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Maison Juliette: luxury 4BR in Carcassonne center
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Description from the owner
Bedrooms: 4/
Bathrooms: 4/
Sleeps: 9/
Type: House
Maison Juliette is a beautiful and luxurious stone house in the center of Carcassonne, perfect for large families or groups of friends. Walk to the medieval castle, Canal du Midi, pedestrian shopping streets, and hundreds of great restaurants!
The house, built in the 1860's, spans 3000 square feet of living space on two floors, with 4 bedrooms and 3.5 bathrooms. The ground floor includes a newly remodeled kitchen, dining room that seats 10, large living room and separate library and a half bath. Upstairs, there are 4 bedrooms, all with fireplaces and large windows opening either to the garden or the street. The master bedroom and the smallest ...Read more
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About the owner
Sue & Jeannine
Sue & Jeannine
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- Calendar updated: 8 days ago
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Carcassonne is a city of 50,000 people, 45 min from the Mediterranean and 90 minutes from the Spanish border. The city has two Unesco World Heritage sites: La Cité de Carcassonne, the largest fortified medieval citadel in Europe, and the Canal Du Midi, a 17th century canal that runs 240km from the Mediterranean and is the most popular pleasure waterway in Europe.
RyanAir offers service directly to Carcassonne airport from London/Stanstead, Brussels/Charleroi and 5 other UK airports. You can fly into Toulouse, and either drive a rental car or take a 1-hr train to Carcassonne. If you want to spend a few days in Paris, the high-speed train (TGV) from Paris to Carcassonne takes 5 hours. Finally, you can fly into Barcelona and drive or take the 3-hour train to Carcassonne.
Once at Maison Juliette, a car is not necessary since all the sights of Carcassonne are within a 20-minute walk of the house.
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Nearest train station: Carcassonne, 0.5 miles
Nearest airport: Toulouse, 50.02 miles
Car is not necessary
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House to Consider Social Security Legislation, NAMI Advocates Urged to Contact House Members in Support of Support Bill to Protect and Improve Representative Payee Program
On February 11, the House of Representatives is expected to consider legislation to reform the Social Security representative payee program and enact important reforms to protect the interests of vulnerable SSI and SSDI recipients with mental impairments including severe mental illness.
Action Requested
NAMI advocates are urged to contact their House member and urge them to vote in favor of HR 743 when it comes up for a vote on February 11. Urge them to oppose any effort to delay immediate passage of this important legislation so that it can be sent to President Bush and be signed into law. Remind them that protections are needed for vulnerable SSI and SSDI recipients with mental illnesses who rely on representative payees for their monthly cash benefits. All House offices can be reached can be reached by calling the Capitol Switchboard toll free at 1-800-839-5276 or at 202-224-3121 or online through www.congress.org.
The Social Security Protection Act (HR 743) has been under development for nearly four years and has already passed the House on three separate occasions. A compromise version passed the Senate late last year. Swift passage in the House will allow the bill to go immediately to the White House for President Bush's signature.
HR 743 makes important improvements in the representative payee program for beneficiaries of the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program and the Title II (SSDI) disability programs. It would also require that the Social Security Administration to issue written receipts and establish a centralized computer file for beneficiaries' reports of earnings or changes in work status.
NAMI strongly supports this legislation as important step to restore integrity of the Representative Payee program and to protect the interests of SSI and SSDI beneficiaries with severe mental illnesses who receive their cash benefits through rep payees. This legislation grew out of severe high profile cases in which institutional representative payees were found to have illegally diverted cash benefits from SSI recipients. In these cases, slow to uncover illegal activity and beneficiaries were prevented from recovering back benefits that were they never received.
NAMI also supports the provisions in HR 743 that would require Social Security to establish a system to issue written receipts for earnings reports submitted by SSDI beneficiaries and a computerized system for tracking earnings. Over the years, SSDI beneficiaries have grown enormously frustrated in their efforts accurately assess whether earnings from part-time work in a given month exceed the Substantial Gainful Activity (SGA) limit. Because Social Security is often months (if not years) behind in tracking earnings, beneficiaries can inadvertently go above limits in the program go into overpayment status. Issuance of receipts from Social Security for submitted earnings report will help provide a more accurate written record of earnings. Likewise, a computerized tracking system at Social Security will help SSDI beneficiaries track earnings and use of "trial work period" months.
