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Fifteen marching bands to take part in festival
(Local News ~ 10/02/06)
Area high school students will march through the streets of Jackson on Tuesday. The 62nd annual Jackson Marching Band Festival parade begins at 4 p.m. and will travel from the high school down High, Main and Russell streets before returning to the school. ...
Jackson's fall cleanup runs through Friday
(Local News ~ 10/02/06)
Jackson's annual fall cleanup week begins today and runs through Friday. During the week, the Jackson Sanitation Department's three-bag limit is not enforced. There will be a four-cubic-yard limit on the amount of trash collected. All items must be placed on the curb by 8 a.m. ...
Scott City Council to make liquor license decision on two businesses
(Local News ~ 10/02/06)
The Scott City Council is expected to decide tonight whether to renew or revoke liquor licenses for two businesses that repeatedly sold alcohol to minors in police checks late last year and early this year. In early July the council unanimously voted to place Larry's Store 24 on Main Street and Rhodes Travel Center on Nash Road on extended licenses pending two stipulations. ...
Query leads to commemoration of Cape Girardeau County's founding
(Local News ~ 10/02/06)
Sometimes a simple question can launch some unexpected actions. In June, Cape Girardeau County Presiding Commissioner Gerald Jones received a message from his counterpart in Daviess County, who wanted to know how to get into the cornerstone of his courthouse...
Increase in health insurance rates slows
(Local News ~ 10/02/06)
As assistant director of human resources at Southeast Missouri State University, Alissa Vandeven has seen substantial increases in health insurance premiums over the last few years. Next year will be no exception as the 1,200 employees at the university are facing a 10 percent increase in 2007...
St. Louis outscores Martz, Lions
(Professional Sports ~ 10/02/06)
ST. LOUIS -- With the architect of the "Greatest Show" on the other side of the turf, new St. Louis Rams coach Scott Linehan showed his team can win a shootout, too. The Rams rallied from behind three times, then benefited from an overturned pass interference penalty in the waning seconds to beat Detroit 41-34 on Sunday...
Struggling Cardinals back into the playoffs
(Professional Sports ~ 10/02/06)
ST. LOUIS -- The St. Louis Cardinals won another NL Central title with a team still running in reverse. There was no sign of distress in a raucous clubhouse, though, with champagne spraying in every direction after the Cardinals backed into their third straight division championship and averted perhaps the biggest September collapse in major league history...
MSU hopes new academy will lure rural students to sciences
(State News ~ 10/02/06)
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Missouri State University president Michael Nietzel wants to give rural high school students in the state a better chance at becoming scientists, mathematicians and engineers. Nietzel is proposing to open an Innovation Academy that would bring rural and low-income students from across the state, with an interest in the sciences, to Missouri State for a three-week summer camp...
Robin Williams seeks rehab after Gibson arrest
(Entertainment ~ 10/02/06)
LOS ANGELES -- Mel Gibson's DUI arrest was a "big wake-up call" for Robin Williams, the funnyman tells "Access Hollywood" in an interview scheduled to air today. "If you're violating your standards faster than you can lower them, time to go away," he said...
Gov. Blunt's highly unlikely MOHELA scenario comes true
(State News ~ 10/02/06)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Still stewing over the legislative failure of one his hallmark proposals, Gov. Matt Blunt decided last May to simply bypass those bickering lawmakers. His grand plan to construct buildings at every public university in Missouri -- financed through the profits of Missouri's student loan agency -- would move forward regardless. He would pursue a direct transfer of the money from the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority to universities...
Suburb in contempt after Nike annexation battle
(National News ~ 10/02/06)
BEAVERTON, Ore. -- Can Nike Inc. and this growing suburb ever be good neighbors again? After the "smoking gun?" After running up a legal bill of about $1.1 million over a file less than a couple dozen pages thick? And, oh, how about the judge finding the city in contempt?...
6 people killed in 3-car collision in S. Ill.
(National News ~ 10/02/06)
COLLINSVILLE, Ill. -- A three-vehicle crash in Southern Illinois killed six people, including five family members, authorities said Sunday. The chain-reaction crash, which also injured two others, happened Saturday evening near Belleville, Illinois State Police Master Sgt. Roger Hayes said...
Teen with microchip implant killed in Fla. motorcycle crash
(National News ~ 10/02/06)
BOCA RATON, Fla. -- A teen engineering prodigy who gained national attention in 2002 when he and his family received identification chip implants on live television was killed in a motorcycle accident, authorities said. Derek Jacobs, 18, lost control of his motorcycle early Saturday and crashed into a guardrail and a pole, the Palm Beach County sheriff's office said. He was wearing a helmet...
Eva Davis
(Obituary ~ 10/02/06)
CAIRO, Ill. -- Eva M. Davis, 77, of Tamms, Ill., died Sunday, Oct. 1, 2006, at the Daystar Care Center in Cairo. She was born Feb. 13, 1929, in Hardin County, Tenn., the daughter of John Henry and Beulah Flat Pearson. She and Floyd Davis were married. He died in 1974...
Out of the past 10/2/06
(Out of the Past ~ 10/02/06)
25 years ago: Oct. 2, 1981 Cape Girardeau County lost 3,000 acres of farmland to housing and other rural developments last year, according to statistics presented at a hearing of the Missouri House Select Interim Committee on the Preservation of Agricultural Land held in Cape Girardeau yesterday...
Woods ready for break after PGA win streak hits six
(Professional Sports ~ 10/02/06)
CHANDLER'S CROSS, England -- Good news for the rest of golf: Tiger Woods is going on vacation. A streak that began 10 weeks ago on the sun-baked links of Hoylake reached six straight PGA Tour victories on the rain-drenched fairways north of London on Sunday when Woods went wire-to-wire in the American Express Championship. He became the first player in tour history to win at least eight times in three seasons...
White House, Dems expect criminal probe of e-mail scandal
(National News ~ 10/02/06)
WASHINGTON -- The White House and Democratic leaders in Congress called Sunday for a criminal probe into former Rep. Mark Foley's electronic messages to teenage boys -- a lurid scandal that has put House Republicans in political peril. White House counselor Dan Bartlett called the allegations against Foley shocking. He said President Bush hadn't learned of Foley's inappropriate e-mails to a 16-year-old boy and instant messages to other boys before the news broke last week...
Feds worry that terrorists, mobsters might collaborate
(National News ~ 10/02/06)
WASHINGTON -- The FBI's top counterterrorism official harbors lots of concerns: weapons of mass destruction, undetected homegrown terrorists and the possibility that old-fashioned mobsters will team up with al-Qaida for the right price. Though there is no direct evidence yet of organized crime collaborating with terrorists, the first hints of a connection surfaced in a recent undercover FBI operation. ...
Military news 10/2/06
(Community News ~ 10/02/06)
Wilferth graduates from Reserve basic training...
Lutheran Family and Children's Services holds dinner
(Community News ~ 10/02/06)
Several organizations and individuals were recognized at the LFCS Faith in Action dinner for their continuous support throughout the years. The event was held Sept. 24 at the Drury Lodge. In honor of the Rev. Walter J. Keisker, who for 30 years served as pastor of St. ...
Delores Gettings
(Obituary ~ 10/02/06)
Delores "Dee" Medley Gettings, 60, of Scott City formerly of Sikeston, Mo., died Saturday, Sept. 30, 2006, at the Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born July 21, 1946, in Delta, the daughter of the late Russell L. and Iva Driskill Medley...
2 Cape businesses included in St. Louis market
(Business ~ 10/02/06)
For Wes Kinsey, the Best of St. Louis Best of Missouri Market was something of a business saver. A few years back, My Daddy's Cheesecake was treading water. Rumors circulated that it was going to have to close. But then Kinsey met representatives from Dierbergs, the St. Louis-based grocery store chain...
Florida citrus industry faces potential shortage of oranges
(Business ~ 10/02/06)
ORLANDO, Fla. -- It's getting hard to grow oranges in the Sunshine State. Monthslong droughts are broken by nasty hurricane seasons. Three diseases that kill and damage citrus trees and fruit continue to spread. Urban sprawl is taking over groves, and there are now fewer acres of trees than any time since 1988, when a wave of freezes crippled the industry...
Winniefred Stout
(Obituary ~ 10/02/06)
Winniefred C. Stout, 94, of Mound City, Ill., died Saturday, Sept. 30, 2006, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Nov. 14, 1911, in New York City, daughter of James A. and Bessie Hogg Connell. She and J. Paul Stout were married and he preceded her in death...
Pleasing to the eye
(Editorial ~ 10/02/06)
If you've been in downtown Cape Girardeau recently, particularly in the area of the huge parking lot and pavilion in front of the floodwall that will soon display a new Wall of Fame mural, you have seen all the construction going on. The plan is to improve traffic flow through the parking areas and spruce up an otherwise ordinary expanse of concrete...
Melvin Lorenz
(Obituary ~ 10/02/06)
Melvin A. Lorenz, 84, of Shawneetown died Saturday, Sept. 30, 2006, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson and after 9:30 a.m. Wednesday at Trinity Lutheran Church in Shawneetown...
Judd Wilson
(Obituary ~ 10/02/06)
Judd W. Wilson, 94, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, Sept. 29, 2006, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Aug. 18, 1912, in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, the son of Judd E. and Mary J. Pitts Wilson. He first married Viola Wilson. She preceded him in death in December of 2000. He then married Alice M. Maple in 2002 in St. Petersburg, Fla. She preceded him in death in 2004...
Speak Out 10/2/06
(Speak Out ~ 10/02/06)
Dog or medicine; Candidates' views; Nutrition and learning; Society's problems; Teenage drivers; Driving distractions; School sales; Better alternative; Give us guidelines; Run with an apple; Don't want the truth; Congrats on awards; Too rational; Train's coming; Grants for sidewalks; Proud to serve
Community cuisine 10/2/06
(Community News ~ 10/02/06)
Whole-hog sausage supper planned Oct. 15; Benefit supper set for Saxony, LLL scholarship
Israeli pullout 'incomplete'
(International News ~ 10/02/06)
MARWAHEEN, Lebanon -- The U.N. called Israel's pullout from nearly all of south Lebanon on Sunday "significant progress." But sources of friction remained: Israel still holds the Lebanese part of a divided border village and its planes patrol Lebanon's airspace...
Eagle-eyed: Father, son are dedicated bird counters
(State News ~ 10/02/06)
HAVANA, Ill. -- They've witnessed nearly two dozen young bald eagles fledge from their nests and have marveled at ungainly American pelicans that manage to fly in graceful undulating lines. But it's the chance to lend a hand to birds along the Illinois River that keeps them coming back...
Farrakhan's illness raises questions about the future of Nation of Islam
(State News ~ 10/02/06)
Minister Louis Farrakhan, ailing and in seclusion at his Michigan home, has ceded leadership of the Nation of Islam to an executive board while he recovers, saying the movement must prove that it "is more than the charisma, eloquence and personality" of one person...
Cape police reports 10/2/06
(Police/Fire Report ~ 10/02/06)
The following items were released by the Cape Girardeau Police Department. Arrests do not imply guilt....
Cape/Jackson fire reports 10/2/06
(Police/Fire Report ~ 10/02/06)
Cape Girardeau...
Community briefs 10/2/06
(Community News ~ 10/02/06)
AARP 4041 to meet today at Grace UMC The Cape Girardeau County chapter of AARP 4041 will meet at 1:30 p.m. today at Grace United Methodist Church, Broadway and Caruthers Avenue. The program will be a candidates forum. A door prize drawing will be held...
Study: Ads for high-fat foods fill toddler TV shows
(National News ~ 10/02/06)
CHICAGO -- When Susan Connor's 3-year-old son started humming the McDonald's jingle, a research project was born. Connor knew where he'd heard the fast food giant's catchy tune -- on the Disney Channel during "The Wiggles," a show for preschoolers...
