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Randy, I noticed more young males and young females attending Sedalia than any other National that I have been at in the past seven years. There may be hope for the organization to survive us.
Randy, I noticed more young males and young females attending Sedalia than any other National that I have been at in the past seven years. There may be hope for the organization to survive us.
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I'm from Florida,and retired to the north,north Georgia mountains,that is. ps,Iwas born in Virginia(1946) moved to Florida(1948) retired to Georgia(2006)
Camp Gears looked to be very well attended and if this club moved this event to anything but the summer I feel it would really hurt or kill Camp Gears.
Many clubs are dying as they are not attracting younger riders, the MOA needs to be congratulated on Camp Gears and reaching out to the younger set.
I didn't attend due to conflict with the AMA V/days, @ Mid-Ohio...a tradition with myself & local friends. BTW {IMO} V/days has gone 'down hill' due to changes in the AMA, & new owners of M/Ohio. If it conflicts ? It may not be a factor next year.
I live in Seattle for a reason - it never gets above 100 degrees, and we never see humidity higher than 50%. If I wanted to go to a place where it was 100 degrees and 95% humidity, I'd go visit my relatives in Michigan.
I have zero interest in riding a motorcycle cross-country in ATGATT when it's 95 degrees and 95% humidity. I simply won't do it. It's just not fun.
I'm pleased to see that next year's rally will be in my neighborhood - Western Oregon.
The mid-west bias of the MOA prevents it from understanding that anything west of the Cascade Mountains in Washington and Oregon is very comfortable in the summer. Past rallies in Spokane, WA and Bend, OR were not in the same climate zones as Western Washington and Western Oregon. It's also too damn hot in Spokane and Bend in the summer.
There was a credible attempt to have a rally held at the Evergreen State Fairgrounds in Monroe, WA. The close-by epic riding is limitless, as the fairgrounds are an hour's ride from Stevens Pass (elev. 4100') and two hour's ride from the North Cascades Hwy, consistently ranked as the best motorcycle ride in the United States.
But some MOA bean counter decided that there weren't enough hotel rooms in the vicinity (I guess Seattle - 30 minutes away from Monroe - doesn't qualify as a large enough city with enough potential hotel rooms to qualify as a rally site).
So we'll be stuck with future rallies held in places I won't go in the summer, because I insist on being comfortable while riding.
Don't worry - it's not my loss
Seattle, WA
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However, no place is local to everyone and there's lots of flat between the Appalachians and Rockies. No one can change that.
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I read the above responce not as "if it's local, I'll go," but as he stated it: if it's so hot as to be unbearable, I'll not go. I feel the same way. Suffered thru PA, chose not to do it again in MO even though I had reserved the week and intended to attend.
It's obvious from these postings alone that many did choose not to go to the rally because of the heat. If MOA wants to respond, the options seem clear: alternate dates, altitudes or locations.
Or was can wait for Global Cooling to begin, and bitch about how cold it is.
Jeff Dicarlo
Ask the people who went to MO...it was NOT hot. Sure the temps were high; but I am from the land of 90+ temps and 90+ humidity...Sedalia was pleasant; especially at night. We had low humidity and the temps at night were low 70s. Two nights, I had to turn off the ceiling fan in my tent.
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I was in Denver last weekend at a meet with a few folks who were vendors in Sedalia. They said it was much hotter than Bloomsburg but the Air Conditioning was 100 times better.
Regardless last I checked when touring on a motorcycle in the summer there's a pretty good chance of finding a few days of wicked hot temps. bfd.
How do you partisipate if the only questions are why didn't you go? I went, rode from the south and I don't think it was to hot. I will admit thursday was hot,but friday,saturday,sunday were warm. The venue was great,and so were the locals. All but the former Super8,but thats another story.
Regardless of where the Rally is located, a lot of people have to endure extreme temperatures to get to the rally in the middle of the summer.
'You can say what you want about the South, but I almost never hear of anyone wanting to retire to the North.
Why you people don't buy some LD Comfort underwear is beyond me.
It is like having A/C on your motorcycle-riding through 107 degrees is not a big deal, and just like an electric jacket liner it really extends your
riding season. Just as with todays technology in clothes, there is no reason to be cold in the winter...you don't have to swelter in the summer either!
I even wore it while I wasat the rally, and kept soaking it down with water about every 45 minutes to an hour.
So did my Dad, who is 89, and rode to the rally. (The disclaimer is that we only had a 110 mile ride this year)
We also rode to Bloomsburg last year and it was not that bad with LD Comfort to assist.
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I attended both the PENN and MO rally's and will not go back because of the heat. Something about twice shame on me or something like that. I understand that a poll was taken about when to have the Rally, I can't remember if I was apart of the poll or not. However, I can agree that July is a good time-frame to hold a Rally if the date was the ONLY consideration. Again, I was not part of the poll so I don't know the exact wording of the question that mandated a July date, but I do believe if the question read something like this, do you want to swelter in July at a rally say yes? I believe the response to a July date wouldn't be so firm!
I understand about 5200/5300 attended, I thought more like 7000/8000 were hoped for. Regardless the number of people home bound by cold weather or school teachers/parents which I hear time and time again the reason for a July date, are surely not 40/50% of the attendees or MOA Rally attendees/members.
I also read in the posts that riding in July you expect to be hot, AND THAT'S TRUE! But you don't have to if you don't want to, and that is the approach I'm going to take regarding attending the MOA Rally.
If I remember correctly there was not one square foot of shade in the Club Camping areas, except for your tent.
Obviously this is my opinion and yours is surely different, no flame war intended. I will speak with my feet, so to speak, and skip rallying/living in the sweltering heat.
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Hague calls for Thailand solution
Foreign Secretary William Hague has urged Thailand to set out a "quick timetable" to restore a democratically elected civilian government following the military takeover in the south east Asian country.
Hundreds of British tourists are having to adhere to a strict night curfew after the bloodless coup and Mr Hague said the Thai authorities should not to resort to violence amid fears of the reaction to the takeover.
He urged Britons in Thailand or thinking of travelling to the country to keep monitoring the Foreign Office's travel guidance for the region which will be updated as events progress.
Mr Hague said: "I am extremely concerned by today's coup. The UK urges the restoration of a civilian government that has been democratically elected, serves the interests of its people and fulfils its human rights obligations.
"We look therefore to the authorities to set out a quick clear timetable for elections to help re-establish the democratic framework of governance.
"There should never be recourse to violence: only by openly discussing the full range of issues can Thailand move forward and reach a more stable position.
"We are monitoring the situation on the ground very carefully. British nationals in Thailand or thinking of travelling to Thailand should monitor the FCO's travel advice, which will be continually updated as events develop."
Around 800,000 Britons visit Thailand every year and those there at the moment will need to be indoors between 10pm and 5am under the terms laid down in the coup.
The Foreign Office (FCO) updated its travel advice for Thailand today. It said there is an increased military presence in Bangkok and tourists should allow extra time for journeys.
It said the curfew would not apply to those travelling to or from Bangkok airport but said travellers should continue to monitor social media and local news for updates as a number of media outlets have been taken off air by the Royal Thai Army.
The advice went on: "There is a risk of a violent reaction to the Army's announcement. We recommend that you exercise extreme caution and remain alert to the situation. If you're in any doubt about your safety, stay in your accommodation.
"Political demonstrations continue in and around Bangkok and elsewhere in Thailand.
"There have been indiscriminate attacks involving weapons and explosives at protest sites and at protest marches, causing casualties and deaths. Attacks have taken place during the daytime and at night.
"Protest action has caused significant disruption to roads in affected areas, with knock-on effects across the city. The situation is unpredictable and further protests are expected."
The FCO said tourists "should take extra care and avoid all protest sites, political gatherings, demonstrations and marches".
At present, the FCO is advising against all but essential travel to the provinces of Pattani, Yala, Narathiwat and Songkhla on the Thai-Malaysia border, although this is due to the threat of extremists targeting Westerners.
The FCO advises against all travel to the Preah Vihear temple area and the Ta Krabey/Ta Moan temple area on the Thai-Cambodian border due to the presence of troops in the area and the risk of outbreaks of fighting, although this is in relation to an ongoing dispute with Cambodia.
UK travel organisation Abta is also closely following events. An Abta spokeswoman said: "Thailand has grown in popularity with Britons in recent years although this is one of the quieter times of the year for visitors from the UK.
"While backpackers often go to the capital Bangkok, package holidaymakers typically travel to the coastal resorts of Phuket, Phangnga and Krabi in the south. The demonstrations that have been going on have been aimed at the government."
The Tourism Authority of Thailand said: "Businesses and public services are adjusting their operating hours to comply with the curfew.
"All airports in Thailand remain open, and air passengers with arrival and departure flights scheduled during the curfew can travel to and from the airports at any time as usual.
"We are closely monitoring the situation, and will be providing more updates as soon as there are further developments."
Thailand has been in an almost constant state of political upheaval in recent years, with this being the 12th coup since the end of absolute monarchy in 1932.
The governmental ups and downs have had little or no effect on tourism from Britain, with the country providing good-value, sunshine holidays to those keen to get away from inclement British weather.

