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During a recent online discussion, two readers asked what I found to be bookend questions.
One was facing a possible job loss and was concerned about what financial steps to take to prepare for unemployment. The other was wondering what to do money-wise to recover from the time she spent unemployed.
There are things you should do once it is clear you are going to be laid off. But what if there is some uncertainty about your continued employment? What then?
"I was told that my company is being bought out, making job loss a possibility," wrote the woman who was worried about her job. "This came completely out of the blue as we are doing very well, though I guess that is why the larger company wants to acquire us. My boss wanted to give me a heads up, but he doesn't know any details yet. I am the breadwinner in my family. How do I deal with this? Just save money as best I can, and not panic?"
Yes, don't panic. You have to stay calm while at the same time going into what I call crisis mode, which means immediately taking an assessment of your financial holdings. Now is the time to become intimately familiar with your expenses. Start saving as much as you can.
"I am terrified to spend money," the woman wrote. "We have two kids and an expensive mortgage. We don't have as much in savings as I'd like because we've been paying off credit cards. In fact, I just paid $4,000 the day before I got the news. There is a chance I may not know about my job for weeks."
As she waits to learn her employment fate, she should suspend any aggressive debt payoff plan and just make minimum payments. It's definitely important for her to cut expenses as much as she can and hoard cash, especially if there is a low balance in an emergency fund.
As an extreme measure, she might also consider suspending contributions to her retirement plan. Right now, while there is so much uncertainly about her employment, she needs to prepare for possible months without income.
"Should I start looking for a renter for our home?" the reader asked. "Should I look for another job? I have already applied for one other job, just in case."
Not yet and yes.
The largest expense for most families is their rent or mortgage. If you can't or you're not willing to move to cut costs, you should consider whether you have the room to bring in a boarder. You can certainly start clearing space in your home and asking around for possible roommates. But just wait to see if this step is necessary.
It's definitely wise to start looking for an exit if you've been told you may be shown the door. You can always turn down a job offer. Even if you aren't laid off, you might end up finding a better, more secure job.
So then the worst does happen. You lose your job.
"I have been unemployed for about 15 months total over the past few years," the second reader wrote. "These gaps in employment have completely wiped out my savings and have put me behind on other debts as well. I am trying to get myself back on track, but admittedly wasn't too financially savvy before I was laid off from my long-term job a few years ago. Do you have any advice on getting back on track and rebuilding savings?"
Have patience.
This advice proves to be most difficult for people who did all the right things and still had to exhaust their savings to survive a layoff. They become overly anxious to get back to the financial point before they became unemployed. It can also be hard for others who, like this reader, admit to being financially challenged even before becoming unemployed. Those who have learned their lesson want to quickly save money too.
Once you've found a job, hit the reset button by taking the time to develop a good savings strategy. Start with continuing to live, at least for a little while, the way you did when you weren't working.
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Patience is important before and after a job loss because it's going to take time to rebuild your financial life.
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Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Hit Rating and Dual-Wielders
Basically, after you reach 9%, hit rating only affects a portion of your damage. However, hit rating is cheaper than crit rating. So how does that balance out?
It depends on how much white damage you do. As a general rule, with the current costs of hit and crit rating, you need about 65-70% of your damage to come from auto-attacks for hit rating to outweigh crit rating. However, you also have to take into account special abilities that may come from white hits.
Baseline, most melee classes get about 50% of their damage from auto-attack (white damage) and 50% from specials (yellow damage). Each class does have unique aspects though. Please note that you must get at least 9% hit so your specials never miss. This really concerns the range from 9% to 28%.
The most powerful finisher is Slice and Dice, which speeds up auto-attacks by 30% (equivalent to increasing auto-attack damage by 30%). This pushes rogues into the range where hit rating becomes worthwhile. Additionally, Combat rogues get extra energy from off-hand strikes, through Combat Potency, making it additionally important that their white attacks hit.
Thus the accepted wisdom for rogues, especially combat rogues, is to try and reach the hit rating cap, choosing equal values of hit over crit.
Fury warriors often use Heroic Strike, which converts your next white attack into a special, using the miss rate for specials. This actually pushes the proportion of white damage down, and makes crit a better option.
Auto-attacks do provide rage, so hit rating shouldn't be completely scoffed at. Don't go out of the way to pick up hit rating, but most warriors tend to have a bit more than the minimum.
Enhancement Shamans again have about 50% of their damage coming from auto-attack. However, unlike warriors and rogues, shamans don't get rage or energy from their white attacks. The only other consideration is Windfury, which procs off auto-attacks. Windfury has an internal cooldown, however, so hitting more often does not really increase the number of procs.
So shamans are generally safe in ignoring extra hit rating and going for crit rating and attack power.
No. Just No.
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- Anonymous10:07 PM, December 25, 2007
But...I'm a DW melee Hunter!ReplyDelete
I don't think it will change the conclusion, but isn't it worth mentioning that an enhancement shaman actually regenerates mana from white damage 25% of the time? (Shamanistic rage, top talent in enhancement tree).ReplyDelete
syrien, That's a good point and something to keep in mind. However, I don't think it changes the conclusion.ReplyDelete
As an enhance sham, the mana return from SR doesn't really factor in to the decision about hit (the mana back also scales with your AP, and less hit (should) mean more AP. but more importantly, we're now so mana efficient, our mana pools so small, and SR regen so good that a reasonably geared raiding enhance will refill his mana bar regardless).ReplyDelete
You're right that Hit is valued lower for shams that for rogues/wars. However it's primarily due to the fact that our yellow damage (SS and WF) is a significant, 35-40%, part of our dps and can be hit capped with talents. So while AP/Crit still effect most if not all of our attacks, hit will only be effecting perhaps half that.
- Anonymous6:30 AM, January 04, 2008
You're not seriously suggesting that hit rating is not important to hunters are you?ReplyDelete
Definitely not trying to troll your blog, but in general 142 (their hit cap) is fairly easy to obtain, even pre-kara and point for point is the easiest way to increase their DPS.
