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New York Domestic Relations - Article 5 - § 73 Legitimacy of Children Born by Artificial Insemination
Domestic Relations § 73. Legitimacy of children born by artificial insemination. 1. Any child born to a married woman by means of artificial insemination performed by persons duly authorized to practice medicine and with the consent in writing of the woman and her husband, shall be deemed the legitimate, birth child of the husband and his wife for all purposes. 2. The aforesaid written consent shall be executed and acknowledged by both the husband and wife and the physician who performs the technique shall certify that he had rendered the service.Section: Previous Article 5 70 71 72 73 74 Next
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How to install & configure Facebook Social Plugins
Facebook Social Plugins – WordPress Plugin
"Facebook Social Plugins" is a WordPress plugin that integrates the new Facebook Social API options. It allows you to include a Like button at the top/bottom of your posts for people to instantly connect to your blog while they are reading it. It also contains widgets where you can include the Activity Feed, Comments, the Like Box, and Recommendations. You can download Facebook Social Plugins from WordPress.org or follow the instructions below if you have WordPress 2.9.2 or greater.
For a demo on how it works, please see my other blog "Ballarat Marketing" where I've recently set it up (I'll set it up on the rest of the blogs another day!) I was setting it up on this blog and then realized that I already have dozens of these types of plugins here, that it's getting a little out of control :)
This blog post shows you how can you install/activate and setup the Facebook App in under 10 minutes.
Plugins > Add New
First, login to your blog and click on Plugins, then Add New.
Search for Plugin
Type in Facebook Social Plugins and click on Search Plugins
Facebook Social Plugins
The one I like the best is this one, be aware that the version number may be newer in future, but the name is still the same.
Install & Activate
Click on Install to the right of the "Facebook Social Plugins" plugin, then click on Activate, which will popup in a new window.
Settings > FB Social Plugins
Once installed & activated, you can configure the plugin by going to Settings > FB Social Plugins
Login to Facebook
In a new tab, login to Facebook by going to www.facebook.com and logging in.
This will make sure that this particular URL will be accessible from your Facebook account under Home > Developer dashboard area if you ever need to change any settings.
The next step may prompt you to login to Facebook anyway (I'm always logged in so test this)
Setup a New Application
Go back to the FB Social Plugins page on your Blog. Click on the link to setup a new Facebook Application ID.
Create an Application
The link will open in a new window and prompt you for the Site Name and Site URL.
1. Enter the Site Name as you want it to appear when people link to you
2. Enter the Site URL
3. Choose your language
4. Click on Create application
Facebook will give you a new page, with your App Name, URL, App ID, and App Secret. (For obvious reasons, I removed my details from the screenshot above).
Copy Application ID
Copy the App ID from Facebook into the Settings page of the Plugin.
Setup Style
I prefer the following setup. But you can mix around with it and see what looks good on your blog.
Setup Where to Show
Setup Where to Show settings. I prefer the above setup, but you can play around with it to get your own preference for your own blog. Then click on Save Changes.
Remove Page IDs
Some Pages may not be appropriate for the Facebook Share button to appear (your contact page for example). With this plugin, you can easily remove this plugin from showing up on any pages you choose.
To Find Page IDs
To find the Page ID numbers, you need to click on Pages > Edit.
Hover over the Page Name and look in StatusBar
Hover your mouse over the page name that you want the ID for and it should show up in the Status Bar of your browser.
So in my case, my "Contact" page is post ID: 55
While I was there, I worked out that my Sitemap is post ID: 787
I want to remove both of those from the FB Plugin.
Enter Post ID's into Plugin Settings
So to remove my Contact page (55) and my Sitemap (787), I would type in 55,787 into the "Where to Show" > Pages section. Then click on Save changes.
Once you've setup the "Like" button, you can check out the Widgets that this plugin has.
Go to Appearance > Widgets
Facebook Social Plugins Widgets
Inside the Widgets section, you'll see the options you can choose.
1. FB Activity Feed
2. FB Comments
3. FB Like Box
4. FB Like Button
5. FB Recommendations
To Install Widgets
To Install Widgets, simply drag the ones you want, into the Sidebar area you want it.
1. Pick the FB Widget you want to use.
2. Drag it to your Sidebar. And configure the options that come up.
All of them are pretty straight forward, the only one that might be a little tricky is the FB Like Box (shown above), which requires your Facebook Page ID.
FB Like Box PAGE ID
The FB Like Box requires your Facebook Page ID to setup. The problem if you have a vanity URL is trying to work out what that is.
Find your Page ID if you have a Vanity URL
If you have a Vanity URL (such as http://www.facebook.com/webwooky), it makes it a bit tricky to discover your Page ID.
To find your page ID, simply go to your Fan Page and hover your mouse over "Edit Page" or go to Facebook.com/Pages/Manage and hover your mouse over Edit Page, and it will show you the URL in your status bar. In my case, the ID is: 56115870202
Have Fun!
Have fun with this! Social buttons, although getting a bit controversal, has already been installed on over 100,000+ sites, and is an awesome method of getting more people to not only see your content but also to get more people virally sharing your content.
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I'm trying to rename the "Widgets" entry on the left navigation of the administration panel.
I can see that in /wp-admin/menu.php, most of the menu items are added and given their respective display names. But the widgets entry (i.e. the link to widgets.php) is not added in this file.
I've been searching all through the /wp-admin/ folder and simply cannot find the place where the "Widgets" link is added to the navigation.
It is my hope that some generous soul on this forum will be able to enlighten me as to where I should be looking.
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I'm using this plugin:
but for custom post type the panel does not appear to enter the slug of the title
how can I fix this?
I'm using this plugin:
but for custom post type the panel does not appear to enter the slug of the title
how can I fix this?
I second this request too!
Excelent plugin, by the way... i can't believe qTranslate doesn't have this feature out of the box.
Custom post types should be supported in the latest (0.5) release.
Unfortunately, at the moment I'm unable to test if it's working as expected.
If so, can you please confirm?
Meanwhile, I'm marking the topic as solved until further notice of fault
Hey 3dolab, i installed the update (0.5) but the qTranslate Slug Translation box does not appear on any of the custom post types (pages) i created (old or new)
I don't think it has anything to do with it, but it might help to know that the custom post types were created using this plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-post-type-ui/
Hi, the good news is you can add the meta box easily enough. Below line 773 add this function for every custom post type:
add_meta_box( 'qts_sectionid', __( 'qTranslate Slug translation', 'qts_textdomain' ), 'qTranslateSlug_custom_box', '[your-custom-post-type-slug]', 'advanced' );
The bad news is that any value entered in the slug fields for custom post types do not get saved. Having entered slugs and updated a custom post type, the slug box is empty again and if I check the links nothing has changed indeed :-( . Would be v. happy about any tip that points me into the right direction for solving this.
