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Jerusalem — The Iranian threat. Political unrest in Syria and Egypt. Relations with the Palestinians. Israel-diaspora issues. And, internally, angst over the ever-growing gap between the country's haves and have-nots, and anger over religious extremism.
Add to this the American presidential elections and possible elections in Israel and the Palestinian-ruled areas, and 2012 promises to be a quite a year for Israel.
By all accounts, 2011 was a relatively introspective period for Israelis. Though Palestinians in Gaza sent plenty of rockets into southern Israel, as well as representatives to the UN, the fact that there was no major war enabled the public to focus on domestic issues like the high cost of living, the distribution of wealth, and religious coercion.
Inspired perhaps by the popular uprisings in the Arab world, ordinary Israelis pitched tents in the country's parks and demanded a larger slice of the Israeli dream: lower taxes, affordable housing and stipends for young people who serve their country.
Tempers also flared over the attempts by haredi extremists' to marginalize women by forcing them to the back of public buses, questioning their right to sing at public events and erasing their images from advertisements.
Assuming the security situation doesn't deteriorate, the trend toward introspection will likely continue, says Yossi Klein Halevi, a Hartman Institute fellow.
In the past year, Halevi said, Israelis made a "conceptual breakthrough" in confronting longstanding domestic problems. If Israel doesn't find itself in a major war, "that process will deepen," and focus on two areas: the "imbalance" in the haredi relationship with the Israeli mainstream, and the growing difficulty of the Israeli middle class to maintain a reasonable standard of living.
"The wild card, of course, is Iran and the growing threat of Islamists in the Middle East generally," Halevi said.
The challenge for Israel, he believes, "is to face external threats which are potentially existential in the short term, without losing its ability to continue the conversation about our domestic problems, some of which are potentially existential in the long term."
David Passig, the head of the communications and information technology program at Bar Ilan University and author of "The Future Code," believes that Iran is at the top of the Israeli worry list.
"Most Israelis are very, very, very much concerned. The feeling in the street is that something is about to happen. Something huge. Before the Six-Day War, there was the same feeling."
Passig wouldn't be surprised if Israel attacks Iran in the coming months. Nor would he be shocked if Iran and its allies, Hezbollah and Syria, attempt a preemptive strike using conventional weapons.
"I'm talking about hundreds of rockets daily over a very long period," he said, ruling out nuclear weapons.
If that happens, Passig said, with a flair for understatement, "everything else that happens in 2012 will be colored by these events."
While Stuart Schoffman, a journalist and fellow at the Hartman Institute thinks that Iran poses a real threat, he believes that threat is "in the forefront" of Israeli sensibilities partly because "the authorities have put it there. It is something that can be a unifying factor, a fear factor, and it is something that is impossible to prove wrong."
Schoffman said that Israelis are increasingly drawn to social issues like corruption in the Prime Minister's Office not only because they're important to society, but also because they're more palatable than, say, impending nuclear holocaust.
"When social issues are on the front page, it's a relief because existential danger isn't the top story," he said. Having a "wider smorgasbord of news" helps Israelis believe they're living in a "normal" country.
Like a lot of Israelis, Schoffman is waiting to see whether Israel will hold elections this year.
If elections do take place this year, the process could bring some much-needed change. Or not.
"Is it possible the next Knesset will be even worse than this one?" Schoffman asked. "Is it possible the social protest movement will somehow transform itself into a viable political movement? Will there emerge some charismatic leader beyond the 'same old same old' with something serious and productive to say?"
While one can dream, Schoffman has no illusions about Israel suddenly becoming a more tolerant country, particularly with regard to religious pluralism.
"I think the Orthodox hegemony in Israeli politics and culture is deeply rooted."
And the fact that this is a source of contention with American Jews, the majority of whom aren't Orthodox, "is not very high on the Israeli political and social agenda," Schoffman said, clearly frustrated.
Yossi Alpher, coeditor of the political website bittterlemons.net, says overall U.S.-Israel relations should remain "on an even keel" because President Obama won't risk alienating Jewish voters so close to Election Day.
Alpher also thinks Benjamin Netanyahu is eager to hold elections before Americans go to the polls, not least because he needs a "vote of confidence" from the Israeli public in the event Obama is re-elected.
"He's afraid a reelected Obama will be tougher on Israel because the president's hands won't be tied by domestic considerations," Alpher says.
Alpher refused to speculate on whether Netanyahu might feel emboldened to strike Iran at a time when objections from Obama could cost the president vital votes.
The analyst did, however, predict that the Israeli government "will continue to be very cautious" toward Middle East countries in the midst of political and social upheaval.
This despite the fact that, Syria, which shares a border with Israel, has descended into chaos.
"What concerns me is that Israel, to my mind, has an interest in the downfall of the Assad regime" because it would deal a blow to Iran's penetration in the region and could weaken Hezbollah in Lebanon.
At the same time, Alpher said, Assad's ouster could lead to a flood of Syrian refugees into the Golan Heights, and a Syrian civil war. Things Israel clearly doesn't want.
"The general inclination is to stay out of it and hope for the best," Alpher said.
With the exception of such benign actions as working with the Egyptians to keep smugglers and refugees out of Sinai, or meeting with Jordan's King Abdullah to boost the Arab leader's prestige, Israeli will do its best to butt out, Alpher predicted.
