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Usher Raymond's 11-year-old stepson Kyle Glover has been declared brain dead following a tragic jet-ski accident in Georgia on Friday afternoon, WXIA reported.
Family friend Jeffrey S. Hubbard of Atlanta is under investigation for the collision, according to the New York Daily News. Alcohol ws ruled out as a factor, and investigators do not believe the accident was due to a mechanical malfunction, Sgt. Mike Burgamy with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources said.
Kyle, the son of the R&B singer's estranged Tameka Foster, and a 15-year-old girl were sitting on an inner tube, which was being pulled by a boat on Lake Lanier, when they were struck in the head by a jet ski, E! News reported.
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Kyle and the girl were air-lifted to Children's Healthcare at Egleston Hospital in Atlanta, with the boy's injuries being more serious, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported.
Usher's celebrity pals have already taken to Twitter in an outpouring show of support.
"Everyone PLEASE pray for Usher and Tameka's son! This is the time they really need your prayers," singer Fantasia Barrino tweeted on Saturday.
Though Raymond and Foster are currently going through a divorce and custody battles, he reportedly chartered a jet to take her to her son's side.
Raymond and Foster have two children together, Usher Raymond VI, 4, and Naviyd Ely Raymond, 3. Kyle is one of two sons Tameka had by Atlanta clothier Ryan Glover, according to the Daily Mail.
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Yi-Fu Tuan
Chinese-American geographer
Yi-Fu Tuan (born 5 December 1930) is a Chinese-American writer and geographer.
- In contrast to the flux and muddle of life, art is clarity and enduring presence. In the stream of life, few things are perceived clearly because few things stay put. Every mood or emotion is mixed or diluted by contrary and extraneous elements. The clarity of art—the precise evocation of mood in the novel, or of summer twilight in a painting—is like waking to a bright landscape after a long fitful slumber, or the fragrance of chicken soup after a week of head cold.
- Passing Strange and Wonderful: Aesthetics, Nature, and Culture, ch. 10 (1993).
- America is a much newer experiment in human living, one with moral concerns at its core. In this respect it differs from Europe, which has preferred sophistication and worldly wisdom to "righteousness," and resembles China, which saw the universe itself as essentially a moral order. However materialistic Americans may be in their economic pursuits, their ceremonies emphasize the material far less than European societies have. America has imposing official architecture. Washington, D.C., boasts a radial baroque stateliness. Yet one of its most important buildings, the White House, is a modest dwelling, its scale far smaller than that of the palaces of Europe and Asia.
- Shadows and Light, epilogue, Passing Strange and Wonderful: Aesthetics, Nature, and Culture (1993).
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This year's Golden North Salmon Derby is in the history books and was a rousing success. The Derby Chair, Mike Satre, provided us some of the final numbers.
VIDEO: Fish caught during the Golden North Salmon Derby help satisfy global demand for Alaskan Salmon, and very little of it goes to waste. (Image: Rik Pruett)
"All told there were just over thirty thousand pounds of salmon that were caught and twenty seven thousand nine hundred and fifty pounds of that was Coho salmon, so it's an amazing silver salmon catch over three days. We're looking at forty three thousand dollars that was returned to the salmon derby for the fish that were turned in this year."
Everybody knows where the money goes, towards scholarships for local students, but what happens to all those fish that were caught by the derby participants? Well a lot more that you might think, first of all they're purchased by Alaska Glacier Seafoods where they're filleted and then shipped to west coast markets. Mike Erickson, the C.E.O. of Alaska Glacier Seafoods, knows firsthand how much those filets are in demand.
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But there's a lot more on a fish than just the filets, and virtually none of it goes to waste. Mr. Erickson explained what happens to the rest of the fish after the filets are removed.
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"The caviar plays a big part of what we do here, so that roe is extracted, graded, processed here. That roe will go to Japan, it will go to Europe, it will go to Ukraine, pretty much all around the world. The bottom line is we're getting to a point here where it's just full utilization, you know we're not pitching anything back, but all these products are getting used in different ways and it's creating more jobs and it's just pretty neat stuff, that's what I think it's all about."
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Two members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee called Sunday for beefing up western sanctions against Russia to include its petrochemical and banking industries and warned that Moscow thus far has ignored United States and European efforts to persuade it to back off its confrontation with Ukraine.
"We've helped in many ways to create the problems that exist there. And to leave them alone in the manner that we're leaving them alone to me is just unconscionable," Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee, the committee's senior Republican member, said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
"I don't think Putin really believes we're going to punish them in that way," he said.
Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., a member of the same committee, said, "I think the time is now to rapidly ratchet up our sanctions, whether it's on Russian petrochemical companies or on Russian banks."
"If Russia does get away with this, I do think that there's a potential that a NATO ally is next. And, yes, there will be economic pain to Europe (under tightened sanctions). But it's time for them to lead as well."
President Barack Obama has said his administration is prepared to take further action against Russia if diplomatic efforts to destabilize the conflict fail.