'No perfect security' -- shootings put school safety back in spotlight
(National News ~ 10/02/06)
DENVER -- A bearded drifter walks into a Colorado school and fatally shoots a student before taking his own life. Wisconsin authorities charge three boys with plotting a bomb attack on their high school and, two weeks later, a student in a rural school allegedly shoots his principal. A gunman bursts into a Vermont elementary school looking for his ex-girlfriend and guns down a teacher...
Murder charges filed against South Carolina man in shooting deaths of his wife and four children
(National News ~ 10/02/06)
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. -- A man was charged Sunday with murdering his wife and her four children in a domestic dispute at their home, authorities said. Michael Simmons, 41, appeared at a bond hearing via video link from the Charleston County jail Sunday and was ordered held without bond on five counts of murder...
Georgia authorities seek gossipy MySpace blogger for sexual content
(National News ~ 10/02/06)
ATHENS, Ga. -- MySpace Lesson No. 143: Be careful what gossip you blog about. Authorities are searching for whomever posted a long list and description of supposed sexual encounters between dozens of high school students on the online networking site MySpace.com...
Dam collapse in Nigeria sweeps away families, up to 40 feared dead
(International News ~ 10/02/06)
KANO, Nigeria -- Families were swept away in a torrent of water and up to 40 people were feared dead after a dam collapsed in Nigeria, a state-owned radio station said Sunday. The dam -- about one mile from the center of Zamfara state's capital city of Gusau -- collapsed Saturday after heavy rains. But surveyors were trying to determine whether to blame the downpour or structural neglect...
Thailand swears in new prime minister
(International News ~ 10/02/06)
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Retired army commander Gen. Surayud Chulanont was sworn in Sunday as Thailand's interim prime minister, saying he wanted to settle a bloody Muslim insurgency and heal a country divided by the policies of his predecessor. The ruling military council running Thailand since a Sept. 19 coup appointed Surayud after ousting Thaksin Shinawatra...
Shiites demand changes after arrest of Sunni's bodyguard
(International News ~ 10/02/06)
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Shiite politicians demanded changes in the Iraqi government Sunday, accusing a Sunni Arab party in the coalition of ties to terrorism after a bodyguard of its leader was arrested on suspicion of planning bomb attacks. The dispute threatened a sectarian crisis within the national unity government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, which is struggling to contain spiraling Shiite-Sunni killings that the U.S. ambassador said have surpassed Sunni insurgent attacks in deadliness...
Trading blame: Bioshield dispute underscores problems with defense program
(Business ~ 10/02/06)
SAN FRANCISCO -- By now, millions of anthrax vaccine shots developed through cutting-edge genetic engineering were supposed to be filling a new national stockpile of biodefense drugs. Instead, five years after anthrax attacks left five dead, sickened 17 and panicked the country, the nearly $1 billion contract awarded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to a tiny and struggling San Francisco Bay Area biotechnology company is plagued with misfortune and delays...
Gaza fighting between Hamas, Fatah kills seven
(International News ~ 10/02/06)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Heavily armed Hamas militiamen's efforts to break up anti-government protests Sunday sparked gunbattles across the Gaza Strip that killed seven people in the worst internal Palestinian violence since Hamas took power. Militants from the opposition Fatah group retaliated by torching the Palestinian Cabinet building in the West Bank. The violence comes amid growing frustration over forming a national unity government that could end crippling economic sanctions...
Head of European Commission pledges aid to Darfur region
(International News ~ 10/02/06)
EL FASHER, Sudan -- The head of the European Commission urged Sudan's president on Sunday to help the African Union keep peace in the troubled Darfur region and end the obstacles hampering the work of humanitarian groups there. On a visit to the war-torn region, Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso also announced a pledge of more than $50 million in aid from Europe amid mounting international pressure on the Sudanese government to accept a U.N. peacekeeping force in Darfur...
Trahan claims his first title on PGA Tour
(Professional Sports ~ 10/02/06)
D.J. Trahan won the Southern Farm Bureau Classic for his first PGA Tour victory, birdieing the par-5 18th hole three straight times in a playoff to hold off Joe Durant. Trahan won with a 5-foot birdie putt on the third extra hole after closing with a 1-under 71 to match Durant (66) at 13-under 275 on the Annandale Golf Club course in Madison, Miss. Trahan holed the winning putt after Durant missed a 5-footer of his own...
Business to bring a piece of Mexico to Cape
(Column ~ 10/02/06)
Small-town life can be frustrating at times. Like when you ask a waitress what the "soup du jour" is and she tells you it's the soup of the day, as if you were asking for a translation. Or that the best art-house movies never make it to our local theaters because they absolutely HAVE to have six screens reserved for the latest Will Ferrell flick...
People on the move 10/2/06
(Business ~ 10/02/06)
Plaza Tire founder wins advertising award The Tri-State Advertising and Marketing Professionals have announced that Vernon "Pee Wee" Rhodes of Plaza Tire Service has been chosen as the recipient of the 2006 Tri-State AMP Triumph award. The Triumph award is given annually to recognize outstanding achievement in business and marketing. ...
Not-quite-so-bountiful harvest
(Local News ~ 10/02/06)
You can't ask for a bumper crop every year. Bob Breuer knows that. And this isn't a bumper crop year. But Breuer has other things to be happy about. The co-owner of Tower Rock Winery in Altenburg is celebrating awards at the state and national level for his locally made wine. Like other local winery owners, Breuer not only makes wine, he grows many of the grapes that go into making that wine...
Stewart wins Banquet 400; Johnson hit with penalty
(Professional Sports ~ 10/02/06)
KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- Tony Stewart was on fumes. Jimmie Johnson was fuming. Eliminated from championship contention, Stewart and his crew decided to gamble on fuel mileage. It paid off -- but just barely, as Stewart crawled across the finish line Sunday to win the Banquet 400 at Kansas Speedway...
Scientists: Premature births account for more than 30 percent of infant deaths
(National News ~ 10/02/06)
ATLANTA -- Scientists now say a third of infant deaths are due to premature births -- a much larger percentage than previously thought. In the past, "preterm birth" has been the listed cause of death in fewer than 20 percent of newborn fatalities. But that number should be 34 percent or more, said researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
Clemens, Pettitte, Tejada deny steroids use following report
(Professional Sports ~ 10/02/06)
Roger Clemens calls the report "dangerous and malicious and reckless." Andy Pettitte insists he never took banned drugs. Miguel Tejada says he is being smeared again by scandal. Some of baseball's biggest stars responded with denials and denunciations Sunday following a Los Angeles Times report in which former pitcher Jason Grimsley accused five players of using performance-enhancing drugs, according to a federal agent's affidavit. ...
Late slide pairs Tigers with Yankees
(Professional Sports ~ 10/02/06)
NEW YORK -- If the Detroit Tigers are going to extend their surprising season by making a run in the playoffs, they'll have to get past the New York Yankees. After wasting several chances to wrap up an AL Central title, the slumping Tigers slipped to a wild-card spot Sunday and now must open the postseason Tuesday night at Yankee Stadium against New York's powerful lineup...
Study: Children who slept through fire alarm awoke to mother's voice
(National News ~ 10/02/06)
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Children in deep sleep awoke to recordings of their mothers' voices -- calling them by name and ordering them out of their bedrooms -- even if they slept through the beeping sound a smoke alarm makes, according to a small study. The study reaffirms previous research that shows what works for adults doesn't always work for children, said Dr. Gary Smith, one of the co-authors...
Missouri school boards renewing fight against classroom spending requirement
(State News ~ 10/02/06)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- State lawmakers won't reconvene at the Capitol for another four months, but school boards across Missouri are already gearing up for a fight over how they spend tax dollars. The Missouri School Boards Association has told members to begin lobbying their local legislators against the potential reintroduction of a proposal that would require school districts to spend at least 65 percent of their budgets on classroom instruction...
Missouri's exports up by 19 percent
(Business ~ 10/02/06)
Missouri's exports through the second quarter of 2006 were up by nearly 19 percent compared to the same period in 2005, according to the World Institute for Strategic Economic Research. Through June 2006, exports by Missouri companies topped $6 billion, compared to just over $5 billion after the second quarter 2005. ...
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Categories don't come much more hotly contested than this.
But we felt it was finally time we took on one of the most contentious discussion topics of all when it comes to food in Dublin: where's the best place to get a pizza?
So here, as voted by the Lovin Dublin team (and completely separate from the Dublin's Finest Pizza category), here are the Top 10 places in Dublin to get a pizza...
10. Big Blue Bus
You'd hardly think that one of the 10 best pizza establishments in the city is based in a bus out the back of a pub – but sure enough, this is the case. Thing is, there's far more to this pizza than just decent soakage – it's a quality feed, served in a quality setting.
9. Jamie's Italian
Yes, it's a chain – and yes, you're probably going to be wedged between a silent couple and a toddler throwing his spaghetti on the ground in the midst of a tantrum. But we'd be doing a disservice to pizza lovers if we left it off the list because of that.
The pizzas here are light, flavoursome and crafted with all the skill you'd expect from the man behind the chain. As good as you'll get from an international chain.
8. Paulie's
Some might be miffed that this one sits a little low on the list – but the first spot in Ireland to do proper, Neapolitan-style pizza is still a very worthy entrant on the Top 10.
7. Manifesto
The pride of Rathmines – gluten-free options to boot, and possibly the finest sit-in venue on the list.
6. Honest
Speaking of gluten-free... this spot, located upstairs from Honest To Goodness on Dame Court, nails it. And it also does some pretty insane things with those little discs of dough.
The sesame duck pizza, in particular – with roast duck, hoisin sauce, spring onions, sesame seeds and sesame oil – is a real head-scratcher. But it tastes bloody great.
5. Ciao Bella Roma
A little on the traditional side for some of our readers – but this is fresh, simple, and bursting with authentic Italian ingredients. Get in.
4. Basil
A new little spot down by Ringsend that's as well known for its coffee as it is for its pizza – though that's perhaps to do a disservice to the main product on show here. Thin, crispy and delish AF.
3. Platform
Not technically in Dublin, sure, but this Bray joint joint has sure made a mark since it opened a couple of years back – one of the few places, of any genre, that are worth a 40-minute train journey from the city centre.
2. Osteria Lucio
Michelin-star cooking, courtesy of the wonderful Ross Lewis, brought to one of the most simple and classic foods of all. Located where Pizza e Porchetta used to be, it's somehow managed to up the game even on its phenomenal predecessor.
Almost perfect. In fact, the only point working against it is that it's not...
1. Base
Well. Could it really be anything else?
Absolutely perfect pizza, built around a menu that's bursting with creativity and executed to perfection – you'd honestly be doing well to get better in Italy.
Have we left something off? A hidden gem, or an underrated classic? Let us know in the comments below, or email us at [email protected] – and next week, we'll assemble the best of these into a separate article.

