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After Court was called to order, the following persons were selected as Grand Jurors for the June Term, 2012: Gary S. Beisser, Foreperson; Thomas Joshua Townsend, Joyce S. Puckett, Donald Allen Holsomback, Nathan Allen Holsomback, Nathan Tyrone Serritt, Justin M. Carnes, Bobby R. Carter, JR., David A. Gomez, Richard Dwayne Spiva, Pam B. Stokes, Angie R. Vandyke Childers, and Iva Lanelle Haynes.
The following persons were elected to serve as officers for this Grand Jury: Gary S. Beisser, Foreperson; Bobby R. Carter, Jr. Vice Foreperson; Joyce S. Puckett, Clerk; Donald Allen Holsomback, Doorperson; and Cliff Roberts, Bailiff.
Judge David K. Smith charged and instructed the Grand Jury, which followed T. Joseph Campbell, District Attorney, administering the statutory oath to both the Foreperson and then to all other members of this Grand Jury, as well, as the required oaths to this grand jury's bailiff, and some of the traverse jury bailiffs for this term of court.
We thank T. Joseph Campbell, District Attorney, and his Assistant District Attorneys for their legal opinions and the whole staff for the assistance in the proceedings as to criminal cases presented to this Grand Jury.
Also, we commend our law enforcement personnel for the excellent job they do and also commend the officers who appeared before this body from all the different local agencies for their efficiency, appearance and professionalism.
We also thank and appreciate the District Attorney's Office for presenting the "Crystal Death" video concerning the methamphetamine problem and found it very informative.
Finally, we thank our Bailiff, Mr. Cliff Roberts for his service and courtesy to this body. We recommend that Mr. Roberts be paid an additional day's pay for his performance and all extra duties and services that he provided this body.
We express our appreciation to Hon. Brian Brannon, Clerk of Court for providing sausage and biscuits and orange juice on Thursday.
District Attorney's office
We have examined all criminal cases presented by the District Attorney's Office and reported 87 True Bills and 14 No Bills.
Further, this Grand Jury has been advised by the Office of the District Attorney of this Circuit, that simultaneously, with the return of the above referenced indictments said office has preferred and had filed a total of 60 accusations of which four are felonies with the remainder being misdemeanors, which are preferred and filed in accordance with O.C.G.A. § 17-7-70.1(a).
In accordance with our statutory duties (O.C.G.A. § 36-1-7) on the first day of this term, this body received the written financial reports of the following county officials with a majority also voluntarily appeared and reviewed each report: Hon. Mitch Ralston, Sheriff of Gordon County along with Chief Deputy Robert L. Paris; Hon. Scott Clements, Tax Commissioner; Hon. John R. (Richie) Parker, Judge of Probate Court; Hon. Brian Brannon, Clerk of Court; and Hon. Judy Bailey, Chairman Gordon County Board of Commissioners.
All financial reports have been examined and all are accepted as submitted. Additionally, the other reports required by law, were submitted by the Sheriff and County Administrator. We appreciate and thank these officials for the job each is doing.
Gordon County Tax Commissioners Office
The Tax Execution Docket committee consisting of Joyce Puckett, Gary Beisser, Gentery Sebastian and Jason R. Richardson inspected our tax commissioner's Execution Docket and issued the following report: While the Tax Execution Docket indicated that there are tax bills owed from the years 1990 through 2010, Tax Commissioner Clements was optimistic about his office's progress and future plans for collecting past due taxes.
He indicated that some of the property owners had filed bankruptcy and some had made a payment plan to bring amounts owed up to date.
He stated that second tax notices had been mailed for taxes unpaid for 2011. 97.5% per cent of 2008 taxes have been collected, 96.34% per cent of 2009 taxes have been collected, 95.09% per cent of 2010 have been collected, and 91.73% of 2011 have been collected.
Further, there are appeals are still being processed from 2009, 2010 and 2011. In 2011 his office collected $54,106.90 in interest owed and $20,716.24 in penalties.
Gordon County Jail
In accordance with O.C.G.A. § 15-12-71(b)(1), this Grand Jury was designated as the one to conduct the annual inspection of the conditions and operations of the Gordon County Jail. We conducted this inspection as a committee of the whole.