Adrenaline junkies though they are, most Israelis are hoping for a relatively quiet year, where housing prices, not bomb shelters, are the top headline-makers. ◆
This article is rather interesting. It starts off with a neutral attitude but, swings decidedly towards the left while trying to disguise this. Lets call it the way it is; Israel is going to have to get off of the fence and fight back with what it has, superior air power, superior occupation forces. The fact remains that, sorry to say, the only way these people have to be treated is with a big stick! Never moind the U.N., or the U.S. liberal voices telling Israel to back off, just do it and do it once and for all,silence their ability to send any rockets into Israeli spacew. TRhe price of Israeli lives is too high to be arguing whether or not to defendmherself with soft vs. hard defenses. Give it all you got, take the territories that were ceeded to the Palestinieans and call it a day once and for all. They started this Intifada, we must treat it as a war, to the victor belong the spoils and they will lose all the land they we ceeded and will never get it back again.
As for YOUR comment guidelines, If we were to strictly follow the guidelines, there would be no comments possible.. That means that given these rules, YOU are decidedly Ultra Liberal.
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I'm not sure when they went missing. It's only one blog. My network is using Easy Digital Downloads, and the custom roles created by EDD are available. On all other sites users are registered as subscribers and I can add new users and set their role accordingly. On one blog, however, the only options are EDD's custom roles. Therefore, default users are being created as Shop Accountants. Not good!
I don't need any custom capabilities for the default roles, I just want them to 'reset' or whatever I need to do to get them back.
I read a few other threads about going through the database, but that seemed to be referring to tables created the old way... this install is subdomains and was just created on WP 3.5.
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[Elliot Williams'] column, Embed with Elliot, just did a great series on interrupts. It came in three parts, illustrating the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of using interrupts on embedded systems. More than a few memories floated by while reading it. Some pretty painful because debugging interrupt problems can be a nightmare.
One of the things I've learned to watch out for over the years is the subtlety of stack based languages, like C/C++, which can ensnare the unwary. This problem has to do with the corruption of arrays of values on a stack during interrupt handling. The fix for this problem points up another one often used by black hats to gain access to systems.
Continue reading "Code Craft: Subtle Interrupt Problems Stack Up"


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New Duracell DRPP600 Powerpack 600 Jump Starter and Emergency Power Source
We don't know when or if this item will be back in stock.
- Enter your model number to make sure this fits.
- Note: DPP-600HD is Hazmat and is non-returnable
- Contains one DC outlet and three three-pronged AC outlets (480-watt continuous / 600-watt peak) to power multiple devices, appliances and tools
- Built-in 600-watt power inverter, 5-watt flashlight, overload/over-temperature protection and reverse polarity detection
- Sealed, non-spillable 28Ah AGM battery and detachable alligator clamps for jump-starting cars (up to 8-cylinder)
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My unit failed to take a charge finally. I did have another unit that failed and a note of caution here. These devices are not perfected yet. True when they function they are unbeatable but they still can fail prematurely. When they work there is nothing better. The key here is price i think. I paid well under 100 and they have been recently priced at 149. I would not pay anywhere near that for the power supply as they do not last. If i had paid the 149 and it failed after three years that comes to a cost of 50 per years usage and that is not worth the cost. This power supply with a combined power inverter is a great idea, they just need to improve the quality of the battery within or make it so you can merely swap out the battery inside when it dies. Again, my experience has been awesome as to performance but it isnt a device which provides durability with certainty. If they made it so one could go to a battery dealer and get a replacement battery to insert then it is worth what they are asking.
If you have a need for a solid unit and you luck out with a good one then you will not be disappointed until it eventually fails. It will provide you with stellar results until it dies. The question is this... Is it worth the price for the time it lasts? Only you can answer that.
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I have a commercial lincoln used as a limo. I am very hard on batteries with all the electrical demand i place on them.Read more ›
Put the Powerpack to the test on a full week trip recently. Through the whole week, it was used for a number of purposes. Including, recharging cell phones, camera batteries, various media devices. It also was used to power a compressor to air up 3 different air mattress (including a queen), and refill them as needed. It also ran a hair straightener and blow dryer a few times. And it was used to run a breathing treatment machine for a friends asthma at least once a day. Might have been used for other things.
The results. The Powerpack lasted through day 5 of a 7 day trip, but we had brought along a lawn battery to attach as a backup. It was simple to setup, and the provided the power we needed for the last 2 days. The main battery lasted about as long as I thought it would, so I was satisified throughout.
The reasons why it didn't get 5 stars. Two reasons, and both kinda minor. One, no way to turn off the clock. I know its not much of a drain on a battery this size, but I would prefer to maximize my usuage. And two, the power meter is no super accurate. It showed 90% power on Day 4, 70% power on day 5, only to be out of power come the morning of day 6.
To be fair though, a few things where plugged into it overnight from day 5 to 6. Those items where low power or turned off. So its hard to say if they caused the drain. Maybe if they hadn't been plugged in, the main battery would have lasted all week.
Overall, very happy with the purchase.
Here's what I think is wrong with this product. Gel cells (the battery inside the Powerpack) can't sit for a long time in storage without charging because their internal resistance goes up (something called sulfation). When that happens the battery can seem fully charged, but it isn't because the resistance prevents it from really charging. I don't think these Powerpack products move out the door rapidly enough, so many sit in storage too long before being sold. If you are lucky, you'll get one that hasn't been stored too long and won't have a problem. Unfortunately for me, I wasn't lucky and I'm unwilling to spin the wheel again.Read more ›
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"Great quality, perfect colors. fast shipping. We used these as labels for the top of a small mason jar for wedding favors. Perfect fit."
"I purchase these adhesive gift tags so I don't need a card to attach cards to a children's birthday gift. they rarely care about the card and it often becomes detached. I made a set of these with a picture of my boys and their names. Everyone loves them! It's also helpful for the parents to know who the gift is from in large classes. I know I'm more likely to recognize a photo than a name."


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I've been asked a time or two in the Outlook2CRM forums about the possibilities of having Outlook2CRM match an e-mail with a SalesLogix conact using something other than the standard method of using the e-mail sender's address to locate a matching contact. This is certainly possible with Outlook2CRM and is an easy task.
