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- About Me: First I would like to say, RIP DADDY, I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU AND MAKE YOU PROUD. Rev. L. Wilson Jan 23, 1939- January 26, 2003 In Memory of a Loving Father. D & R Photos for Less "We'll beat any price, cause our price is right." Holla at ya gurl, sike nah. Wassup yall! Yall know me. I'm an alumna of Montclair S. U. now! Been one since Aug 2nd 2007. I was a Geography major and concentrating in Environmental Studies. I'm an alumna of Arts High School and a resident of Newark, NJ. I love basketball and other sports. My favorite team is the WNBA's New York Liberty. I'm a nice down to earth person. I'm also a Michael Jackson Tribute Artist.
Monday, February 11, 2013
Whitney Houston...One Year Later
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rangersac wrote:And Oprah is making it easy for him. Hasn't pressed him about lying under oath when she's shown video of him doing just that, hasn't pressed him on Ferrari, hasn't pressed him on Hamilton. Hope there's something more than the currency of shame on tomorrow's episode.
There'll be the proper setting for those. It's much more sensible to keep the interview flowing and to allow all to understand more. Over stressing the interviewee and leading to a walk out benefits no one. In any case, the interview is not even half way shown yet. More to come.

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Current Law Students / Re: Adderall-Law school finals/studying« on: September 26, 2006, 03:52:43 AM »
I'd assume there's a strong positive correlation. But I forgot what heroin abuse has to do with law school...
I can agree with this .. much of the addiction literature presents heroin addicts as sexless drones; the idea is that the desire for heroin becomes much greater than the desire for sex, and the only "scoring" the addict is interested in has to do with what goes on in his veins rather than what happens in his pants. While this may be true for some addicts, the story is often more complex. Far more heroin users appear to be "chippers" than "addicts." Chippers are non-addicted casual users. And while the rush you get from heroin may have little influence on the relationships between sex and heroin, that rush is sometimes described as feeling like a full-body orgasm. This is also said to be true for crack cocaine.


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O'Hagan's 5K Series at the Viaduct Harbour
Tuesday, 18 December 2018
Viaduct Harbour, Auckland
The O'Hagan's 5K on Tuesday, 18 December 2018 is part of a series run on Tuesday nights starting at 6pm from O'Hagan's Irish Bar at the Viaduct Harbour in Auckland. The course is measured out and back 5km around the Viaduct.
The entry fee is $8. Every finisher receives a free beer, wine or OJ and goes into the spot prize draw at 7pm. Register at O'Hagan's from 5.15pm.
O'Hagan's 5K Series
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At LillyBits the puppies' parents are our beloved pets. They enjoy daily walks, cuddles, kids and kisses. Our dogs are professionally groomed, up to date on immunizations and receive veterinary check ups when appropriate. We love to show them off and encourage you to visit our parents page. Our love and devotion to them is what inspired us to breed. We love hearing how much joy our puppies have brought to their families. We know the Moms and Dads bring us joy every day! It makes every moment worthwhile. What a blessing!
Shichons come in a variety of coat colors and textures. They can have straight, curly or wavy coats. Their coats are non shedding and require regular grooming. Shichons are quiet, affectionate, love other animals, and take your lead on activity level. They require minimal exercise as both the Bichon and the Shih Tzu are primarily companion animals. However, they do love to walk with you and can easily keep pace camping, hiking, playing fetch or visiting the dog park.
We welcome all questions, if you decide that a LillyBit would be the right dog for you, we have a few questions too.
Heather and Family
At LillyBits we are passionate about our dogs. We have an absolute love for the Shichon. They are a cross between a Bichon Frise and Shih Tzu. These sweet puppies go by many names, Teddy Bear Puppy, Shichons, Shih Chons, Bich Tzu's and Zuchons. Regardless of what you call them, they are top dogs with us!
We exclusively breed the Bichon/Shih Tzu cross and are dedicated to sturdy, healthy, happy and mellow companions that will be treasured members of their family.
Welcome to our LillyBits home!
puppy is raised and socialized in our homes and with our children and grandchildren. We make sure each pup is loved, handled and exposed to the hustle and bustle of family life. What you get is a well adjusted wagging ball of puppy love and affection.
We even begin potty and crate training. For your convenience we litter box train our puppies. This makes it easier on everyone when they go home with you. From that foundation you can build on what suits your lifestyle best, whether you continue with the litter box or use the litter to mark the spot outside where you want your pup to go potty.
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If you have low expectations it's okay.
Brought me good memories from the Return of the Jedi. :)
They used the Return of the Jedi scene when Luke had the confrontation with his father. They did to keep people happy. Well people are not happy. The will be always mad. Weird.
JJ produced the Force Awakens. People complained.
George Lucas directed the originals and the tothers ones. People complained.
Oh lol
The Last Jedi was too long but the movie was excellent. People complained
Now what is next?
Good After Effects. The creatures were amusing. Probably a movie for children but no to the point the movie was a total disaster.
The Last Jedi was very far away from the original movies. They stayed with the concept of the force and how a Jedi end join the force. When Yoda died not one said gezzzz how terrible.
I think this movie was fine.
Each Star Wars story is a chapter. The Return of the Jedi was totally away from the others and people made fuzz.....because Darth Vader was Luke's father. Give a break please with this one. Move on.
Nothing exceptional about this in any way.
I'd avoid this one as it's the worst of the last three by far.
1) Almost all the negative comments are right. Luke is a broken man, Rei is unbelievably strong and wise for one with no training, which is acknowledged in the movie. Ky Lo Ren is no Darth Vader.
2) The villain (Ky Lo Red) is as uninspired as the story.
3) Wah Wah Wha. Star Wars: IV A New Hope is what these whiners are comparing The Last Jedi to, and, of course it can't stand up to the comparison. Especially when A New Hope was watched through teen and pre-teen eyes. A New Hope was a ground breaker on many different levels. High tech Special Effects, the soundtrack, a serious space opera, just to name a few. It hit all the right notes in just the right way, including having an audience ready for it.
4) Despite this, The Last Jedi has a lot going for it. Solid SFX Special Effects and the Star Wars brand. Yes, the plot is weak and unbelievable, yes they broke away from the tried and true plots, but that was what was WRONG with The Force Awakens, it was just a bigger remake of A New Hope.
The Last Jedi in all truth, has a respectable story, no less believable than a Bond movie. The major problem with ALL the sequels is that A New Hope was an entire 'Book' with a beginning, middle and end. The sequels are all single chapters of a 'book'.
A New Hope was a once in a lifetime type event, all the rest are simply the rest.
The Last Jedi hits all the right notes to be a successful sequel, just not to be a groundbreaking stand-alone like A New Hope.
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Debate on Gun Control? Not Yet.
So many people in the USA are under the mistaken belief that there is a national debate over gun regulation. No, there is not, at least not yet.
I spend an inordinate time online calling for a ban on assault weapons and magazines (also called clips) holding more than 10 rounds. Those who disagree with me make the error of assuming that that we are debating the issue. I'm not debating them. My purpose for talking with them is simple: I am teaching people how to handle those who have lost the ability to think for themselves in their paranoid quest for safety through excessive firepower.
Every argument presented against an assault weapons and large-capacity clips ban, every one, is easily proven false with a minimum of effort. Most of the claims in support of current NRA policies are designed to entice the gullible. Time and time again, I have investigated those claims and found them misleading, outright lies, or evidence that the ban should indeed be the law of the land, most within a half hour of research on the 'net.
Without exception, everyone who defended their right to buy more assault weapons only managed to convince me further, by their very words, they should not own assault weapons at all. I am certain that I am not alone.
I favor blunt confrontation. "Hammers are more dangerous than assault weapons?" I ask. "Why don't your tell that to the parents of kids massacred in Newtown? Let them know it could have been worse. No doubt they'll feel much better, knowing that the madman only had a Bushmaster semiautomatic rifle and not a fully-loaded carpenter's belt."
Stating facts helps, but they must be stated repeatedly: "Switzerland has an assault weapon in every home? Well, you left out the fact that it is illegal to keep ammo at home. Yup, look it up for yourself. All bullets must stay on the firing range, and there are limits as to what kinds of firearms and how many you can own. Do you know why? Switzerland had its own massacre, as did Australia, Scotland, and Hawai'i. Sensible gun control was the response in these places, and their gun violence dropped dramatically."
And I just pray those who oppose me bring up Israel.
Don't get me started on a session I had with some women who questioned whether the families of victims in Newton, Connecticut were sufficiently grief-stricken on camera. One of them accused me of being rude. I told them what I said here: this is not a debate.
I do not debate creationists either, or those who deny climate change, or those who say homosexuality is a perversion. I teach them, preferably with reason. But I keep ridicule close at hand. As Gay people, we possess verbal dexterity unmatched in the Straight world, and I take full advantage of it since opponents of gun control are overwhelmingly Straight men. Campy, stinging humor makes them see just how bad they look in a public forum, or at least makes their buffoonery perfectly clear to onlookers.
And it really burns their asses when a queer calls them out.
When confronted with facts, some of them consider the possibility that they just might not be as informed as they thought. Others get angry. Twice I've encountered men who refused to believe I'm a Marine (and therefore, I was trained to shoot an assault rifle) - it totally freaked them out when they learned from mutual friends I was not lying. Another said he had the right to own any kind of rifle and ammo available to the police and the military, and that he would use his firepower on anyone who sought to take away his weapons, never mind the weapons' function or how he got them. I told him to keep talking - he'll end up on multiple watch lists before the day is through.
His response? He hopes I get aids. I think he meant "AIDS." For my part, I hope he gets professional help before he kills somebody, or a whole passel of somebodies. This man, and thousands of others like him, are excellent reasons why civilians should not own assault weapons. I am not against a national campaign to have such weapons removed, by force if need be, from those of his whacked mindset. Call it proactive massacre prevention.
The NRA has raised an army of bullies to shout down and intimidate anyone who dares call for gun control. I hate bullies. It is my duty to call them out whenever I see them - my strategy for nonviolent disarmament. I educate them when I can, and humiliate them when I must.
This does not mean, however, that there is no reasonable debate at all concerning gun control. Here is the real debate: whether to limit ourselves to only regulating sales and ownership plus a ban on assault weapons/large capacity magazines on one side, or to ban all private ownership of firearms. There is room for negotiation between the two.
The NRA is right about one thing: the President's gun control agenda represents an extreme. It is the minimum, the bare minimum of what should be done.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - For the fifth time in his career and first time this season, senior Praveen Pamidimukkala was selected as the North East Collegiate Volleyball Association (NECVA) New England Division Player of the Week. The award comes after a 5-1 week in which he was voted to the MIT Invitational All-Tournament Team.
Pamidimukkala averaged 4.95 kills, 1.58 digs, 0.42 blocks, 0.32 aces, and a .327 hitting percentage through 19 games. He recorded double-digits in kills five times, with his week-high 28 occurring during five-game thriller with Endicott College.
The nationally-ranked No. 11 Engineers (10-5) return to action on Thursday, Feb. 14 when they travel to No. 14 Rivier College.