Our report is as follows: We found the facility to be in excellent condition, staffed and run professionally and we observed that all the prisoners are appropriately maintained. Additionally, we thank Sheriff Mitch Ralston and his officers and staff for the tour of the new jail and offices and also for the Sheriff's Auxiliary in providing a lunch following the tour.
The Grand Jury specifically thanks Sheriff Mitch Ralston and his department for their work to be good stewards of the tax payer's money. The sheriff is operating the jail and the department in a fiscally conservative manner.
We authorize our Foreperson to call this Grand Jury back into session any time during our appointed term, if he warrants it to be necessary.
We recommend these presentments be spread upon the minutes of the Court and be published in the legal organ of Gordon County. This 7th day June, 2012.


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FUNDAMANTAL FREEDOMS.
Our fundamental, constitutionally protected freedoms of belief, expression, religion and thought are not protected by governments sworn to uphold our constitution and the rule of law. The Charter of Rights and Freedoms, part of our Constitution since 1982, protects the fundamental rights and freedoms of individual citizens from intrusion by the state.
The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, (UDHR), enacted in December 1948, protects the fundamental rights and freedoms of all individuals. Canada subscribes to the UN universal human rights declaration.
The Canadian Human Rights Act (CHRA) was passed into law in 1977. We assume that the CHRA closely follows the UDHR but the CHRA does not prohibit discrimination based on birth, language, political or other opinion and property while the UDHR does. The CHRA prohibits discrimination based on age, sexual orientation, marital status, family status, disability and conviction for which a pardon has been granted while the UDHR does not.
The federal Human Rights Act was not the template for provincial legislation. The federal government was late to the ball. Every province except Saskatchewan had passed human rights legislation prior to the federal government. Legislation was enacted:: Ontario (1962); Nova Scotia (1963); Alberta (1966); New Brunswick (1967); Prince Edward Island (1968); Newfoundland (1969); British Columbia (1969); Manitoba (1970); Québec (1975); the Federal Government (1977); Saskatchewan (1980); Yukon (2002); Northwest Territories (2003); and Nunavut (2003)
The Criminal Code of Canada Sections 318 through 321.1 deal with hate crimes and hate propaganda. CHRA sections 12 and 13 duplicate sanctions against hate propaganda expanded as shown below and without any of the protections for an accused built into the criminal justice system. There is no valid reason or acceptable excuse for the duplication.
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There are three other major differences between the CHRA and other rights and freedoms legislation:
- The language of the CHRA extends protection to groups of individuals and is thus divisive and open to abuse if all groups are not treated equally, which is the case at present.
The CHRC extends prohibited discrimination to include any matter that is likely to expose a person or persons to hatred or contempt by reason of the fact that that person or those persons are identifiable on the basis of a prohibited ground of discrimination.
The CHRA allows investigation and prosecution of a complaint in respect of which no particular individual is identifiable as the victim.
ORWELLIAN ABSURDITY
Our governments have created the absurd situation where someone can conclude that an Internet posting may possibly cause someone to feel that he is the subject of contempt and file a complaint with the CHRC. The spokesman for a group can conclude that a posting may cause some members to feel the subject of contempt and file a complaint. There is no need for the complainant to be directly involved, to show that any harm has been done or to prove that there are real victims. The CHRC will investigate imaginary harm to imaginary victims as if it was real.
Christians are under increasing attack as someone claims to be offended, or that his religious beliefs are compromised by public references to God, Christian prayers, the Commandments, or by Christian artefacts and displays. There is no consideration for the offence to the Christian.
Once a decision is made to proceed with a complaint, the CHRC can pursue an accused with vigour, and has the power to obtain a search warrant to obtain any information that it seeks. The respondent must undertake the costs of legal advice and defence. The system is thus open to abuse as a complainant has no ongoing costs of prosecution. The investigation process is punitive to the accused.
The CHRC usually initiates an investigation by demanding that an accused provide it with information about himself in direct violation of Charter Section 11 (c): Any person charged with an offence has the right … c) not to be compelled to be a witness in proceedings against that person in respect of the offence…
The CHRC powers to obtain a search warrant and seize records, which would include computers and related equipment, is a powerful and coercive incentive for an accused to give up his Charter right and provide the information demanded.
