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Sonia should respond in missing nurse case: BJPNovember 11th, 2011 - 2:33 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 11 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Friday demanded that Congress chief Sonia Gandhi respond in the case of missing nurse Bhanwari Devi involving her party legislator and sacked Rajasthan minister Mahipal Maderna.
"I would like to request Sonia Gandhi to respond… here is a government having the majority of her own party and the way things are getting exposed day by day shows the entire government is murky," BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad told reporters here.
Prasad said the stigma in the case is bringing to the tourist state of Rajasthan is very serious.
A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Thursday quizzed Maderna in Jodhpur in the case. The questioning is expected to continue Friday.
The CBI Friday filed its status reports in the Rajasthan High Court in the case. The Jodhpur bench of the high court posted the matter for next hearing Nov 14.
The CBI summoned Maderna for interrogation over his alleged role in Bhanwari's kidnapping.
Bhanwari Devi had gone missing from Jodhpur's Bilara area Sep 1. On Oct 16, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot sacked Maderna from the cabinet over allegations that he had a role in her disappearance as she was blackmailing him on the basis of a CD that allegedly showed the minister and her in a compromising position.
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Ours for the Taking
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- Release Date: 7/10/2007
The Allknowing also sometimes known as being omniscience refers to one's ability to know absolutely everything. This characteristic is usually treated as a consequence of one of two ways in which a person exists: either because one exists outside of time, or because one is immortal. Unfortunately, the most absolute sense of omniscience has been found to be incoherent. We are here to prove to the world that the claim of one becoming AllKnowing is blasphemy. And anyone who makes that claim will be struck down with undeniable vengeance and cruelty. Not by god, but by man. We are the martyrs and the false prophets of the future. Jason Vie Brooks, bass guitar, 18 years stage exp. Persistent and Precise. Played in grip inc. (feat. Dave Lombardo of slayer) on their first two albums and toured Europe supporting Motorhead Followed by a co-headlining tour with Kreator. He also supported Morbid Angel all across the U.S. and Canada. Before that Jason played in the bay area thrash band heathen(w/ Lee Altus ex diekrupps and current exodus guitarist) Billy Cox, vocals. 13 years stage exp. Soul and Power. He has Growled in regional acts Cajun Anger and Southbound. Shawn Harford, Drums. 13 years stage exp. Grace and texture. He has performed in Acid black, the bogtrodders, Satan's cremepuff and IvanFuzz. John Lynn, Guitar. 15 years stage exp. Methodical and adept. He has played lead in Idle Hands, No Solution and, Karizmata. The album Ours for the Taking features the last recording from Jared Anderson former singer for Morbid Angel and Hate Eternal.
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JB Shorts 8 (Manchester)
Editorial Staff • Blackpool, Bolton, Chester, Lancaster, Liverpool, Manchester, Oldham, Salford • 11 Oct 2012
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The eighth installment of JB Shorts is a collection of six short, inventive plays bringing both comedy and thought-provoking drama to the intimate venue of Joshua Brooks.
The laugh out loud comedy in Maddie and A Christmas Carol will leave you wanting the plays to go on forever – Jeni Howarth Williams and Judy Holt are fantastic and will leave you totally hooked. Drunken counselling between a single lady and a bereaved man is achieved through memories of Axminster carpets, dodgy vol-au-vents and Christmas and the daughter of a star tried to step out of her mother's shadow but flirting, inappropriate sex-toys and a compromising position leads her mother to take drastic action to prove her innocence
Beliefs and morals are questioned in the altogether darker plays The Bombmaker and No Comment where everything is not as it first seems. A police interrogation hides something much more sinister and as an agent tries to plant a bomb, morals are questioned for both the victim and the agent. Both of these plays, however, suffer from disappointing endings and The Bombmaker tells a tale which has been told many times before.
Faith is tested in the Seminary in Seeds as a trainee priest tries to resist temptation, but finds the theory much hard than the reality. And sadly, Red - the final play but leaves the show on a bit of a low. Graham and Claire see the takeover of Manchester United by Malcolm Glazer in different ways but that story is soon lost as the play turns into a sequence of political statements. Although an attempt at balance is made, you are left being told which side is 'right'. The story behind the statements ends up being forgotten and unfinished.
Overll though, JB Shorts 8 offers you a great night out – you're sure to be entertained and won't want the plays to end so check them out; and look out for the contents of Maddie's shoebox!
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Due to his choices, which were questionable at best, he had begun the life as a double agent, spying on the Dark Lord's innermost circle for the Order of the Phoenix. In order to maintain appearances, he accepted the position of Potions Master at Hogwarts, effectively becoming the youngest professor on the faculty.
On the night of October 31, 1981, he waited with baited breath for news of the outcome of a particularly harrowing mission involving one of his oldest friends, Lily Potter, and her family. Upon hearing the news of the Potters and the survival of their only child, Severus had wept for hours at the loss. He had always despised James, of course, but Lily was a different matter entirely. Nevertheless, James� spawn had survived, yet he had been the only person in history to have actually beaten such a curse.
But, as for every other witch and wizard throughout Britain, life continued onto the next day. Severus had taken great pleasure in hearing that Sirius Black, his life-long enemy, had snapped and was now in Azkaban. Life continued, like it always does for everyone, even after such a great change. Classes picked back up, and, without his taxing duties as a spy, he had been able to concentrate on teaching and studying.
When Dumbledore came to visit his quarters on a strangely balmy, late November day, he could never have anticipated the shocking alterations that would swiftly occur in his lifestyle.
�Severus, working on the new lesson plan?� Dumbledore asked warmly.
�Yes, I was thinking of adding some different, more complicated potions in for the fourth years. Being the dunderheads that they all are, I doubt they will be able to grasp the level. �
Dumbledore chuckled at his colleague�s underestimation of young minds.
�Severus, I have a� task for you. It�s very important to me and to the Order, and though there are many protesters throughout the group, I have come to believe it is the safest way to proceed.�
�Sir?� Severus questioned, his attention now fully devoted to Dumbledore. He couldn�t imagine there were anymore loose ends concerning the war with the Dark Lord left to tie up . Severus had been gone nearly a week before, hunting for any survivors to obtain information, but most had already been locked up in Azkaban or had been killed during the war.