Should they totally gimp RAP and Crit to achieve 142? No, but they should definitely be striving to get to 142 as quickly as they can and then bring up the other items.
matt, this post concerns hit rating greater than 9% or 142 hit rating for melee dual-wielding. The hunter part was tongue-in-cheek.ReplyDelete
I completely agree that all characters should get at least 9% hit rating so that their special attacks always hit.
"matt, this post concerns hit rating greater than 9% or 142 hit rating for melee dual-wielding. The hunter part was tongue-in-cheek.ReplyDelete
I completely agree that all characters should get at least 9% hit rating so that their special attacks always hit."
Sorry for the nitpicking, but 9% (142 hit rating) isn't only the hitcap for specials it is also the hit cap for the attacks with 2h weapons (inkl. ranged weapons) and mainhands.
IMHO your conclusion is a bit flawed in regarding to Fury-DW-Builds. True the ultimate goal of a dw build is to maintain the rotation of bloodthirst & whirlwind as soon as the CD is up again and to have rampage on 5 stacks up all the time as well as the battle shout. If you have additional rage to spend you use HS as a rage dump or maybe cleave if you have an additional target in range or if you have to keep a lower profile beacuse of threat issues.
But I think the is the reason why you want to have a balnced build up of your hit and crit. Because HS will reduce your rage gain you want to maximize the rage gain via teh offhand and therefore the offhand has to hit as often as it can.
- Anonymous2:41 AM, January 22, 2008
I must make a clarification.ReplyDelete
You say that SnD +30% speed means that rogues' white damage is increased by 30%.
AFAIK that is not exactly true.
The white DPS supplied by the weapons (the base DPS) is increased by 30%.
The white DPS supplied by AP does not get increased. It will still be 1 DPS per 14 AP.
So it's only a part of your white damage which gets a buff.
- Anonymous3:56 PM, January 22, 2008
so how does increasing expertise impact your chance to NOT miss and the relative hit rating you need? Does it impact only dodge? or dodge and miss?ReplyDelete
galladan, as far as I know, melee haste applies to the AP as well as to the base weapon damage. That's why it's so useful.ReplyDelete
anonymous, basically the attack table has different parts: crit, hit, glancing blows, misses, dodges, parries. Each of these types of stats increases one part of the table and decreases another part.
1% Hit Rating = +1% Hit, -1% Miss
It does not affect the amount of crit, dodge, parry, etc. on the table.
1% Crit = +1% Crit, -1% Hit
4 Expertise (from front) = +2% Hit, -1% Dodge, -1% Parry
4 Expertise (from back) = +1% hit, -1% Dodge
- Anonymous8:02 AM, May 07, 2008
Great thread. Just to clarify a couple of points above:-ReplyDelete
1. Haste rating increases your DPS by factoring down your weapon speed. You can see this on your melee abilities tab. (white damage range = weapon damage range plus AP/14 x BASE weapon speed).
Actual DPS = (min damage + max damage)/(2 x ACTUAL [i.e. haste rated] weapon speed). Thus the DPS from AP becomes AP*base speed/(14*actual speed).
2. 1% hit rating does not equal +1% hit, -1% miss. In fact it simply reduces the miss% by 1% and redistributes that percentage amongst all the other options (hit, crit, dodge, parry, block, glancing) according to the mob's attributes (i.e. whether it has a shield, whether you are behind it etc.)
- Anonymous8:05 PM, September 02, 2008
Um........ You left out a class there...ReplyDelete
- Anonymous8:06 PM, September 02, 2008
AUGH L2read >< "Hit Rating and Dual-Wielders"ReplyDelete
Nvm :P excuse the post above, gonna go get some coffee.


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Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 8:45 pm
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I always kind of liked them, even as a kid, though mostly because I could pick them apart and eat one leaf at a time... it was never quite the same, chewing on the whole thing. I'd definitely try them again now with a different recipe than just butter.
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Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 1:54 am
Post subject: You do "Cisco" Proud
Here in the Pacific NW, there is a local garden specialist, who has his own TV show (and books) called "Gardening With Cisco".
And Cisco's most favorite food in the whole universe is "Brussels Sprouts".
If you look him up, and his web sight, you will see zillions of recipes for these little gems.
I will try this recipe, as it sounds simple, elegant and delicious... and I must confess... (I am a brussels sprouts virgin!)
Thanks again.
Good stuff!!!
- TonyO
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Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 9:49 pm
Post subject: Oh Yeah!!!
This recipe rocks. I was looking for a new veggie to cook and found this recipe. I'm now picking up Brussels sprouts a couple of times a month, but a little less in the summer. Great winter veggie and a perfect accompaniment to a nice roast or grilled lamb.
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Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 12:23 am
Post subject: Preparing Srouts
A couple of suggestions:
I had sprouts at Cafe Marcella in Los Gatos, CA about a year ago prepared a way I had never had them. I have subsequently prepared them many times at home this way. Its a lot of work, but worth it. Prepare teh srouts by trimming and separating into individual leaves. This takes a lot of time! then heat a few tablespoons of olive oil in a skillet, toss in the sprouts, season with sea salt and pepper to taste and toss until done, usually a few minutes. The results are incredible.
Also, a traditional british way of serving them, which I like a lot, is to cook as in Michael's recipe and then toss with butter and freshly grated ( or jarred if you prefer ) horseradish. Not as good as the above, but very passable, although the "gas" factor is considerably enhanced even from regular sprouts.
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Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 1:41 pm
Post subject: A slight variation
My family likes the sprouts cut in half longitudinally and cooked in water until barely tender. While sprouts are cooking heat 1 to 2 tablespoons butter over medium heat until the milk solids begin to brown. Drain the sprouts, dump into the pan with brown butter, and toss with chopped toasted hazelnuts and additional salt (if necessary to taste).