When the CHRC completes an investigation, and despite CHRA provisions for arbitration of a complaint, every case involving an Internet blog or forum has been referred to the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (CHRT) for prosecution.
The CHRT ignores our common-law based legal system entirely and operates in an Orwellian fantasy land.
An accused is denied disclosure of the case against him and cannot learn the rules of the hearing as each chairperson is given the authority to set the rules for that hearing on the fly during the proceedings. A Tribunal has ruled that telling the truth is not a legitimate defence at hearings. A Tribunal has listened to evidence that the freedom of expression is an American concept, not valid in Canada.
It is no wonder that the CHRC has ruled against the accused in every CHRA Section 13 (1) case it has considered. A contributing factor is that almost every person accused has lacked the means to hire and be represented by competent legal counsel.
Also troubling are recent CHRT rulings that not only require an accused to refrain from speaking to the subject of complaint for life, but also to impose fines that have been diverted to the complainant to offset alleged expenses. Since the CHRC and CHRT operate independently at public cost and do not require participation of the complainant, it is hard to imagine what costs a complainant could incur unless he was actively participating in allegedly independent processes.
NO VALID EXCUSES
The Canadian Human Rights Act is very bad law. There is no excuse for a law that allows the prosecution of a citizen for having caused imaginary harm to imaginary people or that allows the prosecution of a citizen for having offended another person. No Bill of Rights, Charter of Rights or Human Rights legislation anywhere else in the world provides a person or group with protection from feeling offended.
The freedoms of the chosen groups supported by the CHRC are having their freedoms undermined. When the freedoms of a citizen are overridden to assuage the hurt feelings of a visible minority, we all lose. In future, a person facing discrimination will have no recourse as the fundamental freedoms he should enjoy has been subverted to the power of the group.
The HRTs have made it clear that membership in a visible minority trumps the rights and freedoms of the individual. If HRC/HRTs are allowed to continue unchecked, individual freedoms and rights will be replaced by a competition amongst groups of individuals for power over our society.
If we consider the Charter in our constitution to be the benevolent Dr. Jekyll there is no question that the HRC/HRTs are the evil Mr. Hyde. We need to exorcise those sections of the CHRC that allow Mr. Hyde to exist.
REQUIRED REVISIONS
The purpose of the Canadian Human Rights Act (CHRA) is clearly set out in the Act:
The purpose of this Act is to extend the laws in Canada to give effect, within the purview of matters coming within the legislative authority of Parliament, to the principle that all individuals should have an opportunity equal, consistent with their duties and obligations as members of society, without being hindered in or with other individuals to make for themselves the lives that they are able and wish to have and to have their needs accommodated prevented from doing so by discriminatory practices based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, family status, disability or conviction for an offence for which a pardon has been granted.
There is no provision in this purpose, nor should there be, for the protection of groups of any sort, and there is no provision in this purpose for protecting people from contempt. The person whose actions or behaviour invited contempt and derision may seek to claim discrimination, but is standing on quicksand and is unworthy of protection.
Groups of individuals cannot be protected under human rights legislation. Human rights, along with our fundamental charter rights and freedoms, rest with the individual.
Human Rights Commissions have adopted the approach that someone claiming discrimination is correct if he or she is a member of a visible minority and in effect requiring that an accused prove his or her innocence.
Canadian Human Rights Tribunals operate with no consistent rules of order or rules respecting evidence. It is impossible for an accused to properly defend himself when he cannot know what evidence may and may not be presented and cannot establish the rules of procedure.
Despite having an alleged through investigation by the CHRC, Tribunals routinely refuse to provide an accused with disclosure of evidence held against him, choosing instead to develop evidence during the hearing. While it may make for good theatre, it results in failed attempts at justice.
There is nothing in the Canadian Human Rights Act that requires Tribunal members to be impartial in their hearing and decision on a case. There is nothing that required a member of the Tribunal to recues themselves from a case in which they have a direct interest.
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Fargo police are searching for two suspects after the Check-N-Go was robbed at gunpoint Monday night.
Fargo police are searching for two men who robbed a check cashing business Monday night.
Lieutenant Joel Vettel said two men armed with semi-automatic handguns entered the Check-n-Go at 2301 South University Drive and got away with an undetermined amount of cash.