I managed to put the box in some custom type with your instructions. Also I noticed that the inputs where being saved in the database but they didn't appear in the input fields when you saved so I also fixed that in the function that recreates the custom box putting some conditional code in case the Box was dealing with some custom post type.
However, this does not make the translated slugs available in the frontend, so I will try to search where that stuff is happening and if I find something I will post the code here.
Here is my corrected and tested function for slug box in metaboxes, you have to replace the older one, near line 780 :
function qTranslateSlug_custom_box() {
global $post, $wpdb, $q_config;
if ($post->post_type == 'page'){
$post_type = QTS_PAGE;
} else if ($post->post_type == 'post') {
$post_type = QTS_POST;
} else if (count($post_types) > 0) {
foreach ($post_types as $post_type) {
if ($post_type == $post->post_type ) {
$type = QTS_CUSTOM;
if ( !current_user_can( 'edit_post', $post_id ))
if ($type != QTS_CUSTOM)
} else {
}//Fixing support for custom post types
if($type == QTS_CUSTOM){
$query = $wpdb->prepare(
"SELECT qts_lang, qts_slug
FROM {$wpdb->prefix}qtranslate_slug
WHERE %d = qts_type
AND %d = qts_id"
, $type, $post->ID);
$results = $wpdb->get_results($query);
$slugs = array();
} else {
$query = $wpdb->prepare(
"SELECT qts_lang, qts_slug
FROM {$wpdb->prefix}qtranslate_slug
WHERE %d = qts_type
AND %d = qts_id"
, $post_type, $post->ID);
$results = $wpdb->get_results($query);
$slugs = array();
foreach ($results as $res) {
$slugs[$res->qts_lang] = $res->qts_slug;
I don't think this issue is solved yet, my patch only saves the slugs in the database but the permalinks aren't working for custom post types yet or it is not clear for me how to make them work.
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Goat Cheese With Walnuts In Warm Oil and Vinegar Dressing
|Walnut halves
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
|Mixed salad greens
|2 Cup (32 tbs)
|Soft goat cheese
|4 Ounce
|Snipped chives
|1 Tablespoon (To Garnish)
|Walnut oil
|6 Tablespoon
|White wine vinegar
|3 Tablespoon
|Clear honey
|3 Tablespoon
|Dijon mustard
|1 Teaspoon
|Ground ginger
|1 Pinch
|To Taste
|To Taste
1. To make the dressing, in a small heavy saucepan, combine all the ingredients and whisk with a fork until well amalgamated.
2. Place the pan on a low flame on stove or over the barbecue coals and heat until warmed through, whisking occasionally.
3. Add the walnut halves to the warm dressing, and heat another few minutes until walnuts are well glazed with the dressing
4. On 4 salad plates, divide the salad leaves
5. Spoon scoopfuls of the goat cheese over the salad.
6. Drain the walnut halves from the dressing and scatter them on the salad.
7. Pour the warm dressing to a small jug or sauce boat.
8. Garnish the salad with chives and serve immediately, accompanied by the warm walnut oil dressing on the side.
Recipe Summary
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Nutrition Rank
Nutrition Facts
Serving size
Calories 483 Calories from Fat 390
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 45 g69.3%
Saturated Fat 7.7 g38.7%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 13 mg4.3%
Sodium 207.7 mg8.7%
Total Carbohydrates 14 g4.8%
Dietary Fiber 2.1 g8.5%
Sugars 10.9 g
Protein 10 g19.2%
Vitamin A 16.4% Vitamin C 14.3%
Calcium 7.4% Iron 8.8%
*Based on a 2000 Calorie diet


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Magnificent Limoges Chalice / Cup ~ Limoges Porcelain ~ Hand Painted with Pink, White and Magenta Roses ~ Artist Initialed ~ Jean Pouyat Limoges France 1890-1910
This is a Limoges collectors dream! This is a piece that is rare and it is very exciting to have found one. The creator of this masterpiece has initialed the bottom M.L. taking pride in his work. In our opinion whoever he or she is ranks right up there with the best porcelain painters. The artist has started at the base with a brick red background that melds into a variegated green background as it proceeds up this massive piece. He has painted bold magenta roses at the base with thorny stems and green leaves winding up the base to the bowl of the chalice. The artist then changes the roses to a wonderful cotton candy pink with yellow and black centers and white roses with rich yellow and black centers. He shows the progression of life by including brand new rose buds waiting to open, roses with just a few petals left and some rose flowers without petals. The pink and white roses are weaving around the bulbous body of chalice providing remarkable artwork from whatever angle you view this beauty. The artist has added a golden rim finishing this piece nicely. This piece is in excellent condition with no chips or cracks. Manufacturing anomalies may exist, the occasional tiny iron speck, dust 'bump' in the glaze, etc.
Backstamp: JPL over France Mark 5
Measures: 10 1/2" H x 6"W bowl 5 1/2" W base
Please visit Timber Hills Antique Shop on Ruby Lane for different and unique items. Items added on a regular basis!!!
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Ever ready with the sweeping statements, Charles Mudede just proclaimed that there are three things you should never do:
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The second edict is sound, though I would extend it to the PM, too.
The third point is misguided, although techno is mainly conducive to high-energy, athletic sex. Admittedly, techno's not something you want to play if you're planning a night of slow, romantic lovemaking. But it does have its carnal uses. Ask Zeigenbock Kopf.


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With the exception of Kucinich, they are all a bunch of crash dummies. What a farce.
Isn't Roger Simon a Hollywood deadbeat who thinks he knows what's what? Or am I thinking of somebody else?
Imagine John McCain or Rudy Guiliani making the same crack during a debate and not ECB's preferred candidate, John Edwards. I don't think that ECB would be so forgiving.
After watching that debate I can honestly tell you we are all fucked no matter which one gets elected. And what is scarier than one of those Democrats getting in? A Republican getting elected.
Talk about picking the lesser of two evils yet again.
It was just a botched joke. Kinda like John Kerry's botched that joke right before the last election.
Coincidence? Methinks not...
@3: Right on. If this was any other Democrat even, ECB would've said "Oh it's sexist! Play fair!" but since it is Edwards, it's just a bad joke. And if anyone else used that defense "It was just a bad joke, sorry," I doubt ECB would let it end there.
Also, ECB, you are getting the Dems confused. Biden said he likes Kucinich's wife, not Gravel.
I don't know if commenting on Hillary's wardrobe makes Edwards sexist and "one of the boys." I think it makes him more of a gay boy. "Girlfriend, I don't know about that jacket, bitch pleazza" (snap)
The lesser of two evils... IS LESS EVIL.
Please make a note of it.
If I'm going to give ECB crap when I disagree, I'm certainly going to give her credit when we agree. This was well put.
@8: ...but still evil.
--Gore/Kerry supporter in the last two, ready to hold my nose and pull the (D) level again...
@8 - true, which is what we told you in 2000, Dan, but you insisted Bush was ok.
@ Dan, I think most of us would have guessed I was supporting the lesser of two evils.