Out of the box, the Outlook2CRM buttons all use the built-in methods of locating a matching contact from the sender's e-mail address and also make use of the Contact Match Dialog to prompt the user for how to match with the contact. The settings that tell the buttons to do this are all configurable in the Outlook2CRM Toolbar Editor. Please note, to change these properties you do need the Outlook2CRM Developer License.
There are a few different button properties that tell Outlook2CRM to automatically match up with a contact using the sender's e-mail address. They are the following:
Make sense? So, as you can see from those properties, you can easily turn off the out of the box contact matching for Outlook2CRM if you'd like.
Let's say that I wanted to have the "Ticket" button no longer match on the sender's e-mail address, but instead to parse an address from the message body and then proceed as normal. An easy enough task with Outlook2CRM. Let's take a look:
The Outlook2CM Addin Client API script has methods for setting the "matched" contact or account to use, Addin_SetAccount & Addin_SetContact. We can create our own custom scheme for determining what the matched records are and then set the appropriate records using those API methods. Then the other screens, such as the Outlook2CRM Ticket screen (that allows the user to select to create a new ticket, or update an existing one) will use the values we've set in the API.
Let's say our e-mail body looks like this:
Source: WebsiteEmail: email@example.com: This is the description of the issue
Source: WebsiteEmail: firstname.lastname@example.com: This is the description of the issue
We want to match on the e-mail value located in the body, not the sender's address. To do this, we will open the Toolbar Editor and change the following properties for the Ticket button (or create a new button with these properties):
AutoContactMatch = FalseUseContactMatchScreen = False
Now, we'll open the script "Outlook2CRM Event - Create Ticket" (again, or create a new script instead) and add something along the lines of the following code:
Sub Main
Dim lines
Dim email
Dim i
Dim rs
Dim sql
Dim retval
lines = Split(Addin_Body, vbCrLf)
For i = LBound(lines) To UBound(lines)
If Left(LCase(lines(i)), 5) = "email" Then
email = Trim(Mid(lines(i), 7))
sql = "select firstname + ' ' + lastname as contactname, " & _
"contactid from contact where email like '" & email & "'"
Set rs = Application.GetNewConnection.Execute(sql)
If rs.RecordCount > 0 Then
'Lets set the matched contact
Addin_SetContact rs.Fields("contactid").Value, rs.Fields("contactname").Value & ""
retval = "success"
'No match, let's create a new contact/account
Addin_SetContactAction 2 'this tells the API we're going to create a contact *and* account
Application.BasicFunctions.DoInvoke "ActiveScript", "Outlook2CRM:Outlook2CRM Global - Create Contact Account"
retval = Application.BasicFunctions.InvokeResult
End If
Set rs = Nothing
End If
'Now continue on to create the ticket
If LCase(retval) = "success" Then Application.BasicFunctions.DoInvoke "Form", "Outlook2CRM:Outlook2CRM Dialog - Select Ticket Action"
End Sub
That would solve it and we'd still get to use the other Outlook2CRM screens. Make sense?


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Four Seasons Names Prudential Exec President/CEO
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TORONTO—Allen Smith, currently CEO of Prudential Real Estate Investors (PREI), will become President/CEO of Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts.
Smith will assume the post effective September 23.
Smith has served as CEO of PREI since 2008. During his tenure, the company expanded to 23 offices worldwide and $53 billion in real estate assets under management, including many hotels. He joined PREI in 1987 as a member of its hotel investment group after earning his master's degree from Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration.
His Royal Highness Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, chairman of Kingdom Holding Company, which is a long-term shareholder in Four Seasons along with Cascade Investment and Triples Holdings, said in a statement, "The success of Four Seasons as the world's greatest luxury hospitality company has resulted from the incredibly strong and consistent vision that the company has pursued from its inception. We have enjoyed a strong relationship over 20 years as the company has evolved and grown, and we look forward to continuing to work closely with our friends at Cascade and Triples to support Allen as CEO."
Michael Larson, CIO of Cascade Investment, also stated, "We see great market opportunities to further expand the Four Seasons brand worldwide. Allen is a proven global growth leader and investor who fits well with our strong company culture and understands the value of preserving the quality of the existing brand. We are excited to work closely with our great partners and Allen to execute the established strategic plan for the company."
For his part, Smith stated, "Having led a global real estate investment business, I am convinced there is no greater hotel brand and the market demand for Four Seasons around the world is enormous. This is a remarkable situation for me to leverage the complete range of skills developed over my career and it is an honor to help take one of the world's most admired companies to even greater heights and more great places."
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Skip to comments.Chick-Fil-A Gay Flap A 'Wakeup Call' For Companies
Posted on 07/27/2012 4:25:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Atlanta-based Chick-fil-A has long stood by its Bible-based roots, keeping stores closed on Sundays and donating millions to Christian causes. But when its president, Dan Cathy, went public to defend his company's stance against gay marriage, he set off a considerable controversy that has everyone from politicians to puppets weighing in.
First telling the Baptist Press his company supported the "biblical definition of the family unit," Cathy then told the radio program The Ken Coleman Show, "I pray God's mercy on our generation that has such a prideful, arrogant attitude to think that we would have the audacity to try to redefine what marriage is all about."
The backlash spread swiftly. Boston's mayor pledged to block the chicken sandwich stores from opening in Beantown, a Chicago alderman said he'll try to stop a franchise from opening in his ward and the Jim Henson Co. cutoff its Chick-fil-A collaboration. Because it's a private company, it will be difficult to measure the bottom-line impact of all the attention.
Social Media Spread
Americus Reed, a marketing professor at University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School who studies brand loyalty, says Cathy underestimated what might happen once his comments to a niche religious publication and a syndicated radio show spread to a wider audience.