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Hurdle has out-of-body experience in Tuesday's win
By Tom Singer and Mark Emery / MLB.com
The Pirates' manager learned otherwise the instant Houston pinch-hitter Jason Castro ripped a game-tying double into PNC Park's right-field corner with two outs in the ninth inning.
As soon as he saw Castro's swing on a 3-2 pitch from Joel Hanrahan, Hurdle walked toward the lineup card posted on the dugout wall to plot his next moves, when he heard ... nothing.
"There's no bigger punch to the gut than when the closer doesn't close. Boom. You could've heard a pin drop," Hurdle recalled. "It was deathly still, which was a cool sound in and of itself, because it had been so electric when the pitch was out of his hand.
"From everyone standing up and 'Let's go Bucs!' and all heck breaking loose to ... nothing. And I'm thinking, 'This is pretty cool.'"
Hurdle's mind immediately flashed back to Oct. 10, 1980. The Bronx. Eighth inning. With the Yankees holding a 2-1 lead over Kansas City in Game 3 of the ALCS, George Brett ripped a three-run homer off Goose Gossage to send the Royals to the World Series, and 56,588 in Yankee Stadium clammed up.
"I never had been in a venue where there were that many people go quiet," Hurdle said.
Tuesday night, there were only 21,516 people in PNC Park, but the effect was the same. Not the result. Minutes later, Drew Sutton's walk-off homer gave Pirates fans their voices back.
Presley out of lineup with concussion-like symptoms
PITTSBURGH -- Alex Presley remained out of the Pirates' delayed lineup on Wednesday, after undergoing tests for lingering effects of the concussion-like symptoms that had prompted his early departure from Tuesday night's game.
"This is not a test you want to cheat on," said manager Clint Hurdle, who had held off on making out his lineup card until getting medical updates on both Presley and Pedro Alvarez.
Alvarez, after missing two starts with complications of leg cramps, was back in the eventual lineup against the Astros. Presley's place in left field was taken by Drew Sutton, walk-off hero of Tuesday's 8-7 victory.
Presley was jarred making a headlong diving try for Jed Lowrie's first-inning looper, and complained of not feeling well a few innings later. He was removed from the game before the start of the fifth inning.
"It was a whiplash-type scenario. He hit the ground, and his lower torso came up," Hurdle said, describing the incident. "We follow an explicit battery of tests. This is one area in which the player has to interact honestly with the questioning process. It's amazing what kind of a feedback you can get with these tests. They give you a pretty good read on where the player is."
As of an hour before Wednesday's 1:35 p.m. ET first pitch, the Pirates had not decided whether to take advantage of MLB's relatively-new seven-day disabled list for concussion cases.
Success starting to make impact in Pittsburgh
PITTSBURGH -- "I met a man ...," Clint Hurdle began, and for a beat it sounded like the Pirates manager was about to launch into one of those amusing limericks of his.
But, no -- Hurdle was focusing on a Pittsburgh snapshot the morning the city had arisen to find its Pirates in a first-place tie on July 4.
"From talking to people, looking at some e-mails I've gotten ... people were pretty emotional [Tuesday] night," said Hurdle, reflecting on the fallout from the 8-7 comeback victory over Houston. "They shared with me that they hadn't felt that way in 20 years. That has meaning."
Like everybody else involved in the daily grind of the game, Hurdle is not a halfway kind of guy. You don't step outside of the circle to assess your position within the circle.
Still, he could appreciate the vibes.
"When you can add joy in somebody's life, through baseball or whatever other means, that's pretty significant," he said. "The depth of it, I don't think our guys can understand because they haven't embraced it the last 19 years. So I don't think we can understand the impact we can make. But giving them a competitive team, a team they can be proud of, yes, I do think they get that."
Pirates honor military on Independence Day
In celebration of Independence Day, the Pirates honored our nation's military during the third of their four-game set against the Houston Astros on Wednesday. It's Military Appreciation Day at PNC Park, and the club made up to four tickets available to each veteran and active member of the Armed Forces prior to the game's first pitch at 1:35 p.m. ET.
Also, injured Pirates pitcher Charlie Morton and his wife Cindy are hosting 40 military members and their families from Operation Troop Appreciation and Wounded Warriors during the game. Along with their tickets, the soldiers received a few Pirates gifts from Charlie and Cindy for their service to our country.
The last word
"It was one of the best Fourths I've ever had, just being with the kids and a tourist in bathing suit and flip-flops. I mentioned that the other day and [his wife] Karla says, 'Well, you know what you have to do to recreate that.' And I said, 'I'm good. I'll hold off on that for a while.'"
-- Pirates manager Clint Hurdle, reflecting on July 4, 2009, spent out of uniform and on the beach after he'd been dismissed as Colorado manager.
Worth noting
• The nation joined Pirates pitcher Jared Hughes in celebrating his 27th birthday on Wednesday.
• The Pirates would have had to lose Wednesday's game to match the midpoint record of the last Pittsburgh team to play in the postseason (and have a winning record). The 1992 Bucs were 44-37 at the 81-game mark.
• In Thursday night's finale of the Houston series, the Pirates will try to complete their first four-game sweep since May 29-May 1, 2006, when they did it to the Brewers at PNC Park. Already, the Bucs have run their record in the last 12 series to 10-1-1.
• The victory over Houston rookie Dallas Keuchel improved the Pirates' home record against left-handed starters to 10-2.
• Jason Grilli's perfect outing on Wednesday was No. 300 of his career. "Those kinds of milestones, any time you reach a round number, are awesome. I hope to get 300 more before I retire," Grilli said.
• Pirates pinch-hitters have delivered 11 hits in their last 26 at-bats, an average of .423.
Tom Singer is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog Change for a Nickel. He can also be found on Twitter @Tom_Singer. Mark Emery is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Is ki koi kal seedhi nai hay mere bhai. He only knows how to play with our minds while in media. He thinks, Its me who give izzat (respect) to anyone or (degrade) anyone in the society. So he wanted to degrade imran khan in his last program but after getting people response on social media, He should understand now that ( wa ta izzo mantasha wa ta zillo mantasha) its not you its Allah who give izzat and take it back any time.
He is a very dodgy character and i don't like even if he praise IK , As a PTI supporter i love when intellectuals criticize PTI policies like TALAT HUSSAIN but people like him who do TC one day and on another day they start bashing for nothing , So i hope PTI supporters are mature enough to understand these double standard people
Maryam Nawaz, Hanif Abbassi, Marvi, Nusrat javed, Sana Bucha, Chood Nisar, aftab, Atta Qasimi, nazir naji is it ok now happy ?
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Maryam nawaz ko tu roooz hi kuch na kuch salp milta hy from PTI
I think Hamid Mir is not a bad anchor. Most of the time he supports PTI but then to do his justice to journalism he has to highlight the other's view also.
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He is not a credible person .. He never stays on his sayings ... I dont like him ...
Ik will do every good at his own convenience and at the behest of" any" body....
I think these stupid anchor and paid bloggers trying to discredit Imran Khan that he is not visiting Missing person camp, but if all of us remember he was the first person who did first time press conference for missing person
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Where is Najam Sethi now?
این ۔ آر ۔ و" کا مخالف دہشت گردوں کے لیے ایک "این ۔ آر ۔ و" کی حمایت کرتے ہوے۔
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Cheeta Hay, Cheeta Hamara Leader. No other leader can directly address Gen. Keyani about missing persons or any other issue like him.
Amna Janjua's wish has been full fill now by visiting Imran to their camp. I think they might finish the camp now.
[HI]Awam ka haqiqi tarjuman
Imran Khan Imran Khan
Pakistan ka passbaan
Imran Khan Imran Khan
Pakistaniat ki pahchan
Imran Khan Imran Khan[/HI]
Yarr Allah karaye bus kisi tarhan yeh baanda ek bar hakumat main aa jaye... Pakistan din dogni raat chugni taraqi karaye ga...
He is the most brave & honest leader we have after so many decades... Please isaay zaya mat karna warna apna janaza khud uthao gaye...
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Mark Wahlberg was fully dressed for a stroll in Miami yesterday, but at some point in the afternoon, he stripped down for time on the balcony of his hotel room. Wearing just underwear, Mark stood outside to have his spray tan touched up. All the TLC is necessary for the movie Pain and Gain, which requires a great deal of Mark Wahlberg shirtlessness. He's been on the Florida set for the last couple months, along with costar Dwayne Johnson. Mark's family, including wife, Rhea Durham, and their four kids, went to the Sunshine State for a special Spring visit back in April. Next up for Mark will be a promotional tour for his comedy Ted ahead of its June 29 release, starting with a cameo at Sunday's MTV Movie Awards.
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Several studies show vitamins C and E protect athletes from muscle damage and phosphatidylserine reduces cortisol.
Sixteen untrained men volunteered to exercise for 30 minutes at 75 percent of their aerobic capacity in this vitamin C study. The men took 1,000 mg of vitamin C or a placebo two hours before exercise. Researchers measured blood levels of vitamin C, signs of oxidative stress, markers of inflammation and the stress hormone cortisol, before taking vitamin C, just before exercise and two and 24 hours after exercise. After exercise, those in the placebo group had oxidized fats and muscle damage while the vitamin C group did not. In the vitamin C group, cortisol—the "fight or flight" hormone that can damage muscle—declined significantly both before exercise and two and 24 hours after.
In a vitamin C and E study, 14 amateur-trained male runners, aged 32 to 36, drank a beverage containing 152 mg of vitamin C and 50 mg of vitamin E per day or a placebo. After one month, researchers took blood samples just before and after participants ran a half-marathon and again three hours later, and found that signs of oxidative stress increased in the placebo group only, and that vitamin C and E accumulated more in the white blood cells in the supplement group compared to placebo. The vitamin C and E group also had higher levels of protective enzymes and antioxidants than the placebo group. Investigators concluded that moderate levels of antioxidant
vitamins reduced oxidative damage from exercise while allowing the body to build muscle.
In a phosphatidylserine (PS) study, 10 healthy men took 600 mg of PS per day, or a placebo, alternately for 10 days at a time. During the 20-day period, the men exercised on a stationary cycle for 15 minutes at a time, while researchers drew blood before, immediately after and about an hour after each exercise interval. On average, peak cortisol levels were 39 percent lower after PS compared to placebo and the ratio of free (healthy) testosterone to cortisol was 184 percent higher after PS than placebo. Study authors concluded that a short-term, moderate dose of PS prevented the physical damage that occurs with too much exercise.
Reference: Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness; 2008, Vol. 48, No. 2, 217-24.