Vice President Joe Biden plans to be in Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, on Monday and Tuesday to meet with government leaders and democracy advocates.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said last week that the U.S. is looking for ways to reassure its NATO allies of its strong commitment to collective defense. The Pentagon's press secretary, Rear Adm. John Kirby, has said that American officials are considering a range of additional measures to bolster air, maritime and ground readiness in Europe.
Corker, who plans to be in the region in May, said unless the Russians "immediately begin moving the 40,000 troops on the border which are intimidating people in Ukraine, unless they begin immediately moving them away, I really do believe we should be sanctioning some of the companies in the energy sector, Gazprom and others. I think we should hit some of the large banks there."
Geoffrey Pyatt, the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, said that an international agreement forged late last week designed to ease tensions in Ukraine may be "the best chance that we have got to achieve a diplomatic de-escalation of this crisis. And we're working hard at it."
He told CNN's "State of the Union" that "there are obviously some real challenges at this point," including a fresh outbreak of violence earlier Sunday in eastern Ukraine.
"But we also believe that there has been some progress. I'm seeing reports this morning that at least one of these government buildings now has a Ukrainian flag flying over it," Pyatt said.
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Maple Leaf union members at its chicken-processing plant in Toronto have voted 98 per cent in favour of striking to back demands.
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Our guest speaker is David Ridley, Executive Director of the Edmonton Heritage Council, a not-for-profit organization that supports and promotes heritage in Edmonton and the surrounding region (http://www.edmontonheritage.ca). The EHC is doing some great work in the capital: What can we learn from our sister city about celebrating and protecting heritage? David has served as Executive Director since 2012, beginning work with the Council in its initial formation in 2009. His previous work includes that of curator and cultural community researcher with Musee Heritage Museum (St. Albert) and the Royal Alberta Museum and as director of research with the Heritage Community Foundation. He has worked on numerous projects documenting, interpreting and writing about the diversity of cultural life in Alberta communities.
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grease (one's) palm(redirected from greasing her palm)
grease (one's) palm
To bribe one discreetly, as by slipping money into their palm. A: "How are we going to get a table without a reservation?" B: "Don't worry, I greased the hostess' palm, and she promised us a table in no time." I greased my brother's palm to stop him from telling Mom that I had a party while she was away.
grease someone's palmand oil someone's palm
Fig. to bribe someone. If you want to get something done around here, you have to grease someone's palm. I'd never oil a police officer's palm. That's illegal.
grease someone's palm
Also, oil someone's palm or hand . Give someone money in exchange for a favor; also, bribe someone. For example, If you want you luggage to make the plane, be sure to grease the porter's palm. This term uses grease in the sense of "enrich." [First half of 1500s]
grease someone's palm
If someone greases an official's palm, they secretly give money to the official in order to get something that they want. She thought she would not be able to see the files if she did not grease the palms of officials. At the docks my grandfather would grease the palm of some sailor to show us round his ship. Note: You can describe this activity as palm-greasing. Palm-greasing for just about anything from entry to a favoured school to obtaining a bank loan is considered a fact of life here. Note: The idea behind this expression is that grease and oil help machines work smoothly. In the same way, bribing people will make it easier to get what you want.
grease (or oil) someone's palmbribe someone. informal
This phrase comes from the practice of applying grease to a machine to make it run smoothly. The same expression exists in French as graisser la patte . The form with palm is now predominant but hand appears in the earliest recorded versions of the idiom, dating from the 16th century.
1998 Economist Licences to run a shop [in Italy]…have caused many an official's palm to be greased.
grease somebody's ˈpalm(old-fashioned, informal) give somebody money in order to persuade them to do something dishonest: Luckily, Mick was able to grease a few palms, thus helping his brother to escape.
This phrase refers to the fact that you put grease (= a thick substance like oil) on a machine to make it run smoothly.
grease someone's palm
tv. to pay someone a bribe. I had to grease the clerk's palm in order to get the job done.


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1On that day, you will say:
I give you thanks, O LORD;
though you have been angry with me,
your anger has abated, and you have consoled me.
2God indeed is my salvation;
I am confident and unafraid.
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from the fountains of salvation,b
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give thanks to the LORD, acclaim his name;
Among the nations make known his deeds,
proclaim how exalted is his name.c
5Sing praise to the LORD for he has done glorious things;
let this be known throughout all the earth.d
6Shout with exultation, City of Zion,
for great in your midst
is the Holy One of Israel!e
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b. [12:3] Jgs 5:11; Jer 2:13; Jn 4:10, 14.
e. [12:6] Is 52:8–9; 54:1; Zep 3:14–15.
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Police at the San Francisco International Airport have been cracking down lately on unauthorized drivers working for Uber and other app-based "rideshare" companies. Drivers have been stopped and warned that it's not legal to operate at the airport without required permits. But three rideshare companies have banded together to fight back – and now they're trying to get Mayor Ed Lee to intervene on their behalf.
On April 7, SFO sent out hefty permit application packages to Uber, Lyft, Sidecar, and a couple other "transportation network companies," as they're formally called. To operate legally under recently passed state regulations and a new airport pilot program, the TNCs were directed to fill out the applications and obtain operating permits for their drivers.
But Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar have so far refused to fill out the applications, because they don't like the rules.