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by Adam Marks on 1/10/2012 | ; Tags: tip a day, App Catalog, bug fix, webos 2.x | 4 comments
This tip is only for devices running webOS 2.x
There appears to be a bug in the latest version of either webOS or the App Catalog that may prevent you from accessing the App Catalog's "Preferences & Accounts" menu. If you load up the App Catalog and swipe-down from the top-left you will see the App Catalog dropdown menu, but the preferences option may be grayed out. Without this option, you can't do things like change your credit card information or set the time-delay before you need to re-enter your password when purchasing apps. The goods news is that you can fix this with a little patience and some experimenting.
- Swipe down from the top-left multiple times to show and hide the dropdown menu three or four times from within the app to see if the "Preferences & Accounts" option becomes available again.
- If it is still not available, close the App Catalog and re-open it. Once the listing of apps appears, try swiping down again to show the drop-down menu. Try this a few times to see the option becomes available
- If it still does not, leave the App Catalog open on your device for a few minutes and start the process again from step one
- Finally, if it is still not showing, you may need to reboot your phone and start back at step one again
While this is quite annoying and can take some time to fix, you shouldn't need to access the Preferences screen in the App Catalog very often. However, when do you need to access it, at least you know how to eventually get to it.


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Friday, May 13, 2016
"Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven. And I said unto the king…" (Nehemiah 2:4,5 KJV).
What can Nehemiah teach us in today's Scripture?
Recently, I noticed a parked vehicle with the bumper sticker, "Pray while it's still legal." Even if prayer were completely outlawed in the United States, or anywhere else in the world, that would not at all intimidate the Bible believer. Outlawed prayer would most certainly be a problem for "traditional Christians," however.
See, dearly beloved, religion has dumbed-down prayer to the point where it is rarely pleasing to Father God. Since denominational teaching has watered down prayer, most can think of nothing more than kneeling, bowed heads, closed eyes, folded hands, raised arms, prayer beads, prayer books, et cetera. They have missed the issue of prayer entirely. Prayer is repeating to God what His Word tells you; prayer is not repeating what others wrote about the Bible. Remember, they may have incorrectly interpreted Scripture to write that prayer you want to recite! Furthermore, prayer is not about the posture of the physical body; it is all about the attitude of the spiritual heart.
In today's Scripture, Nehemiah was unhappily serving before Persian King Artaxerxes (verses 1-3). Far away was un-walled and ruined Jerusalem—Babylon had destroyed it 150 years earlier. Attempting to cheer him up, Artaxerxes asked Nehemiah what he desired. Certainly, Nehemiah, standing before the king, had no time to kneel, raise his hands, whip out a prayer card, or be excused to enter some "prayer closet." So, Nehemiah prayed right there on the spot, silently. In that time of limited divine revelation, he sought God's wisdom as to how to respond. The king never noticed Nehemiah praying!
So, friends, if prayer is ever outlawed here or elsewhere, that really will not hinder us Bible believers. Silent prayer in all circumstances is fine. Father God will certainly hear us, and that is all that matters. Just look at today's Scripture. By the way, if you want to find out what happens with Nehemiah, read the rest of the chapter… or perhaps his whole book!


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Introducing a child to the world of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in their formative years is an excellent way to ensure they will grow up with a strong foundation of patience, confidence and discipline. While some parents are hesitant to get their child involved in any contact sports, the art of Brazilian Jiu-jitsu is far gentler than you might think. Your child is more likely to be injured in a playground unsupervised than they would under the care and direction of a good instructor.
Choosing the right school for your child is important as the structured lessons of a good school will teach them about the challenges, rules, disciplines and rewards in life through the art of Jiu-jitsu. As a parent, making the decision to get your child involved in any structured activity at an early age is often a daunting prospect. To help provide some perspective and give you an idea of what the art of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu has to offer, we've compiled a short list of 5 of the top benefits your child will receive through training.
5. Team Buidling/Camaraderie
Martial arts and the practice of Brazilian Jiu-jitsu provide a perfect environment for building lifelong friendships. Many other children will be the same age and at the same starting point which gives your child a peer environment outside of the classroom setting of an elementary or primary school. The bonds they build through group lessons and supervised playful challenges between themselves will help them grow together in ways that are difficult to achieve in today's primary schools. While training together your children will be surrounded by new friends that are all working towards a mutual goal of self improvement, of which a core component involves learning to understand and assist others in training.
4. Respect
Respect is a core component in working with others in society. As adults we learn through painstaking mistake after mistake how to recognize and value the needs and desires of our peers and seniors. All too often the story of learning respect late in life leaves an individual with a sense of conflict for who they were and who they've become.
One of the most fascinating aspects of Brazilian Jiu-jitsu versus that of other martial arts is the ability to best your opponent no matter their size or strength. Your child may have been blessed with natural athleticism, but do they appreciate what they have? It's easy to get lost in the zeal of youth and before you know it your child might become something of a bully.
Taking part in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu or any martial arts discipline corrects any ego a child may have by presenting unlikely and unexpected challenges that broaden their view of the world. Knowing that simple size and strength are not sufficient to succeed in all situations is a humbling experience for anyone. And instructors are mindful of a child's temperament in their class. They will not tolerate any sort of bullying, rivalry or insubordination.
As a parent you may be inclined to insist that you have everything under control, and while it may be true for some, how your child behaves when not in your presence is equally if not even more important than how they seem when they are with you. Martial arts instruction through Brazilian Jiu-jitsu will teach your child to recognize and respect their mentors and guardians. Most importantly of all, training in Brazilian Jiu-jitsu will help teach your child to respect themselves.
3. Conflict Resolution
Whether competition-related or not, kids will quickly learn how to overcome their obstacles. While some martial arts focus on speed, strength and repetition, the application of those arts in practice are mostly reflex driven. There's no doubt they are useful tools to learn regardless of their nature. In Brazilian Jiu-jitsu your child will be challenged in ways that require transition from speed and reflex to complex problem solving.
The art of Jiu-Jitsu comes not from the mere application of a set of movements to subdue an opponent, but rather it is in the understanding that dominance in any situation is temporal. Your child may be an impatient sort, always expecting everything as quickly as possible. To be fair, it is not so much the parent to blame as it is the convenience that technology and industry have brought to our lives.
But taking your child out of the day-to-day routine of video games, computers, television and texting will show them that there is more to think about than just when the next iPhone is getting released. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu challenges individuals by requiring patience and self control to calmly asses their situation, consider their options and then make a calculated decision. Yet the best part of the challenge is the fact that your sparring partner is using those same tools and thus the activity becomes an engaging puzzle with the strategic considerations of a chess match but the activity of a sport.
2. Self defense
Through Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, children will learn tactics and develop skills that will enable them to avoid many dangerous situations. The art of Jiu-Jitsu focuses primarily on the transition to and from a dominant or submissive position. Movements are designed to deflect your opponent's attacks and restrain them if necessary. Yet one of the most fundamental and critical components of Jiu-Jitsu is the escape from a submissive position. Your child will learn how to squeeze our from underneath a larger opponent. They will also learn how to turn a situation in their favor by using close contact techniques to restrain a would be assailant. While there's no shortage of bullies in any school environment, giving your child the tools necessary to avoid or evade conflict will be invaluable as they progress in life.
Another notable benefit from learning Jiu-jitsu is the level of confidence, respect, and self-esteem someone will gain knowing you are no longer a potential victim or a target for someone looking to pick on others. However, it's very important to remember that If a bully does decide to pick on your child, the philosophy behind this and many other martial arts teaches an individual to avoid conflict at all costs. In the famous words of Mr. Miyagi from "The Karate Kid", "The best defense is no be there!"
1. Self-Discipline
Self-discipline is absolutely necessary to ensure survival in life. Acting zealously and expending resources when they can be conserved may leave you vulnerable to another unforeseen obstacle. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu teaches self discipline by requiring your child to conserve their energy, especially when under pressure. The initial response for any human being is to panic, flee or respond aggressively when challenged. Yet, these tactics do not work in a Jiu-Jitsu match. In order to flee you may be required to escape a full mount from your opponent, and in order to to that you may be required to distract your opponent with an attempt to gain control by one means only in an effort to expose an opportunity somewhere else.
The beauty of this process is in the art of it's implementation. There is no striking, no unadulterated aggression is necessary. In fact, you are taught to accomplish your goal using the least amount of energy possible. This will teach your child to be more conservative with their resources, at a time when they are most abundant and easily taken for granted. While parents will do everything in their power to reinforce the importance of self-discipline throughout their child's life, the essence of "self" and discipline implies a truth that is unavoidable. It must come from within your child by their own choosing.
Learning and training in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu will introduce your child to a new world of possibilities in a positive environment that should evoke a desire to learn and do more. Their sense of self discipline will evolve out of need rather than simple instruction and that is ideal for everyone.
Finally, the grappling techniques and self-defense abilities they will acquire will stay with them for the rest of their life, regardless of any danger they may encounter. And with a fundamental understanding of patience, strategy and keeping calm under pressure your child will have a greater chance of maturing into a resilient adult who's ready for almost any challenge!


