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Topic: Fan Fic: Destination Unknown
Here's the start of my latest story, hope you enjoy it:
Slippery fingers gripped desperately to hold onto the rusting metal ladder rung. Finger nails dug hard dislodging the flakes of rust. Rain splattered on the ladder as Ellen Pointer tried to claw her way up. She had to get away, certain death lay below. "Climb damn it!†she cursed at herself.
The beast below salivated anxiously hoping that its constant battering to the bottom of ladder would dislodge Ellen's hold and it could tear into her flesh. "Not happening on my watch buddy!†Ellen shouted in defiance.
A tan coloured boot got some traction and Ellen boosted herself upward to the next rung. Her wet hand outstretched to grab the next deteriorating rung only a gloved hand reached out to meet hers.
Ellen tore her gaze away from her next move to look up at the owner of the hand, "Boba Fett?†she said with a squeak and almost lost her hold.
"The one and only,†Fett answered as rain drops pooled and ran down the indentations of his T-shaped visor.
Ellen suddenly wondered if she was better off facing the beast below. "Why are you here?â€Â
Elusive as ever Fett merely said, "Take my hand.â€Â
A snarl from below made Ellen's decision easy. She reached up and took Fett's gloved hand. He surprised her by pulling her up the last few rungs with relative ease. It seemed he was stronger than he appeared.
The sound of ominous booing filled the air. Ellen had almost forgotten that she was in a private arena.
"We need to move, now!†Fett instructed with just the right amount of force.
Ellen got her legs moving, walking seemed so foreign after scaling an extremely high ladder. Ellen took deep breaths letting her lungs fill as she ignored the increasing rain. Her eyes trained on Fett who led the way, to where she had no idea. But now was not the time to question.
Fett rounded a corner and Ellen followed only to smack straight into the metal jetpack. Fett had stopped for some reason and he had his blaster trained on something. Ellen peered over his shoulder to see Bossk. "Crap,†Ellen muttered.
Fett said nothing but Ellen was certain from his faint body language that he agreed with her. However his interpretation was probably along different lines.
"Fett,†Bossk hissed with distinct venom in his voice.
"Bossk,†Fett replied and Ellen could swear she heard the fainted trace of amused sarcasm in his tone.
IG-88 emerged from somewhere to the side of Bossk. Fett tilted his helmet to study the new threat. "I see you are keeping company that is also lacking brains,†Fett commented scathingly to Bossk.
"My neural processor is sufficient,†IG-88 informed Fett as he lifted his weapon.
Fett answered with his blaster and neatly scored a shot to IG-88's left leg. Bossk immediately charged towards Fett blaster firing wildly.
Fett was cool finesse as he calculated a shot carefully which scoured Bossk's scaly ankle. The Trandoshan continued to run but not nearly as nimbly. Fett then turned to counter IG-88 who managed to score a hit to Fett's battered chest-plate. Fett stepped back from the impact and quickly returned the shot to IG-88's photo receptor.
Bossk launched himself at Fett however the armoured bounty hunter was prepared for the move and shifted the butt of hit blaster rifle so it smacked the Trandoshan squarely in the face.
Ellen could see the blood pooling between Bossk's sharp teeth. The Trandoshan stood, fury burning deeply in his eyes. "I'm going to rip out your spleen and shove it down your throat!†Bossk threatened.
Fett swung his blaster rifle so the butt slammed into Bossk's mid-section. The Fett brought a sharp elbow into the Transdoshan's scaly head. Fett twisted the blaster around in his hands and hit Bossk with a stun blast. Bossk fell to the ground landing on Fett's right foot, his taloned hand snagging on Fett's knee protector. Fett kicked him off sharply as if Bossk's very touch offended him.
"Stun? Why only stun?†Ellen asked with confusion.
Fett looked at her for a moment then reached for her shirt sleeve as he moved forward again.
"What's going on?†Ellen asked, "Last time I checked there was no bounty on my head.â€Â
"You're worth something,†Fett commented cryptically as he hauled her aboard Slave I. He shoved her into a holding cell and disappeared into the cockpit.
Ellen stood rubbing her arms with her hands. She was dripping wet and she was starting to shiver. She moved to sit in the corner of the cell and pulled her legs close to her body in an attempt to warm up. Her teeth chattered violently as Slave I launched into the sky.
It was like thousands of voices cried out for a sequel and were suddenly silenced...