We toast hazelnuts a couple of times a year, and keep them on hand in a airtight container in the freezer. It's easy to pull out what you need and chop them quickly to add a crunchy, nutty flavor to a range of foods. They last for several months left as intact, toasted halves.
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Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 12:47 pm
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I have an unproven theory that the world is sharply divided into those who like an those who dislike "Sprouts". This is one vegetable that needs to be properly cooked. Any rawness is unpleasant.
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Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 2:48 am
Post subject: Braising Brussels sprouts
Thank you for giving the braising recipe for Brussels sprouts, instead of boiling. If cabbage taste is too much for your family, add a chicken or vegetable boullion cube to the water. Only problem I've encounted in growing them in the Pacific Northwest (Everett, WA) is aphids. Cheaper to buy them instead of growing them here.
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Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 12:23 am
Post subject: Thank you: a few years late
I first tried Brussels Sprouts after seeing them here in this post and then subsequently at the farmers market that fall of 2005. I loved them and I have been pointed to other good recipes for them since, so that we cook them many different ways. I've converted other members of my family to liking them, to the point where my sister says they are her favorite vegetable.
This year, I was finally able to grow some in my own garden. Tonight we harvested them (though they're a bit small). You can see our harvest at
Thanks for your demystifying of Brussels Sprouts.
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Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 8:47 am
Post subject: Re: Thank you: a few years late
Emily wrote:
This year, I was finally able to grow some in my own garden. Tonight we harvested them (though they're a bit small). You can see our harvest at
Emily, that looks like an awesome harvest and I'm glad to have introduced you to brussels sprouts. Lately, I've taken to cutting them in half (top to stem) and browning them in the grease from a few slices of bacon until browned (about 5 minutes) and then adding a little water and putting the lid on for another 2 minutes. (Then I stirred in the chopped up cooked bacon.) Sometimes I'll add a little bit of apple cider vinegar (a combination that I love to do with savoy cabbage as well).
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Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 11:09 pm
Post subject: Braising
Doesn't sound like braising... sounds like par-boiling.
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Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 5:24 am
Post subject: Christmas Brussels sprout
I could eat a few sprouts when I was a kid and I discovered the ones that were brighter green tasted better (and I enjoyed eating them leaf by leaf too) All my kids liked them and so do my grandchildren. I think its how theyre cooked AND the attitude of the adult presenting new foods to the child "You must eat some of these!" vs "Oh looky, baby cabbages, yum!"
Here is a recipie from a cookbook long lost of holiday dishes needing only 3 ingredients. Ive had people who said they HATED them, now make this recipie for Christmas. They are very festive looking, red & green. I dont have the exact amounts (since the book is lost) but you can eyeball it, it's so simple. The absolute BEST way to eat B.sprouts I have ever had.
Christmas Brussels sprouts.
Aprox 1 lb Fresh sprouts, about a cup of dried cranberries (aka Craisins) salt & butter. Halve the sprouts through the stem, then lightly steam them in salted water just till bright green and remove from water. Then add the cranberries to the water for about 2 minutes and drain also. Combine sprouts & cranberries and saute in hot butter until lightly browned on edges. Salt to taste. Yum!
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Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 3:59 pm
Post subject: Partially cooked, then fried
Thanks for this post. Our current favorite method is a mix of this and that of some of your other commenters. Trim and halve the sprouts and microwave for roughly 2 minutes in a little bit of water (can also steam as you did). Heat olive oil in a large pan, saute some mashed garlic and red pepper flakes until the aromatics release their goodness, add the sprouts and saute until parts of the outside develop little browned spots. We actually fry for quite a while: the caramelized bits are sooo yummy!
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Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2008 4:49 pm
Post subject: Kids and Brussels Sprouts
I have always steamed my brussels and either served them cold as dipping vegetables or hot with stone ground mustard. When I went to get the cooked brussels out of the fridge for the Christmas buffet, I discovered that they were missing.
When questioned, my kids (6 year olds) told me they'd been hungry. In a house full of Christmas foods, they'd taken a bowl of cold brussels into their room and eaten then all.
I don't think I've been happier about making due with substitutes. And they didn't get sick (I was a little worried: they snacked on 1.5 pounds of sprouts.) Apparently, though, sprouts aren't just for grown ups.
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Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 2:50 am
Post subject: Braising
For an "analytical" site its weird you call these braised brussel sprouts.
Braised is a dry method and wet method combined. There's only a wet method described here.
I'd expect a better grasp of terms from an engineer; Rachal Ray shouldn't know more than you.
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Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2009 2:34 am
Post subject: Try them raw!
Sprouts are good raw. Seriously! Just wash em and eat em. They're not terribly bitter, crunchy like cabbage with a bit of bite to them.
Give it a try!
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Liberty News
Liberty mourns loss of former teacher Ruth Towns, wife of Elmer Towns
Ruth Towns, 80, a former teacher at Liberty University, died Wednesday, Dec. 11, after battling cancer for a number of years. For about 15 years she taught counseling and women's ministry classes in the School of Religion. She was the wife of Dr. Elmer Towns, former dean of Liberty University Baptist Theological Seminary and the School of Religion.
"Liberty University is deeply saddened by the loss of one of its most dedicated, loving family members. Ruth was a prayer warrior who loved Liberty and its students. She was a remarkable woman who displayed excellence in a number of capacities: as a wife, mother, grandmother, businesswoman, leader, and as an academic," said Dr. Ronald S. Godwin, Liberty's provost and senior vice president for Academic Affairs. "Her deep faith allowed her to face cancer and transition to her heavenly home with great fortitude."
Through Liberty Ruth Towns earned a B.S. in Church Ministry Education in 1985 and an M.A. in Counseling in 1989.
Dr. Elmer Towns, who co-founded the university with Dr. Jerry Falwell, Sr. in 1971, announced he was leaving for sabbatical in August.
A service celebrating Ruth Towns' life will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 14, at Thomas Road Baptist Church, Pate Chapel. Interment will follow at the Liberty University Founder's Circle. View her obituary for more information.