"I think this is part of the wake-up call for companies to understand that social media makes these decisions very, very risky," Reed said, "because it's much easier now for these messages to get out to consumers and consumers to virtually organize."
Support For Gay Rights
But other companies see the risks of going public on controversial issues differently. This year, a handful of big brands have made headlines for taking the opposite side supporting same-sex rights and benefits.
"From time to time we are going to make a decision that we think is consistent with the heritage and the tradition of the company that perhaps may be inconsistent with one group's view of the world," Howard Schultz, Starbucks CEO, said at a shareholder meeting in March.
He explained the coffee giant's pro-gay positions were about making its employees proud and aligning with its corporate values.
"Since we made that decision there has not been any dilution whatsoever in our business, and as you can see, shareholder value has increased significantly," Schultz said, citing revenue growth in the face of efforts like DumpStarbucks.com, led by pro-family organizations.
The lure of dollars from a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender market is another likely motivator for taking certain social stands. Marketing firm Witeck-Combs estimated the LGBT market's buying power at $800 billion last year.
"I think it's a sign of the times to try and speak to other groups that potentially one has not had a connection with, and that's just part and parcel with trying to grow your market," Reed said.
But beyond the big bucks, corporate reputation specialist Sekou Bermiss says companies may be motivated to contribute to community good.
"More and more, you see firms that are trying to or feel obliged to certain issues in society, [to] do some greater good in society," Bermiss said.
Boycotts And Bottom Lines
Starbucks, Target and General Mills all stepped into the same-sex marriage issue by supporting gay marriage legislation in their home states. Each face ongoing boycotts led by the American Family Association and the National Organization for Marriage for doing so. The National Organization for Marriage said it's uncertain whether its boycotts are having an impact on businesses.
And after JC Penney hired Ellen DeGeneres as its spokesperson, the socially conservative group One Million Moms called for her firing.
"They wanted to get me fired and I'm proud and happy to say that JC Penney stuck by their decision to make me their spokesperson," DeGeneres said on her show. The retailer also started running Mother's Day and Father's Day ads featuring same-sex couples.
But Reed says companies that make a social argument for business gain should be prepared to change course if an outcry leads to longer term losses.
"Most brands are keeping their heads down because these are very controversial sorts of strategies. And it probably makes sense good business sense to not weigh in on these issues," Reed said.
That's a lesson Chick-fil-A seems to be learning quickly.
It declined requests for an interview, but in a statement said, "Going forward, our intent is to leave the policy debate to the political arena
You know, I WOULD love to see what happens if npr doesn't receive public funding.
To think, he's taking heat for standing up for traditional marriage WITHOUT condemning anything.
Black is white, up is down, etc.
Chick-Fil-A sales are way up, and J.C. Penney common stock has TANKED.
This idiot prof is right by being wrong.
Chick-Fil-A is going to prosper like never before.
My family stopped shopping at JCP after they went gay. There's other places we can go that don't put deviants in their advertising.
I have added them to my weekly lunch rotatation, beginning today. I am but one meal a week, but I suspect I am not alone.
Unless they lose business licences, leases, etc. They could be forced out of business.
Add Amazon to the fray. It will be interesting to see how this works out.
I rarely frequent fast food joints, but I am going to make an effort to eat more chicken from now on. They just got four new customers from my immediate family.
"It declined requests for an interview, but in a statement said, "Going forward, our intent is to leave the policy debate to the political arena."
Because we're raking in tons of cash and serving so many people this week, we don't have time to talk to the press.
I am hitting the local one tomorrow for lunch, I am sure I will not be alone
I have now - as of yesterday two within 5 miles & I never eaten at them. Starting this week they will see me - that's for sure.
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Why is it OK for companies to state support for a political position but not against it (rhetorical question, I know the answer)? I barely remember a peep when Starbucks supported gay marriage, didn't even know about Target and General Mills. Oh well - thanks for the article, need to start my list from this of those places I won't shop at anymore - Starbuck's coffee pretty much sucks and is too expensive anyway.
I bet they scare away ALL of their customers and force them to shut their doors.
Won't they be PROUD?
"That's a lesson Chick-fil-A seems to be learning quickly."
That's some darn crazy spin as Chick-Fil-A is laughing all the way to the bank. I can't wait to get my beach towel from them. I wish they could ship their chicken.
Defunding NPR and PBS should be one of the first things on the agenda in the next congress ... Along with defunding ObamaCare, Education, DHS, TSA, HHS, Commerce, Ag, Energy, EPA, HUD and every board and commission that has an ethnic name in it. (btw, that is just the short list off the top of my head.)
National (Anti-American) "Propaganda" Radio
As I understand it, gays make up only 2 or 3 percent of the population.
Having that as a guide, I would much rather sell my product for a dollar to the 98 percent and have their ongoing business, than to make $300 per sale from the 2 percent by selling my morals and credibility down the sewer.
Evidently the managers of stores like Penny's and Starbutts had this guy for their college professor.
JC Penny's has seen the last of my money, and Starbutts coffee is awful, so I won't miss them, heck, I won't even go to their "going out of business" sale.
I bet they scare away ALL of their customers and force them to shut their doors.
Won't they be PROUD? ]
The lure of dollars from a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender market is another likely motivator for taking certain social stands. Marketing firm Witeck-Combs estimated the LGBT market's buying power at $800 billion last year.
If this is all about getting the LGBT to buy their products then perhaps they should take a look at the rest of their customer base who will be turned off over the LGBT pandering. Will the increased dollars from them match the dollars they will lose otherwise?
Maybe they need to look at JC Penney or Chick-fil-A for an answer to that.
Likely that could be addressed by tort.