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CANNES, France - The Associated Press is all over the Cannes Film Festival — from its glitzy premieres to the celeb parties and quirky moments in between. Here's what reporters have seen and heard:
CANNES, France — Ivory-skinned, red-head beauty Jessica Chastain looked like an ethereal Roman goddess for the "Foxcatcher" premiere at Cannes in a gown by Elie Saab.
The asymmetrical, one-shoulder, silk couture gown — in on-trend purple — fluttered and turned elemental as the French Riviera wind picked up, showing off the beauty of the delicate ruffles.
Taken from the haute couture spring-summer 2014, Lebanese designer Saab shows he's lost none of his talent with the va-va-voom traffic stoppers. And Chastain worked the carpet — and the wind — with grace.
— Thomas Adamson — http://twitter.com/ThomasAdamsonAP
Robert Pattinson is making quite a surprising reputation for himself — as the actor who has sex with older women in cars on film.
The 28-year-old star plays Jerome, a chauffeur and would-be actor, in David Cronenberg's latest film "Maps to the Stars," which premiered Monday at Cannes. In it, he has a romp with the desperate Julianne Moore character in a car.
And it comes just two years after he filmed a sex scene with the 50-year-old Juliette Binoche in a limousine in Cronenberg's last film "Cosmopolis."
Quizzed by journalists on the dubious habit, he rated the respective performance of his co-stars.
"Both(are) like 7s. I'm joking. Obviously Julianne. It was a wonderful experience. It was extremely sweaty," he said.
"It's sublime," retorted Moore, 53.
As for Cronenberg, he said the reason why he's included automotive sex scenes in his films is simple — it happens.
"There's an entire generation of Americans who have been spawned in the backseat of 1974 Fords. It's not like I invented Sex in cars. You have to remember that that part of the sexual revolution came about because of the automobile, because of the fact that young people could get away from their parents from being supervised and that was freedom," he said. "So I don't think I'm breaking any new territory when there's a scene of people having sex in cars. I mean why wouldn't you? I mean, there are so many great cars around."
— Thomas Adamson — http://twitter.com/ThomasAdamsonAP
A stiff breeze made conditions challenging for the glamour girls walking the Cannes red carpet Monday.
Jessica Chastain came to the "Foxcatcher" premiere in a flowing purple gown, but it flowed more than she liked in the wind. She had to use her hands to hold down the one-shoulder dress, with its leg-baring slit, to prevent it from becoming even more revealing.
Singer Cheryl Cole faced similar struggles with her sumptuous black dress, which was above the knee in front with a long train attached.
Monday's weather offered a cool departure from the radiant sun and warmth that previously blessed the festival. Beneath gloomy skies, it rained sporadically all day.
— Nekesa Mumbi Moody — http://www.twitter.com/nekesamumbi
Viggo Mortensen's Cannes film "Juaja" was made by an Argentinian but partly in Danish — which presented some interesting challenges for the Danish-American actor.
"(It's) kind of strange: I would have thought it would be in Denmark where I work in Danish first," he quipped in an interview Monday.
In the experimental film, directed by Lisandro Alonso and written by Fabian Casas, Mortensen plays a 19th century captain searching for a mythical land in Patagonia. The actor says he chose the project because he was impressed director's previous films, including "Los Muertos" and "Liverpool."
Even though Mortensen spent the first 10 years of his life in Argentina, he still needed to be careful to make sure he didn't mess up linguistically.
"It was a tall order in some ways, making sure the translation in Danish of the Argentine dialogue, Spanish dialogue, retained the poetry of Fabian's writing and the ideas behind it, you know, the sort of existential side of things, and the humour," he said.
"But it ended up being not such a hard thing and in a way it's funnier than what they wrote, because there's a particular sort of irony in Danish humour and sort of physical humour also that the Danes are really going to get — more so than other people because it's very particular," he added.
Besides acting in the film, Mortensen also did the music for it.
— By Nicki Finlay and Thomas Adamson
Abel Ferrara's "Welcome to New York" seemed like a natural for the Cannes Film Festival: It stars one of France's most respected actors and it's loosely based one of the country's biggest recent scandals.
But the Gerard Depardieu film, inspired by the Dominique Strauss-Kahn's saga, isn't competing here. Its director says that doesn't matter, since Cannes crowds were able to see it anyway.
"They've got 35 other movies they would rather show. Show it. They own the festival, we got the street. You know, rent a theatre, put it in a theatre, see who's where, you know. It's not that important," Ferrara said in an interview Monday. "We are here with everybody else."
The movie premiered in the French Riviera city Saturday night. It chronicles an unrepentant sex addict who handles billions of dollars a day and commits a sexual assault on a hotel maid following an orgy.
Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund, was accused in 2011 of sexually assaulting a New York hotel employee. Charges were dropped and he reached an out-of-court settlement with the woman.
Strauss-Kahn is charged with aggravated pimping in a separate case in France.
Although the film comes with a disclaimer, Strauss-Kahn's lawyer has threatened a lawsuit. Ferrara is unconcerned.
"I'm an artist and we are talking (in the movie) about power and greed and corruptible deeds," he said. "What, is he the first guy that ever did this? You know, come on, he thinks everything is about him? So let him think it."
— Adam Egan — http://www.twitter.com/adamegan
"I have so much respect for Christopher Nolan, I just never would want him to be disappointed in me. It would feel like your dad or someone like a professor you really respect. For them to say, 'I'm really disappointed,' it would be the worst thing they could say. So I've been very, very good about being as secretive as possible. I think it's amazing. I think it's very emotional and warm and it will surprise people because it's more than a science-fiction film. It's very, very deep." — Jessica Chastain, in town for her movie "The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby." She's starring in this fall's hotly anticipated "Interstellar," directed by the Oscar-nominated Nolan.
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Alfalfa growers need to be on the lookout for weevils in their fields as temperatures rise.
Alfalfa weevil is an insect pest that can cause damage ranging from light and non-economic defoliation to devastation of first-cut alfalfa. Populations and feeding damage increase as temperatures rise in the spring, which means the pest is more prevalent early on in sand soils and south-facing slopes that heat up more quickly.
Purdue Extension entomologists Christian Krupke and John Obermeyer said now is the time to get out into the fields to look for alfalfa weevil. They offered some tips for growers.
"Sampling an alfalfa field to determine the extent of alfalfa weevil damage and average stage of weevil development is best accomplished by walking through the field in an M-shaped pattern," Krupke said. "Ten alfalfa stems should be examined in each of five representative areas of the field for a total of 50 stems from the entire field."
Growers should examine each stem for:
- Evidence of tip feeding by alfalfa weevil larvae.
- Maturity of the stem: pre-bud, bud or flowers.
- Stem length.
- The average length of alfalfa larvae.
Obermeyer said that while large alfalfa larvae are relatively easy to see, small larvae aren't. That means growers should closely examine leaves for pinhole feeding, small black fecal pellets and small off-white larvae. If feeding is noticed, alfalfa weevils are the culprit; there are few other pests of alfalfa this early in the season.
If growers find alfalfa weevils, they will need to determine whether a rescue treatment is warranted. They can make that decision by looking at the number of weevils found and the size of the alfalfa plants.
The economic threshold is typically one or more large larva per stem on alfalfa that is 12 inches tall or less. In alfalfa 12 inches to 16 inches tall, the treatment threshold is 2-4 larvae per stem.
Another option, depending on the timing and severity of feeding damage, is to cut alfalfa a few days earlier than planned.
Obermeyer created a video of Krupke demonstrating how to scout for alfalfa weevil. It's available in the latest edition of Purdue Extension's Pest and Crop Newsletter.
Source: Purdue Extension


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Hundreds rally in Portland for immigration reform
Ralliers march from Lincoln Park to Monument Square
Hundreds of people gathered in Portland's Monument Square on Wednesday rallying for immigration reform.
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"These are people who want to contribute to the American society, and many of them do," march attendee Sister Patricia Pora said.
People from across southern Maine traveled to Portland, carrying signs and asking for Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King to support immigration reform.
"Really, the focus is making sure we have a system that works for everybody, because the system is exceptionally broken right now," reform supporter Kevin Simowitz said.
The march began in Lincoln Park and people walked half a mile to Monument Square.
There, several people told first-hand experiences of what they called the nation's broken immigration system.
Elbin Arevalo said he spent seven months detained by immigration officials while trying to get his degree from SMCC.
"When I was detained, I thought all my dreams had gone," Arevalo said.
Arevalo said he just wants his chance in America.
"We are part of this country, and we are trying to be a part of the improvement of this country," he said.
Not everyone agreed with the movement for change.
"America, it's a great country, and I understand their need to come here, but there's a process. This is a sovereign nation with sovereign borders, and they must be respected. You can't bend one law and break another. A law's a law, and if you're breaking the law, it's illegal," John Ziebell said.


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I don't care that you now need the test (which I ordered 6 months ago) urgently because your insurance is changing, or because you finally met your deductible, or you just looked at a calender for the first time in 6 months and had forgotten December is the last month of the year, OR WHATEVER.
These are not tests you can generally get Bozo Insurance, Inc. to authorize and schedule in under a week, let alone a few days.
And the auth department at Bozo Insurance, Inc. is running half-staffed right now so their people can go on vacation, or get their tests done, or whatever. So auths are slow right now.
A lack of preparation on your part does not constitute an emergency on ours.
And don't give me the line about how you had no idea the end of the year was coming, either.
Yours truly,
Dr. Grumpy.


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Criminals seem to already be aware that they need an iPhone. According to a U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency document, the agency can't seem to trace encrypted iMessages, according to reports.
The news came from a DEA memo obtained by CNET, which said that it couldn't track and trace iMessage text messages between iPhones. However, it sometimes could see text messages sent to non-iPhones -- seemingly making the case for all drug dealers and criminals to use the system. "IMessages between two Apple devices are considered encrypted communication and cannot be intercepted, regardless of the cell phone service provider," according to the memo.
While the DEA declined to comment on the memo, investigators only discovered last month they couldn't be cracked. The reason? Because they thought they had the phone records of the texts only to find that only non-iMessage texts can be downloaded from an iPhone. The iMessages are heavily encrypted and not accessible. And if the phones are password protected, they are also set to wipe their memories after a set of failed logins, according to CNN.
So, if you want a phone that is safe from Big Brother, keep it to iMessages only to other iPhones and who knows? You might be able to get away with murder.