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* Third-quarter growth at 2 percent annual rate
* Consumer spending accounts for bulk of gain
* Gov't defense spending jumps, inventories drag
* Housing supportive; business spending and trade drags
* Growth pace still too sluggish to lower unemployment
WASHINGTON, Oct 26 (Reuters) - U.S. economic growth accelerated in the third quarter a s stepped-up purchases by consumers an d a surprise turnaround in government sp ending of f set the first cutback in business investment in more than a year.
The stronger pace of expansion, however, fell short of what is needed to make much of a dent in unemployment, and offers little cheer for the White House ahead of the closely contested Nov. 6 presidential election.
Gross domestic product expanded at a 2 percent annual rate, the Commerce Department said on Friday in i ts f irst estimate of the third quarter, a pick up f r om the second quarter's 1.3 percent pace. A pace in excess of 2.5 percent is needed over several quarters to make substantial headway cutting the jobless rate.
The report was a bit better than economists had expected, in part because of a surge in government defense spending that was not expected to last. De fense spending rose at its fa stest pace in thr ee years, c ombining with the ris e in hou sehold co nsumption an d a jump in home building to strengthen domestic demand.
``The economy still has only weak forward momentum. Some underlying fundamentals are improving, but uncertainty at home and abroad is holding back the business sector,'' said Nigel Gault, chief U.S. economist at IHS Global Insight in Lexington Massachusetts.
Stocks on Wall Street were flat in early afternoon trade, while prices for U.S. Treasury debt rose. The dollar was little changed against a basket of currencies.
Since climbing out of the 2007-09 recession, the economy has faced a series of headwinds from high gasoline prices to the debt turmoil in Europe and, lately, fears of U.S. government austerity. It has struggled to exceed a 2 percent growth pace and remains about 4.5 million jobs short of where it stood when the downturn started.
White House adviser Alan Krueger said the report underscored t he need to extend tax cuts for the middle class and small businesses, as President Barack Ob ama h as proposed. O b ama's Republican challenger, Mitt Rom ney, d e scribed it as evidence of the president's f ailed policies.
In the third quarter, consumers shrugged off the impending sharp cuts in government spending and higher taxes that are due next year and went on a bit of a shopping spree, with spending strong for automobiles and Apple Inc's iPhone 5.
Consumer spending, which accounts for about 70 percent of U.S. economic activity, grew at a 2 percent rate after increasing 1.5 percent in the prior period.
A second report showed consumer sentiment reached its highest point in five years, another sign households are little worried by the so-called fiscal cliff that is set to drain about $600 billion from the economy in 2013 unless Congress acts.
High stock prices and firming home values have made households a bit more willing to take on new debt, supporting consumer spending even in the face of higher gasoline prices.
An inflation gauge in the GDP report rose at a 1.8 percent rate, accelerating from the second quarter's 0.7 percent pace. But a core measure that strips out food and energy costs slowed to a 1.3 percent rate, suggesting the rise in overall inflation will be temporary.
Even so, with about 23 million Americans either out of work or underemployed, consumers might have to cut back, especially if they get a higher tax bill in 2013.
Incomes were squeezed in the last quarter -- rising just 0.8 percent after accounting for inflation and taxes -- and households cut back on saving to ramp up spending.
Government spending, which snapped eight straight quarters of declines, accounted for 0.7 percentage point of GDP growth. Defense outlays jumped at a 13 percent annual rate, the most since the second quarter of 2009, after dropping for three straight quarters.
Todd Harrison, an analyst with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, said the spike was likely linked to the fact that there were three military pay dates in August, instead of the typical two.
Fears of the fiscal cliff hammered business spending, which dropped at a 1.3 percent pace, the first decrease since the first quarter of 2011.
``We are being really cautious about (the) kinds of investments we make and the kinds of risks we are taking in this environment,'' Newell Rubbermaid Inc chief executive Mike Polk told Reuters on Friday.
Worries over slower global growth have also weighed on the corporate sector, which has issued a series of disappointing third-q u arter earnings reports. Ac cording to Thomson Reuters data, 63 percent of companies ha v e posted revenues below analysts' expectations; se veral have also announced job cuts.
Slowing global demand, particularly weakness in Europe and China, caused U.S. exports to contract for the first time since the first quarter of 2009. Ev en though imports fell for the first time in three years, tra de weighed on GDP growth.
Inventories were a drag on growth because of a drought in the country's Midwest, which has decimated crops. Farm inventories cut 0.42 percentage point from GDP growth and could remain a drag in the fourth quarter.
However, home building surged at a 14.4 percent rate, thanks in large part to the Federal Reserve's ultra accommodative monetary policy stance, which has driven mortgage rates to record lows.
Economists say housing - the epicenter of the last recession - will contribute to growth this year for the first time since 2005.


