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May 30th, 2011, 02:28 AM #31
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May 30th, 2011, 03:03 AM #32
Yeah, let's hear some more beginner's thoughts. I've not read much since my last post. I don't normally read much over the weekend, unless i find the book amazing. And I don't yet. Hopefully will!
May 30th, 2011, 06:31 PM #33
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I've only finished through book 3 so far, but I didn't find GOTM that difficult of a read. Maybe because I'd heard a lot of people found it confusing so I went into it really paying attention to everything. A lot of it doesn't make sense but I realized pretty quick that theres some stuff you just have to file away in the back of your mind. Quite a bit of my questions were answered in book 2.
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I def enjoyed GoTM more when I reread it. I had a better understanding of the world and the implication of things that were happening in the book. I would encourage anyone to finish the book, not just for book 2 but because I at least thought that GoTM had a pretty action packed ending that turned out to be pretty enjoyable.
May 31st, 2011, 07:20 PM #36
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Read quite a bit last night & will probably finish it tonight. What's the title of book 2 ?
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June 1st, 2011, 08:22 AM #38
I read up to and including SE's book 8, plus ICE's Return of The Crimson Guard and Night of Knives.
Then I gave up.
Deadhouse Gates, Memories of Ice and House of Chains were all fantastic and I don't regret reading them at all. After that it all started to get a bit sluggish and tiresome. I found Reaper's Gale and Toll The Hounds so convoluted and turgid they were the last straw for me.
SE's novel-constructing method seems invariably to have many disparate plot lines that converge at the end in a spectacular clash. In some of his books he keeps the reader's attention throughout and then rewards you handsomely at the end, but the lesser ones come across as a bridge between events and just don't deliver for the effort they take to read.
By book 8 I decided I wasn't sure if the ultimate conclusion was going to fulfill my expectations or disappoint me, so I stopped reading. I'm waiting for my more persevering friend to finish Crippled God so he can tell me if it's worth it.
Plus the fact that they keep adding forthcoming Malazan novels to the list made me worried that the reader is never going to have some questions answered and that the authors are going to keep stringing us along in one big money spinner.
I enjoyed the ICE novels I read. I think his style is more accessible and immediate, but many of the original die-hard SE fans disagree.Last edited by megaphage; June 1st, 2011 at 08:26 AM.
June 1st, 2011, 09:38 AM #39
By all means give up if that's how you view it. Authors need contracts to be able to live off their work and continue doing what they love, and they'll keep getting contracts if their books sell. But calling it a big money spinner...we buy and read books, what's the difference between getting these books in the Malazan world or something totally new? And why is not getting all the answers such a bad thing? If you dislike the author, then don't buy his books, which seems to be what you're doing already, so I don't see the big deal.
June 1st, 2011, 03:29 PM #40
While I do appreciate varied opinions of the book(s) as a whole, and if you liked them or not. Let's try and keep this thread to just thoughts and queries about it.
That Malazan re-read is very good, thanks for that link. I haven't read every chapter, but when I do it is helpful and entertaining.
I am now a little over halfway through, and they are about ready to attack Darujhistan, and I'm getting into it more I think. Things are coming to a head it seems. I'd like more Rake POV, but I'll deal.
I did discover one tiny plot hole I thought. And you could surmise that it was Oppon's hand. But Sorry killed the bouncer at that Phoenix Inn. Then forgot to wipe the blade off before putting it back? So everyone saw the blood. Not just a professional assassin. Correct if I'm way off, but the GOD OF ASSASSINS. Rope is more of the assassin, while Shadowthrone is more just the ruler of the Shadow Warren? Really? This guy forgot to cover up his latest kill?
June 1st, 2011, 06:58 PM #41
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I have just finished GOTM and will read Deadhouse Gates. For me GOTM was an ok read I have enjoyed other titles/authors far more but I'll read the next as popular opinion is it gets better. From there we will see.
As a side note, I didn't really understand Paran's short relationship with Tattersail and where his intense passion for vengence comes from. I thought that 'connection' was hastily & quite frankly (in my opinion) badly written.
