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Skip to comments.Atheists and (gay) Christians unite to protest at Pope in Sydney
Posted on 06/23/2008 9:58:33 AM PDT by NYer
A coalition of atheists and Christians will protest during World Youth Day against the Pope's visit to Sydney.
With slogans including Gay is great and Condoms save lives, the NoToPope Coalition is planning a peaceful rally and march on July 19, the day Pope Benedict XVI travels to Randwick racecourse in Sydney's east.
The Pope is homophobic, coalition spokeswoman Rachel Evans said in a statement today.
Pope Benedict also condemns millions of people to AIDS via his world-wide anti-condom policy.
Members of the NoToPope Coalition include The Metropolitan Community Church, Atheists Sydney, The Socialist Alliance, Resistance, and Community Action Against Homophobia.
Atheists Sydney spokesman Anthony Englund said the protesters wanted to engage the broader community in the issues of homosexuality and contraception.
These issues should be of concern not just to church groups but to society as a whole, and to young people in particular, he said.
The coalition is planning a rally at Taylor Square in Sydney's inner east on Saturday, July 19, followed by a march to Randwick racecourse, where the Pope will be holding a prayer vigil with tens of thousands of young people.
Savvy Catholics should distribute copies of the following to the activists. These statistics support the position of the Catholic Church.
Homosexual activists never let the truth get in the way of their slogans.
The usual suspects once again: C.A.F.
Communists, Atheists, and F...
How does the Pope's anti-condom message condemn people to die of AIDS?
First of all, these protesters have contempt for the Pope, and there is nothing he could do to placate them anyway.
Second of all, homosexuals in mutually monogamous relationships have scant fear of AIDS. Are they implying that promiscuous behavior is the norm among certain people, and they need condoms in order to have sex with strangers? Exactly what are they saying?
Thirdly, if they feel so strongly, a Gay charitable foundation could distribute condoms all over the world if they wanted to . They don't need the blessings of the Catholic Church to do so. They could proclaim to everyone, ignore what the Pope says, your salvation rests with a condom, not in anything a church teaches.
I'm sure these well-dressed, clean scrubbed, polite young people will make their point in a mature, respectful manner ;<]
Whoa! Talk about strange bedfellows.
Gee, I see a pattern here...
Communists, Atheists, and F...
Lutherans doesn't start with an "F"....
There. I fixed it:
A coalition of Christophobes will protest during World Youth Day against theire archenemy's visit to Sydney.
With slogans including Depravity is great and We like to pretend that condoms make anal intercourse a tad less deadly", the NoToPope Coalition is planning a rally and march brimming with half-dressed perverts cavorting on July 19, the day Pope Benedict XVI travels to Randwick racecourse in Sydney's east.
We are homophiles, coalition spokeswoman Rachel Evans said in a statement today.
We love condoms regardless of how ineffective they have proven to be, and we get lots of mileage from the leftist media out of our false claims that the Catholic Church's refusal to endorse as moral homosexual anal intercourse and sodomy (which would be a direct contradiction to the Bible and thousands of years of moral teaching and practice) serves to condemn millions of people to AIDS.
Members of the NoToPope Coalition include The Faithless Metropolitan Community Church, Satan's Atheists Sydney, The Socialist Satanic Alliance, Satan's Resistance, and Community Action Advicating Homophilia.
Satan's Atheists Sydney spokesman Anthony Englund said the protesters wanted to propagandize the broader community in the issues of homophilia and spread the false gospel that there is such a thing as sex with zero consequences.
These issues should be of concern not just to church groups but to society as a whole, and to satanic young people in particular, he said.
The coalition is planning a radical and demeaning rally of a few dozen perverted aging unemployed baby boom whackdoodles at Taylor Square in Sydney's inner east on Saturday, July 19, followed by a raucous march to Randwick racecourse, where they hope to disrupt and demean the Pope and the hundreds of thousands of faithful young men and women who will be holding a prayer vigil.
Hell gets hotter and bigger, every day.
Let me say from experience in arguing this issue elsewhere, people will ignore facts that don't fit their anti-Catholic views.
Paraphrasing the guy in "Jaws": "We gotta get a bigger handbasket!"
At first that headline was very off-putting but after thinking it over I guess one could call me an atheist christian; I was baptized in the Methodist church at an early age by my grandmother's insistence and have been around mostly christian people my entire life.
After much thought I have concluded that strictly heirarchical churches are too stifling to the human character and dictatorial churches even worse.
The best choice is no church at all and a deep respect for those who live their lives with a strong conviction that causing harm is against the success of society and the race of man.
However, I have never been entranced by Mother Earth's call to worship the ground upon which I trod and will fatefully crawl again - only to be covered by it in the end.
The final reward may simply be silence.
OMG....these twisted souls keep spitting often in the face of God....
Yikes....now that's scary scenario....we may all be sinners but Jesus Christ the true Messiah has spared us from Hell if we acknowledge and accept His saving blood. These blind idiots are on a crash course to hell by rejecting the all wise and loving God who must exercise His judgement on those who reject Him and His plan for eternal slavation through Jesus. Pray that they wake up before its too late for them.