The city of Half Moon Bay CA, screwed a developer at the behest of local environazis. He sued and won. He effectively owns the entire city now, they can't pay and have closed most departments and fired nearly all employees.
Dinner at CfA beats pledging to NPR.
Meet S. Truett Cathy, The 91-Year-Old Billionaire Behind Chick-Fil-A
Abilene is a conservative town, but I had to wait a half hour at the Chick Fillet at the mall today. It was busier than I have ever seen it. I believe someone on Facebook called for everyone to support them. and they sure did.
The local Chick-Fil-A is kinda out of my way normally. I'll be off work next week and plan to eat there often. I've always liked their food and will support them with my patronage as often as possible.
Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos and his wife, MacKenzie, announced Friday they are donating $2.5 million to the campaign to defend Washingtons same-sex marriage law.
In November Washington State voters will vote on Referendum 74 to reject a law that would legalize same-sex marriage in the state. Bezos is kicking in dollars that could be used to improve the economy so that he can steer Washington State voters to keep same-sex marriage legal.
Same-sex marriage is a Trojan Horse for something more even more insidious: The elimination of the principle of Natural Law. Natural Law is tied intimately with the idea of traditional marriage—one-man-one woman. Natural Law is also tied to our Bill of Rights and the Constitution. Natural Law is a principle that the Left hates because it is the basis of our freedom: God ordained freedom and the natural order of marriage are both inalienable.
It is time to work for a new Constitutional Amendment: Marriage is a protected union between one-man and one-woman. We need to protect America from the savages who want to take away our freedom and tear down our institutions.
Dan Vathy is under fire for taking the same position about homosexual "marriage" that Obama publically took until he changed his mind.
Obama was agin it before he was for it.
(even though we all knew he was a flaming faggot)
Penneys paid good money to advertise to the sodomites.
Chick-fil-A didnt pay a dime and are just on the peak of the wave right now.
Some folks are stupid.
Some aint.
Something you won't hear mentioned about Chick-Fil-a during this media bashing. A few years back when there was a mad cow scare in the USA, Mr Cathy pulled the company's "Eat more Chickin" cow commercials to not take advantage of the beef scare. He is a man of principle
By all appearances, the "wake up call" to Chick-fil-A is that "supporting traditional values makes your sales skyrocket".
At 2:30 today, my local CFA was full of customers, and they said that they have been crowded for days now. And it is still five days before the "buy-cott" there.
I truly think that the public has been pushed too far with the nasty liberal cultural agendas, and they are fed up. Buying chicken sandwiches is just the first indicator of people telling liberals to crawl back into their hole, and take their stupid ideas with them.
That's "Eat-Mor-Chikn."
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Excuse me NPR punks and punkettes, but I am unaware of any corporate policy at Chick-Fil-A regarding same sex marriage or any other gay rights agenda item. Mr. Cathy certainly has a personal opinion on the matter— but unless you can show me that Chick-Fil-A actually has a corporate position on the matter, maybe you should just stick to facts rather than shrill anti-Christian bigotry...
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Marriage usually results in parents.
Parents always have issue, offspring i.e., children., by definition.
2 Gays cannot have issue ever and not usually ever.
Ergo gays cannot fit definition of parents.
Ergo gays cannot fit the definition and actual reality of marriage.
Ergo- gay marriage is a fallacy and an oxymoron.
Argument No. 2:
Parents always have issue.
Sometimes the issue turns out to be gay.
Gays always issue from straight parents.
Gays cannot be issued from "gay marriages".
Straights cannot be issued from "gay marriages".
Ergo gays are dependent upon straight marriages` parents for their issue into the world.
Ergo married parents in such a "straight" marriage union is superior
to so-called "gay marriage".
Therefore, there is no such thing as "straight marriage", because "straight marriage" fulfills the defintion of "marriage" completely.
Ergo both are are unequal and
Therefore "gay marriage" and marriage are not the same.
The inferior "gay marriage" aspires to be the equal of traditional marrriage but is unequal as in above— Therefore
"gay marriage" is a contradiction in terms.
Ergo, "gay marriage" is based on false assumptions.
Ergo, "gay marriage" is a falsehood in name and in fact.
Thus there is no such thing as "straight marriage" because it fulfills the entire definition of a marriage.
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"Gay marriage" aspiring to be a part of the marriage defintion, cannot be that, because the part does not equal the whole.
Therefore "gay marriage" is also violating the unchanging principle of mathemathics wherein the Part does not equal the Whole.
Thus "gay marriage" is a complete falsehood.
Yeah, I've seen those headlines as well already. Oh, well I'll be looking for some other online business to deal with from now on. I have spent a lot of money with Amazon up until now. I've already deleted their bookmark from my browser. Not another penny will be spent with a company that sides with moral decadence and corruption. Hey, it's my money and I'll spend it where I want and I wish not to spend with a company who jumps into bed with the looney queers and fags.
Because of all the pro-homo laws being passed/ruled, they think they have us on the run. They are in for a rude awakening.
My grandfather knew James Cash Penney who enlisted his help opening the early stores across the country. He told me many stories about J.C. Penney's founder. I know for certain that not only is James Penney rolling in his grave, but my grandfather is rolling in his grave to see this great business slouching towards Gomorrah.
Today, I see J.C. Penney slouching towards Chapter 11 and they are seriously misguided if they think they can patronize the gay community enough to pull them out from disaster. They are playing a very big gamble in a game with serious consequences.
The nearest one to me is 26 miles away but I will be making it a point to travel there as often as I can. I plan to drive there within the next day or so just to get some of their fine food and even get some to take home with me. I just realized that I hadn't eaten there for many years and that is about to change.
Sad thing is the fruit community does not frequent places like Chic-fil-A nor JC Penney. Amazon perhaps but they have lost my business as has JC Penney(I've purchased all of my kids school clothes there in the past).
