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It is beginning to look as though conservatives are serious about their proposal to refuse to raise the debt ceiling and to allow the country to default on its obligations. This is a serious business and the results could be catastrophic for the economy.
Whenever expenditures exceed revenues, the resulting deficit must be funded by borrowing. Throughout most of its history the government has run an annual deficit and issued Treasury Bonds/Notes to makeup the difference. These are purchased by individuals, organizations, and other nations. They are considered safe investments by investors around the world and as a result the United States can offer these instruments at low interest rates.
Before 1917 Congress had to approve every borrowing, but this was replaced by a debt ceiling, approved by Congress every so often, which allowed for smoother operation.
Expenditure and debt authorization are separate actions by Congress. The debt ceiling does not place any limit on expenditure in advance—it merely permits financing of deficits after they have been accrued. The debt ceiling has been raised numerous times in the past and until recently this action by Congress was routine.
Deficits are generally small—except when the country is fighting a war or in the midst of a recession—and the national debt is not a problem. Wars are enormously expensive. Recessions reduce revenue because people are out of work and not paying taxes.
What happens if Congress refuses to raise the debt ceiling to cover deficits resulting from expenditures they have approved? The country's credit rating will be downgraded and investors will demand higher interest rates to purchase our bonds. The increase in interest rates will actually make the deficit even worse. The lack of confidence in the nation's fiscal policies could also do substantial harm in the markets and push the country back into recession.
Defaulting is something you do only once, like losing your virginity. Getting the credit rating back to previous levels after a default would be extremely difficult. Investors would be likely to take a wait and see attitude, meanwhile enjoying a higher rate of return on their investments.
Threatening default has always been an unthinkable option to this point, but it is now a serious threat.
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It's hard to believe how the Republican leadership is willing to endanger the country's stability for political gain -- or, even more, to harm the opposition. Putting us all at risk for selfish reasons is unconscionable.
I have a hard time seeing how they will gain politically from it.
Suppose for the sake of argument that Democrats and President Obama agreed to make major cuts in Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security to win a rise in the debt ceiling from the Republicans, while allowing a major increase in military spending. Who would be happy with that result other than military contractors?
They'll gain because their constituents see pig headedness as a moral virtue.
But once people see the results from default they may not be so pig-happy.
As bad as the leadership is, the rank and file are worse. Watch one of last month's TV interviews with Rep. Huelskamp and you'll see what I mean.
There are two ways of looking at debt. 1. Go into debt to wage wars with the result of dead and damaged bodies and minds and destroyed societies in foreign countries, and returning military with a lifetime of injuries that need care and support for their families.
2. Go into debt to build schools, hospitals, highways, railroads, airports, law enforcement and fire fighters, improve potale water supplies, health care, research and development, and all these keep the money inside the borders of USA, improves our infrastructure, creates jobs at home, improves the quality of life and investments in people and commerce at home. We don't lose anything, we create a better income stream, thus creating new tax sources. It is a Win/Win situation.
Excellent graphs. Deficits do matter, but small temporary deficits are not the real concern—it's large deficits extending over many years that are the real problem. I question whether conservatives are sincere about deficits or whether they want to use the opportunity of large deficits to eliminate or restructure social programs they do not like.
Before Medicare one third of those over 65 were living in poverty; now it is one eleventh. The advent of universal health care for the elderly has improved their lives in many ways and relieved the burden on younger generations to care for them.
Changes to Medicare and Medicaid need to be made carefully to avoid hurting those least able to provide for their own medical care.
I am certain conservatives want to eliminate social programs and I don't know of one they like. The fact that both Dem. and Rep. have been a party to running up these huge deficits tells me our government is in business to take care of business, not people.
Medicare and Medicaid greatly reduced the suffering that occurs with aging and with the costs going so high, there has to be a radical change. I think we have to get over our fear of "socialized medicine" and start thinking of ways to provide health care for all our citizens.
I further don't like extending the dying period. Both my mother and father and all my grandparents wanted a way to "go" because their bodies caused them suffering, they couldn't see, hear, or taste delicious foods any more and were ready. When a person feels ready to die I think they should be helped to do that. Assisted dying isn't killing them it is assisting them to do what they want to do. That decision cannot lie in the hands of children or doctors or family or anyone else. The individual, when ready to die can be facilitated. Let's put an end to these gun shots or cut wrists, and all the other ways to make it a gruesome event. My family knows I will tell them I am ready and they know I am serious.
As to poverty of elderly. That is a tough one and going to get worse as the economy continues its downward trend. I believe we have not hit bottom yet because of all the war expenses and the disgraceful salaries and bonuses the top 1 or 2 percent of the population receive, even as jobs go over seas to lower wages. My children's retirement will be problematic because they haven't been able to save for retirement the way they want to. Cost of living is just too high and going to get higher. We are all growing gardens, but with long hours of work, that becomes problematic. As I grow older I can't raise as much food as I once did.
Big problems, lots of chaos; conflict in economics, politics and religion only compound factors facing us.
I believe those who will be successful getting through this period will be the ones who are flexible, who stop following as sheep to the slaughter and who use their minds and bodies wisely. We can't afford to mistreat minds and bodies as we have been doing. Style of life makes a big difference.
As a 76 year old woman, I saw the end of the Great Depression although I didn't know it at the time. Little girls don'g notice such things, but I can remember cardboard in my shoes and lard on my toast. My dad's businesses went bankrupt and some Morrison Knudson recruiters came through the small farming towns hiring up all the husky young men to work on the southern tier railroad. My dad, mom and I lived in migrant worker camps with men we called Arkies and Oakies, and all their families. As a child it was a wonderful place to grow up, me, from Washington state, playing with kids from all over the USA. It was the best childhood one could have. After the war, living to the peak of prosperity and now watching the decline again. Younger ones look on with dispair. I remember! We survived and thrived and flourished.
That is what will lie ahead of us ... if we don't smother under CO2. That is a new and different factor to take into account.
You've made a number of good points.
I'll just add a note about the report from the Institute of Medicine which appeared yesterday. Essentially it says the United States pays more than twice the cost of medical care in other countries for healthcare with far worse outcomes. We really need to find our way to providing universal coverage for healthcare. This report was devastating indictment of our healthcare system. The fact is that is doesn't work for large numbers of people in the country and needs major changes.