For the Gays: "Do not lie with a male as with a woman, it is an abomination". Leviticus 18:22
PS. errrr... the Pope did not write these scriptures dontchya know?
For the Gays: "Do not lie with a male as with a woman, it is an abomination". Leviticus 18:22
PS. errrr... the Pope did not write these scriptures dontchya know?
There is no such thing as a gay Christian.
The lifestyles are diametrically opposed.
God, Jesus, and the Apostles have all declared Homosexuality a sin.
If you are actively sinning, you are not being Christ-Like, hence you are not a Christian.
Simple logic.
Target rich environment.
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"Christians" with signs saying "Gay is Great"? Have they read their Bibles at all? Openly practicing sinful behavior without repentance is wrong. I do believe the gayness is part of the curse and the fall of man. Celebrating this disease only makes things worse.
They are as much intolerant as they are ignorant.
But then again what can you expect from people that scream in the street?
Who are they?
Bingo! This is nothing more than an excuse to vent their frustration. Thanks for the ping and post.
Imagine for just a moment that you took umbrage on the lowly worm and decided to take on its life in order to save it. This is precisely what God did. The Supreme Being who created the universe chose to be born in a stable in Bethlehem. You were born into this world to live; He was born, to die. He took on your form, out of great love, and humbled Himself to be shunned, spit upon, flogged, pierced with thorns and nailed to a cross so that you could be redeemed from your sinful state.
The best choice is no church at all and a deep respect for those who live their lives with a strong conviction that causing harm is against the success of society and the race of man.
Not only did He take on human form and allow Himself to be humiliated by mankind, He left a great gift to you! His Church. There is nothing dictatorial about this Church; if anything, it is liberating. Consider that of all the christian churches, only the Catholic Church has not approved artificial contraception. Why? Because, as this article demonstrates, once man steps out of the realm of marriage to one woman, he crosses the threshold into illness and disease. It is man, using his God given gift of "free will" who chooses to bring down these maladies upon himself. Without rules and regulations, a society cannot exist.
Our Lord said: "Where two or more are gathered in my name, I am there". You may devote as much time as you wish to solitude but in the end, you are part of a global world in which you play an important role.
The Catholic Catechism poses the question: "Why did God make me?" The response is so simple: "He made me to know, love and serve Him in this world and be happy with Him forever in the next". Until you actually know God, you cannot possibly love Him.
Your days on this earth are fleeting. Like wisps of air they will one day evaporate and you will come face to face with your Creator who will ask what you have done with His gift of life. Eternity is forever.
Anti-Catholic "Christians"
don't worry fellow catholic freepers...
i'll be there to deal with them!!
You must promise to provide daily coverage from the event! When B16 went to Germany, we had a freeper attending WYD. She would email me detailed information each day and I would post a thread with her running commentary. It was fresh, fun and made us feel like we were right there with the Holy Father. Perhaps you could be our "man in the field" :-)
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For those who want to visit Siesta Key without the trouble and stress of going through the choked streets and parking lots, this is good news. From Saturday, a new bus route linking Westfield Southgate mall all the way to Turtle Beach.
Called Route 10, the approval for this new link came on Tuesday from the commissioners in charge of the Sarasota County. The new route will increase the service to the southern flank of the ever-busy key. The line is scheduled to operate approximately every hour from 9:12 am to 10:07 pm. As of now, Siesta Key is supplied by Route 11, which will now be linked to Route 10. The limitations for the old route and regular complaints are that the buses are always overcrowded and they do not go beyond Stickney Point Road. With the opening of Route 11, passengers will be able to go even further down south.
There will now be stops at Siesta Beach, and also at the clusters of shops, restaurants and bars that line up Siesta Key Village. The stops will be every 20 to 25 minutes. This is a step in the right direction because many of the visitors who stay on Siesta Key do not rely on car hire but depend on the local transport system. That explains why many of the locals and residents are quite excited about the new development.


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Tough Loss
Kyle Davies has a strong game. The box score doesn't look like he had a strong game, but he did.
Davies mixed his pitches on Tuesday. His totals broke down like this:
Fastball – 41
Change – 12
Slider – 12
Curve – 11
Cutter – 11
That's a nice array of pitches Davies has developed. The change and curve come in at similar velocities, but have radically different breaks as you would expect. Same for his cutter and slider. Courtesy of Brooks Baseball, here's how his pitch movement looks from the bird's eye view:
He had some deception working on Tuesday. Of the 41 fastballs he threw, he didn't get a single swing and miss. However, he got a total of eight swings and misses from his 46 other pitches. That's good. Try and jump ahead with the fastball and then finish them off with one of four other pitches. For the most part, it worked.
(By the way, what's up with Vernon Wells? I thought we wrote his career obit after last year. Two doubles and his seventh home run of the year? Wow.)
Davies has now had Game Scores of 50, 50 and 46 in his first three starts. Certainly, nothing great, but he's been consistent. Isn't that something we'd like from the number five starter? Of course. If Davies can throw six innings and give up three or four runs in every start, that's absolutely something we'd take. Consistency has always been an issue with Davies, so we'll see how he fares in his next several starts.