Companies might want to stop and research who their actual customers are before jumping on the bandwagon of perversion. Most of this harrassment is just posturing to see how much control they can gain over middle America and what we think and believe.
The problem is that about half of the 98% have been convinced that homosexuality is a protected class and to oppose their wishes is to be a bigot.
In my part of the country we don't have Chick-fil-A restaurants and I never heard of them until this flap. This week I had a stop over in Philadelphia and there was a Chick-fil-A in the food court. I ordered up a sandwich, waffle fries and drink and thanked the clerk. It was great and the line at C-f-A was longer than any other line in the food area.
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|Aloft is an addon that allows you to customize and enchance how nameplates and nameplate casting bars appear in the game. It is a fully self-contained addon, however it can take advantage of the following addons if they are installed: 1. MobHealth3 - Health text of mobs can be displayed right on the nameplate. Make sure you have r32001 of MobHealth3 or later The customization options in Aloft allow you to change the size, shape, anchors, font, font options, textures and colors of: 1. Name...
|Feb 25, 2015
|Display combo points for Arcane Blast debuffs This should work with all UnitFrame addons. Confirmed to work with the following: Default Blizzard Targetframe ag_UnitFrames ShadowedUnitFrames X-Perl UnitFrames PitBull Unit Frames 4.0 IceHUD Please comment if it works with yours.
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|Aug 26, 2016
|An AddOn that displays your bodyguard's current health in a frame on the screen. Usage Go grab your bodyguard and the healthframe will pop up! The frame can be unlocked and moved from the options. Configuring Run the /bgh options command in-game to bring up the options window. New in v2.0.0 Version 2.0.0 enables targeting of the bodyguard by clicking on the frame! Bug reports and suggestions It would be greatly appreciated if bug reports and feature suggestions were made on the GitHub project...
|Jul 31, 2016
|Broker_HealBot is a simple LibDataBroker (LDB) launcher for HealBot. Automatically hides the HealBot minimap icon and provides one-click access to HealBot options, reset, toggle and skin selection. Requires HealBot and any LDB display addon. A few options are available via the /bhb command. Includes optional automatic skin switching via /bhb auto, with a smarter algorithm than the one built into HealBot: auto-selects a skin on group change when you have skins named "party", "solo" and...
|Sep 14, 2010
|ChainMap is an experimental addon that I'm doing by myself and which use is to see raid members as they are around you, in a graphical interface; it will display in circles who needs some help and where your chainheal should be landing to achieve a better healing performance.
|Apr 13, 2011
|Provides the ability to suppress specific spell casts from showing a cast bar in your UI. Originally designed to help with the Reliquary of Souls encounter in Black Temple, where melee needed to interrupt Spirit Shock and ignore Deaden, this addon is still helpful to avoid reflex interrupts on spells you're suppose ignore.
|Apr 29, 2014
|Very simply addon. It loads a short file, that technically can be put into a macro, but this addon makes it run automatically every time you log in so you don't have to click the macro.
|Jul 27, 2016
|Tiny addon that makes you appear elite when you target yourself. Works with any unit frame. Does not make your player frame elite, for that use Elite Player Frame.
ElvUI Clique Datatext
|Aug 07, 2016
|A small datatext for ElvUI that allows 1-click access to the Clique-GUI and Clique-bind interface
ElvUI Currencies Datatext
|Aug 07, 2016
|A dataText Plugin for ElvUI that shows all your currencies Datatext summary • Highly modifiable • Datatext is changable through right-click menu • Display as many or as little currencies as you like • Option to hide a currency group as a whole or just induvidual currencies • "hidden" currencies will be listed in a tooltip • Option to hide/show tooltip • Option to hide/show icons • Datatext will give a visual warning through color-change on the datatext-bar when reaching/approaching currency...
ElvUI Draenor Currencies DataText
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|A simple DataText plugin for ElvUI that shows all the relevant currencies for WoD. Tracked currencies • Apexis Crystals • Artfact Fragments • Dingy Iron Coins • Garrison Resources • Nethershard • Oil • Seal of Tempered Fate • Seal of Inevitable Fate • Valor • Timewarped Badge Right-click options menu Right-clicking the datatext will present to you a menu, in which, you can enable/disable tracking for that specific currency. Option to show/hide icons on the datatext Features The font color of...
ElvUI Legion Currencies DataText
|Aug 10, 2016
|A simple DataText plugin for ElvUI that shows all the relevant currencies for Legion. Tracked currencies • Ancient Mana • Curious Coin • Nethershard • Order Resources • Seal of Broken Fate • Shadowy Coins • Sightless Eye • Timeworn Artifact Right-click options menu Right-clicking the datatext will present to you a menu, in which, you can enable/disable tracking for that specific currency. Option to show/hide icons on the datatext Features The font color of a currency changes when you approach...
ElvUI Reincarnation Datatext
|Aug 07, 2016
|A small datatext for ElvUI-using Shamans that gives them accurate info about their Reincarnation cooldown and allows 1-click reporting of the cooldown status to party/raid chat This addon does NOT work without ElvUI Youtube: (Best to watch in full HD)
Enigma Unit Frames
|Aug 23, 2016
|Summary This is a continued maintenance project of the Enigma Unit Frames ( EN_UnitFrames ). The project is originally started by a player named 'Enigma' on 2006, who has quit wow game and stopped the maintenance of this addon on 2007. Another famous addon author from China, xazhaoyang829, continued the maintenance of this addon until wow version 3.0.3. Nowadays, Enigma Unit Frames ( EN_UnitFrames ) is maintained by Taiwan players from 2008 to present. Enigma Unit Frames ( EN_UnitFrames )...