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conference in Washington July 26.
Bullard and every other speaker at
the Amphibious Operations Summit, sponsored by the Institute for Defense and
Government Advancement (IDGA), cautioned that
voices in Washington were calling for cuts in the
defense budget just as the Marine Corps needs to
replace aging assets, like amphibious assault vehicles
(AAVs), and refit other equipment worn down by nearly a decade of combat operations at an estimated cost
of $10.6 billion over the next two fiscal years.
Among the Marines' concerns is the shortage of amphibious ships. There are 31 in the Navy's inventory,
although many of the Marines at the Amphibious
Operations Summit — including Gen. James F. Amos,
the commandant — say it is more like 29 ships, when
one takes into account ships being decommissioned in
fiscal 2011.
Current Navy and Marine Corps force structure
planning calls for a minimum capability of being able
to deploy two Marine Expeditionary Brigades (MEBs)
simultaneously. In 2009, it was determined it would
take a total of 38 amphibious ships to support such
operations. Because of fiscal constraints, that number
was reduced to 33, Navy and Marine Corps officials
agreed in a Jan. 9, 2009, letter sent to the congressional
committees overseeing the military.
After a decade of war, the Marine Corps aims to go back to its
amphibious roots.
■ Combatant commanders around the globe have increased
their calls for forward deployed rapid response forces.
■ Since the end of the Cold War, the Marines have participated
in more than 100 amphibious operations, from disaster relief in
Haiti and Pakistan to evacuation of noncombatants from Liberia.
■ Marines are concerned that the Navy does not have enough large
amphibious ships to transport multiple expeditionary units.
After 10 years of fighting in the cities and esertsof Iraq and themountainsand valleys of Afghanistan, the U.S. Marine Corps is
going back to basics — revitalizing its capabilities for
amphibious operations.
Over the service's long history, Marine Corps leadershave been wary of the next politician or military plannerwho wants to drastically reduce or eliminate the Corps intimes of fiscal constraint. The Corps' leadership believesit is time to revisit and improve the execution of the coremission, forcible entry into dangerous or denied areasfrom the sea — or, as they put it, "amphibiosity."To bone up on the skills necessary to hit the beachin hostile territory, the Marine Corps is planning itslargest training exercise in a decade. Called BoldAlligator 2012, the operation — scheduled for Januaryand February along the Atlantic Coast of the UnitedStates — will test the Navy and Marine Corps' abilityto conduct prompt and sustained amphibious expedi-tionary operations from the sea.
"It is imperative that we not lose sight of the importance of this core competency, nor the fact that this
competency is, and always will be, a unique capability
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On Wednesday, April 18 dog owners and wine enthusiasts were united for the third annual Fine Wine and Canines at Royal Palm Place, benefiting People Reaching Out to Provide Education and Leadership (PROPEL).
More than 19 restaurants catered the dog-friendly event and attendees enjoyed an impressive selection of wine and cocktails, raffle giveaways and a costume competition…for the dogs.
Trish Plateroti, special events manager for Boca Raton's Blue Martini, was pleased to be participating in the family-oriented outing.
"We always do events that give back to the community because it's in our town; it's great to be out and about in the city," Plateroti said.
While many participants attended the event to support a worthwhile cause, others were simply out to enjoy themselves.
"I like wine and I like food and I like to be able to bring my dog," attendee Ladonna Sierra said.
Pets were treated to dog biscuits (no tricks required), but many canines attempted to steal appetizing entrees from their owner's plates.
However, it was the animals' attire that stole the show and really brought the fundraiser to life. Dogs could be seen in a variety of colorful clothing—from prisoner stripes to handmade, French lace dresses.
Pet owners were able enter their pooches in contests, including Cutest Dog, Friendliest Dog, Best Costume, Mr. Congeniality, Miss Congeniality and Longest Tail.
"We do a lot of 'look-a-like' and 'best dressed' contests and fashion shows," said Lois Weiss, the proud owner of the costume-clad Daphney [See photo above]. "Fashion shows are her favorite activity. She's rocking and rolling."
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An increase in the length of time specified in a contract.
A part constituting an addition or enlargement, as in an annex to a building or an extension to a house. Addition to existing facilities.
An allowance of additional time for the payment of debts. An agreement between a debtor and his or her creditors, by which they allow the debtor further time for the payment of liabilities. A creditor's indulgence by giving a debtor further time to pay an existing debt.
The word extension, when used in its proper and usual sense in connection with a lease, means a prolongation of the previous leasehold estate. The distinction between extension and renewal of lease is chiefly that, in the case of renewal, a new lease is requisite, while, in the case of extension, the same lease continues in force during an additional period upon performance of a stipulated act. An option for renewal implies giving a new lease on the same terms as those of an old lease, while an option for extension contemplates a Continuance of an old lease for a further period.
Request for additional time to file an income tax return beyond the due date.
n. granting of a specific amount of extra time to make a payment, file a legal document after the date due, or continue a lease after the original expiration of the term.
extension(Expansion), noun addition, amplification, augmentation, broadening, dilatation, dilation, distention, enlargement, growth, increase, innrease of size, increment, magnification, prolatio, spreading, stretching, supplementation, widening
extension(Postponement), noun abeyance, added time, additional time, adjournment, break, continuance, continuation, deferment, deferral, delay, extra time, further time, intermission, moratorium, more time, pause, recess, respite, rest, stall, stay, suspension, suspennion of activity, temporary stop, temporary suspension
Associated concepts: extension for good cause, extension of payment, extension of renewal of note, extension of time
See also: accession, accretion, addition, additive, adjournment, adjunct, advance, appendix, appurtenance, augmentation, boom, continuance, continuation, deferment, development, enlargement, growth, increase, increment, inflation, insertion, latitude, magnitude, offshoot, organ, rider, stress, survival
EXTENSION, comm. law. This term is applied among merchants to signify an
agreement made between a debtor and his creditors, by which the latter, in
order to enable the former, embarrassed in his circumstances, to retrieve
his standing, agree to wait for a definite length of time after their
several claims should become due and payable, before they will demand
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We can't leave, because if we leave we could lose our land.