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It will surely be a bittersweet moment for new Toronto FC Assistant Coach Duncan Oughton as he prepares to face the club he spent 12 years with in his first match on Ryan Nelsen's staff. But Oughton isn't the first former Crew player to venture into coaching. After all, the Black & Gold's technical staff boasts four former Crew players.
Other former players have even earned some silverware as coaches. Todd Yeagley and Brian Maisonneuve recently won their first NCAA Championship while coaching at Indiana University, while Ezra Hendrickson has claimed three Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cups while on Sigi Schmid's staff in Seattle. In his second season as Head Coach of Lanús in Argentina, Guillermo Barros Schelotto could be on his way to hardware as his club currently sits in second place of the Argentine Primera División.
Here's a full list of former Crew players in the coaching ranks:
Columbus Crew
Robert Warzycha, Head Coach
Brian Bliss, Technical Director/U.S. U-20 Assistant Coach
Mike Lapper, Assistant Coach
Ricardo Iribarren, Assistant Coach
Billy Thompson, Crew Soccer Academy Director of Coaching
Toronto FC
Duncan Oughton, Assistant Coach
Seattle Sounders FC
Ezra Hendrickson, Assistant Coach
New York Red Bulls
Robin Fraser, Assistant Coach
John Wolyniec, Reserve Team Coach/Player Development Coordinator
LA Galaxy
Pat Noonan, Assistant Coach
Real Salt Lake
Andy Williams, Head Scout
Guillermo Barros Schelotto, Head Coach
Kaizer Chiefs (South African Premier League)
Doctor Khumalo, Youth Development Coach
Indiana University
Todd Yeagley, Head Coach
Brian Maisonneuve, Assistant Coach
Penn State University
Bo Oshoniyi, Assistant Coach
University of New Mexico
Brandon Moss, Assistant Coach
Cornerstone University
Steven Herdsman, Assistant Coach