A Republican is a quick trip to the destruction of the Republic, a Democrat gets us to the same place, it is just the scenic Sunday afternoon drive version of the fall.
Why won't Gore run? Hell, at this point I am all for repealing the 22nd amendment and figuring out how to bring FDR back to life. (I am not if that last part is just me being smart assed or serious)
One other item then I am done for the day. (hold the applause) I am seriously jealous of my grandparents. The actually had the opportunity to vote for REAL LIFE HONEST TO GOD LIBERALS (who could and did win BTW)for the White House.
I wish we had that choice.
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I love your description of how people just end up in Fargo. I've always said the exact same thing when people have asked me what in the world I'm doing here, of all places. Still, it *is* kinda nice here.
LOL And people think I was harsh on Fargo. Good work.
An insightful and humorous look at area where I went to college. You take away the students, and it is a cold, flat, windy succession of strip malls. I used to work at Plains art museum as my work study job, it is an interesting place.
Great work on Fargo page...
Lots of fun. Good tips.
I couldn't have said it better. Fargo is a whole lot of nothing. For shopping and dining..that's about it. No tourist attractions there. Just a city, that's it.
Alligator egg rolls? Mmmm...! Look forward to seeing more pics of your hometown.
Happy Birthday, Nick! Lots journeys in the future!
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A 1960s styled hotel, wood paneling, cruddy curtains. Has seen better days from a maintenance standpoint, but had a fridge, microwave, TV, and comfy bed. I didn't want amenities, I wanted a place to sleep, and this met that need. The staff was responsive when contacted, but minimal cleanup after first day stay (only new towels, bed not made up). The bathroom was a minus--tiny bathtub, dirty-looking gaps in linoleum, etc. Situated in rural area, I loved the view from my rear window, was about six miles from the battlefield.
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Waited 20 min. for desk clerk when checking in. I could have robbed the place. no one at desk but door was opened. Found pubic hair on toilet from previous guests, clean bath towels were damp. Would never stay there again.
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Was happy to find a place to stay on the nite before the150 th anniversary of the gettysburg address. After a very long ride from Atlanta, I was happy for a hot shower and a clean bed.
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Only 4 minutes from town on main road in rural area. Bedroom was clean and cozy. Pine paneling, though dated, added to the quietness of the room. Bathroom needs updating but was usable. Very basic place to sleep. Bring your shower shoes and sense of humor and you will have a pleasant stay.
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Every day this month will have the five goofiest moment from a five-issue stretch of a particular comic book run. Once a week it will be the ten goofiest moments of a ten-issue stretch. Here is a list of the moments featured so far.
Today we're looking at the next five Legion of Super-Heroes features in Adventure Comics #310-314. These five tales were written by Edmond Hamilton and drawn by John Forte (pencils and inks) for issues #310-312 and 314 and Curt Swan/George Klein for #313.
As always, this is all in good fun. I don't mean any of this as a serious criticism of the comics in question. Not only were these writers certainly never imagining people still reading these comics decades after they were written, great comics often have goofy moments (Kirby/Lee's Fantastic Four is one of the best comic book runs of all-time and there were TONS of goofy stuff in those 100 plus issues!).
In #313, the Legion faces a mysterious female villain. I love just how over the top her name is…
In #311…boy…Stone Boy is incompetent…
but he's no match for your least favorite and mine, the staggering ineptitude that is Bouncing Boy…
"We need a place to hide the female Legionnaires so that they won't be killed." "That's all well and good, but I think I'll go bouncing!" "Dammit, you fool, this is a life or death situation!" "Wheeeeeeee!"
The combined absurdity of telepathically telling someone to die and Brainiac's brilliant solution really gets me every time…
That is an awesome clock…
5. Legion of Distrust…
One of the things you have to love about the Legion is how easy they all turn on each other. "Saturn Girl is acting oddly – maybe she wants to kill us all?" "Mon-El is acting weird, I bet he wants Lightning Lad to stay dead because he's jealous!"
4. Puppets are awesome!
In a comic where strange worlds are the norm, this one is still way too goofy to not stand out…
3. Oh, of COURSE, a lead suit painted to look just like her!
In #313, Supergirl can't figure out how Satan Girl is not affected by Green Kryptonite when it appears as though she is a Kryptonian…
the answer is…well…less than excellent…
That's practically Identity Crisis level of not playing fair with the readers!
2. John Dillinger's press agent is good
In #314, a villain goes to get the three worst villains in the history of mankind. And his choices are somewhat odd…
Yes, John Dillinger is one of the worst villains in the history of mankind. Ooookay…
At least this comic gave us Hitler-Superboy…
That expression will haunt my soul.
1. Who cares if he kills us? You have to laugh at midgets!
A new bad guy (in the story that later inspired Alan Moore for Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow) attacks the Legion and is kicking their collective ass when suddenly…
I love the idea of people just laughing at the guy who is single-handedly tearing through the Legion because he's short.
These are great Brian. I agree with all these except for one: the name Satan Girl. Not only is that not goofy, it's uncharacteristically good in a nonironic way for a Silver Age DC book. That name is seriously awesome, not even goofy awesome.
That "Mask Man" story is pretty intense for the Silver Age. The body count is staggeringly high (even though it reverses itself at the end). My kids freaked out when I was reading it to them.
This is a great series. Just one quick note on this one. With regards to your comment: The combined absurdity of telepathically telling someone to die and Brainiac's brilliant solution really gets me every time…
Isn't it Superboy's brilliant solution?
– Satan Girl's cognomen has always baffled me in a way; how did they ever get that past the Comics Code Authority? Was it that she's not really a demon? This was close to the same period when Marvel used names like "Satannish" and so on. But then, Gardner Fox always slipped a lot of demon names and Lovecraft references into his stories whenever magic was involved. JLofA #10-1 have the Silver Wheel of Nyarlath, f'rinstance. Was it also Fox who created the Spectre villain Azmodus?
— Goofy as the Satan Girl "lead suit with my face on it" thing is, it strikes me as sort of meta-goofy that Supergirl never used the idea herself in other stories.
— That "telepathic command to die" thing makes me wonder how much sheer goofiness we'd find in the otherwise revered and ultra-serious Claremont/Byrne X-Men stories. Claremont's actually a pretty goofy writer in some ways, as is Steve Engelhart; a lot of Bronze Age stuff seems to have Silver Age goofiness in the middle of stories with otherwise very "serious" and "relevant" plotting and narrative tone. Sometimes those sorts of things even read like whimsical of Silver Age material stripped of its winking self-awareness.
I can't help but wonder if James robinson had Hitler-Superboy in mind when he was writing The Golden Age?
Sometimes those sorts of things even read like whimsical of Silver Age material stripped of its winking self-awareness.