"This always represents what we try to tell everyone," said Vettel. "It's only money. Give them the cash. Give them the property. The last thing we want to do is have somebody injured or killed as a result of these types of incidences because they didn't cooperate with the individuals."
Police set up a perimeter around the business and brought in a canine from Moorhead, but the dog was not able to establish a scent.
Investigators plan to look through surveillance video from surrounding businesses for clues.
Vettel said the suspects were black and wore bandanas over their faces. They each wore a long-sleeve black shirt. One was wearing red shorts, the other had blue shorts.
No one was hurt in the incident.
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Actually you're wrong, it's the other way round. Akrapovic used to be called Skorpion, but then Scorpion Exhausts made them change it as their name was too similar to theirs.
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I think it looks way better than the Parkingo Street triple R's
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I like the colour combo, the tail end looks cool. The whole bike looks killer. Nice work.
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Bike looks great, any numbers as far as weight and HP are concerned? Good luck with race series.
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Cheers guys. We still have loads of work to do on her. I had to throw her together quickly for the shoot and up and coming magazine feature. The wheels in the pic are off my Daytona so don't think we have thrown loads at this bike with carbon wheels. Its was put toghether on a small budget and with bits we had laying around.
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gorgeous bike!!!! im freakin drooling here! any chance on a street version of the race bodywork?
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The belly pan will fit all street bikes no probs. When used with a stock system theres no mods to be done. If uses with a low system some minor cutting away of the belly pan may be required.
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getting a random or sporadic erection while travelling, can be quite embarrasing and is usually kept hidden. Dude, i got the biggest traveller on the plane and had to hide it from the lady seated next to me.
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A tinker, or member of the Irish travlelling community. See also the British pikey. They live in caravans in random fields and leave the place generally in a mess. However there are some good travellers who are given a hard time and a bad name due to the bad ones.
See also the less polite term: knacker "That's a traveller's camp", "Is he a traveller?"
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A name which pikeys use to describe themselves often while spitting on their own garments and claiming that their fathers are boxers. pikey1: My dad's a boxer!
pikey2: This go cart cost a tousand pounds! me: (mumbles) goddam gypsies pikey1: We're not gypsies we're travellers you cunt faced piece o' shite me: Yeah well you've just gobbed on your trousers pikey1: *silence* |
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The term used to describe an erection that develops whilst on public transport (e.g. bus, train). A hot brunette hopped on my bus so I had to ride out the trip with a traveller.
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An alcoholic beverage, usually a tin of lager that is taken for consumption on public transport en route to the pub/bar/club John, taking any travellers for the train?
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1. British term used to refer collectively to two separate traditionally-nomadic groups found in the UK: Irish Travellers (also known as Pavee, tinkers and pikeys) and Romani (also known as Roma, Romany, Romanichals, Romnichals and Kale). The term is used to replace the traditional term "gypsy", which is now considered offensive by some. The term refers to members of these two groups regardless of whether they actually live a nomadic or sedentary lifestyle. more...
2. A term used by people who are travelling away from home, but have distaste for the terms "tourist" and "holidaymaker". Travellers are often said to be distinct from tourists/holidaymakers due to the fact that they travel for longer periods of time, seeing a variety of places in one trip, and make an effort to experience the real spirit of the places they visit, rather than just tourist resorts. Those who self-describe as travellers are also often travelling on a tighter budget than traditional tourists, staying in hostels rather than hotels. A roughly synonymous term is " |
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Name: the equestrian mount of Confederate General Robert E. Lee during his service as commander of The Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War (a.k.a. The War Between the States). During the Battle of Gettysburg, Traveller maintained his composure regardless of the bullets that were flying around himself and General Lee.


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Amazon.com Inc. saw big sales during the holiday season, reporting Tuesday that fourth-quarter revenue rose 22% to $21.27 billion from the same quarter a year earlier.
But the Internet retail giant's sales and earnings missed Wall Street's estimates. Profit for the three months ended Dec. 31 declined 45% to $97 million, or 21 cents a share, compared with $177 million, or 38 cents, in the year-ago quarter.
Analysts had expected the e-commerce company to post revenue of $22.26 billion and earnings of 27 cents a share.