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Don't let your finances end up in the emergency room
10 Ways to Deal with an Expensive Emergency Room Bill
by Gary Foreman
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According to the latest stas from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there are nearly 136 million emergency room visits each year at an average cost of $1,233. For some of us, it's harder to recover from the bill than from the illness or injury.
Here are 10 things you can do to make it easier to deal with an expensive emergency room visit:
- Request an itemized statement. There's simply not much you can do with a bill that's not itemized. The hospital owes you a bill that details what services were provided and how much each one cost.
- Check your statement. Emergency rooms are busy places. Doctors, nurses, and aides rush to keep up with patients. Often doctors and nurses put items on a bill based on their memory. During a busy shift, it's easy for a memory to get overloaded. That could mean that your bill includes items that you did not use.
- Have a doctor review your statement. Because of their training and experience, doctors and nurses can more easily spot errors in your bill. It's easy for them to notice things that would not have been used on a patient with your condition. They can also more easily identify things that are double billed, once as an individual item and a second time as part of a kit.
- Ask the hospital to audit your bill. Hospitals routinely audit some bills to make sure their system is working properly. Ask to have your bill audited. Who would be more likely to find errors than the hospital staff?
- Consider getting a patient advocate or financial counselor. A patient advocate is someone who is trained to negotiate on behalf of a patient with a medical organization. Often they work for government or non-profits. One such organization is the Patient Advocate Foundation.
- Talk with the department manager. Explain that the bill is a problem for you. Confirm your desire to pay, but inability to handle a big bill. Don't be confrontational. You want them working with you, not against you. Ask for a reduction. If they can't reduce the bill, ask about a payment plan.
- Talk with the billing department. Your conversation will be similar to the talk you had with the department manager. Ask about discounts and payment plans. Don't hesitate to ask for reductions that were rejected by the department manager. The department and billing managers have different functions and could be working under different instructions.
- Be willing to provide some information about your finances, especially if you're claiming hardship. You probably won't need to provide a lot of details. A copy of your pay stub or tax return should be sufficient.
- Write and ask for an adjustment. Mention that you don't have insurance if that's true. Some hospitals have special rates for those without insurance. Point out that HMOs and PPOs pay much less than the amounts you were billed. Ask that your bill reflect those lower amounts.
- Pay a little bit regularly. The hospital doesn't want to turn your account over to collections. As long as you continue to make small, regular (preferably monthly) payments, they'll leave you alone.
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My version of science is puttering around quietly in an air-conditioned lab. Peter Ward's version involves travel to exotic oceans, pirates, death, and crippling risks to life and limbs. And cephalopods.
Excuse me, I have to go curl up quietly in a dark corner and feel inadequate for a while.


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"I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up)
"I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so American." (Andy Warhol, on Ronald Reagan as president, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989)
"I never read, I just looked at pictures." (Andy Warhol)
"I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'" (Andy Warhol, America, 1985)
"I would rather watch somebody buy their underwear than read a book they wrote." (Andy Warhol)
"I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (Andy Warhol)
"I'm afraid that if I look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning." (Andy Warhol)
"I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985)
"I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989)
"If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up)


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Assuming he was in fact born in Hawaii, at the time of his birth, Barack Obama Jr. was both a U.S. citizen and a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies (or the UKC) by virtue of being born to a father who was a citizen of the UKC. The constitutional question presented is whether a person born with citizenship in and allegiance to a foreign nation can be considered a "natural born citizen" of the United States as required by Article II, Section 1. Continue reading →
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BERLIN- Worcester Prep's boys' varsity basketball team capped off a remarkable season last week with a 58-51 win over Delmarva Christian in the Eastern Shore Independent Athletic Conference (ESIAC) title game.
The Mallards were strong all season and jumped out to a perfect 13-0 record before recording their first loss to Salisbury School back on January 18. Worcester went 2-3 down the stretch including two straight losses to close out the regular season, but put it all together in the ESIAC tournament.
The Mallards beat Salisbury Christian, 51-42, last Wednesday in the semifinals to reach the championship. In the title game, the Worcester boys withstood a couple of charges by a tough Delmarva Christian team to win the ESIAC championship, 58-51. With the pair of wins in the tournament, the Mallards finished another special season with a 17-3 record.


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Hundereds of residents are being urged to shop their neighbour if they believe they are growing cannabis as the police step up their efforts to put drug dealers out of business.
Crimestoppers has distributed 1,000 "scratch and sniff" cannabis cards in the Illingworth and Mixenden areas - Calderdale's so called cannabis hot spots - so residents know what the drug smells like and can report anyone they believe is growing it.
The police-backed initiative, which was rolled out across West Yorkshire yesterday, comes as latest figures show that in the last 18 months police investigated 135 cases in relation to cannabis production and 393 for possession.
Bryan Dent, Force Drugs Co-ordinator, said: "West Yorkshire Police have been very successful in the past in detecting cannabis production, and bringing to justice those who are involved in growing and distributing the drug.
"Our Neighbourhood Policing Teams are extremely pro-active, and have listened to and acted upon information given to them by local people who have raised concerns. We fully support this campaign which is an ideal opportunity for West Yorkshire residents to help improve their own communities. We take a robust stance against cannabis cultivation, use, and dealing to ensure our county remains a safe place and that our residents feel safer.
"Organised criminal gangs are often behind the larger cannabis farms and cultivation. This will be a warning to them and to anyone else who grows and sells this plant that not only are the police looking out for them, but their neighbours may be as well."
Residents have been warned that cannabis cultivation has a negative impact on the safety of communities and individuals, and it often goes hand-in-hand with other crimes, such as violence, firearms offences, human trafficking and modern slavery.
Crimestoppers Director of Operations, Roger Critchell, said: "This is a crime that can lead to much more serious incidents which is why we feel it's important to reinforce our appeal for information from the public.
"We're not looking to target individual users, we're looking at something much bigger here - something much more dangerous. We are targeting serious and organised crime groups who are involved in this illicit trade."
Landlords and letting agents, meanwhile, have been warned they could face prosecution if cannabis is being grown in their building. The value of their property could also be significantly reduced, while cannabis farms pose serious fire risks.
The packs contain the cards, which will help people recognise the sickly sweet smell of cannabis, and information on what to do and who to contact if they suspect someone is growing the drug.
Anyone who suspects cannabis is being grown in their area is asked to call Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.


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Immigration authorities announced a halt to arrests during the holidays. But just before the announcement went into effect, and as holiday preparations and celebrations got underway in south Tel Aviv, asylum seekers found themselves under arrest and at risk of deportation. By Rami Gudovitch Friday was a rainy day in Tel Aviv. The head of the immigration authorities, Amnon Ben Ami, had issued a press release promising to cease all arrest operations for the duration of the Christian holidays and New Year's Eve. The Levinsky Park multi-lingual library, an open library located at the center of the park, was closed…Read More... | 8 Comments


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Quote:with appologies to tai chi practitioners - Ranger, have you ever watched a class? you could fall asleep in the middle of this stuff.
Quote:I have taken a few Tai Chi classes. While not my cup of tea, you can get a bit of a sweat going doing some of the postures in the forms.Not sure about combat Tai Chi as I don't think I have ever seen it. But RangerG is far too intense (psycho? ) for anything other than KM.
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After we reported on Steam's new Big Picture beta coming to the Mac, we got a reader question that I figured it'd be good to write a tip on.
Playing games on your Mac is great fun of course, and all of them use the keyboard and/or mouse to control the games being played. However, with AirPlay mirroring, HDMI cable support, and a bunch of new games showing up for the Mac platform along their Windows brethren, there are times when a console style controller is a better alternative. Being able to sit on the couch and play our favorite Mac games has a lot to recommend it, and using an Xbox controller is fairly easy to set up.
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This piece on Making Him Love You caught my eye, so I thought it would be an interesting read. Since I am frequently searching for graphics, articles and other useful content which aids people to have more enjoyable relationships. Be sure to take a look at it all. Don't forget to include your comments so all of us can learn from your opinions:
How to Keep His Love Forever – Amazing Tips to Make Him Adore You Always
Love can be fleeting. That fact alone is disheartening when you meet and fall in love with a man. Finding someone that you truly adore is rare and naturally you want to do whatever you can to ensure that he'll stay in love with you. All around us it seems that so many relationships are falling by the wayside.
If there's anything you can do to secure the love you two share, you want to do it, right? Learning how to keep his love forever will help you to keep the passion alive and keep him devoted solely and completely to you.
Understanding how to keep his love forever starts with recognizing the need to be spontaneous, always. There's a certain urgency that comes with having a new and exciting relationship.
You want to experience everything you possibly can with that person and so you're more apt to want to do spur of the moment things. Men love women like this. They enjoy being with someone who takes the lead in the relationship and makes plans.
Always try to keep this part of you alive and thriving. Surprise him as often as you can and show him that you're always ready to go on any adventure, as long as he's part of it. He'll love this because it will keep him on his toes and it keeps the relationship fresh and unpredictable.
Never lose yourself as you become more immersed in the relationship with the man you love. So many women do this and they don't fully understand how it changes the dynamic they share with their man. He fell in love with you even though you had a busy, chaotic life.
Men love feeling as though they are with someone who is vibrant and dynamic. He loves hearing about everything you have going on. It makes him proud of you. Don't move your life around to accommodate any man, ever.
They don't appreciate it for what it is and they don't find it appealing. Your man wants you to have the life you want and need and that includes spending time with him. He doesn't want you to give up everything in your life for him. That puts a very heavy and unwanted weight on his shoulders.
Learning how to keep his love forever has to include understanding that being yourself, always, is crucial. Don't try to impress him by pretending to be something you're not. Men see through this very quickly and it kills any attraction that was there. He wants you to embrace your flaws and shortcomings. He loves those things about you.
Men find them quirky and cute. Never apologize for anything about yourself, be it a couple of extra pounds or the fact that you don't yet have the job of your dreams. If you love yourself, he'll continue to love you too.
Confused about what men really want? Is there a particular man in your life that you want to fall in love with you? You can capture and keep the heart of any man. You don't have to leave love to fate or chance. Learn how to create an unbreakable emotional connection with him.