Of course in one sense the report was unfair—it failed to note that our healthcare system generates profits while others don't do nearly as well as businesses. The pharmaceutical industry and the banks in the US are tied for profitability. Other countries don't see any need to make money off illness the way we do.
Interestingly enough, during the depression, my grandfather's family, from Kansas, moved to Washington because they found jobs there.
Thank you, Joan, for those terrific charts. They illustrate well what the Repubs did in the middle 1980s.
Upon realizing they did not have the votes in Congress to shut down the social programs, they decided to borrow the government into bankruptcy, which would force the shutdown of those programs. In two words, they succeeded.
The second chart reveals the borrowing that Reagan and the two Bushes did to help their policy along.
At about the same time, the Repub "attack machine" started charging Dems with taxing and spending. The Dems, as if frightened, did not charge Repubs with borrowing and spending.
A few years earlier I had run for a state legislature and was still paying attention. I wrote letter after furious letter to Dems, telling them they were helping Repubs economically abuse America's children. The Dems, as if still intimidated by their Viet Nam disaster, remained silent. I finally decided that Dems, traditionally big spenders, were letting Repubs supply them with money they could spend and were thus allies in the economic abuse of children.
Has anyone heard of the Kick the Can Back organization of young people who are organizing to deal with with the debt in ways more effective than either major party has?
Again Joan, thanks for the charts.I clicked on the link you provided and found their sources. I copied and pasted the charts into an MSWord document I can use in my occasional political speeches.
I nail both parties to the wall for corruption. I nail them by name too, the Dems for lying us into a war in Viet Nam and the Repubs for lying us into a war in Iraq.
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Badil newspaper checked from the news source itself and found out that the source was Kuwaiti Al Anaba newspaper !!?
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Aside from the claim that this was an interview with Tantawy , the interview contains dangerous claims like for instance :
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- The army council has faced several coup attempts since the step down of Mubarak.
- The existence of Mubarak in Sharm El-Sheikh weakens the army in front of the Egyptian people !!?
Why do we have this fake interview now !!? Especially today and we already are waiting for tomorrow to see what is going on !!?
Why does a Kuwaiti newspaper publish such fake interview when it could be sued by Der Spiegel and cause diplomatic crisis with two Arab countries !!? It is very bold claim and honestly I hope that Der Spiegel sues that Kuwaiti newspaper.
Tantawy officially is de facto president of Egypt , you can't make up interview with men like him for no reason in this way in this time !!?
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Security Message for U.S. Citizens: Update on ongoing Protests in Stockholm
May 22, 2013
On Sunday, May 19, more than 100 cars were set on fire in the northern Stockholm suburb of
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arrests and consider the situation contained. However, due to the potential escalation of the
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Skogas, Hagsatra, Skarpnack, Varberg, Skarholmen, Jordbro, Fuangen, Salem, Farsta, Ragsved,
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I might check out Britain's,Canada's and Australia's government websites to see what,if anything,*they* have to say on the matter.
Utopia + Open Borders = Dystopia
Are the Vikings on the prowl again?
The Muslim monster is revealed
and starts to devour Europe.
Charles Martel, Charles Martel!
Where are you to HAMMER THESE MUSLIM DOGS?
Wow. You know your nation has reached pathetic lows when citizens from other countries receive similar warnings as they do in Sudan and Yemen.
Sweden is the next Yugoslavia.
It will be fun to watch the leftist western governments twist themselves into funny shapes trying to convince their citizens that they shouldn't believe their lying eyes.
Because of a movie right?
Notice the message doesn't say who did it. It's not blond Swedes off to eat lutefisk. It's bearded savages.
No, of course not -- it's the damned Amish again.
You can tell by the flat farm hats and button-front trousers, they mean trouble!
Divest of Stockholm tourism stocks!
>Sweden is the next Yugoslavia.<
Sweden is the next Sudan or Yemen.
Now even Stockholm has Stockholm's Syndrome.
Lycka till, svenskor.
Husby, Tensta, Kista, Rinkeby, Fittja, Jakobsberg, Solna-Hagalund, Sollentuna,
Skogas, Hagsatra, Skarpnack, Varberg, Skarholmen, Jordbro, Fuangen, Salem, Farsta, Ragsved,
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- High-level negotiations between the White House and Capitol Hill in times of divided government tend to follow a script.
This year's talks about how to avert the "fiscal cliff," for the most part, appear to track a familiar line: The outside message from the top players is often different from what's happening on a parallel track inside the room where the final deal is being crafted.
Publicly, both President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner continue to argue their positions on taxes and entitlement reforms, hoping they can win the public relations battle that frames their respective party as the one responsibly pursuing a solution and the other side as the one that won't budge.
"I'm not going to sign any package that somehow prevents the tax rate from going up for folks in the top 2%," the president said Thursday at a campaign-style visit with a Virginia family to highlight his stand on taxes.
On Friday, Boehner responded: "Instead of reforming the tax code and cutting spending, the president wants to raise tax rates. But even if the president got the tax rate hike that he wanted, understand that we would continue to see trillion-dollar deficits for as far as the eye can see."
After a meeting between the two men Sunday, White House spokesman Josh Earnest and Boehner spokesman Brendan Buck issued identical statements, saying that there had been no breakthrough but that the lines of communication remain open.
But as all that's happening for public consumption at the White House and Capitol Hill press studios, a tight circle of trusted aides float proposals on how much they might be willing to compromise inside conference rooms or over e-mail.
While those staff-level exchanges did stop for a week after aides on both sides said there was no one giving ground, they have now resumed after a phone call last week between Obama and Boehner.
Two former senior Capitol Hill insiders who worked on opposite sides of negotiations similar to the fiscal cliff talks agree that public posturing will continue for a while. They agree there won't be any major breakthroughs on a deal until both sides feel the pressure of the deadline and their backs are against the wall.
"Nothing happens until it has to happen," said Jim Manley, former senior communications adviser for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and a longtime aide to former Sen. Ted Kennedy.
Ron Bonjean, a former spokesman for former House Speaker Dennis Hastert and aide to top Senate Republicans, noted that while the public may be focused on the dwindling deadline for a fiscal cliff deal, the year-end time frame is "a lifetime in Congress."
Both Bonjean and Manley are veterans of a series of high-profile showdowns on government funding, comprehensive education legislation and tax cuts.
Inside the Capitol, major negotiations often coincide with the holidays at the end of the year. Staffers work long hours inside the building that Bonjean referred to as a "biosphere."