Government agencies are supposed to write rules in collaboration with the industry stakeholders who are being regulated, Uber spokesperson Lane Kasselman insisted in an interview with the Bay Guardian, but "that didn't happen in this process."
Instead, SFO just wrote up a set of rules for rideshares that are similar to those regulating taxis, without ever consulting rideshare CEOs, Kasselman said. In particular, TNCs disagree with a rule requiring them to turn over names and associated information of all registered TNC drivers. They're also unhappy with a rule stating that they must provide locational data showing TNCs on airport property.
Those rules are unreasonable due to "privacy concerns," said Kasselman. Uber issues iPhones to its drivers that use GPS to automatically track the movements of drivers and passengers in real-time, for billing purposes.
Rather than enroll in the pilot program and sort out their concerns from there, the TNCs have decided to turn to Mayor Ed Lee for help.
"Despite the potential impact to thousands of rideshare small business owners, any and all requests on behalf of TNCs to meet with the Airport and discuss the level of detail mandated by the April 7th permit package have been rejected," representatives from rideshare competitors Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar wrote in a jointly signed May 23 letter to Mayor Lee. "We have been told we cannot have a conversation with the airport, even on clarifying questions, until we complete and sign the application."
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What do they expect the mayor to do about it? "We're hoping the mayor will broker a meeting," said Kasselman. "They refuse to meet with us," he added, referring to SFO.
While SFO is reportedly not on speaking terms with the TNCs (except via police officers issuing warnings to their drivers), SFO has been in touch with the California Public Utilities Commission, to enlist its help with the crackdown.
In a May 9 letter, SFO Director John Martin urged CPUC President Michael Peevey to order TNCs to halt all airport trips until further notice, effective until this permit problem had been cleared up.
Has Uber given any indication to its drivers that they shouldn't be conducting business at the airport? "I think our drivers are looking to their riders about where they want to go," Kasselman said when we asked about that. Sounds as if nothing has changed there.
What this seems to be leading up to is a standoff, where the airport is hoping the CPUC will intervene to enforce the rules, while the TNCs are hoping the mayor will intervene to get the rules bent to their liking.
Will Lee step into the fray? Outlook hazy, try again later. (Lee's office hasn't responded to requests for comment, but we'll update this post if we hear back.)
UPDATE: Lee's spokesperson Christine Falvey just responded to us with this comment:
"Mayor Lee is a strong supporter of the sharing economy because of the benefit it brings to everyday San Francisco residents. Ridesharing is an innovative transportation alternative for many City residents and SFO customers and the mayor is supportive of SFO's proactive efforts to permit and regulate rideshare companies to ensure access, customer service and public safety. To your questions, Mayor Lee defers transportation policy decisions about airport transportation issues to his highly respected Airport Director John Martin and the Airport Commission."


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I have Accordance 8.0.2 and AccUpdater 2.2.1.
When I check for updates, I get a whole slew of them. When I click on a certain one, the pane opens up to the right and says:
"Included in the upgrade to your level of Primary 8 DVD"
What does this mean? Does it mean that I can't upgrade without buying the Primary 8 DVD?
For instance, the AccUpdater says my NAS952 current version is 2.1 and the available version is 3.0.
My NLT-SE is currently 1.1 and the available version is 1.2.
Do I get these updates for free or is there a cost?
How Does AccUpdater Work?
Started by Chadwick , Jun 30 2008 01:13 PM
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Posted 30 June 2008 - 01:13 PM
Posted 30 June 2008 - 08:27 PM
The Primary 8 DVD will update many many modules with a single install. At this point we do not plan to post all these modules for the AccUpdater. You can either pay for the upgrade to your level of the Library or Scholar's which includes version 8 and the DVD. Or you can pay separately for the program upgrade and the DVD $15, but you will not get the new modules that are now included.
Helen Brown
OakTree Software
OakTree Software
Posted 31 July 2008 - 08:27 PM
So how does this actually work? I have selected all the ones showing for me, clicked "download updates" and had it fail several times. Now it is "downloading" but it just turned to "Failed, please try again." What is the purpose of this ACCUpdater? Well, what do you know- after several tries, the widget did its thing. Told me to run Accordance. I'm assuming it updated a couple of my modules.
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Celebrating Our New Wheels
Lexington Medical Center celebrated its new, state-of-the-art digital mammography van with a ribbon cutting Open House on our hospital campus April 29th. The van travels around the Midlands of South Carolina providing mammograms to women at work, church or community meetings. Schedule an appointment by calling 803-791-2486. Appointments in the van take about 15 minutes. You can have this important screening in the same amount of time as a coffee break.


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We want you to know about the information we gather online, why we gather it and how we use it. We have implemented technical and organizational measures to ensure that data protection regulations are observed both by us and where data is passed on to external service providers.
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The same also applies, for example, if we are sending you information, dispatching goods that you have ordered or answering individual questions. In such cases, we will specifically draw your attention to the use of the data. In addition, we will only store and process data that has been supplied to us voluntarily or automatically.