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January 2018
Recent Releases
Present at the Creation: My Life in the NFL and the Rise of America's Game
Upton Bell
What it is:
the memoir of a man who grew up with professional football.
Why you might like it:
Upton Bell's father was Bert Bell, the legendary NFL Commissioner who propelled football's popularity just after World War II. Bell himself was the youngest general manager ever hired, for the New England Patriots, before becoming a journalist.
Why you might like it:
Football fans will devour Bell's insider view of significant events in the NFL's history.
Gold Dust Woman: A Biography of Stevie Nicks
Stephen Davis
What's inside:
This unauthorized biography pulls from interviews with singer-songwriter Stevie Nicks as well as her friends, family, and others in the music industry. Ordered chronologically, it traces Nicks' upbringing, her path to Fleetwood Mac, and her creation of a solo career.
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the oral history
Fleetwood Mac on Fleetwood Mac
Reviewers say:
"All you ever wanted to know about Fleetwood Mac's mesmerizing frontwoman" (
People Magazine
Hank and Jim: The Fifty-Year Friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart
Scott Eyman
What it is:
A sweeping, entertaining dual biography that explores the steady, close friendship between actors Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart, which lasted close to 50 years despite their considerable differences.
Further reading:
For another long-time Hollywood friendship, try Daniel De Vise's
Andy and Don
(about Andy Griffith and Don Knotts)
For more on Henry Fonda, go with Devin McKinney's
The Man Who Saw a Ghost
; for Jimmy Stewart, try Marc Eliot's eponymous biography.
Fifty Years of 60 Minutes: The Inside Story of Television's Most Influential News Broadcast
Jeff Fager
What it is:
insider accounts of the making of
60 Minutes
, published to coincide with the show's 50th anniversary -- making it the longest-running news show on television.
Don't miss:
Executive producer
Jeff Fager's portrayals not just of founder Don Hewitt and famed correspondent Mike Wallace, but the producers who worked so hard behind the scenes.
The First Major: The Inside Story of the 2016 Ryder Cup
John Feinstein
What it's about:
The Ryder Cup is one of the few team-based championships in golf, a sport that usually focuses on individual players. In 2016, the American team won in a dramatic, hard-fought battle that ended an eight-year losing streak.
Why you might like it:
Providing plenty of backstory -- both about the Cup and the players -- sportswriter John Feinstein once again provides an exciting, insightful account of the sport he loves.
Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches
John Hodgman
What it is:
offbeat and self-deprecating essays from a rueful middle-aged man with a well-developed funny bone. The ups and downs of summers in Massachusetts and Maine provide plenty of fodder.
Why you might like it:
you love actor and writer John Hodgman, enjoy hearing about travel disasters, or don't always care for all the responsibilities of adulthood -- even if it's a pretty privileged one.
The Mother of Black Hollywood: A Memoir
Jenifer Lewis
What it is:
an uplifting account of actress Jenifer Lewis' childhood, career trajectory, love affairs, and struggles with mental illness.
About the author:
Currently appearing in the television show
, Lewis is known for portraying mothers (hence the title), and writes with both humor and honesty.
For fans of:
Lewis herself, of course -- but also anyone who appreciates candid, frank stories of women who have overcome obstacles on their way to success.
Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News
Kevin Young
What it's about:
Tracing the history of American hoaxes and humbugs from the days of P.T. Barnum to the frauds and flimflammery of today,
is an illuminating exploration of the roles of stereotype, suspicion, and prejudice as factors that shape and support fraudulent activities.
Why you might like it:
You want to understand Rachel Dolezal, James Frey, Lance Armstrong, and others with a flexible definition of the truth.
Book buzz:
With "fake news" now a buzzword, this National Book Award longlisted title seems to have been published at
the right time.
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"My position is that if you are a politician or a celebrity, you're making a choice to live your life in the public arena. And when you're a public figure, you need to be prepared for the public's talking about you. … In my own subservient way, whether people agree with me or not, I'm trying to make the world a better place."
"Seriously, this is sad. Do you really believe you're some kind of Rosa Parks of the gay movement? … You forcing people out of the closet isn't heroic, in fact, you're just as bad as the people who want to force gays and lesbians to stay in the closet!"
Perez Hilton, the gay blogger whose real name is Mario Lavandeira, is trying to better the world for his queer brothers and sisters. His endeavor is noble. The world could certainly use a big, gay makeover with regard to the treatment of gays and lesbians. In some countries, such as Iran, gay men are routinely executed.
But does his digitally drawn dribble of semen on Clay Aiken's face really make a positive, global impact on those who refuse to see the rainbow light? Or do Hilton's shock-and-awe outing methods merely reinforce the stereotypical belief that queers are selfish, spiteful folks who live and play in an outhouse?
I doubt that anyone, including Hilton, believes he has the power to transform the world. But I don't doubt that the 28-year-old Cuban American has power, because he is already abusing it. And like the most notorious abusers, he mistreats under the guise of benevolence.
In his efforts to get the closeted in Hollywood to come out and pave a Great Gay Way for others, Hilton humiliates while dishing the daily dirt in his popular blog, PerezHilton.com. Along with the more-often-crude-than-not commentary on his favorite and not-so-favorite celebs, he posts pictures (some of which he's been accused of stealing) that he's digitally doctored. He routinely draws beards on photos of the wives of actors whom he suspects are gay. And on the actors themselves he simply scrawls, "I'm gay." Sometimes he writes those words on an actor's crotch.
To the actresses he believes are lesbians, Hilton is somewhat kinder. He's also much less prolific. But I sense that's just because he's too busy reporting that Lindsay Lohan cuts herself and Britney Spears doesn't wear underwear. Unfortunately for Jodie Foster and Cydney Bernard this week, however, Hilton must have some time on his hands. On Monday he asked readers to choose nicknames for the pair. Choices include "Dirty Barnyard Dykes" and "Silence of the Clams."
No one would call Hilton mature or gracious, that's for sure. His scribbles and frequently vulgar prose suggest that he's rather childish and bitter. Sill, if you haven't yet been to his site, it's likely that you'll be amused on your first visit. I was; his gall is initially hilarious and somewhat freeing. But if you're anything like me, you'll find his act similar to that of a comic who demeans and insults for laughs because that's all he's got. You'll tire of it quickly, because the absence of proper wit on his blog is as apparent as the presence of hostility.
While there's no law demanding that gay gossip columnists be clever and have at least some decorum, there should be a law preventing gossipers from reinforcing the timeworn stereotype that gay men are pissy queens who'd rather demean others than say anything nice. OK, maybe not a law, but at least a loud, collective, "Knock it off, already!" from the gay community.
Still, it's not Hilton's clichéd persona that most troubling, it's his uncommon methodology. And that presents a dilemma for some queers. Is he an effective enough advocate for coming-out that we should applaud his vile vigor?
Hilton obviously thinks so.
It might be just coincidence that Lance Bass, T.R. Knight and Neil Patrick Harris, all targets of Hilton's vituperation, came out publicly this year, but just in case it's not, Hilton used Harris's coming-out to lead a queer cheer and issue a gay fatwa of sorts.
On Nov. 3, he wrote:
Hilton then listed 10 celebrities he was "talking to": two women and eight men. He didn't list the lawmakers or right-wing lobbyists we all suspect are gay, just the usual Tinseltown suspects — people who have very little or no effect on public policy, but a huge effect on how much popcorn we all eat.
If Perez Hilton wants to be our knight in shining armor, he should stop looking for the Loch Ness monster in an aquarium, and work harder to gain our respect as both a journalist and a cultural attaché. But respect doesn't seem to be something he's interested in.
Hilton is no Liz Smith, that's for sure, and he does a very poor impersonation of a diplomat. He isn't interested in behaving tastefully or tactfully, respecting anyone's right to privacy, or even in being admired; he wants to be feared, and he wants to be rich. And he's reached those goals in a very short time.


