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I had my procedure in October after my consult with Jennifer who no longer works there. I was told I was a great candidate and if I still wanted to go bigger afterwards I would be able to for a small fee. After my initial appt I was even asked to change the date for the day before.I went once more for my pre op procedure 2 days prior. While in my pre op appointment I did all my blood work and... more
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Ok I have not done this b4 buuut Here it goes I'm 29 5'6 187 I always wanted this BBL but I never did it I just Blew it off so I Finally got some BIG balls and said I'm getting it done. I tried to exercise but the Problem with that is I Lose weight all over I am small in my leg Thighs and hips but bigger on top and when I gain wight and I get my thighs how I like them I'm to dang on big at the... more
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I went into see Dr.Perez 4 months ago because i was unhappy with my shape. Im not overweight, im actually very tall (5'11") and weigh around 165, but i always had big love handles, back fat and a pudgy tummy. I was also not happy with my butt, it was flat with no shape. So after some research i found Dr.Perez and went in for a consult. From our first meeting he was very nice and super funny.... more
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I currently weight 205 and working on getting down to 190 so i can get a consultation at Dr. Castro and Dr. Perez both from Tampa Florida not sure which one i will be choosing because they will not meet with me until i get my BMI under 30 which will be once im at 190 if anyone has had dr castro or dr perez i would love a little insight!!!! and what are some different payment plans/ methods you... more
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I am in a dilemma I really want to have my surgery done with Yily but I don't want to go alone. My sister might come with me but it would be nice to have some other people to buddy up with. I'm expecting to have my procedures done on September 26th which is not that far away so I will have a lot to do before the time comes. Plus I need suggestions for a place to stay ... Also wanted to know... more
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Hello Ladies. I am 35 years young, mother of four. I have been lurking on this site for years, and am finally moved to join! I will be having a BBL on 7/24/2013 combined with a breast augmentation. I am a bit anxious as I havent been able to find any reviews from anyone who has had both procedures at the same time..Any VETS in this area, please hit me up..BA will consist of a lollipop lift.... more
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My results are wonderful! Small waist, no more saddle bags and a nice round butt!! 1000 ccs in each cheek!!!!! Not being able to sit was the worst part! I was out for the procedure and was just a little sore. Just used Advil and Tylenol for pain..... 4 months post op Before n after more
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I'm new to this site, I have been reading reviews and my nerves are starting to get the best of me. I wanted to know what all vitamins I should buy to help me with healing?? I've wanted this procedure for a while now and finally decided to go forward with it. Took some time to decide on a doctor, I went to premiere and felt good about Dr. L. I'm feeling neevous and hoping everything goes ok..... more
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Will 4 areas of liposuction and fat transfer to butt give me nice results. weigh 134 lbs now hoping to gain weight to about 150 lbs. Its May 2013 not having surgery until March 2014. I want a big butt. At least 500 or higher cc's per cheek. Is this possible with my small frame? How many cc's do I need? Is this even worth my money? So today June 6, 2013 I went for my consultation with Dr.... more
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I'm freaking out ! My surgery is 5/8 sooo nervous. Idk wat garments are best or whether I need to lose or gain weight. Ughhh frustrated :/ . Does anyone out there have any thoughts about wat garments to use for a better recovery & can I go bk to work in a week? Or wat about driving ? I live 10 min or less from work but I definetly don't sit. Went well, I'm in pain but not excruciating... more
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Michael Albert is the founder of the ZNet website (www.zmag.org), one of the world's great online newspapers. His new book, Parecon (Verso), is a finely argued, thoroughly original manual on "participatory economics" which offers, as he puts it, "a life after capitalism". It is also brave, because it dares to describe not merely what is wrong, but the vision perhaps to fix it. Then there is Good Muslim, Bad Muslim by Mahmood Mamdani (Pantheon), a distinguished voice whose superb analysis of the rise of political Islam leads us back to the enduring battleground not of terrorism, but nationalism. What Howard Zinn has achieved for American historiography, Ken Loach has done for British cinema. Which Side Are You On?, Anthony Hayward's film biography (Bloomsbury), is an eloquent insight into the work of
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Two weeks ago we introduced you to Richard Reed.