�I ask you to brace yourself, Severus, because you will not like it, either. But I have decided that this is the best course of action, and you should get used to the idea now.� Dumbledore paused and looked at his former student and close friend.
�I have come to understand that the care we have placed young Harry Potter in is subpar�horribly so, in fact. As a baby, he is being mistreated, and the Boy Who Lived, though protected by blood, is not safe there. Therefore, I think it is in the best interest of everyone that he come here to live at Hogwarts, and that you assume the role as his father.�
�WHAT?� Severus exclaimed, rising from his seat. �I refuse. That, sir, if I may, is the most insulting, horrible suggestion I�ve ever heard in my life.�
Dumbledore smiled, laughing inside.
�Severus, he�s merely a baby who's only a year and a few months old. I know he looks like James, but we�ll conceal it. He�ll be raised so that everyone will think he is your son, but he will know who he truly is.�
�Dumbledore, spying is something that I can do. Killing is something I can do. Deceit, torture, flying under the radar-- these are the things that I do. That is my life style, and it�s not fit for a child!�
�That is not your life anymore, Severus. You are free ...for now. I think it�d be good for you, and that�s why I have told you that it is a done deal. He will be arriving here tomorrow at six o�clock in the evening. He�s small, but I think you�ll find him very interesting.�
Speechless, Severus stared at Dumbledore as he conjured the baby�s things, including diapers, food, and other necessities.
�Poppy will see to it that he is fed and changed for a while. At least until he is out of diapers. Dealing with the Dark Lord is something you can do, but I don�t think even I would like to see you diaper a child.�
Reeling, Severus sat back in his chair. This was, quite possibly, the most careless decision Dumbledore had ever made.
At dusk the next evening, Severus was pacing the length of his office, still livid about the situation. He wasn�t quite sure why he hadn�t been given a say in the matter, and it irked him that his life would be changing so drastically and so soon.
There was a strong knock on the door that startled the dark-haired man out of his thoughts. He walked over to the door, his mouth glued into a deep frown. Opening the door, he peered through a crack and saw Dumbledore there, with Minerva McGonagall looking apprehensive on his right side.
�Severus Snape, I would like you to meet Harry Potter.�
�That�s it, is it?� he asked reproachfully. He looked down at the sleeping babe, raven hair situated every which way just as his father�s had been. The lightening bolt scar adorning his forehead took Severus's breath for it was a constant reminder of his place in the world.
�This is him. He�s a sweet baby, and he barely makes a sound. He goes to sleep on time and everything. I trust you will be able to handle this,� Minerva said disapprovingly.
�Of course,� Severus sneered, taking the child from Dumbledore. He held little Harry by the armpits, letting his feet hang down. His head flopped to the side which made Minerva jump.
�Severus Snape! Don�t you know how to hold a child?� she asked harshly.
�Actually, Minerva, no, I don�t!� he shot back, handing him back to the elder woman.
�Well, he�s old enough to hold his head up. He�s just asleep. But you do not hold him like that!� She proceeded to show him how to hold a one-year, four-month-old child. After that was through, the adults stood looking at each other quite awkwardly.
�Well�now what?� Severus asked impatiently.
�You take him, and you lay him down to sleep. When he awakes, call Poppy down and she will show you how to feed him.�
Severus raised his eyebrows at his former headmaster, hardly believing this whole situation.
�Well, what am I to do if he�if he cries? Or wets himself? What�what in the name of Merlin am I supposed to do with this child?!� Severus said, frustration at the situation taking a toll on the tone of his voice.
�Well, you�ll have to learn, I guess. We�ve supplied you with all kinds of books to read, since you love to read so much,� Dumbledore commented. Severus turned, and there, atop his stack of potions essays ready to be graded, was a stack of seven or so books about pregnancy, early childhood, and parenting.
�Are you serious?� Severus felt a bitter, mocked laugh rise from his stomach. �Are you�are you kidding me, Albus? At first, I thought it couldn�t be possible. And now he�s�and I�m supposed to�Albus, please! I am begging you; find someone else. I�m not fit to do this.�
�You�re better than anyone I can think of,� Dumbledore said, smiling. �Now put him down and get some of that grading done. He�ll be awake soon, and then you�ll be awake all night.�
Before Severus could protest, Dumbledore and Minerva left the child in his care. Severus laid him in the small bed Dumbledore had conjured, sat down at his desk, and slammed his head upon the papers.
The racket startled the sleeping child, who stirred and promptly began to scream. Severus raised his head suddenly, and his eyes slowly moved to the place where the child lay. As if in slow motion, his head followed his eyes, his frown deepening with every wail. He put his head in his hands and cursed Dumbledore for the huge burden he�d just put in Severus�s hand. He got up, looked down into the bed, and watched the squirming baby. His face was screwed up so horribly it looked as though the child was in pure agony.
�Funny. Your father looked like that everyday of his life.� Severus sniggered. He sighed and picked up the child just as Minerva had shown him.
�There...there,� he said awkwardly. Harry screamed louder, as if to mock Severus�s first ghastly attempt at parenting.
�Sssshhh. Just�stop�screaming,� he said, rocking the child in his arms. It felt weird. He didn�t appreciate it.
Feeling defeated, he called for Poppy to come and aid the child. She rushed down immediately, grabbing the child from Severus.
�What did you do? You�ve been alone with him for five minutes!� she exclaimed, tending to the child who instantly stopped screaming . Severus sighed and sat down at his desk. This was something he hadn�t signed up for, and, if he had his way, things would be reversed immediately.
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With nods to Buddha and Aristotle, a United Nations expert panel on Monday called for all countries to measure and track the happiness of their people, and to adopt a "a very different model of humanity" oriented toward subjective wellbeing rather than per capita gross national product.
Ranking Canadians as fifth-happiest in the world based on survey data — after Denmark, Finland, Norway and Holland — the World Happiness Report says happiness is unequally distributed within and among countries for reasons that transcend money and politics.
The high-level meeting to launch the report at the United Nations in New York was a coming-out party for Bhutan, the tiny Himalayan nation that turned itself into a science experiment by starting to track and promote its Gross National Happiness 30 years ago by decree of its former king. Now a democracy, its prime minister, Lyonchhen Jigmi Y. Thinley, chaired the meeting.
But it also represents the oversize influence of a Canadian research project into happiness, the Social Interactions, Identity and Well-Being program of the Canadian Institute For Advanced Research.