Another good thing Davies can take from this game was the fact he gained strength as the innings progressed. His final fastball was 92.2 mph. It was his fastest pitch of the night.
One other thing before we move on… Nice outing from Josh Rupe, who wriggled his way out of a bases loaded jam in the seventh with a strikeout and a double play. You absolutely have to go out of your way and make sure you tip your cap to the bullpen when they do well.
Weird game…
David DeJesus needs to discover the wonders of pine tar. By my count he's released and helicoptered the bat four times. Unofficially.
Entering Tuesday's game, Blue Jays starter Dana Eveland had faced a total of six left handed hitters (out of 51) in his two starts. Not really sure why that's the case, because he's been hittable from both sides of the plate throughout his career. Ever the one to spit in the face of trends, Trey Hillman kept DeJesus at the top of the lineup. That's probably because with Scott Podsednik still absent, the Royals skipper has only 11 bats to choose from. And given the fact he's not going to start Brayan Pena two nights in a row, Hillman's only decision is if he's going to play Wee Willie or not. Of course he's going to play Wee Willie!
See how nearly everything about he lineup is a direct result of the Royals decision to carry 13 pitchers? Has anyone in the Royals front office notice how the roster is currently constructed? Are they aware of the impact it has on a nightly basis?
Then Bloomquist reached base five times. Five times! In addition to his three hits, he got on base once on an error and once via a walk. Unfortunately, Billy Butler couldn't do anything with Wee Willie in front of him as he grounded into two double plays.
So the nightly Unbelievable Recap looks like this: Yuni Betancourt is hitting .333, Jose Guillen is hitting .368 and Jason Kendall has at least one hit in every game this season and is batting .360. And the Royals have won five of 14. Ugh.
Greinke tomorrow. Hope you have the MLB Network. It's not on FSKC.


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Ne-Yo, fun. and Hunter Hayes react to their Grammy nominations and celebrate the diversity of music. The 55th annual Awards show will take place February 10 in Los Angeles. (Dec. 6) AP
Music's newest stars tell about receiving Grammy nominations during backstage chats at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena.
Which artists' praises were being sung during Wednesday night's Grammy Nominations Concert Live event? USA TODAY's Brian Mansfield reports from backstage at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena.
New and surreal. Lumineers lead vocalist Wesley Schultz, whose folk-rock group had just been nominated for best new artist, was finding it difficult to process the whole experience. "We've never gotten to be represented or promoted before we put out this record (their self-titled debut),'' he said. "It's hard to explain, though, because nothing happens for so long, then you're nominated for a Grammy. It's pretty surreal. It's kind of hard to wrap your head around it. .. We felt like underdogs in this whole thing.''
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"It's unexpected, for sure,'' added bandmate Neyla Pekarek. "There's a lot of really awesome people in those categories. You see these bands get hype and whatever. We made an album without knowing anything about this. We're super happy to be here.''
Great shakes. Drummer Steve Johnson of Alabama Shakes said that one of his fellow new artist nominees is perhaps more deserving of the award. "If I were on the other side of the fence, I'd vote Frank Ocean, personally,'' he said.
Added lead singer Brittany Howard: "I'm just happy and my Nana's happy.'' She said the group, which has spent about a year and a half performing their Boys & Girls album, will take its time before entering the studio again. "I feel like people want to apply that pressure, but I want to ignore it, at all costs,'' she said. "Songwriting has already begun… We're not going to put out anything we think is garbage.''
Home cooking. Dierks Bentley, nominated for country solo vocal performance, said he was thrilled the Grammy nominations were announced in Nashville this year, but admitted "I'm biased. I kind of feel like it's a good opportunity for the rest of the world to get a sneak peek of Nashville. Everyone who lives here knows how great it is. We like that it is kind of a secret in some ways. The cool thing about Nashville is you bring them in, give them a big hug, take them to your favorite bar, introduce them to your favorite songwriters. I think what makes this town great is it's a cool community of people who support each other.''
Finding his voice. Nate Ruess, founder of indie-pop group fun., which was nominated in four top categories, including new artist and album for Some Nights, had a rough time of it during this week's rehearsals for the televised show. The group sang record- and song-nominee We Are Young with Janelle Monae, but "for the last week, I've had more vocal problems than I've ever had,'' said Ruess. "Fortunately, my voice worked.''
Bandmate Jack Antonoff said that after surveying the nominees list he feels "there's a change that's coming in music and this feels like a big year for that. We're excited to be a part of it. ... If you turn on the radio, it's pretty obvious that something's changing.''


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By PHIL FAUVERstaff writer
> CWMA 2012 Weed Tour of the Manti-LaSal National Forest
People came from Emery County and Carbon County for the tour. They were met at the Huntington Park by US Forest Service Range Land Technician Corinne Dalton from the Ferron office in preparation to tour recent impacts of the burned over area, the floods and potential weed problems caused by the Seeley Fire.
The Skyline Cooperative Weed Management Area includes Carbon and Emery counties and is a collaboration of federal, state, and local agencies. All of these groups, along with private landowners have a vested interest in the control and management of weeds across jurisdictional boundaries.