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This discussion mainly focuses on Angola since the late 15th century. For a treatment of earlier periods and of the country in its regional context, see Southern Africa.
Most of the modern population of Angola developed from the agricultural cultures that appeared there from about 1000 to 500 BC, which by the first centuries AD were also working iron. These people probably spoke the ancestral versions of Angola's present languages. Complex societies also may have been established at that time, and by 1500 several large kingdoms occupied the territory of Angola. Of these, Kongo, situated in the northern part of the country, south of the Congo River, was the largest and most centralized. Ndongo, with its centre in the highlands between the Cuanza (Kwanza) and the Lukala rivers, was an important rival. Other states, such as the kingdom of Benguela on the Bié Plateau, are less well known. Smaller states, including Bailundu, Ciyaka, and Kwanhama, were scattered between the larger kingdoms, sometimes remaining independent, sometimes falling under control of the larger kingdoms. The Chokwe, although they did not have a centralized government, established an important cultural centre in the northeastern part of the country.
The Kongo kingdom, the most powerful state to develop in the region, emerged in the 14th century as the Kongo people moved southward from the Congo River region into northern Angola. There they established Mbanza Kongo as their capital. Portuguese navigators reached Kongo, in the northwest, in 1483 and entered into diplomatic relations with the kingdom after that. Moreover, Kongo's king converted to Christianity, and his son Mvemba a Nzinga took the Christian name of Afonso I, establishing the religion permanently in the country, along with literacy in Portuguese and European customs. Disputes over control of trade, particularly regarding slaves from Kongo and its neighbours, led the Portuguese to look for new allies, especially the Ndongo kingdom. After undertaking several missions there, the Portuguese established a colony at Luanda in 1575. Subsequent wars with Ndongo, particularly after 1617, brought the Portuguese significantly more territory, despite the resistance of Queen Njinga Mbande of Ndongo and Matamba. Portuguese expansion was largely over by 1670, and further conflict involved attempts to redirect or tax trade.
Slaves were Angola's major export, and Portugal was actively involved in their acquisition, more so from the late 17th century. People were also enslaved through inter-African conflicts, such as the civil wars in Kongo after 1665, and conflicts that occurred during the rise of the great Lunda empire after 1750, in the Dembos region between Kongo and Matamba, and on the Bié Plateau. Population losses were considerable, and the demography was badly distorted; censuses from the late 18th century show that there were twice as many adult females as males.
The expansion of the slave trade was but one of several factors that played a role in the rise and fall of the region's kingdoms. Beset by civil wars, Kongo entered into a steep decline in the 17th century. The Loango kingdom flourished north of the Congo estuary until it was decentralized by the late 18th century. The Ndongo kingdom in the Malanje highlands reached its height in the late 16th century but was destroyed when the Portuguese pushed inland in the 17th century and was replaced by the Kasanje kingdom in the Cuango (Kwango) River valley.
In the 18th and 19th centuries, the port of Cabinda was a major entrepôt, where slaves were an important commodity. The export of slaves was banned in Angola in 1836, but the trade did not end until the Brazilian market was closed in the early 1850s. Slavery itself was legally abolished in the Portuguese empire in 1875, but it continued in thinly disguised forms until 1911 and in many cases into the 1960s. Slaves were exported to the coffee and cocoa plantations of São Tomé from the 1860s and were used in Angola to produce coffee, cotton, sugar, and fish. But from the 1850s, exports came to be dominated by products hunted or collected by Africans, first ivory and wax and later wild rubber. These changes came about as the industrial revolution reorganized the world economy, and items such as cloth and metal goods were now available for import and at less expense than in the past. Africans responded to this by ceasing local production of these goods and instead paying for the imported versions with commodity exports of peanuts and wild products such as honey, animal skins, ivory, and eventually rubber.
The slave trade had primarily been a state business and did not greatly affect the local communities from an economic standpoint. In contrast, this new trade involved the whole population: hundreds of thousands of people were employed in the transport and production of these commodities, and their increasing wealth, involvement in the international economy, and interest in commercial policies led to many problems for both indigenous and colonial governments. The Ovimbundu turned from slave raiding to long-distance trade, and their caravans penetrated as far east as the East African coast. The Chokwe were expert hunters of elephants and collectors of wax and rubber, and they used their accumulated firearms to overthrow the Lunda empire in the 1880s. The Kasanje kingdom collapsed when illicit slave trading undermined the king's central slave market and newly enriched commoners demanded a stronger voice in government.
Angolans closer to the coast were more affected by the slow expansion of Portuguese colonialism and by the loss of land to settlers. Cotton and sugar were grown from the 1840s on oasis plantations along the coastal strip, and immigrants from the Algarve built up the fishing industry. Spontaneously occurring stands of coffee led the Portuguese to carve out plantations in the Malanje highlands beginning in the 1830s, and work on the railway from Luanda to Malanje commenced in 1885. Construction began in 1902 on the Benguela Railway, which was intended to serve the Katanga mines in the Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). Portuguese small farmers were settled in the Huíla highlands from the 1880s to counterbalance an influx of Boer trekkers from South Africa, and the southern railway was begun in 1905. In the Maiombe forest of the far north, plantations of cacao and oil palms were laid out in the 1900s.
Angola's borders, including those for Cabinda (an exclave located in the country of the Democratic Republic of the Congo), had been finally determined by negotiations in Europe in 1891, but the Portuguese focused exclusively on administering areas with plantations and railways and introduced systematic taxation of Africans only in 1906. Many positions in the colonial administration were held by Angolan Creoles, who were initially accepted as full Portuguese citizens. The spread of British and American Protestant missions from the 1870s was countered by government-subsidized French Roman Catholic missions.
The proclamation of the Republic of Portugal in Lisbon in late 1910, followed in 1926 by the creation of the authoritarian New State (Estado Novo), marked the advent of modern Portuguese colonialism. The authorities stamped out slavery and undertook the systematic conquest of Angola. By 1920 all but the remote southeast of the colony was firmly under Portuguese control. Kingdoms were abolished, and the Portuguese worked directly through chiefs, headmen, and African policemen. Conversions to Christianity increased, and by 1940 there were about a million Christians in Angola, some three-fourths of them Roman Catholics. Angolan "natives" were taxed and subjected to forced labour and forced cultivation, with a stringent set of tests imposed on the few nonwhite "assimilated persons" who applied to be exempted from these impositions. Increasingly, Portuguese immigrants replaced Creoles in the administration. This trend continued, forcing Creoles into positions with lower pay and prestige and ultimately leading to the growth of Creole-led nationalism.
Angola's economy was modernized and bound to that of Portugal by a system of protective tariffs. A network of dirt roads was built, and the Benguela Railway was completed to the boundary of the Belgian Congo in 1928. Lorries (trucks) and fixed stores replaced trading caravans. Coffee, sugar, palm products, and sisal came mainly from the estate sector, and corn (maize) and cattle from smallholders. The cultivation of cotton for Portuguese textile mills was imposed by force. Alluvial diamond mining dominated the northeast from 1912; the fishing industry expanded; and import-substitution industries were started.
After the independence of the Belgian Congo in 1960, a major revolt rocked northern Angola in 1961; it was followed by a long guerrilla war. Land alienation and forced labour sparked rebellion in the coffee zone, while in the Cuango valley the peasants rose against forced cotton cultivation. An attack on the prison in Luanda was led by frustrated Creoles. To contain the revolt, the Portuguese deployed large numbers of troops, set up strategic hamlets (forced settlements of rural Angolans), and, by encouraging Portuguese peasants to immigrate to Angola, raised the European population to about 330,000 by 1974. At the same time, they tried to improve relations with Africans by abolishing forced cultivation, forced labour, and the stringent tests to gain assimilated status. They also improved education, health, and social welfare services and protected peasants from land alienation. The economy entered into a period of sustained boom, marked by rapid industrialization and the growth of oil production, and the standard of living rose for both urban workers and rural producers.