Where you make use of our services, we will normally collect only the data we need to provide the service concerned. If we request further data from you, the information need only be supplied voluntarily. We will process personal data solely in order to provide the requested service and to safeguard our own legitimate business interests. We store your data for as long as we need to perform the above-mentioned services. The criteria for the deletion of data arise from the tax regulations.
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We will generally use the (personal) data you have made available to us to answer your enquiries, process your orders or ensure you have access to specific information or offers.
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Which data are collected in each case is evident in the respective input forms.
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We process personal data in compliance with the regulations of the GDPR and the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG):
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Processing of personal data takes place for the purpose of initiation and implementation of contracts with you and the execution of orders, as well as for all the activities required for the operation and administration of an industrial company.
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We process your personal data beyond the actual performance of the contract if it is necessary to safeguard legitimate, primarily economic interests of ours or of third parties.
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This technical data is evaluated anonymously and exclusively for statistical purposes, so that we can continue to optimize our websites and increase the attractiveness of the content on an ongoing basis. This anonymous data is stored separately from personal information on secured systems and cannot be assigned to specific people. However, this data is not merged by ZIEHL-ABEGG SE with other data sources. Therefore, your personal data and your privacy are protected at all times. ZIEHL-ABEGG SE reserves the right to transfer this data to law enforcement bodies for the prosecution of offences.
Persons under the age of 18 should not supply us with personal data without the consent of a parent or guardian. We do not request personal data from persons under the age of 18, neither do we collect such data nor forward it to third parties.
We have implemented technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal data against loss, destruction, manipulation or unauthorized access. All our employees and all third parties involved in data processing are obliged to comply with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and ensure confidentiality in the handling of personal data.
Where personal data is collected and processed, the transmission of this data is encrypted to prevent misuse by third parties. Our security measures are revised on an ongoing basis to encompass new technological developments. .
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Our websites use the features of Google Analytics Remarketing combined with the cross-device capabilities of Google AdWords and DoubleClick. This service is provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
This feature makes it possible to link target audiences for promotional marketing created with Google Analytics Remarketing to the cross-device capabilities of Google AdWords and Google DoubleClick. This allows advertising to be displayed based on your personal interests, identified based on your previous usage and surfing behavior on one device (e.g. your mobile phone), on other devices (such as a tablet or computer).
Once you have given your consent, Google will associate your web and app browsing history with your Google Account for this purpose. That way, any device that signs in to your Google Account can use the same personalized promotional messaging.
To support this feature, Google Analytics collects Google-authenticated IDs of users that are temporarily linked to our Google Analytics data to define and create audiences for cross-device ad promotion.
You can permanently opt out of cross-device remarketing/targeting by turning off personalized advertising in your Google Account; follow this link: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/.
The aggregation of the data collected in your Google Account data is based solely on your consent, which you may give or withdraw from Google per Art. 6 (1) (a) DSGVO. For data collection operations not merged into your Google Account (for example, because you do not have a Google Account or have objected to the merge), the collection of data is based on Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analyzing anonymous user behavior for promotional purposes.
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We are subject to various retention and documentation duties arising among other things from the German Commercial Code and the German Fiscal Law.
The retention or documentation periods specified there are 2 to 10 years. Ultimately, the storage period is also assessed according to the legal periods of limitation, which may, for example, amount to 3 years or up to 30 years according to sections 195 ff. of the German Civil Code.
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You can receive information at any time free of charge on the data stored by us about you, concerning its origin and recipient as well as the purpose of data processing. In addition, you have a legal right to the rectification, blocking and erasure of your personal data. Please contact the data protection officer if necessary (datenschutz(at)ziehl-abegg.de).
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You have the right to demand from us the rectification of incorrect or incomplete personal data concerning you.
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You have the right to demand the limitation of the processing of your data if the conditions according to Art. 18 GDPR exist. This is, for example, the case if you dispute the correctness of your data. You may then demand the limitation of the processing for the duration it takes to check the correctness of the data.
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Should data processing be on the basis of a consent or contract performance and this also takes place using automated processing, you have the right to obtain your data in a structured, standard, machine-readable format and to transfer these data to another data processor.
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You also have the right according to Art. 77 GDPR to file a complaint with the responsible supervisory authority if you believe that the processing of your personal data was not done lawfully. The supervisory authority responsible for you is the "State Representative for Data Protection and Information Freedom", K?nigstrasse 10a, 70173 Stuttgart, phone: 0711 615541-0, e-mail: poststelle(at)lfdi.bwl.de, fax: 0711 615541-15.
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As part of our business relationship, you must supply only those personal data which are required for the initiation and implementation of a business relationship or which we are legally obliged to collect. Without these data we will usually have to reject the conclusion of a contract or the execution of an order or will no longer be able to carry out an existing contract and will have to terminate it if necessary.


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Eye Care & Protection
Most people would agree that their sight is the one sense they wouldn't want to do without, but often people do not take the steps necessary to take proper care of their eyes, prevent eye injuries, or treat eye conditions that threaten their vision.
Education, coupled with your commitment to injury prevention, eye care and health, can help you protect one of your most important senses. Eye health education will help you learn more about common threats to your vision, including things like the danger of sun exposure, sports injuries and digital eye strain and the steps you can take to protect your sight from these daily threats.