Some of those on the tour were, James Nielsen, Les Reese and Sherrel Ward from Emery County Weed Control, Dennis Worwood the Emery County Extension Agent, Mikita Hansen, Division of WildLife, Melissa Frazee, Daniel Gunnel, Laurel Nielson and Karl Ivory from the Bureau Of Land Management.
The first stop on the tour was the Stuart Guard Station in Huntington Canyon where the group was shown the devastation caused by the recent fire and floods. They observed the new growth of aspen trees, grass and weeds in Nuck Woodward Canyon North of the Stuart Guard Station.
In Nuck Woodward Canyon the forest service had equipment constructing catch basins or settling basins to restrict some of the debris and mud flowing down the canyon when rain events happen. The forest service plans to put in about 100 catch basins across the burned areas in the forest. The excavators are working to get all of the large sized logs and rocks out of the creek bed in preparation for the expected flooding from rains and snow melt. This should help prevent major road damage next year.
Dalton said the fire jumped from place to place forming a type of a mosaic as it burned the forest. However the fire was contained enough around the Guard Station so that none of the buildings were lost. As the fire progressed up the mountainsides the heat of the fire sterilized the soil to a depth of about 4 inches. The sterilizing of the soil kills the seed bank normally in the soil. The Aspen root system is below that depth and is already starting to re-grow. Aspens like fire and will grow back better after a fire. Cows and sheep eating the young Aspen sprouts is a concern. Therefore domestic animals are kept out of burned over areas.
Using airplanes, 7,000 acres that were severely burned have already been reseeded. These planes have also dropped straw to cover the seeds. They are trying to get the grass and native plant species to grow back as soon as possible. So far this year $1 million has been spent on reseeding.
The cheat grass in Gordon Canyon is a concern and it is like aspen in that it likes fire and will come back stronger after a fire. Cheat grass is very flammable when dry. The major weed issues in Nuck Woodward Canyon are musk thistle, hounds tongue and a small amount of toad flax.
Dalton said, "We have had crews on the edges of the burn gathering musk thistle and hounds tongue to prevent these weeds from contaminating the seedbed in the burned area. These weeds are then hauled away in trash bags. We are using bugs that are attracted to and eat on certain weeds in our battle with weeds.
"Our biggest concern is over on Castle Valley Ridge where we have a huge issue with the musk thistle. Our crew spent two weeks there pulling up the Musk Thistle. We are trying to keep the vegetation growing so that we have something to retain the water in the spring.
"The fire has already affected the grazing permit holders. Some of the allotments are more than 90 percent burned off. The forest plan policy is for zero livestock in the burned part of the forest. We do not want them to eat the succulent shoots of re-growing plants. In one area we are putting in eight miles of electric fence to keep animals off the burn. A big portion of our budget coming from the burn will go to bugs and or spray to control the weeds that we have issues with. In Mill Canyon we have one entire wall of just musk thistle weeds.
"We are trying to get sheep that have learned to do natural grazing on the musk thistle, but not all herders have sheep trained to eat the musk. The elk are helping a little as they are eating the flowering heads on the musk. Tarweed is worse for us than cheat grass. Tarweed grows under musk thistle and under sagebrush. The tarweed does not like fire and may not be as successful in re-growing as some other plants. The tarweed shows up more on sheep allotments than on cow allotments," said Dalton.
Dalton pointed out some hounds tongue plants and said that it is a frustrating plant but it doesn't do as much damage and it doesn't crowd out the other vegetation like musk thistle does.
The tour group then drove west along Huntington Creek on SR-31 observing the changes made by the floods to the river. A stop was made at Mill Canyon to view the North-facing slope that had been spared from the fire and a moose browsing in the willows along the river. After leaving Mill Canyon the group drove to the mountaintop and the North Skyline Drive turn off and parking lot. There the Emery County Water Conservancy District was set up to provide a lunch for the tour. Jeff Tuttle, Monroe Magnuson and Nacole Toomer were the camp chefs. The lunch they provided was a Dutch oven cube steak, boiled potatoes, gravy, and corn on the cob with a Dutch oven cobbler with whipped cream.
When the lunch was over the group visited a nearby area of weed infestation by musk thistle, hounds tongue, common golden eye and yarrow weeds. Those wanting more information about the weeds on this tour can look on the Internet. Many of the weeds of concern are sold in gardening shops for decorative plants. Photos and descriptions of most of these plants can be found on the Internet.
Musk thistle starts out with large thorny leaves and later grows a purple flower on a long stem with spiny thorns on the leaves. Musk thistle is a biennial weed that grows only from seed.
Hounds tongue has wide flat green leaves in the spring. When the plant grows taller, flowers and small burrs are formed that stick to animals and humans to spread the seeds. Yarrow has a cluster of tiny white flowers on the end of the stem.
Dalton said this mountain top campground and surrounding area has been sprayed for musk thistle and after that spraying the forest service put down some straw and wood chips to get rid of the tarweed. When that was complete native seeds were broadcast over the area. She showed a photo of the weed infestation before it was sprayed. Wheat is starting to grow as a ground cover on this ground. The golden eye weed is a native plant and was not in the seed mix, but it is growing well. Golden eye has a small yellow flower.