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Visit Vocations Toronto at www.vocationstoronto.ca, a resourceful site in answering these questions.
We are invited to reflect on our own faith at this time of year. Do we
want great and marvelous actions from God or are we content with the small
touches of love that He normally gives to us? Do we give thanks each day
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Faith does not have to be some great effort on our part. It is simply
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to share His life. Okay, that is a fairly big step and lots of people
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Giving thanks should be part of our daily life as well. We don't have to
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This weekend Oh, Sugar! was hard at work putting together lots and lots of goodies for a super hero birthday for a darling four year old boy named Jett. Jett's mom needed dozens of cupcakes, cookies and a small smash cake. (Little did she know, I had a big surprise for her!) Jett's mom wasn't disappointed, and the goodies were a huge hit! Now go put on a cape and check out the pics of these heroic party treats. Enjoy!
Cookie platter.
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Love Superman's signature spit curl.
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Classic comic book sound effects.
Superman and Captain America symbols.
The birthday boy's name - super hero style.
J = Aquaman
T = The Hulk and Wonder Woman.
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Gotham cityscape candles.
The cupcakes! Your basic tasty chocolate cuppies with milk chocolate frosting got dressed up with wrappers made from actual comic books. That was an adventure in itself. I went to our local comic book shop for supplies and found out that all the stereotypes are true. Surly, 30-something dweebs with a lot of passive aggressive nerd-rage bubbling at the surface behind the counter offering up some AMAZING (ha) customer service. It was quite the cultural experience. I grabbed my comic books and ran home to cut them up, which I'm sure would not fly with the geek squad.
Happy birthday Jett!


text: Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums :: View topic - Teachers are like gases Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Teachers are like gases Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Opinions View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message rainbowsmileJoined: 01 Mar 2009Posts: 4Location: Taiwan Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 1:37 am Post subject: Teachers are like gases From kidergarten, elementary, junior high school, scenior high school, and university, I meet many teachers; therefore, I can classify them according to the way they teach students as gases like CO2, O2, CO. There is no doubt that inhaling to much CO2 will make people sleepy. Hence, teachers like CO2 means they simply teach students by speaking words on books; shortly, students will have a dream. This sort of teacher speak word after another on the textbook, and they even dont emphasize where the point is. Originally, students will pay attention to them, but after a while, they will feel bored, sleepy and then fall asleep. The kind of teachers dont mind students feeling of teaching way. They solely think they have done the well job of teaching, thinking students arent diligent. In contrast, O2 is a great gas that will make people feel energetic. Teachers of this kind are professional, and conscientious. They will teach the content of books in their unique way. They are familiar with the content in the books. As a result, they will teach vividly and keep students awake in whole class. Moreover, they will teach some principles about life and some experience they have learned. Students attend in this class will benefit a lot. The other type of teachers are like CO. CO is a poisonous gas that will make people die. Teachers of this sort refer to that they are unfamiliar with the content in the book. They dont prepare for the class, and they even teach wrong things.If students dont search information for themselves, they will take wrong contents real. It is a terrible learning way. Back to top LorikeetJoined: 08 Oct 2005Posts: 1877Location: San Francisco Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 5:16 pm Post subject: What a nice way to explain the different kinds of teachers! Back to top rainbowsmileJoined: 01 Mar 2009Posts: 4Location: Taiwan Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 5:14 am Post subject: Thank you! I am happy to see you responsed to my topic. Thank you! Back to top IbeLongtoMeJoined: 09 Dec 2004Posts: 7 Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 12:38 pm Post subject: INTERESTING TITLE Immediately, when i read the title of your post..i was already intrigued, when I read your explanation ( I am not sure if the nature of this topic is serious or whatnot ) but I laughed so hard at the CO teachers aka poisonous teachers. Brilliant!! Thank you for that! Back to top rainbowsmileJoined: 01 Mar 2009Posts: 4Location: Taiwan Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 5:42 am Post subject: Thank you! What a surprise! Your response encourages me; thanks. It's not a serious topic. I just write it for fun. Back to top nickalcJoined: 02 Jun 2011Posts: 17 Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2011 6:07 am Post subject: Unique and Brilliant! Back to top CoreyJoined: 23 Mar 2003Posts: 445Location: Costa Rica Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 9:24 am Post subject: To carry the metaphor... NO (laughing gas) - teachers who are funny_________________Niagara Summer Programs Back to top PeterAlexJoined: 31 Dec 2013Posts: 52Location: USA Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2014 4:23 am Post subject: Gas Laws demos are so fun and easy to do. This is where it all began for me back in my second year of teaching when I started using demos in my chemistry classes. I learned how to crush a can using a Bunsen burner and a bucket of ice; from that moment on I was hooked. Ever since that second year of teaching, I like to do âGas Laws Demo Dayâ to showcase several ways to see the relationships between temperature, pressure, and volume. It just so happens, by my good luck, that my new boss, Mr. Richards, decided to visit my class on Gas Laws Demo Day. 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However, your tip presents me with a dilemma because I am well known here for opposing new tips that rely on external sites. I have expressed my thoughts in the tips linking to external sites section on the May new tips page. There are lots of people with Vim information on their own web site, and I don't want to set a precedent that would encourage them to make a tip here that is little more than a link to that site (we've already deleted a couple of new tips of that nature).
I hope we'll find a way to allay my concerns while retaining your tip. We don't need to do anything quickly since it will take a few weeks to discuss the May new tips. I'm just welcoming you in somewhat of a back-handed fashion!
It would be great to get more opinions on the vim-l mailing list, so please consider joining (it's very low volume).