Nonetheless, Amazon shares surged in after-hours trading, rising more than 9% to $284.11 at 1:50 p.m. Pacific time. During regular trading before earnings were released, shares closed down $15.69, or 5.7%, at $260.35.
For the current quarter, Amazon expects sales to be between $15 billion and $16.6 billion, representing a 14% to 26% growth from the first quarter of 2012.
Amazon said that for the second year in a row, its tablet was the most popular item for customers, with the Kindle Fire HD the "No. 1 best-selling, most gifted and most wished-for product" across the company's merchandise lineup.
"At year-end, Kindle Fire HD, Kindle Fire, Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle held the top four spots on the Amazon worldwide bestseller charts since launch," the company said.
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Lakeland, Fla. — The Tigers made their biggest roster reduction of the spring so far, sending eight players to the minors on Tuesday morning.
Among them was top prospect Nick Castellanos, who said he was told he's going to Toledo to play left field.
The other cuts were outfielder Tyler Collins, infielder Argenis Diaz and pitcher Trevor Bell to minor-league camp; infielder Hernan Perez to Double A Erie; and to Triple A Toledo, catcher Bryan Holaday and pitcher Jose Ortega and Duane Below.
Summing up his spring, Castellanos said: "I did well. They told me I made a good impression. I'm happy about that.
"They just want me to keep working in the outfield, but they liked the way I looked."
When asked if he ever thought the spring might end with him going north with the team, Castellanos said, "technically, I'm still going north — just not as far north."
He added: "I was realistic about it, though, knowing that this team would be incredibly hard to make. With performing well, I was hoping they might reconsider, but I knew it was a long shot.
"You're always going to be disappointed when you're packing up and saying goodbye, but it's pretty much what I expected what would happen."
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adam187 (08-13-2012)
adam187 (08-13-2012)
Yes really though, the first game of the season isn't for another 4 months and there's no telling what could happen in that time. We could still make a trade that helps, we could still sign someone like based Yi, Dwight could be traded and help our chances against the magic, somebody could get injured in training camp.
Four months!
I think in last years NBA we win 20-30 games, but a lot of teams have got better, like they usually do. We have taken some good steps to becoming better but some of last season's bottom dwellers are going to be play off calibre teams this year. Such as GSW and Washington. They have stopped "rebuilding" now and are fully loaded for a play off run.
Also, I think that if we get one or two injuries we will struggle, similar to last year (although we are deeper now). I think Cho and MJ still don't want to win that many games this year so we will play our younger guys more than we probably should and we may hold people back if they are carrying a slight injury.
I think we will just about hit 20 or fall just short
this is if we do not make any more major signings or trades
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Go easy on me, I'm from England, and no... I Don't love the Queen.
25 wins would be .305 which is a massive improvment on last season. We have more depth this season with Sessions, Haywood, Gordon all coming off the bench
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I picked 51-60 because there was no option for 60+ wins
adam187 (08-02-2012), G Wuh Wuh Wuh Wallace (08-01-2012), GoBobs (08-03-2012), ziggy (08-01-2012)
Seriously what two idiots would choose 51-60...
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i wonder if Dunlap will target a specific number of wins or jusy play 110% every game ?
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19, but we play the Lakers twice this year and we own them, so 21 games!
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"Islam in a Pluralistic World"
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Words of Welcome by
Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik
on the occasion of the
Conference "Islam in a Pluralistic World"
Vienna, 14 November 2005
Federal President,
Presidents and former Presidents,
Your All Holiness Bartholomew I,
Your Eminencies,
Your Excellencies,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
"In our globalised world the peoples of the world are more united by common fate than they are divided by their separate identities," said UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the occasion of the proclamation of the Year of Dialogue among Civilisations in 2001.
In this spirit I should like to welcome you - to Vienna, a city from which trend-setting stimuli for this dialogue have repeatedly emanated. A city which in its history has also been a tragic place of intolerance and persecution.
Austria can point to a remarkable tradition in building bridges to the Islamic world, and we have excellent academic expertise in this field. The Academy of Oriental Studies was founded by Maria Theresia more than 250 years ago. But we also have religious leaders who have this dialogue at heart, and we have committed NGOs, among them the Austrian Oriental Society Hammer Purgstall (a co-organiser of our Conference).
The overwhelming interest in this event - almost 2,000 registrations - shows that the time is ripe for a new stage in this dialogue.