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The phone lines are closed, the votes are in and a team of highly dedicated professionals have been counting them round the clock. georgeweahscousin.com is proud to announce the winners of the inaugural 2011/2012 end of season awards!
Player of the Year
Received Votes:- Morgan Schneiderlin, Jack Cork, Frazer Richardson, Danny Fox, Kelvin Davis, Aaron Martin.
3rd:- Jos Hooiveld.
2nd:- Adam Lallana.
And the winner, capping off an amazing season, the Championship top goalscorer Rickie Lambert!
Most Improved Player
Received Votes:- Adam Lallana, Jos Hooiveld, Billy Sharp, Rickie Lambert, Danny Fox, Kelvin Davis, Danny Butterfield, Guly Do Prado, Dean Hammond, Aaron Martin, Jose Fonte, Richard Chaplow.
3rd Place:- Jack Cork.
2nd Place:- Frazer Richardson.
And the winner, whose importance to the side was shown when he was out injured for a while Morgan Schneiderlin!
Unsung Hero
Received Votes:- Jos Hooiveld, Billy Sharp, Frazer Richardson, Andy Crosby, Kelvin Davis, Danny Butterfield, Tadanari Lee, Guly Do Prado, Dean Hammond, Richard Chaplow, Jose Fonte, Nigel Adkins, Radhi Jaidi.
3rd Place:- Danny Fox.
2nd Place:- Morgan Schneiderlin.
And the winner, filling in all over the middle of the park and back four Jack Cork!
Signing of the Season
Received Votes:- Danny Fox, Tadanari Lee.
3rd Place:- Jack Cork.
2nd Place:- Billy Sharp.
And the winner is, the man who instantly became a cult hero on and off the pitch, with battling defensive displays and some midweek winners Jos Hooiveld!
Performance of the Season
Received Votes:- Leeds Away (Team), Fonte v Coventry (Home), Birmingham Home (Team), P'Boro Away (Team), Millwall Away (Team), Coventry Home (Team), Forest Away (Team), West Ham Away (Team), West Ham Home (Team), Guly Do Prado v Coventry (Away), Rickie Lambert v Watford.
3rd Place:- Ipswich Town Away (Team).
2nd Place (Joint):- Leeds Home (Team), Middlesbrough Home (Team).
And the winner, one of the most ridiculous clean sheets in football history, making save after save Kelvin Davis v Leeds (Away)!
The Ali Dia Award for Comedy Moment
Received Votes:- Performance against Leicester at home, Fonte Penalty v Brighton, Guly tripping over on TV, Dean Hammond F-Bomb on BBC, Lallana dive v Pompey, Billy Sharp Open Goal v West Ham, Jos Injuring himself celebrating, Leeds Attack v Davis, Billy Sharp celebrating v Pompey, Jos Boxhead campaign, Defending v Pompey, STEEEEEVE, Matt Taylor sending off v West Ham, Nigel's Arousal Speech, Tadanari Lee goal celebration, Aaron Martin Open Goal v Forest, John Pantsil falling over trying to defend against Lallana, Jos Celebration v Coventry, Fat Sam Allardyce.
3rd Place:- Pompey's Season/Relegation.
2nd Place:- Nigel Adkins tripping over the water bottles v Blackpool.
And the winner, something I'm sure he won't be happy about, doing his best Massimo Taibi impression v Blackpool Bartosz Bialkowski!
Best Opposition Player at St. Mary's
Recieved Votes:- Kevin Nolan, Billy Sharp, Ricardo Vaz Te, Robert Koren, Kevin Phillips, Stephan Dobbie, Nicky Maynard, Kasper Schmeichal, David Nugent, Chris Maguire, Robert Snodgrass, Scott Allen, Jamie Ashdown, Neill Danns, Liam Trotter, Wilfred Zaha, Darius Henderson, Joshua King, Jason Scotland, Peter Whittingham, Robert Green, Ian Harte.
3rd Place (Joint):- Adam Le Fondre, Adam Federici, Albert Adomah.
2nd Place:- Matt Phillips.
And the winner, very much part of Reading's relentless pursuit of the Championship summit, and at his devastating best at St. Mary's Jason Roberts!
Best Opposition Team at St. Mary's
Received Votes:- Bristol City, Hull City, West Ham, Forest, Cardiff.
3rd Place:- Blackpool.
2nd Place:- Leicester City.
And the winners, taking all three points with a ruthless lesson for Saints in taking chances Reading!
Best Opposition Fans at St. Mary's
Received Votes:- Leeds, Reading, Hull City, Millwall, Ipswich Town, Bristol City, Cardiff, Forest.
3rd Place:- West Ham United.
2nd Place:- Portsmouth.
And the winners, loudly supporting their team to the bitter end on final day and staying behind to enjoy the Saints celebrations Coventry City!
So that concludes the first gwc.com end of season awards! I shall look forward to compiling them again this time next season in what will be the first Premier League Edition!
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Shelfie Post #7: Rachel Thompson
Getting a peek of an avid reader's bookshelf is one of life's simple pleasures. If you've ever shown up to a house party and gone straight to the host's bookshelf, you know how satisfying it is to snoop through other readers' libraries. The editors of Room love reading (obviously), and we're giving you a glimpse of our shelves and sharing how we get the most out of our sacred reading time.