The armed struggle continued, but the anticolonial guerrillas were seriously weakened by dissension. The Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola; MPLA) was founded in 1956 with the help of the clandestine Portuguese Communist Party, and from 1962 it was led by Agostinho Neto. It was popular in Luanda and among some rural Mbundu, drawing foreign support from the Soviet Union. Initially based in the Republic of the Congo, the MPLA moved to Zambia in 1965. The National Front for the Liberation of Angola (Frente Nacional de Libertação de Angola; FNLA), founded in 1957 under another name and led by Holden Roberto, drew its support from the Kongo and some rural Mbundu. Based in Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo; called Zaire from 1971 to 1997), the FNLA obtained aid from the United States and China. In 1966 Jonas Savimbi set up a third movement, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola; UNITA), with a predominantly Ovimbundu leadership and with some support from the Chokwe and Ovambo (Ambo). UNITA enjoyed little official foreign backing (although China provided some aid) and lacked a secure foreign base because Zambia leaned toward the MPLA. The divisions between and within these three movements, which at times degenerated into armed conflict, allowed the Portuguese to gain the upper hand by the early 1970s. When a military coup in Portugal overthrew that country's dictatorship in April 1974, all three guerrilla movements had been almost entirely expelled from Angolan soil.
The three liberation movements proved unable to constitute a united front after the Portuguese coup. The FNLA's internal support had dwindled to a few Kongo groups, but it had strong links with the regime in Zaire and was well armed; it thus made a bid to seize Luanda by force. The MPLA, with growing backing from the Portuguese Communist Party, Cuba, and the Soviet Union, defeated this onslaught and then turned on UNITA, chasing its representatives out of Luanda. UNITA was militarily the weakest movement, but it had the greatest potential electoral support, given the predominance of the Ovimbundu within the population, and it thus held out most strongly for elections. But the Portuguese army was tired of war and refused to impose peace and supervise elections. The Portuguese therefore withdrew from Angola in November 1975 without formally handing power to any movement, and nearly all the European settlers fled the country.
The MPLA, in control of the capital city, declared itself the government of independent Angola and managed to win recognition from many African countries. UNITA and the FNLA set up a rival government in Huambo and called on South African forces to eject the MPLA from Luanda. Cuba poured in troops to defend the MPLA, pushed the internationally isolated South Africans out of Angola, and gained control of all the provincial capitals. The Cuban expeditionary force, which eventually numbered some 40,000 to 50,000 soldiers, remained in Angola to pacify the country and ward off South African attacks. In 1977 the MPLA crushed an attempted coup by one of its leaders and, after a thorough purge, turned itself officially into a Marxist-Leninist party, adding Partido Trabalhista (Party of Labour) to their name (MPLA-PT). The transformation of the economy along communist lines was pursued, with disastrous results. The major exception was the oil industry, which, managed by foreign companies, grew rapidly enough to enable Angola to stave off economic and military collapse. President Neto died in 1979 and was succeeded by the former minister of planning, José Eduardo dos Santos.
The FNLA withered away in exile, but UNITA reorganized itself with foreign backing as an effective guerrilla force. South Africa became a strong supporter in hopes that UNITA could counter the guerrilla campaigns of the South West Africa People's Organization into Namibia, actions supported by the MPLA-PT. In 1985 UNITA began receiving military aid from the United States, and its campaigns became more effective. When the MPLA-PT launched several large campaigns against UNITA in 1987, using armour and aircraft, South African forces returned to the region, and a military stalemate resulted as fighting engulfed the country. But late in 1988 the South Africans promised to grant independence to Namibia and to cease supporting UNITA, while the Cubans agreed to withdraw their expeditionary force from Angola by mid-1991. The MPLA-PT's initial response to the South African withdrawal was to try to capture the airfield at Mavinga, from which it would be able to launch an attack against UNITA's headquarters. The failure of this costly campaign and the increasingly effective UNITA attacks on oil installations forced the MPLA-PT to adopt a more conciliatory posture. In June 1989 a historic meeting between Santos and Savimbi during negotiations brokered by Zaire produced a cease-fire, although it did not last; but with communist regimes collapsing in eastern Europe, the MPLA-PT lost its support and began negotiating more seriously. In mid-1990 the MPLA-PT abandoned the one-party state and produced a new constitution that included elections and participation by all, including UNITA. They also abandoned their strict Marxist-Leninist stance and dropped the words Partido Trabalhista (PT) from their name. Elections were held in 1992 under United Nations supervision; Dos dos Santos was elected president, and the MPLA gained a majority in the parliament, but UNITA made a strong showing, especially on the Bié Plateau. Charging election fraud, UNITA renewed the civil war, while its delegates in Luanda were massacred in a popular uprising that many believe had government backing.
The exclave of Cabinda became another focus of attention for postindependence government. Although this region is situated geographically within the country of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Portugal gained control of it at the end of the 19th century. Cabinda was specifically made a part of Angola in 1975, but the Angolan government had to contend with independence movements there until the late 1980s. The region is particularly valuable because a significant amount of Angola's oil is found there.
At the end of 1992, UNITA controlled approximately two-thirds of the country, including valuable diamond mines that were used to pay for the continuing costs of the war. Fighting raged throughout 1993 as the government gradually regained territory and won greater support abroad; both South Africa and the United States recognized the government of Angola in 1993, as did the United Kingdom by ending an arms embargo that had existed since 1975. Meanwhile, international pressure mounted on the two sides to reach a peaceful solution. Sanctions against UNITA were imposed by the UN in September 1993 after it disregarded a cease-fire it had accepted earlier, but it appeared that UNITA could continue the war for some time with its vast stockpile of weapons. Eventually, an agreement called the Lusaka Accord was signed by the government and UNITA on Nov. 20, 1994. The agreement allowed UNITA to be reintegrated into the government, provided fighting ceased on that date. Although minor fighting between the two groups continued, dos Santos and Savimbi met several times over the next three years to resolve issues relating to the final form of the combined government. In August 1996 Savimbi finally agreed to accept the title of "leader of the opposition," but he declined to attend a ceremony in April 1997 at which UNITA delegates formally joined the government. Relations between the two groups were further complicated that year by the civil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. UNITA supported the crumbling Zairean regime because the group had been able to transport its diamonds through the country, while the Angolan government supported the victorious rebels led by Laurent Kabila.
By the beginning of the 21st century, hostilities between the government and UNITA had resumed, and the UNITA delegates had been expelled from the government. With the killing of Savimbi by government forces in February 2002, talks began again between the UNITA leadership and the government, finally culminating in a peace agreement in April. Although the country breathed a collective sigh of relief with the end of 27 years of civil war, the Angolan government was faced with the daunting challenge of rebuilding the country's physical and social welfare infrastructure, much of which was completely destroyed. In the early 21st century, there were repeated outbreaks of illness, such as cholera, due to poor sanitary conditions; there was also an epidemic of hemorrhagic fever caused by the deadly Marburg virus in 2005. It was estimated that the civil war had displaced more than four million people, and hundreds of thousands of Angolan refugees still needed to be resettled in the country. The resumption of agricultural production was also a challenge, further complicated by the thousands of land mines that were strewn haphazardly throughout the country during the conflict. The Angolan government also had to address the long-standing issue of separatist groups in oil-rich Cabinda and their demands for independence, which intensified in 2004. When the government and the main separatist group reached a peace agreement in 2006, Angolans looked to the future, hopeful that peace had finally come.
Highly anticipated multiparty parliamentary elections—the first since 1992—were held on Sept. 5–6, 2008. Although there were some reports of fraud and intimidation, the elections were deemed valid by international observers, and the MPLA won about four-fifths of the vote. The long-awaited presidential election, however, was postponed. A new constitution promulgated in 2010 eliminated the direct election of the president and instead provided for the presidential post to be filled by the leader of the party with the largest share of the vote in parliamentary elections. Dos Santos was to remain president until the next round of elections, scheduled for 2012.
The MPLA easily scored an outright parliamentary majority in the August 31, 2012, elections, winning almost three-quarters of the seats, and dos Santos secured another five years as president. UNITA came in second, winning about one-fifth of the seats. The 2012 elections marked the debut of a new party, the Broad Convergence for Angola's Salvation–Electoral Coalition (Convergência Ampla de Salvação de Angola–Coligação Eleitoral; Casa–CE), which had split from UNITA earlier that year; the new party came in third, garnering 6 percent of the parliamentary seats.