'Altruism is central to the discussions here'
Based heavily on economic predictors of happiness developed in this project, such as trust of neighbours, the 150-page report argues that traditional economic policy is at odds with human nature and inefficient at promoting happiness, because it focuses on income to the exclusion of all the other factors that support happiness and explain its variation across countries.
These include "family and friends, good health, material sufficiency, freedom, and the pleasure of living in a justifiably trusting community and nation," said John Helliwell, a co-editor of the report and an expert on the economics of happiness at the University of British Columbia, who leads the CIFAR program.
"Altruism is central to the discussions here," Prof. Helliwell said, "since it not only makes people happy when they demonstrate it, but because concern for others far away, and not yet born, must underlie any progress towards sustainable [in environmental, social and political terms] happiness."
To the Peanuts gang, happiness was a warm puppy; to the Beatles, it was a warm gun; and to Thomas Jefferson it was the third American priority after life and liberty. But for economists, happiness has traditionally sat in a blind spot, seeming either irrelevant or impossible to measure or both.
Instead, economists speak of wealth, which is often necessary for happiness, but rarely sufficient. This is the report's central criticism.
"The western economist's logic of ever higher [per capita gross national product] is built on a vision of humanity completely at variance with the wisdom of the sages, the research of the psychologists, and the practices of advertisers," reads the report, co-edited with Prof. Helliwell by leading American economist Jeffrey Sachs and Richard Layard of the London School of Economics.
"The economist assumes that individuals are rational decision-makers who know what they want and how to get it, or to get as close to it as possible given their budget. Individuals care largely about themselves and derive pleasure mainly through their consumption."
This is "foolishness," the report says. "We increasingly understand that we need a very different model of humanity, one in which we are a complicated interplay of emotions and rational thought, unconscious and conscious decision-making, 'fast' and 'slow' thinking."
This is a familiar criticism, and rethinking happiness has been a popular scientific preoccupation for years. Researchers in various fields have made theoretical progress by thumbing their noses at G.K. Chesterton, who thought that to explain happiness is to destroy it, that it is "a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalized."
'The economist assumes that individuals are rational decision-makers who know what they want and how to get it'
The interest spread to a popular culture keen on self-help. Among economists and psychologists, the publishing boom for happiness studies has passed. That peaked about five years ago with a spate of books such as Stumbling on Happiness by a Harvard psychologist. Now the policy push has started.
Much of that progress can be traced back to British Columbia, to a cluster of researchers, including Michael Pennock of the Vancouver Island Health Authority who helped design the Bhutan survey, and Christopher Barrington-Leigh, who left a job as a NASA physicist to study happiness at UBC, as a junior fellow on the CIFAR program.
What he found, working with Prof. Helliwell and others, is that income hardly matters to happiness, and to the degree it does matter, it offers only a relative benefit. Moreover, the richer your metro region, the less happy you are likely to be.
One study, for example, ranked Canadian cities based on income and life satisfaction. It found that in the richer cities (Toronto, Calgary, Ottawa) people were the least satisfied with their lives, whereas in the smaller and poorer ones (Charlottetown, Quebec City and especially St. John's) people were far and away the most happy. Another study ranked people's estimates of the likelihood that a neighbour would return a wallet they found containing $100, as a proxy for social trust, which predicts happiness more reliably than income.
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4 ripe pears, quartered lengthwise and cored 3 TBSP butter, diced into small cubes (or cold coconut oil) 1/4 cup honey 1 tsp pure vanilla extract Preheat oven to 450. Place the pears in an oven proof skillet. Drizzle with honey and dot with butter. Sprinkle the vanilla over the pears and set the pan over high heat for 2 mins. Transfer pan to the oven and roast for 15 mins. Serves 4. ______________________________________________________________________________________ SIDE NOTES: ~ Adapted from "Fresh Food Fast" – A nice, simple dessert when you're in the mood for...Read More
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1 pound (16 oz) high-quality cream cheese 3 free range eggs 1/2 cup sugar of choice 1/8 tsp pure vanilla extract For the Topping: 1/2 pint (8 oz) high-quality sour cream 1 tsp pure vanilla extract 3 TBSP sugar of choice Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Beat cream cheese with an electric mixer. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each. Add sugar and vanilla, and beat again until just combined. Pour batter into an 8 x 8 inch, coconut oil-greased, square, baking dish. Bake for 40 minutes, or until lightly browned. Let cool. Combine topping ingredients and spread over pie to within 1/2...Read More
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A friend at work asked me to make his wife a cutting board. He said they cannot find a simple flat cutting board to buy. They wanted it to be double sided one for meat one for vegetables. Had some extra White Oak so I used it, man that wood is hard. Yes a simple project, but got me back out in the wood shop making chips. That is a good day any day.
-- Fuzzy2
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#1 posted 08-29-2016 09:39 PM
Looks like a well though out design (staggered glue joints).
Given how tough WO is, you did a fantastic job on finishing off that end grain, nary a hint of any burning!
#2 posted 08-30-2016 05:06 AM
very nice cutting board. i never think of white oak, but i might change my mind. thanks for posting
-- wiser1934, new york
#3 posted 08-30-2016 03:37 PM
That's a great cutting board and would make a fine gift to anyone.
helluvawreck aka Charles
-- If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. Henry David Thoreau
#4 posted 09-07-2016 04:03 AM
Nice job!
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Francesco: Today's print film have high resolution and a better dynamic range than slide films in the same IOS. Fuji Super G 100 will resolve higher than Velvia. To PhotoCD or with a desktop scanner the neg film makes a much better scan, much easier. Slide film is the defacto standard in publishing for a few good reasons. 1. It's easy to edit images on a light talbe. 2. For a long time, kodachrome was king, and old habits die hard. 3. Nothing has the permanence of Kodachrome. 4. Many color seperators can't (or just won't) scan from negatives. For you, Neg film might be the best choice. I have switched about 1/3 of my clients to neg film. They like to have a stack of proofs better than slides and I can good quality scans to them, on a CD in 24 hours. Tom At 06:21 PM 3/27/98 -0800, you wrote: >Does anyone have experience with getting color negatives >scanned onto PhotoCD? I have always believed that slide film >was the best for getting the ultimate image quality in a scan, >but a PhotoCD expert I work with sometimes told me that >color negatives scan MUCH better onto PhotoCD than slides! >I was shocked, and today I bought a few rolls of print film (Kodak >Royal Gold 25 and 100) in order to test his theory. In my work, >my final output medium IS the Internet and an occasional >8x10 to 20x30 enlargement. I have always thought I would >get the best results in the scanner and for enlargements from >slide film. I know slide film is more finnicky and requires more >accuracy than print film, but I thought it was well worth the >extra trouble for the quality I received in return. Does anyone who >has shot extensively with slow print films (Kodak Ektar 25 or Royal >Gold 25, for example) AND slow slide films (Velvia, for example) >have any opinions on which film type gives the best (sharpest, >finest) enlargements or PhotoCD scans? > > > >Francesco Sanfilippo, >Five Senses Productions >firstname.lastname@example.com > > >http://www.5senses.com/ > >


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The clock is ticking for GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry.