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I have been looking through your forum for help on the "Authentication Failed" issue.
I install VNC on my W7 Pro machine, change my password to my one and test, all works well.
I then proceed to re-boot the PC and then try the VNC from my other PC again, and get the "Authentication Failed" issue.
I read your previous posts from 2010 about removing ORL' from the registry, I have only installed UVNC, nothing else, not Real VNC or the like.
Setup the Administrator account.
Firewall is Completely disabled.
I have an Inbound FW rule for allowing ports 5900 and 5800, only one these rules are listening.
This has happened on all my W7 machines.
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Studies suggest that a chemical used to prevent corrosion in the lining of cans and bottles can make fat cells bigger, and disrupt the balance of estrogen and testosterone in our bodies. NBC's Dr. Nancy Snyderman reports.
Parents may have another reason to avoid bisphenol A, or BPA, the estrogen-like chemical found in many plastic bottles and cans. BPA may be making our kids fat, new research suggests.
In a nationally representative study of nearly 3,000 children and teens, researchers found that kids with the highest levels of BPA in their urine were 2.6 times more likely to be obese compared to those with low levels of the chemical. The report was published in the latest issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
It's the latest evidence that obesity might be affected by more than just diet and exercise, said Dr. Leonardo Trasande, a professor of pediatrics and environmental medicine at the New York University School of Medicine.
"Clearly poor diet and lack of physical activity contribute to increased fat mass, but the story doesn't end there," he said.
The link was statistically significant only for white children and adolescents, who made up 62 percent of the study participants, researchers said. Connections between the highest levels of BPA and obesity weren't found in black or Hispanic youngsters. Researchers said that link would need more study.
Perhaps one of the most striking findings was that the association between BPA and obesity extended even to children who were consuming the right amount of calories.
"We found that BPA in a child's urine was associated with the chance of being obese, whether they were eating too many calories for their age and gender, or not," said Trasande. "Our hypothesis is that something happens to the kids' metabolisms."
No one knows exactly what that might be, but experimental studies have shown that BPA can make fat cells bigger, Trasande said. The chemical also has been shown to inhibit a hormone called adiponectin, which is involved in lowering heart disease risk. And, because BPA is actually a weak synthetic estrogen, the chemical may disrupt the balance of estrogen and testosterone, which may adversely affect caloric balance.
BPA exposure in the U.S. is "nearly ubiquitous," the researchers said. Nearly 93 percent of people aged 6 or older had detectable levels of BPA in their urine, according to a 2003-2004 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. About 99 percent of that exposure comes from dietary sources.
Currently most of the BPA exposure is from canned goods. The chemical is in the resins that manufacturers use to coat the insides of cans to block metals from leaching into foods as well as to prevent a metallic taste.
Many plastic bottle manufacturers voluntarily changed their formulations to exclude BPA after the chemical was linked in animal studies to a host of health ills, including possible developmental problems.
While the Food and Drug Administration has barred the use of the chemical in baby bottles and children's sippy cups, the agency isn't yet convinced that BPA must be completely banned. The FDA called for more research because, officials said, it has "some concern about the potential effects of BPA on the brain, behavior and prostate glands of fetuses, infants, and children."
Trasande hopes his study will help.
"The FDA decided to take a wait-and-see approach, specifically looking for more evidence regarding the potential health consequences of exposure," he said. "We believe this study provides critical information that the FDA needs to consider as they evaluate the need and the risk involved with keeping BPA in food products."
Experts not affiliated with the new research said the new study was carefully done.
"This is an important study, albeit just one study," said Dr. Richard J. Jackson, professor and chair of environmental health science at the Fielding School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles. "We must pay attention to environmental chemicals that meddle with metabolism."
Dr. Elizabeth Proutparks, an expert in childhood obesity, agreed that the study was very well done, but cautioned that more research must be conducted before anyone can say for certain that BPA actually causes obesity.
Proutparks was also concerned that parents might see this study and skip canned fruits and vegetables altogether.
"I don't think I would tell them not to eat canned foods and vegetables," said Proutparks, a nutritionist and attending physician with the healthy weight program at the Children's Hospital of Pennsylvania. "You'd be limiting these foods in low-income populations, who already have issues as it is."
Proutparks did advise parents not to re-use water bottles that contained BPA, noting that obesity isn't the most worrisome possible side effect from the chemical. The most concerning effects would be on the developing brains of fetuses and infants, she said.
"I think there are other studies and other reasons to look for bottles that don't have BPA in them," Proutparks said. "But we need to put it all in perspective."
Related stories:
- BPA levels soar after lunching on canned soup
- FDA: BPA banned in baby bottles
- Decay dilemma: Do kids need dental sealants?
Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health found that eating canned soup boosts urine concentration of the chemical bisphenol A (BPA) in humans. BPA is raising concerns among some health experts for its potential health effects in children, infants and fetuses. NBC's Robert Bazell has more.


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The picture above was painted by the famous cowboy artist Jim Rey. He titled the painting "Which Way". The painting is of two cowboys riding in a dust storm trying to navigate which way to go next.
This painting is hung on the center of the West wall of our front dining room. I looked at it today and realized that our team and the restaurant industry as a whole is riding through a dust storm just trying to figure out which way to go. As much as we would love to open the front door of the restaurant and start welcoming guests back into our intimate space we have made the decision to take some time and carefully plot our way through this storm.
As challenging as it can be to ride with dust in your eyes, we are excited to let you know that we have a trail that we are on right now and would like you to join us. With the help of our dedicated team we decided to explore ways to provide our meals and beverages to our community without our dining room. We are calling this venture "Ore House at Your House". With every purchase from our online store you are helping us rebuild our team and prepare the restaurant for a grand reopening when the time is right for us to do so.
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By Kenneth D. Miller
Assistant Managing Editor
Their human dignity challenged by the racial epithets of embattled owner Donald T. Sterling, the predominantly African American Los Angeles Clippers NBA basketball team will return to Staples Center on Friday May 9 with a new mettle and mindset.
Two weeks after Sterling was banned for life from the NBA and forced to sell the team, coach Doc Rivers has become part ambassador, part physiologist, father and brother to his millionaire players in his quest to keep Los Angeles' new marquee team on a championship mission.
Rivers, who is in his first season as coach of the team after arriving from Boston where he spent nine seasons and captured an NBA title with the Celtics, has long been considered a great coach, but now is a symbol in basketball similar to what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was to the civil rights movement.
He refused to speak to Sterling prior to the owner's ban, pushed his team to a gut wrenching seven games series victory over the defiant Golden State Warriors and this week began their Western Conference semifinals series with the high flying Oklahoma City Thunder with an emphatic game one victory 122-105 in OKC.
Meanwhile Sterling has vowed that he will fight the sale of his team, creating yet another inconvenient, and unnecessary obstacle for a team that has been so emotionally tormented that it is unconceivable they are still playing.
Point guard Chris Paul scored 32 points and passed for 10 assists in the game one win over the favored Thunder, star redhead Blake Griffin added 23 and newly crowned Sixth Man of the Year Jamal Crawford finished with 17 for the Clippers, the only team from the city that wears Los Angeles on the front of its road uniforms.
How the Clippers proceed from here is anyone's guess, but after their team owner casted them off as slaves, degraded not just them as individuals but also their entire race and culture they have everything to gain and nothing to lose.
Thus they begin their second series playing loose and with a giant chip on their shoulders.
To a man and a team they have adopted the slogan "We Are One", a rallying cry that began the day Sterling was banned.
The city of Los Angeles has joined them. This team that has never won an NBA championship. The team with the Black mascot, the team that has long been the laughing stock of the league because their owner didn't want to spend money to compete. This team that has been the ugly stepsisters to the storied Lakers.
This is the team that now is capable of erasing all of that if they can continue on and win an NBA championship.


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Supporyou Peeps,
I'm finally back from a nice long two weeks from Manila…and boy, was it fun!
The big big show at Mega Mall (that's right, my dream come true) on Friday the 23rd was the best way to come back to Manila with a live show…in front of 900 fans. For those of you that didn't make it, tough luck, but we did get it on tape which will make it onto the upcoming DVD. Now you get to see how I do it my way in Manila. You'll feel like you were there too. Maraming salamat sa inyong lahat nag-punta sa show ko…grabe naman ng energy sa theater…pagatapos, mayroon pang dalwang "encores"! Thanks so much to my agent for helping me do this show, it meant so much to the fans there. Also a big thanks to all the radio stations that gave me the airtime to plug the show…astig!
The new MTV Philippines show I'm doing, "Rex in the City", is coming along nicely. I think we've found the feel of the show. It's a mix of my live in-studio/comedy club at the MTV studio at the Fort and cutaways to some sketches. When I get back to in November to finish up more live studio standup recordings, I'd be open to some of you fans in Manila to be in the audience. The hours are long, but hell…you get a free Rex show! Just email me and tell me if you wanna come along. We're looking a November air date for the first episode.
Don't worry, there will also be other dates in Manila and other cities when I return in November. This ride has just begun.
Being back home, I get a couple days rest then I'm off to Los Angeles for a surprise set at the Friar's Club this Friday the 30th…yet another Chopschtick…at a nicer and newer venue. Go to www.amyanderson.net for free tickets and reservations.
Next week, please come to a benefit performance I'm doing at the University of the Pacific, presented by Xi Chi Sigma fraternity. Proceeds will benefit the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Then I'll be in Monterey on the following Saturday. Check out the calendar.
It's just under a month until I do the big ass BADASS MADAPAKA! show at the Los Angeles Wiltern LG. Tickets are going fast, so make sure you order them online by hitting the link above. This is a Live DVD recording and there won't be another one like this in a long, long time. The DVD will be a mix of LA, SF, Honolulu and Manila. So don't wait til the last day for your tickets…the SF show sold out solid.