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desertrose wrote:hello...how can learn english words easily?
I think it depens on your pimary modality. For example, I have good visual memery and I should look at words, write and repeat them and give english explaination for each. And a perfect way of learning new words it is assosiation each one in your native language, but it's not easy.


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Wright pushing big names in voting
Mets third baseman sits fifth at NL hot corner
By Marty Noble / MLB.com
David Wright probably won't catch them, not all of them -- not this year. Or, well, maybe.
But be assured of this: Wright will be in the hunt, and not only this year. The Mets' second-year third baseman is an All-Star in the making. Rolen, Glaus, Chipper and Ramirez better get their All-Star appearances while they can.
Wright stands fifth in the third base balloting. But the large New York market already has recognized how special he is and embraced him. His popularity in the stands is comparable to his popularity in the clubhouse. It's a matter of time until New York automatically thinks of itself as the city of third basemen -- A-Rod and, as Cliff Floyd calls his young teammate, D-Wright. It may stand for "do right."
Wright is one of six Mets among the leading candidates for a start in Detroit. Mike Piazza is in a familiar position, leading National League catchers in votes with 760,342, 256,457 more than runner-up Paul Lo Duca of the Marlins. Should Piazza finish first, he will be assured of his 12th All-Star Game.
And Carlos Beltran still leads National League outfielders, his lead over runner-up Jim Edmonds now at 108,715 votes. The Mets' center fielder stands seven places ahead of Floyd in the results released Tuesday. Floyd almost certainly is the team's most valuable player through the Mets' first 63 games.
Doug Mientkiewicz, a favorite of Mets fans because of his defense and self-deprecating humor, is third among first basemen. Kaz Matsui and Jose Reyes, though, dropped out of the top five second basemen and shortstops, respectively.
Marty Noble is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Northern California Coastal & Inland Valleys
June, 2003
Regional Report
Control Bud Worms
Bud worms take all the fun out of growing two of the bay area\'s most hardy blooming plants. Both petunias and geraniums are susceptible to the ravages of bud worm. In order to enjoy the abundant blooms on these plants, start your vigil against bud worms. At the first sign of damage, spray Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis). Mix only the amount you will use and spray only the plants that are affected.
Fertilize Begonias
The secret to growing magnificent tuberous begonias is the big fertilizer switch. Use 22-14-14 to get the plants up and growing. The high amount of nitrogen produces lush green foliage. The moment you see buds forming, switch to 15-30-15. This will help produce an abundance of those incredible flowers.
Water begonias in the morning hours to help prevent powdery mildew. Also keep in mind that tuberous begonias don't need nearly as much water as people believe. A thorough soaking once a week will suffice, depending on the type of soil they are planted in.
Start Hornworm Patrol
Tomato hornworms look like aliens from another planet! The creepy eye-like markings along both sides of the creature give the eerie feeling of being watched. The green color makes the 4 - to 6-inch-long caterpillars very difficult to spot on tomato plants. Look for chewed leaves and black droppings and you will find a tomato hornworm not too far away. Remove and toss into the neighbor's yard or treat with Bt. Actually, I find these creatures intriguing and just let them be. Kids love them!
Pinch Fuchsias
Fuchsias bloom on new wood. If you keep the branch tips pinched back, the plant will produce two new stems for every one you pinch off. That means twice as many flowers! Remove the last two sets of leaves after the blooms have faded from each stem. Fuchsias are heavy feeders, so pour on the fertilizer!
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This is the ideal time to prune and shape rhododendrons and azaleas before they begin to set their buds for next spring. Cut rangy plants back to bare wood if necessary. Fertilize the plants with a high-acid fertilizer after pruning to encourage maximum bloom.


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"The current pugs implementation is just translating to the old form underneath, so it's not surprising it's a bit off. That's the sort of thing that happens when the language designer gives the language implementor whiplash. However, I rather suspect the interpersonal metaphorical meaning was lost on the physicist/comic who decided that the 3rd derivative of position should be called 'jerk'. :)"
-- Larry Wall, in 'What should file test operators return?'
We're pleased to announce that we've selected Phil Crow as the recipient of the second Perl 6 microgrant. Phil is the hacker behind the Java::Swing module which allows Perl programmers to put a Java Swing GUI on their application without writing any Java and he'll be using this knowledge to convert Java declarations to Perl 6. You can find details of the project he's planning in the text of his grant application:
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The M62 at Brighouse has now fully re-opened after police were forced to close a section of the motorway last night (Friday) after a seriouus crash involving a car and a HGV.
The collision happened on the eastbound carriageway between junction 25, A644 (Brighouse) and junction 26, M606 (Chain Bar) at 4.15pm.
The female driver of the car suffered a serious leg injury which was not thought to be life-threatening.
Both sides of the motorway were closed between junctions 25 and 26 to allow the Yorkshire Air Ambulance to land,
The incident caused major tailbacks for commuters.
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How did you pick your screen name?
I love Twilight (obviously lol!) and 21 is my favorite number so I thought it fit perfectly!
How did you come to read Twilight and which book is your favorite?
One of my friends recommended it to me ! I would have to say that Breaking Dawn is my favorite book! New Moon was the hardest book for me to read because I missed the Cullens lol!
Who do you like best: Edward, Bella, or Jacob?
Edward of course! Bella may be Edward's reason for living, but he is my reason for living! Lol ok jk, but I still love him! Taylor Lautner plays a hot Jacob, but Edward has my heart!
Who is your favorite minor character?
Emmett! He is so funny and I love how goofy he is!
What are your hobbies?
When I'm not re-reading the books or watching the movies, I am reading Twilight fanfics lol! I also love watching tv shows like The Vampire Diaries, Grey's Anatomy, and Pretty Little Liars!
How old are you?
Teenager !
I am looking forward to talking to other Twilight obsessed people like me lol! Hopefully there are people out there that will understand my obsession because the people around me don't seem to understand it lol!