--JohnBeckett 08:27, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
This is an understandable position. I agree, that in general it is better if a tip is self-contained, but to follow that as a hard and fast rule all the way then the Vim wiki must also host downloads or reject any tips that require installing external tools. I think that the case for Twit is a different than someone creating an article that does little more than say "Check out the cool info I found on this site here." That clearly doesn't add much. On the other hand, I'm not sure how you would make a formal rule to distinguish the two. It seems like you have to judge on a case-by-case basis and decide which ones are appropriate and add to the Vim Wiki and which ones are noise.
The Twitter tip is not very elaborate to be sure But I think it is philosophically valid for the Vim Wiki. Some tips are valid yet do little more than make you aware of external tools and how they can be used in Vim. And if you are going to describe an external tool then surely you want to provide a link where the tool can be found and downloaded? In the case of the Twitter tip, the external link does little more than bring you to a download page. Otherwise, I'm not sure how you would handle this case within the Vim Wiki.
--Noahspurrier 21:21, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
I think we have good agreement. Just to clarify, I'm hoping we can work out some extra content for your tip (perhaps just a couple of paras) so I can feel it is consistent to keep your tip while brutally deleting others. For example, there would be many Vim users who had no idea that you could press a few keys in Vim to influence external apps – so the tip might start with a para introducing that fact. Also, I had no idea what Twitter was. A tip here should not take much time to introduce Twitter, but I think some explanation is required because IMHO each tip should start by briefly explaining what it actually does, and why you might want it.
Let's not say any more at the moment. I'd like to consolidate discussion on the May new tips page, but I don't want to do that until June. I have a script that creates the monthly new tips page, and if we get a couple more tips this month, I will have to manually weave our comments into the new page, so I'd prefer to wait until next week. --JohnBeckett 01:18, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Please check tip summary Edit
Hi Noah, I have put a summary of your proposed tip (see May 2008 new tips) on Vim scripts. The Main Page has a link to Vim scripts.
Please check what I have written. If there are any problems, edit the page, or let me know. Also, we need to decide what to do with the May new tips. If you have any opinions, please add them. If you think the tip you added should be kept (in addition to its summary), please expand the tip with some more generic information, along the lines previously discussed. Thanks! --JohnBeckett 06:01, 8 July 2008 (UTC)


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The design should also follow the 960 Grid System - http://960.gs/
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- Like the alternating dark brown / light layout in the left menu
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- Like the black Subscribe block as it is high contrast and draws attention
- Contrasting design makes it easy to distinguish elements
Do not want a copy of this website but we like the design elements in it.
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Cos it's coming up on that time of the semester. Another one for my students.
The non-religious viewpoint—that a moral sense evolves—
Raises up some thorny questions, while some others it resolves
The thing about selection that can give a fellow blindsight
Is that all success and failure is revealed to us in hindsight.
Predicting evolution is a right and awful mess,
Cos a change in the environment will influence success;
When selection pressures differ, they result in different features
In morphology, of course, and the behaviors seen in creatures
"Successful" might be bigger, might be smaller, might be smart
From a cuttlefish in hiding to a peacock's walking art
From the flora in intestines to domesticated cow
Each of these has been successful; only hindsight tells us how.
A selectionist analysis applies to culture, too—
There's variety apparent in the many things we do,
As we teach them to our children, replication of a sort
Differentially effective, when attempts may come up short.
When we ask the loaded questions, "What is moral? What is good?"
"Are there independent standards, what we shan't and what we should?"
As the most successful culture, it should fill us with delight—
We will always look behind us, saying what we did was right
What we did was good and moral, and the gods looked down and smiled;
Now it's thoroughly objective, and we teach to every child
All the Thou shall not's we followed, every moral, every rule,
As the basis of our culture, in the church and in the school
In the battles over culture, had another party won
Then morality, objectively, is what that group has done.
The moral code of conduct that determines saints and sinners
Is the product of selection, in the history of the winners
The rest of the lesson, in prose, after the jump:
Is there objective morality without God? No. The good news is, there is no objective morality with god, either. Come on, even if there were, how could we flawed humans recognize it without the possibility that we were being fooled? The same god that gets pointed to as the grand architect of good and evil, is the one who is on record as having fooled faithful believers in the past. If this god was the source of objective morality, we could never know it for certain.
An evolutionary view of morality, though, shows us that, for the most part, what is currently seen as moral in a given culture is what has led to the long-term success of that culture. Fortunately for us, that currently means usually being honest, not killing each other, doing unto others as we would have them do unto us, and the sort. We could do worse.
But just as a past selection pressure for, say, preferring fats and sugars has led to a current problem with weight, tooth decay, etc., when our current environment is vastly different from the one we evolved to fit, there is no guarantee that our current morality will be seen in the future as objectively good.
We are the lucky species who gets to view itself as the pinnacle of evolution (improperly, but understandably), ignoring the fact that there was no guarantee evolution would churn out something like us at all, and no guarantee we'll last as long as the dinosaurs did. The self-appointed arbiters of morality find themselves in the same position–on top, with no understanding that their position was never guaranteed or that their god may go the way of thousands of other obsolete gods.
For now, what is good is what has been good for the greatest number. To the extent that we can predict what will be looked back on as good, we know what we should do in order to be moral.
To the extent that we cannot know (and we cannot ultimately know, it being the future and all), we can take [very little] comfort in the knowledge that the gods don't know either. Oh, yeah, and in the long long long view, we all die, the planet vaporizes, and the universe suffers heat death, all in what would have been the first day of eternity.


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For fifteen years Libyans have asked what happened at Tripoli's notorious Abu Salim prison back in June 1996. Well, the ones we hear from in the West actually don't - by now anyway they all seem to know and agree on the answer: about 1,270 prisoners, a vast majority of all those incarcerated there, were killed in a single day, June 28. For merely protesting their conditions, it's being summarized now, the victims were reportedly massacred in their cells, with grenades and guns, on government orders.