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Hey everyone!
The web team rolled out a few sweet changes yesterday that I'd like to share with you:
First, we greatly improved our web uploader. We'll be the first to admit that it was a little janky in the past, but I'm pretty sure that you'll now find that it's a lot easier to use and understand. In addition to a few design tweaks, this new uploader also provides a bit more insight into transfers.
Second, we added a calendar feature to the recent events feed so it's easy for you to hop around to a specific date rather than needing to spam-click 'Next' over and over again to get to the date you're looking for (Speaking of which, you can also now set a dd/mm/yy date format if you'd like via the account page). More importantly, we added the ability to view entire changes on your feed. You no longer have to scratch your head when you see "… and 8300 other files"!
Lastly, the biggest announcement this week is the launch of our new feature request center, Votebox. While it's true that the team reads every single forum post and email for feature requests, we often found it hard to keep all this input organized. That's why we launched Votebox, which is a way for you to be involved in Dropbox's development. Using Votebox is easy. All you need is a Dropbox account. You can vote for ideas that get posted on Votebox, or post your own ideas and allow people to vote on those. Go ahead, give Votebox a try.


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Moraxella catarrhalis; Acinetobacter baumannii; pathogenesis; adhesins; virulence; biofilms; vaccine antigens
The importance of Acinetobacter baumannii infections in war-related injuries is now well established. A. baumannii was the most common gram-negative bacillus recovered from traumatic injuries to the lower extremities during the Vietnam War. More recently a new series of infections was reported in U.S. service personnel injured in the Iraq/Kuwait/Afghanistan regions. Likewise, A. baumannii has become an emerging pathogen of increasing importance in Veterans Administration and civilian healthcare facilities, with the incidence of A. baumannii infection increasing worldwide. This emergence of A. baumannii is due in large part to its ability to survive under a wide range of environmental conditions including those within healthcare facilities. Further, infections on foreign bodies such as intravascular devices and orthopedic hardware are virtually impossible to cure with antimicrobials alone. In addition multi- and pandrug resistant isolates are increasing. Thus, there is an increasing concern that A. baumannii strains may acquire new virulence factors that could lead to a sudden and significant rise in untreatable infections worldwide.


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Last I saw Lucas has been saying that we only said he COULD stretch the story into 9 movies, but that 6 is what he was aiming for.Don't worry, eventually repacking the movies will stop funding all Lucas does. Then either he makes more (I kinda hope he doesn't though) or he'll sell rights to make them. (Thrawn Trilogy!)
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Blogs and Blogging...
Dear hearts and gentle people (all of you who read regularly!), I have decided to add some Google text-link ads to this blog. I am adding them for the 100-150 page hits per day that come mostly from search engines. They are not aimed at you!
In fact, please do not click on them repeatedly as a favor to me because Google frowns upon that. They will even block a site from running Google ads if there are suspicious levels of clicks from a handful of IP addresses.
I don't think this blog is focused enough to run Google text ads very effectively, but I decided to try it and see what happens. If the ads turn out to be too random or too ugly or if they are pointless because no surfer ever clicks on them, I will probably remove them.
I am going to start a tree blog soon, and I'm going to try to keep it focused mostly on trees. I plan to run ads on it because people who come to a tree site from a search for tree information might actually click on a tree ad. (I don't know if anyone who comes to the very random Prairie Bluestem site will click on a very random ad or not!)
I became rather obsessed with trees 15 years ago when we bought this place and we could finally plant anything we wanted. I did a tremendous amount of research, and finally I wrote an extensive native trees website that still resides on my computer though it's not on the internet anymore. I will be drawing upon it for the blog from time to time.
I also have a large personal library of tree reference books and an unlimited number of local trees to photograph in all seasons, so I'm ready for this, I think. I just need to get the layout figured out.