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HCR: Dean, Greenwald & Krugman Explain it ALL for You! (Updated with 2 new videos)
by ludwigvan, Thu Dec 17, 2009 at 03:25:44 PM EST
If you really want to understand why Howard Dean now feels forced to oppose the White House's health care strategy - I suggest you watch this short concise statement from yesterdays Morning Joe and another short vid at the end of this diary taped back during the summer where he explains that health care reform without a strong public option - is no kind of reform at all.
Howard Dean is the most knowledgeable and experienced political figure on universal health care.
His critique of the Senate health care bill in the past few days on television and in an Op-Ed piece in The Washington Post is cogent and rational, whether you agree with it or not.
But Presidential Press Secretary Robert Gibbs and the White House attacked Howard Dean's character and sanity for daring to criticize the Senate health "reform" bill which Obama wants passed. (Maybe so Obama can give himself that "A" he obviously feels he deserves)
On Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs strongly hit Howard Dean for criticizing the Senate health care bill, suggesting, at one point, that Dean was being irrational and didn't understand the contents of the legislation.
"I don't know what piece of legislation he is reading," said Gibbs.
"I don't think any rational person would say killing the bill makes a whole lot of sense at this point."
Asked if Dean was acting irrationally, Gibbs replied: "I can't tell what his motives are, to be honest with you."
Dean for his part has gone out of his way to say that even though he wants the bill to be killed - the people who are involved in it are great people and he respects them.
Quite a bit different than Gibbs calling him irrational.
Here's something irrational, a heath "reform" bill that mandates people to get insurance without offering a baseline competition mechanism for the insurance companies.
As Keith Olberman said last night:
"here's a product you HAVE to buy, you don't know what's in it, you don't know if you can afford it, you don't know if it will be good for you, but the GOVERNMENT IS GOING TO MAKE YOU BUY IT - or else."
"Really? And this is a democracy?"
It appears that the White House has concluded it doesn't care about our Party's own non-rich-guy base.
In that case, Obama's campaign promises for meaningful change are increasingly being seen to be meaningless and Democratic prospects in the 2010 Congressional elections and Obama's 2012 reelection campaign are put quite at risk.
The Obama administration seems to think it can rely on Rahm Emanuel's version of Karl Rove's "K Street strategy" to buy elections with hefty campaign contributions from insurance companies, drug companies, and Wall Street.
That's a REAL prescription for failure.
This bill has been watered down and watered down to the point where it is nothing but a gift of 30 million mandated new customers to the insurance companies. The insurances companies have to accept pre-existing conditions but can charge 3 times the premium.
THIS is reform? THIS is "Change We Can Believe In"?
Obama promised competition for the insurance industries. There now is none of that.
Gibbs taunted Dean: "
"If this is an insurance company's dream, I think the insurance companies have yet to get the memo".
Seems they did...over a week ago.
From Politico - 12/7
With the Senate shifting sharply away from a "pure public option," an insurance industry insider who has been deeply involved in the health care fight emails to declare victory.
"We WIN," the insider writes. "Administered by private insurance companies. No government funding. No government insurance competitor."
If what Dean once called "the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party"-- is thrown overboard, and if many base Democratic voters don't bother to vote, Democrats will be devastated in the 2010 midterms.
By the way, there is now a new Facebook group entitled "Howard Dean 2012". Wonder why?
Also lets not forget about Obama's big give away to Big Pharm in a trade off for $150 million spent on pro Obama advertising.
Yesterday the White House started to earn those big bucks...
While there was all that yelling about Joe Lieberman - everyone seems to have completely missed and ignored obama's latest sellout to Big Pharm...
Just yesterday, when Byron Dorgan introduced a bill that would allow drug importation from Canada, Obama came down like a ton of bricks on Democratic senators and switched a huge number of votes so that in the end the drug industry won. That cost the American taxpayer nearly $100 billion in the next ten years alone.
from Yesterdays - LA Times
"With President Obama's lobbying; Senators Rockefeller, Lieberman, Dodd and Kerry from Mass were joined by 30 other Democrats who voted to not allow Americans to purchase far less expensive prescription drugs from outside the US."