"Everybody's Christmas shopping online," the GOP strategist said. "Reporters are standing outside these rooms, waiting, staking out and waiting for something to happen. It's like watching grass grow for hours."
But Manley emphasized that maneuvering the line between public statements and private meetings can be a delicate dance.
"From my perspective, it was always important to try not to get too wrapped up in the angry rhetoric and the charges being lobbed by either side because in the end my goal was to protect Sen. Reid and make sure he's in a position to get a deal done," Manley said.
Bonjean pointed out that Obama's campaign-style events could complicate talks: "It really ticks Republicans off and actually hardens their position."
But Democrats on Capitol Hill are applauding the president's strategy to concentrate in this negotiation on the outside messaging after their frustration that in previous talks he spent too much time trying privately to get House Republicans to compromise.
"The good news is that I think the president and his team finally came to the realization that they can't negotiate with hostage takers and that they've learned their lessons from the debt limit debacle last year," Manley said. "They're prepared to take their case to the American people, which I think in this current atmosphere where the political process is largely broken, that that's the only game in town."
In the two years since becoming speaker, Boehner has faced off with Reid and Obama on bills to avoid a government shutdown, raise the debt ceiling and renew tax cuts.
But Boehner previously had earned a reputation as a skilled negotiator as the chairman of the House Education Committee and worked across the aisle with Kennedy on the landmark No Child Left Behind education bill as well as pension reforms and disabilities legislation.
Manley worked for Kennedy then and observed Boehner up close. He pointed to those negotiations as instances when what was said outside the room didn't always match what was going on behind the scenes.
"Both were smart, wily legislators who realized there's a difference between what you say outside some times and what you agreed to when you actually begin negotiating."
But there are points inevitably when the talks break down, and in many cases deals fall apart multiple times before they get revived.
Quietly, a leader of one party may decide to try to convince members of the other party to break ranks as a way to build pressure -- something these congressional veterans agree is certainly going in as a part of fiscal cliff negotiations.
"That was key," Bonjean said, pointing out times when then-Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott would try to box in the Democratic leader Tom Daschle by recruiting centrist Democrat John Breaux to bring other Democrats on board.
"While the negotiations were breaking down on issues like the tax cut or IDEA (a disabilities law), you would try to pick off members and create a bipartisan resolution," he said.
One thing that has complicated the ability to get things done behind the scenes is the influence of social media, with an expanded press corps reporting every development, often in real time.
"The media landscape has changed in this 24-hour news cycle we live in where every moment is tweeted, every utterance is put on a blog, every meeting is known before it even happens oftentimes, and it's just much more difficult to get something done these days," Manley said.
Bonjean said "sitting in a room and having it being live-tweeted out to the press" makes leaders nervous as the deadline approaches.
CNN senior congressional correspondent Dana Bash contributed to this report.
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There will be a unique opportunity at 6 p.m. Good Friday to experience the Living Stations of the Cross performed by members of the Hispanic Ministry of St. Gregory the Great Catholic Church.
The performance will be held on the grounds of St. Gregory the Great. More than 85 people will perform this striking depiction. The community is invited to view this portrayal of the powerful story of the passion of Christ.


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Direct connections for MSN! What do I mean? Just take a look at the screenshot below.
What's that? You don't see it? Just take a look at how fast it's going. Yes, that's right; it's not a pitiful 10KiB/s, but about an order of magnitude faster.
It all started with this little patch on trac. But it required a lot of work to get it going. I must have made at least 60 commits just fixing things and getting it to cooperate with aMSN and the official client. I think it should be good now, but you can always disable it in the Account options. It even makes buddy icon and custom emoticon loading faster.
Anyway, I promised I would say something about 2.7.1, and here you go. Direct connections will be in 2.7.1. In fact, I'm just about to push all the revisions.


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LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) ? On a day when two Cy Young Award winners were on the mound, Victor Martinez had a big performance at the plate.
LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) ? On a day when two Cy Young Award winners were on the mound, Victor Martinez had a big performance at the plate.
Martinez homered off Phillies ace Roy Halladay and finished 3 for 3 as the Detroit Tigers tied Philadelphia 5-5 in 10 innings Sunday.
Just like Halladay, Justin Verlander made his spring training debut for Detroit. And just like Halladay, the 2011 AL MVP allowed one run and struck out two in two innings.
"All I was trying to do was get a feel for the ball and hit my spots," said Verlander, who went 17-8 with a 2.64 ERA last season. "It was just good to get a feel for competition again. I don't really start thinking about results until I am going about five or six innings."
Verlander gave up a long double on a changeup to Ryan Howard, who had two doubles on the day. Tigers manager Jim Leyland said he wasn't concerned about Verlander's performance this early in spring training.
"That's just him getting ready for the season," said Leyland, who was just as concerned about menacing rain clouds that hovered over Lakeland throughout the game. "He threw well, but he's just warming up. It doesn't mean anything yet."
Halladay is going through a different type of spring. The right-hander, who has two Cy Youngs to his credit, is known for eating up innings but he struggled last season with lower back pain that forced a change in his mechanics. He missed six weeks with a strained shoulder that he said was a result of trying to pitch through the back pain. He went 11-8 but posted an uncharacteristic ERA of 4.49 and started only 25 games.
Halladay allowed only one hit but it was a long homer to Martinez, his first since 2011.
"I feel a lot better than I did at the end of last season," Halladay said. "I am just trying to get better and not put a lot of stress on my arm. It has been a long recovery process, but I am taking baby steps for now."
Phillies manager Charlie Manuel was brief in his assessment of Halladay's effort.
"Roy is fine," Manuel said. "Martinez is a great hitter, so that's not a big thing. (Roy) is already ahead of where he was this time last year."
Martinez, who batted .330 with 102 RBIs for Detroit in 2011, missed last season with a left knee injury. He also scored twice Sunday and is batting .571 this spring with four hits in seven at-bats.
"Martinez is swinging it really good right now," Leyland said. "He's just anxious to play."
Philadelphia tied the score in the eighth on a homer by Domonic Brown.
AL MVP and Triple Crown winner Miguel Cabrera went 0 for 3, dropping his spring average to .111 (1 for 9).