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Consolidation and further development of concepts and skills introduced in Jazz Piano 3. Variations of the jazz standard repertoire are examined, and interpreted by reading lead sheets. Chord voicings are memorized. Australian jazz repertoire and jazz piano composition is explored.
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Jazz quaver articulation. Chord tones. A knowledge of at least 6-8 jazz standards, and the ability to play these tunes from memory or from leadsheets, producing logical and creative harmonic voice leading. Ability to play the diatonic cycle harmony, 12 bar blues, ii V I progressions, and interpret voice leading from reading chord symbols on leadsheets.
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Insect species 'fewer than thought'
Instead of about 30-million-plus species some have suggested, the researchers say there are probably no more than four to six million different insect groups.
The new estimate stems from a study of the plants which insects eat.
The scientists say conserving the greatest possible number of species across the globe remains vital.
Not fussy
Their findings, published in the journal Nature, are based on a six-year study in the rainforest of New Guinea.
The main discovery by the seven scientists - three from the Czech Republic, three from the US, and one from Sweden - is that insects are much less fussy feeders than anyone had realised.
Instead of eating only individual plant species, most insects are far more catholic in their tastes.
The team compared insect communities feeding on 51 plant species, most belonging to the fig, mulberry or coffee families.
No connection
They collected 50,734 leaf-chewing insects from more than 900 species. The insects were on 51 plant species, and all were collected by hand.
That would mean that the number of herbivorous insect species should be linked to the number of plant species. But the New Guinea group found that was a false assumption.
The principal plant expert in the team is George Weiblen, a plant biologist from the University of Minnesota, US.
Big success
He said: "Most insects turn out to be specialised not to plant species, but rather to a genus [a group of species] or a family [a group of genera] of plants.
"Fewer effective plant 'hosts' mean fewer herbivores. Where people had assumed that different insects' food sources overlapped very little, we found that many insects share their food plants with other insect species.
"There are actually few extreme specialists among tropical insect herbivores."
The number of insects identified so far is between one and two million - there is no money for a complete catalogue to summarise information from collections across the world.
As only about 10,000 new species are identified annually, it could take another four centuries to identify the rest, if they survive that long. Insects are the most abundant and successful animals on Earth.
Critical half-century
George Weiblen said: "Our estimates bring some reality to predictions about declining biodiversity in the sense that the consequences for insect herbivores of losing a particular host plant species may not be as dire as previously thought.
"The Harvard biologist EO Wilson predicted in his book The Future of Life that half of all species will suffer extinction in 50 years if current land use patterns continue.
"Because the consequences are so severe, we've got to refine our predictions and conserve as many species as possible."
Fragile web
In the same edition of Nature researchers from the University of Chicago, US, report that it is not only the number of species lost within an ecosystem that matters, but the species' identity.
Professor Mathew Leibold said: "How diverse the ecosystem is and how a particular species interacts with the rest of the system is perhaps more important than the actual number of species.
"When you pluck a species out of an interacting food web, the results are going to have a cascading effect and be much more dramatic."
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19 Apr 02 | Sci/Tech
Greens slam biodiversity 'shambles'
18 Apr 02 | Sci/Tech
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If you scroll down our list of links, you will find one to Operation Give (the "Give Toys to Iraq" button), which was set up by Matt and a national guardsman from Utah to provide charity to Iraqi children. This morning at the National Prayer Breakfast, President Bush praised the work of Operation Give.
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- Our people in uniform understand the high calling they have answered because they see the nation and the lives they are changing. A guardsman from Utah named Paul Holton has described seeing an Iraqi girl crying and decided then and there to help that child and others like her. By enlisting aid through the Internet, Chief Warrant Officer Holton had arranged the shipment of more than 1,600 aid packages from overseas. Here's how this man defines his own mission: "It is part of our heritage that the benefits of being free, enjoyed by all Americans, were set up by God, intended for all people. Bondage is not of God, and it is not right that any man should be in bondage at any time, in any way." Everyone one in this room can say amen to that.
For the full text of President Bush's remarks, go here. Well done Chief Wiggles, Matt, and those who have supported Operation Give.