Background on HR 743
Approximately 8 million SSI and SSDI beneficiaries have representative payees, often family members or friends, who receive the benefits on behalf of the beneficiaries and have a responsibility to manage the benefits on behalf of these beneficiaries. HR 743 includes provisions to strengthen SSA's ability to address abuses by representative payees. The provisions would:
- Require non-governmental fee-for-services organizational representative payees to be bonded and licensed under state or local law.
- Provide that when an organization has been found to misuse an individual's benefits, the organization would not qualify for the fee.
- Allow SSA to re-issue benefits to beneficiaries whose funds had been misused.
- Allow SSA to treat misused benefits as "overpayments" to the representative payee or thereby triggering SSA's authority to recover the money through tax refund offsets, referral to collection agencies, notifying credit bureaus, and offset of any future federal benefits/payments.
- Require monitoring of representative payees, including monitoring of organizations over a certain size and government agencies serving as representative payees.
- Require representative payees who are delinquent in filing annual accounting reports to receive the individual's benefits in person at a local office.
- Disqualify as representative payees people convicted of offenses and imprisoned more than a year, and people fleeing prosecution, custody, or confinement for a felony.
HR 743 would also make improvements to the attorney fee payment system to help individuals with disabilities gain access to representation by:
- Extending the voluntary attorneys fee payment system to SSI claims and open this up to non-attorney claimant representatives (subject to SSA developing a certification plan for non-attorneys).
- Imposing a $75 cap (indexed for inflation) on the current 6.3% assessment on approved attorney fees for Social Security and SSI claimants.
The legislation would also further protect Social Security programs and individuals by:
- Requiring the Social Security Administration (SSA) to help people avoid overpayments by issuing receipts to beneficiaries who report changes in earnings or work status and by implementing a centralized computer file to maintain records of beneficiaries reports.
- Clarifying civil monetary penalty authority so that sanctions may be imposed against people who withhold material facts in order to obtain or increase benefits.
- Denying Social Security disability benefits to people fleeing prosecution, custody, or confinement for a felony, as well as probation/parole violators.
- Requiring the Commissioner to publish regulations that allow a waiver, where good cause exists, of the non-payment of benefits to fugitive felons and those in violation of parole or probation.
- Requiring individuals who provide Social Security-related services for a fee to explain in their solicitations that the SSA provides the services free of charge.
- Authorizing the Commissioner to refuse to recognize certain disqualified attorneys.
- Prohibiting individuals who fraudulently conceal work activity from being eligible for a trial work period.
HR 743 would also improve work incentives for individuals with disabilities to return to work by:
- Making important technical corrections to the Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999.
- Clarifying the Work Opportunity Tax Credit so that it is also available to employers who hire a beneficiary with disabilities who is referred from any employment network, not just the State rehabilitation agency.

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Man charged with possessing counterfeit cash
An East Naples man was charged with possession of counterfeit money after Collier County sheriff's deputies searched the man's pockets during a traffic stop, reports show.
Claudius Krishun Knowles, 22, of the 100 block of Santa Clair Drive, was arrested Friday near the intersection of Radio Road and Santa Barabara Boulevard.
Deputies pulled over Knowles after a computer search showed he did not have a valid driver's license; deputies found two $10 bills and eight $5 bills that had no security threads or fibers, off colors, suspect texture and matching serial numbers, according to reports.
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The Bristol opened in September 2008, just as the economy bottomed out. It was a month before the Publican, a year before the Purple Pig. The Bucktown restaurant wasn't the first to embrace fifth-quarter cuts of meat, small plates and communal tables. But in retrospect, its opening heralded the mainstreaming of a certain type of dining: tablecloth-less but chef-driven, scrappy but serious. It also heralded the arrival of a chef few had heard of: Chris Pandel, a protégé of Rick Tramonto.
The Bristol was—and remains—a very fine place to eat, but in my experience, it was never an especially easy or comfortable one. It took no reservations, and on weekends, waits could be tremendous. (It's now on OpenTable.) Much of the menu was made up of specials, and it was a given that most would sell out before the end of the night. And the chairs were the type you would soon start to see everywhere, lightweight and metal.
