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Our Hip roof carport is designed with simplicity. It is easy to construct, yet extremely durable. This versatile carport can also be used as patio, outdoor entertaining area and a whole lot more of function.
Available in a large range of sizes
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Colorbond – Roof Sheets – Our carports come standard with Colorbond Custom orb, which is the same as corrugated roofing iron. (Other options available on request)
Colorbond – Gutters, flashing and down pipe – also comes standard in Colorbond.
All brackets and components – Pre folded and cut to size and pre punched holes, for ease of assembly. (fully galvanised G450. Frame requires zero cutting or bending, "simply bolts together"
Nuts and bolts for the frame – M12 purlin bolts for added strength.
Columns – 100mm x 100m x 3mm Square hollow section Dura Gal (fully galvanised SHS steel columns)
Roofing screws and pop rivets – For your roof sheets, gutters and flashing. colored roof screws to match the colour you have selected
Purlins – This is the steel that will make up your frame. All purlins are supplied by Bluescope steel and will come with a Bluescope steel warranty. (fully galvanised G450
Top hats – This is the steel member that runs across your frame that allows you to screw your roof sheets to – This also made from Bluescope steel
In Slab Footings – If you want to cast your columns into the ground, you will be supplied with 500mm of extra length to your columns ( footing details will be on your engineering plans)
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(July 19, 2012) It was reported on July 16, 2012, that Zimbabwe's House of Assembly, the lower house of the country's 313-member bicameral Parliament, passed the Older Persons Bill, legislation aimed at ensuring the welfare of the elderly community in Zimbabwe, ten years after it was first introduced. (Parliament Adopts Older Persons Bill, THE HERALD (July 16, 2012); Zimbabwe to Pass Older Persons Bill into Law, AFRICA LEGAL BRIEF (Apr. 9, 2012).) Before it can become law, the legislation will need to pass the upper house and obtain presidential assent. (Constitution of Zimbabwe (as amended on Feb. 13, 2009), § 51, KUBATANA.NET.)
In a speech to the House of Assembly, Minister of Labor and Social Welfare, Paurina Mpariwa, highlighted the importance of the legislation, which is the first of its kind in the country. She described it as part of the country's "social protection strategy to provide for the needs of the elderly." She further noted:
- This is made more important because currently, after working for most of their lives and contributing to the country's economic development there is no specific social security mechanism or pension covering the generality of older persons. Also older persons remain the only category of vulnerable persons whose well-being is not provided for by an Act of Parliament. (Parliament Adopts Older Persons Bill, supra.)
To illustrate her point, she noted that children are covered by the Children's Act (Ch. 5:06, International Organization for Migration Zimbabwe website (last visited July 17, 2012)) and the disabled by the Disabled Persons Act (Ch. 17:01, REFWORLD (last visited July 18, 2012)).
The proposed legislation seeks to establish an Older Persons Board. The Board, which will consist of a Director and 13-17 members appointed by the Minister of Labor and Social Services with the approval of the head of state, will have various functions, including:
- making sure that older persons (citizens age 65 or above) have access to basic necessities as well as community, health, and social services;
- empowering older persons to maintain their independence;
- preventing age-based discrimination against older persons;
- helping establish care and social centers for the welfare of older persons;
- monitoring institutions that provide services to older persons; and
- implementing international treaties that affect the wellbeing of older people and to which Zimbabwe is a party. (Older Persons Bill, 2011, H.B. 1, 2011, §§ 24 & 7, KUBATANA.NET, (Sept. 23, 2011).)
The legislation includes provisions on the distribution of social welfare assistance to needy older persons. It authorizes the Director of Older Persons Affairs to distribute social welfare assistance to certain older persons, including those with physical or mental handicaps; those suffering from serious illnesses; those in the care of indigent persons; and those who need assistance for any other reason. (Id. § 9.)
The legislation seeks to establish the Older Persons Fund to finance the above-listed functions. This fund will be used to finance the social welfare assistance that the Director of Older Persons Affairs will grant. (Id. § 10.) It will also pay for various programs that will be devised to promote the "well-being, welfare, care and protection of older persons." (Id.) It will be funded through regular Parliamentary appropriations and other sources, including gifts. (Id.)
The legislation also includes provisions designed to protect older persons from abuse. It prohibits the denial of access to any premises, services, or opportunities to anyone on the basis of their age. (Id. § 12.) Violation of this ban is an offense punishable by a fine and/or imprisonment. (Id. § 13.) The legislation also prohibits any violation of an older person's fundamental rights and freedoms, as guaranteed by law, including the right to dignity, personal beliefs, privacy, and independence. (Id. § 12.) A violation of this protection will entitle an older person to damages, in addition to other legal remedies. (Id. § 13.)