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IF you've walked in the creamy Barcelona sunlight through the streets around the Paseo de Gracia, you will be no stranger to the elegant charm of the Eixample, the imposing 19th-century grid that is the city's geographical and architectural heart. Magnificent modernist buildings gaze proudly over the tree-lined boulevards. Delights beckon from every shop front: sleek furniture, elaborate tapas, chic couture and handmade chocolates.
Hidden from view, however, behind the Eixample's grand facades, is a little-advertised patchwork of public gardens and courtyards that offers refuge from the urban rush and an intimate view of everyday Barcelona life.
Many of these green spaces have been carved in recent years from the patios that form the center of each city block, and are reached down narrow passageways or by cutting through a building. They are the ideal place to pause between the sights of the Eixample, which stretches from the old city to neighborhoods like Gracia, especially if you have children in tow.
As you stroll around the Quadrat d'Or the central section of the Eixample known for its modernist gems step into the gracious garden of the Palau Robert, a late-19th-century mansion that hosts the Catalan tourist office. Filled with stately palm, cyprus and orange trees, the gardens were part of the estate of Robert Robert i Surís, a Spanish grandee. You can reach the garden through the door of the palace, at Paseo de Gracia, 107, or through two gates around the corner on Diagonal.
This is drought-stricken Barcelona, however, not well-watered Paris or London, and some of the Eixample's gardens are paved and spare more interesting as places to watch people than to spot flora.
If you take a few minutes out of your hunt for designer cookware at the popular shop Vinçon (Paseo de Gracia, 96; 34-93-215-6050; www.vincon.com), you can sit in the peaceful courtyard behind the shop and check out the undulating balconies on the rear facade of Antoni Gaudí's Casa Milà. You may even catch a couple of the residential building's lucky occupants shooting the breeze.
Or for a taste of local life, pop into the courtyard at the end of the Pasaje Rector Oliveras, where children clamber on the climbing frame in the shadow of the Gothic Church of the Immaculate Conception, which was moved stone by stone from the old city in the late 1800s. A local resident said the neighbors use the garden for alfresco dinners in summer, so, you never know, you may even snag an invitation to partake of some pa amb tomaquet.
Or cool your heels literally in the shallow, turquoise swimming pool reached via a dark passageway at Calle Roger de Llúria, 56, one of the first patios returned to the public by the city in the late 1980s and home to a looming brick water tower. (Entry during summer costs 1.45 euros, about $2.20.)
"The patios are like a window onto Barcelona," said Francesc Muñoz Ramírez, a professor of urban geography at the Barcelona Autonomous University, during a recent afternoon stroll through the Eixample. "You can be an urban voyeur watch the business of the city from the inside."
This speckle of green in the Eixample's urban lattice is a nod to the vision of Idelfons Cerdà i Sunyer, the progressive civil engineer whose design for the district marks its 150th anniversary this year. When he submitted his plan in 1859, the city Cerdà had in mind was to be functional rather than flamboyant, a breed of socialist utopia where rich and poor would live side-by-side in city blocks of identical size wrapped around parks and kitchen gardens.
Back then, Barcelona was a teeming, disease-ridden warren of streets, clustered around the port and hemmed in by medieval walls beyond which lay the wide expanse that became the Eixample. Life for the working class was grim and short; the average person died before his or her 36th birthday.
Onto this squalid, airless muddle, Cerdà grafted his huge, orderly grid, an ambitious expansion that was an heir of Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann's plan for remodeling the chaotic center of Paris earlier in the decade.
Cerdà foresaw the needs of modern life and created a template from which the city has evolved to become one of Europe's most vibrant and enticing.
Thrilled by the potential of railways, he designed wide streets that could handle trains and trams. To help visibility and, some believe, to allow trams to turn, he cut the corner of each block at an angle, creating the graceful chamfered corners so characteristic of the Eixample.
Cerdà's plan became the DNA of modern Barcelona, but his detractors condemned it as vulgar and monotonous and many of its egalitarian precepts were ignored.
"Cerdà's vision was so avant-garde, so modern that few people at the time recognized his genius," said Lluís Permanyer, a Catalan journalist who has written books on the Eixample. "It is only today that we are realizing how important he was."
Some streets became more equal than others, with grand avenues sprouting elaborate mansions that made the Eixample a showcase for modernist architects like Gaudí, Lluís Domènech i Montaner and Josep Puig i Cadafalch, while nearby streets languished, unpaved and without sanitation.
Greedy developers constructed more, and taller, buildings than Cerdà intended, cutting the light and public space that were supposed to make his city sanitary and pleasant (like other 19th-century urban planners, he believed good ventilation would prevent the spread of disease). The patios inside each block became cluttered with warehouses, garages and offices.
However, the green spaces that Cerdà believed would define the Eixample prefigured a very contemporary need. As part of an effort to make Barcelona greener, the city has created 40 gardens and plans to add more, as well as create a network of pedestrian-only areas.
"We're returning to Cerdà's original concept," said Professor Muñoz. "The vision we have for the city now isn't very different from the one he had, 150 years ago."
Through June 2010, the Barcelona Center for Contemporary Culture (www.cccb.org) is organizing exhibitions, walks and seminars to mark Cerdà's urban design legacy. Details at www.anycerda.org.
An extensive list of Barcelona's often-overlooked public gardens like the serene grounds of the Barcelona Seminary (Calle Diputación, 231) or the courtyard of the Casa Elizalde cultural center (Calle Valencia, 302), where you can often catch a weekend children's show can be found on the Web site of ProEixample (www.proeixample.cat), a public-private partnership dedicated to revitalizing the Eixample.


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blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review. Life has never been better for Mark Sava, the former CIA station chief of Azerbaijan. He's recently married, has a newborn daughter, and the launch of his spies-for-hire business in Central … Continue reading
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Spy for Hire by Dan Mayland
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A kidnapped orphan triggers an intelligence war in the Middle East, catapulting top-spy Mark Sava into a desperate race against friend and foe alike.
Azerbaijan didn't want him. And now Kyrgyzstan may not be able to handle Mark Sava either. The ex–CIA station chief has settled into a new, easy life as a spy for hire. But then his girlfriend, Daria, discovers the private intelligence agency employing Sava is connected to a strange plot involving a mysterious orphan.
Guest Interview – Dan Mayland
Dan Mayland is the author of four books, The Colonel´s Mistake, The Leveling, Spy for Hire and Death of a Spy. He was kind enough to answer a few questions.
What are you writing at the moment?
The third book in the Sava series. It's a fast-paced tear through Kyrgyzstan and Bahrain. Readers also learn more about the circumstances surrounding the suicide of Mark Sava's mother, and how that led to him becoming a spy.
The Colonel´s Mistake – Dan Mayland
First off, some information from Goodreads website on the book. Scroll down for my thoughts.
In Baku, Azerbaijan, CIA operations officer Daria Buckingham is arrested for a heinous crime. Her former boss, retired CIA station chief Mark Sava, is sure she's innocent and tries to help her out ? landing him in the middle of the new Great Game, an espionage war over oil that has China, Iran, and the United States clawing at each other's throats. Back in Washington, DC, Colonel Henry Amato, assistant to the US national security advisor, is keeping a close watch on the situation. His stake in the Great Game is high and personal. The first novel of a globetrotting new thriller series, The Colonel's Mistake takes listeners on an unforgettable ride into the shadows of the world's most volatile region, where the good, the bad, and the brutal play a deadly chess game of global espionage.
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The Boothbay Railway Village occasionally conducts a two-day course, generally on the third weekend in October, on the operation and theory of the coal-fired steam locomotive. Included in this unique experience is the opportunity to participate in "hands-on" training with the Museum's vintage locomotives under the supervision of qualified Museum staff.
The course is open to both novices and those who already have some experience or knowledge of steam locomotives.
The class format is a one-day classroom session of theory and understanding, followed by a day of actual locomotive operation. This is a rare and exciting opportunity for those interested in steam engines and steam railroading.
Steam School is an excellent opportunity for rail enthusiasts to put themselves at the throttle of a steam locomotive. If interested in Steam School, check with the Boothbay Railway Office at 207-633-4727.


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Hey guys,
It's James Marston, creator and editor of Across the Pond Wrestling here,
Without going into too much details, I've decided to place ATPW on hiatus. I haven't been able to produce the quality of content that I want to create and create that content on a regular basis for quite a while now and whilst my fellow contributors have consistently delivered the quality, I have often been unable to fulfil my role as editor as well.
So, I've decided I need to take a step back, get a few other things in order and make sure that I'm in a position where I know where ATPW fits in my life and where I know what I can give and when I can give it. I'm setting a provisional return date of 21st August, which is the day after WWE's SummerSlam PPV. I've got a big ATPW trip planned for October and would like to get a few months under my belt before making that trip. I feel like if I'm still unsure of where I'm heading, then will be the time to have a more serious think about the future of Across the Pond Wrestling.
Thanks to everyone who's read an ATPW up to this point. Hopefully we'll be back to provide you all with entertainment and opinion once again very soon.