I was thinking about those utilitarian chairs during one of my meals at Balena, Pandel's second restaurant, which is operated by the Bristol's owners and co-owned by the BOKA group (i.e., Kevin Boehm and Rob Katz), which now boasts chefs Paul Virant (Perennial Virant), Giuseppe Tentori (GT Fish & Oyster, Boka) and Stephanie Izard (Girl & the Goat). I was seated on a banquette on the second floor of Balena. It was a quiet Wednesday; the tables on both sides of me were empty. There was a particular leisure to being there. Maybe it was the fact that I felt reprieved after my last couple of months of meals (Tavernita,RPM, Nellcôte), which have been set to a soundtrack more appropriate for a Spinning class. Maybe it was the space (formerly Landmark), remodeled by 555 International's Karen Herold, whose painted tiles, wood ceiling slats and rich leather emanate warmth. Whatever it was, I felt unusually comfortable. Given the opportunity, I'm pretty sure I would have slept on that banquette.
Except for one thing, which made me terribly ill at ease: Everyone in the restaurant knew who I was, to the extent that Katz practically sprinted over and exclaimed, "You can't possibly be reviewing us!" And so, in preparation for my second visit, I spent considerable time at Wigs and Plus and at the makeup counter at Macy's. I returned in disguise on a packed Friday night and was seated as a walk-in at one of the high-top tables. The service wasn't atrocious, but it was definitely M.I.A.: After taking our food order, the server pretty much disappeared, which probably explains why our main courses were sent out while we were still "enjoying" (is this really any better than "working on"?) our starters, or why 20 minutes after the cocktails were cleared, we had to flag someone down to order a glass of wine.
Not to be blasé, but as far as service in a month-old restaurant goes, I've had considerably worse. And with a restaurant that seems to be overflowing with ambition, I'm surprised and pleased that things are going as well as they are. On cocktails, there's Debbi Peek, whose amaro-heavy offerings are vast. They're ranked on a bitterness scale from 1–10: I liked the citrusy Montenegro (ranked a 6), but I struggled with the Francesco (a 5), which weighed heavily on the palate. On the lighter end, I was surprised to favor the fizzy Strawberry (the least bitter at 1, and the only one made with vodka) over both the flat and overdiluted Americano (5) and the Manlino (3), whose flavor profile seemed closest to lemonade. Despite that unevenness, the scope and versatility of Peek's drink program is such that I wouldn't go back to Balena without ordering a cocktail.
Speaking of revisiting, I can't remember the last restaurant I've so looked forward to returning to. I'm going back for the mackerel, smoked to impart a compelling meatiness and paired with a soft-cooked egg, bread crumbs and aioli. I couldn't pass up the whole-roasted fish, crisp skin revealing moist flesh, topped with an inspired peanut gremolata that sets it apart from any competitor. The menu is more or less Italian, yet it somehow works that Pandel serves Korean-style short ribs, pounded thin and brilliantly played against strips of candied orange peel. The crust on the pizza has just the right chew, and the chili oil that comes with the mortadella pie should be required of every pizzeria. (If there's a flaw in Pandel's food, it's that his palate leans acidic to a fault, a characteristic that threw both the lovingly made pastas— squid-ink tagliolini, strozzapreti with rabbit—and the oversalted head-on prawns off balance.) Whatever the dish, its portion is fairly generous, making it easy and natural to share.
Perhaps Amanda Rockman's desserts anticipated this, with a wariness of how much bread, pizza and pasta diners will have consumed by the end of their meals. It's not an unfounded concern and, for many, a simple sundae of beautifully churned gelato (pistachio with nougat and burnt-orange caramel is a standout) may be just the right ending. But I didn't find as much personality in Rockman's Balena desserts (a thin chocolate budino) as I do at the Bristol. That is, until the last one I tried: the tiramisu. It is to tiramisu what Rockman's Basque cake at the Bristol is to pound cake: a reinvigoration of the genre, layers of light cake and cream and crumbles. It is a dessert so unlike the wet, rum-soaked original that it feels almost insulting to call it by its name. Can we all just agree to call it genius?


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Everything I've found says for you to check your own vehicle manual and car seat manual to figure it out. It varies by seat and vehicle. Touching is okay for some, but bracing or pushing against the front seat is not okay for any. I wasn't fully aware of all of this so I'm glad you mentioned it. I've been telling my husband that our carseat does not fit correctly in our Camry and he keeps telling me it is fine. I think I'm going to continue my research!
