosts the U.M. Army youth work camp semi-annually by providing meals and lodging for the youth working on disaster recovery projects in our community.
Scouting Ministries
Girl Scouts
Leader: Robin Humphrey
Phone Number: 385-4700
Email: email@example.com
Location: McDonough Hall
Notes: We are part of the San Jacinto Council of Girl Scouts. Troop 4000 is a Brownie troop and our new troop, 4138, is a Daisy Troop.
Cub Scouts
Leader: Shannon Taylor, Cubmaster
Phone Number: 386-0400
Location: McDonough Hall
Notes: Cub Scout Pack 88 is part of the Three Rivers Council of the Boy Scouts of America. Boys in the first through the fifth grades are welcome to join. Pack activities include Pinewood Derby, Space Derby, Raingutter Regatta, and occasional camp-outs. The Pack meets Monday evenings at 6:00 in McDonough Hall.
Boy Scouts
Leader: Tom Johnson, Scoutmaster
Phone Number: 385-7853, Mark Trabing, Committee Chairperson
Location: McDonough Hall
Notes: Boy Scout Troop 88 is part of the Three Rivers Council of the Boy Scouts of America. The Troop meets on Monday evenings at 7:00 p.m. in McDonough Hall.
Unalaska, Alaska
Notes: The Church provides annual financial support to a missionary family in Unalaska, Alaska who ministers to those involved in the area's fishing industry.
Global Missions and Ministries
Notes: Our Church provides support for many national and international missions and ministries through our financial support of the United Methodist Church. Each year we contribute more than $40,000 in funds for connectional missions and ministries.


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Via New York Times (June 3, 2011) -
Lockheed Martin said Friday that it had proof that hackers breached its network two weeks ago partly by using data stolen from a vendor that supplies coded security tokens to tens of millions of computer users.
Lockheed's finding confirmed the fears of security experts about the safety of the SecurID tokens and heightened concerns that other companies or government agencies could be vulnerable to hacking attacks.
The tokens, which are used to protect remote access to computer networks, are sold by the RSA Security Division of the EMC Corporation. RSA officials said Friday that they accepted Lockheed's findings and were working with customers to offset the risks through other measures.
RSA disclosed in March that hackers had stolen data that could compromise a company's SecurID system in a broader attack, and the breach of Lockheed, the nation's largest defense contractor, is the first time that is known to have occurred.
A rash of prominent breaches has brought new attention to an increase in the frequency and sophistication of computer hacking. Google said this week that it believed an effort to steal hundreds of Gmail passwords for accounts of prominent people, including senior American government officials, had originated in China.
The Pentagon, which has long been concerned about efforts by China and Russia to obtain military secrets, announced separately that it would soon view serious computer attacks from foreign nations as acts of war that could result in a military response.
RSA officials noted that Lockheed said it planned to continue using the SecurID tokens, and they said they believed other customers would as well. But security experts said RSA's reputation had most likely been seriously damaged, and many of its 25,000 customers, including Fortune 500 companies and government agencies around the world, could face difficult decisions about what to do next.
RSA's prospects for holding on to some of those customers "certainly seems bleak," said Harry Sverdlove, the chief technology officer at Bit9, a firm that provides other types of security products and does not compete with RSA.
He and other experts said RSA might need to reprogram many of its security tokens or create an upgraded version to rebuild confidence in its systems.
In response to questions on Friday, Lockheed said in an e-mail that its computer experts had concluded that the breach at RSA in March was "a direct contributing factor" in the attack on its network. Government and industry officials said the hackers had used some of the RSA data and other techniques to piece together the coded password of a Lockheed contractor who had access to Lockheed's system.
Lockheed, which makes fighter planes, spy satellites and other confidential equipment, said it had detected the attack quickly and blocked it before any important data was compromised.
Impressive timeframe. This means the attackers weaponized the stolen data from RSA very very quickly and used it to target high-value target(s).
The stolen RSA (leading to cloned tokens) could have been used as an initial attack vector or as an alternative entry method to maintain persistence....or both (my guess).
While APT should be categorized as such based more on the motives and objectives of the attackers [and less on techniques used], this shows the actors have the capability to push beyond standard exploitation techniques to achieve their objectives.