At the time of life in which elderly persons typically need help, the HIV and AIDS epidemic in Zimbabwe has forced many of them to care for other vulnerable members of the society, mostly their sick children and their orphaned grandchildren. (Overview of the Environment Under Which the Elderly Are Living in, HelpAge Zimbabwe website (last visited Jul. 17, 2012).) HelpAge International/United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) 2007 data shows that two-thirds of people living with HIV and AIDS live under the care of parents in their sixties and seventies. (Elderly Battle as Government Promises Help but Cannot Pay, THE ZIMBABWEAN (Mar. 14, 2012).) The elderly also take care of 40-60% of orphans and vulnerable children, with an average of three children per household. (Id.) In addition, the elderly are subjected to various forms of physical and psychological abuse, including rape and accusations of witchcraft, that often result in banishment. (AFRICA LEGAL BRIEF, supra.)


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Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger feels expanding the Champions League to 64 teams would be detrimental to domestic football across Europe.
European football's governing body, UEFA, are considering scrapping the much-maligned Europa League and instead increasing the number of sides in their showpiece competition. The new format could be introduced for 2015 and might open up the Champions League to as many as seven English clubs and five Scottish teams at a qualifying stage.
But Wenger told Arsenal Player: "I am not convinced because the Champions League already has audience problems in the group stage, I think that would create more and lower the level."
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Crohn's disease is a severe, chronic inflammatory bowel disease. It causes inflammation, ulcers, and bleeding in the digestive tract.
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You've probably seen fellow racers wearing tall compression socks, calf sleeves, thigh highs and full tights, wondered what they're all about and whether you should get some, too. These garments are based on a concept medicine validated long ago: that compression clothing—made with highly engineered, elastic gradient compression fabric to mold around various parts of the body—increases blood and lymphatic flow. In sports, compression garments are meant to improve performance and expedite recovery. Although there isn't yet a consensus among experts if compression apparel really works, research has shown that it just might do what manufacturers say it does.
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Bosses behind the new The Wizard Of Oz prequel re-arranged shoots so British actress Rachel Weisz could be part of the movie while she was also filming The Bourne Legacy.
The Constant Gardener star had signed up for the action movie before Disney chiefs approached her to play the Wicked Witch of the East in Oz: The Great and Powerful - and they were so eager to land her they let the busy working mom dictate her working hours.
She tells Britain's The Sun, "I was going between the two, so I did two months on Oz, two months on Bourne, a month on Oz, a month on Bourne. It was very schizophrenic because they are very different genres.
"I had agreed to do Bourne, and then I read the Oz script and I was like, 'Wow, I really love this wicked witch' and they managed to make it work for me to do both films."
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Give the Guy a Butt!
Let Obama smoke in the White House.
Let me offer a somewhat hyperbolic hypothetical. It's the winter of 2009, and a crisis has erupted between the United States and the former Soviet Union. Putin (surprise!) is acting arrogantly and aggressively, trying to push the new American president around. Do you want Barack Obama, the guy who has his finger on our nuclear trigger, notorious nicotine addict, to be dying for a smoke? All irritable, his nerves and famously smooth temper on edge? No outlet for his intolerable frustration but ... a butt. But no butts to be found.
The White House, of course, has been a butt-free zone since the Clinton administration. That pack of Marlboro Reds he's kept stashed under a bush in the Rose Garden, hoping it'll be camouflaged? Out of reach. The only thing that looks like a butt is, well, a button, and it's looking good. Why not reach for it? Then he won't have to put up any longer with the insane puritanical rules imposed by those who don't know, will never know, the knife-edge of nicotine desire.
Do you want to die because President Obama is dying for a smoke? It's true that smoking would be bad for our 44th president, who's been trying to kick the habit. Lung cancer caused by smoking is a major cause of death in America. Even secondhand smoke is deadly, we're told. But how about secondhand radioactive plutonium? Might that turn out to be a major cause of death (for those not already dead in a nuclear exchange)? Do I have to answer that?
OK, so Obama isn't going to start a nuclear war because of the well-meaning but counterproductive no-smoking rule. At least, I hope he isn't. I don't smoke, but I know smokers, and I know smokers trying to quit, and they scare me.
Which is why those who say a president who smokes in the White House would be a bad role model are all wrong. In fact, consider the possibility that he'd be a better, perhaps more effective, negativerole model. He'd teach the nation's youth how scary an addiction smoking is: Even the most powerful man in the world is putty in its tobacco-stained hands.