We have a Honda Fit and based on reviews, only a few models actually work in there unless the seat is all the way up. I would assume the same to be true with a Focus. We have a Britax Roundabout and a Radian R120 with an additional angle adjuster to make it more upright (two cars).
I'd do some searches or post on carseat.org to see if people have a way to adjust the angle to fit that seat in that car, but it may just be a bad match.
Katie (36) and DH (36), friends since 1991, married 2009, DD born 2/16/12, DS born 1/31/14
We have a ford focus and a evenflo Triumph advance fits no prblem
Mom to C 4/3/08 and B 2/25/12 All done :)


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Natalie Coughlin
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Sport: Swimming
Height: 5'8"
Current Residence: Vallejo, Calif.
College: UC Berkeley
- 2004 Olympic Games, gold medals in the 100m backstroke and 4x200m freestyle, silver medals in the 4x100m freestyle, 4x100m medley, and a bronze medal in the 100m freestyle
- 2008 Olympic Games, gold medal in the 100m backstroke, silver medals in the 4x100m freestyle and 4x100m medley, and bronze medals int he 100m freestyle, 200m medley, and 4x200m freestyle
- 2012 Olympic Games, bronze medal in 4x100-meter Freestyle Relay
- 2010 World Championships, gold medal in the 100m backstroke, silver medals in the 4x100m freestyle and the 4x100m medley, and a bronze medal in the 100m freestyle
- 2011 World Championships, gold medal in the 4x100m medley, silver medal in the 4x100m freestyle, and a bronze medal in the 100m freestyle
Fun Facts: Appeared on ABC's Dancing with the Stars ... Was an Olympic analyst for MSNBC during the 2006 Winter Olympic Games ... Two dogs named Shera and Jake ... Her favorite band is the Counting Crows ... Her favorite television shows are Lost, Nip/Tuck, and Heroes
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Sam Champion: Anderson Cooper Inspired Me to Come Out, Announce Engagement
Sam Champion is happily planning his upcoming nuptials to boyfriend Rubem Robierb with the support of legions of Good Morning America fans, and the weather anchor has Anderson Cooper to thank for inspiring him to confirm that he is gay alongside his happy engagement news.
"It's not easy," Champion -- who announced his plans to marry October 5 -- told The New York Daily News. "So whenever anyone does do it, it makes it easier for everybody, just a little bit."
Champion, 51, tells The News he was moved to make his sexuality publicly known when Anderson Live and AC360 host Cooper, 45, announced he was gay. "The fact is, I'm gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn't be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud," Gloria Vanderbilt's son wrote in an email to longtime friend and political blogger Andrew Sullivan, who later published the email -- with Cooper's permission -- on The Daily Beast's website in July.
VIDEO: Anderson Cooper dishes with Us
No doubt enjoying the love and support from his colleagues and fans in the wake of his happy news, Champion tells The News it was not his intention to make headlines. "What I do for a living is, I work in the news business, and we talk about other people and other people's lives," he said.
PHOTOS: See Sam and Rubem's engagement picture
Introduced by mutual friends a few years ago in Miami, Champion and photographer Robierb, who is 15 years his junior, told The New York Times they intend to marry on New Year's Eve in the city where they first met.
This article originally appeared on Usmagazine.com: Sam Champion: Anderson Cooper Inspired Me to Come Out, Announce Engagement
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It's been a while since the last update. That's also with a reason. I've been quite seriously ill since the start of april. And it isn't showing any signs...
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The Combat Prototype sourcecode is available, open to anyone willing to have a look, so they can see what's required to make a very basic game in OpenGL and C#.
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Development of the game is contuining, but at a very slow pace due to real life commitments.
If you wish to make suggestions, feel free to post on the forums of Star Apocalypse or contact us directly here.
Star Apocalypse is the reinvention of the 4X genre. The game is a real time game of intergalactic civilisation, using the computation power of modern computers to run advanced simulations on cultural, technological and societal interaction and development.
The Alpha gameplay and graphics will be very basic. In the alpha, you start out as an organisation like modern-day NASA or any similar space flight organisation. Your objective will be to lead humanity into space, and try to get a self sufficiënt presence in space.
This all will happen in a totally random-generated universe. The universe is already set up in such a way that it can accomodate Beta-phase gameplay. It is a universe of 500 stars, each with their own scientific stats. The universe is meant to be as scientifically-accurate as possible. It will feature systems with planets, asteroids, planetoids, stars and more. These will all have scientific stats, like planets having atmospheres with pressure, temperature and such. Planets and Stars will also have an escape velocity. These will all influence the handling of ships, populations, etc.