This is industrial / military espionage.


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Wheat-Free & Gluten Free (mostly)
(Recipe Collection)
12 Recipes Created by PATTIMC4
I have a severe wheat allergy, love cooking & trying to find things that taste great & I can share with everyone. Most of these recipes will be gluten-free, although wheat-free & gluten free are not necessarily the same.
Recipes in this Collection
Submitted by TRICOTINE
Cookbook creator says: I am going to do this stove top and use quinoa. Make sure if you sub the quinoa as I do you use either pre-washed or rinse it well.
I love this soup & haven't been able to eat it since developing a severe wheat allergy. I just started eating quinoa & love it. Never thought of using quinoa.Submitted by SINGER1024
Cookbook creator says: This would make a great take along breakfast or dessert for lunch. A nice change from yogurt.Submitted by WOOLANDWOOD
This delicious and easy gluten-free recipe can be frozen until you're ready to eat it. Submitted by PLATSUZIE
Cookbook creator says: I am going to try this recipe with a panko bread crumb (crushed rice cereal) and also corn meal.Submitted by CONNIE563
Cookbook creator says: add a small onion (minced), sub quinoa for rice, add 2 or 3 garlic cloves minced, 1 small jalappeno (seeded, deveined & minced), 1/2 red pepper diced, double the amount of taco seasoning and double the amount of tomato sauce as quinoa. Don't pre-cook the quinoa & let it cook away in the oven.Submitted by LYNSIELOU
Cookbook creator says: Use gf pastry, put a top on instead of a bottom, use corn starch to thicken gravy. Make individual servings, cook, freeze voila lunch to go or a ready made supper. Like this idea.Submitted by CHEF_MEG
Cookbook creator says: I might sub some home-made yogurt for the sour cream. I try to avoid anything that is processed if I can.Submitted by ARTEMISINKED
Submitted by ICHIYEN
from the deep south, yummy and gluten freeSubmitted by IRISHMOMMY
Treat Yourself :)Submitted by EPHEMERA


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So you have been served with a grand jury subpoena. What does this mean?
Answer provided by:Phillip Zane
A federal grand jury is a body composed of ordinary citizens (from 16 to 23 of them) that meets regularly to determine whether probably cause exists to charge individuals or organizations with a crime. The grand jury is guided in its charging decisions by a federal prosecutor, either one assigned to a United States Attorney's Office or to the Department of Justice. A grand jury has broad power to investigate potential criminal offenses. Accordingly, it may subpoena all witnesses, nonprivileged documents and other physical evidence relevant to its investigation, provided that the subpoenas are not unreasonably burdensome. Probable cause is not a prerequisite to the issuance of a subpoena. Companies and individuals that receive grand jury subpoenas are typically classified as "targets," "subjects" or "witnesses." These categories are not precise and may change over the course of the investigation. "Targets" are putative defendants and likely to be charged with a crime based on the state of the evidence. "Subjects" are persons or organizations whose activity comes within the scope of the grand jury's investigation, but against whom the evidence may not be sufficient to charge at the current time. "Witnesses" are believed to be persons with knowledge or information likely to be helpful to the investigation but believed not be have been involved in the potentially unlawful conduct or persons whose involvement was directed by persons with much greater culpability.


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LAS VEGAS - What happened in Vegas will always carry with you. So says Rick Perry, the lagging Republican primary presidential candidate, who knew about that principle before he was governor of Texas. Perry brought athlete's foot back to Texas during a spa stay at the Mirage.
However, part of the problem here is that many Americans don't know that Texas Governors automatically get honorary bids to be President. They also don't understand that Texans cannot settle for second place. It's like comparing SEC College football to Big Ten football. It's never a contest ever. (See George W. Bush)
Mitt Romney, former Governor of Massachusetts, the most annoying state to spell, knows nothing else besides his state, California, and Utah. The closest thing he knows about the South is through Big Ten vs. SEC college football games.
So when Mitt Romney reached over into Rick Perry's space and brushed his shoulder with Mitt's very hands, Rick was furiously flabbergasted. That was a provocative gesture enough to prosecute someone in the state of Texas possibly by capital punishment.