Our conference "Islam in a pluralistic world" is also deliberately intended as a contribution in preparation for Austria's Presidency of the European Union. Europe is a peace power whose uppermost objective is to contribute to trust, understanding and reconciliation in the world. We want to open both our ears - the ear listening to the international community of states, and the ear listening to the communities in our own countries. This, too, is a contribution to peace work. Based on this approach we have developed the two questions we should like to deal with here:
- How is Islam developing in a pluralistic world characterised by internal and external diversity ?
- How can the peaceful cohabitation of Muslims and non-Muslims in our European societies be safeguarded and improved?
However, it is also imperative to get rid of the distorting simplifications, dangerous stereotypes and "images of the enemy" which prevail in some quarters with regard to Islam.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Afghanistan and Iraq have embarked on a courageous course towards pluralism and modern democracy in the most difficult circumstances - an undertaking which we are accompanying and supporting with great sympathy and attention.
In this spirit I wish to extend a welcome to the President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, and I should like to thank him for making this long journey to be with us.
I also welcome the President of the Republic of Iraq, Jalal Talabani, and his delegation.
My welcome also goes to the former President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mohammad Khatami. This is not the first time that his initiatives for the development of the dialogue of religions have brought him to Vienna, and we hope that he will continue to play an important role in this dialogue.
I should like to welcome Lakhdar Brahimi as personal representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, and I am delighted that Mr. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, is also present.
I should like to extend a special welcome to the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I.
With due respect, I should like to welcome the high and highest representatives of the three great monotheistic religions, and take the opportunity to recall Vienna's late Cardinal Franz König and his visionary work. I am grateful for the presence of Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, who is continuing, intensifying and expanding these efforts.
I should like to welcome all Austrian and international scholars here present who are entrusted with the chair of this Conference.
I also welcome the representatives of the media. We need their help to carry this dialogue to the population, for conferences devoted to dialogue have to make a discernable contribution to deepening our knowledge of each other and our understanding for each other.
We need understanding and trust more urgently every day. We must succeed in meeting the Muslims in the European countries in an atmosphere of open-mindedness in order to make living together easier for all of us. Many recent events have shown us in all clarity how important this process is for a flourishing life together in Europe. In our society, nobody should feel marginalised. We are taking on this task on the basis of our European community of values, advocating tolerance, openness, social solidarity and the effective protection of human rights.
I should like to extend a special word of welcome to the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Mrs. Shirin Ebadi. Among other things, she will help us to illuminate the important question of the position of women in Islam.
Let me now gratefully welcome all those who have been active in the intercultural and interreligious dialogue for years. With their tireless and in many cases invisible commitment they all create a culture of dialogue that we need.
Talking about this culture of dialogue, I should like to mention a city in our neighbourhood which was a symbol of the high level of tolerance reached in the coexistence of religions before fanatical nationalism separated people and started to destroy what they had in common - namely Sarajevo. I welcome the Dean of the Faculty of Islamic Studies of the University of Sarajevo, Professor Enes Karic, with special esteem. During our EU Presidency, Austria's policy for South-Eastern Europe will contribute to ensuring that Sarajevo can again become an example of a respectful life together.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
New realities sometimes come upon us with breathtaking speed and without "instructions for use". In our country we can rely on the good climate that exists between our religious communities and to which the Austrian-Islamic religious community makes an essential contribution. Its President Anas Shakfeh has helped us to prepare this conference, offering us his valuable advice.
I should like to extend my cordial greetings to him and to all Muslims in Austria and beyond our borders.
In conclusion, I would like to quote an idea from the writer Amin Maalouf, who in his remarkable essay on identities suggests the following vision for the global society as well as for each individual country:
"Nobody should feel excluded from this emerging common civilisation. Each person should find within it the language of their identity and certain symbols of their culture, so that everybody can find themself - at least a little bit - in this emerging world instead of fleeing to an idealised past. In parallel, we should all incorporate a new component into our identity which will become more and more important in the course of the 21st century: the feeling of being part of the adventure of the human community."