"The sheep graze the plants and then bed down on them and we cannot get anything to grow back due to the high elevation and lack of water. Pocket gopher burrowing activity is also hindering the regrowth of plants. This project came about because of Regional Advisory Council funding. This is a $250,000 two year project and we will be meeting with the Regional Advisory Council Friday to see what else they will let us do. The DWR donated some of the seed as we went over our seed budget. There is more vegetation here now than before we started this project. This project is considered a success because we have been able to get vegetation growing here instead of tar weed. Unfortunately we still have some musk thistle coming back. We did not kill all of the musk seeds," said Dalton.
The last stop for the tour was at the state road shed. On the hillside above the valley north of the parking lot where there is a lot of the toad flax weed. Toad flax resembles a miniature snap dragon with small yellow flowers. Dalton said, "We sprayed this hillside for toad flax last year. The crew sprayed a chemical named Tordon just on the toad flax so they wouldn't kill the other vegetation. We did not spray some of the toad flax because the weed was under and around some of the camp trailers. This area is above Fairview and looks off toward Scofield. The crew worked three weeks here spraying toad flax weeds and they did not get all of it."
Worwood pointed out that there is knap weed, another very invasive plant, on the west side of Joes Valley. The forest service has marked that knap Weed location.
Dalton said, "Other concerns we have are ox eye daisy and white top weeds that are starting to invade the forest. We expect to send a crew out to spray those weeds the middle of May."
Dalton thanked everyone for participating and said if there are any more questions you may call the forest service office in Ferron.


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By Vince Carbone on Dec 20, 2007
I've been hacking around on guitar since I was a teenager. But in my late '40s I decided to learn flatpicking guitar in the style of Doc Watson, Norman Blake, Tony Rice, etc. This style of guitar is associated with bluegrass and old-time Appalachian fiddle tunes. One thing I noticed while listening to to these tunes in a group setting was that I always seemed to latch on to the mandolin solos. The vocal quality of the instrument seem to mesh really well with my musical brainwaves. So this past summer I picked up a used mandolin (Collings MT) and started working through some tunes.
Living in Klamath Falls, OR the nearest mandolin teachers are 60 miles "over the hill" in Ashland. Luckily I have some local friends who are good mandolin players that showed me a few things to get me started. I took a few lessons in Ashland but as winter sets in the thought of driving back and forth over the pass is not my idea of a good time. So I started searching the Web for online mandolin lessons. I came across a teacher in SoCal that was doing webcam lessons. That seemed pretty interesting to me so I started searching along those lines and discovered that Mike Compton was also offering webcam lessons. Now Mike is a fantastic player who is considered one of the greatest mandolinists that plays in the style of Bill Monroe.
I jumped at the chance to take lessons from him and sent him an email right away. He had some openings and we agreed to give it a try. My setup consists of a Macbook using iChat/AIM and a Snowball USB microphone. I have a 3Mb Qwest DSL connection. We've had one session so far. For the most part the video chat worked well, though there were times when it broke up pretty badly. I had already started working on "Evening Prayer Blues" and Mike had me play it for him. After messing around with the iSight camera a bit Mike was able to see me play and totally changed the way I am holding the pick and using my right hand.
Also I told him that I really liked the intro and solo to "New Muleskinner Blues". Well he had notation/tab and a slowed-down quicktime movie to send me and I've been working through it. And with that I think I've figured out how this is going to work and how it is different from DVD lessons and other online music lessons. It's 2-way, Duh! Using the video with sparing use of the sheet music I can learn the tunes and technique "front porch" style. Once a week or so, I get together with Mike and get to go over stuff and learn new stuff. The DVD and online lessons are fine in themselves but there is no feedback. The main drawback of webcam lessons is that we can't play along together due to the delay in communications.
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Online sales increased 20.7% on the day after Thanksgiving, IBM says.
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Rather than camp out in front of Best Buy or Toys 'R' Us for their post-pie purchasing, many consumers opted for a more comfy venue to kick off their gift buying this Black Friday—the comfort of their couch. However, while online sales were up an impressive 20.7% this Black Friday compared to the day after Thanksgiving last year, shoppers spent less and purchased fewer items per order, says Jay Henderson, strategy program director for IBM.
The average order value for merchants was $181.22 yesterday, down about 4.7% from the same day last year. Average number of items per order also fell—to 5.6 per shopping trip—down 12% from last year. Henderson says part of this could be because many e-retailers lowered the minimum amount consumers had to purchase to qualify for free shipping.
When it comes to the most popular online shopping categories in terms of sales, home goods retailers led the way in sales growth, according to IBM, which tracks sales at its 500 e-retailer clients for its analysis. Home goods retailers posted a 28.2% increase in sales this Black Friday compared to last. Apparel retailers came in second with a 17.5% increase and department stores in third with sales up 16.8% over last year.