So to settle the score Rick, being the Governor of Texas he is, called some folks and put them on standby, waiting for the next moment Mitt Romney touches him.
As Rick's campaign manager said it, "Go ahead. Make my day."


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Megan Fox covers Angeleno March 2012 flaunting her seductive, sexy looks. The 25-year-old actress talks to the magazine about religion, her obnoxious and abrasive teenage attitude, but also about her career, choosing her roles and meeting her husband, actor Brian Austin Green.
Megan Fox flaunts her sultry,
sexy looks on Angeleno's March 2012 cover. In the interview with
the magazine, the gorgeous 25-year-old actress dishes on religion,
her obnoxious and abrasive teenage attitude, but also on career and
meeting her husband.
Until about age 10, Megan Fox attended a Pentecostal church and religion still plays an essential part in her life. "I've always been intrigued and repulsed by how divisive and hateful different Christian denominations are to one another despite their obvious commonalities and interconnections," she says. The 25-year-old actress regularly attends an L.A. church that she presents as being "not judgmental, does not close its doors to anybody, and has a young, active, passionate congregation, which is how I like to experience church."
Even though she is featured on numerous covers of famous, glossy magazines and is considered one of the most beautiful women in the world, Fox confesses that as a teenager she didn't feel beautiful and describes herself as "abrasive", "loner" and "obnoxious". "I was never the pretty girl," Fox told Angeleno.
She also adds that, "I'll fight to death for something I believe in, and I'll be completely honest – even when being completely honest is maybe not the wisest way to be." The actress then admits that maturity taught her how crucial self-control is. "I've learned you can do yourself a disservice by being too honest too quickly," she says.
Before turning 16, Fox left high school and moved to southern
California. Consequently, she earned her diploma via a
correspondence program. "It was the deal I'd made with my mom: I
had to have a real diploma before she allow me to drop out of
Christian school and move to Los Angeles," she says. "I think she'd
dealt with me for so long she just accepted what was going to
happen was going to happen," the actress told in an interview with
David Letterman back in 2009.
At age 18, Megan met her future husband, former 'Beverly Hills, 90210' star Brian Austin Green. "I was too young to remember 'Beverly Hills', so I didn't know who he was. But I knew I was instantly in love," the drop-dead-gorgeous starlet confesses. The two married in June 2010 in an intimate ceremony on the beach in Hawaii.
Speaking about fellow cast members, Fox admits that she prefers to work with good people in a bad project. "I'd rather be with good people in a bad movie than the other way around," the stunning actress explains. On her upcoming movie 'Friends With Kids', Fox says that, "Most of the cast knew each other very well already – Kristen [Wiig] and Maya [Rudolph] are BFFs; it was such a nice, welcoming, supportive environment."
When it comes to her career, Fox has chosen to play in movies
having disparate genres. The actress starred in ABC's sitcom 'Hope
& Faith', 'Transformers', 'How to Lose Friends & Alienate
People', 'Jennifer's Body', 'Jonah Hex' and last year's 'Passion
Play'. After a cameo of herself in Sacha Baron Cohen's 'The
Dictator' this spring, she will appear in Judd Apatow's 'This Is
Forty'. "I always try to choose something different than what I've
done before," Megan confesses.
Asked what her secret power would be if she were a comic book heroine, the sexy starlet told 'Angeleno' magazine that, "Invisibility. It's how you gain the most advantage, at least in practical situations. I would also need super strength, but that's a given."
There is so much more about Megan Fox that people don't know such as her love of comic books or her amazing interest for ancient civilizations.
The actress believes that archeology holds answers to important questions, but numerous evidences are kept secret by governments and scientists. "Come on! You don't think everything that's learned is released to the public, do you? Surely you know one of my favorite shows is 'Ancient Aliens?'," Megan Fox says.
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"I'm a sweating fat kid standing on the edge of the subway platform staring at the tracks…It's Sunday afternoon and I'm standing just over the yellow line trying to decide whether people would laugh if I jumped."