Caring for your eyes is an important part of protecting your overall health. Your eyes, when examined by an eye care provider through a comprehensive eye exam, can provide important clues and early warning signs for diseases including high blood pressure, diabetes, elevated cholesterol and even life-threatening brain tumors.
According to the National Institutes of Health's National Eye Institute, other actions you can take to keep your vision healthy include:
- End tobacco use. There are strong links between smoking and eye disease, including the fact that smokers have twice the risk of developing age-related macular degeneration as compared to non-smokers.
- Improve your diet. Research has found that people who don't eat the recommended daily allowance of fruits, vegetables, nuts and whole grains increase their risk for developing cataracts. At the same time, dark, leafy greens and foods rich in omega-3 fatty acids, such as fish and some nuts, can help prevent vision problems, according to the American Optometric Association.
- Exercise. An active lifestyle that includes regular exercise can help you lose weight and reduce inflammation throughout the body, including in the eyes. Exercise can also prevent obesity, which has strong links to several eye diseases.


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As a young boy walking the lanes of my grandparents' farm, I often heard the beautiful calls of a certain bird that seemed to make those days a little bit brighter, no matter what the purpose of my trip involved. If the walk involved getting up the milk cows for the afternoon milking, the birds' distinctive whistles seemed to blend with the cadence of each step of the cud chewing cows turning over each gravel in the lane. But, if the bird was perched high in a hackberry tree on a early summer morning, as I made my way to the farm pond with a can of worms and a cane pole for some sun perch fishing, his melody of sweet tunes seemed to make the carefree walk more enjoyable. Sort of like one of those zippity-do-da days you used to sing about where a blue bird would sit on your shoulder. Yes, those were the most perfect days in the world as a child growing up. When your thoughts were tuned to cows walking, gravel turning and birds singing.
The bird that blended my thought patterns way back then still exists on that farm and seems to be well suited for the habitat of the wooded area for all these many years. I'm now 65 years of age and all my life the Northern Cardinal has filled the woods along with the undergrowth of our farm. The vibrant red of the male beams from the tree limbs as the dull red-brown shaded female will usually be seen close by. They have always been around our farmhouse and we have worked hard over the years at keeping them there. I maintain feeders of their favorite seed just to get a glimpse of my "red birds" each morning from the kitchen window and when the male marks out his territory by song, his musical tune always brings back a lot of pleasant memories of sunny days walking an old farm lane.
It's good to see familiar wildlife that I grew up with on the farm and each day as I grow older their presence makes the memory process more enjoyable. Today, our Tennessee farms are seeing new wildlife moving in that I often wonder what their final population will mean to our native species. Growing up during those days of walking that farm lane, I never saw a deer. Today, in fact just the last few days, deer are now after my cardinal feeders to the point I have to make changes just to protect them. Their numbers grow, along with coyote, fire ants, armadillo, black neck buzzards and hawks. As these numbers of wildlife increase, the number of plentiful wildlife we once enjoyed such as rabbit and quail continue to decrease in number. Makes you wonder where will it all lead.
It will require those of us who do own land to be more aware of providing habitat for native wildlife like rabbit and quail. Since private land and farms provide the homes for 75 percent of our wildlife, it's up to us to be the caretakers of this natural resource, which I feel our farmers do a good job doing. But, with the invasion of many new species that do not belong here, they may need help from hunters, review of government regulations and the public as well.
When I caught a deer the other afternoon on one of my expensive bird feeders, it reminded me of a program that could help with the deer population, as well as feed hungry people. During deer season each year, hunters often fill their own freezers to the point where they no longer have room for any more game or reach their limit. Often does escape to reproduce and give us even more deer as a hunter waits for the big buck to come by. However, if more hunters would get involved in the Tennessee Wildlife Federation's Hunters For The Hungry program, we could reduce the deer herd and feed hungry people.
The program is pretty simple reports TWF. The Department of Agriculture certified deer processors across the state accept donations of whole deer, and the meat is distributed to a network of food banks and soup kitchens. The number of deer the processors can accept is only limited by the amount of funding available to cover the cost of preparing the venison. Quotas are established by the county and based on available funding; when those resources are exhausted, hunters are asked to cover the cost. Last year more than 135,000 pounds of venison was donated, but much more could be accepted and given. Plus you don't even have to be a hunter to participate. Tax-deductible donations can also be made. For more information of the program contact TWF at the Federation's website at www.tnwf.org, by calling TWF headquarters at (615) 353-1133, or by making a donation to the Tennessee Wildlife Federation, 300 Orlando Avenue, Suite 200, Nashville, TN 37209.
I do like my red birds and prefer that the deer don't use my feeders as their McDonald's.
Pettus L. Read writes for the Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation. He may be contacted by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com


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TOMS RIVER, NEW JERSEY—At 11:00 pm on October 29, 2012, Mike Orlando, 28, overheard his wife Mallory talking to her mother Vera Arthurs on the phone. "There is water coming into our living room!" said Vera, loud enough for him to hear. A half-hour later Mike was a mile away, swimming in a six-foot high street-stream dressed in jeans and a garbage bag. Guided by the beams of his neighbors' flashlights he made his way towards his in-laws' house from Reflection Road to Lagoon Drive. Cars' sirens blared and headlights flickered as they short-circuited. Mailboxes, firewood, white plastic fences, and children's toys floated on by. A transformer blew and sent a shower of sparks through the sky. Filled with adrenaline, Mike says he didn't feel the cold.