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Rebecca Denton via @rebeccasbrain on Twitter
Rebecca Denton (rebeccasbrain on Twitter) wrote "Boris Johnson stuck on a zip line in Victoria Park. I kid you not." in her Tweet with this photo.
London Mayor Boris Johnson got stuck midair on a zip line Wednesday during a celebration for 2012 Olympic Games.
ITV, the British partner of NBC News, reported that Johnson had to be pulled the remainder of the way by people on the ground.
According to The Telegraph newspaper, Johnson was the first person to use the zip line, in Victoria Park, East London. "Get me a rope, get me a ladder," ITV quoted him as saying. "I think the brakes got stuck."
Britain's funniest politician taken very seriously
The Telegraph said witnesses reported that Johnson spent the approximately five minutes suspended in the air waving two British flags and leading the audience in cheering the British Olympic team.
The newspaper quoted a spokesman for Johnson as saying the mayor "remained unbowed" by the incident. "The judges will rightly be marking him down for artistic impression," the spokesman said.
The cause of the incident was not immediately clear.
London mayor Boris Johnson attempts to make a dramatic entrance at an Olympic party—but gets stranded on a zip wire instead. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.
TODAY's Natalie Morales takes a look at how Internet users across the globe put their own spin on London mayor Boris Johnson's zip-line snag near the Olympic Park.
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First Look: Kissaten Bar and Lounge
Food, coffee, cocktails—this new Waterfront Plaza spot has it all.
Wandering the dusky grounds of Restaurant Row on a Saturday evening, there's little indication that much has changed.
But that might be changing.
It's now called Waterfront Plaza — though for a lot of locals it will always be Restaurant Row, just like Daiei was Holiday Mart until it became Don Quijote, at which point we gave in and started calling it Daiei.
Things have closed at the Plaza. A lot of things. But Restaurant Row has always had commitment issues. Restaurants come and go. Mostly go. Ruth's Chris, Vino and Hiroshi have been holding it down, and keeping us coming; we think (hope) they're in it for the long haul.
And now a newcomer, with a bar, long hours, big-screen TVs, coffee and even breakfast, has found a home at the Row.
Kissaten Bar and Lounge, the third location for the Kissaten brand, and the largest of the three, opened for business on March 1. The concrete wilderness feeling of Restaurant Row is about as ambient as the place gets, and the kitchen and bar have some opening jitters to work through, but the 10-by-10-foot projection television screen is a good distraction.
The new digs come with an extensive new menu that also features a few of the bestsellers from the flagship Piikoi location, including the truffle mac-and-cheese ($8.95) and the tomato bisque ($5.95). There's also a bar. A real bar, not a coffee bar (though they have that too).
For the month of March, Kissaten is celebrating its opening with $1 well drinks, and to that we raise a glass. We were tempted to offer $3 for a vodka cran if they agreed to add three times the vodka. But, for a buck, who's complaining? And a few dollar drinks in, who cares? At that point, what really matters is what's for dinner.
The steamed manila clams ($12.95), swimming in a salty sake reduction studded with green onions and tiny perfect cubes of Portuguese sausage, is a good choice, and if someone can convince them to serve the dish with a baguette? Yes, please.
Kissaten's take on a Nagasaki staple, Tokuro Rice (literally, "Turkish" rice, though there's nothing Turkish about it; $8.95), is a heaping plate of steamed, buttered rice and a nest of linguine all topped with chicken katsu and smothered in a brown gravy-tomato sauce hybrid. For someone used to plate lunches, the gravy takes a minute to get used to, but the katsu is spot on and the mountain-o-carbs is perfect for a late-night post-party bite. The late-night menu, available until 2 a.m. Fridays and Saturdays, is heavy with bar-food staples, including fried rice, wings (get the salt-and-pepper wings), onion rings, fries and, if none of those sound right, just wait around for a few hours until they start serving breakfast at 8 a.m. (7 a.m. on weekdays). And then order the POG pancakes with a side of bacon ($5.95).
Breakfast, lunch, dinner and late-night menu items from $5 to $16.95, Kissaten Bar and Lounge, Waterfront Plaza, 500 Ala Moana Blvd., across from Nocturna and M nightclub, 593-7090, kissatencafe.com.


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Likening the closing of under-performing schools in Chicago to apartheid is gross hyperbole and does little to advance what will be done to improve the education of the nearly 7500 students impacted. Will they be moved to high performing schools? What metrics are being used to determine performance levels of the schools themselves? Is funding being shifted with them or to some for-profits that will operate the schools? This debate is political and to suggest that education and politics are not necessarily intertwined is naive.
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Hey man.....where have you been? Tried getting hold of you a while back for a hit.
My number is still the same. 604-874-6264.
Perhaps a hit today after the game if you have time.
Talk soon....Jason
Hey Mauricio,
Enjoyed our game last week. Looks like it's rain rain and more rain. Pretty easy to book courts out at UBC during the day...20/hour. Let me know if that interests you at all.
If not.....we wait until the skies eventually part. My email is firstname.lastname@example.com.
Hey Mauricio,
I might have said Heather and 17th.....actually Heather and 18th, and they're right near near Douglas Park. I can do 11.
Give me a call to confirm...604-874-6264
Hey Mauricio,
Till the end of March I'm available during the day (until 5) to play. Live very close to Heather Park courts, which close to VGH. Let me a know time that works for you, and we can figure out a place....sounds like you'd be coming from the North Shore.
Talk soon....Jason
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I need to create a program that calculates tax, but I dont understand how to do it.
I used google translate to translate the task so it is not well written.
The only thing I have started with is this! But i need help with the rest
String tax=JOptionPane.showInputDialog("type in your tax class. (1 or 2)");
int sk=Integer.parseInt(tax);
String inntekt=JOptionPane.showInputDialog("type in your income.");
int i=Integer.parseInt(income);
The task looks like this....
Write a program that reads my tax class (1 or 2) and an income from the user (usually double) program will calculate and print the assessed taxes
In class 1 is that
If your income is below 20000, there is no tax.
If your income is greater than 20000 and less than 100,000 is 20% tax of over 20000
If your income is over 100,000, it shall be paid 20% tax on income between 20 and 100 thousand and 40% of the excess.
while Class 2 tax rates, respectively, 15 and 35% and the threshold amount is 50,000 and 150000. The program will repeat the questions and calculations arbitrarily many times. If the user enters tax class 0, then the program ends.
thanks for help