Troy is almost three hundred pounds, a sweaty, self-conscious ball of angst and nerves, in a uniform of bland tan pants. He's standing on the metro platform, working up the nerve to kill himself, when Curt intervenes. Curt MacCrae, a filthy, emaciated, sometimes-student at Troy's school, a homeless genius and guitar legend-that Curt. Curt convinces Troy not to jump, and then decides Troy owes him lunch.
Thus begins the unlikeliest of friendships. Manic Curt gulps every pill he can find, steals everything that isn't tied down, and is constantly starving and filthy. Troy is huge and unhappy, wallowing in his own self-hatred, convinced that everyone in the world is staring at him in disgust. He feels like he can't live up to his perfect younger brother's image, or his rigid military father's expectations. However, the two of them form a relationship based on music.
When Curt appoints Troy as the drummer in his band, Troy has five weeks to learn to play the drums like a madman, and he's his own worst enemy. He just has trouble letting go of himself long enough to let the music creep out: he's too focused on needing to be invisible for the music to work. But Curt's belief in his abilities bolsters him, and transforms him from sweaty Troy to punk rocker Big T.
I was astonished when I flipped to the end of this book and discovered that it was written by a woman, especially because Troy's voice came off as so authentically fat teenaged-boyish. She does an incredible job getting inside Troy's head, and crafting these three-dimensional characters. That was my favorite part of this story: Curt is so frustratingly unreliable, and Troy so self-sabotaging. In short, they are so real, acting and behaving just like real people do.
I was a little worried when I got into this novel that it would be one of those sappy Cinderella stories, where the fat kid loses weight, the homeless kids gets a bath and a job, and everyone lives happily ever after because now they've been transformed into Nice and Normal People. I hate when that happens, because the underlying message is: you can only be happy if you're not yourself. That is the beauty of Fat Kid Rules the World. Troy doesn't lose weight. He doesn't stop sweating. And by the end of the book, he's still in his uniform of bland tan pants. The only change comes from his own self-acceptance. Thank you, thank you, thank you, P. L. Going, for not giving in to the conformity principle. Thanks for not letting your readers down!
Speaking of the author, this is what she has to say about how she was able to portray Troy so realistically: "I am the Queen of Self Consciousness and Troy's fat is really just the physical embodiment of this. I'm also more than capable of coming up with really off the wall reasons why people will hate me and everything will suck. So, it's not so hard to be the sweating Fat Kid…"
This is an amazing book. It totally inspired me to put on some Iggy Pop and stop believing that everyone is always staring at me.
Happy Reading!
Author's website: http://www.klgoing.com/
Going, K. L. Fat Kid Rules the World. Speak Books: New York, 2003. 185 pp.


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Metals in riparian wildlife of the lead mining district of southeastern Missouri
Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
By: K.R. Niethammer, R.D. Atkinson, T.S. Baskett, and F.B. Samson
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Five species of riparian vertebrates (425 individuals) primarily representing upper trophic levels were collected from the Big River and Black River drainages in two lead mining districts of southeastern Missouri, 1981?82. Big River is subject to metal pollution via erosion and seepage from large tailings piles from inactive lead mines. Black River drains part of a currently mined area. Bullfrogs (Rana catesbeiana), muskrats (Ondatra zibethicus), and green-backed herons (Butorides striatus) collected downstream from the source of metal contamination to Big River had significantly (ANOVA, P<0.05) higher lead and cadmium levels than specimens collected at either an uncontaminated upstream site or on Black River. Northern water snakes (Nerodia sipedon) had elevated lead levels below the tailings source, but did not seem to accumulate cadmium. Levels of lead, cadmium, or zinc in northern rough-winged swallows (Stelgidopteryx serripennis) were not related to collecting locality. Carcasses of ten bank swallows (Riparia riparia) collected from a colony nesting in a tailings pile along the Big River had lead concentrations of 2.0?39 ppm wet weight. Differences between zinc concentrations in vertebrates collected from contaminated and uncontaminated sites were less apparent than differences in lead and cadmium. There was little relationship between metal concentrations in the animals studied and their trophic levels. Bullfrogs are the most promising species examined for monitoring environmental levels of lead, cadmium, and zinc. Downstream from the source of tailings, bullfrogs had markedly higher levels of these metals in most of their tissues. The species is also widely distributed in North America, easily caught, and relatively sedentary.
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