ChannelAdvisor Corp., a vendor that helps e-retailers get their products listed in comparison shopping engines and on marketplaces such as eBay and Amazon, reports strong sales growth for eBay on Black Friday. Sales on the marketplace grew 30.5% year over year on the day after Thanksgiving compared to 15.1% year-over-year growth for the same day in 2011. And Amazon's sales are accelerating. On Thanksgiving, the marketplace and retailer reported 34.9% growth in sales compared to the holiday in 2011. For Black Friday, Amazon posted 38.3% sales growth compared to the same day last year. Still, that is significantly lower than Amazon's 49.8% year-over-year sales increase for Black Friday 2011. Mobile sales for ChannelAdvisor's e-retail clients accounted for 32.4% of all online sales on Black Friday compared with 19.8% on Black Friday 2011.
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Where Does Dad Fit In?
You and your partner have celebrated the upcoming event, you've taken part in sharing the exciting news, and received congratulations from family and friends, now what?
For dads-to-be around the world, pregnancy can challenge their very being. As the attention is shifted from you and your partner as a couple, to mom and baby, you may start to feel that you're on the outside looking in.
All of a sudden everything seems to be changing at a rapid pace. Your relationship with your parents, your goals for the future, even your daily routine is not what you remember.
As you watch as your partner struggles with morning sickness, fatigue, body aches, mood swings, and body image issues, you feel a sense of helplessness, not being able to help ease these symptoms.
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Talk with your partner about your hopes and dreams, fears and anxieties, of having a child together. She is more than likely feeling the same fears.
Plan to regularly spend time together as a couple. Going for moonlight walks, quiet dinners, or just spending time listening to your favorite music together.
Talk about how your lives are changing and will change. Discuss ways that you both can slow down and enjoy this pregnancy together.
Start to take on more of the household chores. Offering to cook dinner or do the dishes will go a long way in the eyes of your exhausted partner.
Re-assure your partner that she will make a great mother.
Re-assure your partner of your love, and your desire to be with her. Regularly tell your partner that you love her. Although she already knows this, hearing it from you on makes a dreary day so much brighter.
Allow your partner to express both the positive and negatives of being pregnant without having to fix it. Sometimes all she needs is your ear and your support.
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Chris Danielsen, a spokesman for the National Federation of the Blind complains, "The biggest thing with us is that we don't think the driver should be able to switch the sound off."
When enabled, the group is okay with the standard driving warning sound, which they say is "sufficient to alert pedestrians". However, they are also displeased with the reverse warning sound, which unlike the forward noise is not continuous. They comment, "Intermittent sound is not as effective as a continuous sound."
Another complaint they have is that no warning sounds are emitted when the vehicle is idling.
The backup noises sounds somewhat like a ringing bell or submarine sonar, while the forward noise sounds somewhat like a jet tanking off (a whistle) -- or as Mark Perry, the director for product planning at Nissan Americas puts it, "You know that show with David Hasselhoff, Knight Rider? The forward sound reminds me of what KITT sounded like."
The sounds are generate by a synthesizer under the hood and should not disturb passengers within the cockpit, thanks to insulating layers. The sounds measure at 2.5 kHz at the high end of the spectrum to 600 Hz at the bottom.
Nissan recruited high profile help to develop the system, including, the Detroit Institute of Ophthalmology, acoustic psychology experts from the Vanderbilt University Medical Center and a Hollywood sound design studio that was not identified. Interestingly, The National Federation of the Blind -- the organization that is offering up the current criticism -- also helped provide design input for the system.
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Great chapter.. Just Great lol
Saiga lives up to his name that's for damn sure. I wanted more dammit. I guess we are going to have to wait.
Manga reading list: Bleach, Naruto, Katekyo Hitman Reborn, One Piece, Code Breaker, Gamaran, Kuroko No Basket, Fairy Tail, The World God Only Knows, Kimi No Iru Machi, Good Ending, Medaka Box, Nisekoi, D.Gray-Man, Ao No Exorcist, Freezing, Magi - Labyrinth of Magic, Soul Eater, Rosario Vampire Season II, Iris Zero, Ubell Blatt, Bloody Cross, Sun-Ken Rock, and Infinite Stratos,
Seems like Sakaki didn't feel Saiga's presence at all. So he could totally hide it even on masters at Sakaki's level. That explain how he was able to go undercover without Jenazad noticing. I wanted more too, maybe after Jenazad loses or barely loses he would escape but Saiga would be waiting for him then at least we will see him fight.
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Saiga was confirmed to be the Number one Fist, but even though he still seems too use the Katsuiken, which bothers me a bit....
nvertheless he seems to be an incredible combination of the old man Furinji & Koetsuji at lightning speed. He really seems to be even faster than the old man! I can't wait to see more action by him, may he be the final villain or not.
The essence of this chapter might be, that Kenichi finally got permission to date Miu by Saiga, and as well that Saiga is an incredible fighter!
@ Arisart: I don't think Saiga will help or Kill Jenazad even if he abducted Miu, he never stepped in and I don't believe he will now.
saiga is an incredible fighter no doubt about that, but he will still pale compared to the elder, even at 0,002% he was still the most powerful person in the world if we are to believe what akisame said about him.