You know, I'm not so sure that the Silver Age stuff, at least the DC stuff, really has all that much winking self-awareness. I think it just seems so over the top that our modern sensibilities when reading it cause us to read winking self-awareness into it because we can't fathom that stuff being played 100% straight. But to me, when I read Weisinger or Schwartz edited books, I think it's being 100% sincere which is what makes it so awesome to me.
The clock suggests that the Legion stories take place in a universe full of flat Earths, since apparently each planet only has one time zone…
Hey Brian,
How did that last story inspire Alan Moore? i can't see any influence in that small piece, so there must be more. i haven't heard this story, so info would be appriciated!
Yeah, "self-awareness" may not be the right word for it; it is quite sincere. But it's sincere without trying to shoulder the world or to impress its own gravitas upon the reader the way Bronze Age stuff sometimes does.
Writers like Fox, Broome, Siegel, Binder, and Hamilton usually seemed aware that they were writing lighter fare for younger audiences.
Even with the "deaths" in the Mask Man story, for example, there's a way those deaths aren't about blood 'n' guts as in the darker recesses of the mid-80s to the present, nor about wallowing in melodrama like the wave of character deaths that occurred from the early 1970s to the mid-80s.
The villains of the two pieces are quite similar.
You always list around 5 honorable mentions with these. Why not go with 10 goofiest moments?
Because I don't always list five honorable mentions.
I don't mean to sound like an a*****e. Sorry if it felt like that.
I am always entertained by your posts
Given the level of power and the mention of the death count being undone I am thinking the short villian must have been Mxyzptlk.
"Satan Girl" was probably chosen to clue in that it was really (somehow) Supergirl ("S-Girl") all along. Still I was a bit surprised they used that name when I read the story, too.
Btw, turning into stone IS how Stone Boy's people hibernate. (I guess he just fell asleep on duty, eg. they were making fun of how boring the task was.)
Bouncing Boy (and those Madballs precursors) were probably intended to lighten up the Satan Girl story a little, as it was (by their kid-oriented standards) probably a little too intense.
There's nothing silly about using mind control to kill people, we've seen it plenty of times in fiction (of course, that assumes the power can do more than just get people top commit suicide, but actually override their bodies' nervous system. In that case, knocking the person out would NOT have helped.)
Nero deserved to be on the Most Evil Men ever list even less than Dillinger, it wasn't like he set Rome on fire himself or anything. But then again, they needed names kids would recognize.
Wait, I haven't seen that Superboy-Hitler story!! I must find it!!!
re Nero- and 'Most Evil Men'- I think he would be a good candidate. He did institute the practice of using Christians as human torches. And at the time of this comic book-he was believed to be the arsonist behind the Burning Of Rome.
"….impress its own gravitas upon the reader the way Bronze Age stuff sometimes does.
Writers like Fox, Broome, Siegel, Binder, and Hamilton usually seemed aware that they were writing lighter fare for younger audiences"
As someone who was reading comics at the depressing onset of The Bronze Age- this statement above is so true. Writers like O'Neil were so busy trying to do 'serious literature' that they so often forgot basic storytelling entertainment value. I would devour the DC reprints from the 40s, 50s and 60s so avidly.
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Sijo, try to find Showcase Presents the LSH vol. 1. The story is in there, along with the great quote "Superboy, you can't be Hitler in personality!" Also there the "at least be sporting and don't kill Saturn Girl." when she was the leader at the time.
Danjak, "Mask Man" is a decendent of Mr. Myklpltk (or however you spell it)
The Golden Age Shazam! villain IBAC might be a good guide to who was a watchword for "evil" before Hitler was (or rather, while Hitler was establishing his own claim to infamy). Powered by four of the most evil people who ever lived, he derived his initialism codename from Ivan the Terrible, Cesare Borgia, Attila the Hun, and Caligula (whose reputationa mong the Roman emperors is surely worse than Nero's, right?).
Oh, sure, John Dillinger, the 20th century Gangster, wasn't one of the most evil men in history…. but Billy John Dillinger was a crazed despot of the 23rd century that dressed up like John Dillinger and he was waaay worse than Hitler.
@ Omar K- well there's no pecking order,per se- among 'bad Roman emperors'- It comes down to popular perception informed by the media of whatever era.
Saying Satan Girl's lead suit is "practically Identity Crisis level of not playing fair with the readers" is unfair to the Legion story. While it is a bit of cheat, it at least makes a degree of sense, and particularly in the world of comics where such things can happen. Identity Crisis on the other hand relies on things that don't make sense even in the world of comics and arguably flat out lies to the reader. Unless the Legion story includes a sun-bathing/naked Satan Girl who is eating green kryptonite, then it isn't even near Identity Crisis level.
Legion of Distrust… Well, they were teenagers. "Mon-El is just, like, totally jealous because Lightning Lad is just soooo awesome, y'know?"
Most of the Legion stories from that era were very, very goofy. Even by DC standards.
Wow, The Legion went on a planet populated by those Madball toys from the 80s!
Wow, The Legion went on a planet populated by those Madball toys from the 80s!
Yeah, isn't that so weird? It had to be a coincidence, though, so I didn't mention it.
Hey, I mentioned the Madballs first, at least give me some credit!
Supergirl's summation in the very last panel of the Satan Girl story is, by itself, a perfect summation of the goofiness of Silver Age Weisinger stories.
The goofiest thing about Mask Man: why would anyone who has almost infinite powers need to disguise himself with stilts? All he had to do was make himslef taller with Chameleon Boy's shape shifting ability or Colossal Boy's growth spurts.
The robot nurses are rather…ample, aren't they? I guess that's supposed to be comforting somehow. To offset their hideous asymmetrical faces and the fact that they talk out of their eyestalks. In a universe where other robots look like, well, Satan Girl. I guess Microsoft got the nursebot contract. "Meh, they work. Hospitals ain't paying us Steve Jobs money."
Gee, I wonder what time it is on Earth. I wonder. What time it is. On Earth. Oh, god my head hurts.
If there was a planet of creatures that periodically resurrected, you'd think it might be the subject of at least enough scientific curiosity that someone would have given the planet a name, wouldn't you? Or has the Vatican covered it up? That would make sense, unlike Supergirl's cover-up of the puppet planetoid. "Yeah, can't have anyone knowing about the puppet planetoid. The existential implications would drive Earthlings insane!"
Alaktor's choice of mega-villains is kind of weak. I'm not saying he should have gone with Cassius, Brutus, and Judas, but how about not including two guys who got gunned down by the forces of good? "Hey, John, hop in my time machine before you get outsmarted by Melvin Purvis! I'm sure you'll be more successful against the 30th century Science Police! That guy next to you is the Chancellor of Germany. Say, you aren't Jewish, are you?"
Were there ANY Legion villains, or DCU villains in general, who weren't ultimately motivated by shame of being ridiculed? "Superboy, you'd blown my hair off! I shall dedicate my life to destroying you!" Even the Joker, early on, hated having his boners laughed at. I guess you've gotta go with the emotions that teen readers will empathize with. Jack Abramoff would make a lousy DC villain.