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Stars & Stripes wrote:C-17 mishap closes Bagram base
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Mideast edition, Sunday, February 1, 2009
A mishap involving a C-17 cargo plane has forced the U.S. military to close its key air base near Kabul, Afghanistan, "until further notice," officials said late Friday.
According to U.S. Forces Afghanistan, the C-17 landed at Bagram Airfield on Friday night without having its landing gear fully extended, "causing a small fire."
No injuries were reported in the incident, according to a short press release issued late Friday. An investigation team will be appointed to look into the incident.
As of Saturday, military officials had not released information on where the plane had been flying from, or to which unit the crew and aircraft belonged.
Bagram, north of Kabul, has long been the main U.S. air hub in Afghanistan. It is the largest U.S. base in Afghanistan, and around 20,000 international troops call Bagram home. During the Soviet war in Afghanistan, it was also a major Soviet base.
Since the invasion in 2001 to oust the Taliban, Bagram has undergone extensive construction and renovation work, including the building of the new runway. Estimates put its cost at around $68 million.
In October, a U.S. Navy reconnaissance plane was destroyed when it overshot the runway at Bagram while landing. One crewmember was injured in that incident, which involved a P-3 Orion.
source: http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?sect ... icle=60393
AirForceTimes wrote:C-17 damaged in gear-up landing at Bagram
A C-17 Globemaster made a "gear up" landing at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan late Friday.
The crew got off the plane safely, but there was a small fire and extensive damage to plane's underside, according to Air Force reports.
Source: http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2009/ ... h_020209w/
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BAGRAM AIR BASE wrote:Bagram pulls together for historical aircraft recovery
by Staff Sgt. Jason Lake
455th Air Expeditionary Wing
2/4/2009 - BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan -- More than 120 Airmen, Defense Department civilians and contractors successfully removed a crippled C-17 Globemaster III from the runway here Feb. 2 and restored full air operations after a historic aircraft recovery operation.
Emergency response crews sprang into action Jan. 30 shortly after the 150-ton aircraft screeched to a halt with none of its landing gear down - a first-time incident in the aircraft's 16-year history.
While none of the crew suffered significant injuries in the incident, the disabled aircraft presented a significant challenge for maintaining air operations.
"A lengthy runway closure is our worst nightmare at Bagram," said Brig. Gen. Mike Holmes, 455th Air Expeditionary Wing commander. "The Airmen, sailors, and soldiers on the 455th team work extremely hard every day to make sure coalition forces all over Afghanistan can count us to be there with close air support, airdrop and airlift, personnel recovery, and electronic attack, when and where they need it. We knew we had to find a way to keep doing our job while the runway was closed."
Col. Tim Strasburger, 455th Expeditionary Operations Group commander, led a team of aviators, airfield operators, air traffic control personnel and wing safety to figure out how to safely continue airfield operations.
Crash recovery, emergency management, aircraft engineers and maintainers, some of whom had flown in from other bases within the theater of operations, worked tirelessly to formulate a plan and gather supplies needed to lift the more than aircraft up long enough to extend its landing gear.
"Being a first time incident did not impact our course of action ... this is what we train for," explained Tech. Sgt. Joseph Mixson, lead team chief for crash recovery here. "We put together a group of experts so we could pool our resources and see what was available to work with at the time. Once we knew what assets were available, we set forth an initial recovery plan based on the guidance provided from the disabled aircraft recovery technical order."
Lt. Col. Greg Urtso, on-scene commander during the recovery operation, said the aircraft experts kept their focus on the recovery effort with the help of mission support personnel.
Airmen from the 455th Expeditionary Mission Support Group provided security, construction equipment, transportation, communications equipment, and lodging for experts brought in from outside Afghanistan. Medical staff from the 455th Expeditionary Medical Support Group took air samples inside the aircraft to ensure it was safe for personnel.
"The level of cooperation and willingness to do whatever it took was awe inspiring," Colonel Urtso said.
After more than two days of concentrated effort, the recovery crew managed to lift the $200 million aircraft high enough to extend its wheels and prepare it for removal from the runway.
"We used a 120-ton crane assisted by six 26-ton airbags to finally lift the aircraft from the runway," explained Sergeant Mixson. "The major lesson learned was that the technical data for a C-17 recovery did not list any alternate methods. We were not able to place the airbags in the positions they needed to be because the entire fuselage section was laying on the runway. The crane allowed us to [lift the aircraft and] get the airbags into position."
Shortly after the aircraft was removed from the runway, Col. Clifton Blanks, 455th Expeditionary Maintenance Group commander, applauded the work of everyone involved in the safely executed recovery effort.
"I'm extremely proud of the whole team that raised the C-17," he said. "They did something that hadn't ever been done before. This event serves as another example of the true mettle of the men and women in the 455th Air Expeditionary Wing. While a group of folks were busy working the recovery of the C-17, much of the rest of the wing figured out a way to safely and effectively continue combat operations with our runway closed."
source: http://www.bagram.afcent.af.mil/news/st ... =123133866
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It would be interesting to know what kind of dog you have?Continue
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Im sharing reasons to adopt "older" dogs instead of puppies! Feel free to add to the list ;-)
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Kimberly! Juno thinks those treats look amazing! Repinned to my Woof Woof Pinterest board. Thanks!
Here are the latest treats I made. The boys LOVE them!
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March 22, 2011Driver License Applications, Renewals & Permits Can't Be Processed in Missouri on March 26
JEFFERSON CITY - Due to an upgrade of a records database, Missouri's local license offices will not be able to process applications for new, renewal and duplicate driver licenses and driver permits Saturday, March 26. License offices open on this day will be able to complete all motor vehicle transactions such as renewing license plates, obtaining motor vehicle titles, and paying sales tax on vehicle purchases.
The National Driver Register (NDR) has advised all states that its Problem Driver Pointer System (PDPS) will be unavailable March 26 due to an upgrade of the system. This system is used to ensure that persons applying for new and renewed driver licenses, including commercial driver licenses, do not have any out-of-state driving violations, suspensions or revocations. Under Missouri law, out-of-state violations, suspensions and revocations can affect driving privileges in Missouri.
"Although the license offices won't be able to process driver licenses on this date, the offices that will be open will still be able to help customers with other transactions," said Alana M. Barragán-Scott, director of the Missouri Department of Revenue. "I urge persons who have driver licenses expiring on that day to get their license renewed before Saturday."
Of Missouri's 183 local license offices, 136 are scheduled to be open on March 26. Operating hours, contact information and locations of all local license offices are online at http://dor.mo.gov/offloc/.
"For the offices that will be closed on March 26, the computer upgrade will not be an issue," Barragán-Scott said. "Customers of the other offices, however, need to know that driver licenses and permits won't be processed this day so that the computer system can be updated to improve performance and security."
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Choke (UK - DVD R2)
Our Marcus manages to digest this new Sam Rockwell movie with ease...
Victor Mancini (Sam Rockwell) is a sex addict, whose life never quite got off the ground due to his mother's (Anjelica Huston) overbearing character. He works as a historical re-enactor of American colonial life by day and visits his mother in her care home—despite the fact she never recognizes him—by night. He also uses his discovered skill/scam of choking on food in restaurants to get that small moment of embrace from a stranger and provide them with a brief moment of feeling like a hero—followed by them feeling responsible for his life and sending him money when he sends them updates on his life. Basically he's pretty messed up.
Then Victor meets Dr Marshall (Kelly Macdonald), who offers him the chance to try an experimental stem cell technique that might help his mother's condition. For Victor, this only involves him having sex with Dr Marshall, which up until now is what Victor does best, but something's different. Now Victor might actually like someone he's having sex with and his cynical world view is about to change—'I'm trying to fuck you in a church to save my Mum's brain.'