The media don't seem to share my views on this, at least if their recent bout of hysterical scolding is any indication. (Perhaps they're using this issue to show they can be tough on the president they helped elect—about something, however trivial.)
First there was Barbara Walters, who came close to implying, in a face-to-face interview, that poor Obama's pledge to quit smoking was more important than any of his other presidential priorities. A collapsing economy? Mumbai terror heading this way? No worries. Will he live up to his no-smoking pledge? Now, there's an issue.
Walters had asked whether he still sneaked smokes, and Obama had said something vague about his pledge to observe the no-smoking rules in the White House.
Then eagle-eyed Tom Brokaw demonstrated the way a hard-nosed reporter goes after a cover-up. On Meet the Press last weekend, Brokaw picked up on what he thought was wiggle room in Obama's Barbara Walters response and treated the president-elect to a bit of journalistic inquiry that surely ranks with Woodward and Bernstein's challenges to Deep Throat (another smoker?).
Brokaw: "Finally, Mr. President-elect, the White House is a no-smoking zone, and when you were asked about this recently by Barbara Walters, I read it very carefully, you ducked. Have you stopped smoking?"
(He "read it very carefully"! Wow, are we impressed by his journalistic excellence, or what?)
Obama's answer was a classic recidivist's evasion:
"You know, I have, but what I said [to Walters] was that there were times where I have fallen off the wagon," Obama told Brokaw.
"That means you haven't stopped," the steely NBC interrogator asserted.
Obama's response: "Well, the—fair enough. What I would say is, is that I have done a terrific job, under the circumstances, of making myself much healthier, and I think that you will not see any violations of these rules in the White House."
Gotcha! Way to go T.B.! (Perhaps not the best initials here.) Savvy observers and addicts could spot Obama's evasiveness, which wouldn't survive a minute in a 12-step meeting.
Don't you love the ambiguity, the weasel-worded squirming? It's so human, it's endearing. All us sinners—of various habits and forms—loved Obama for it and loathed Brokaw, Walters, and the nation of scolds we have become in their collective attempt to shame the poor guy (yes, president-elect, I know, but here, just a poor, conniving backslider) into some self-scourging confession.
You have to admire Obama's good nature as he puts up with these narrow-minded nannies (addicted to tobacco in their own perverse, negative way) and offers up this masterpiece of obfuscation.
Let's parse the statement. I like his assertion of greater healthiness as an excuse for this minor failing. Not gonna work, but it shows his desperation. Still, the key evasion is "you will not see any violations of those rules in the White House." (The italics are mine.)
Note that he doesn't say "outside the White House," leaving himself room to sneak a smoke in the privacy of the Rose Garden. And then, of course, there's the fact that a president doesn't spend all of his time "in the White House." He goes to Camp David, Europe, South Dakota, Iraq. Surely, there's a spot in one of those locales to sneak a puff or two undisturbed? With that phrase, "in the White House," Obama has his own "depends on what the meaning of the word is is." He's left himself a hole big enough for Richard Nixon to fit all of Watergate through or Bill Clinton to maneuver a strip club's worth of babes. Don't a few sneaky puffs seem innocent by comparison?
Obama—who, according to a wide array of sources, has smoked for years, but promised his wife, Michelle, that he'd quit in exchange for her help with his presidential campaign—has never said that smoking is good or healthy or that quitting is easy. Quite the opposite. He's made clear that quitting is a struggle and, like others who struggle with their demons, he's fallen off the wagon.
So what? This is probably the most sinless president we're likely to get in the foreseeable millennium, and yet he's already got the health Nazis on his tail. He's human, he's not on Mount Rushmore yet. (Although I kind of like the idea of a giant, granite Obama next to the Rushmore four, a stone cigarette dangling from his lips.)
In fact, I'd argue that Obama's smoking habit gives us another reason to like him: He's not a perfect paragon of the Whole Foods boho sensibility, comments about arugula notwithstanding. I'm told there are people who were surprised to learn he smoked, as if it was somehow shocking he didn't fit all the virtuous liberal-elite stereotypes. It would be refreshing (and not in that cool-menthol way) if he's more a democrat, less a virtue-crat.