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Does anyone know where to get one of these? You know the corny ones where little snowflakes fall down the screen. Thanks. :)
Most of the ones I've seen all derive from that same guy..Altan d.o.o. (email@example.com), including both of the above. :)
It would be nice to see one that uses DOM.
Thanks guys!
Bakishi --- hrm.. .the snow plows must have come by.... I don't see any falling snow on your site...
i see the snow. but it only works on the first screen... if i scroll down, they stop at a point...
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confirmed. not workign on moz but is working on Opera.
Shudders from me too. :P
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It's not work! )-:
Wow! 363 days! As far as I know, no one has been able to get this to work.
Ha! I never looked into it. Interesting how the snow falls in FF at the linked sites, but not once the script is placed in WP.
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What is it?
Next-Generation Wireless Communications (NGWC) is a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) technology integration effort focused on developing and integrating technologies to significantly enhance the visibility of Army and Department of Defense (DoD) assets in both time and space. NGWC encompasses a suite of mesh network–enabled, information assurance–compliant sensor devices that will collect vital logistics visibility data and route those data to the radio frequency in-transit visibility server via interfaces with existing backhaul communications capabilities throughout the distribution pipeline. The NGWC effort is characterized as follows:
- Requirements-based developmental effort
- Open-architecture, standards-based methodology
- Ad hoc mobile, mesh network technology as the framework communications architecture
- COTS sensor–enabled operation (based on customer requirements)
- Compliance with DoD information assurance requirements
- Mesh functionality designed to support logistics business processes
- Visibility of assets in transit, in storage, and in process
- Logistics operational resource visibility
What has the Army done?
The Army fielded the fixed, active radio frequency identification infrastructure in use today in response to demands for in-the-box visibility. NGWC is the follow-on effort that is exploring the integration of cutting-edge wireless technologies with sensors so as to provide significantly enhanced asset visibility while reducing or eliminating fixed infrastructure and reducing the overall cost associated with asset visibility.
What continued efforts does the Army have planned for the future?
Under NGWC, the Army will demonstrate the initial functioning spiral of mesh network technology in late summer of 2008. Additional spirals of mesh network technology will focus on mesh design to support specific logistics business processes. The Army is collaborating with the U.S. Transportation Command and the U.S. Joint Forces Command to ensure that service and Joint requirements are addressed in the overall NGWC asset visibility solution.
Why is this important to the Army?
The Army is on a deliberate path to achieve an integrated, networked logistics capability that possesses the right capacity, scalability, agility, control, and time assurance qualities to effectively support the Joint Force Commander's ability to project the appropriate level of combat power. This requires visibility over sustainment requirements, capabilities, and priorities, with the ability to track, access, and fuse data into a net-centric operational capability that is actionable across the full range of military operations. The capabilities represented in NGWC represent critical components of a larger strategy that will enable logisticians and customers to see operational requirements in real time, and to plan and execute logistics support that is synchronized with the Joint Force Commander's campaign.
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I've been talking a lot about cloud-based productivity tools lately and I'm excited about the fact we're opening our Office 365 platform to public beta!
Office 365 features hosted versions of our trusted communication and collaboration tools including SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, Lync Online and Office Web Apps. For IT decision makers looking to streamline IT management and cut the cost and complexity of managing IT in-house, the web-enabled, subscription-based service should be seen as a strategic option.
Wondering if Office 365 is a good fit for your organization? The Microsoft Office 365 Beta Deployment Guide for Enterprises is a great start for developing a business case for moving to the cloud. The handy Migrate section of the guide will help you understand the requirements and workflows of onboarding your organization and how to begin using the cloud-based services as part of the production environment.
Stay tuned for the official launch of Office 365; in the meantime, explore the public beta over at the Office 365 main site. And you can be sure that the Momentum Business Insights site will keep you informed on latest developments on technologies such as Office 365 along with other Microsoft software designed to help you improve your business.


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In this video, Elzhi takes his audience back in time to the Mid-90′s, and into Maurice Malone's Hip-Hop Shop. The Shop was the heart of the Detroit hip hop scene where many collaborated, battled and shared music. It was there that a young Elzhi first grabbed the microphone to prove that he had the ability to become one of the greatest rappers alive.
Music executive and artist manager Jae Barber, also a Detroit native, provided an authentic picture of the world Elzhi revisits in his nostalgic spin on Nas' classic song, "Memory Lane." The video includes rare visuals of various artists such as Eminem and Royce da 5'9. Amongst the many artists included are the late Baatin, Proof and J Dilla.
Many listeners have called Elmatic one of the year's best album releases although it was introduced as a mixtape. Now available on iTunes and other digital outlets.
Special Thanks to Jahki, DJ Dez & DJ Butter; Video Directed by Gerard Victor & Jae Barber
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You are going to love the latest addition to our vintage line titled Autumn Cutwork. This beautiful collection features leaves, acorns, pumpkins and beautiful autumn arrangements all using vintage cutwork techniques. The difference between this collection and old-fashioned cutwork is that instead of cutting each hole by hand when the design is complete, you cut the holes first and let the design embroider over them. We accomplish this using a unique cutwork technique that is included in our tutorial.


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DoD News, Defense Media Activity
WASHINGTON, July 22, 2014 —
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel called Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop yesterday to offer his personal condolences for the Australians who lost their lives on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17.
Hagel reiterated President Barack Obama's pledge to support an international investigation into the incident, Pentagon Press Secretary Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby said in a statement summarizing the call.
"The secretary and the minister also discussed Australia's proposal for a U.N. Security Council resolution authorizing an international investigation with immediate, secure, and unrestricted access to the site to determine the cause of the crash," Kirby said.
Hagel and Bishop agreed that the United States and Australia should work closely together as the investigation moves forward, he added.


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Will.I.Am is Satan's pal, Tales from Sizzler and the worst cartoon ever created
Posted on May 9th, 2013 by C Bomb
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Book your room at Mavi Kumsal Hotel
Get an overview of this hotel4-star hotel on the beach, near Bodrum Windmills
Nestled on the beach, this Bardakci Bay hotel is within a 15-minute walk of Bardakci Beach and Bodrum Windmills. Bodrum Castle and Museum of Underwater Archaeology are also within 2 mi (3 km).
Hotel Features
At Mavi Kumsal Hotel, hit the private beach, dine onsite at Onsite venue, or enjoy a drink at one of the hotel's 2 bars/lounges.
Room Amenities
All 175 rooms offer furnished balconies or patios, minibars, and LED TVs with satellite channels. Other amenities available to guests include room service, hair dryers, and safes.Would you like to give us feedback? Share it! Opens in a new window
Mavi Kumsal HotelBardakçi Bay, No:29 Bodrum Mugla 48400
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
Simply step outside to unwind on the hotel's beach. After a day at the beach, enjoy amenities at Mavi Kumsal Hotel like a complimentary children's club, an outdoor pool, and a children's pool.
Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast each morning. Dining options at the hotel include a restaurant and a snack bar/deli. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of the hotel's bars, which include 2 bars/lounges and a poolside bar. High-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary. This beach hotel also offers a fitness center and a garden. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
Mavi Kumsal Hotel has designated areas for smoking.
- 24-hour front desk
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Arcade/game room
- Pool umbrellas
- Business center
- Children's club (free)
- Children's pool
- Conference space
- Conference space size (feet) - 5649
- Conference space size (meters) - 525
- Designated smoking areas
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Fitness facilities
- Free breakfast
- Free self parking
- Free WiFi
- Garden
- Hair salon
- Laundry facilities
- Luggage storage
- Meeting rooms 2
- Number of bars/lounges - 2
- Number of buildings/towers - 2
- Number of meeting rooms - 2
- On private beach
- Outdoor pool
- Poolside bar
- Porter/bellhop
- Restaurant
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Snack bar/deli
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Total number of rooms - 175
- Wedding services
Family Friendly Amenities
- Arcade/game room
- Children's club (free)
- Children's pool
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
- Free Wi-Fi
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Laundry facilities
- On private beach
- Outdoor pool
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Snack bar/deli
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free self parking
Room Amenities
- Air conditioning
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Free toiletries
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Daily housekeeping
- Furnished balcony or patio
- Hair dryer
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- In-room safe
- Minibar
- Phone
- Private bathroom
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Room service (limited hours)
- Satellite TV service
- Shower only
Where to Eat
A complimentary hot/cold buffet breakfast is served each morning between 7:30 AM and 9:30 AM.
Onsite venue - This restaurant serves breakfast and dinner.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
Nearby Things to Do
An outdoor pool and a children's pool are on site. Other recreational amenities include a private beach and a fitness center.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Sailing nearby
- Windsurfing nearby
- Playground on site
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is Noon
Payment types
- No pets or service animals allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
No pets or service animals allowed
Optional extras
- Late check-in fee for check-in between 1 PM and 8 PM (amount varies)
Hotel Name
- Hotel Mavi
- Mavi Hotel
- Mavi Kumsal
- Mavi Kumsal Bodrum
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This property offers transfers from the airport (surcharges may apply). Guests must contact the property with arrival details before travel, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. No pets and no service animals are allowed at this property.


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Akron police have found the SUV belonging to a murdered New Franklin couple.
Smart Investor: Harold, you drank the cool-aid given to you by the democratic party. Hillary is crooked, a liar, doesn't care about the veterans and military, agrees with NAFTA, gun grabbing, and extremely crazy. If you know the history at all (if not go back to school), the Democratic party started #$%$. The democratic party fought to keep slavery. The democratic party fought against equal rights for blacks. Her political agenda was to undermine Bernie Sander's campaign which was proven in the WikiLeaks with over 3000 emails released. She lied under oath when she was questioned by the FBI. She lied to the parents of the soldier that was killed in Bengazi. She lied to the people of the USA that she never received Confidential emails. She deleted over 30k emails as soon as she received a subpoena from FBI. She lied to the whole country that the Begazi attack was due to a video. No matter how much truth you hear about her, you are still an idiot and vote for her. I hope all those that vote for her and her inclusive rot in hell for eternity


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Board Committees
The Board of Directors has the six standing committees described below:
- Audit Committee Overview
The Audit Committee considers risks and matters related to financial reporting, internal controls, compliance and legal matters. As part of those responsibilities, the Audit Committee selects and retains an independent registered public accounting firm to conduct audits of the accounts of Duke Energy and its subsidiaries. It also reviews with the independent registered public accounting firm the scope and results of their audits, as well as the accounting procedures, internal controls, and accounting and financial reporting policies and practices of Duke Energy and its subsidiaries, and makes reports and recommendations to the Board of Directors as it deems appropriate. The Audit Committee is responsible for approving all audit and permissible non audit services provided to Duke Energy by its independent registered public accounting firm. Pursuant to this responsibility, the Audit Committee adopted the policy on Engaging the Independent Auditor for Services, which provides that the Audit Committee will establish detailed services and related fee levels that may be provided by the independent registered public accounting firm and will review such policy annually. See page 34 for additional information on the Audit Committees pre approval policy.
The Board of Directors has determined that Mr. Angelakis and Mr. Saladrigas are audit committee financial experts as such term is defined in Item 407(d)(5)(ii) of Regulation S K. See pages 13 and 18 for a description of Mr. Angelakis and Mr. Saladrigas business experience.
This committee met nine times in 2015. Currently, the Audit Committee is comprised of Michael J. Angelakis (Chairperson), James B. Hyler, Jr., E. Marie McKee and Carlos A. Saladrigas. Each of the members has been determined to be independent within the meaning of the NYSEs listing standards, Rule 10A 3 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the Exchange Act) and the Corporations Standards for Assessing Director Independence. In addition, each of the members meets the financial literacy requirements for audit committee membership under the NYSEs rules and the rules and regulations of the SEC.
- Compensation Committee Overview
The Compensation Committee establishes and reviews the overall compensation philosophy of the Corporation, confirms that our policies and philosophy do not encourage excess or inappropriate risk taking by our employees, reviews and approves the salaries and other compensation of certain employees, including all executive officers of Duke Energy, reviews and approves compensatory agreements with executive officers, approves equity grants and reviews the effectiveness of, and approves changes to, compensation programs. The Compensation Committee also makes recommendations to the Board of Directors on compensation for independent directors.
Managements role in the compensation setting process is to recommend compensation programs and assemble information as required by the committee. When establishing the compensation program for our named executive officers, the committee considers input and recommendations from management, including Ms. Good, who attends the Compensation Committee meetings.
The Compensation Committee has engaged Frederic W. Cook & Company, Inc. as its independent compensation consultant. The compensation consultant generally attends each Committee meeting and provides advice to the committee at the meetings, including reviewing and commenting on market compensation data used to establish the compensation of the executive officers and directors. The consultant has been instructed that it shall provide completely independent advice to the Committee and is not permitted to provide any services to Duke Energy other than at the direction of the Compensation Committee.
This committee met eight times in 2015. Currently, the Compensation Committee members are E. Marie McKee (Chairperson), Michael G. Browning, Charles W. Moorman IV and Carlos A. Saladrigas. Each of the members of the Compensation Committee has been determined to be independent within the meaning of the NYSEs listing standards, Rule 10C 1(b) of the Exchange Act, and the Corporations Standards for Assessing Director Independence; to be outside directors within the meaning of Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the Internal Revenue Code); and, to be non employee directors within the meaning of Rule 16b 3 of the Exchange Act.