I've never read the original novel by Chuck Palahniuk (also the writer of the much loved Fight Club), but I'd only ever heard good things about its content. I had no idea what the story was about—at least not the depths of the human condition it burrows to—but when I found out it was Sam Rockwell's next project, I was on board. In fact outside of the obvious movies of 2008, this was probably the one I was most looking forward to seeing. Y'see, I'm a huge Rockwell fan and I have been since the great Welcome to Collinwood. The guy just seems to be able to turn his hand to anything. From the heavy dramatic roles in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and Snow Angels, to the more goofy turns in Galaxy Quest and Charlie's Angels, he just seems to shine in whatever he chooses to do. So take Sam, add a plot about a sex addict written by Chuck Palahniuk, then tell me it's a dark comedy and there you have a must-see movie.
I'll admit that the first viewing left me a little underwhelmed. It had spikes of greatness and a story that you can honestly say is unlike anything in the current climate, but for me it just didn't feel as sharp as I hoped it would be. However, that was the first viewing. On this second viewing, I got it and I got it in a big bad way. For starters the story really is great. The twists and turns it takes are handled with care by director Clark Gregg. He never forces Victor's issues down your throat (no pun intended). Each step Victor takes towards being a better person never feels like it's a 'movie event' and Gregg really manages to keep the story, which really does travel down some bizarre paths, as realistic as possible and I found the pay off really rewarding on this second viewing.
There are also some touching performances in here as well. Anjelica Huston really shines in both elements of her character. The anarchic mother of Victor's youth is as engrossing and enjoyable as her older version, frail and forgetful in the home. She really owns the kooky mother role of late. Kelly Macdonald is also playing a beautifully understated performance, which worked much better the second time (won't mention why—spoilery). Victor's best friend Denny (Brad William Henke) is everything you'd want from a buddy (bar the constant jerking off) and of course Sam Rockwell does what he does and makes it look effortless.
Seriously, how Rockwell makes all of the many 'out there' elements of this story work so well deserves a special mention. Nothing about his character's world is normal. Not his job, not his addiction, not his attitude, not his life. Everything is under the microscope for the sake of movie storytelling, but Rockwell pins us to this reality in a way that only the best actors can do. He should be unlikeable to be around, he should be vile, but he's not. You warm to him immediately, you see the good in him and you're with him on this next step forward. Not once does it feel performed or practiced; everything feels like it's happening to Victor in that moment and it's great. It helps that the character is so well set up, really letting us into why he is how he is, which is as much down to Clark Gregg as it is to Rockwell, but this is still a performance that walks the line between honest to God drama and full on comedy without it ever falling into the wrong mood.
I love it when a movie just gets better on repeat viewings—especially when the first wasn't the event you wanted it to be—and Choke seems to be going that way. There's enough in here that I could sit right down and watch it again right now with ease and for me Choke is one of those movies I think I'll be fancying a re-watch of for a good long while.
There's nothing to get excited about here at all. The picture is full of grain and noise, colours are dull and lifeless (well except the red bow in Rockwell's hair) and all in all nothing really popped.
That said, maybe that all aids the mood and style of the movie; maybe it's a movie that didn't demand anything more. Not everything needs to look stunning, does it? It's going to come down to personal preference and while it's grubby, it's never terrible and at the end of the day this is small movie doing its best to find an audience in the crowd and the quality is in the story telling.
Once again, all very basic. Mostly everything is in the front speakers with the voice-over sitting strongly in the centre. The surround get some work with a few pieces of score and songs, but it's minimal. The mix fits the style well enough and Choke never feels held back because of it—so once again, this is probably all the movie called for.
The commentary with Gregg and Rockwell is a pleasant listen along with both imputing lots of stories and facts about the shoot and the story. It's quite laid back in places but still a lot of fun.
There's a selection of five deleted scenes (11:058) with optional commentary by Rockwell and Gregg. Most of these are slight extensions to scenes we've already seen and there's also more of a focus on the stone house Denny was building.
More interestingly was 'A Conversation with Clark Gregg and Chuck Palahniuk' (10:34), which was a very good feature with the two discussing the difference between the book and the movie and Gregg's angle toward making it. It was brief but great stuff. Also as an add-on to that, there's 'For Los Angeles Film Festival' (03:51) which is a Q&A session.
The more fluffy EPK stuff involved includes 'Hello My Name is Victor—I'm a Sex Addict' (15:16), which a small making of, 'A Mothers Love' (05:37), which is more of the same, but a little more focused on Victor and his mother's relationship and 'Fox Channel Presents: Casting Session' (10:21), which was a lot better than the making of, involving the director and the producer running through how they got the film made. Again it was brief but well worth watching.
Finally, there's a 'Gag Reel' (01:44) and on start up, you get trailers for What Just Happened, Australia and Slumdog Millionaire.
Choke is smart, funny and has moments of sheer insanity (the pre-planned rape scene being one of them). It isn't a perfect movie and not everyone is going to go along for its ride of sex addiction, Da Vinci code-esq lineage curve balls (seriously, it's brilliant) and a very cynical character's attitude towards life, but this one deserves your time.
The DVD might not be up to much in the A/V department, but with a very limited cinematic run at the end of last year and with no Blu-ray release for this one (so far), the options for those who want to catch it sort of ends here.
Review by Marcus Doidge
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Gotta say, although I enjoyed this it wasn't a patch on Fincher's work on Fight Club. He took that novel and brought it to life for the screen, whereas Choke was just another run of the mill adaptation. So much of it mirrored Fight Club as well, from the support group to the third act revelation about one of the characters. I've not read the book, but I believe that some of it was changed. I wonder what?
I did find the whole Cherry Dacari thing amusing though.
I did find the whole Cherry Dacari thing amusing though.
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No real desire to see this one, though i really love Sam Rockwells work.
But Chris, most if not all of Chuck Palahniuks books pretty much the same and revolve around the same themes. Once i realized it i stopped reading his stuff.
But Chris, most if not all of Chuck Palahniuks books pretty much the same and revolve around the same themes. Once i realized it i stopped reading his stuff.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 23rd March 2009
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: PAL
Aspect: 1.85:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 English, Dolby Digital 5.1 Spanish
Subtitles: English, Spanish
Extras: Commentary with Clark Gregg and Sam Rockwell, Deleted Scenes, Gag Reel, A Conversation with Clark Gregg and Chuck Palahniuk, My Name is Victor and I'm a Sex Addict, A Mother's Love, From the Los Angeles Film Festival, Casting Session
Easter Egg: No
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Director: Clark Gregg
Cast: Sam Rockwell, Kelly Macdonald, Anjelica Huston, Brad William Henke
Genre: Comedy and Drama
Length: 88 minutes
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Aired: 1 April 2011
Ancestry.com Presence: Two commercials and four mentions during the actual show.
- Jewish Ancestry and Eastern Europe are not genealogical areas I'm familiar with so it was very interesting to see the show cover that. I've mainly stuck to Western Europe and mostly the UK at that.
- Finding books that mention ancestors is such a joy. The story about her ancestor and stopping the fire was so fascinating.
- Gwyneth's Barbados ancestry. I would have liked to see more of her visit there, and I wish we'd been able to explore how her ancestors came to be there.
- Note: In the UK version of Who Do You Think You Are, Ainsley Harriott explores his slave and slave holder roots in Barbados.)
- I really liked that Gwyneth was so happy with connecting to her ancestors. It's one of the great joys of genealogy to see what your ancestors have gone through and what they contributed to your existence.
- They certainly covered a lot and quickly! If I didn't have my notes, I'd be confused about which side was which and what happened to who. It flitted about a bit too much for my tastes, almost like two episodes that were squeezed into one.
In the End: They covered a lot of different records, locations, and family history. It also explored family stories, traits, and the connection you can feel to your ancestors.
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 (Mainly because of the hectic pace. My reaction may be due to fatigue on my part though!)
Things I'd Like to Reiterate: I do actually like the fact that they have a genealogy show on television, even if a lot of it is geared towards advertising one specific genealogical site. I will miss it after the last episode and will look forward to its return.
I can't say I can point to one trait that was passed down to me, but my Mother did tell me that my paternal grandmother had to have just a little bite of something sweet at the end of dinner as well!
- http://www.jewishgen.org/
- http://www.gov.bb/portal/page/portal/BIG_Department_of_Archives
- http://www.nyc.gov/html/records/html/about/archives.shtml
Next Week: Ashley Judd (I saw in the preview a family tree that had William Brewster on it. If she's related to him, then I'm related in some way to her through the Brewster family.)