EZMode Unit Frames
|Dec 05, 2010
|Really simple unit frames with minimal configurable options. Meant to be light weight and functional. Tries to follow the *nix way of doing things.
|Jul 21, 2010
|This addon will let you be able to move your unit frames where you want and how it looks. You can display the amount of threat or damage is going on between the group/raid. Each frame will be able to be scrolled through to see different things like total damage/healing done in the group/raid or things like amount of achievement points or even gearscore. A healing mode can be active so that the frames for each member in the group/raid will be able to tell you who needs healing or who has a...
|Mar 09, 2015
|GladiusEx is an arena unit frames addon based on Gladius. What's new New features include: Party frames: support for showing frames for your own team Cooldown tracker: a highly configurable module for tracking all types of cooldowns Skill history: shows the icons of the last few skills used by the unit Alerts: makes the frames blink in a noticeable way during some configured events (including low health, auras and specific spells being cast) Pets: new module for displaying pet bars And the...
|Aug 27, 2016
|What is Grid2 ? Grid2 is a party/raid unit frame addon. Grid2 is fully customizable. New zones (indicators) can be defined in unit frames to display information (statuses). The indicators can be customized and placed anywhere. Grid2 supports several types of indicators: icon, icons, square, text, bar, multibar. You can configure what statuses are displayed on each indicator. Grid2 includes a huge amount of available statuses, but not all enabled be default, look through the configuration and...
|Jul 27, 2016
|GridAutoSizeLayout GridAutoSizeLayout resizes the Grid frame to fit any raid composition. Are you tired of: Having to change Grid layout every time you want to do a world boss? Seeing empty space on your Grid frame because its set to 40 man and there are only 15 people in your BG? Well prepare to have your mind blown by GridAutoSizeLayout! GridAutoSizeLayout adds two layouts "Auto Groups" and "Auto Groups w/Pets" to Grid's layouts. When selected, the layouts automatically resize the Grid...


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Money list leader Park had two eagles and also birdied the last to move ahead of overnight co-leader Suzann Pettersen (66).
The world number five, who won the LPGA Malaysia two weeks ago for her second victory of the year, took the outright lead despite the Norwegian producing a bogey-free round in Taoyuan County in Northern Taiwan.
Petterson, who won a play-off at the Hana Bank Championship in Korea on Sunday, had a hat-trick of birdies from the fourth to the sixth, and again from 13 to 15 to reach 16-under-par.
World number one and defending champion Yani Tseng is a further two shots back after a 68. She is two ahead of Scotland's Catriona Matthew.
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Definition of pancake race in English:
pancake race
A race in which each competitor must toss a pancake from a pan as they run, traditionally held in some places on Shrove Tuesday.
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Complaint Review: Lease Finance Group LLC
Lease Finance Group LLC65 East Wacker Place, Suite 510 Chicago, Illinois United States of America
Lease Finance Group LLC Lease Finance Fraud Alert! This company stole $179.20 out of my checking acc. without my permission and/or knowledge. They used my check routing number off that final June 2011 lease payoff check I Chicago , Illinois
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I found that Lease Finance Group LLC took the routing number off the FINAL Payoff Check and turned around and illegally did two electronic ACH Debits out of my checking account in August 2011 without my knowledge.! I just recently discovered this while doing income tax. I protested with the bank because this was done after the lease payoff, and there wasn't any permission given either written or verbally by me. to the bank or Lease Finance Group LLC
The bank did contact Lease Finance Group, but what they said to the bank just floored me. They sent the bank a copy of the ACH Debit contract stating they were entitled to the money even after the payoff and that I had given them permission to take out of my checking account. This form has my daughter's permission to take out of HER bank account which is not my bank. The lessee had to close her bank account, because as what happened to me, Lease Finance Group LLC was dipping into her bank account, and in a matter of fact she had protested it within the amount of time and was able to get her refund.
In the past, lessee and I as co-signer had to send certified payments in the mail because the company always said that payment wasn't received and I as co-signer would get harassing phone calls. One of the first lease payments was a money order that Lease Finance said that they didn't receive and because the order number was lost, lessee had to pay twice that month. From then on we made sure that all payments were sent certified, even after that I would get harassing phone calls stating they didn't receive payment. -Lessee would have to send them a copy of their own signed certified receipts!
Even after payoff, and return of equipment, they said they didn't receive them, so lessee would have to send them a copy of the certified copy of receipts signed by them.
Lessee and me as co-signer would love to join a class action!
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'Real Housewives': 17 Most Outrageous Moments
To welcome back Bravo's Atlanta crazython, we're counting down the franchise's most insane moments
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Atlanta, Season 2 Scene-stealer Dwight Eubanks — NeNe's good pal — showed up to her "Heel the Soul" charity event, which required participants to run a short race in high heels. Decked out in a spandex sling and high heels, Dwight may not have won the race (incidentally, another gay man did!) but he did win the award for being the craziest person on The Real Housewives of Atlanta.
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Firstly, I'd like to say that I'm thrilled to see the Niners notch a W.
My concern with the play calling comes with the routes that our receivers are running. With the exception of Vernon Davis and his persistent seam route up the middle, the receivers are constantly running hitches and short crossing patterns. How many times are they going to throw the ball to someone only a yard beyond the line of scrimmage with no room to run when we need to convert big yardage.
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Self-Care Specialists is centrally located and based in Wichita, Kansas. In addition to serving the Midwest region, we offer training workshops throughout the United States.
Our Services
- Self-Care Specialists offers progressive training workshops, consultation and therapy services for caregiving and business professionals
- Individual self-care consultation and therapy services are available to assist in personal stress reduction, growth and healing. Psychotherapy modalities utilized include EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing), Hakomi Body-Centered Psychotherapy, and Psych-K (subconscious belief repatterning).