At Lagoon Drive Mike stood on firm ground and, as he pushed forward, the water dropped to chest, then knee, height. He walked up the split-level's stairs and opened the door to find Vera and her husband Jimmy sprinting down the stairs to save Mallory's childhood pictures floating on the first floor. The wind made the house moan. Brown water, over three feet high in the backyard, gushed through the back door. While trying to jam the door shut with strands of rubber, carpet, plastic bags, and cardboard, the garage door burst open. The water rushed in as high as the light switches before Jimmy and Mike could get both doors to shut. "Thank God for Mike," said Vera. "We couldn't have saved as much as we did without him."
It has been six months since Superstorm Sandy hit. The small-time heroes of that night are now focused on living the lives they had before the storm—the short test of courage has been replaced with a long-term struggle for peace of mind. Mike is my cousin Mallory's husband, Vera is my aunt, and Jimmy is my uncle. Jimmy and Vera still live in their home surrounded by Silver Bay on three sides, 100 feet from the water at its closest point. Their story is one of bravery in the face of disaster, and frustration in the months afterwards.
Tens of thousands of people remain homeless. Faced with flood insurance premiums that will increase by 25% for each year for the next four, some New Jerseyans have moved to higher ground. The storm may have permanently changed the demographic of small towns like Sea Bright, which reportedly has lost 900 of its 1,400 residents. Mantoloking, nearly 30 miles south, recently had its post office reopen, but only around 40 of its residents have returned to a town which holds more than 520 homes. The choices to those afflicted seem to be: move out, pay thousands of dollars more per year in flood insurance, or elevate your home for tens of thousands of dollars.
Which is not to say aid, and money, is not coming in. Superstorm Sandy has cost the country $65 billion in lost business and killed 159 Americans. In response Congress appropriated in January over $50 billion for the recovery effort. The American Red Cross spent over $100 million providing shelter and food in the months after the storm. FEMA has approved $384 million in grants for housing assistance and other needs. The President created a Sandy rebuilding task force under the direction of the Army Corps of Engineers, which spent over $350 million pumping out 720 Olympic sized pools-worth of muddy water, and delivering over 500 truckloads of clean water to storm afflicted areas. There has been some criticism of the Corps—in New York they charged about $100 per cubic yard of debris removal, while AshBritt beat out other private contractors in New Jersey with a bid charging half that price. Removing standard residential trash in New York is $30 per cubic yard, according to the New York Times.
Some of the federal money is just starting to come in: New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Friday the approval of $1.7 billion in Housing of Urban Development aid. Today HUD and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announced a $1.8 billion community development block grant proposal, which could assist approximately 26,000 homeowners, more than 5,000 renters, and more than 10,000 businesses that are most in need of reconstruction, rehabilitation, elevation, and resettlement, according to the Toms River Patch.
Christie, whose embrace of Obama's Sandy support angered some conservatives during the 2012 election, has said only a "stark minority" of shore communities won't be ready by Memorial Day. Christie has proposed devoting $25 million from federal disaster relief funding to promote tourism among storm-impacted businesses and shore communities. Obama toured storm-damaged New York November 15, and Joe Biden visited Hoboken and Seaside Heights, New Jersey, where Vera's father lives, November 18. Five months later, Seaside Heights' Jet Star roller coaster is still in the Atlantic Ocean, but the boardwalk is opening this week. "I want everyone affected by the storm to know this," said Obama in a video posted by whitehouse.gov in December, "You are not alone. We will recover, we will rebuild, we will come back stronger together. That is my promise to you as your president."
Christie today told MSNBC's Morning Joe, "The president has kept every promise that he made."
But six months later, the promise remains unfilled for the 39,000 in New Jersey that are still displaced (down from a high of 161,000), and even for those that could stay in their homes.
The day after the storm hit Jimmy and Vera woke up, went down they stairs, and stood in two feet of water. It would be 17 days before electricity would return, and three months for hot water. Mike, Jimmy, and Vera all would need to replace their cars. Vera's sister and parents (my aunt Barbara's family and my grandparents) are still displaced. Jimmy and Vera had to wait until January to receive $15,000 in emergency flood insurance, and another month for it to clear the bank. In April they were to receive $30,000 more, but so far have only been able to touch $5,000, which last weekend my aunt and uncle used to put down sheet rock and install doors on the first floor. According to FEMA's new flood maps, their house needs to be raised another 5-6 feet to comply for new flood insurance. Jimmy and Vera say elevating their house will cost between $80,000 and $100,000 on a house that is worth $234,000. The choices Jimmy and Vera face are grim. They can't walk away from their $250,000 mortgage, but can't afford to raise their home without help. As they hope for a parcel of the community block grant, their flood insurance premiums rise.
"We came through all of this not knowing the nightmare of what was ahead," says Vera, who adds, "I don't have any plans on leaving."