NOTES: Tigers OF Andy Dirks was a late scratch with a mild left intercostal strain to his rib cage. Dirks said it was nothing serious and Leyland said Dirks was out of the lineup only as a precaution. ... LHP Drew Smyly is scheduled to pitch Monday for the Tigers in Clearwater against Philadelphia. The Phillies will go with LHP Cliff Lee. ... Leyland said Martinez might play first base Monday. It would be his first action in the field since his injury. ... Leyland was informed that Yankees OF Curtis Granderson broke his right forearm when he was hit by a pitch from Toronto LHP J.A. Happ. Granderson played for the Tigers from 2004-09. "It hits really close to us," Leyland said. "It's a real shame."


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Use sharing auditing in the Office 365 audit log
Sharing is a key activity in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business, and it's widely used in Office 365 organizations. Administrators can now use sharing auditing in the Office 365 audit log to determine how sharing is being used in their organization.
The SharePoint Sharing schema
Sharing events (excluding sharing policy and sharing link events) are different from file- and folder-related events in one primary way: one user is taking an action that has some effect on another user. For example, User A gives User B access to a file. In this example, User A is the acting user and User B is the target user. In the SharePoint File schema, the acting user's action only affects the file itself. When User A opens a file, the only information needed in the FileAccessed event is the acting user. To address this difference, there is a separate schema, called the SharePoint Sharing schema, that captures more information about sharing events. This ensures that administrators have more insight into who shared a resource and the user the resource was shared with.
The Sharing schema provides two additional fields in the audit log related to sharing events:
TargetUserOrGroupName – Stores the UPN or name of the target user or group that a resource was shared with (User B in the previous example).
TargetUserOrGroupType – Identifies whether the target user or group is a Member, Guest, Group, or Partner.
These two fields, in addition to other properties from the Office 365 audit log schema such as User, Operation, and Date can tell the full story about which user shared what resource with whom and when.
There's another schema property that's important to the sharing story. The EventData property stores additional information about sharing events. For example, when a user shares a site with another user, this is accomplished by adding the target user to a SharePoint group. The EventData property captures this additional information to provide context for administrators.
The SharePoint Sharing model and sharing events
Sharing is defined by three separate events: SharingSet, SharingInvitationCreated, and SharingInvitaitonAccepted. Here's the work flow for how sharing events are logged in the Office 365 audit log.
When a user (the acting user) wants to share a resource with another user (the target user), SharePoint (or OneDrive for Business) first checks if the email address of the target user is already associated with a user account in the organization's directory. If the target user is in the organization's directory, SharePoint does the following:
Immediately assigns the target user permissions to access the resource.
Sends a sharing notification to the email address of the target user.
Logs a SharingSet event.
If a user account for the target user isn't in the organization's directory, SharePoint does the following:
Creates a sharing invitation and sends it to the email address of the target user.
Logs a SharingInvitationCreated event.
The SharingInvitationCreated event is most always associated with external or guest sharing when the target user doesn't have access to the resource that was shared.
When the target user accepts the sharing invitation that's sent to them (by clicking the link in the invitation), SharePoint logs a SharingInvitationAccepted event and assigns the target user permissions to access the resource. Additional information about the target user is also logged, such as the identity of the user that the invitation was sent to and the user who actually accepted the invitation. In some case, these users (or email addresses) might be different.
How to identify resources shared with external users
A common requirement for administrators is creating a list of all resources that have been shared with users outside of the organization. By using sharing auditing in Office 365, administrators can now generate this list. Here's how.
Step 1: Search for sharing events and export the results to a CSV file
The first step is to search the Office 365 audit log for sharing events. For more information (including the required permissions) about searching the audit log, see Search the audit log in the Security & Compliance Center.
Sign in to Office 365 using your work or school account.
In the left pane of the Security & Compliance Center, click Search > Audit log search.
The Audit log search page is displayed.
Under Activities, click Sharing and access request activities to search for sharing-related events.
Select a date and time range to find the sharing events that occurred within that period.
Click Search to run the search.
When the search is finished running and the results are displayed, click Export results > Download all results.
After you select the export option, a message is displayed at the bottom of the window that prompts you to open or save the CSV file.
Click Save > Save as and save the CSV file to a folder on your local computer.
Step 2: Filter the CSV file for resources shared with external users
The next step is to filter the CSV for the SharingSet and SharingInvitationCreated events, and to display those events where the TargetUserOrGroupType property is Guest. You use the Power Query Editor tool in Excel to do this. For step-by-step instructions, see Export, configure, and view audit log records.
After you've followed the instructions in the previous topic to prepare the CSV file, do the following:
Open the CSV file that you prepared with the Power Query Editor.
On the Home tab, click Sort & Filter, and then click Filter.
In the Sort & Filter dropdown list on the Operations column, clear all selections, then select SharingSet and SharingInvitationCreated, and click OK.
Excel displays the rows for the SharingSet and SharingInvitationCreated events.
Go to the column named TargetUserOrGroupType and select it.
In the Sort & Filter dropdown list, clear all selections, then select TargetUserOrGroupType:Guest, and click OK.
Now Excel displays the rows for SharingInvitationCreated and SharingSet events AND where the target user is outside of your organization, because external users are identified by the value TargetUserOrGroupType:Guest.
The following table shows all users in the organization who shared resources with a guest user within a specified date range.
Although it's not included in the previous table, the ObjectId property identifies the resource that was shared with the target user; for example
ObjectId:https:\/\/contoso-my.sharepoint.com\/personal\/sarad_contoso_com\/Documents\/Southwater Proposal.docx.
If you want to identify when a guest user was actually assigned permissions to access a resource (as opposed to just the resources that where shared with them), repeat Steps 2, 3, and 4, and filter on the SharingInvitationAccepted and SharingSet events in Step 5.
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I do feel like, however, with its otherworldly family living at arm's length from locals in a strange house, Beautiful Creatures does poke a bit of fun here and there with the idea of Twilight. In particular, Kyle Gallner shows up playing a minor character who looks exactly the way you would look if you were doing a send-up of the pale, mopey vampire Edward. Little touches like this earn the movie much-needed goodwill.
Ethan Wate (Alden Ehrenreich) is itching to move away from his small town. When new girl Lena Ducchanes (Alice Englert) shows up at school, he's attracted to her not-from-here-ness and, perhaps, to the reaction she causes among the "good Christians" of the town. Her family, which has deep roots in the area, according to local legend, is made up of a bunch of devil- worshippers. Lena might have come to live with her uncle Macon Ravenswood (Jeremy Irons) in hopes of being a normal girl, at least for a little while, but the townsfolk won't let her escape the label of a Satan-worshiping Ravenswood.