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Hi! I'm a newly minted postdoc and just starting out on a project. I have some preliminary results which are very promising, so I drafted out the project outline to aim towards a publication, which I will be the first author. But when I showed my outline to my PI, he said he wants to split up the data sets in the outline, each will go to his two other projects that are already quite mature, and one of them at least, will be in a big paper. I see how it is advantageous for the research group and him since instead of a few of medium quality publications, he gets at least 1 big paper if not 2. The problem is, I will only be a co-author of the big paper this way. My question is, is it more valuable for my career prospects to be a co-author of a big paper or the first author of a not-so-big paper?
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Co-author in big paper vs first author in not-so-big paper
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Posted 14 October 2011 - 12:31 AM
Posted 14 October 2011 - 03:20 AM
I think for your career it's always better to have some first author paper. What das not-so-big mean? Not so big as Science, Nature or Cell? There are a lot of good journals. Is it possible to be a joined first paper at at least paper? Maybe you can make a compromise especially if big paper means publishing in the big journals.
Posted 14 October 2011 - 05:44 AM
These days the difference between "not-so-big" and "big" journals is becoming less and less. Yes, if you publish a first author paper in Science, Nature, Cell, PNAS, that is good for your career. But co-author papers, even in "big" journals, are never worth as much as a first author publication. When you are looking for a job, the number of first author publications will be primarily what people are looking at, and the type of journal will only be secondary. If you were choosing between 1 first author nature paper, or 2 first author Journal of Obscure Specialty papers, always choose the bigger journal. But I would NEVER give up your first authorship without a fight.
Posted 16 October 2011 - 05:14 PM
Thanks! I see now that I have to argue for my first author paper. Sigh, it's not gg to be an easy fight...


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Apple is now offering a new service called AppleCare+. AppleCare+ is only available for the iPhone and adds accidental damage to the usual AppleCare.
AppleCare+ for iPhone extends repair coverage and technical support to two years from the original purchase date of your iPhone and adds coverage for up to two incidents of accidental damage due to handling, each subject to a $49 service fee.
As well as this additional feature of accidental damage, AppleCare+ still offers all the previous features of AppleCare; such as two year repair coverage and technical support from the original purchase date. To qualify for AppleCare+ it must be taken out at the same time as you buy your new iPhone and costs $99.
Source: Apple


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Howling Bells - s/t
What was lovely little record that is. One of my favourite debuts of the last decade.
I thought the last record was awful and the 2nd hit-and-miss. They need to back to writing those country noir tunes that made them so good in the first place.
Been listening to Low Happening recently
Agree with you that it's a nice enough album.
This is a great song
Dunno if it was off the s/t, I guess it was.
Totally agree
1st album is great. The rest meh at best. Very saddening how they lost what they had
Masterpiece of a debut.
I seem to like the second one more than most folks. The latest one was turgid though. It's the sound of a band who's obviously forgotten what it was that made them sound so appealling in the first place. All that sultry noirish mystery is gone and replaced by meat 'n potatoes rock.
Holy hell is the lead singer one fine lookin' dame.Und_Gorgeous_Cars this'd this
I know I usually don't agree with most
"the debut was good but then they lost it" threads but in this case it's right. Second album was ok. I thought it was a nice follow up not as good as the debut but that 3rd actually waned with each listen. It's always weird to see a band make such an assured, powerful album and then suddenly make a really mediocre one.
The dictionary definition
of 'Dropped the bat' form now on should just have a photo of the Howling Bells.
Hear hear
Fantastic album. That and My Latest Novel's debut.
Setting Sun usually goes on my works mixtapes.
They bought
my old band's van after we split up.
Juanita Stein is indeed a hottie.