Speaking of ships, those will have real scientific stats, like mass, thrust and such. This will all calculate into ships having a limited range and a limited set of objects they can take off from. In fact, range won't be limited by a hard kilometer distance. If you want to travel to the next Star System, you can do so, but it'll take you thousands of years, if not more. Range will be limited by your Delta Velocity Capacity. This is roughly the capacity to change speed. You can save on this, by using other celestial objects' gravity to slingshot yourself to your destination. This will cause a trade-off between speed and propellant consumption.
Once you have the technologies to become self-sufficiënt in space, competitors will also start to challenge you. They will compete for the same resources (which are limited). You win the game by being the first to settle a colony in a nearby system. In the Beta, the win condition will be different, although alpha gameplay will be preserved.
The graphics of the Alpha won't be meaningful, to say the least. It will be a simple Windows Forms application, with some parts of it having OpenGL rendering (like the Map). The goal of the Alpha is to test basic gameplay mechanics and to be able to quickly prototype things. By the time of the Beta, we'll start working on providing proper graphics.
* - This will be implemented in a later Alpha Build.
In Star Apocalypse the player takes control of a society just as it is about to reach the stars. The player will guide them to found new colonies, construct massive fleets, and improve their economy. So far, nothing new to the 4X genre.
However, the player will not directly control everything, he is in fact limited to the options available to his central government, not even necessarily his entire populace on his home world. Thus the player will play a game of internal politics as distant colonies and minorities will strive to better their lot in life. The player will be just as busy keeping the empire together as he is expanding it!
The player will try to guide his civilisation as best he can forward into the galaxy and the future, where new technologies, unknown species and ultimately, ascension from the corporeal form await him, amongst other things.
Star apocalypse is set in a not so distant future, where man is just and about able to start mining the solar system, all the way to a very distant future where man travels from one end of the universe to the other in the blink of an eye.
The map is a galaxy system much like the milky way, with thousands, if not millions, of stars to explore.
This game is made to appeal to the science fiction fans, fans of the 4X genre & strategy games in general, and people who enjoy political/historical simulations.
The goal of the game is to lead your civilisation as best you can; what this means however evolves along with your society. This is subject to the cultural values of your society, which bring certain expectations and focus to your society. It is dependant on the stratification of your society; a civilisation base on slavery requires a large military to maintain it. It is dependant on on your dependency towards other colonies; Rome needs the Egyptian grain. Etcetera. From being a brutal warlord to an enlightened technocracy, your goals evolve with your society.
Sounds like something you'd like to play? Why not watch this profile, comment and participate! We can always use community input!
Hey everyone,
I'm gonna give some updates on progress and do a few announcements for the game in this post.
First of all, I have been working on a very simplified game engine. It is a 2D graphics engine with very simple code. It also does not care a bit about the gameplay code, as long as it gets its stuff to draw to the screen. It's quite the thing which a gfx engine should do in my eyes. I have also implemented inside this engine mini-threading functionality which balances the execution of the gameplay code library over several threads. The intention is to make the game scale with future hardware and with different hardware specs modern day. More CPU power will mostly enhance the size of the universe and the AI. More RAM will mostly increase the possible size. The threading functionality does not fully work as intended yet, but I'm getting close. I hope to be able to show some demonstrations somewhere in the coming weeks.
Another announcement I want to make is that I'll be releasing the soundtracks made for Star Apocalypse between july 2006 and now as CC-BY-SA for downloading somewhere in october. So it'll be added as a download package on here. Most of the devs on the project are also people who value an open culture with freedom to share the cultural fruits of others. In this, we want to release the soundtracks as items which can be freely shared and even be used in other commercial projects, as long as a reference to us is given.
I also want to apologize for a lack of updates. I have had a lot going on in real life, and still have. That has allowed me to spend little time on coding. Things should be slowly starting to settle down now, so hopefully I can get that game engine working within a few weeks.
Another announcement is that I intend to release a smaller game using this engine and minithreading capabilities before I will develop a full 4X game with it. It allows me to optimize it for running deep 4X simulations once I know the strengths and weaknesses of this engine.
This was it for this time. I hope to be able to show something really ingame the coming weeks.