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We examine a moduli problem for real and quaternionic vector bundles over a smooth complex projective curve, and we give a gauge-theoretic construction of moduli spaces for such bundles. These spaces are irreducible subsets of real points inside a complex projective variety. We relate our point of view to previous work by Biswas, Huisman and Hurtubise, and we use this to study the Gal(C/R)-action $[\mathcal{E}] \mapsto [\overline{\sigma^*\mathcal{E}}]$ on moduli varieties of semistable holomorphic bundles over a complex curve with given real structure $\sigma$. We show in particular a Harnack-type theorem, bounding the number of connected components of the fixed-point set of this action by $2^g +1$, where $g$ is the genus of the curve. In fact, taking into account all the topological invariants of a real algebraic curve, we give an exact count of the number of connected components, thus generalizing to rank $r \geq 2$ the results of Gross and Harris on the Picard scheme of a real algebraic curve.
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JUST IN TIME FOR HALLOWEEN: NUNS IN PANTSUITS! We copy our page here, the Sister Helen Prejean Dossier.
Profile. Death Penalty Abolitionist, Social Justice Activist, and Community Organizer; Author and Lecturer. Co-Founder of the Catholic Mobilizing Network. Sr. Prejean is based in the Archdiocese of New Orleans, Louisiana. She is a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Medaille. Her bishop is Archbishop Gregory Michael Aymond – 7887 Walmsley Ave., New Orleans LA 70125-3496 Phone: 504-861-9521 . Her blog.
This Dossier Exposes her BLINDNESS to the ABORTION holocaust; OBSESSION with GUILTY MURDERERS; DEFIANCE against traditional Catholic teaching; her connections with the NEW AGE FEMINISTS NUN MOVEMENTS and DISSENTING ORGANIZATIONS; and the ACLU.
"I've got to tell you what I've learned. When you start talking about the death penalty, there's a deep religious underpinning. Who is God for us? It is God who demands an eye-for-an-eye. It is God who is pleased with sacrifice.
"And in the Christian tradition, there are those who say God allowed or even willed his own son, Jesus, to be sacrificed and killed on the cross in payment for our sins! And when we kill criminals we have chaplains in death houses! And when we kill criminals for their crimes God accepts their death in payment for their sins so they can go to heaven! What kind of god do we believe in?!
"What kind of father would demand the death of a son? Is this a god? Or is it an ogre, a monster, created by our own violent impulses? We project so this is God who wants vengeance, like we want vengeance. Truly there are contradictory images of God in the Bible. On which one will we model our lives?"
- Source: Prejean's Speech at the 2008 Democratic Interfaith Gathering. Emphasis added.
- Our TRANSCRIPT from the view point of a pro-life activist: 2008 Sister Helen Prejean speech Democrat Convention pdf
Dr. Michael Savage responds to Prejean's speech:
You [Sister Helen Prejean] are a clear and present danger, not only to the survival of America, but to the Democrat Party. … In my opinion, she is more closely associated with being a witch than a nun.
"Heresy In Denver: Ellis Washington spotlights Marxist tinge to Democrat's nun speaker."
VIDEO of her infamous speech posted on her website.
July-August 1997 St. Catherine Review: Sister Prejean "will not take a stand against abortion."
"Pro-Life Groups Asks Bishop to Stop Sr. Helen Prejean's Fundraising for the ACLU"
We issue a public call for Idaho's Catholic Bishop, Mike Driscoll, to intervene quickly and forcefully in the brewing scandal involving Sister Helen Prejean. As we reported earlier, she is scheduled to be the keynote speaker at an event to raise money for the Idaho ACLU.
Catholic League president William Donahue writes: It is no secret that the "peace and justice" crowd is soft on abortion. Sr. Helen Prejean and others like her can get quite worked up about the rights of serial murderers on death row, but they never seem to be quite as excited about the rights of innocent unborn babies. That's because too many of them see abortion as merely unfortunate: They positively do not believe it is "intrinsically evil."
quotes by Sister Prejean:
I don't trust candidates who claim to be "pro life" simply because they publicly state their opposition to abortion. What good is that if they do not also work vigorously and consistently to create social conditions in which healthy babies are born, children cared for, and families thrive?
I look for "pro-life" politicians to list "eradication of poverty" as a top priority. Poverty in our nation is on the rise. During the last six years those living at or below the poverty line in the U.S. rose 17 percent. To allow even the existence of poor people in this rich nation, much less poverty on the increase, is totally unworthy of us as Americans and certainly not pro-life.
Due to controversies surrounding Sr. Helen Prejean, Catholic bishop cancels appearance at conference – 1997
See also same article in NCR's archives.
" . . . the bishop had based his decision on his reading of an article about Prejean that was published in Our Sunday Visitor last April [1996]. Datillo had two concerns, Lyons said: that Prejean might be soft on abortion and might depart from official church teaching in a book she is writing about women in the church. Lyons told Mayhew that the bishop would therefore be "uncomfortable" appearing with the famous nun.
"The article about Prejean in Our Sunday Visitor was written by Robert Holton, a senior correspondent, based on an interview with her. Holton led off with Prejean's views on abortion.
"Sister Prejean indicated that while she is adamant about not taking human life when it comes to executing prisoners, she has an at best strained appreciation for the church's teachings on the sanctity of unborn life, on birth control, and thinks the church is `appallingly' unfair to women," Holton wrote. The subhead on the article read, "Why the nun behind Dead Man Walking has a hard time seeing abortion clinics as another kind of death row."
Prejean told Holton that she regards abortion as "much more complex than a mere choice."
"Sr. Prejean's Spin Insults the Preborn" by Judie Brown
As a Catholic, Prejean should understand the fundamental teaching of the Church on abortion and capital punishment because there is a nuanced difference.
On abortion, the Catechism of the Catholic Churchstates,"Direct abortion, that is to say, abortion willed either as an end or a means, is gravely contrary to the moral law"
On the death penalty, the Catechism of the Catholic Church states, "Today, in fact, as a consequence of the possibilities which the state has for effectively preventing crime, by rendering one who has committed an offense incapable of doing harmwithout definitely taking away from him the possibility of redeeming himselfthe cases in which the execution of the offender is an absolute necessity are very rare, if not practically non-existent."
In other words, abortion is a crime against God while the death penalty is the exercise of a type of civil punishment in response to a heinous crime that is to be used rarely, if at all.
Combox: "I concluded that she would never touch abortion because she would loose support for her cause from those who support abortion, but oppose the death penalty, and she was not willing to take that risk. Can you imagine how differently she would be treated by the lamestream media if she publicly opposed abortion as well as the death penalty?"
Sr. Prejean was labeled pro-abortion by the Cardinal Newman Society — she gave the commencement address at a Catholic U.
The ACLU and Sr. Prejean – she was given an ACLU award in 2005. She spoke at an ACLU fundraising event. A pro-life group wrote their bishop to stop her. The Oregon ACLU announced Prejean's October 2011 visit to Oregon. One month later, the ACLU claimed a victory over Oregon voters when Oregon's governor placed a moratorium on the death penalty.
'CALL TO ACTION' organization and Sr. Prejean – Prejean is a frequent speaker at this apostate organization. Her 2000 speech at CTA's national conference is available on CTA's site.
Call To Action is a well-known dissenting group of "Catholics" who actively undermine the faith. I have a copy of "Call To Action or Call To Apostasy? How dissenters plan to remake the Catholic Church in their own image" by Dr. Brian Clowes. The book is available at Human Life Intl. It is well researched with citations.
The Vatican excommunicated Call To Action – CNS NEWS
Sr. Prejean doubts the crucifixion of Christ: her appearance at an interfaith gathering for the Democratic National Committee
- COLORADO CONVENTION CENTER — Following the hot topic of abortion, Sister Helen Prejean tackled another: calling for abolition of the death penalty to raucous applause at the DNC's interfaith gathering.
- She received nothing but a stony silence, however, when she questioned the basis of the biblical crucifixion story as a "projection of our violent society."
- "Is this a God?" Prejean asked about the belief that God allowed his son, Jesus, to be sacrificed for the sins of humanity. "Or is this an ogre?"
- The audience — to that point in strong agreement with the author of "Dead Man Walking" — said and did nothing.
FULL STORY: 'God, ogre comparison doesn't fly with interfaith crowd.'
Mark Shea responds (scroll down that page):
- "Sr. Helen is delusional if she thinks her New Age gospel starring a God without wrath who brings men without sin into a kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross is going to persuade serious Christians to trust her when she talks about the death penalty."


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Legislative Champion for Mental Health Award
I was honored to receive the Legislative Champion Award from the Southwest Regional Mental Health Board (SWRMHB) at their annual meeting. SWRMHB advocates for the mental health needs of residents of Fairfield County and works to promote a high-quality behavioral health system.
This year I co-sponsored legislation to address the shortage in the psychiatric workforce, which passed both the House and Senate. Thank you, Margaret Watt, SWRMHB Executive Director, Alyssa Israel, and all who work each day to support those in need. You can learn more about SWRMHB and their work here: www.healthymindsct.org.


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The ENC offers programs geared towards adults who want to learn more about their natural world.
Presentations are appropriate for any adult audience, including service clubs (Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions), gardening clubs, college classes, professional organizations, homeowners associations and non-profits. Consider scheduling your next retreat at the ENC! To schedule any of the ENC's Adult Programs listed below, please call 949-645-8489 or email us. After attending a program, please take our brief survey. Additional programs are listed in the Events calendar. Professional development opportunities for educators are located HERE on our Excellent Educators page. Select the links below to view details about each program. Our adult Traveling Naturalist is available to teach these programs at your location, as well!
Workshops & Tours
Join ENC Executive Director Bo Glover for a tour of the Environmental Nature Center. The 3.5 acre Nature Center is a fascinating combination of 15 California native plant communities (ranging from a desert, to an oak woodland, to a fresh water marsh), wildlife habitats and walking trails. For over 40 years, the ENC has been shaped and caressed into a landscape for learning, a sanctuary from life's pressures and a place of preservation and instruction. Participants visit our green building to learn the history of the Center, and walk the trails past seasonal blooms, along a peaceful stream and under the shady canopy of majestic redwood trees. $50 donation or more if desired. Lunch provided for an additional charge.
Perfect for a corporate event or staff retreat, our team-building workshop will engage your team with several different hands-on activities. These games and challenges will stimulate a part of the brain that isn't often used at work, while getting creative juices flowing and forging cooperative relationships. $8/participant, 15 person minimum, mileage fees apply if you want us to come to you.
Schedule us to make an appearance at your fundraiser, gala, festival, or conference. We will set up a booth full of information about the ENC's offerings and have a naturalist on hand to engage passers-by with 1-2 native live animals. Honorarium requested of $150 for up to 3 hours; $50/each additional hour.
Lecture Series
Join us for a tour of the ENC's LEED Platinum Green Building. Tours begin with a short presentation describing the green building techniques that went into development of the ENC's new building and the reasons behind the incorporation of each green feature. Participants learn about ways to make their homes and businesses more energy efficient and how they can incorporate renewable energy. Your group will also enjoy a behind the scenes tour of the ENC – inside and out – to see the sustainable features and materials. Tours cost $50 per group, and last approximately 1.5 hours.
1 hour. Join US for an informative presentation all about butterflies. Learn about metamorphosis, and what makes butterflies different from moths. Find out about locally endangered butterflies and what is threatening them. Cost is $100 per group.
Learn about landscape quality locally native plants that provide habitat for butterflies in your garden. 1 hour. $100.


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Withdraw Brian Souter's Knighthood
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We the undersigned are deeply offended that Brian Souter has been awarded a Knighthood in the Queen's Birthday Honours 2011. Mr. Souter ran a campaign of fear and misinformation which was deeply hurtful to the LGBT community in Scotland. The Keep The Clause Campaign increased hatred towards an already victimised group and saw a corresponding increase in violence against LGBT people. We believe that it is wrong for such a person to be given such a high honour by Her Majesty The Queen and call on HM Government to withdraw this award.
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Today's over-90s are mentally sharper than people of the same age a decade ago, new research suggests.
Scientists at the University of Southern Denmark looked at the cognitive ability of two groups of 90-somethings who were born ten years apart.
The first group consisted of 2,262 people who were born in 1905, while the second included 1,584 who were born in 1915.
Researchers discovered that those born in 1915 had better cognitive ability and were more able to perform daily activities in their 90s than those born in 1905.
Men seem to be faring particularly well, with 32 per cent of those born in 1915 achieving maximum scores in tests designed to assess their mental state, compared with just 16 per cent of those born ten years earlier.
Lead study author Dr Kaare Christensen said that the study - which is published in the Lancet medical journal - 'challenges speculations that the improving longevity is the result of the survival of very frail and disabled elderly people'.
She added that monitoring the functioning of very elderly people will be of 'fundamental importance' for healthcare planning as populations in high-income countries age.