Anyway, it's clear that Saiga was at least worried enough about his daughter that he infiltrated Sakaki's group to look out for her. But I wonder if he wasn't just trying to scout out the #1 Disciple as well. Well, if it weren't for Miu, I'd say his appearance was terribly random. I also wonder if Kenichi will mention Saiga's appearance later. I guess not though, as he already made a cover for the missing John.
Well, I prefer the anime version since I just don't like when the echi stuff is overused.
BTW. Has anyone seen the new OVA ? The new style looks a little ridiculous, and Kenichi's whining voice was buffed to the max, but the fighting part certainly left me with wanting more .
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Skip to comments.Map of the dead: Zombie survival map
Posted on 04/15/2012 6:34:11 PM PDT by djf
Interesting map if you want to find out your survival chances if SHTP.
I'm in a "safe" zone, but only about 1/2 mile from a wad of zombies!!
prepper ping!
Excuse me for saying this, but "wad of zombies" sounds really bad.
Hardly a zombie to be found here in Central VA! Looks like they're all concentrated in the Hampton Roads area. Funny, I'd have thought they'd be up in leftwing northern VA.
I'm in a safe zone but go 1/2 mile away or so in any direction, I'm in the center ring.
I don't get it. That's just a map of all urban areas.
I couldn't tell a lot about the map; it seemed to be a bit on the vague side and hard to get to download - but, then I am in a remote area with only access to dialup internet service - seriously. It looked like the city to the north of us is a hotbed of zombies, but we're in the boonie area.
I think that's the whole point.
Who lives in urban areas?
I don't get it either. I live at the edge of a city with 12k people in KY and this thing shows my whole city as a zombie zone?
Hey, I found my truck on the map.
Hampton Roads? With all of the military in that area, I would think that the service members would outnumber the zombies.
Have you ever traveled through Newport News or parts of Portsmouth?
Zombies everywhere.
I am between two red zones of zombies in my neck of leftie Northern VA. :)
I lived in Newport News.
There are a whole lot of things that would change zombie demographics. A major factor would be whether the zombies would be reanimated cadavers from cemeteries, of victims of the zombie plague disease.
That is, in a large part of the US west of the Mississippi, there are far fewer buried cadavers than in some place like New Orleans.
Whereas, if they were plague zombies, about the only thing that would matter is population density where you live.
Geography and seasons are also very important. Zombies frozen stiff or dehydrated into over-dried brittle beef jerky are going to be a lot less functional than in moderate and somewhat humid circumstances.
Personally, I like the idea of a mountain fortress with the mountain covered in black basalt, that in summer can give off 180F heat easily.
Why is the high school down the road considered a zombie zone?
... never mind...
We have a small pond in the back yard, and it's on the map, although they don't show the houses. Must be some sort of takeoff from Google Earth.
Only one cemetery between me and the beer store. I'm good.
Then you know about them.
If zombies are made of dead meat, does that mean they can catch maggots? Would the maggots then also be zombies?
Or when/if their welfare and WIC checks get cut off or inflated out of existance.
They have a small farming town of about 1200 as a zombie central. That's bull.
Also, there is a large triangular portion just south of Kansas City that would be part of zombie central.
Very poor zombie map.
I was just kidding.
there are, or used to be some nice areas of Newport News especially as you traveled North. I guess it is technically North West.
I had a friend who lived in one of those old mansions high overlooking the James River.
Questionable map...shows my ranch and neighboring gun range being in a zombie zone. Nothing here but cattle, corn, and
Don't feel bad. I live near Washington, D.C. "Land of the Living Dead", i.e. Democrats, liberals, lobbyists, and reds.
Gonna need more ammo and axes.
As I was telling George Romero a number of years ago, "I liked the movie but you should have ...."
He has the neatest ponytail. Malcolm McDowell, sitting next to us, agreed.
When we lived in VA, our last address was right on the Chesapeake Bay.
I could watch Pan's submarine come in and out of the bay as I sat on the deck of the beach house. It was wonderful place to live.
The history in that area is wonderful... lots of things to see.
We don't miss it, though. It was time to move on.
I'm in Zombielandia here in NOVA, but actually it won't be that bad, I can punch the gas pedal and make it into Loudoun county in 5 minutes. Plus I have a 870P shotgun, a Colt .45, and a S&W .357.
My Zombie SHTF plan is fight my way to Hillsville, VA. That place is littered with good ole boys.
All I fear is.....
[Whoa! Wow!]
Mad cow disease.
You're dooooooooomed.
I too lived in Virginia Beach right near Fort Story and on the beach.
You are right about all the history. I visited a lot of places but never even came close to seeing everything.
Christopher Walken is one of the mutant race that are actually scarier alive than undead!
Send Lawyers, guns, and money...
Hey now!
He's The Walken Dude!
You take that back!
Outside of a "danger zone".
but not too much outside :(
I get it, population centers are potential concentrations for zombies. However, I think they should reduce the zombie danger around military bases and firearms & outdoors stores. Some of us in these areas will be drastically reducing the zombie count in our area. ;-)
That's because of all the cousins marrying cousins.
Talk about "fever"....LMAO
Hey Kid!
How the hell are ya?
Wondered where you got to!