If you have any questions, you can always contact me by email, PM on here, comments or on steam by my profile at Steamcommunity
PS: Little shoutout to the FAF community for pointing me this excellent vid:
It's been a while since the last update. That's also with a reason. I've been quite seriously ill since the start of april. And it isn't showing any signs...
In this update I'll explain the new downloads added and general progress on development.
Work has been done on my house, slowly ending my 'hiatus'. A soundtrack concept has been posted and work will slowly continue on the game itself.
I wanted to let you know why there has been a recent lack of updates regarding development.
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This seems a bit like what Sins of a Solar Empire was originally meant to be. Hm... I really like the idea of police defending against pirates and stuff. Makes it seem more like a real time space empire simulation than a real time strategy game. I hope you keep stuff like that in there. I love simulations and was rather disappointed to see that Sins had gone so much away from that.
we go on purpose into a different direction than sins. But the graphical area might be up for some surprises ;)
Gameplay and Graphics will be 2 things that will majorly set the game apart from other games.
Hm... I just noticed the update about the graphics. So the game will be in a fully 2D playing field then? That takes allot away from a space game... but I'll still keep an eye on this.
it will be 2d yes, but the depth with police and pirates will stay in. We primarily focuss on gameplay, graphics will be a lower priority.
But 2d not necessarily takes alot away from a space game. Ever tried flatspace or Starships unlimited? Both are great indep games which are very fun to play.
Well sure, a space game can still be great with only two dimensions... but three is so much better. I don't mean 3D graphics like Sins of a Solar Empire, but 3D gameplay, like Homeworld. It literally adds a whole new dimension of movement. It's also pretty uncommon in a genre that is already not terribly common.
I personally don't care about graphics as long as the gameplay is good. I mean, I'm a Dwarf Fortress fan. Bay12games.com
Well regardless, as long as you keep the idea of vast but extremely detailed simulated empires alive you've got my continued interest. :)
looks interesting but you might want to tell what kind of strategy it is. RTS TBS?
very likely full RTS.
Firstly it will only be multiplayer, but later you can also play singleplayer.
This game sounds pretty detailed
This ship is looking good!
well, it was just a concept model for a bomber.
Likely this will become obsolete if all the devs agree with a new plan to introduce an entirely different graphical theme.
We're currently discussing a new direction of the graphics, we will provide more details later on!
we are going to change plans slightly. The release will come a bit earlier, but will include probably at the beginning only Fleet Wars and/or Battlefield. The other gametypes will be of smaller scale. The battles will be made more intense though.
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INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 11, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Roche Diabetes Care, makers of ACCU-CHEK® products and services, is showing its support for World Diabetes Day (Nov. 14) through two truly collaborative initiatives.
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I like the narrow text column. It is a nice change from the standard WordPress layout.
One thing that I think could be improved is the left to right alignment of the site name/navigation menu in the left column. Its placement seems somewhat random to me (I'm using Firefox 0.9.1).
Other than that, nice work.
er.. maybe you can choose to hover links without striking them
Hi Stacy,
In the 'about' section, if you click the hyperlink for the 'simple comment form,' strangely, I find myself at google. The status bar spit back some php, from the looks of it. I didn't delve into this very far, but I think a quick inspection will reveal the problem to you.
I was going to mention that with such a narrow column, you will have to keep your posts short, but you touched on that already in your about section, so you're one step ahead of me.
I'm curious to know if you're going to have archives on the page? Also, I'm not a tremendous fan of strikethrough on a:hover.
Otherwise good stuff. Are you going to increase the update tempo?
Well the irony of the "simple form" being oh so not-simple was unfortunately not on purpose. Thank you for spending the time on my site and catching that and, even more so, for returning with your comments. Much appreciated.
The strikethrough, which i can see is not that popular, was intended to be a very subtle, practically imperceptible, and probably mis guided attempt at some vague comment on how my view on alot of irony is blocking (striking through if you will) any attempts to fix the hypocrisy it tries lampoon. I think removing them for design reasons rather than my idealogical reasons would be a good idea. And yes I am planning to update more frequently and put an archives page when there is necessity to archive .
I'd definitely make the layout column a bit wider. That's just too narrow. Other than that, pretty nice. Very clean and open.
I'm happy to help.