- Corporate Governance Committee Overview
The Corporate Governance Committee considers risks and matters related to corporate governance and formulates and periodically revises governance principles. It recommends the size and composition of the Board of Directors and its committees and recommends potential successors to the Chief Executive Officer. The Corporate Governance Committee also recommends to the Board of Directors the slate of nominees, including any nominees recommended by shareholders, for director for each years annual meeting of shareholders and, when vacancies occur, names of individuals who would make suitable directors of Duke Energy. This committee may engage an external search firm or a third party to identify or evaluate or to assist in identifying or evaluating a potential nominee. The Committee also performs an annual evaluation of the performance of the Chief Executive Officer with input from the full Board of Directors. The Corporate Governance Committee also assists the Board in its annual determination of director independence and review of any related person transactions as well as its annual assessment of the Board of Directors and each of its committees. The Committee is also responsible for the oversight of the Corporations policies and practices with respect to its political activities and community affairs.
This committee met seven times in 2015. Currently, the Corporate Governance Committee members are Michael G. Browning (Chairperson), Daniel R. DiMicco, Ann Maynard Gray and William E. Kennard. Each of the members of the Corporate Governance Committee has been determined to be independent within the meaning of the NYSEs listing standards and the Corporations Standards for Assessing Director Independence.
- Finance and Risk Management Committee Overview
The Finance and Risk Management Committee is primarily responsible for the oversight of financial risk and enterprise risk at the Corporation. This oversight function includes reviews of Duke Energys financial and fiscal affairs and recommendations to the Board of Directors regarding dividends, financing and fiscal policies, and significant transactions. It reviews the financial exposure of Duke Energy, as well as mitigation strategies, reviews Duke Energys enterprise risk exposures and provides oversight for the process to assess and manage enterprise risk, and reviews the financial impacts of major projects as well as capital expenditures.
This committee met five times in 2015. Currently, the Finance and Risk Management Committee is comprised of John H. Forsgren (Chairperson), Michael J. Angelakis, Michael G. Browning and Ann Maynard Gray.
- Nuclear Oversight Committee Overview
The Nuclear Oversight Committee provides oversight of the nuclear safety, operational and financial performance as well as operational risks, long term plans and strategies of Duke Energys nuclear power program. The oversight role is one of review, observation and comment and in no way alters managements authority, responsibility or accountability. At least annually, the Nuclear Oversight Committee visits each of Duke Energys operating nuclear power stations and reviews the stations nuclear safety, operational and financial performance.
This committee met six times in 2015. The Nuclear Oversight Committee members are John T. Herron (Chairperson), Daniel R. DiMicco, John H. Forsgren, and Charles W. Moorman IV.
- Regulatory Policy and Operations Committee
The Regulatory Policy and Operations Committee provides oversight of Duke Energys regulatory and legislative strategy impacting utility operations in each jurisdiction. The Committee also has oversight over environmental, health and safety matters and the risks related to such matters, including our ash management strategy, as well as the public policies and practices of Duke Energy. This includes reviewing Duke Energys regulatory approach to strategic initiatives, the operational performance of Duke Energys utilities with regard to energy supply, delivery, fuel procurement and transportation and making visits to Duke Energys generation facilities. The Regulatory Policy and Operations Committee is also responsible for the oversight of Duke Energys environmental, health and safety goals and policies.
This committee met eight times in 2015. Currently, the Regulatory Policy and Operations Committee members are James B. Hyler, Jr. (Chairperson), John T. Herron, William E. Kennard and E. Marie McKee.
Each committee operates under a written charter adopted by the Board of Directors.


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KEEVEN KUATE aka DJ KEY
I say they can go undefeated.
It would be the first time in 32 years, since Bob Knight led Indiana to an undefeated team in 1976.
As watching the Oregon-UNC game, I'm stunned how Roy Williams' squad is making basketball look easy. Now I understand why they are the consensus number one team in college basketball this year. I cannot see a team that can match up against their 11-deep squad (now 10 that Tyler Zeller is out).
Seriously, they have six NBA-ready players, and it looks like they will run away with the non-conference games they have scheduled, the ACC regular season title, ACC tournament title, and the national championship without any problem.
I really mean that (other than if the injury bug keeps taking away players—freshman Tyler Zeller is out for the season, and Tyler Hansbrough has been injured).
It was good to see number 50 on the floor against Oregon tonight (16 points), and he'll continue to make his case to win his second Player of the Year award and lead UNC to what should be an undefeated season (I hope I do not jinx that).
Zero points for Stephen Curry tonight, by the way, but they won by 30. Interesting...
Anyways, let's take a look at their six future NBA players.
PG Ty Lawson
He has matured since coming to Chapel Hill as a freshman. He's got great handles and anchors this team well, knowing how to distribute the ball to his many playmakers. His points per game have risen each year (10.2 as a freshman to now 15.3 early this year), and so has his Assist to Turnover ratio, which gives him great value for the NBA draft.
This season will definitely raise his stock. He's probably a first round pick—all he has to do is play like he always does and not get injured this year. I'd want him if I owned an NBA franchise.
SG Wayne Ellington
This sharpshooter makes bigger and bigger shots each game. One huge shot that I can think of right now is when he decided to torch the Clemson Tigers for 36 points, including a three-pointer at the buzzer to win it. Yeah, he made a lot of friends on campus that night.
I say he is the second-best shooter in the nation this year, behind Stephen Curry. The one advantage he has, though, is that opposing teams cannot double him all game, as everyone on UNC is a threat to score. Watch him go bananas from the three-point line this year.
All he needs to prove now is that he is the complete player and ready for the NBA. He is another first round pick if he leaves.
G/F Danny Green
"The Manu Ginobili of College Basketball." I seriously mean that too—he's been coming off the bench for the past four seasons and becoming a household name (well, at least in North Carolina), while not even starting for Roy Williams but making shots anytime he is on the court playing.
Another great shooter, Green scored a career high of 26 points off the bench this past Monday. One does not have to be a starter in college to make an impact in the NBA. I say late first round, early second, but it's early in the season, so who knows what may happen? Oh and he's got five three-pointers tonight—just saying.
F Tyler Hansbrough
If you have been watching basketball the last three years, you know what I'm talking about now. He's developing his midrange game too, and he will be a monster at the next level. I'm going to say he will be a lottery pick. You can hate on me saying that, but just watch—he'll be an 18 and nine guy in the NBA every night.
F Deon Thompson
If they have an award for Most Improved Player for the first two weeks of the season, Deon Thompson would win it by a landslide. This is a player who seemed like the only player who would not be a huge scoring threat from his numbers last year, and he is currently the team's leading scorer while already scoring a career-high of 20 points this season.
He's got a big frame at 6'8'' and 240 lbs. and is very much a project with a lot of potential. Another first round pick, but if I were him, why not become the big man on campus once number 50 leaves and show off what he can do?
F Ed Davis
A member of the 2008 McDonalds' All-American Team, Ed Davis decided to come to UNC, a team loaded with big men, and try to make an impact. He has done just that so far this season. The 6'8" junior recorded a quadruple-double (20 points, 11 rebounds, 10 assists, and 10 blocks) with his high school team last year, so Roy Williams knew he was getting a stud.