The White House had made a deal with PhRMA for their backing of the overall plan, and defeating the amendments was something Obama was far more strenuously behind than, say, the Medicare buy-in or the public option, which he was nonchalant about tossing overboard at the first ripple of dischord.
This was a major aspect of reform and could have provided real competition and potentially saved struggling Americans billions. Absolutely inexplicable why any honest politician could conceivably vote against this.
Wonder how and why this additional sell out of the American consumer took place?
Pharmaceuticals / Health Products: Top Recipients
From Opensecrets.org
Top 10 Presidential Candidates
Rank Candidate Amount
1 Obama, Barack (D) $2,135,376
2 Clinton, Hillary (D) $689,099
3 McCain, John (R) $671,722
4 Romney, Mitt (R) $385,011
5 Giuliani, Rudolph W (R) $186,530
6 Dodd, Chris (D) $115,200
7 Paul, Ron (R) $89,766
8 Thompson, Fred (R) $57,430
9 Richardson, Bill (D) $50,200
10 Edwards, John (D) $37,170
Salon's great Glen Greenwald shows you that it was ALWAYS Obama's plan to sell us out and trade away any public option to Big insurance just like he sold us out to Big Pharm.
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2009/12/16/white_house/index.h tml
From Salon: Of all the posts I wrote this year, the one that produced the most vociferous email backlash -- easily -- was this one from August, which examined substantial evidence showing that, contrary to Obama's occasional public statements in support of a public option, the White House clearly intended from the start that the final health care reform bill would contain no such provision and was actively and privately participating in efforts to shape a final bill without it. From the start, assuaging the health insurance and pharmaceutical industries was a central preoccupation of the White House -- hence the deal negotiated in strict secrecy with Pharma to ban bulk price negotiations and drug reimportation, a blatant violation of both Obama's campaign positions on those issues and his promise to conduct all negotiations out in the open (on C-SPAN). Indeed, Democrats led the way yesterday in killing drug re-importation, which they endlessly claimed to support back when they couldn't pass it. The administration wants not only to prevent industry money from funding an anti-health-care-reform campaign, but also wants to ensure that the Democratic Party -- rather than the GOP -- will continue to be the prime recipient of industry largesse.
As was painfully predictable all along, the final bill will not have any form of public option, nor will it include the wildly popular expansion of Medicare coverage. Obama supporters are eager to depict the White House as nothing more than a helpless victim in all of this -- the President so deeply wanted a more progressive bill but was sadly thwarted in his noble efforts by those inhumane, corrupt Congressional "centrists." Right. The evidence was overwhelming from the start that the White House was not only indifferent, but opposed, to the provisions most important to progressives. The administration is getting the bill which they, more or less, wanted from the start -- the one that is a huge boon to the health insurance and pharmaceutical industry. And kudos to Russ Feingold for saying so:
Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), among the most vocal supporters of the public option, said it would be unfair to blame Lieberman for its apparent demise. Feingold said that responsibility ultimately rests with President Barack Obama and he could have insisted on a higher standard for the legislation.
"This bill appears to be legislation that the president wanted in the first place, so I don't think focusing it on Lieberman really hits the truth," said Feingold. "I think they could have been higher. I certainly think a stronger bill would have been better in every respect."
Let's repeat that: "This bill appears to be legislation that the president wanted in the first place."
Indeed it does.
Still think losing the public option is all that Dirty Rotten Joe Lieberman's fault?
And from todays Paul Krugman "Conscience of a Liberal" column in the NY Times: Where the other Good Doctor Reminds Us That he Warned Us About All This years Ago
But what's happening, I think, goes beyond health care; what we're seeing is disillusionment with Obama among some of the people who were his most enthusiastic supporters. A lot of people seem shocked to find that he's not the transformative figure of their imaginations.
Can I say I told you so? If you paid attention to what he said, not how he said it, it was obvious from the beginning -- and I'm talking about 2007 -- that he was going to be much less aggressive about change than one could have hoped.