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When a student is learning kata, it is important that he learn each movement very precisely. Each movement, each stance, each sequence, etc. must be learned exactly.
It is like learning your alphabets in pre-school. The letter "A" must come first, then the letter "B", etc. The letters must be in the proper order. There is a proper sequence to the strokes for each letter. The student must learn the upper case and lower case versions.
At this phase, the student is memorizing the letters -- or the kata.
It takes me a long time to learn kata. I cannot learn by watching the kata just a couple of times. I have to go over it again and again. Sometimes it take me months. But then I will remember it pretty much forever. Sometimes students who learn quickly also forget quickly. When I learn a kata, it goes into my long term memory.
But once the "learning" phase is over -- by this I mean the phase of learning the details and sequences of the kata -- then there are other learning phases. The student has to learn what each and every movement of the kata means (bunkai or imi). How can each movement be used in the event of an attack? How can the movements be combined? What works best?
When movements are combined, they are like words. When we use words during conversation, the assumption is that we know that they mean. Otherwise we are just making "baby talk" or gibberish.
In the same way, when we perform a kata, the assumption is that we know what each movement in the kata means. Otherwise, what are we doing?
Another phase has to do with body dynamics, movement, alignment, flow, etc. This entails learning how to do the kata -- not just how each movement should look. If you took photographs of a kata, you would probably have movements 1, 2, 3, though 25 or whatever. There are 25 movements in this kata.
But really, there are thousands of movements. How do you get from movement 1 to movement 2? This is a process. You have to shift your weight, move your center of gravity, move your feet, change the alignment of your body, and execute the technique that ends up as movement 2. Between each movement there are a world of movements!
A beginner must learn movements exactly. An advanced student must learn things generally. It is not enough to "know" a particular movement. You have to know all movements that are within the same same range of movement. If a kata provides for a punch to the chest, you have to be able to punch at any height. You have to be able to improvise.
Advanced students have to learn to break from from the structure of kata. That said, they will continue to use that structure as a reference.
I was asked to perform Gojushiho at my friend's dojo. When I finished the kata, I was facing the wrong direction. I have no idea how that happened. I realize that I must have made a wrong turn (or forgot to turn), but I was "zoned out" during the kata. I was more occupied with the flow and feel of the kata rather than the specifics.
If a beginner makes a mistake in a kata, they usually get embarrassed. They are still learning the details.
When an advanced student makes a "mistake" in a kata, I wonder what they were seeing in their mind? Did the attacker move? Did the terrain change?
Honestly, when I make a mistake in a kata, I think it is funny!
If I am practicing with my Sensei and he makes a mistake in kata, it is not a mistake. If he punches twice rather than three times, I will do the same. I will perform the kata as he does it. He is the Sensei and I am the student. If he changes from one kata to another in the middle, I will do the same. It would be like a singer switching from one song to another.
My Sensei cannot make a mistake in kata. He does the kata, I follow. If he switches kata in the middle and I continue with the first kata, then I am the one making the mistake.
If my Sensei asks, "Did I make a mistake?", I would say, "Oh, did you?"
When you are in pre-school, you should be printing the alphabet. But when you are in college, you should be writing essays or even books!
I went to college for 8 years. I have been practicing Karate for much longer than that! What forms of expression should my kata take?
Charles C. Goodin
Learning Kata - Phases
When a student is learning kata, it is important that he learn each movement very precisely. Each movement, each stance, each sequence, etc. must be learned exactly.
Posted by Charles C. Goodin on Thursday, May 10, 2007


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Congratulations to Joe Curiale and Dolly West,
the winners of the first-ever MLB All-Star FanFest Wedding!
Thank you to all the entrants who shared their stories with us.
Joe and Dolly are both flight attendants and residents of Houston, Texas. The couple often arranges layovers in the same city, where they visit different ballparks. So far, Joe and Dolly have visited more than 20 MLB ballparks together.
This year, for the first time in the history of All-Star Week, Major League Baseball is proud to host the MLB All-Star FanFest Wedding. The winners of the MLB All-Star FanFest Wedding will receive a ceremony on the Diamond at the All-Star FanFest with a reception to follow, both of which will take place at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona. The MLB All-Star FanFest Wedding will take place Tuesday, July 12 on the same day as the 82nd MLB All-Star Game. For a complete description of the couple's prize package, please see the Official Rules.
Major League Baseball would like to thank the celebrity panel of judges who assisted in selecting the winners of the MLB All-Star FanFest Wedding.
David Tutera
A Leading Wedding & Entertaining Expert and author, was honored by Modern Bride Magazine as one of the Top 25 Trendsetters of The Year, David was also awarded "Best Celebrity Wedding Planner" by Life & Style Magazine. David's impressive client list includes Star Jones' wedding, NY Giants Antonio Pierce's wedding and events for Jennifer Lopez, Matthew McConaughey, Elton John, Barbara Walters and others.
Currently in its 4th season, David's hit primetime show, "My Fair Wedding With David Tutera" one of WE TV's highest-rated and most popular shows on air, brings all-new brides, all-new stories and even more exciting transformations in 12 brand new hour-long episodes.
Luis Gonzalez
One of the most popular figures in Arizona Diamondbacks' history because of his game-winning single in Game 7 of the 2001 World Series to give the organization its first World Championship. In his current role as Special Assistant to the President & CEO, Gonzalez assists D-backs' President & CEO Derrick Hall and other departments throughout the baseball and business side of the organization.
He also continues to make an impact in the community with the Arizona Diamondbacks Foundation, interacts with season ticket holders at special events, meets with corporate partners, fills in on the D-backs' radio and television broadcasts and spends time with minor and Major League players throughout the organization.
Jenni Croft Badolato
A Finalist on Season 11 of "The Bachelor", Jenni is also a former Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader 2002-2005, former Miami Heat Dancer 2005-2006 and former Phoenix Suns Dancer 2006-2009. Jenni is married to Scottsdale Cosmetic Dentist and Team Dentist to the Phoenix Suns, Dr. John Badolato.
Tom Papa
As a seasoned stand-up comedian Papa is a familiar face to late night television having appeared a number of times on "Tonight Show with Jay Leno" and "Late Show with David Letterman" and was also a frequent guest on " Conan." After sharing the stage with Jerry Seinfeld on his tour, Seinfeld personally chose Papa to serve as host of NBC's "The Marriage Ref" which is going into it's second season. Papa has starred in two stand-up specials on Comedy Central, and his next special is due out next year.
As an actor, Papa has starred opposite Matt Damon in the Soderbergh film, "The Informant," and opposite Paul Giamatti in the animated feature, "The Haunted World of El Super Beasto," as the voice of the title character. Additionally, he lent his voice to the DreamWorks animated feature "Bee Movie" and also served as a writer on the project. His other big screen credits include the films "Analyze That" opposite Robert DeNiro, and "Comedian."
Additional television credits include a recurring role opposite Julia Louis-Dreyfus on the CBS series, "The New Adventures of Old Christine." Papa continues to tour nationally as a stand-up comedian.