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Paris (CNN) -- The conversation between space cadet and world leader had a simple purpose: To make an ill teenager happy.
That's how South African space tourist and software entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth remembers the day he spoke to Nelson Mandela, the hero of South Africa's anti-apartheid struggle, who died last week aged 95.
"He brought a little girl with him who was very ill, it was such a classic Mandela move," Shuttleworth told CNN during tech conference LeWeb, being held in Paris.
"Lots of people wanted to be on the phone with a space cadet and I get the impression that for many of them it was about the spotlight being on them, whereas for Madiba (Mandela's tribal name) the most wonderful thing for him was about making this little girl's wish come true."
Michelle Foster, 14, was terminally ill with cancer and through the Reach for the Dream foundation had been able to meet Mandela and later link through satellite to Shuttleworth in space. Foster died less than a month after she'd spoken to him.
Shuttleworth, who founded software company Canonical, recalled the conversation ahead of Mandela's state funeral Sunday, the conclusion of 10 official days of mourning.
Mandela's lasting lesson, Shuttleworth said, is that people should "find the Madiba in our counterpart.
"Even good societies, societies filled with good people can end up in very dark places," he said. "We should focus on the rules of society and the norms of society and make sure those aren't ripe for abuse."
There could even be lessons for dealing with terrorist organizations, like al Qaeda, Shuttleworth said. "Don't tell me there isn't somebody in every institution who doesn't have the capacity to transcend the mess they've got themselves into."
Shuttleworth's conversation with Mandela was in 2002, when space tourism was in its infancy and only two paying guests had gone into orbit. Shuttleworth reportedly paid $20 million to travel with Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gidzenko and spend a short time at the International Space Station.
A decade later, Richard Branson's Virgin's Galactic is one several companies pushing to make space tourism a reality.
Meanwhile, Shuttleworth predicts, the world will see first "the first commercial suborbital flights in the new two years ... and I think we will see a partly commercial interplanetary flight in the next 10 years."
Eventually, humans will move beyond earth, he said."I think our destiny is in the stars ... there is probably a habitable planet out there within 15 light years of us." That, he adds, is "in our neighborhood."
"The galaxy is around 100,000 light years across so 15 light years is very little. It may take us a couple hundred years to achieve that but look back a couple of years and you're at the rebuilding of Paris, so I think this is the sort of timescale we should be dreaming in."
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Back on Earth, Shuttleworth's company has signed its first deal with a phone hardware partner to use its operating system, Ubuntu.
Shuttleworth won't give details yet -- it's expected to be made public in 2014 -- but says it's a step forward from the company's work with personal computers and could eventually position it to compete with the likes of Android.
While the operating system market is dominated by giants such as Google and Apple, Shuttleworth sees opportunity in "convergence," when all mobile devices run seamlessly from one set-up.
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There is little doubt that we are facing significant problems in the housing market. Most obviously, problems of access and affordability. And there is little doubt that we must be heading towards a housing statement from the Government. Reports from think tanks and lobby groups – each trying to exert some influence over the direction of policy – are appearing with alarming regularity. Last week it was the turn of the little-known Intergenerational Foundation to produce a report called Hoarding of Housing. The report received quite a lot of media coverage. As far as I could tell most of it was negative. That seems to me both fair and unfair. Read more of this post


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Importance Of Quotes
Inspirational quotes are important because they activate an emotional pulse point in our hearts and minds when we are in a distressing situation. The right quote can help us to see light at the end of the tunnel, and give us that extra burst of hope and courage to persevere.
Quotes, through cautionary examples, how past mistakes and serious misjudgements have arisen from time to time disrupting the normal and decent functioning of would-be well-meaning societies.


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By Dr. Patrick Jonston
November 16, 2008
Uncle Tom was the figure in Harriet Beecher Stow's famous novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. Instead of resisting the enslavement of his race, he helped his slave-owners maintain their control over the lesser field slaves. Uncle Toms would be useful in mistreating and punishing the other slaves, and would receive preferential treatment for it.
Obama's an Uncle Tom.
Obama has officially consorted with Planned Parenthood in the slaughter of millions of black babies, and in office he plans to expand the reach of the child-killers. In July of 2007, Obama told Planned Parenthood that the first piece of legislation he would sign would be the Freedom of Choice Act, a bill that would invalidate virtually all abortion limits approved by state legislatures in all fifty states. All partial birth abortion bans, all parental notification laws, virtually all state legislation that has decreased the amount of abortions would be overturned by Obama's bill. In fact, the Freedom of Choice Act would see the closing of Catholic and other religious or private hospitals. This legislation would remove any conscience-clause measures from state laws that protect doctors, hospitals, and medical professionals who don't want to be involved in abortions.
Obama's position on abortion is more extreme than any pro-abortion Democrat. As an Illinois State Senator, he publicly defended infanticide, the killing of living, breathing babies who survived late-term abortions. Even Hillary Clinton voted for the Born Alive Protection Act, the legislation in the U.S. Senate that was akin to the Illinois legislation that Obama opposed. He is a strong supporter of Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion killing organization in the world.