The Texas governor and his rivals for the GOP presidential nomination all face the same Sept. 30 deadline to close the books on their third quarter fundraising in time to report results to the Federal Election Commission by Oct. 15.
The accounting often becomes a barometer for candidates' political prospects: Without money, they're probably going nowhere.
But Perry faces an immediate handicap.
He didn't enter the presidential sweepstakes until Aug. 13.
That gives him barely eight weeks to show the kind of fundraising acumen that's needed to persuade fence-sitting GOP donors that he's the horse to bet on.
His declared GOP rivals will be reporting on their fundraising results for the third quarter's entire 16 weeks.
Candidates' latest fundraising reports to the FEC on June 30 showed former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney raising $18.3 million; Rep. Ron Paul, R-Lake Jackson, raising $4.5 million; and Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minnesota, raising $3.6 million.
Perry's team set an internal goal of $10 million for the opening weeks of his campaign. It won't be known until his FEC reports are made public on Oct. 15 whether he exceeded or fell short of that goal.
Perry is devoting a large part of his road time in coming weeks to fundraising. He's got at least 18 fundraisers planned in at least six states by mid-September alone. In addition to a week-long blitz of events in Colorado, Iowa, Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana that wraps up at the end of this week, Perry's handlers have laid on six fundraisers in California over two days, Sept. 8-9.
The events include stops in San Diego, Los Angeles and Silicon Valley. Tickets are going for as little as $1,000.
But prospective donation bundlers are being asked to consider assembling enough donors to raise $50,000 in order to serve as a high-profile co-host of an event. The largest donors will get a chance to attend a VIP reception with Perry and have their pictures taken with the governor before joining smaller donors at the main reception.
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? THE ART OF THE SENATE "HOLD." Sen. John Cornyn, R-San Antonio, may be in the political minority in the Democratic-controlled Senate. But the courteous, low-key lawyer is definitely mastering the threatened use of the so-called Senate "hold" on White House nominees to get the Obama administration's attention. Cornyn is signaling that he may stall Senate action on the nomination of Ashton Carter to serve as deputy secretary of defense unless the Obama administration stands behind full funding for the F-35 Lightening II joint strike fighter that's built by Lockheed-Martin in Fort Worth, Texas. In a letter to Carter before the nominee's scheduled Senate confirmation hearing by the Senate Armed Services Committee, Cornyn called upon Carter to reverse his "apparent lack of commitment" to producing additional warplanes, including purchasing 16 more aircraft in fiscal 2013. The tactic recalls Cornyn holding up Senate confirmation of William Burns as deputy secretary of state until the Obama administration agreed to release a long-delayed Pentagon assessment of Taiwan's air defenses – an assessment Cornyn expected to build the case for the U.S. sale of 66 F-16 Fighting Falcon warplanes to China's once-independent island province. Like the F-35, the F-16s are built in Fort Worth.
? STIMULUS BY ANY OTHER NAME. Retiring Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Dallas, a long-time supporter of Texas highway construction, is joining forces with Sen. John Kerry, D-Massachusetts, in a bid to create a national bank to underwrite infrastructure projects. Their bipartisan effort is designed to close the multibillion dollar gap each year between needed projects and available funding. That gap could be as much as $262 billion-a-year over the next 25 years, according to a joint study by former Transportation Secretaries Norman Mineta and Samuel Skinner. The Hutchison-Kerry effort would be designed to underwrite projects of national significance without raising forcing politicians to back an increase in the federal gasoline taxes that are currently used to subsidize transportation projects.
? WILL SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BE A HOT BUTTON ISSUE IN 2012? GOP strategist Karl Rove boosted Republican turnout for President George W. Bush's re-election in 2004 thanks to 11 states putting the question of same-sex marriage on the election year ballot. The issue may not be on as many state ballots in 2012, but it looks like the GOP challenger to President Barack Obama will be drawing sharp contrasts on the issue. Three top Republican rivals for the GOP nomination – including Texas Gov. Rick Perry — have signed the so-called marriage pledge sponsored by the National Organization For Marriage. The organization favors a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage and selection of judicial nominees who see no constitutional guarantee for marriage equality. "Kudos to Gov. Rick Perry for making it clear: he's a marriage champion!" said NOM President Brian Brown after Perry joined Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minnesota, and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in signing the pledge, along with former Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pennsylvania.
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? 10 am, Rep. Gene Green, D-Houston, holds an employee town hall question-and-answer session with KBR employees at KBR headquarters, 601 Jefferson, Houston.
? 10:30 am, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Dallas, addresses 112th National Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the 98th National Convention of the Ladies Auxiliary, at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, 200 E. Market Street, San Antonio, Texas.
? 11:30 am, Rep. Gene Green, D-Houston, holds an employee town hall question-and-answer session at CenterPoint Energy, 1111 Louisiana, Houston.
? 2:15 p.m., Sen. John Cornyn, R-San Antonio, holds a roundtable discussion at Neighborhood Centers Inc.'s Ripley House in Houston, to focus attention on what he says could be cost increases for electricity resulting from EPA regulations on cross-state pollution. The roundtable includes Texas Public Utilities Commission Chairwoman Donna Nelson, and representatives from Care for Elders, Sheltering Arms Senior Services, and Interfaith Ministries/Meals on Wheels. The location: 4410 Navigation, Houston, Texas.
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? Tuesday, Aug. 30, Texas Gov. Rick Perry hosts a fundraiser at the Fairmont Hotel, 1717 North Akard St., Dallas, Texas.
? Wednesday, Sept. 7. House of Representatives returns from summer recess.
