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#1 Only the "Old Uncle" in His Dotage?
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I am trying to control my anger. Please see the church website homepage for the man who wants to be my President.
How in the hell did Obama's political advisor miss this? How in the hell will Obama explain this?
If he were a truly worthy candidate for President, he would not be associated with this filth.
He is a fraud and cheat, and liar when he explains away his "old uncle" as just the dodderings of dotage.
He never saw the website for his home church of nearly twenty years??
Steer sh*t. Obama? Oh Hell No!
Ron PaulGuest05-29-2008, 01:36 AM
Religion is always a little weird. We have to give each other some slack. Mccain has been friends with more than one person who said something I don't like... so has Obama. At least those paying attention online saw how part of the GOP completely freaked out towards Romney's Mormonism. Is it rally productive to attack Obama for going to a black church? It kinda seems like it was his wife's choice, and he's black. Black people usually go to churches like this. It's just our nation's culture.
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The US-based National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) is adopting custom-made Google technology to combat the sexual abuse of children.
Analysts from NCMEC's Child Victim Identification Program (CVIP) have reviewed more than 13m child abuse images and videos as part of their mission to identify and rescue children. To help automate and streamline this process, a team of Google engineers led by Dr. Shumeet Baluja created software tools to help NCMEC track down child predators and victims of child exploitation through video and image search.
The Google technology will enable NCMEC analysts to more quickly and easily search NCMEC's systems, in order to sort and identify files that contain images of child pornography victims. New video tools from Google will streamline analysts' review of video snippets from files seized in child pornography cases.
In addition to developing the custom-made software, Google has also donated a Google Search Appliance, Google Earth Enterprise, and in-kind advertising through Google Grants to further support NCMEC's work. NCMEC is a non-profit organisation which runs a reporting mechanism for child sexual exploitation, called CyberTipline. Since it was established in 1984, NCMEC has assisted law enforcement with more than 140,900 missing child cases, resulting in the removal from harm of more than 124,500 children.
Google's Baluja explained: "The keys here were organization, scalability, and search. In particular, the tools we provided will aid in organizing and indexing NCMEC's information so that analysts can both deal with new images and videos more efficiently and also reference historical material more effectively. We hope the tools we've built for NCMEC will help its analysts make the important and often time-sensitive work of investigating child predators faster and more efficient."
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The bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus) is one of the most widely distributed and hunted game birds in the United States. There are 1.7 million quail hunters in the United States. Bird watchers and naturalists also enjoy the sights and sounds of bobwhites.
Bobwhites play a key role in Indiana's upland game management plan. Although it is surpassed in popularity by squirrel and cottontail rabbit hunting, it still holds first place as this state's most pursued upland game bird.
Quail appear to be drab and rather ordinary, but a close look will reveal color combinations and contrasts. Throat, chin and stripe are white on the cock, buff on the hen. Underparts are tawny and white, blending with chestnut, black and gray. Each breast feather sports a black chevron. Upper parts are a mixture of warm brown, a tinge of deep yellow and shadings of black. The birds can achieve invisibility by merely "freezing" in light cover. They weigh from 6 to 8 ounces and are about 10 inches long.
At the start of the breeding season the male and female pair. Females lay from 12 to 18 white eggs and then begin a 24-day incubation period. The male helps in brooding, feeding and protecting the young. The family group, known as a covey, usually remains together until the following spring when they split up to mate.
Quail are gallinaceous birds, that is they dwell on the ground, scratch for their food and have crops and gizzards. Weed seeds, waste grain and insects constitute the backbone of their intake. Quail are gleaners and seed scavengers, never disturbing grain or fruits until they have fallen to the ground. Food habits vary considerably according to season and type of land use they inhabit. Those living in heavily cultivated areas consume more waste grain, while those around woodland fringes take more seeds falling from vines, trees and shrubs. Southern Indiana quail lean heavily on corn, sassafras seeds, lespedeza, ragweed, wheat, foxtail, shattered acorns, insects, ash seeds and soybeans. A tough gizzard and grit are employed to grind the flinty coverings from rough fare. Bits of greenery provide vitamins, minerals and moisture.
Grade-A quail range is a delicate balance of cropland, nesting cover, woodlands and fence rows or waterways which serve as travel lanes. Early explorers found quail only in our prairie openings or around Indian clearings. Quail closely followed the ax and plow of our early settlers, probably reaching their peak abundance about the time of the Civil War. Improvements in farm machinery resulted in larger fields, fewer fencerows and odd areas, and less living space for quail. Oddly, some bobwhite range in southern counties has been hurt because too much land has gone back to timber or has been converted to grasslands which go not support quail.
Southeastern and southwestern Indiana provide the ideal climate and habitat to support the highest quail numbers. South central Indiana is too heavily wooded, and central Indiana is intensely farmed. The northern third of the state has always been marginal range because of recurring years with persistent snow.
Predators and adverse weather are easily observed factors affecting quail. Less obvious, but more critical, are the effects of competition for living space presented by creeping concrete, housing developments and intensive agriculture. Roaming dogs of every breed destroy nests, as do raccoons, skunks and snakes. Predators and assorted problems do not normally affect quail abundance if their living conditions are adequate, but these losses may assume greater importance if the balance of food and cover is below that required for production and survival.