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Obama Orders 1 Million US Troops To "Prepare For Civil War"
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Russian Military Analysts are reporting to Prime Minister Putin today that US President Barack Obama has issued orders to his Northern Command's (USNORTHCOM) top leader, US Air Force General Gene Renuart, to "begin immediately" increasing his military forces to 1 million troops by January 30, 2010, in what these reports warn is an expected outbreak of civil war within the United States before the end of winter.
According to these reports, Obama has had over these past weeks "numerous" meetings with his war council about how best to manage the expected implosion of his Nations banking system while at the same time attempting to keep the United States military hegemony over the World in what Russian Military Analysts state is a "last ditch gambit" whose success is "far from certain".
And to Obama's "last ditch gambit", these reports continue, he is to announce in a nationwide address to his people this coming week that he is going to expand the level of US Military Forces in Afghanistan by tens of thousands of troops, while at the same time using the deployment of these soldiers as a "cover" for returning to the United States over 200,000 additional American soldiers from the over 800 bases in over 39 countries they have stationed around the Globe bringing the level of these forces in America to over 1 million, a number the US Military believes will be able to contain the "explosion of violence" expected to roil these peoples when they learn their economy has been bankrupted.
These reports further state that at the same time Obama will be attempting to keep his Nation from violent disintegration, the tens of thousands of additional troops he will send to Afghanistan are to be ordered to Kandahar where the Americans and their NATO allies will begin their final attempt to secure their TAPI (Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India) pipeline, which without the Western Nations, due to their grave lack of alternative energy resources, and being cut off from these vast Central Asian supplies (which both Russia and China are seeking to insure), are warned will totally collapse.


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Wednesday, September 22, 2010
"La cuisine sur la cour"
Materials: KROKEN rail+cutlery stand, GRUNDTAL containers
Description: I realized this for my sister's kitchen. I used water based enamel to paint every object, then I made decoupage with chicken figures. Then I refined them with handwriting in French.
Do you like it?
~ Roberta, Vicenza, Italy
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- DeltaplanSeptember 22, 2010 10:18 AM
Realization seems very good... But the sentence "La cuisine sur la cour" does not make any sense in French...
Believe me, I'm French... - AnonymousSeptember 22, 2010 10:32 AM
I'm sure they were meaning to say something like "Cooking from the heart" or something like that... except they totally messed up the translation. @ anonymous, thanks i used water base enamel and then decoupage.
@Deltaplan, for the next i'll ask you advice for translation, ahahah! i hope italian guests of my sister's home doesn't speak french!!!!
@tom: you are right! it's for the kitchen and you can put sponge, but also garlics, onions and in the small round boxes you che put spices!
@queen: umidity it's not a problem beause i use flatting to protect decorations! Thanks for appreciating! :)
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My dog was just diagnosed with primary bone cancer (yesterday in fact). She is already 3 legged so amputation is not an option and the vet said that the best we could is to just keep her comfortable until we feel it is time to put her out of her pain. Could you address pain management options and any suggestions as to how/ when to make this very difficult decision?
Lili Duda, VMD, MBE, DACVR Veterinary Radiation Oncologist- University of Pennsylvania, responds:
There are a variety of options to help manage pain associated with bone tumors. We generally start with a combination of an NSAID (nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug) and tramadol (a narcotic-like pain medication). We may also add in adjunctive medications such as amantadine and gabapentin which are not adequate by themselves but work well with the above medications. Narcotics can be used if tramadol is not effective, but they can have side-effects that affect a pet's quality of life such as sleepiness or nausea. The safety of any of these drugs must be discussed with your veterinarian, as every pet's medical status is different. Radiation therapy can be very effective in providing relief from bone cancer pain in many pets. Some owners have reported benefit from acupuncture treatments as well.
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I drive by my favorite tree in all of Grayson on a daily basis. It's located near the Rosebud Road entrance to Bay Creek Middle School. Eleven months out of the year, it's a fairly non-descript tree; tall, green leaves (or no leaves), located right next to an oak or something. The oak tree has already started turning; it's leaves are reddish-golden, and will be orange by the time Halloween rolls around. When you drive by, you look right at and think of Fall.
My favorite tree, meanwhile, just bides it's time.
See, right now, it's in this funky transitional stage: the leaves are still green, but they've taken on a hue that can only be described as seeing HD in real life. The color is vibrant, and when sunlight strikes it, the air around the tree almost seems to get clearer. It's sad that you have to use TV as a simile for the real world, but the experience just defies description. Because in about a week's time, you'll behold colors that just don't appear that often around here.