? Wednesday, Sept. 7. GOP presidential debate at Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, California, sponsored by NBC News and Politico.
? Monday, Sept. 12. GOP presidential debate in Tampa, Florida, sponsored by CNN and the Tea Party Express.
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NCCAM to announce new grant that "encourages partnerships" between CAM schools and medical schools for training purposes
A new announcement from the NIH National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) shared that NCCAM will launch a new program that "encourages partnerships between institutions with demonstrated expertise in training complementary medicine practitioners and institutions with demonstrated expertise and capacity in conducting clinical and translational research." NCCAM views the initiative as "aimed at improving the capacity of the integrative health field to carry out rigorous research." The new partnerships "must be committed to create a comprehensive interdisciplinary complementary and integrative health clinical research training program that builds on the existing strengths, expertise and infrastructure of both institutions." The goal: " … generate a cadre of research clinicians who are able to participate fully in multi-disciplinary teams engaged in complementary and integrative health research."
Comment: Good for NCCAM. Some of the most influential, culture-shifting grants that the agency has promoted in the past are the so-called R-25 and "reverse R-25" education grants that either prompted or required such multi-institutional collaboration across institutional, guild and organizational chasms. Many influential relationships were build, and careers commenced, under programs of the awarded recipients.
A trick in this environment is the nature of the connection that "CAM" researcher will have with the dominant academic medical center. The gravitational pull is first toward the kinds of reductive questions that are the bread and butter of conventional academic medical centers but are not the highest shared priorities of researcher in the licensed CAM disciplines. The second question is long-term. As the best-and-the-brightest of the "CAM" researchers are drawn into these useful and important relationships, many jump to the better-funded conventional schools. Thus there is, as leading chiropractic researcher William Meeker, DC, MPH has named it, a "brain drain." These programs from NCCAM are terrific. Here's hoping that long-term outcomes will be infused with whole systems thinking that are infused with interest in developing the research culture in the "CAM" schools.


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How simple planning can prevent common SharePoint deployment snags
New SharePoint deployments often have major infrastructure and governance problems, but comprehensive planning can prevent those problems.
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The most common problems with new SharePoint deployments stem from a lack of planning. It's possible to install most applications and immediately begin using them, but this isn't really the case with SharePoint.
Even though SharePoint is technically an application, it's better described as an application framework. SharePoint isn't something you should simply install and then allow users to immediately begin using -- you'll most likely have problems if you do.
What kinds of problems occur as a result of poor or insufficient planning, and more importantly, what can you do about them?
Most problems with SharePoint deployments generally fall into two categories -- infrastructure and governance.
Infrastructure problems occur because of either not understanding how SharePoint works or cutting corners to save time or reduce deployment costs. These types of problems aren't usually felt until weeks or even months after the deployment completes.
Some infrastructure-related problems include performance issues, lack of fault tolerance and insufficient storage. Adjusting SharePoint's configuration can sometimes resolve problems, but the fix often requires extensive effort.
The other big problem that results from insufficient planning is governance. SharePoint is a framework. Like any other framework, rules must be put into place to control its use.
SharePoint administrators must create rules to deal with policies, like who's allowed to create sites and site collections, how long documents in libraries will be retained or who will be allowed to perform e-discovery. Without a firm governance policy in place or controls to enforce that policy, it won't be long before the SharePoint deployment becomes unwieldy and extremely difficult to manage.
The worst configuration mistake an administrator can make in SharePoint deployments is to set SharePoint up as a standalone server rather than a farm. Standalone deployments are slightly easier to perform, but that completely eliminates the ability to scale up your SharePoint deployment to meet future needs.
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Discussion in 'Green Room' started by Brandi, Jan 12, 2004.
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Juventus GM Beppe Marotta expects to close a deal for Wolfsburg defender Andrea Barzagli today.
Marotta say Barzagli will be their final signing for the winter market.
"The January transfer window is a difficult one because Juventus are looking for players who can increase the quality of the team," Marotta said.
"We're not buying for the sake of buying and right now I don't think there are any important players available.
"Barzagli? He's an opportunity that arose and is a player who will be of use to the cause. We're sorting out a few things, we're optimistic and hopefully it will all be wrapped up tomorrow."
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If you are thinking to remodel your home for just home improvement or to add more comfort and value to it, then it is better to understand some of the basics on how to find and hire the best and perfect home remodeling contractor. Little homework done before hiring a general home remodeling contractor can save your lots of money and also your job will get done better with satisfaction.
Many home improvement and remodeling projects are DIY, which means that you can do it yourself without having to hire any expert. However, some major home improvement and remodeling projects need you to hire a contractor or an expert. Before hiring a contractor, make sure to do some research about the professional or the company.
Following are some of the rules to follow while hiring a home remodeling contractor:
Contractor License – The first step is to check and make sure that the contractor you are about to hire to remodel your home has a valid license to do the work. Any contractors try to avoid paying the license fee and other tests. Hire a contractor who has a valid license and has all the expertise to do your work.
Take References – Once you have checked the validity of the contractor license, it is time to verify the company's history. All contractors will say that they are the best in the industry. You just cannot trust what they say. Ask them for some remodeling work that they may have done in your area. Visit those places and physically check the work of the contractor.