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DURHAM, N.C. -- Leaks from carbon dioxide injected deep underground to help fight climate change could bubble up into drinking water aquifers near the surface, driving up levels of contaminants in the water tenfold or more in some places, according to a study by Duke University scientists.
Based on a year-long analysis of core samples from four drinking water aquifers, "We found the potential for contamination is real, but there are ways to avoid or reduce the risk," says Robert B. Jackson, Nicholas Professor of Global Environmental Change and professor of biology at Duke.
"Geologic criteria that we identified in the study can help identify locations around the country that should be monitored or avoided," he says. "By no means would all sites be susceptible to problems of water quality."
The study appears in the online edition of the journal Environmental Science & Technology, at http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es102235w.
Storing carbon dioxide deep below Earth's surface, a process known as geosequestration, is part of a suite of new carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies being developed by governments and industries worldwide to reduce the amount of greenhouse gas emissions entering Earth's atmosphere. The still-evolving technologies are designed to capture and compress CO2, emissions at their source typically power plants and other industrial facilities and transport the CO2 to locations where it can be injected far below the Earth's surface for long-term storage. The U.S. Department of Energy, working with industry and academia, has begun the planning for at least seven regional CCS projects.
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"We were hoping we were wrong obviously," Rivers said before the Celtics took on the Toronto Raptors Sunday at Air Canada Centre. "It's a tough one, obviously. Not more for the team, I think that's an easy way to look at it. I look at it more in a couple of ways, No. 1 how lucky Jeff is because the fact that we found it and the fact that he can actually come back and play to me is the minor part. I could care less about that.
"The fact that he could live and all that is far more important. That's the way I looked at it and that's basically what I conveyed to him. 'Don't look at this as a negative.' This is an extreme positive. You're gonna be OK, and that's good."
The Celtics had big plans to expand Green's role and create matchup problems with his versatility. Those plans are now done.
"Team-wise it's obviously a blow to us," Rivers said. "It just tells you all those plans in the summer, I could have played four or five more rounds of golf because we put a lot of time into, we really were going to commit to in some point in every game going to a small group to try to pace the game with Kevin (Garnett) and Jeff. We wanted to be an effective small team. That's basically going to get tossed."
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What is Sharia Law?
Sharia law is a familiar term to Muslims and non-Muslims, alike. Nearly every Republican candidate for president has vilified it. It's been discussed in relevance to new "democracies" emerging in the Arab world. As a legal tradition, it generates monstrous resonance in matters relating to politics, terror and the normative timbre of international human rights. It's been banned in 11 American states.
Yet, despite the fact that sharia law is bandied about by issue experts, elected officials and every single talking-head within the Beltway, from what I can tell, most folks don't really know that much about it.
This is problematic.
It's incredibly important that we understand exactly what we're talking about -- to recognize the opportunities and threats presented in dealings with sharia-inspired states in the Muslim world.
What are the sources of Sharia?
Sharia or the "divine law of Islam" is mostly derived from these two sources:
- The Quran (a.k.a. the Qu'ran, or the Qur'an, or the Koran, or the Korawn, etc., et al.)
- The Sunna (in layman's terms, the teachings of the Prophet...)
AND...to a lesser extent, sharia also owes interpretive echoes to:
- Ijma' (consensus of Muslims...the understanding of "consensus" is incredibly controversial)
- Qiyas (Reasoning based on Analogy...vast differences between Sunni and Shi'a deduction)
- Ijtihad (literally, a personal striving to deduce divine law...an individual's interpretation of problems not covered in the Quran)
Can I buy a copy of Sharia Law at my local bookstore?
Nope. There's a library of interpretation out there, so you can read the scholarly stuff, but there is no definitive, codified or monolithic conception of sharia. It isn't written down like the dusty, old legal tomes you might find stealing shelf space in an attorney's office. There is no universal interpretation. This is important.
Isn't it evil?
Well, it sure can be used that way. I think it's fair to say that many Americans associate sharia with medieval punishment that includes religiously sanctioned stoning, the amputation of limbs, and vicious lashings in response to mundane crimes like adultery or petty theft. Lots of Muslims view it this way, too. However, it's all a matter of interpretation...mixed with a little cultural relevance.
Cultural interpretation has a lot to do with it and can account for why the Pashtunwali Taliban state doesn't look anything like an ethnically, culturally and religiously diverse Malaysia despite the fact that both states find inspiration (of sorts) in sharia law.