And this has done a lot of damage: I believe he could have taken a tougher line on economic policy and the banks, and was tearing my hair out over his caution early this year. I also believe that if he had been tougher on those issues, he'd be better able to weather disappointment over his health care compromises.
And as promised, Dr. Dean on how health care reform without a public option is no reform at at all.
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Hunger in the 21st century means the same thing it has always meant: not getting enough food to be healthy and lead an active life.
How much of the world lives in energy poverty?
Where are these people? We in the developing world rarely see people who are hungry, although the FAO and other sources say hunger also exists in developed countries like the United States.
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Hunger experts use the terms "food secure" or "food insecure" to speak of hungry people, and nations with many who are hungry. These experts agree that poverty is a root cause of food insecurity. Food insecure nations tends to have large numbers of very poor people. Natural disasters, war and other conflicts, poor agricultural infrastructure and over-exploitation of the environment also play a role.
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Read about hunger in the world today from the FAO's 2009 publication The State of Food Insecurity in the World.
The FAO has a new website about hunger.
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According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the chart at least shows that "2009 was a devastating year for the world's hungry, marking a significant worsening of an already disappointing trend in global food security since 1996. The global economic slowdown, following on the heels of the food crisis in 2006–08, has deprived an additional 100 million people of access to adequate food. There have been marked increases in hunger in all of the worlds major regions, and more than one billion people are now estimated to be undernourished."
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Great music. I love the original album. The stage musical is light on story though. Since we are left with a lot of music that feels a bit similar from song to song, at times the show can feel kind of "one note" emotionally. Don't get me wrong, I love the music and had a good time. Good show for me personally. I just think they could have built the story out more. Concerning the choreography, there are a couple of numbers that are extremely well done but too many of the others just feature the cast kind of sitting there, or standing around, shuffling about, or head banging (frequently out of synch with one another). The execution of the dancing is good but not great. If you are going to go 95 percent music and almost no dialogue then the dance, staging, blocking has to be perfect and in this show it is only fair. American Idiot doesn't have quite enough of an emotional build over time either. Rather, it just kind of goes, and then at some point, it ends. As I said before, it was enjoyable and generally well done but not great. I'd probably give it 3.5 stars if Goldstar would allow you to give half stars. Recommended but not top notch.
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If you are a big Green Day fan, as I am, and are familiar with all the lyrics to their songs this play is for you. Not knowing all the lyrics and sitting in the Mezzanine struggling to understand them did not make it easy for me to figure out if...continued
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I loved it. Saw The show in Berkeley and on Broadway, and the tour is a strong resresentation of those. The cast is great, particularly Scott Campbell as Tunny. The audience seemed to love it opening night, with the exception or some of the older...continued
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The show was fantastic but you really have to be a Green Day fan and like loud music. If you are not a fan, don't like swearing or sexual content this one is not for you!
Slinging razor guitars, thundering drums and an anti-hero named Johnny. Not the prelude of typical entries in the canon of musical theater. But these elements herald a groundbreaking American musical all the same: with the burning passion of characters who yearn for something more, songs bursting with emotion and a story that dares you to feel and celebrate and hope.
The music of Green Day and the lyrics of lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong captured the zeitgeist of a generation with its Grammy® Award-winning multi-platinum album. American Idiot puts those raw emotions front and center in a highly theatrical and thoroughly satisfying rock opera that burns up the stage.
Monster hits like "Boulevard of Broken Dreams," "21 Guns," "Wake Me Up When September Ends," "Holiday" and the title track soar like they were written for the stage under the direction of Tony Award® winner Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening), choreography by Olivier Award winner Steven Hoggett (Black Watch_) and music supervision, orchestrations and arrangements by Pulitzer Prize winner Tom Kitt (_Next to Normal).


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Once he'd gotten the hang of swordfishing by night, the early success of day droppers off Venezuela and then Florida convinced Holden such techniques, perhaps with modification, should work for Texas swords as well. "So I packed up the boat, and we left for Florida!" They caught fish there and, "we learned the basics." That includes the critical appreciation for the fact that "the fishing off Florida is 100 percent different from the fishing here, off Texas. We found out that when you try to fish daytime Florida-style here, you end up with a tangled mess." (Much of that, as explained below, has to do with current.)