The legend is amazingly similar to that of the Libyan uprising of this year, but in miniature, and with a more literal prison as opposed to the whole country framed as one to riot within. Little surprise that memories of the '96 massacre fueled the initial protests and uprising until fresher blood greased the slide into full-on civil war.
I'm not read up on this chapter of the regime's alleged history, but I have seen it brought into doubt and myself have serious doubts. I didn't immediately find a good article articulating them, but two have since surfaced. Thanks to reader Felix we have a pre-existing critique by Lou Paulsen, summarizing the evidence available earlier this year. It comes across as a rather unimpressive case. And then Martin Iqbal just now wrote a great article at Empire Strikes Black. This one is quite detailed and worth a read.
The main point throughout, whatever one makes of the evidence that some number of prisoner were killed, is that 1,270 is a hefty number with little to support it. It comes down to one man's telling of his own count of lunch trays: 1,500 a day before the massacre, 300 after. Massive transfers in the wake of the riot? Don't be silly - we can be quite sure just from that about a hundred dozen were fatally killed. The reason we can be so sure is it's a "Gaddafi crime," and those are always fair game, no matter how little sense they make.
Physically true or not, the new rebel government just on Sunday announced, rather dramatically, that they have found the prisoners' remains near the prison grounds. Closure seemed at hand. I've been off the news track acouple of days, and the first I heard of this development was from Martin Iqbal, with an earlier article: "NTC concocts mass grave story in brazen propaganda ploy"
In a piece posted today after a NTC news conference, the BBC uses the headline: "More than 1,200 bodies found in Tripoli mass grave". Categorically, absolutely, unequivocally, this is an out-and-out lie; 1,200 bodies have not been found. Not a single body has been found. In fact, no excavation has been performed, and no more than 'several bone fragments' have been discovered, according to the NTC.It's true - the report itself clarifies that "several bone fragments and pieces of clothing have already been found in the top soil," and the "mass grave" is only "believed to contain" the massacre's remains. But hey, what else would a "mass grave" contain aside from some number of bodies? Excavation, expected soon, was apparently believed to be certain to reaffirm that hunch, or else the BBC wouldn't be so bold as to state the bodies had been found.
Mr. Iqbal calls this "an out-and-out lie," even adding three further adverbs for emphasis. But the editors, if pressed to describe the type of misinformation they published, would surely prefer the term "a grammatical inaccuracy." It should have read "more than 1,200 bodies surmised to be in the ground..." or perhaps even "possible mass grave located..." They implicitly apologize for the poor choice of words which served, accidentally, to vilify the regime we just bombed into the dirt and to justify an otherwise questionable and highly illegal operation.
Doubts aside, these upper traces were just the tip of the iceberg, the rebel leadership and the BBC's editors said they believed. The bodies apparently ground and mulched into the soil so some bits could be found way up on the surface. If so, a quick dig should turn up more fragments, and we should expect a little bit of verification soon.
The Guardian reports:
Libyan revolutionary authorities have reported the discovery of a mass grave containing the remains of 1,270 inmatesThis has the find coming in mid-September, from extracted leads. But CNN also reported on this and found "the Tripoli site was located by revolutionaries on August 20, said Kamal el Sherif, a member of a National Transitional Council committee." Members of the same committee give two different find dates, one of them days before rebels controlled the area in question. Odd.
The announcement was made on Sunday by Ibrahim Abu Sahima of the government committee overseeing the search for victims of the former regime.
He said investigators found the grave two weeks ago after receiving information from captured regime officials and witnesses.
Either way, this esteemed body of level-headed detectives had a month to poke around, look at the bones, think about the whole thing, maybe even dig deeper in spots. Whatever they found, it led them to finally decided this was pretty solid. And so they called a press conference to tell the whole world the amazing news, as Mr. Sherif put it in an Associated Press piece "We have discovered the truth about what the Libyan people have been waiting for many years, and it is the bodies and remains of the Abu Salim massacre." They also took the chance to clarify the remaining challenges. As CNN reported:
"There is a lot more to be done to reach the actual truth of this massacre," said Dr. Salem Fergani, a committee member. "To be honest, we were not prepared to deal with such human massacres, so we request the assistance of the international community. We need specialists in the field to help us in identifying the victims ... this is a national mission. The families of these victims have the right to learn the truth about their deceased sons."It's very scientific work, most likely involving digging, laying out bones without mixing remains, and having family members look at them and say yes, that's my son. The confirming records will all be destroyed, but he'll have been arrested for nothing worse than "not liking Gaddafi," or perhaps "praying too much," and then killed for only daring to speak up.
It could take years to identify all the bodies through DNA, Fergani said Sunday.
Any of their bodies purportedly found - here or anywhere - ideally should be aged accurately by pure scientists. Luckily 15 years ago vs. the last few weeks is a clear enough difference to be sure the crime happened under the Gaddafi regime anyway, as opposed to the mass-grave generators of late, the chaotic new NATO rebel regime.
But such detailed considerations might be moot here as the musty smell of a dead end gets nearer: CNN actually added something useful this time - a preliminary expert opinion:
It was unclear, however, whether the site actually was a mass grave, as no excavation has taken place. Members of the media were shown bones at the site, but medics with CNN staffers on the scene said the bones did not appear to be human.Is that why Dr. Ferghani emphasized this as a "human massacre?" This might be a good place to stop and laugh, but their expert could be wrong. For example, maybe Libyans are just built different. The rebel guys - including Dr. Ferghani (clearly a smart guy of some stripe) - were all pretty sure, even after a month's reflection, that these bones their captives led them to were the right ones.
|Some of the bones in question, for anyone who
wants to see for themselves. Source.
If this turns out to be the case, well, the shocking news has already gone out to the world and the murmured or nonexistent retractions won't be enough to correct that defect in most peoples' minds. Already we had 1,200 more victims found, and people will be allowed to keep that hinted closure. After all, it seems like re-affirmation of the justness of the war, by reality itself, for the 500th time, as if reality itself were somewhat insecure about the whole deal.