I also wonder—and this will seem wildly heretical to virtue-crats, so hide the children—whether some of Obama's finer qualities aren't bound up in his alleged nicotine sins. That contemplative self-possession that so many admire him for. It might come from Obama's ability to sit back, inhale a puff or two, slow down and think—meditate, cogitate—before acting. Sure it's a trade-off. Lung cancer later in life: the percentage grows grim. But isn't it possible that, without the mediating thoughtfulness of a nicotine break, Obama would still be a "community organizer"? Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Look, people, we have what looks to be an incredibly thoughtful, long-view-taker as president, and maybe we owe it to cancer sticks. That's the tragedy of life. You don't get somethin' for nothin'. Maybe you don't get the Obama we think will make a great president without the devil weed. Maybe we owe him some cancer sticks if that's what he chooses. Because—and here I take the libertarian view—you choose your poison. He knows the stats and the risks. Maybe he makes a choice to have a butt or two despite the stats and the risks. Bill Clinton knew the odds and chose his butt or two with consequences that were arguably graver for the country as a whole. (By the way, you know who made the White House into a smoke-free zone? Hillary Clinton. We'd all be better off if Bill had thought "smoking hot" meant he was hot for smoking.)
If Obama were still a senator, a largely do-nothing job (at least if you consider senators' achievements), fine, take time, enroll in an anti-smoking program, white-knuckle it, whatever you decide: You have the leisure. But he's going to be president, with the fate of the nation, of the Earth, in his hands. Did George W. Bush make great decisions as a president while abstaining from alcohol? Maybe a sip of sherry or a cold brewski might have calmed him down enough to think twice about invading Iraq or deregulating the markets.
Look at all the great presidents we had during Prohibition: Harding, Coolidge, Hoover … Wow, makes you wonder if abstemiousness is to blame for turning out mediocre-to-disastrous louts in the Oval Office.
Come Jan. 20, Obama will be the president of a nation whose entire economic infrastructure is collapsing and who faces renewed tensions with a nuclear superpower. Such tensions could easily lead us to the nuclear brink. Is this the precise time we want our president to undergo the ordeal that giving up smoking represents?
Give Obama a break ... a smoking break. No president has come into office facing the massive problems he does. And now he's got Chicago politics, like another monkey on his back, following him there. Let him enjoy a few contemplative moments as he works a problem. Let him have his down time. We'll probably be better off for it. So get off his case, all you holier-than-thou Puritans. I'm not advocating smoking for anyone else, and I think he should make a point of telling kids what a horror quitting is. But, meanwhile, cut the guy some slack. He's risking his health for you.


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We were blown away by the pheneomenal community effort that went into both creating and testing this record number of Editors' Pick candidates. You rose to our mysterious bulk bin challenge (all will be revealed soon -- we promise!) and in return now we all have a wealth of inventive and delicious recipes to draw from when we find ourselves wandering down the bulk bin aisle or peering into our pantries, needing some dry good inspiration.
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- Sweet and Savory Porridge with Almonds and Cardamom
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- Cherry and Amaranth Dessert Casserole
- Mushroom Ginger Soup with Hulled Barley
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- Avena con Champiñones/Oats with Mushrooms
- Peas Porridge Hot (Oat Risotto with Peas)
- Rio Zape Beans with Toasted Chili Sauce
Slightly Smoky Mixed-Bean Chili
- Best Boston Baked Beans
- Simple Seasoned Adzuki Beans
- Perfumed Adzuki Beans and Rice with Bourbon and Bacon
- Red Bean Espresso Brownies
- Red Rice and Beans
- Spicy Stewed Black Eyed Peas and Baby Limas with Corn Quesadillas
Jalapeno and Black-eyed Pea Fondue
- Slow Cooker Hoppin' John
- 4th of July Baby Limas, Barbeque Style
- Christmas Risotto
- Mung Bean and Shrimp Soup
- Mung Bean and Butternut Squash Stew
- Savory Mung Bean Crepes
Yellow Split Pea Soup
- Tri-Colored Lentil Soup
- Porky's Peas
- Split Pea Soup for a Winter's Day
Bisi Bela
10-12-12-12 (Sprouted) Lentil Soup
- Breakfast Chia Seed Pudding
- Sweet Rice with Mango, Chia and Black Sesame
Chia-Mint-Yogurt Dip
- Seeded Skillet Cookie
- Granola for Fellow "Granolas"
- Shichimi Edamame
- Swiss Bircher Muesli
- Tres Leches Oatmeal
- Blueberry Smoothie
- Power Bread
- Flax Seed Potato Bread


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The Dinosaur Heresies: New Theories Unlocking the Mystery Ofthe Dinosaurs and Their Extinction
William Morrow, 1986 - Science - 481 pages
One of the world's leading paleontologists presents revolutionary discoveries about how dinosaur brains worked, how their metabolism influenced their lives, and comments on dozens of other heretical ideas about dinosaur habits and habitats
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