Ethan cares nothing about all this silliness, though he does seem open to the idea that Lena is more than she appears to be, especially since she bears a strong resemblance to the girl he's been dreaming about. The more they hang out, the more it becomes clear that they are Meant To Be Together by a century-and-a-half-old curse that also threatens to tear them apart. Ya see, Lena is a caster from a family of casters (the word they prefer to "witch"). When she turns 16 in a few months, her true nature will be revealed, and she'll find out whether she's going to be, essentially, a good witch or a bad witch.
I haven't read the book, and the movie doesn't give a whole lot of "everything you ever wanted to know about casters" type detail, so I'll spare you the feminist critique of the idea that a dark male caster like Macon can choose to be good but female casters have no choice in whether they are good or evil. I will, however, nitpick with the scattered, incomplete education we get in the world of the casters. I suppose as supernatural angsty teens go, vampires and zombies have fewer things that need to be explained about their mythology. (A simple "I don't burst into flames; I sparkle like a disco ball" and you're pretty much up to speed in Twilight. "Braaaaaaains" gets you the general idea of what's happening in Warm Bodies.) But the idea of witches (good or bad, what are their powers, what are their restrictions) gives you more creatively to play with as well. A movie like this needs to embrace that. Instead, here we get jumble of pieces of caster lore: There's a caster library! And some kind of sweet/sour 16 ceremony! And there are curses! And here's Lena's giant family, most of whom are only in, like, three scenes! Some pretty serious actors show up to vamp as players in this world: Viola Davis, Emma Thompson, Eileen Atkins, Margo Martindale. But they don't get to do much. (And, no, Jeremy Irons won't be winning an Oscar for this role, but at least he gets to have a little campy fun of the type usually reserved for a Ben Kingsley.)
You get a pile of plot points over here, a holding pen of actors over there and a bunch of swirly, smoky CGI. And occasionally a bit of fun breaks out, much like the lightning strike that appears on a hill each night to frighten the yokels. Emma Thompson, while not used nearly enough, does get to be ridiculous in a way that might be a silly good time. Ehrenreich's Ethan is goofily entertaining, and Englert's Lena has more spunk than, say, Kristen Stewart's Bella. But overall Beautiful Creatures feels like parts of a story still waiting to be assembled. C+
Rated PG-13 for violence, scary images and some sexual material. Directed and adapted from the novel by Richard LaGravenese, Beautiful Creatures is two hours and four minutes long and distributed by Warner Bros.


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CHICAGO – A 6-month-old Chicago girl who was shot five times while her father was changing her diaper died of her wounds Tuesday, authorities said.
Jonylah Watkins died at Comer Children's Hospital, where she underwent surgery following Monday afternoon's attack, the Cook County Medical Examiner's office said. Her father, Jonathan Watkins, was also wounded and remained in critical condition at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
Police on Tuesday were scouring the South Side neighborhood of Woodlawn, where the attack happened, for security camera footage or any other clues as to who carried out the attack.
Witnesses said the gunman approached Jonathan Watkins at around 1 p.m. and opened fire on him while he was standing beside his minivan and changing his daughter's diaper. She was on the front seat.
Jonathan Watkins was shot in the side and buttocks, and suffered a graze wound to his face. Jonylah was shot five times, in the thigh, shoulder, lung, liver and bowels, the family said.
It wasn't the family's first brush with Chicago's gun violence. The girl's mother, Judy Watkins, was shot in the knee while she was pregnant with Jonylah, according to the woman's mother, Mary Young.
"There's too much shooting over there," Young told reporters Monday. Speaking of her granddaughter, she added, "She's nothing but 6 months old. How could anybody -- what kind of heart?"
Chicago has seen a recent rise in gun violence -- much of it gang-related -- and registered at least 500 homicides last year for the first time since 2008. In 2011, there were 435 homicides.
Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy told reporters Monday that homicides were down 26 percent this year, compared with the same period a year earlier. He was expected to give an update on the latest attack later Tuesday.


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After all the hard work of prepping your house for sale, staging the house, fitting showings into your schedule and more, you finally have an offer from a potential buyer. What to do now?
There are three options you have when an offer is made:
As you can see here, there are a LOT of negotiations and possibilities involved when you receive an offer on your house. That is why it's so important to make sure you hire a professional RE/MAX Alliance associate to help you navigate through all of the various contingencies and options available to you to make sure that you get top dollar for your house.
Generally speaking, the first offers are typically the best offers. While this isn't always 100% true, studies have shown that the longer a house sits on the market, the less likely it is to get a full asking price offer.


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The Bicycle Post Trails are fully open!!
We have occasional work days every month or two. Details are usually emailed to club members and/or posted inthe Forums. If you can't make the work day times you can always ride with a small set of clippers and take care of hangers/arm grabbers/thorns etc. Additionally all of the pipes that we use for erosion control can use digging out (on the uphill side) on a regular basis to keep them functional. There are shovels stationed around the trail for this purpose so don't hesitate to pitch in!!
Weekly rides are happening at the trail on Tuesday evenings on an "occasional" basis. Check
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(drawn on 1/2/12).
Trail signs are posted. The signs are positioned for riding the trail in one direction (entering the woods by the main trail sign). All of the major intersections are marked with trail names and most have full trail maps with "You Are Here" indicators on them. Obstacles are also marked in this direction. If you are new to these trails and concerned about getting lost we recommend riding in the signed direction!
From Raleigh/points west
– Take US-264 E towards Greenville, exit at NC-111/NC-222 (#53) to Saratoga/Fountain, turn left end of ramp - go 15.6 mi, in Falkland turn right at Crisp St which turns into Kings Crossroads Rd - go 0.8 mi, turn left at Short Bridge Rd, trailhead is 0.5 mi on the right.
From Greenville/points south and east
– Take NC-43 N (towards Rocky Mount) from town, after crossing over US-264 – go 5 mi, turn left at Short Bridge Rd, trailhead is 0.8 mi on the left.
Look for two large signs marking the start of the trail at a thin line of trees on the left side of the road. Parking is available on the edge of the field near the sign. The entrance to the field is about 100 yards down the road from the sign.
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Fees and Membership
All users of the trail must:
Either become a Bicycle Post Trail member (Join at either Bicycle Post location) or pay a daily rate of $3 per person (fill out pay envelope and deposit in the drop box mounted to tree behind trail head sign).