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As of now, the question in the Mets' batting order is at 4-5, where Jerry Manuel needs to decide how to slot David Wright and Jason Bay.
Jose Reyes, unfortunately, is still ticketed to bat third, with Angel Pagan and Luis Castillo hitting one-two. Then comes Wright-Bay followed by Daniel Murphy, Jeff Francoeur, Rod Barajas and the pitcher.
With Carlos Beltran out, Wright is the Mets' best hitter and should be third, with Reyes leading off. However, since that won't be the case, I think he should bat fifth with Bay at clean-up. When the Mets' batting order was its most potent in 2006, it had Beltran-Carlos Delgado-Wright.
With Reyes third, and presumably on base, Bay should get more fastballs and Wright would offer protection in the order. I like Murphy sixth because it should afford him more RBI opportunities.


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Welcome to Shaw's Coffee
On "The Hill", St. Louis, MO
In our shop we serve espresso, made with our Italian Roast espresso blend, traditional lattes and cappuccinos, freshly brewed drip coffee, and French press service. Also on our menu are non-coffee favorites like smoothies and Italian sodas. To accompany our drinks we offer a variety of house-made pastries and breakfast items.
Anais Nin
A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.


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Haj Ali Khalaf arcs a spindly arm toward a tightening noose of Israeli housing on what was once Arab land. In 90 years in the world's holiest, and most fought-over, city, he has lost two homes (captured), acres of land (seized), and one son (exiled) to entrenching Israeli power.
"I pray for peace," he whispers, gazing toward the 16th-century city walls that lie near the eastern edge of modern Jerusalem. "But the Jews must stop taking our land."
Across town, Mrs. Rachel Lustig recalls truckloads of Jewish victims from a massacre of decades past, proof that it has taken both Arabs and to make Jerusalem the core of the Arab-Israeli conflict. She points toward the ancient Mount of Olives.
Her mother was -- is -- buried there. The Arabs, however, toppled the Jews' gravestones to mount a luxury hotel.
She, too, prays for peace. "We must find a way to live together, Jews and Arabs," she says, but argues that the Arabs could "get all of Jerusalem and still go on fighting us.
"Only Sadat has the courage for peace."m
Haj Ali Khalaf has since passed on, his prayers for peace unanswered. The sacred city of Jerusalem, even without gun battles or bombing raids, seems the focus of tension and conflict as never before.
In one corner is a tiny, mighty, and defiant Israel. In the other are local Palestinians and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, aware that he has virtually no chance of bringing other Arabs behind his peace initiative unless he can somehow undo israel's 1967 capture and annexation of the eastern Arab-held sector of the divided city.
In between stand United States negotiators. They argue that the final status of the city has yet to be negotiated, and view the eastern sector as under Israeli occupation. At the 1978 Camp David summit they packed away the "Jerusalem issue" for much later debate. But the package has been unraveling with a vengeance.
Israel has been doing most of the unraveling, determined that the city where the ancient Jews built and lost their Temple -- also where Jesus was crucified, and the Muslim prophet Muhammad is said to have ridden a fabled steed to heaven -- must remain their "united and eternal" capital. The chronology:
* In December of last year, Israel initiated moves to seize some 350 acres of land near the occupied West Bank village of Beit Hanina for a road adjoining a Jewish industrial development in northern Jerusalem.
* In March of 1980, with a sense of timing that had American negotiators banging their heads against Washington walls, the Israeli government announced it would also be taking some 1,000 acres of mostly Arab-owned Jerusalem land for the settlement town of Neve Yaacoy South. It was the first such major expropri ation moved in nearly a decade, and the second largest since Israel gained control of all the city and the adjacent West Bank of the Jordan River in the 1967 war.
* Some two months later, an ultranationalist Israeli politician proposed that the Knesset (parliament) reaffirm support for the Jewish state's unilateral 1967 annexation of Jerusalem (formally expanded at the time to include a part of the West Bank) as its capital. Neither Washington nor the rest of the world has accepted Israel's alteration of the city boundaries, much less the annexation.
* In June, officials around hard-line Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin revived talk of moving his office from predominantly Jewish west Jerusalem to the east of the city, the part wrested from Arab control in the 1967 Middle East war.
* In July, the Knesset's legal committee endorsed conservative backbencher Geula Cohen's draft bill tocement the Jewish claim to the entirety of Jerusalem, though it was her proposal that Egyptian President Sadat had cited as the catalyst for his May suspension of the Palestinian autonomy talks.
* Last week, on July 30, the Knesset passed the bill in full, thereby affirming into law a "united Jerusalem" as the capital of the Jewish state. because it objected to the law, Egypt for the second time in three months postponed the scheduled resumption of talks with Israel on Palestinian autonomy.
To hear Israeli officials tell it, each of their successive moves on Jerusalem was merely a "routine" reflection of an immutable fact -- that a Jcenterpiece in the 1967 fighting is not about to let Arab negotiators, or US Mediators, turn back the clock.
Israeli government officials note that the most controversial of their recent actions -- the announced revival of the post-1967-war campaign to dot formerly Arab areas of the city with stark Jewish apartment blocks -- had been on the drawing board for years. The minutes of the committee that drew up Israeli's official town plan for Jerusalem (both the minutes and the plan were obtained by the Monitor) indeed show a clear intention to plant the residential settlement of Neve Yaacov South on the undulating Arab hills in the northeast of the annexed city area.
The planning documents earmark three other tracts of predominantly Arab land, totaling some 2,000 acres, for development schemes likely to involve further expropriations.
To nearly everyone but the Begin government, and particularly to local Palestinian leaders whom Washington would like to lure into peace negotiations, Israel's reaffirmation of claims to all Jerusalem seemed anything but routine. The timing of the expropriation announcement for Neve Yaacov South, amid escalating violence on the West Bank and Egyptian demands that east Jerusalem Arabs at least get to vote in eventual autonomy elections, was seen as anything but accidental.
Even come Israelis seemed to smell a diplomatic rat. The hefty expropriation move, said the Jerusalem Post, was an "invitation to a showdown," the opening salvo in "the final round in the battle for Jerusamel which began in the [1967] Six-Day War."
"The principal object of this [start on Neve Yaacov South] . . . is to establish the Israeli presence in east Jerusalem so firmly that the reunited city could never be divided again," commented the Post.
Prominent Jerusalem Palestinians went further. "The Americans keep telling us that if we negotiate in good faith, we will get a just peace," said one Palestinian politician. "But even Washington, which gives Israel billions of dollars in aid, can not keep settlements from going up on the West Bank.
"And on the issue of Arab Jerusalem, which for us is the key to the whole peace process, Israel spits in the Americans' faces and in our faces. The Israelis want to take so much of our land, and settle so many Jews on it, so that no one can ever make a just peace."
Inhabited some 4,500 years ago by shepherd people determined to keep other shepherd people from edging with the scorch of summer westward from the Jordan Valley's desert floor, the spring-fed hill settlement of Jerusalem has always found peace -- "just" or otherwise -- elusive.
When the Jewish King David overran the fortress town 1,000 years before Jesus , he hastened to make Jerusalem the ancient political equivalent of Washington, D.C., to keep his 12 client tribes from bickering over it. Some 20 times since, the city's towering walls have come tumbling down.
Fiece convictions of its holiness have fed conflict. The Jewish patriarch Abraham is thought to have sacrified his son Isaac in the vicinity, on the rocky eastern heights where the city began. On that spot Solomon built the first Jewish temple, destroyed by the Babylonians in 587 B.C. Under Persian patronage , the temple was rebuilt some five decades later. This time it was the Romans who tumbled it, and chased out the Jews, 70 years after Jesus' birth.
Jesus worshipped here. And he was crucified here, mounting the twisting cobbled streets inside the walls up to the cross.
When Muhammad founded Islam, in what is now western Saudi Arabia some six centuries later, he too, turned his eyes toward Jerusalem. As later Muslim writings have it, the prophet ascended to heaven only yards from the Wailing Wall, the sole surviving remnant of the Jewish temple complex.
"Whoever goes on a pilgrimage to the Jerusalem sanctuary," Muhammad is quoted as saying of his faith's third-holiest city, after Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia, "shall be forgiven all his sins."
The story of modern Jerusalem is the story of Arab-Israeli conflict, with a dav of oil (from the arabs), implied nuclear threat (from Israel), and superpower rivalry (courtesy of washington and Moscow).
Long before dispersed European Jews began their large-scale trek back to the coastal plain of Palestine in the 19th century, others of their number had been returning to the inland heights of Jerusalem. Indeed, by that time the Jews were again a majority in the holy city. They planted new residential enclaves to the west of the tiny walled town, among whitewashed Arab villages.
In 1948, war came -- with the city still under British mandtory rule, but due to be internationalized by the terms of the United Nations resolution partitioning Palestine into one Jewish and one Arab state. As the Jews battled the Arab world for the state promised them by the resolution, Jerusalem's hills, gardens, and alleywalls were caught up in the conflict. Arab and Jewish neighbors -- even, occasionally, friends -- became enemies.
Arab Palestinian townlets perched atop the main supply route from the Mediterranean took up rusty arms, determined to starve out what were seen as foreign latecomers seizing on ancient history as a ticket for conquest. The blockade of Jewish strongholds in west Jerusalem very nearly succeeded.
Inside the walled town, the traditional Jewish Quarter (which in one of Jerusalem's ample ironies was mostly Arab-owned) was battled free of Jews. Westward, the Jews were driving out Arabs from villages couched for centuries amid rugged hills. In one village, Deir Yassin, extremist militiamen loyal to Menachem Begin, then an extremist revolutionary, massacred dozens of civilians in the process. Days later, Arab gunmen struck back against a medical convoy headed for Hebrew University's Hadassah Hospital, located in the city's mostly Arab east.
In the hamlet of Lifta, like Deir Yassin an Arab enclave in the west, the mukhtar, or local headman, lost his two family homes. "One of them," he recalls , "I built stone by stone, with my own hands." His name: Haj Ali Khalaf.
When the killing on both sides was over, when a UN-supervised truce silenced the guns in 1949, Jerusalem was not only disputed -- but divided.
The Jews had won the west, linked by a narrow wedge of territory to the Mediterranean lowlands that formed most of the infant state of Israel.
The pro-British Arab monarchy of Jordan had the east, including the walled city with its battered Jewish quarter (where fleeing Arabs from west Jerusalem and the rest of Israel now pitched makeshift homes and with its Wailing Wall, sacred to the Jews.
On the Arab east, too, rose the Mount of Olives. There, where the ancestors of Mrs. Rachel Lustig and hundreds of other Jews were buried, came the city's Intercontinental Hotel and a web of access roads.
Like the Arabs of western Jerusalem, the Jews of the east lost several enclaves in the city's partition. but most agonizing to Israel was the fact that Jordan, in defiance of the agreed truce terms, denied Jews access to the Wailing Wall for the first time since the Crusaders' rule some 750 years earlier.
Between the eastern and western sectors lay barbed wire, mine fields, a UN no man's land, and Arab-Israeli hatred. Thus, punctuated by occasional gunfire, things remained until 1967 -- a war where political Jerusalem was turned inside out and where only the familiar hatred survived.
"The bulldozers came at dawn," recalled Haj Ali of the headlong expropriation and building campaign by wich the Israelis, after the war, strove to cement newly captured east Jerusalem as their own. Having fled from west to east 18 years earlier, the Khalaf patriarch now lost land there as well -- to Jewish apartment dwellers near the resuscitated campus and hospital of Hebrew University, idle since partition.
"We stood in front of the bulldozers and begged them to stop," the Arab recounted, dark eyes wandering and voice trembling. "But they said, 'Don't talk about land . . . . It has been seized.'"
That was in early 1968, a seizure of nearly 1,000 acres of Arab land in a drive that was to pry some 30 percent of east Jerusalem from Arab ownership by mid-1970.
Arab after Arab asked Israeli after Israeli to stop, often getting much the same answer as Haj Ali Khalaf: "The land has been seized."
They were Arabs like Khasmieh Abu Aqiel, headman of the teeming Moroccan quarter in the walled city, bulldozed shortly after the war to widen access to the regained Wailing Wall.
"I still remember," Abu Aqiel says more than a dozen years later. "I saw an old woman begging them not to bulldoze until morning. The man said OK, but went ahead and bulldozed anyway."
On the opposite edge of the walled Old City, Israel chased out thousands of Arab refugees for the restoration of the Jewish Quarter.
Finally, in August 1970, came the largest land grab of all. Several thousand acres of east Jerusalem land were taken for the planting of three Jewish apartment townlets. The Israelis seized more soil than homes, and probably more rocks than either. But for the largely pastoral Palestinians, that was little consolation.
Nor did this do much to temper opposition to Israel's tightening hold on the east of the city among officials in Washington or other outside states. Whatever the religious and historical tangles of the so-called Jerusalem issue, the east of the city had been taken in battle.
That, as the rest of the world saw things, made it occupied land. As such, civilian settlemtns there contravened international law as surely as did the rural Jewish enclaves on the occupied West Bank.
Ten years later, Jerusalem is a city at peace and at war.
The barbed wire and the mine fields are gone. Arabs cross to west Jerusalem, Jews cross east. Under Israeli control, the domed mosques, the churches, and the Jewish holy places of the Old city are open to all. Jerusalem, in Israeli political parlance, is "unified."
But if unification comforts Jerusalem Jews, "for the other part of the city, it remains a black day," Meron Benvenisti, an Israeli who was postwar deputy mayor of Jerusalem, commented recently.
"I'm sorry to say it, but 13 years after the 'six-day war,' I really think the city is less unified than ever . . . . If we believe that it is [truly unified], we're just fooling ourselves."
The present Israeli prime minister has made it clear to this and other reporters that he considers the issue of Jerusalem nonnegotiable, a position no doubt cemented by the fact that even more moderate Israeli politicians share his determination to retain the holy city as the Jewish state's united capital.
Escalating violence across the West Bank has bred new tension in the holy city itself. The day after Arab gunmen ambushed a group of Jews in the West Bank town of Hebron this spring, a young Jewish apartment dweller happened upon a duel of rocks and rhetoric in front of Haj Ali's east Jerusalem home.
"You dirty Arabs," an Israeli man taunted a young Palestinian pedestrian.
"Wait a minute," the youth countered. "I wasn't the one who killed those people. I don't believe in occupation, but I don't believe in murder, either."
The Israeli answered with a stone.The Arab answered in kind.
If there is a silver lining in the Jerusalem storm clouds, it is that almost no one -- Jew or Arab -- hankers for the return of barbed wire and mine fields. Most Arabs, and certainly most local Palestinians, are ready to concede that Jordan was wrong in barring free access to Jewish holy places before 1967.
And if Prime Minister Begin resists even minimal political concessions to Jerusalem Arabs, the Labor Alignment party thought likely to succeed him speaks of at least "symbolic" gestures to the city's Palestinians.
But the Palestinians insist not on autonomy, but on renewed Arab sovereignty for east Jerusalem.