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Swordfish are opportunistic diners, and Holden has learned be an opportunistic angler, offering Gulf swords a variety of live baits including hardtails (blue runners), mullet, rainbow runners, tinker mackerel (his favorite livey; catch 'em while they swim within bright boat lights at night over seamounts). Baits as large as bonitos (little tunnies) weighing two or three pounds sometimes produce also.
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Can Ponder navigate the chaos of the NFL?
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For the 12th overall pick, someone who was picked because of his intelligence, he sure as hell better pick up the speed of the game. I am not expecting him to be All Pro, especially in his second year. He will have a better line, better targets for short routes (TE, Backs, Slot), he still lacks a group of quality receivers. I am hoping he will be able to manage the game, not make mistakes, and show more progression while staying healthy.
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Ponder got worse as the season progressed, primarily due to the injuries and pounding he took.
Not sure he has the arm strength to make 'all the throws', and the Vikings put him in a tough spot.
No off season. No pass protection. No targets to throw to. And worst of all, an offensive coordinator who doesn't seem to know how to game plan to protect Ponder.
I think Ponder has the ability to take charge and turn things around, but I get the sense that Webb will be our QB by mid season due to Ponder's inability to stay healthy.
Hope I'm wrong about that.
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I would like to see whether or not he stays healthy behind a revamped line. I am really looking forward to pre-season to see how well he does after a true offseason.
And while I like Webb, I still don't see him as a real starter in the NFL. He is a fun person to have as a backup because he plays the game so differently... but as a starter I feel that he is relatively easy to game plan against, and would not be as effective. So I am pulling for Ponder this season not because I am 100% sold on him yet, but because I feel like we have no other viable alternatives.Zeus wrote:
When are you going to realize that picking out the 20 bad throws this year and ignoring the 300 good ones does not make your point?
The two biggest marks against Ponder coming out of college was his arm (strength/accuracy) and staying healty. Last year, we didnt get answers to these questions, he got injured and made a lot of dumb throws as well as under/over throwing people.
This is his year, we have to see what he can do, we've used the 4th overall pick to get him line help, our line will be better this year, i have no doubt about that, so this is make or break for him imho.
The addition of Kalil will go a long way in answering this question, but I think Ponder will be fine.
Don't think he'll ever be an elite talent, and he may only make it to one or two pro-bowls in his career, but he'll be good. I said this in another thread, but I think his playing style is very similar to Jeff Garcia.Disclaimer: I'm an idiot.
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Always makes me laugh when the favourite player is always the the backup :-) Given the lack of off season time last year, inept play calling which still leaned on AD, a piss poor OL and blocking that my old mother could get past and Ponder still gets little love. Course we all expected him to come out and play like a seasoned pro.
Maybe if the revamped line has improved and the OC/QB coaches actually help him by teaching him like they're supposed to then he will improve. Then again sure it will allow some to say "see, told you he sucked " and then start doing their mock drafts and look on which QB we can draft next year.Time spent annoying a Packer fan is never time wasted...
Good article! (unfortunately) I agree with it.
Ponder has never been "elite" in his career and has never blown people away in college or high school. However, I still believe in him and like his character and flashes of potential. Looking forward to see him play this season with a much better pass protection in Kali.
Wasn't happy where we drafted him.
Wasn't happy with his arm strength last season.
Clearly showed that he cannot throw back shoulder throws( the bread and butter of the league) to the far side of the field.
Late on his reads( can improve)
Showed great athleticism.
Was worried that he cannot shake the injury bug. Proved me right. He has not had major career threatening injuries in 3 straight years.
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The uniforms honor cancer survivors and help raise money for the fight against women's cancers.
Nike and the University of Oregon will auction a limited number of the Ducks' pink helmets to raise funds in support of the Kay Yow Cancer Fund.