Sign the liability waiver at either Bicycle Post location.
This needs to be done once every year.
Display membership car in the dash of your vehicle!
Waivers for day users are available at the trail head. They can also be downloaded
. Day use waivers should be placed in the pay box at the trail.
IMPORTANT! Anyone without a parking pass will risk being towed.
Helmets are mandatory for all bicycle users.
Please be aware that unmarked obstacles exist throughout this trail system. You are responsible for evaluating your ability when it comes to riding an obstacle.
Walkers and runners are welcome to use the trail, however, please yield right of way to bicycles.
Please CARRY OUT all LITTER and TRASH. Keep the trails clean for future users.
Unauthorized trails of any type are not allowed and could result in loss of all trails in this network. If you would like to help build trails please contact trail representatives listed
Support the Trail
This trail is on PRIVATE land that is leased at a cost of $3500 per year! A corporation called the Bicycle Post Off Road Riding Club Inc. has been established to secure the lease.
The Bicycle Post has agreed to pay for the cost of the lease as well as the insurance coverage for the trail (totaling over $5000 annually). Their willingness to support local trails should be recognized by all users of the trail. Please support their two locations and tell them that you appreciate their support of these local trails!
The EC Velo Cycling Club has agreed to assist with maintenance and organize volunteer work days to keep the trail in good condition for all users.
Additional support for the trail is always needed and primarily funded through rider donations. If you use the trail regularly please consider making a donation. Donations can be left in the pay box or sent to the following address (make checks payable to Bicycle Post Off Road Riding Club Inc.):
Bicycle Post Off Road Riding Club Inc.
c/o Bicycle Post
215 East Arlington Blvd.
Greenville, NC 27858
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The people and organizations have made a significant contribution to keep the trail open and available. Please thank and support them whenever possible:
Eric Pierce
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15-year-old charged in fatal shooting at armory
LOBELVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A 15-year-old was charged Thursday with one count of criminal homicide in the fatal shooting of a longtime member of the National Guard at a Tennessee armory, according to the state's Bureau of Investigation.
The suspect didn't work at the armory, which is usually locked, but somehow gained access to the building and fired several shots Wednesday evening, authorities said. One struck Sgt. 1st Class Michael W. Braden, 45, who had been with the guard for 20 years, law enforcement and Guard officials said. He died later at a hospital.
The teenager, questioned as a person of interest early Thursday, was being held without bond at a juvenile detention facility, Tennessee Bureau of Investigation spokesman Josh DeVine said. The suspect was arrested without incident at his family's home in Lobelville, about 75 miles southwest of Nashville, officials said.
It was unclear whether the suspect and victim knew each other.
DeVine said the building doesn't have surveillance cameras, but at least one other person in addition to the shooter and the victim was at the armory at the time of the shooting. But DeVine said it was unclear whether there were any eyewitnesses.
The teenager could be tried as an adult, but DeVine said that as of Thursday afternoon, he didn't believe the case had been transferred to the adult system.
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Major County WMA covers 210 acres in Major County in northwest Oklahoma. Located approximately 13miles south and 2.5 miles west of Waynoka, this WMA occurs in the mixed grass eroded plains habitat type. Habitat consists if mixed grass uplands dissected by deep canyons which support several hardwood tree species including American elm, bur oak, chinquapin oak, Eastern red cedar. Water resources are provided by Main Creek which flows year-round across the WMA. Annual precipitation for the area is approximately 25 inches. Driving directions to this WMA are: from the Junction of State Highways 281 & 412, 2 miles south, 2.5 miles west. Access to Major County WMA is Foot Access Only from a parking area at the northeast corner of the area.
WMA Driving Directions: From Seiling: 17 miles north on U.S. Hwy 281, 2¼ miles west on county gravel road (which is 2 miles south of U.S. Hwy 281/U.S. Hwy 412 junction).
Game Species of Interest:
Quail: Bobwhite quail may be present in low numbers.
Deer: White-tailed deer may be present in low numbers.
Turkey: Rio Grande turkeys may be present in low numbers in the spring.
Rabbit: Cottontail rabbits are present in fair numbers.
Furbearers: Coyote, bobcat and raccoon are available.
Dove: Very limited dove use on Major Co.
Description of Fish and Wildlife Management Practices:
Habitat management on Major County WMA primarily involves prescribed grazing, Eastern red cedar control and a limited amount of controlled burning.
Camping and Facilities:
No camping facilities are available on Major County WMA. Camping is available at the Little Sahara State Park, located 2.5 miles east and 10 miles north of the WMA. Lodging and restaurants are available at Waynoka. The Waynoka chamber of commerce can be reached at (580) 824-4741.
A rifle range is not available on this WMA.
Fishing Opportunities:
Very limited fishing opportunity.
Major WMA Map - best general purpose map, pdf format (8.5x11)
Regulations: Seasons on public lands section of hunting regulations
For additional information and area attractions:
Fairview Chamber of Commerce
206 E Broadway, Fairview 73737
Major County Tourism
Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department
Post Office Box 52002
Oklahoma City, OK 73152-2002
(800) 652-6552 or (405) 521-2409
Waynoka Chamber of Commerce
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Actress Ashley Judd wasn't joking when she hinted at a political run just before the U.S. election – she is "seriously exploring" a 2014 bid for Senate in her adopted Kentucky.
Judd has met with Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and is researching a political career, according to news website Politico.com.
Kentucky Republican John Yarmuth, who has also met with the star, says, "She is doing all the things that a serious candidate exploring a race should do.
"I think there are a lot of people, and I was one of them, who wanted to let her know that her candidacy would be an exciting prospect for us."
Judd has yet to comment on the latest speculation, but just last month, she dismissed reports of a political run, insisting she felt "honored" to even be considered for a Democratic Party post.
Judd was one of many celebrity attendees at the Democratic National Convention in North Carolina in September, when she spoke as a Tennessee delegate, and she has previously admitted she was seriously considering swapping Hollywood for Washington, D.C. after receiving such overwhelming support from leading members of the party.
She said, "Everybody's thinking about it (political office) for me… and I'm at the point where so many people have asked that I feel it is honorable to at least talk about it.
"I do a lot in the U.S. with the Democrat Party at the county and national level and that may be the best use of me… but I'm just gonna listen to what people have to say and (decide) should I keep operating in the space I'm in or should I take the show to Washington? I don't know."