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- Self-Care has been identified, through research, as the best prevention strategy against experiencing the negative effects of stress by increasing resiliency.
- Our training workshops are designed to bring awareness and inspiration to the participant regarding effective use of self-care techniques to help counterbalance the intensity of work stress.
- The ultimate goal is increased resiliency, energy optimization, balance and wholeness in the caregiver/professional.
- The result for the organization can include, but are not limited to: better service provided by its employees, increased productivity, decreased absenteeism and better inter-staff relations.
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Rehab Professionals of Cleveland Inc.Category: Physical Therapy
Company description: Outpatient physical therapy for work-related, sports and orthopedic injuries. Offices in Broadview Heights, Lakewood, North Olmsted and downtown Cleveland. Fitness screens and functional capacity evaluations.
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- 1994
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- Edward Aube (president)
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Complaint Review: Merchant's Credit Guide; NCO Portfolio Management
Merchant's Credit Guide; NCO Portfolio Management223 W Jackson Blvd Chicago, Illinois U.S.A.
Merchant's Credit Guide; NCO Portfolio Management zombie debt??? Chicago Illinois
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Last week, my husband answered the phone. They asked for him by name. He told them he did not discuss financial matters over the phone & to put the matter in writing. A few days later a letter came addressed to ME!
They are trying to collect $293. The so called creditor is NOCP Portfolio Management. I know for a fact they they are part of the NCO Financial Group which is a collection agency. This tells me that they bought the accounts from NCO and are trying to collect what is known as a zombie debt.
In the letter I received from MCG, they said I could write to them & they would tell me who the original creditor was if it was not NCOP. This made me laugh for a number of reasons.
First of all, I pay all my bills on time. About 20 years ago, we did have a rough time financially, but we eventually paid all of our debt off. NONE of the collection agencies involved were NCO Financial. (of course, NCO could have bought them from another agency)
Secondly, part of my job is to make collection calls to our customers. (I call businesses that have accounts with my company). We used to turn the hard to collect accounts over to NCO Financial but stopped doing so because of their questionable collection methods.
Thirdly, there is no way I will EVER write or respond to them, because I don't have any outstanding bad debt, and, because I firmly believe in letting sleeping dogs lie. In the off chance that this is a ghost from my past, I don't want to resurrect this debt and have the statute of limitations begin all over again.
I do plan to check my credit report in about 60 days to make sure this does not show up.
Thank you for your help.
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Moscow, Tennessee
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Synonyms of organic in English:
2 organic vegetables organic farming
pesticide-free, additive-free, chemical-free, non-chemical, natural
3 the love scenes were an organic part of the drama and important in the story telling
essential, fundamental, basic, integral, intrinsic, vital, indispensable, inherent, constitutive, innate, structural
[Antonyms] incidental
4 a society is an organic whole
structured, organized, coherent, integrated, coordinated, ordered, systematic, systematized, methodical, orderly, consistent, harmonious, methodized
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Going On Holiday? Finding a Home Swap
• HomeExchange.com
Perhaps the most famous one of all, HomeExchange.com is indeed the site featured in The Holiday. (And in case you don't pick up on that immediately, there's a rather prominent photo of Jack Black and Kate Winslet on the home page). This site is probably the most user friendly of the lot: Clean layout, easy searches, and each home's summary has all the necessary facts (people in the party, home accommodations, destination, dates, what kind of exchange, etc). Oh, and there's no online chat service offered on the site, despite what was depicted in the movie. However, despite all the nice features that HomeExchange does offer, we got the least luck on this site. Most people we contacted didn't respond at all, but the ones that did were friendly and helpful. HomeExchange has different tiers of membership, but the standard one is $99.95/yr.
• HomeLink.org
HomeLink may not have all the bells and whistles that HomeExchange does, but they do have a lot of little features that proved to be extremely useful. Firstly: You can map out exactly where the home is located versus relying on a description. So many places we looked at would say, "Close to Central London," before we found out that it was more like a 45 minute tube ride to get to Regent St. Secondly, you can actually see the response rate of each member. And thirdly, their messaging system kept track of all the people we contacted, even while we were searching through listings. We received responses from 90% of the people we contacted, and even though we didn't find an exchange on this site, we'd rank this site higher than HomeExchange. There are different membership packages available on HomeLink (you can opt to get a printed directory every year); and they do offer a free membership the second year if you don't find an exchange within the first year.
• Home Base Holidays
A few weeks had gone by, and both Kelley and I were getting depressed about home swapping. In fact, if you are wanting to do a swap, start planning as early as possible. Most homes are settled on swaps a good year in advance, especially those with families. Thankfully, one of our coworkers in London, Denzyl, sent us a link Home Base Holidays, a site that he and his wife had listings on. This site organizes information like HomeExchange, but it does include a few of the same useful features that HomeLink has, especially the email threads. While HomeLink has more family-friendly users, Home Base Holidays seems like it caters to a younger crowd: There were more 1 and 2 person listings than the other two sites--and lo and behold: We found a swap with Kelley's flat within the first 10 minutes of signing up and posting photos! Home Base Holidays is about $80/yr, depending on the currency rate (£49).
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Forty years ago, prompted by the shocking rise in oil prices at the start of the 1970s, political and economic figures began to think about an energy supply other than oil, coal, and uranium. The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), which at that time was still the DVLR, had already begun applying its expertise to energy research in 1969 to directly tackle this social challenge. In 1976 energy research was established as a secure, long-term research field at DLR.
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Munch, Edvard
(1863–1944), Norwegian painter and engraver. He infused his subjects with an intense emotionalism, exploring the use of vivid color and linear distortion to express feelings about life and death. His works include the painting The Scream (1893).
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