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The Immigrant Economy
The discussions about the impact of immigration on the labour markets of particular countries are often fascinating.It is safe to say that in the political discourse, immigration is seen as a problem for one of two reasons:
- Immigrants work
- Immigrants don't work
With regard to alternative 2, the allegation usually is that people from poorer countries tend to migrate into countries with extensive social protection and reap the benefits otherwise intended for the natives of the receiving country.The arguments presented against opening the Swedish labour market to East European workers following the enlargement in 2004 by the Swedish Prime Minister Göran Persson can serve as a case in point: In November 2003 Persson made a surprising u-turn on the issue, started to warn about the risk for "social tourism" and suggested that Sweden followed the example set by countries such as Germany and France by restricting access to the national labour markets.Later Persson tried to justify his statements by declaring that mass immigration of labour would lead to increased support for xenophobic movements. Many observers in Sweden suggested that Persson might be playing the trade unions' tune in this issue under the guise of anti-xenophobia and this leads us across the Atlantic to alternative 1.In the U.S. the problem has been stated in the opposite way compared to Western Europe: Complaints have concentrated on the role immigrants have in pressing wages, especially for low-skill work in agriculture and the service sector. In this case immigrants may work but at the expense of native low-skilled workers. This has formed the background for a recent political campaign to enact legislation that would limit immigration, especially from Central America. For an overview, see Slate from April 9 and May 8.How about the statistics, then?Well, in mid-April the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released a report which concluded that immigrants in the U.S. work (actually, unemployment for this group is slightly lower than for native U.S. residents), that immigrants of the first generation earn relatively less than their "American" counterparts and that immigrants of the first generation are more likely to work in agriculture and service.Actually, this conforms to the current knowledge but it serves to show that an economy can have immigration without sizeable negative effects. That inequality in the U.S. has increased during the last decades is also a fact but statisticians haven't been able to link this to immigration. Slate's Daniel Gross has this review of the report.What is interesting to note is that despite the differences in labour markets and party systems, the discussion about immigration tend to lead to fairly similar political noises: Immigration is bad, it undermines national institutions, immigrants are lazy, immigrants work too hard.In short: If only we had a closed shop, everything would be fine.By default Sweden happened not to implement barriers to workers from Easter Europe – a number of different proposals presented to the Swedish parliament canceled out each other in the most bizarre fashion. It didn't lead to an influx of gold-diggers from the East and today the issue is almost forgotten in Swedish politics.In Denmark, the government negotiated an agreement this April with the Social Democrats, the Social Liberals and the Socialist Party – but without the Danish People's Party – easing the barriers for Eastern workers. Maybe this report from the European Commission helped the consensus-building efforts.Oh, and by the way: This is not Göran Persson speaking. It's the Danish Minister of Employment discussing the Eastern Enlargement in early 2004.


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The katana is an eastern-style sword with a slightly curved, single-edge blade on the outside edge of the curve and a tanto tip. Typical designs carry blade lengths anywhere from 24 to 29 inches (60.9 to 73.6 cm) depending upon their era in real-world history. They exhibit many of the same design characteristics as other swords including a blade, crossguard, and handle with one notable difference; the pommel is distinctly smaller if not lacking entirely. The reason is the weapon is crafted with such precise balance as to minimize if not negate the need for a large counterbalance.
The katana is the pinnacle of the swordmaker's art. Even a poor quality katana can be equal to a well-made weapon from another part of the world. The elegant curve of the blade is the result of the methods of forging and quenching used in its making. By using folded, composite steels, it can be used in combat with a greatly reduced chance of the blade bending or succumbing to brittleness and shattering. The tanto-style tip is a design feature of most Japanese-style swords that is similar to a blade fuller in western-style swords. It strengthens the tip of the weapon making it more resistant to damage during strong thrusts: the preferred method for breaching an enemy's armor since it allows the blade to penetrate the tsurubashiri (the leather covering over a samurai's lamellar armor) and slide between the laced bands of their Do-maru.
Katanas are typically part of a samurai's daisho making up one half to one third of the total set. The other two weapons included in the daisho are the wakizashi and/or the tanto.
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Katanas originate from the island kingdom of Wa in the far-eastern realm of Kara-Tur. Their design has trickled slowly west into Faerûn so that now, certain Faerûnian master-craftsmen have been able to forge their own blades, though they are by no means any less exotic. The katana is known as the finest sword ever made to the peoples of the Western Heartlands.[2]
Notable katanasEdit
- Celestial Fury, from Baldur's Gate II: Shadows Of Amn
- Corthala Family Blade, from Baldur's Gate II: Shadows Of Amn
Eric Cagle, Jesse Decker, Jeff Quick, & James Wyatt (March, 2003). Arms and Equipment Guide 3rd edition. (Wizards of the Coast). ISBN 0-7869-2649-X. James Wyatt (October 2001). Oriental Adventures (3rd edition). (Wizards of the Coast). ISBN 0-7869-2015-7.
- ↑ Eric Cagle, Jesse Decker, Jeff Quick, & James Wyatt (March, 2003). Arms and Equipment Guide 3rd edition. (Wizards of the Coast). ISBN 0-7869-2649-X.
- ↑ Erik Scott de Bie (2005). Realms of the Dragons II (The Hunting Game). (Wizards of the Coast), p. 51. ISBN 0-7869-3808-0.


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How to Deal with Writers Effectively in One Easy Lesson
From author Ray Garton:
That's right, if you are a publisher, anthologist, or anyone else who frequently enters into business transactions with writers but often finds it problematic, I am going to tell you how to deal with writers effectively in just one easy lesson made up of two simple, single-syllable words.
There seems to be a great deal of confusion about writers. Some people seem to believe that a business transaction with a writer operates under entirely different rules than all the other business transactions they enter into every day of their lives. This can be cleared up very easily with two more simple words:
This is how business transactions work:
1.) Someone provides a service or product in exchange for a fee.
2.) You need that service or product.
3.) You pay the fee, you get the service or product.
That's how it works. That's how it works everywhere. That's how it has always worked everywhere. If you can't pay, there is a problem. The problem is that you can't pay. The problem is NOT that the person who provides the service or product expects payment because, as I pointed out:
I've been a professional, full-time writer for 27 years. During that time, I have heard many brilliantly creative attempts to get around this fact. I've even been asked for work by people who have no intention of paying for it and don't even offer a payment, people who seem incapable of understanding why a professional writer would find that insulting.
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There was a time in my life when I wrote constantly for my own pleasure. That was before I entered school and during the years I attended school. You're a little late. You missed it. That time is over. Now I write for a different reason. I like to call that reason:
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Let's say you have a car problem. You take the car to an auto mechanic. The mechanic finds the problem and fixes it. Then the mechanic expects to be paid. But you say, "Look, I've had a lot of mechanics work on my car over the years, and now you're one of them. I appreciate what you've done, but I thought you would appreciate being a part of that family of mechanics who also have worked on my car. I've done many wonderful things in my car and it's taken me to many wonderful places, and I thought it would be enough for you simply to be a part of that."
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The Chairman of the Parnas suggested unhappy Kasyanov to look for another party
Vice-Chairman of Parnassus Konstantin Merzlikin has responded to the statement by the lawyer and member of the Federal Council of the party Vadim Prokhorov on the need to change the leadership of the political forces.