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CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) Mike Ladd had a career-high 23 points and Washington State held off Oregon State down the stretch Saturday afternoon for a 71-68 win.
Brock Motum added 20 points and 10 rebounds for the Cougars (11-9, 2-5 Pac-12), who won their first road game in five tries this season.
Ahmad Starks had 17 points and eight assists for Oregon State (11-9, 1-6). Starks was wide of the basket on a potential game-tying 3-pointer from the top of the arc in the closing seconds. That followed Washington State's DaVonte Lacy's two missed free throws and Starks' layup with 7.9 seconds left to cut the Cougars' advantage to one.
OSU's Royce Woolridge then made two foul shots, setting up Starks' final attempt.
Ladd's lay-in gave Washington State its first lead of the second half at 37-36 after the Cougars trailed by four at halftime.


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The road to better jobs, more money and improved lifestyles is paved by education. More than three-quarters of global online respondents agree that receiving a higher education, such as college, is important and three-fourths believe educational opportunities can lead to better employment and higher income.
"Investing in education is critical to fostering growth and innovation for generations to come," said Susan Whiting, vice chair at Nielsen. "The head-spinning pace of technological change is creating new opportunities—and presenting new challenges. Improving our children's education is the surest way to ensure a brighter future."
The vast majority of respondents said they value education, and Latin Americans were among the most ardent supporters. More than 90 percent of respondents in Brazil (94%), Mexico (92%), Chile (92%) and Venezuela (91%) said they believe that higher education was vital. Only one-quarter (23%) of global respondents believe that finishing secondary education was good enough.


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Doctors say some women, especially with breast augmentation, can see results very quickly. "It's instant gratification. They wake up a different person," offers Thornton. In fact, research shows that the five-year satisfaction rate for breast augmentation is 94 percent, reports Wilcox (80 percent of the implants he places are silicone-gel, which was approved again by the Federal Drug Administration in November 2006).
Bogdan also dispels a common misconception that implants need to be replaced every 10 years. "Implants are not perfect, and there are some issues that can occur with time, but if the breasts look good and feel soft, there is no reason to undergo implant exchange surgery," he stresses.
In Austin, there's long been a bumper sticker and t-shirt campaign saying, "KEEP AUSTIN WEIRD". Some clever Dallas person came up with the Big D answer to that: "KEEP DALLAS PLASTIC".
Wrapping up my four Beliefnet years, I was thinking about the posts that attracted the most attention and comment in that time. Without a doubt the most popular (in terms of attracting attention, not all of it admiring, to be sure) was the October 12, 2006, entry in which I revealed and explained why I'd left the Roman Catholic Church for Eastern Orthodoxy. At 5,000 words or so, it was probably the longest post I've ever written, and certainly the one that drew the most commentary. I wish I had been less melodramatic, but I wrote it in a single sitting, in an emotional outpouring. It is what it is, a snapshot in time.
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Mike Montesano, of Glen Head, is running for re-election in the 15th Assembly District against first-time challenger Mario Ferone, of Plainview.
The two men offer very different perspectives. Montesano, 58, has a decade of experience in the New York Police Department and has also practiced law for more than 20 years. He has served the 15th District for the past three years.
Ferone, who's all of 19, is studying political science and economics in his third year at Stony Brook University.
The bottom line is experience. As an Assemblyman, Montesano has supported legislation to spark job growth in New York state. His priorities are to reduce taxes on small businesses and to put an end to state-issued unfunded mandates to ease the tax burden on municipalities. His plan to enact a three-year moratorium on unfunded mandates may be easier said than done, but is still a very admirable goal.
Montesano seems determined to limit rising property taxes, and has pinpointed ways to do so. Ferone, on the other hand, approaches issues with an idealistic approach and on a more general scope.
Ferone is a member of Stony Brook's undergraduate student government, and he may indeed have a better grasp on what younger people are thinking. But we think Montesano's experience and track record have earned him another term in the Assembly, and that is why the Herald is enthusiastically endorsing him.


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February 01, 2012
Welcome to the new 3CE series highlighting recent graduates who are surviving (and even thriving!) out in the "real world." Starting in January 2012, 3CE will periodically highlight recent grads who have found a fulfilling job or are enrolled in an engaging graduate study program.
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About Republicans for Obama
-Republicans for Obama
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John Martin is the Co-founder and Director of Republicans for Obama. He has worked for various Republican candidates throughout the northeast, most recently on the Foley for Governor campaign in Connecticut. He currently lives in New York City, and is a Navy Reservist and a veteran of the war in Afghanistan.
Forums Moderator
Suzi LeVeaux - Born and raised in the deep south, Suzi LeVeaux has voted mostly Republican since casting her first presidential vote for Nixon. Due to the primary structure in Louisiana at the time, she was a registered Democrat, but that did not stop her from supporting the GOP when they presented the best candidate. When she became sick of of being called a Reagan Democrat in the 1980's, she finally made the switch, and has been a Republican ever since.
Suzi is a retired optician, whose joy is her family, and whose passion is politics. She is an Eisenhower style Republican, who is very concerned about the hard right turn the GOP has taken.
Randall Leverette - As a student at The George Washington University in Washington, DC, Randall was active in Republican politics, where he was a member of the GWU College Republicans and the GWU Student Government Association. After graduation, he was a member of the National Black Republican Council and served as youth coordinator for the DC Chapter of the organization.
After graduation, he worked as a senior legislative specialist with a prominent DC legal practice covering energy and environmental matters, and working closely with congressional staff and various divisions within the Environmental Protection Agency. He later earned a Masters in Community Economic Development from the University of Southern New Hampshire School of Business where he was also a HUD Scholar.
Randall is a native of Baltimore, Maryland and currently lives in New York City and New Paltz, New York, where in his spare time he's an avid golfer.
Outreach Coordinator
Web Master
Evan O'Donnell designed the Republicans for Obama site and is responsible for its day to day operation. Evan has been an independently-minded voter for as long as he's been voting. In light of the increasing amount of partisan bickering that has characterized American politics in recent years, Evan's encouraged by Senator Obama's political success and ability to unite.
If you have any technical questions or ideas on how to improve the R.F.O. site, Evan's the man to talk to.
For all press inquiries, contact Randall Leverette at firstname.lastname@example.com
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Past R.F.O. Officers:
Barbara Gordon - was involved with RFO since December of 2006. While John was stationed in Afghanistan she worked to establish and grow the RFO organization, and to start developing pro-Obama arguments using conservative principles. She now coordinates content for the site. You can see some of her favorite posts here and here and here.