Bobwhite quail is the No. 1 game bird in Indiana on the basis of popularity and is second only to the mourning dove in number bagged. Since 1940, the estimated harvest ranged from more than a million birds in the early 1940s and late 1950s to less than 100,000 following the severe winters of the mid-1700s. Populations are recovering, however, peak numbers will be determined by the amount of quality quail habitat available. The number taken each fall depends upon weather conditions during the season and, of course, the number produced the preceding summer from those that survived the winter.
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Premier Alison Redford pledged Monday the government will foot the bill for rebuilding destroyed homes across Alberta, opening its chequebook - to the tune of $1 billion - in response to the biggest flood in provincial history.
Following an emergency meeting of the provincial Treasury Board, Redford said more dollars would be certain to follow.
In a press conference overlooking the fast-flowing Bow River, the premier announced the province will initially provide pre-loaded debit cards to help displaced residents pay for their immediate needs.
The government will also ensure money for repair and reconstruction of damaged homes would begin to flow within 10 days to two weeks.
In an interview with the Herald, Redford vowed the province intends to cover the full uninsured cost of reconstruction through its disaster recovery programs.
"We are going to do whatever it takes, in terms of paying to rebuild - to rebuild homes, to rebuild families and communities," she said. "The world changed on Thursday and we're going to deal with it."
The news came as thousands of Calgarians began to return home following last week's sudden flooding and they face the daunting task of cleanup operations. However, thousands of other Albertans are still evacuated and many houses across the province must now be inspected for water damage.
The provincial program covers losses to homeowners and municipalities caused by disasters such as overland flooding - costs not covered by regular insurance.
Cam Traynor with the Municipal Affairs Department said there was a $100,000 cap on individual house payouts in 2005, the last time major flooding hit Calgary.
The cap was removed - as was a deductible - in 2010 and coverage was increased to 100 per cent.
Traynor said the biggest difference this time will be the speed with which payments are delivered. The province is determined to cut red tape by eliminating the need for municipalities to submit an application to the government first.
The province hopes to have the debit cards distributed to displaced persons by mid-week. Those who qualify will receive $1,250 per adult and $500 per child.
The province has no estimate of how many people remain cut off from their homes after a mass exodus last week that initially affected more than 100,000 people.
But the entire town of High River, with a population of over 13,000, remains evacuated indefinitely. Pockets of residents in other communities - including parts of Calgary - are also unable to return home.
Several High River residents forced from their homes last week welcomed the government's $1-billion commitment.
Jerry and Deborah Huisman had been told by a neighbour that flood waters had reached almost two metres at their house, leaving the roof of their pickup truck barely visible.
Without insurance for overland flooding, the couple feared they had lost everything and would have to start from scratch.
"It's 40 years of work to get this," said the 61-year-old Jerry, who noted he had planned to retire next year. "That's not going to happen."
The Huismans' neighbours, Rick and Kim Jones, were also trying to digest the scope of the damage.
The couple moved to High River 10 months ago and believed their community would not flood. But they remain hopeful about recovery efforts and the province's commitment to help rebuild houses.
"I'm sure everything won't be rosy, but I trust them," said Rick Jones.
While the government is determined to move quickly, Redford warned the province faces a decade-long challenge.
"I don't want to scare people, but I want you to know that when we talk about what's going to happen, we're talking about a 10-year plan," she said.
"And we're committed to making sure that we take that time to do it right."
The government will end up spending far more than the $1 billion earmarked for disaster relief on Monday, with no final cost in sight, she said.
It all adds up to a remarkable financial burden for a government that has run six straight deficits.
The current outlay is to come from the province's $2.7-billion contingency fund, which even before the flooding was expected to be drained below $700 million by next spring.
Redford said the province will release its year-end fiscal report for 2012-13 later this week, which will show the government's books in much better shape than was projected a few months ago.
But she acknowledged the disaster has upended the government's fiscal blueprint, scrapping plans for a balanced budget next year.
"The way the world has worked in the last five days, we don't know what the final cost will be, we don't yet have the long-term plan," she said.
Redford said it's too soon to say whether the government will consider borrowing more than the $15 billion already planned for the next three years or turn to other revenue sources - such as new taxes - to cushion the blow.
One piece of good news for the province is the federal government will likely end up repaying part of the provincial outlay.
Federal cabinet minister Jason Kenney said the province develops disaster assistance programs, pays for it and then forwards bills to Ottawa for reimbursement.
"The federal government will be there in a very significant way," he said.
Provincial opposition parties have blasted the Progressive Conservative government for its budget strategy and flooding planning ahead of the past week's disaster, but weren't quibbling about its response Monday.
"This is imperative we get families money right away ... so this is definitely welcome news," said Wildrose MLA Rob Anderson. "It sounds like a lot of money - $1 billion - and it is. But it has to be spent."
Liberal MLA Kent Hehr, whose Calgary-Buffalo riding was heavily affected by the flood, said it was important for the government to put a plan in place.
"Albertans are hurting at this time and the province has taken a step in the right direction," he said.
But Hehr said the Tory government has to rethink its long-term financial plan - and ensure it has sufficient revenues - in the wake of the flood.


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