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Prokhorov explained his opinion that PARNASSUS for the second consecutive year shows a very low percentage in the elections (in 2015 from 2 percent of the vote he failed in the Kostroma region, and now from 0.7% was defeated in the elections to the state Duma).
In addition, according to the lawyer, damage the reputation of the party struck, and the inclusion of its Federal trio for the second room of Vyacheslav Maltsev, adhering to nationalist views.
In the end, Prokhorov announced that the upcoming Monday the Congress of the Federal political Council will need to raise the question about resignation of Mikhail Kasyanov from the post of Chairman of the party, while, according to him, Kasyanov intends to exclude from the Parnas opposition: Vladimir Kara-Marz, Ilya Yashin and of Prokhorov.
In response to these statements and Merzlikin has informed RIA "news" that all this is "purely personal" opinion Prokhorov, and political responsibility for the failure of the elections lies with the party leadership.
In addition, Merzlikin said that Prokhorov would do in this case, "to go, to create another party that is more in line with his interests and views.
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Mizuho International has announced the appointment of Antony Slotboom as Head of Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (CEEMEA) as they expand their M&A business into the CEEMEA region.
Slotboom joined Mizuho International on 2nd January. He has extensive experience in the origination and execution of M&A and ECM transactions with a focus on the Central and Eastern European (CEE) region. He joins Mizuho International from the Royal Bank of Scotland where he was most recently Head of Corporate Finance CEE & IS (Commonwealth of Independent States). Antony has worked on a number of high profile transactions in various sectors including Energy & Resources, Technology, Media, Telecommunications, Consumer and General Industries and Financial Institutions. Antony reports directly to Yutaka Fukushi, Head of ECM and Advisory.
Commenting on the appointment, Yutaka Fukushi, Head of ECM and Advisory at Mizuho International, said:
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Two key Pacific Gas and Electric Co. employees on duty the night of the San Bruno pipeline disaster have yet to speak with federal investigators after saying they were too traumatized to be questioned, The Chronicle has learned.
The National Transportation Safety Board wants to talk to the employees about a gas-pressure spike that occurred shortly before the pipeline ruptured Sept. 9 under San Bruno's Crestmoor neighborhood, killing eight people and destroying 37 homes, sources close to the probe said. Investigators are looking into whether the increased pressure contributed to the transmission pipeline's failure.
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The safety board, which is leading the probe, said the pressure spike was caused by a power outage at an unmanned terminal in Milpitas, the end point of the 46-mile pipeline that runs through San Bruno.
Both employees had important roles in responding to the outage and in dispatching crews to shut off the flow of gas that fed the San Bruno inferno, said the sources, speaking on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to reveal details of the investigation.
PG&E says crews were dispatched to close manually operated valves 34 minutes after the explosion, an interval that critics have called too long.
In all, it took PG&E one hour and 29 minutes to shut the gas off, the utility says.
Both the employees declined to speak to federal safety board investigators in the week after the disaster, saying they were too traumatized by the incident, sources said.
A safety board spokesman, Peter Knudson, confirmed that the two have declined to be questioned.
"They were not available to us when we were on scene," Knudson said. "I'm not going to characterize why."
Investigators will keep trying to schedule interviews, Knudson said. "We're hoping to have another shot at them," he said.
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PG&E spokeswoman Katie Romans said several company employees have spoken with federal investigators, and that the entire company workforce is available to be interviewed.
"We are making everyone available to the NTSB, but not everyone has been interviewed up to this point because of timing and logistical constraints," Romans said.
Knudson would not say what exactly the two PG&E employees' responsibilities were. But he said investigators believe they were either involved in controlling the pipeline system or with the pipeline's power supply.
Knudson said 14 PG&E workers and supervisors involved in control room operations, pipeline monitoring or dealing with the Milpitas power outage have been interviewed. The safety board has the authority to issue subpoenas.
Increased pressure
The safety board says an equipment failure at the Milpitas terminal caused workers to lose control of the pressure in the line just before the blast.
The pressure increased from the normal 375 pounds per square inch to 386 pounds, but was held there by an automatic valve.
Experts said the added pressure was probably not enough by itself to cause the rupture, although it could have pushed a weakened line over the edge.
Rep. Jackie Speier, a Democrat whose district includes the San Bruno blast site, has pushed for information from PG&E about who was in charge of pipeline operations the night of the disaster.
So far, PG&E officials have refused, citing personnel rules, and have yet to reveal the pipeline supervisors' background or experience levels, she said.
"They are playing their cards close to the vest," she said of PG&E. "They can probably shine me for a little while. But they can't shine the NTSB - at least not forever."


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Now if you do a ONE keyword search on that same FAST-powered engine, the results will match up most of the time to "the exact phrase" parameter on Alltheweb.com.
The stuff included from DMOZ only tends to show up in the "all of the words" parameter in Alltheweb.com's results but not in the FAST-powered sites? Or both?
Two searches with the same SERP's for "autos"
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Why do only some of the sites listed in Evreka's search results have dates listed in their description and some do not. From another source? Dmoz maybe?
Interesting if you do that "autos" search on Lycos - notice that the Yahoo listing at #2, Altavist, and Excite listings are filtered out ;-)
Besides if they are mixing in DMOZ stuff it's only going to benefit someone in FAST's proper search. Good ol SEO get's you listed well in the partners which is where the good hits come from.
I wonder tho why some of the listings don't have dates. The sites that do not have dates are from "well-known-popular-sites." Trying to do some match ups but it looks like they are pulled from somewhere other than spidering.
>>>>Yahoo listing at #2, Altavist, and Excite listings are filtered out.
Yeah I'd really like to get into Lycos's "brain" to see how they judge how much of their own results to show compared to the FAST stuff. Kinda seems like they go in there manually and "fix" a lot of it.


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i read my post over and over to understand where your hate comes from. i really don't understand.Originally Posted by talrob
1. i offered an alternative way to spec, basically rofling at myself for doing it, and saying it made it very fun for me, and that i actually survived.