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After missing out on the first batch sent, then super slow delivery with DPD I finally have Teclast's little F5, a promising 11.6″ Gemini Lake Celeron N4100 laptop with 8GB of DDR4 RAM. A 360-degree hinge, 1080p fully laminated touchscreen and a super light and thin design. For an ultraportable travel laptop, it ticks all the boxes but one, it doesn't have a full sized USB port.
01:24 – Size and weight
01:35 – Design & build
06:06 – Unlocked bios
06:45 – Screen bleed
07:22 – Windows & performance
11:51 – Keyboard & touchpad
13:09 – 4k60p & Type-C
16:06 – Speakers
16:49 – Linux
17:51 – First impressions
19:00 – Pros & Cons (So Far)
Above is my first hands-on look which will be followed up in a week or some once I've been using enough to know all its ins and outs. So far the performance is really quite good for the spec, 9W TDP helps. And that 8GB of RAM of course, as a result, feels a little quicker than the Chuwi Lapbook SE I just reviewed. But the keyboard is a comprise, they always are at 11.6″ but for the size and the touchpad both are decent. But not going to match the Lapbook SE's great keyboard and touchpad. This one cost $329 but is now selling for a little higher.
Loving the weight of it, only 1.05 kilos and just 15mm thin. More on this one soon!


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I have a degree in film and audio-visual communication with emphasis
in art direction for telvsion cinema and theatre. i fulfilled my goal and dream 2 years ago to be able to build my own audivisual production company . i have made fashions films for fashion designers and musical artists . this really was one of my best experiences.
As a model I have been working since 2017 (catwalk modeling, photography and fashion). In addition to this I am a person with an open mind and willing to experience new experiences in life such as enjoying this site in which I want to meet and share with all kinds of people with different cultures and customs.
goals dreams: My biggest wish and purpose in my life is to become one of the most outstanding producers of cabaret music brotway and well I have a lot to tell you about me, I will be talking a little bit more about me in my blogs, you are totally invited to read everything about me and you can also ask me when I am online.
My Fantasies
fatasias : I want to share with you a little of what turns me on and that is to talk about my erotic stories.
I fantasize a lot about making a big trip among friends, in which we all are naked and make a mega orgy . after that I arrive at my house and write about everything that happened on that trip in a very erotic story . then share this story with some guy and then watch his dick get hard inside his pants and then I'll tell him I was part of that story and I participated, we will surely be so hot that we will end up fucking feeling our bodies and our skin sticky from our sweat until we see how the semen from both of us slides down our chests
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I am a young and passionate boy for a man with a lot of body hair and much more about a very masculine body . hairy legs, very hairy armpits and beard turn me on a lot and especially if I feel that beard pink my body . I love to see how the semen falls on my chest too and well I would also like to know about your fetishes so I hope you in my transmission and let me know a little more about you in all respects.
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Since you've read a little bit about my fantasies, I'd like to talk a little bit about yours and get us fired up by imagining that we're together making our fantasies real.
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I like to feel the skin rubbing on my body. my hairy legs. and how my hand slips between the hairs on my nipples is really pleasant until you reach my pubis covered by dense hairs that roll down my penis.
Let's masturbate until we sweat and then you can look like my own cum.
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very few know and I'd also like something about you that you don't share with everyone.
I am very attracted to the idea of feeling conquered and desired. To become a challenge for someone and finally show me your interest in me and that will surely call my attention completely.
Maybe this sounds a little narcissistic but I want to be authentic and get you very close to what I really am.
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MT CASA sheet in hexagon shape. Size 230 x 265mm. A triangle, diamond and pentagon in greys and blue.
mt CASA sheets are a new product for quick and fun interior decoration. The adhesive properties of the sheets are same as in mt masking tape - they're easy to remove and can be reapplied as long as the addhesive stays clean.
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About a year and a half ago, city leaders and a prominent tech investor stood before reporters in The City's police academy building to announce the new Police Department-piloted app for crime reporting called JusticeMobile, aka the "Bat Computer."
Ron Conway, a tech investor and campaign contributor to Mayor Ed Lee, was there because his nonprofit, sf.citi, was helping the pilot through a $100,000 donation — one of the group's biggest philanthropic efforts to date and arguably the most publicized.
"Working with civic leaders to identify ways in which the San Francisco tech community can improve The City is a mission of sf.citi, and this project is a perfect example of that partnership," Conway said at the June 25, 2012, news conference.
A little more than a year later, this past September, the app's pilot phase was over. Mayor Ed Lee, Attorney General Kamala Harris and Police Chief Greg Suhr announced the finalization of JusticeMobile and thanked sf.citi for aiding in its development. "Talk about loving when a plan comes together," Suhr said at the time. "And I want to acknowledge the vision of Mayor Lee, Attorney General Kamala D. Harris, the Police Commission and sf.citi moving this initiative forward."
The only problem with all the fanfare was that it appears sf.citi had nothing to do with the final product, raising questions about the organization's philanthropic claims.
Sf.citi is a nonprofit that purports to essentially be a tech chamber of commerce, and actively lobbies on the industry's behalf. The 550-plus-member organization also bills itself as the face of tech philanthropy in San Francisco, and recently the group was tapped by the mayor to come up with ideas for how the surging sector can give back to the community.
In terms of JusticeMobile, however, it appears sf.citi oversold its role in the app's development.
"Sf.citi did not provide us with an app," said Susan Merritt, the chief information officer for the SFPD. It wasn't for lack of trying though, she admitted. "Sf.citi has been a good partner," Merritt said. "They have tried to help us along the way."
Within months of the 2012 pilot's launch, app developer ArcTouch, an sf.citi member contracted for the project, was out of the picture.
Sf.citi's $100,000 grant ostensibly went to ArcTouch for that work. But the extent of the company's involvement in development was conversations with the SFPD, which soon decided ArcTouch was not the right fit because of security concerns, Merritt said.
"They were trying to help," Merritt said of ArcTouch. "But the app we are using on smartphones was developed by SFPD."
As for the $100,000, only half was given to ArcTouch, sf.citi said. It's unclear what the $50,000 paid for.
Yet sf.citi's managing director, Alex Tourk, contends that his group, through ArcTouch, helped create JusticeMobile.
"They worked with SFPD on design features, functionality and back-end connectivity," Tourk said of ArcTouch. "After that work was done, SFPD contracted with another vendor to finish the project."
But Tourk's contentions were contradicted by Officer Gordon Shyy, who echoed Merritt's sentiments. "We haven't used anything from ArcTouch," Shyy said.
Sf.citi's website also claims it worked with the California Department of Justice "to develop the JusticeMobile law enforcement data initiative application."
But according to an Attorney General's Office spokesman, that was not the case.
JusticeMobile was originally developed in-house by the DOJ and then copied by the Police Department, and Merritt said the program in San Francisco was ultimately funded through a $1 million grant from the Department of Homeland Security.
Despite all of the evidence pointing to sf.citi's lack of participation in the app's development, the Mayor's Office still said in September that the organization played a role in the process.
"Under the leadership of Attorney General Harris, SFPD and sf.citi, the JusticeMobile smartphones give officers on the streets instant access to law enforcement data where information in real time counts," Lee said at the time.
And Tourk, who initially told The San Francisco Examiner that sf.citi contracted with ArcTouch for $100,000 but later said the company was only paid $50,000, contends that their efforts were a success.
"What we accomplished is exactly what this organization was set up to do — to bring private and public sectors together to identify and help solve problems for the people of San Francisco using tech resources, talent and time without any taxpayer dollars," Tourk said.
When The San Francisco Examiner asked Merritt if sf.citi or ArcTouch helped create the app in any way, she said, "No, not to my knowledge."
ArcTouch did not respond to calls for comment, but the company's website still touts its involvement in the app.
Sf.citi joining efforts to mentor kids
Eighty-three children looking for mentors may soon find them.
A joint effort between city government, the private sector and a local nonprofit to reduce the waiting list for kids looking for mentors was announced Tuesday at the Bayview Branch Library.
Supervisor Malia Cohen and Board of Supervisors President David Chiu teamed up with sf.citi and Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area to provide mentors for needy children.
"One-on-one mentoring is a proven model to help inspire and guide young people," Cohen said. "We should be doing everything possible to bring additional resources, people and energy to help our city's children."
The majority of the children on the waiting list live in southeastern neighborhoods, which Cohen represents, and the hope is that within months they will all have mentors, said Yoyo Chan, a legislative aid for Cohen.
Sf.citi has already facilitated volunteer efforts for its members, Chan said.
"Our members represent San Francisco values and care deeply about The City's future," said sf.citi board member Steve Sarner, who's also vice president of marketing for social-media firm Tagged Inc.
There is no number that the partnership expects sf.citi will meet as far as recruiting mentors goes, Chan said, adding that "our hope is that all 83 come from sf.citi alone, but we are not going to turn people down."Bay Area NewsJusticeMobileSan Francisco techsf.citi
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We found tadpoles!
Lots and lots of tadpoles!
The girls were excited as we ate a quick lunch, gathered some snacks, put on old and tatty sneakers, and packed them in the car. Though Ashlin did succumb to her no-nap protest and studied the inside of her eyelids on the drive out. She ended up with a decent 25 minute or so nap. Teagan, Stu and I played punch-buggy. She is getting better at it.
We took the swamp walk, a meandering wood pathway through some wetlands with stinky water. There were some pretty purple flowers, red and yellow birds and lots of green stuff. No polliwogs. Also, no water access.
After a little bit we arrived at the south shore of the lake. As we crossed the dam we could see shallows and reeds. Muddy shore, but tadpoles! Teagan came right up with me to look at them. Ashlin hung back a bit.
Teagan always jumps in with both feet – literally today – when learning something new. She doesn't always slow down enough to take in instructions. It took her a few attempts, and shoes full of mud, before she caught any with the net. A few more to catch them with her hands. But she did it! And had so much fun.
Ashlin went up with Stu, but she's always a bit more hesitant with new things. She preferred using the net, but did get ankle deep in mud and caught a good bunch of polliwogs.
Stu caught some too – with the canister lids! – but didn't get his feet wet. I had squishy shoes.
We took a few of them home, we do need some frogs in our fish pond. They didn't survive that super cold winder two years ago. It was a quiet summer last year without any.
It was a very good day.
Ashlin was giggling so much she got hiccups.
PS. Album is here for more pictures.
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Wow…looks like loads of funs and giggles!! Your fish pond will be a noisy one this summer. :)