That video cracked me up.
Marriage? Why would they bother with marriage?
Hmmm, sounds like a perfect description of an Obama Rally, er, I mean Occupy Rally/Camp.
Here is a useful Zombie map- this plots "social vulnerability", by county. Plots that county's liklihood of serious problems if something goes awry, like a Zombie Apocalypse. Or nationwide power/natural gas blackout.
I don't know about that map. It shows areas near where I live as light colored where I wouldn't drive into in the daytime without a gun. It shows areas as dark that I think are very safe.
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Prop forward Sébastien Taofifenua has signed a new contract for Perpignan in midweek while Agen will be led by Jean Monribot as they look to bounce back from their 20-13 defeat to Stade Français in Round 11. Perpignan lost at Biarritz in a poor showing last time out.
Kick-off: 20:50 (19:50 GMT)
Referee: Pascal Gaüzere
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Kick-off: 15:00 (14:00 GMT)
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We have some students disappearing from different courses randomly. Each day we may have around 5-10 students disappearing from a course whilst they are still enrolled into other courses. Students cannot unenrol themselves and the cleanup option is set to never. All students are authenticated via LDAP.
I cannot reproduce the problem and it appears to happen randomly to different students each day in different courses.
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I'm experiencing this also. Students are still there as users, but not from the groups in the courses they were enrolled in.
AFAIK that uses to be caused by the "Enrolment duration" course setting. Any user that was enrolled with that setting "enabled" (different from "unlimited") will be unenrolled after the specified period, no matter if the setting has been changed later to "unlimited".
Could that be the cause?
This is happening to us as well. It happens to all roles (not only students) and we are on 1.9.4 and MySQL.
Enrolment duration doesn't affect this.
just trying to imagine which could be the cause for that... what mathod or enrolments are you using? Manual, upload file of enrolments, ldap, db....
I really cannot imagine any cause for that (but the setting in course commented above) and some sort of bug in some enrolment plugin.
Adding some more (imaginative) people here... ciao
Hi, we manually enroll everybody and everything seems to be well in the beginning. This makes me think it's not the enrolment issue.
This is happening to me in 1.9.7 as well. (It never happened to me, that I know of, in previous versions.) When instructors manually add students, some of those students disappear, seemingly at random.
This is not happening to students who are enrolled via flatfile enrollment, only to those added to courses manually.
All of the students authenticate to Moodle via LDAP. Only authentication is done via LDAP, not account creation or enrollment.
Hi Caroline,
firstly, can you check if the enrolments in your server have any expiration date? To do so execute this, plz:
SELECT * FROM mdl_role_assignments
WHERE timeend > 0
does that return any assignment? If so, it means the course has some "enrol duration" defines, as commented above, and that means that all the enrolments in those curses will have expiration date (i.e. will be removed).
The 2nd cause I can imagine for users being unenroled is that you have defined the "longtimenosee" variable and the students you are being unenroled as they are more than ZZZ days without access to the course. Plz, check it (if you use to save moodle cron output, you can look for the "removing user XXX from course YYY as they have not accessed the course for over ZZZ days" string.
And those are the only two causes for "automatic unenrolments" to happen if using manual enrolments. I really cannot imagine another one. Could you, plz, check them?
TIA and ciao
We are having the same issues, and cannot figure out why.
We have tried all the server commands as listed above, changed the admin settings for 'longtimenosee' as well.
It is now a real issue as some students have lost work. On the whole, if a student is enrolled again by the tutor (manually) then all their work returns. However, this hasn't happened for a couple of students - not great.
I also know it's a random feature as we have teachers who are enrolled as students for Teacher Training courses and they have 'vanished' from the course too.
We are running 1.9.5+ and wont be upgrading until July.
Did you set the "Unsubscribe users from" to "None" at the Site Administration -> Server -> Cleanup?
Second, if you have logged the output from the cron job, did you see something like the following:
Running clean-up tasks...
removing user 454 from course 5 as they have not accessed the course for over 120 days
removing user 454 from course 7 as they have not accessed the course for over 120 days
please check.
I am having this problem again in 1.9.9. Again, it seems to be affecting only manually-added users.
I ran the query Eloy suggested (SELECT * FROM mdl_role_assignments WHERE timeend > 0) and it turned up only one record, which expired back in 2008.
When I manually run cron.php, it tells me "Removing expired enrolments ...none found."
My longtimenosee variable is set to "Never."
All courses have an enrollment duration of "Unlimited."
Has anyone found a solution to this problem?
we're experiencing this problem on 1.9.7+. All courses have an enrollment duration of "Unlimited." But this problem occurs only on "resetted courses".
is it possible the "resetted courses" cause this problem?
At my institution we don't reset courses, so that can't be the whole cause of the issue. However, now that Mete mentioned this, I wonder if it's only happening for us on courses that have had content imported or restored from another Moodle course. It's certainly possible that that is the case, since most of our "power Moodle users" copy their course content from semester to semester.
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We are having the same problem. Our automatic unenrol is set at 365 days, but there are teachers dropping off courses after 10-15 days randomly. Need to find out what the cause of this is. We are on 1.9.15
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