2. i stated something that 5 pages of posted said, that u can get instantly gimped in anyspec, especially by rogues. not once i said "i'm pro" (except mentioning that most priest do get instantly gimped in arena - "priest preformance" and i think that every priest atm is not happy with his preformance in arena - as in dying instantly, in addition i mentioned that skill is required - you might have seen it as "i'm pro" but i doubt you'll dissagree with the fact that in order to play your toon properly in arena you need some skill, me giving the dueling rogue example was just an example of mine that the spec is worth wasting Xx gold to spec and try out a more hybrid spec). i also didn't say "discipline sucks" at all (unless you count "sheilds and all that crap" which i ment to shorten up a spam of all the discipline new mitigation talents, and nothing more), simpley said that atm since the longest arena i was in was 2 mins and 58 secs i don't see a reason for any "mana" talents, and sugessted to try out a weird, new hybrid spec and forget about the 2 hour arena's we had at tbc arena (especially last season). discipline sucks for arena is something that wasn't said by me, perhaps you thought it was me but didn't notice it was on a different post in this thread and not mine.
3. i didn't post the talent calculater on purpose, when i mentioned "other talent spec's posted" i was talking about other threads, i'm assuming you can read them also and see that all look more or less alike, i guess you didn't bother reading the post properly and was infused to flame me, like most do in these forums but no one before you did, and i wonder why? does it hurt you so much that i simpley suggested something i found was fun? i mentioned the main talents i pick up - the rest can be splited, or personal prefrence etc. i think every priest more or less will end up in same spec if he goes down till blessed ressiliance in holy and till focused will in discipline, i don't see a reason why i should post a link to talent options on a thread that doesn't talk about it and no one even linked theirs, there is a thread with talent links, if you need help with seeing and veiwing a talent spec go to that thread flame there and see the links there. in addition i don't think anyone is that stupid that he can't fill in the points properly. i think i was clear enough with the talents i see as mainly in the weird hybrid spec i went for, and even mentioned them.
4. don't bother flaming its rediculous to flame over a SUGGESTION that was intended to share a FUNNY spec i chose and found out it was actually fun to play with. i see no reason why you replied to my post like this.
5. i feel sad atm. i was trying to be nice offering a hybrid spec i found was fun and funny, hoping that other priests that are emo or not happy with what they feel in arena could try it out and see if they enjoy it. yet you stood out and showed me why i stoped posting here. i stoped playing the game for a while (irl problems) but i'm feeling abit better now (thanks for the caring, almost full recovery), priest has always been my favorit toon, since i have a druid and a paladin and a rogue (still 70) i can say that (considering you don't face roll coh) it is a more complex healer offering almost every healing option to his group/raid. posting my suggestion hurt you as i see, since you were the only one bothered to flame me for a nice suggestion to have some fun game with a funny spec.
so i'm sorry mate that suggestions and nice offers of what i tried out bothers you. i am sorry if my suggestion hurt you in anyway to answer me like this. i really hope you try the spec out or build a spec similar with your own prefrences and have some fun. if not you can just ignore the suggestion and continue with your game, as you please. my will was truely to share the funny spec i had fun with, in hope more will have fun with (and no flames will follow). really sorry i hurt you that much talrob, that you had to flame me just for offering a suggestion. i will try in further not to post at all in these forums.


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The campaign of Noam Bramson, the Democratic candidate for Westchester county executive, waded in to the controversy over the removal by Somers police of an anti-gun-control sign Thursday.
Despite Bramson's promise to support gun control legislation, the campaign issued a statement condemning Somers Supervisor Mary Beth Murphy for ordering police to remove the sign from the town right of way in the sign owner's front yard. Murphy is a Republican running for county clerk.
The campaign called on his opponent, Republican incumbent County Executive Rob Astorino, to join his call.
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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates announced at the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Thursday that his foundation would be donating $750 million to help fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
Gates said in a statement that by supporting the Global Fund to Fight Aids, "we can help change the fortunes of the poorest countries in the world."He said the funds could be used immediately to "save lives, whether it is bed nets (to protect against mosquitoes carrying malaria) or TB (tuberculosis) treatment, those are two diseases that don't get perhaps the visibility of the work done in HIV but they are every bit as important."
The Gates Foundation has already contributed $650 million to the Global Fund, making the total contribution now up to $1.4 billion.
The Global Fund is turning 10-years-old and is a private partnership that is said to be saving 100,000 lives a month.
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that's the attitude!!!! Lol but your soo right we can't please everyone that's for sure so you pick the date that best suit you and your fianc©!!!!
How exciting 2015 brides!!!!! It's too early for me to set the date with the resort but I am going for 9/4/2015 Labor Day weekend. I was concern about who would and would not go to out wedding but as long as my fianc© shows up that's all that matters excited!!!
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Will the Bureau of Land Management listen to more than 1 million Americans and halt its plan to lease some of the Utah canyon country's most pristine and spectacular wildlands?
The BLM ignored conservation groups in the fall when they protested the agency's plans to open much of the canyon country to energy development as part of new management plans that govern public land in eastern Utah.
On Election Day, almost immediately after those plans became final, the BLM announced that in its Dec. 19 lease sale it would auction to the oil and gas industry more than 92 parcels of public land in places as famous and wild as Desolation Canyon along the Green River, Labyrinth Canyon, the benches and mesas east of Canyonlands National Park and land along the White River.
The newly-approved management plans were the ticket the BLM needed to declare open season on these remote and rugged redrock wildlands.
In the Price, Vernal and Moab BLM field areas, where most of the contested parcels exist, new management plans together call for more than 8,500 new oil and natural gas wells, potentially putting drilling rigs within sight of national parks.
In fact, analyses by The Wilderness Society's BLM Action Center, which played a leading role in analyzing and protesting six management plan revisions in Utah, show that most wildlands and other special places could have been protected from development while still allowing for most of the expected energy development to occur in each BLM field area.
After hearing complaints from the National Park Service about lease sale parcels being designated adjacent to Arches and Canyonlands national parks and Dinosaur National Monument, the BLM deferred some of the parcels, whittling the total contested parcels down to 92. But despite the agency's best attempts to put a positive spin on it, the BLM's response leaves many iconic areas at risk and even those parcels that are being deferred can reappear in future lease sales, maybe even as soon as early 2009.
Now, The Wilderness Society, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, National Parks Conservation Association, and the Natural Resources Defense Council are protesting, asking the BLM to defer all 92 parcels in Utah's most precious wildlands. The BLM's self-imposed deadline for a final decision on parcel deferral is Dec. 12. The Sierra Club, the Grand Canyon Trust, the Nine Mile Canyon Coalition, the National Trust for Historic Preservation and Colorado Plateau Archaeological Coalition are also protesting.
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