Planned Parenthood's founder, Margaret Sanger, was an advocate of eugenics who coined the term "birth control". Her views were very extreme, and yet Planned Parenthood, the recipient of hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer funding, has never repudiated her, but continues to honor her and even distributes an annual "Margaret Sanger Award" to supporters. Margaret Sanger advocated birth control and, if necessary, forced sterilization for those deemed unfit for reproduction. She believed that African Americans were an inferior race that required white masters to control and subdue them for the betterment of civilization.
Margaret Sanger wrote of her dependence upon African-American ministers and social leaders in order to succeed in her "Negro Project" mission to exterminate the black race. In essence, she needed some Uncle Tom's. She said, "We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members... I note that you doubt it worthwhile to employ a full-time Negro physician. It seems to me from my experience ... that, while the colored Negroes have great respect for white doctors, they can get closer to their own members and more or less lay their cards on the table, which means their ignorance, superstitions and doubts. They do not do this with white people and if we can train the Negro doctor at the clinic, he can go among them with enthusiasm and ... knowledge, which ... will have far-reaching results among the colored people."
Barack Obama is the Uncle Tom of Planned Parenthood and Margaret Sanger, who had as their mission to "exterminate the Negro population." So are all the African-American Christian ministers who turned a blind eye to Obama's extreme pro-abortion views and endorsed him because of the color of his skin. Racists and Uncle Toms, all of them. The injustice of slavery and other forms of fatal discrimination could never continue without the likes of them.
What hypocrisy for Obama to claim to champion the dream of African Americans since the time of colonial slavery, and yet lead the way in slaughtering more African American babies than ever! For every two African American women that get pregnant one will choose to abort. A black baby in America is five times more likely to be killed in the womb than a white baby. Even so, that's not enough dead black babies for Barack Obama.
The preborn child is Obama's "nigger-slave" - the dehumanized expendable human being whose rights are to be ignored and who is to be exploited and destroyed for the profit of the powerful.
At Least Obama May Make Republicans Act Like Conservatives Again
It is my hope that, in response to Obama's election, conservatives in Congress will begin to act like conservatives instead of Republicans. Remember, it was under Clinton's executive leadership that we saw the Contract of America and welfare reform in Congress. With a liberal in the White House, Republicans act like the conservatives they claimed to be on the campaign trail. The G.W. Bushs and the John McCains in Washington, D.C., have all but ruined the Republican Party, with their endorsement of a larger centralized government, their funding of Planned Parenthood, their unjustifiable pre-emptive invasion of Iraq and incessant war-mongering, their welfare expansions for seniors and the poor, their proposals for amnesty for illegal immigrants, and their free-trade globalism that has exported our manufacturing base and resulted in the loss of three to four million jobs. Bush has an approval rating of 25%; Reagan and Clinton left office with ratings more than twice as high. I am convinced that Obama's electoral landslide was not so much of an endorsement of his socialist economic plan that wreaks of Communism, his pro-gay marriage, pro-abortion, liberal fanaticism, but Obama's election resulted from a popular desire to "throw out the rascals" in office.
As evidence, consider the gay marriage bans passed in Florida, Arizona, and California. In these three states, support for the gay marriage bans was greater than the support for the Republican candidate for President. In California, homosexual activists outspent the pro-family advocates more than 2-1 and Obama won the state by more than a million voters, yet still the state overwhelmingly voted to ban gay marriage. Also, in Arkansas, voters passed a law barring adoption for same-sex couples. Obama's election was more of a repudiation of the neo-conservativism of the Republican Party under G. W. Bush than it was an endorsement of Obama's Marxist plan for America. The Democrats didn't win because of their ideas, but rather, the Republicans lost because they acted like Democrats.
Bracing for Obama's tyranny, and preparing for the revolution.
Don't despair, my fellow conservatives. Remember, we thought the world was going to end when Clinton was in office too. We deserve the spanking coming because we have not been true to our own principles of life, individual liberty, and limited government. We must brace ourselves for Obama and the Democratic congressional majority's assault on Christianity and our constitutional liberties. Prepare for the government to outlaw homeschooling and spanking. Prepare for public speaking against homosexuality to be prosecuted as hate speech. Prepare for an expansion of gay rights and gay marriage at the federal level.
Prepare for Obama to increase taxes on ammunition and guns and incrementally ban them. Prepare for Obama to grant amnesty to the 12 to 20 million illegal immigrants in America. Prepare for legalization of physician-assisted suicide nationwide. Prepare for the most extreme leftist bureaucrats and judges in the land at all levels of government. Prepare for more job losses, as taxes will be raised on the top 5% of wage-earners who already carry 60% of the U.S. income tax burden. Prepare for an increase in social security taxes and in the taxes necessary for Obama's universal healthcare plan. Prepare for federal funding of human-embryo-killing stem cell research. Prepare for economy-choking regulations of America's businesses in try and fend off "global warming."
Prepare for the U.S. to become the most pro-abortion nation on earth.
Don't despair. Keep faith in God, stand for the right, do justly, pray hard, take names, buy guns for Christmas and teach your children to shoot them well. There may be a Revolution coming.
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