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The last couple of weeks has seen the rise of Dino Porn, which if you haven't been paying attention, or you've been living in a cave or meth trailer—which are pretty much the same thing—you've missed out on one of those things that tends to get the Internet tongues a-wagging.
Long story short, two women in Texas are writing tales of dinosaur on human female erotica, where lovely lasses from all walks of light end up getting bedded by various reptilian beasts who breathed their last during the K-T Extinction Event.
But that doesn't stop the production of Ravaged by the Raptor, Taken by the Pterodactyl, T-Rex Troubles, and Dino and Wilma Make a Porno—oh, wait, that's Kevin Smith's next movie. No less than that esteemed cultural critic Cracked.com has weighed in on the matter, and have pretty much declared that the Internet can now be shut down and our libraries burned.
(On a side note to the lady writers in question, can't Stegosaurus get a little love in your books? Or Ankylosaurus? I mean, if it's alliteration that you seek, I can think of one for Ankylosaurus. Come on! Lets go for it together. Call me!)
On first glance it's very easy to make fun of this stuff. I first learned of these stories while roaming the Lousy Book Covers site, and posted the found cover a few days before the tales of Saurian Sex began appearing all over Facebook. I've made jokes on this blog about werewolf erotica, vampire erotica, tentacle sex, dragon fantasies that involve more than killing knights and hording gold, and my favorite erotica genre, unicorn porn. I'll look at these and wonder, first, who is writing this stuff, and that–damn, they're writing it because there's a market. Roll over to Amazon and do a search on "Lactating Lesbian Babysitter", and make sure all the shape objects in the house are put away. You won't get an exact hit, but the ninety-five you find may keep you entertained.
There is one thing I can't fault them for:
They're writing. And they're writing a lot.
I've heard from a few people who've said things along the lines of, "I couldn't write crap like this!" and for a lot of people this is probably true. I've written erotica, some of it pretty strange and fetishy, and it's not an easy thing to do. Sometimes it's easy to skip the character building moment and go right to the hard core boning. (That last is a technical term, so it's okay to use it.) Sometimes you just never get the right mood. Sometimes one couldn't write a sex scene to save their lives.
And then I'll hear someone talk about the quarter of a million word Harry Potter/Mass Effect crossover fan fiction, where Harry has knocked up Fem Shepard and Luna is running a strip club out of the Hufflepuff commons, and my eyes go crossed . . . I know I shouldn't do that, but if dino porn isn't your thing, fan fiction isn't mine. Such is the world.
Neil Gaiman has written a list of things one needs in order to become a writer. The three I remember the most are write, keep writing, and finish what you write. That last is where I always used to fall down, because I'd start in on a story and about half way through think, "Who's gonna read this crap?" and just leave it. On another system I left behind about a dozen stories that I'd not finished, and knew I never would. One was an actual novel that I was about a hundred thousand words into . . . it was also something of a fan fiction, and while I'd love to have finished that story, I know it'll never happen.
Gaiman has also said that, when it comes to people writing fan fiction of his own work, he doesn't care because no one is going to write something that will change what he knows about those characters, and as long as people are writing, they should keep writing. The Dino Erotica women are not only writing, they're finishing their work, and they're selling–probably better than I am with my work. So more power to them, because, like it or not, they are doing what I'm working towards, which is making something of a living off my work.
Which gives me an idea . . . fan fiction dino erotica! I mean, think of the possibilities. First up could be a HP slash fic called Hermione Rides the Hadrosaurus, and I know at least half of you saw, "HARDosaurus", and now you can't unsee it. Now all I gotta do is find a picture of a Hadrosaurus and a sexy Emma Watson picture–like there aren't any of those on the Internet–'shope the pictures so she's riding ol' Hadro like a reptilian pony . . .
Yeah, I'm talkin' best seller here.
As long as J. K. doesn't get upset.


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Rievaulx Terrace, Helmsley
Rievaulx Terrace sits on the hill above Rievaulx Abbey. Thomas Duncombe the Third, the owner of Duncombe Park, created this neo-classical garden in 1758. The National Trust owns the site and access is free for members, non-members must pay the entrance fee. If you are combining a visit here with a trip to Rievaulx Abbey, the two sites are only a short walk or car ride apart. The site allows Dogs as long as they…Read More


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Advertising in Bombay (Mumbai), India. This is a great place to capture advertising as there are billboards everywhere. Here are some pics I took on my various visits to Bombay.
And here are some pics from Wellington, New Zealand
In case you're wondering what happened to the ABC Wednesday series, I decided to stop it through this blog. As I'm also posting through my Someday Somewhere blog, I thought I'd give some more time to other linky's. But please do check out my ABC entries at Someday Somewhere where I'm doing a music round. It's a lot of fun.
And last but not least, check out my entry for Sandi's Photo Hunt - Zap


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Hi, I have a question that relates to how to best model data. I have some pretty simple tabular data, which I am to show to a large amount of users, and the users need to be able to search some of the columns. Given this tabular data: Company | Amount |...many more columns here ------------------------------------------------------ Ajax A/S | 12345 | Dude A/S | 54321 | Ajax A/S | 5436 | ...many more rows here... If I need to store this in cassandra, but also be able to search quite fast on "Company" and on "Amount", how might I go about storing this? The current plan I have for modelling it in cassandra, is to use one CF "Dashboard" for the tabular data itself and one for each "index" I would like to be able to retrieve it on. Like this: Super-CF "Dashboard": -------------------- uuid-1 -> { company:"Ajax A/S", Amount:12345 } uuid-2 -> { company:"Dude A/S", Amount:54321 } uuid-3 -> { company:"Ajax A/S", Amount:5436 } Where the SC value simply is a unique identifier. Super-CF "DashboardCompanyIndex": -------------------------------- "Ajax A/S" -> { uuid-1:"", uuid-3:"" } "Dude A/S" -> { uuid-2:"" } Super-CF "DashboardAmountIndex": -------------------------------- "12345" -> { uuid-1:"" } "54321" -> { uuid-2:"" } "5436" -> { uuid-3:"" } So, in my use case, when searching on e.g. company, I can then access the "DashboardCompanyIndex" with a slice on its SC and then grab all the uuids from the columns, and after this, make a lookup in the Dashboard CF for each uuid found in the index. Is this the preferred way of doing this in cassandra? Or am I trying to apply relational algebra modelling on something that is supposed to be used differently? /Per
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About Frans' Flowers
The Story of Frans' Flowers
Frans' Inden, founder of Frans' Flowers, was introduced to the world of flowers as a young boy in Holland. Frans would cycle door to door selling flowers from local growers. When he came to Canada 25 years ago it was flower power that started his career in Canada. Soon Frans operated up to 6 splendid flower kiosks that beautified the streets of Downtown Vancouver. With his creative and dynamic touch his colourful kiosks were a revolution in the floral retail business. As Frans continued to build relationships with local growers as well as importers, his insight grew to bring the market style concept from Downtown, closer to home.
We've been serving Greater Vancouver over 25 years
In 2011, after 20 years of working Downtown, Frans' and his wife Sue, opened up fresh flower kiosks in shopping centres, transportation hubs and other locations. Bringing Fresh bouquets at amazing prices to Greater Vancouver, making fresh flowers affordable at everyday prices. Frans and Sue continue to build the business on 3 key elements:
• Outstanding customer service
• Fresh high quality flowers
• And convenient "express" locations.
Frans' Flowers is a family owned & operated business, based out of Port Coquitlam. With retail locations in Coquitlam Centre Mall, Sevenoaks Mall and Downtown Vancouver. Even the youngest members of the family are sharing Dad's passion for creating beautiful bouquets!!
Stop by, say hi, and let Frans' Flowers help you "bring home a smile".
Where do we get our flowers?
There are three main ways that Frans acquires his flowers: Direct from the grower, from the local auction and imported from various countries.
Frans has established a unique relationship with local growers built up over the past 25 years. The majority of flowers sold at Frans' Flowers are from the local flower auction co-operative. This co-operative system allows Frans to support the local growers as well as offer the freshest flowers. At the auction the flowers are sold via the Dutch auction system. This means the prices start high and go lower until the first buyer buys the first lot. This process repeats, starting high and dropping lower until all the product is purchased. Because Frans has been purchasing this way for many years he has developed his skill at getting the best prices. Passing these savings on to his customers!
Business Opportunity with Frans' Flowers
Frans' has years of purchasing knowledge for sourcing out the most economical and beautiful products. His years of retail experience in the flower industry gives him a good understanding of what customers want. While the company's vision and mission statement date back over 20 years, we are continually looking to update and expand our opportunities.
We would love to help you start your own "Frans' Flowers" business, whether it be within your existing store, high traffic location or in a new Mall. We have Malls waiting for a Frans' Flowers kiosk to open up. Learn More.