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Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, November 23, 2007, 12:00 AM
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Original post made on Nov 23, 2007
Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, November 23, 2007, 12:00 AM
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a resident of another community
on Nov 23, 2007 at 8:45 am
Dear Editor,
As I read these letters, especially Paul's, I see repeating lines that have been placed in incorporation proponents releases over and over again. I also see the same focus on opponents, by name, and the character assassination in absence of real information and position commentary.
Alamo region residents are not ignorant in their opposing views and are passionate about the best proposal for Alamo's future. What we fear is the relationship among the politicians behind the Alamo Incorporation Movement, as AIM, with county and LAFCo that will produce a local layer of government that has no responsibility to Alamo Region residents. Paul doesn't seem to realize AIM is Martinez politics combined with the selfish interests of a small political minority in Alamo that is proposing five council members to decide our future.
If the politicians we have seen at AIM meetings, in print, and on TV are to be that independent council then Alamo residents have no future other continuing politics as usual in Contra Costa County.
Jennifer Hansen
Diablo Vista CA 94507 Supporter
a resident of Alamo
on Dec 1, 2007 at 8:40 am
I agree with Jennifer that Alamo residents are not ignorant.
Therefore, they also clearly understand that the Alamo town council will be ELECTED BY ALAMO RESIDENTS!
The town council will therefore be directly responsible and answerable to the residents of Alamo and not to some far-off overpopulated bureaucracy.
The myth of a "local layer of government that has no responsibility to Alamo Region residents" is just that - a myth.
I have great respect and confidence in the power of the ballot box, both to elect AND reject persons to represent Alamo. It is a shame and highly unfortunate that some people do not respect well-established electoral processes...
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I am worried about him as PR problem with his DWI.
The Knick have one pet peev now that the Isaiah Thomas saga is over and that is any PR problem caused by a player.
We suffered the PR problems with Marbury and now Kidd pulls a stupid move and makes the KNicks look bad.
I believe the KNicks will keep a close eye on Kidd but he has to be smarter than this, especially since we considered him a mentor of any kind.
Now on the court....he will be a huge factor. Whether is a starter or backup he will give us stability in the back court which we have not had since Billups. A veteran that knows who likes to get the ball in certain spots. Kidd is a winner and it is because of his high bball IQ.
I believe the Knicks starting lineup would be better with a PG that can slash and dish like Lin or Felton but Kidd can provide solid 20-30 min any given night.
One thing we sorely lacked was PG depth last season.
I also see Kidd as a starting 2 guard with Lin or Felton.


text: You know, I bet Amy's presence as the Doctor's conscience would have worked better if the Pond's appearance were more scattered. The Doctor is clearly going out and having lots of adventures in between Pond visits, and it is starting to affect his character and his moral compass. Killing Mr. Filch (or whatever his name was) last week...parading Jex to his death this week.... I kind of wish we could be seeing some of these other Doctor adventures to get a better idea of just why this is happening. I just get the impression that there is a lot we're supposed to infer from these episodes without having a whole lot of information to go on. I'm getting vibes of the Time Lord Victorious "arc" we saw in the Tennant specials that ultimately led to his downfall.


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By Annie Reuter
Mariah Carey fans anxious for new music from the singer are in luck. In preparation for her next album, the diva just signed a new partnership between her Butterfly MC Records and Epic Records, reports Variety.
Related: Mariah Carey and Remy Ma Team Up for 'I Don't' Remix
Carey was signed by Epic Records chairman-CEO LA Reid in 2016. The two previously worked together on her 2005 multi-platinum-selling album The Emancipation of Mimi and will continue to collaborate despite previous reports that her label deal was in jeopardy.
"To continue working with Mariah Carey at Epic has been another rewarding chapter of my career," Reid said in a statement. "Mariah's incomparable talents as a singer, with her vocal range that is nothing short of legendary, are matched by her brilliance as a songwriter, producer, and performer par excellence. Mariah's chart records have established her enduring place in music history, a position that is cherished and supported by her loyal fans worldwide. I look forward to building upon all of Mariah's success for years to come."
Carey, meanwhile, shared her enthusiasm to continue making music with people she loves.
"I am putting my heart and soul into making more new music. I am so thrilled for this next chapter and to continue working with, and for, everyone that I love," she said.


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NORTHFIELD— Tilton Road was closed off this morning after workers struck a gas main while doing a drainage reconstruction project there.
The road in both directions has since reopened, after the gas was shut off. Traffic is allowed through the area while repairs are underway.
Police chief Robert James estimates the work will be done by about 4 p.m.
Travelers are advised to avoid the area, and officers are on scene to divert traffic.
Hina Bukhsh, of Atlantic City, said she had to park a mile away and walk to work, making her an hour late.
Edna Little, of Somers Point, was headed over to the Comcast office and had to weave in and out of parking lots and take side streets to get close enough.
Officials at the scene alerted nearby businesses, but did not evacuate the area.
Some businesses anticipated closing early.
Hot Bagels & More put up a sign telling customers they would close at 1 p.m.
Hair Experts staff spent the morning calling to cancel and reschedule appointments for the day, and said they were ready to close at about 10:30 a.m.
Eastbound traffic remains restricted to one lane in the construction zone, due to ongoing drainage work.


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Der Stall Bed and Breakfast Barn
Der Stall (The Barn) Bed and Breakfast is a replica of this German descendant's family barn in Reiffenburg, Germany. This modern Fredericksburg TX guesthouse was completely built by the innkeepers and two generations of the innkeeper's German descendents to include milling the floor boards from locally procured rough-cut pine. The master bedroom has a queen-size bed with a robust log headboard and footboard cut from nearby cedar trees, and a romantic in-floor two-person Jacuzzi brand jetted bath. You're invited to turn the intensity-controlled lighting down and let the warm bubbling water sooth your cares away. Climb the steep (did we mention the steps are steep?) wooden steps to the hayloft for two full-size beds with cedar log headboard and footboards and a commanding view down into the cozy living room. The bathroom features a corner shower and a one-of-a-kind bucket sink on a circa 1930 Motorola console radio/record player. Water for the sink is supplied from a replica hand pump. In the morning you may brew your own coffee from the in-room coffee service while you relax and wait for your innkeeper to deliver fresh-baked affenbrot and fruit. Affenbrot is a cinnamon and Texas pecan breakfast cake and a long-standing tradition of the innkeeper's family. Enjoy seeing white-tailed deer walking around and sit in awe as an occasional peacock and peahen strut by your accommodations.
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- Solitude just a few minutes from the hustle and bustle of downtown Fredericksburg
- 2 Bedrooms - 1 Queen bed downstairs and 2 full beds in loft
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- Romantic in-floor two person Jacuzzi brand spa tub in downstairs bedroom
- Complimentary wine and German beer
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- Coffee maker
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- Mini-refrigerator
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- Television with VCR/DVD player only
- Library of VCR and DVD movies
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