She's been registered Republican since she turned 18, but has serious concerns about the current incarnation of the Republican Party. This brand of Republicanism has been advertised as the party of "compassionate conservatives," but Barbara feels it has failed at both compassion and true conservatism. Its platform of bellicentric foreign policy combined with deficit spending and divisive social rhetoric is not structurally sound. It's time for the party to find a new foundation.
As the parent of a profoundly handicapped child, she is also concerned about the state of healthcare in this country, and feels that Obama is committed to substantial reform. She is hopeful that in the next few years we will finally see healthcare access extended to all Americans.
When not avoiding housework by hanging out online, Barbara might be found gardening, jogging, or watching college football. She lives in Oklahoma with her husband and their two sons, and a Golden Retriever cleverly named Goldie.
Kenneth Wehking served as the Deputy Director of Republicans for Obama for the 2008 campaign. He lives in Highlands Ranch, Colorado and works for a large healthcare company in software quality assurance. Being raised in Colorado, he enjoys hiking with his Great Dane, climbing the 14ers of Colorado, marathon running, cycling and dog parks. Educated at the University of Miami, he met people from around the world and has seen first hand that we can celebrate our diversity and cultures, while still sharing common ground.
A lifelong Republican, Ken feels that many politicians have forgotten about the people they were elected to represent. In the spirit of Teddy Roosevelt, America needs a statesman that can set a new course and change this culture of division to one of cooperation and solutions to our most pressing problems, including: budget deficits, healthcare reform, energy independence, social security/medicaid reform and protecting our natural resources, among a few.
Erik Paterson has been a conservative Republican all his life, is an NRA Life Member, and has always voted the Republican party line, that is until he actually started listening to what Senator Obama had to say. Erik first heard Obama speak during his senatorial debate with Alan Keyes, and then during his keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic convention. The more he listened, the more sense Senator Obama made. After reading his books, Erik was sold on the idea that Barack Obama is what this country needs in the White House.
Erik is 53 years old, and was born in Berkeley California. He is a United States Marine Corps Veteran, currently working as a Public Transportation Professional. He has been married for 36 years to the same wonderful woman, who is an Army Veteran, and a Health Care Professional. Together they have three fantastic sons, all USAF veterans who brought them three wonderful daughters.


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Wikipedia vandal
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|Binomial name
Homo vulgaris
Crocker, 2002
|Primary armament
|Nonsense cannon
|Secondary armament
|Page-move devastator
|Power supply
|5 kilobytes
|200 px
|Special attack
|Super Communist Marmot Attack on Wheels
|Conservation status
The Wikipedia vandal is a creature that roams Wikiland and Wikipedia. Though its name sounds like it is related to the Uncyclopedia Vandal, it is in fact more related to the Grue, Oscar Wilde, and Yo Momma.
The Vandal had their origin when they evolved from the dinosaurs. Although this theory has been widely contested, it is clear that Vandals have a "bird brain," and as birds evolved from dinosaurs, we can safely assume that this is the case with Vandals. In any case, Colin Mochrie under the guise of God bestowed upon them semi-devestating attacks, which coupled by an extremely rapid breeding rate and sheer dumb luck, allowed them to come out of their herbivorous roots.
Vandals are invisible, but lose this invisibility where they are feeding (now termed "vandalizing"), attacking, or possessing other Wikipedians.
Although their ancestors were plant eaters, Vandals are known to subsist on Wikipedia articles. They are also blood suckers, and if under dire constraints, will attempt to feed on Wikipedians. As a result, weapons such as the block, deletion, Twinkle, and popups have been developed, all of which satisfactorily repel the vandal. Vandals are considered as pests, and a massive eradication campaign has been called for. The Vandal has the ability to possess other people, and in the past numerous exorcisms have resulted in bloody deaths.
Vandals generally reproduce by binary fission, but may also do so by masturbation, mitosis, intercourse, meiosis, releasing spores, or doing other lewd sexual acts.
Although Vandals eat, reproduce, and store information, they are doubted to actually be living because they have no heart, and even less of a brain. They are an evolutionary step above the virus, but are still inferior to bacteria. As a result, they are listed as a prime example of entropy and devolution.
Many pains have been taken to classify the different types of Vandals, and most have been catagorized, but there are still more to discover. Here are some classifications:
- Babblers (Homo vulgaris gibberishshshshshshsh) are a subspecies of Vandal that cannot speak coherently. Their vandalism consists of catch phrases like "qweruytoyiuqyrwitasgk" or "asdfghjkjhgaweiu19347," and are only intelligible among their own.
- Curious Georges (Homo vulgaris inquisitus) are a subspecies of Vandal that are very curious to see how things work. They are very naive, and seek to know how Wiki-things work. They are the least harmful, and may be purified. Examples include "TESTING TESTING" or "Does this really work?"
- Critics (Homo vulgaris annoyingus) are another subspecies that have sharp, polarized opinions of things. Examples include "Yo mom is an ugly white B#$^@" and "Jar Jar Binks should suck my penis." Enough said.
- Macrophalli (Homo vulgaris whoathatsaBIGcock) are a subspecies characterized by their lengthy, unproportional penis. Unfortunately, this equipment makes them very slow and cumbersome. It has the ability to regenerate, as St. Jimbo found in an attempt to castrate one.
- Friends(Homo vulgaris queer) are another subspecies, and are wide ranging. They often vandalize about their friends, who are one or more of the following: gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer, , black, fat, poor, deformed or otherwise ugly, promiscuous, mentally retarded, Citizendium or Uncyclopedia editors, people with small penises, losers, nerds, geeks, peoples with no life, savants, female dogs, and donkeys. It is notable that this subspecies is exclusively white, heterosexual, smart, and none of the list above. They never vandalize about themselves being the following.
- Celeb stalkers (Homo vulgaris stalkus) are a subspecies who claim to have seen celebrity do odd/queer acts. They may hide in bedroom closets, or even attempt to molest the celebrity themselves.
- Aspirers (Homo vulgaris aspirus) are a subspecies who want to be famous, but because of some handicap, can't. They have no life and are considered to be nonliving.
- Threateners (Homo vulgaris insevendays) are a subspecies who threaten articles or Wikipedians with death or legal threats. The latter is usually the more dangerous, as lawyers are considered to be even more deadly than the Vandals themselves.