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The global E-cigarette Market is set to reach USD 44.55 billion by 2024, driven by the rising consumer demand for resource competent vaping products. The growth for e-cigarette market is prominently being driven by growing health awareness and environment-friendly usage. Need for the alternative product as a result of rising taxes on traditional cigarettes (tobacco rolled) and its products has been one of the factors driving the growth of the electronic cigarette industry.
Emerging factors such as increasing awareness about harmful effects of traditional cigarettes, improving lifestyle, and growing e-commerce business are expected to upsurge the growth of the market for the forecast period. In addition, various mergers and acquisitions are also expected to fuel the market growth. For instance, in 2012, a merger took placed between tobacco giant Lorillard and U.S.-based e-cigarette company Blue Ecigs, which helped them to roll out their own brands by leveraging the technology possessed by Blu Ecigs.
The e-cigarette vendors are introducing a variety of flavors which differs from menthol to the fusion of fruits and flavoring substances. These flavors are becoming a differentiator for vendors.
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The market for e-cigarettes in North America and Europe is projected to grow on account of increase in disposable incomes and smokers' population in these regions. Asia Pacific market was valued at USD 946.2 million in 2016 and is expected to grow rapidly during the forecast period. The growth of the market in Asia Pacific region is subjected to factors such as product availability and increasing awareness regarding the ill-effects associated with traditional (tobacco rolled) cigarettes in countries such as India, Malaysia, and China.
The electronic cigarettes market has been segmented on the basis of products such as modular, rechargeable and disposable e-cigarettes. Among these, modular e-cigarettes are popular among consumers, followed by rechargeable and disposable. Modular e-cigarettes provide flexibility in flavors, besides improved inhaling experience which gives greater satisfaction to the user.
Companies are focusing on diversifying their portfolio by offering flavors, aesthetic properties, and nonhazardous ingredients to end users. By acquiring Lorillard in 2014, Reynolds American has become largest vendor in the North American market. The acquisition created a competition to Altria, a well-established player in the market. The deal united some notable cigarette brands, such as American Spirit, Pall Mall, Newport, and Camel.
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• North America
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Key players analyzed:
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• British American Tobacco Plc.
• Japan Tobacco Inc.
• Imperial Brands Plc.
• Phillip Morris International Inc.
• Reynolds American Inc.
• VMR Products LLC
• Nicotek LLC
• Njoy Inc.
• International Vapor Group
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Pakistani Hindus Protest After Temple Demolition
By Joanna Sugden
Around 2,000 people took to the streets in Karachi on Sunday to protest after a Hindu temple in the city's Soldier Bazaar area was allegedly knocked down, just hours after a court order was issued protecting it from immediate demolition.
The Shri Rama Pir Mandir was pulled down on Saturday along with neighboring houses, according to reports in Pakistan.
"The temple was over 50 years old," Ramesh Kumar Vankwani, founder of the Pakistan Hindu Council, told The Wall Street Journal's India Real Time.
He said demonstrations would continue until the government responded, adding that "this is the third such incident in three months."
Krishna Mandir, in a residential area of Karachi, was damaged in September during protests against a film that insulted Islam. In the same month a temple erected by Hindu families living in Peshawar was demolished in a land dispute, Mr. Vankwani said.
"This is discrimination against our community, and it is happening because of a land mafia," he added, refusing to elaborate.
It was unclear who was responsible for Saturday's reported demolition, with some media claiming it was the work of a local builder who had given notice to residents in 2007 to vacate the properties. But the Pakistan Hindu Council blamed officials from the municipal government, the Cantonment Board Clifton.
Zeenat Ahmed, Military Lands and Cantonment Director at the Cantonment Board, claimed the temple was "untouched."
"The builder had possession of the place… and these people were encroachers, and encroachers have no religion," the Press Trust of India quoted her as saying.
The Cantonment Board was not immediately available for comment on Monday.
Local police claimed the temple didn't even exist, according to a report in the Express Tribune on Sunday. "There was no temple there. There were just Hindu gods present inside the houses and we made sure that they were safe," it quoted Pervaiz Iqbal of Nabi Buksh police station as saying.
A Sai Baba temple in Karachi is also reportedly under threat. The Shri Laxmi Narayan Mandir, which is believed to be 200 years old, sits next to the
Native Jetty bridge in the city but is subject to court proceedings over access for pilgrims, which has allegedly been blocked.
Just 1.6% of Pakistan's 137million population is Hindu, according to the 1998 census, the latest year for which figures are available. The majority, over 96%, follow Islam.
According to the Pakistan Hindu Council, around 20 to 25 Hindu families are leaving the country's Sindh province, the capital of which is Karachi, for other nations every week.
"The problem is there is no safety and protection for minority communities," Mr. Vankwani said. "We don't need to migrate, we need protection of our lives and property in Pakistan."
The council is lobbying for better representation on government bodies and in the judiciary as well as for stronger rights for religious minorities.
Joanna Sugden is freelance journalist living in Delhi. Before coming to India in 2011 she spent four-and-a-half years as a reporter at The Times of London, covering religion and education. You can follow her on Twitter @jhsugden.
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One of our regulary readers commented on another site: "Yes, please. Let's allow scientists to determine what is right and moral; they have such a lack of bias and experience in knowing right from wrong. I'm sure Dr. Mengele would approve wholeheartedly of such a course of action."
Well, we aren't much suprised at the irony of American life: a nation that has food banks for underfed dogs and cats has chosen a course of politial action called "choice," which is really a birth control measure for those too lazy to use prevention measures wnich results in, many say, human death.
We are in the age of f**k you!
So now we are going to use the human death of some future genertion to keep alive (if the science eventually works) older people suffering from Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and other fatal illnesses.
And the president who hosted a "Fiscal Responsibility Summit" sees no lack of responsibility in abortion and the use of hman tissue for "research."
Well, the unborn are overtaxed already under the Obama spending, borrowing and debt plan so who cares if the unborn live to pay their tax bill?
We'll be gone.
Seems America has joined others in the world of the totally selfish….Fiscal responsibility is now the mantra: yet we are burdening our children with debt (if they survive their embrionic stage).
I am sure the Vatican will weigh in on this latest American retreat from morality and that most of the mainstream media will blow off the Pope by saying he supports sexual abuse of children….
Charles Krauthammer siad, "The President hasn't thought about this enough."
By Rachel Zoll, Ap Religion Writer
A wide-ranging study on American religious life found that the Roman Catholic population has been shifting out o of the Northeast to the Southwest, the percentage of Christians in the nation has declined and more people say they have no religion at all.
Fifteen percent of respondents said they had no religion, an increase from 14.2 percent in 2001 and 8.2 percent in 1990, according to the American Religious Identification Survey.
Northern New England surpassed the Pacific Northwest as the least religious region, with Vermont reporting the highest share of those claiming no religion, at 34 percent. Still, the study found that the numbers of Americans with no religion rose in every state.
"No other religious bloc has kept such a pace in every state," the study's authors said.
In the Northeast, self-identified Catholics made up 36 percent of adults last year, down from 43 percent in 1990. At the same time, however, Catholics grew to about one-third of the adult population in California and Texas, and one-quarter of Floridians, largely due to Latino immigration, according to the research.
Nationally, Catholics remain the largest religious group, with 57 million people saying they belong to the church. The tradition gained 11 million followers since 1990, but its share of the population fell by about a percentage point to 25 percent.
Christians who aren't Catholic also are a declining segment of the country.
In 2008, Christians comprised 76 percent of U.S. adults, compared to about 77 percent in 2001 and about 86 percent in 1990. Researchers said the dwindling ranks of mainline Protestants, including Methodists, Lutherans and Episcopalians, largely explains the shift. Over the last seven years, mainline Protestants dropped from just over 17 percent to 12.9 percent of the population.
The report from The Program on Public Values at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., surveyed 54,461 adults in English or Spanish from February through November of last year. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 0.5 percentage points. The findings are part of a series of studies on American religion by the program that will later look more closely at reasons behind the trends.
The current survey, being released Monday, found traditional organized religion playing less of a role in many lives. Thirty percent of married couples did not have a religious wedding ceremony and 27 percent of respondents said they did not want a religious funeral.
About 12 percent of Americans believe in a higher power but not the personal God at the core of monotheistic faiths. And, since 1990, a slightly greater share of respondents — 1.2 percent — said they were part of new religious movements, including Scientology, Wicca and Santeria.
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By Philip Pullella
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – President Barack Obama's lifting of restrictions on federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research puts him at odds with Pope Benedict and the American Roman Catholic Church.
After Obama signed the order on Monday, the Vatican and U.S. and Italian Church leaders condemned the move. One commentator said the test of "a real democracy" was its defense of the most defenseless.
Obama's executive order reversed and repudiated restrictions placed on the research by his predecessor, George W. Bush, freeing labs across the country to start working with the cells, which can give rise to any kind of cell in the body.
Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' committee on pro-life activities, called Obama's decision "a sad victory of politics over science and ethics."
"This action is morally wrong because it encourages the destruction of innocent human life, treating vulnerable human beings as mere products to be harvested," he added.
The Catholic Church, other religious groups and pro-life advocates oppose stem cell research — which scientists hope can lead to cures for diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's — because it involves the destruction of embryos.
The Catholic Church supports adult stem….
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Just curious if anyone on the island uses this system?
I bought a Yaesu FTM-3200DR 2M rig and fell in love with Fusion. Upgraded it 2 weeks later to a FTM-400XDR. Currently listening to net run out of Minnesota. Getting checkins from all over the place.
Kinda got to wondering if anyone uses it and WIRES-X. Would be neat if we could get a net going. Lots of busy and empty nodes to pick from.
Just a thought anyway