While averaging under 30 minutes a game through the first five games, he has already established his role with two double-doubles already this season. Hopefully, he's not a one and out, but if he does decide to leave for the NBA, he's another late first rounder too...
That's a lot of talent on those Tar Heels...I think anything but a championship would be a GREAT disappointment. They all know that, and so do their fans, so I think it should be all well at Chapel Hill during March this year.
Sucks to be a Duke fan this year! I love it.
The next game will determine even if my article will be relevant as they play Notre Dame, ranked eighth in the polls, for the Maui Championship.


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Merrill Lynch, BofA Win Dismissal of Racial Bias Lawsuit
Bank of America Corp. and Merrill Lynch & Co. won dismissal of a lawsuit by black financial advisers that accused them of devising a discriminatory retention bonus plan after the bank announced a proposal to buy the securities firm in 2008.
U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman in Chicago yesterday threw out the case, the second race-related suit filed against Merrill in the name of Nashville broker George McReynolds.
He is lead plaintiff in a 2005 case claiming the New York-based securities firm, bought by Bank of America in 2009, discriminated nationally against African-Americans, suppressing their ability to economically compete with white colleagues.
"Knowledge of past and even present discrimination alone," doesn't make it "plausible" that the defendants adopted the retention bonus plan with discriminatory intent, the judge said. "A remedy lies in challenging those other violations directly."
Gettleman specifically exonerated the Charlotte, North Carolina-based Bank of America, saying there were "simply no facts in the complaint" to suggest the lender ever discriminated against African-Americans.
The largest U.S. lender by assets acquired Merrill Lynch for $33 billion in an all-stock transaction that closed in January 2009.
Challenge Rulings
"We have no intention of letting this company escape liability," plaintiffs' attorney Linda Friedman, who filed both cases, said in a telephone interview today. She said it is too soon to know whether the dismissed claims will be pursued on appeal or in the older McReynolds case.
Friedman is seeking U.S. appeals court permission to challenge rulings in the first case denying the brokers' ability to sue as a group. If that denial stands, the more than 200 brokers comprising the class may pursue their claims individually, she said.
"We're pleased with the court's decision," Bill Halldin, a spokesman for both companies, said in a phone interview.
The dismissed case is McReynolds v. Merrill Lynch & Co., 08cv6105, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois (Chicago). The pending case is McReynolds v. Merrill Lynch & Co., 05cv6583, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois (Chicago).


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Human beings are story-telling creatures. Stories help us to understand our world, to find our place in it and sometimes our purpose, too. So, the distinctions we draw between fact and fiction are rarely as absolute as we might wish them to be.
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The base of the GOP is supposedly rooted in evangelical Christians and conservative Catholics, people who say they forgo bread to live on the Word of God. When I see this part of the GOP base giddy about whatever issue du jour the GOP has dreamed up, I walk away thinking: I don't get it.
I would like to remind us as followers of the nonviolent Jesus, we have been commanded to put down the sword, reject the militarism of empire, and find another way. We are called to practice the aggressive nonviolent resistance which Jesus demonstrated unto death.
Being tempted by the devil was the first incident in Jesus' ministry following his baptism, and since it was initiated by God, it should be taken as a foreshadowing of Jesus' lifelong battle with Satan.
The "functional facts" of the canonical Gospels and the rest of the New Testament have been misread and misinterpreted. Moreover, the distortions were driven by Christian and Jewish leaders who were intent on imposing wedges to distance the two faiths as separate religions.
Until the history of institutional misogyny is addressed, moves of openness toward gay people cannot amount to very much: no institution solves a tangential psycho-sexual malady as it "shuts the door" on its root sexual prejudice.
Classical artworks washed out all traces of Judaism in the personae of Jesus, his family, and followers -- despite the fact that they were all dedicated practicing Jews throughout their lives.
Wouldn't you assume that the newly established Church would want its devotees to immerse themselves in the sanctioned New Testament, especially since the Church went to great lengths to eliminate competing Gospels?
Because there are so many gaps in Jesus' biography it is not surprising that pundits can spin almost any story about his personal life with shreds of "evidence" to support their views. But questions persist.
Apprehensive is an understatement. Walking into see "The Testament of Mary," I had no idea what to expect; however, there are not enough adjectives to describe the energy and beauty with which this one-woman monologue unfolds on the stage of the Walter Kerr Theatre.
By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer
Published: 04/08/2013 11:37 AM EDT on LiveScience
A long-lost gospel that casts Judas as a co-con...
While breaking the bread for communion, Medieval priests chanted in Latin, "Hoc est corpus" ("this is the body.") Confused churchgoers referred to the phrase as "hocus pocus." Ever since then, though perhaps much sooner, clergy talk has had an image problem.
Few have realized there are two substantially different Easter stories embedded in our texts. The alternative tradition has no appearances of Jesus following the discovery of an empty tomb.
The question of who killed Jesus or who was primarily responsible for the crucifixion has been debated by scholars, biblical experts and ordinary people for 2000 years.
The Gospels -- and several other passages of the New Testament -- state explicitly that God killed Jesus. God sacrificed his only son for the redemption of man according to Scripture:
No man of our time resembles Saint Stephen more than Stephen Colbert, a staunch Roman Catholic with a devoted following of young people deeply inspired by his eloquent advocacy of strictly conservative values and Christian faith.
With the goal of healing antagonisms and closing the longstanding divide between Christianity and Judaism, I set out to restore the Jewish foundation of Christianity -- a foundation that Christianity stands on.
Common folks within the church now read the Bible for themselves to decipher what is truth. The church was pushed out of the business of having the trademark of truth. The biggest challenge for the church now is postmodernism.
While the Pope may have a vested interest in attempting to validate the historical accuracy of the stories of Jesus' birth, I think we misunderstand their intent by doing so.
The long slow decline of religion in America has produced much hand wringing among Christians. Oddly enough, the very religion that bears Jesus' name has often built the biggest barriers to him and the life he promised.
Jesus makes it clear that emotional authenticity is the basis on which we build our spiritual relationship with God, because God knows our true identity inside and out. Jesus invites each of us to enter into this kind of integrated life.
It is difficult to sense the passion behind his words and deeds when reading the black and white texts in the Bible. But the Jesus we meet in the four Gospels is a man of sorrows, but also a man of joy.
The discovery of the lost parchment, along with the earlier documents that suggest that Jesus was married, resurrects a subject that demands reevaluation by the Catholic Church.
A chronological New Testament is different from and yet the same as the New Testament familiar to Christians. It contains the same 27 documents, but sequences them in the chronological order in which they were written.
What movement would make up a recent leader, executed by a Roman governor for treason, and then declare, "We're his followers"? If they wanted to commit suicide, there were simpler ways to do it.
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