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It may not be politically correct to say, but 64-bit Linux running on commodity hardware powered by AMD and Intel won't smite the classic midrange dinosaurs. The Linux camp, of course, says it can, citing low price and an open architecture. But the tightly coupled hardware/software design and lockstep evolution of the classic 64-bit behemoths offers advantages that Linux can't — and won't — match.
Take a look at the top contenders. Sun's Solaris server running on a Sparc processor is the company's flagship and the industry's most visible 64-bit system. IBM similarly touts its two Power4-Based eServer families, the iSeries (formerly AS/400) and the pSeries (formerly RS/6000). The iSeries runs a proprietary operating system called OS/400; the pSeries can run either Linux or AIX. IBM and Sun are aggressively improving their 64-bit platforms.
These systems share a tight integration of hardware, operating systems, drivers, and management tools, which even the closely held Apple Macintosh lacks. With complete control over every stage of development, all these midrange systems are scalable and extensible. You'll pay (oh, how you'll pay), but these are bet-the-business types of servers that simply won't let you down.
That's not to say that there's no culling of the midrange herd. The third major player in the proprietary 64-bit space is Hewlett-Packard, and its platforms' days are numbered. HP is aggressively trying to nudge its Alpha and PA-RISC customers toward its Itanium 2-based servers running either HP-UX or Linux.
By contrast to these tightly engineered Unix systems, 64-bit Linux suffers from the built-by-committee curse. It runs great, but it was designed without regard to the hardware. The idea of a single, unforked Linux kernel may be great for compatibility with common, off-the-shelf hardware but not for optimizing the OS for a specific server design. So, yes, Linux is fantastic, but each distribution is a collection of distinct code modules rather than a single, carefully designed platform. You get portability and enthusiasm, but are those enough?
Because they don't have to worry about little things such as cross-platform compatibility, the IBM and Sun (and HP) teams have a tremendous advantage in designing and building their 64-bit proprietary platforms. They can describe specific technology road maps, deliver on specific schedules, and incorporate new technologies without waiting for public consensus or even industry standards. Furthermore, they can guarantee that their solutions will work, backing their promises with hard-core SLAs.
Linux will always be more affordable and compatible, and it will end up with the lion's share of the market. But there's no way that Linux can ever offer the tight coupling of OS and hardware provided by those purpose-built midrange alternatives. For some customers and applications, the business case for that tight coupling won't ever go away.


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Children are a heritage from the Lord, offspring a reward from him.
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Children are considered a blessing, especially in Israel and predominantly religious Jerusalem. Parents speak favorably about their offspring and on Shabbat we traditionally see fathers bless their children. Unfortunately many fathers are unable to fulfil their obligations.
The statistics on poverty in Israel speak volumes. There is an alarming rise in the number of children in the poverty figures in Israel. Particularly among religious families, which in turn makes Jerusalem the city with the highest number of children living under the poverty line.
Israel Today has been committed for many years to ensuring a quality of life for all Israeli children.
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---- — LAWRENCE — Police officer Carlos Gonzalez was arrested today in connection with an alleged sexual assault last summer in Florida.
Gonzalez, 48, was arrested at 3 p.m. today as he was attending class at Massachusetts School of Law in Andover. He was arrested and charged on a fugitive from justice warrant by Lawrence police and detectives from Haines City, Fla.
Haines City is located between Tampa and Orlando, Fla.
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We, Yemenis, are violent people. We average a war every ten years, we are heavily armed and we love nothing more to see than a fight! We also like to argue our points out even if they don't make sense, because the point of the argument is to create and sustain a conflict. Even in our homes, there isn't a day passing pay without the daily dose of shouting, yelling, and perhaps beating. Our violent behavior has become a normal habit to most of us – ever seen two drivers yelling and honking while another tries to impose himself on them while blocking their road? He's practicing his habit of sparking a confrontation.
Yes, this is who we are. And there is nothing wrong about this, we like to inflict injury upon others, and when we see someone else get hurt we laugh on them, O what joy – someone is in pain, let me put some perfume on your wound, not because it will help you, but because it will make me feel great! See - we do feed on the pain of others, this is how we survive as a society, otherwise why do we maintain this high level of violence amongst ourselves?
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