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Someone with too much grant money and too much time decided many years ago that simply asking a patient about the amount of pain they were in and sprinkling in a good dose of clinical judgement was not good enough. After years of research various pain scales were born; the "visual analog" or "one to ten" scale being the ones most commonly used in the ED. Most ED docs love these scales and use them at every opportunity (as long as we have picked all the lint out of our belly-buttons).
Wikipedia has a nice little blurb on these scales which can be seen by clicking the above title. One of the things that all these pain scales have in common is a complete lack of objectivity and reproducibility between patients. Here's where the math comes in and stay close 'cuz I'm about to throw some mad knowledge your way.
It is impossible to have "1,000,000 out of 10" pain just as it is impossible to have 12 out of 10 pain etc... It fires every passive-aggressive neuron in my very male brain when I have to wake you up from your substance-induced slumber only to have you tell me that you, at that very moment, are having "12 out of 10 pain". "Yes", you say in response to my question, pain that is every bit as intense as if I were, at that very moment, sawing your leg off with a chainsaw (as seen in Scarface which is the usual example I give someone to illustrate something that might approach "10 out of 10 pain").
When you tell an ER doc or nurse that you have "20 out of 10" pain you are not impressing anyone. If you had "9 out of ten" pain you would be crying, probably vomiting, and barely able to speak. If your demeanor, facial expressions, vital signs, level of alertness, and story do not add up to even two then you will be immediately relegated to the "not sick bullshit pile" and treated with all the urgency demanded by your presentation.
If I'm feeling frisky I might decide to play possum with you where I say "screw my patient statistics, I'm keeping this jerk here until he gets tired of getting a different non-narcotic medicine every hour for his "pain" and signs out AMA."
English 101:
Now we all know what you mean when you do this. What you are engaging in is called "hyperbole". Dictionary.com defines it as follows; "Obvious and intentional exaggeration."


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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - The Arkansas Senate voted Tuesday to override Gov. Mike Beebe's veto of legislation that would ban most abortions from the 12th week of pregnancy onward and would give the state the most restrictive abortion laws in the country.
The Republican-led Senate voted 20-14 to override the veto. The state House hadn't yet voted on it. Only a simple majority is needed in each chamber to override a veto in Arkansas.
Abortion rights proponents have said they would sue to block the 12-week ban if it's approved. Its 12-week standard is based on when a fetus' heartbeat can typically be detected through an abdominal ultrasound.
The Legislature last week overrode Beebe's veto of a ban on most abortions from the 20th week onward. That law is based on the disputed claim that fetuses can feel pain by then.
On Monday, Beebe vetoed the 12-week ban for the same reason he vetoed the 20-week measure. He said both measures are unconstitutional and contradict U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, which legalized abortion until a fetus can viably survive outside the womb. A fetus is generally considered viable at 22 to 24 weeks.
The 12-week ban would prohibit abortions when a heartbeat is detected using an abdominal ultrasound. It includes exemptions for rape, incest, the life of the mother and highly lethal fetal disorders. The 20-week prohibition includes all of the same exemptions except for fetal disorders.
The measure is among several abortion restrictions lawmakers have backed since Republicans won control of the House and Senate in the November election. Republicans hold 21 of the 35 Senate seats, and 51 of the 100 seats in the House. It takes a simple majority in both chambers to override.
Beebe has signed into law one of those measures, a prohibition on most abortion coverage by insurers participating in the exchange created under the federal health care overhaul.
Unlike the 20-week ban, which took effect immediately, the 12-week restriction won't take effect until 90 days after the House and Senate adjourn. Lawmakers aren't expected to wrap up this year's session until later this month or April.
In vetoing both measures, Beebe has cited the costs to the state if it has to defend either ban in court. The American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas has vowed to sue if the state enacts the 12-week ban and the group said it was considering legal action over the 20-week restriction as well.
Beebe noted that the state paid nearly $148,000 to attorneys for plaintiffs who successfully challenged a 1997 late-term abortion ban.
The original version of Rapert's bill would have banned abortions as early as six weeks into a pregnancy, but he changed the measure after facing resistance from some lawmakers worried that it would require a vaginal probe.
Women who have abortions would not face prosecution under Rapert's bill, but doctors who perform abortions in violation of the 12-week ban could have their medical licenses revoked.
Ark. Senate overrides veto of 12-week abortion ban
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - The Arkansas Senate voted Tuesday to override Gov. Mike Beebe's veto of legislation that would ban most abortions from the 12th week of pregnancy onward and would give the state the most restrictive abortion laws in the country.


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...but the answers to those belong on the Scripture debate thread which I do not contribute to, because my basic premise that the Bible is God's reliable revelation to human kind and debate with others who do not share that view would be completely pointless.
Is this a common line of thinking amongst theists? Or just fundamentalists? Has anyone else come across it?
The bible remains a good source when debating with YEC or ID subscribers as it doesn't support their views unless twisted into saying so and it sounds like Marc (and I presume others share his view) would be utterly closed off to a debate on not only the content of the scriptures he uses to support his beliefs, but its authenticity and origins.
Despite being an atheist, I spent a good 16-odd years reading the bible, I consider my knowledge of it fairly substantial, more so that some theists I know, and because I want to justify my opinions on both the legitimacy and content of the bible, I've done a lot of background reading into its origins, authorship and other supporting views around it. If Marc and his cohorts refuse to debate biblical contents, based on some 'no true scotsmen' style argument, then that's a little dumb. It's like trying to debate evolution with him and refusing to debate the validity of the science in articles on evolution as Marc doesn't agree with it.
I'm sure Michael will agree that young-earth creationism isn't biblically supported, and if this opinion of fundamentalists is not to debate the legitimacy of the scriptures then is that a good thing for us, or a bad thing?