See, the reason why this is my favorite tree in Grayson is, when its leaves start turning, they don't go the usual red-orange-brown route. These leaves go from a vibrant green to a near glorious yellow, a yellow that I can't even begin to describe in words. And once it changes, that yellow stays around for weeks, until nearly every leaf has left the branches and scattered to the winds. It's a transformation unlike any other tree around here, because of it's sheer brilliance.
From green to yellow in the most vivid, spectacular of colors. From yellow to barren. From barren to green. And so on.
This is a stupid post. I wholeheartedly recognize that. Not one person in Grayson really cares about my observations about a tree on Rosebud Road. Not when we're surrounded by a thousand other trees tricked out in the finest of Fall fashions. Honestly, when you can look around you and see color exploding everywhere, why should this one tree matter? So it's different. Big deal.
I guess why I'm writing about it is the fact that it takes me out of my daily routine when I drive by it. I've spent the last week or so anxiously looking to see if the leaves were beginning to turn. I've wasted precious minutes thinking about how to describe the way it looks. Even this morning, despite the fact that I've driven by that tree about 70 times, I still find myself staring at it, wondering why it changes the way it changes, why the colors are so stunning, why it is that I am fascinated by its existence.
Sure there's beauty all around. But not like this.
It's the rarity that makes it magnificent, the simplicity of its beauty. From one color to another in breathtaking fashion. Living in a world where beauty can often be a moving target (have you ever watched Top Model or Project Runway?), it's easy to get confused about what truly makes something beautiful; and in the confusion, it's easy to forget to look for beauty, because you don't know where to find it.
Enter my tree.
I know. I'm a weirdo, and I've now wasted moments of your life on a stupid tree. I wish I could put the feeling into words better. Perhaps the best way to end it all is to just say this:
Sometimes, I just needed to be reminded that simple beauty is magnificent too.
Maybe more so.
Sharon Swanepoel
10:43 am on Thursday, October 25, 2012
You didn't waste my time at all Jason. I took a photo of a tree in my daughter's neighborhood today, just because of the sheer beauty of it. I think autumn and spring are sent to remind us of the beauty that is all around us, but we tend to miss by getting caught up in life. The changes are necessary to remind us true beauty is still there. Well, autumn, spring and that first clean snow in winter. Summer is usually just too hot to care!
Laura Paul-Cone
11:59 am on Thursday, October 25, 2012
I don't think this is silly at all. I have a favorite tree that I look forward to each year as well. It's on the city property kind of behind the Arts and History Center on the border of the property where the old Starling house once sat. Actually there are 3 very vivid trees there right now but the one in the middle is my favorite.
Gail Moore
11:59 am on Thursday, October 25, 2012
If the "up close" of the leaves is of that tree, Jason, it is a special tree for many reasons. It's Gingko Tree - a "living fossil" and that's very cool. When I was in high school, we learned that this is one of those trees that actually is either a male or female tree and while they "bloom", fruit is only produced if they can find each other - and after the tree matures (around 20 years old). Pretty cool. The reason we took a field trip one year in high school is that the lone tree on our campus began bearing fruit ... our job was to find the "male" tree within a particular radius because, honestly, none were known to our biology teacher. We found it on a side street about a mile from the high school - one of the BEST field trip/scavenger hunts EVER!
And this time of the year, the chartreuse leaves are absolutely one of fall's beautiful colors.
Jason Brooks
1:43 pm on Thursday, October 25, 2012
The pictures are of my tree, Gail, so that's really cool to know! And it's cool that they let y'all just go roaming about to look for a tree as a field trip. And that you actually walked to find it...
Gail Moore
12:18 pm on Friday, October 26, 2012
Back in the dark ages, before we had computers in the class room, research was done on foot! :)
1:03 pm on Thursday, October 25, 2012
Jason, I don't think you're weird at all. If so, you're not alone as I, too, am watching this tree each time I pass by. I've also been known to take photos of it over the past several years. What is so amazing to me is it's just standing there doing its own thing but giving pleasure to so many other people. Another of God's gifts to us!
Brian Roos
9:50 am on Friday, October 26, 2012
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