Many Muslims hold a different view. In Islamic tradition, sharia is more positively understood as something that cultivates humanity. As a religious jurisprudence (or fiqh in Arabic), it is believed to be divinely revealed, and is supposed to serve as an antidote to a society where cultural ills are rife. From a more progressive sense, sharia is designed to free humanity to realize its potential.
So when does ever that happen?
It depends. One of the few things most all Islamic scholars agree on is that sharia can regulate all human actions and puts it into five categories: actions obligatory, actions recommended, actions allowed, actions disliked and actions that are flat out forbidden.
There's a presumption that sharia is incompatible with Western liberal ideals. It's supposedly irreconcilable with women's rights, gender equality, private property, money lending, and freedom of speech.
Sadly, it's got a lot less to do with the "law" and a lot more to do with the folks who are trying to unravel their divine guidance.
For the record, reformers exist who believe that new Islamic theory can produce a modernized Islamic law. We should work with them AND their secular allies against the rabid traditionalists.
What countries use sharia?
A bunch of them. Some might surprise you. But it's less important to actually tally up the nations that incorporate elements of sharia as it is to consider how they use it. Some states just implement the legality to regulate basic family and business dealings. In other countries, it's only deployed in certain regions. Then there are the outliers - states like Saudi Arabia and Iran that have employed a brutal interpretation to oppress and terrorize their citizens.
Will the proto-democracies of an "Arab Spring" use sharia?
Probably. A 2010 Pew poll conducted across the Arab world showed strong support for Islam in politics and for harsh punishments for petty crime. On the other hand, most of the Muslims polled (except those in our "ally" Pakistan) believed democracy is the best form of governance.
The sharia interpretation they implement is anybody's guess..
So who decides what sharia looks like?
Well, there are five major schools of sharia law.
The Hanbali school is the most conservative. It's the sort that allows a thief's hand to be cut off in Saudi Arabia, or a woman to be stoned in Northern Nigeria. On the other hand, the Hanifi tradition is known for being the most liberal. Its focus is squared on reason and analogy. Hanafi adherents are dominant among Sunnis in Central Asia, Egypt, Pakistan, India, China, Turkey, the Balkans, and the Caucasus. The Maliki school is based on the practices of the folks living in Medina during Muhammad's lifetime. Depending on your interpretation, this can prove a lot more progressive than it sounds. This discipline is most common in and around North Africa. The Shafi'I school is a relatively conservative movement that emphasizes the opinions of Muhammad's friends and companions. Not to be forgotten is the Jafari school which is really only used by Shi'a Muslims.
Its range of interpretation can track from the sublime to the scary -- see: "Iran, The Islamic Republic of."
What does it pertain to?
It depends what country you're talking about. Classical sharia covers all aspects of human life...it's traditionally conceived into four parts, regarding worship, commercial deals, marriage/divorce, and penalties for breaking the rules.
However, not every country uses so broad an umbrella.
Sharia law was originally conceived to only apply to Muslims. Christians and Jews were afforded a special status, granted our shared Abrahamic roots. However, this has obviously not always proven the case.
Why should I care?
When the United States invaded Afghanistan to dislodge the Taliban, part of the reason we were given was to liberate those poor women from the barbaric abuse of sharia. On the other hand, Saudi Arabia won't let women drive -- let alone talk to men -- but they remain our closest Arab ally.
Despite the fact that you're apparently unqualified to run for the GOP nod if you're not proactively campaigning against some sneaky Muslims installing a Taliban style theocracy under our collective noses, does anybody see that special relationship with Riyadh changing?
To be honest, I'm not terribly worried about this happening. I was similarly confident that a sharia compliant mortgage program designed to assist Muslim homebuyers in Minnesota didn't present an existential threat to the American culture. It was just designed to sell houses. I'm not an alarmist and I can recognize that sharia isn't inherently evil, even if the people who employ may be. Like any other religious law, it's only as good as the people who wield it -- any spiritual justification for political order and cultural identity can be dangerous.
It's naïve to assume that sharia law will always be used for good, but equally worthwhile to demystify an assumed evil.
Who made you the expert?
Nobody, and I'm not pretending to be. But I've recently done a bunch of research for a peer reviewed academic article regarding the history of sharia, I specialize on Muslim political identity, I've lived in the "sharia" world and I figured it would be worth passing along some cursory information to develop the debate.
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