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The Utility of Misleading Headlines
Here are a few instructive comments from an example run by the Huffington Post: "Libya Mass Grave: Tripoli Site Contained 1,270 Bodies from 1996 Massacre."
12:58 PM on 9/26/2011
So let me get this straight:
A "muddy field that contained animal bones"
"no human remains have been found"
morphs into
"NTC suspect is a mass grave"
which is
"believed to hold the remains of 1,270 inmates" ....
....and this become a Huffpost Headine that reads:
********** *****
This is not journalism .
Animal bones do not equal 1,270 bodies
Some earlier comments are, collectively, more amusing.
04:26 AM on 9/26/2011
Headline: "Libya Mass Grave: Tripoli Site Contained 1,270 Bodies From 1996 Massacre"
None of this is confirmed at all. They don't know how many remains are there. They don't know if these are victims of the 1996 events at Abu Salim.
But this kind of reporting serves a purpose.
Indeed. One rebel-supporter's response to this comment shows the purpose of these widespread grammatical inaccuracies upon the lazy of mind:
lawrence of america
01:04 PM on 9/26/2011
01:04 PM on 9/26/2011
explain then why, in a 99.999% muslim country, where the rule is to get a corpse into his own grave after ritual cleaning is soooo very important, there just happens to be a random mass grave with almost the exact number of bodies as was accused to have been killed at bu slaim prison massacre.
Yeah, how you esplain that, smar' guy?
One of the more interesting pieces came about three days before the NTC announcement. It was Human Rights Watch whose 2006 report on a couple of witness' stories basically created the Abu Salim prison massacre story we know (Libyans have only been protesting about the 1,200 dead -or 33 dead, see comments - since 2008). They mentioned their baby again prophetically after the recent slew of Tripoli mass graves. On September 22, they were concerned with the dangers of improper exhumations being done all over the capitol:
In addition to grave sites holding people killed during the six-month conflict, other sites relating to pre-conflict incidents are also at risk. These may include the graves of an estimated 1,200 prisoners killed in the Abu Salim prison massacre in 1996, whose remains were never returned to their families.
"Oh, hey, that's right!" someone said that day. Three days later they made it official - the HRW prediction had come "true."
A BBC follow-up adds little except a less grammatically misleading title "Libyan 'prison massacre grave' revives painful memories." It still fails to acknowledge any questions over the grave, or the massacre story itself. Many others picked up the story, the vast majority following suit and presenting this as either certainly or most likely the grave of at least some human victims
Ony a CNN follow-up expands on the CNN-infused notion of non-human bones, this time supported by an NTC official, this time "hedging their claim," if a little late.
"Some investigations have been conducted on this mass grave specifically, and there has been no conclusion yet," said Jamal Ben Noor, a senior official with the Justice and Human Rights Ministry. Ben Noor said the site reported behind Abu Salim prison in Tripoli "could be something else," because the bones found here are bigger than normal human remains.I thought they looked relatively humanoid, and about the right size, or even a bit small (aside from that molar - it looks big to me), but I don't know bones. I call a non-carnivorous mammal of decent size. There's video there of the site, just a short chunk of raw footage. It shows severalof the bone fragments, very old tin cans, glass jars, and other less identifiable junk, besides the clothes, and even bone wrapped in rope we've now heard of. The clothing does seem to have possible blood stains - random locals show it off, with no investigative control of the site or anything.
a CNN team that was brought to the muddy field with other news outlets found only what appeared to be animal bones.
On the 26th, Human Rights Watch reiterated its warning to do nothing with the mass graves - this one in particular - to avoid messing up important evidence. By the 28th, the NTC said the area was un-dug and heavily guarded. The field of apparent animal bones under control, rebel diggers started working on exposing a grave near the Rixos hotel, perhaps to destroy clues as per the warning.
I predict a very slow response to the alleged grave of 1,270, citing expert caution as the reason to delay finding there's no such thing there.
News 24 mentions the doubts as more than half its story Libya mass grave still in doubt.
Libya's new regime must still confirm that a site discovered in Tripoli this week is a mass grave containing the remains of more than 1 700 prisoners executed in 1996, a National Transitional Council official said on Tuesday.Yeah, about that... ideally, it's done before one goes to the world loudly proclaiming that it is in fact a mass grave, and one expected to match the tally of one witness' alleged count of lunch trays.
"I cannot guarantee 100% that there is a mass grave there... But we have found human remains, I have no doubt, I have found them myself," Salim al-Serjani, the deputy head of the NTC's committee for missing persons, told AFP.
NTC officials announced on Sunday that they had found a mass grave at the site containing the bodies of people killed at Tripoli's notorious Abu Salim jail.
Reports have since emerged questioning the veracity of the claim and noting that some of the remains appeared to be from animals.
Serjani said it was too early to be certain what had been buried at the site.
"It needs much more investigation; more time needs to be spent to determine if it is a mass grave," he said.


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Race to tweet Boston Marathon news first hurt readers' trust
Following me on Twitter (@denpostdana) is basically like sitting next to me in the office, but with less sarcasm and profanity. You'll get tips to news stories produced by The Post, links to things that amuse me, pictures of my dogs and garden and the weather, and occasionally "live" tweet streams of press conferences from major local news.
Some days I'm more active than others, like when big national news is breaking.
But Wednesday, when it seemed there was a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing in custody, I pretty much pushed the keyboard away and hid my smart phone after retweeting an @AP item citing law enforcement sources saying an arrest was imminent, and then 50 minutes later, items from @Boston_Police and @BostonGlobe saying it was not true.
Almost as soon as I pushed send on the first retweet, the chatter became too hot and too conflicted. Top-shelf networks anchors were not in agreement. Seriously seasoned reporters from Boston's local TV stations fanned the e-chaos with reports from the federal courthouse that described — in 140 characters or less — security massing that could only mean that federal marshals were bringing in someone responsible for the horrific finish-line attack.