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June 2nd, 2011, 08:48 AM #44
Yes please spoiler anything I don't specifically ask about or that I haven't read yet. I'm hoping anyways, that he saw I just posted about Sorry killing the bouncer, and knew that was after Paran had found Tattersail's lifeless body. But, I agree w/the odd connection, but isn't that how she described it. An odd connection she felt with him. I just marked it down as another mystery that may be explained later.
June 2nd, 2011, 04:12 PM #45
So. I don't read many poems. So far I've read all of these and i'm on chapter 18. Maybe I don't have that artsy side. I don't like poems anyways. But these are some of the worst "poems" I've ever read. To me it just sounds like an ambiguous sentence with big words, split up every now and then, with no rhyme(literally) or reason.


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The CRTG is designed to provide promising young clinicians with the research training opportunities needed to become productive clinical investigators in neuromuscular disease research. This training opportunity is designed to be compatible with the requirements of a traditional clinical fellowship in neuromuscular disease and any forthcoming requirements for certification in neuromuscular disease. Trainees will be expected to design their own educational plans and to participate, under the supervision of a mentor, in the development and/or coordination of a clinical research project. At minimum, trainees should gain experience in the basic epidemiological methods of clinical research, ethical and legal issues, and the principles involved in monitoring patient-oriented research, including regulatory requirements and quality assurance. Recipients are also encouraged to acquire knowledge of and exposure to research technologies, large dataset management, bioinformatics and other research tools, as well as to develop the communication and collaboration skills necessary for successful investigator development. Clinical Research Training Grants will be awarded annually to no more than two qualified recipients for the amount of $90,000 per year for two years.
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To apply for the CRTG, you must hold a Doctor of Medicine or Doctor of Osteopathy degree and be licensed to practice medicine in the state or province in which the grant will be given; be board eligible or board certified in neurology, child neurology or physical medicine and rehabilitation at the time of the award. Clinicians who have been in a practice focused on neuromuscular diseases for not more than 5 years are also eligible to submit an application. See the CRTG Policy Manual for further requirements.
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Your second-year project should allow you to apply information that you gained from the first-year coursework in a clinical research setting. Planning for this project should begin in year one. Appropriate projects might include, for example, participating in a clinical trial, conducting a restrospective chart review study, or designing and implementing a small epidemiological study. Your role in the design, execution, and/or data anaylsis for the research project should be clearly delineated. The project should not be a laboratory research project. It is expected that a publication or presentation at a scientific meeting will result from the research project.
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The traveler or their travel assistant submits a travel request through the save-and-send-for-approval function. TRAVELTracks will check budget and activate workflow, with the first step in the workflow directed to the account manager. At the time the request was saved a statistical encumbrance is created. A statistical encumbrance does not actually consume any budget. However, the travel amount will be reflected in the B2A report AND the Budget Balance report. Since the encumbrance is statistical, the system balance will be greater than the B2A balance by the amount of the statistical encumbrance. And, because the budget is actually still available, other offices (such as payroll, purchasing, AP, accounting-IDTs, etc.) could post to the account and consume the budget "statistically set aside" for the travel request. The Travel Office is the last step in the travel approval workflow, so there is a chance that when they go to approve a request, they will get an overbudget notification. Travel Office staff will coordinate with Budget Office staff when this occurs. The Budget Office staff may contact departments to resolve budgeting issues.
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Preheat toaster oven to 300 degrees. Combine 3 ounces sliced chicken breast from the deli with 1 tablespoon light mayonnaise, 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard, and 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper. Stuff mixture into 1 whole-wheat pita and add 5 roasted red peppers (from jar). Top with 1/3 cup salsa. Serve with 17 green or red grapes.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 17, 2006 Release No. M-118-06 SHOPPING CENTER OWNERS AGREE TO ALLOW ACCESS FOR NIU WASTEWATER FORCE MAIN PROJECT Mayor Mufi Hannemann has convinced the owners of Work on the project has been stalled since August when the landowner, King's Cathedral and Chapels, could not come to an agreement to allow the City access to a small portion of the shopping center parking lot. Earlier this month, the City suspended work on a permanent replacement for the underground pipe that handles sewage for East Honolulu. Yesterday, Hannemann met with James Marocco, senior pastor for King's Cathedral, and other representatives of the church and obtained their agreement to drop their previous demands and allow the City temporary access. Hannemann said, "We appreciate the church's position and are grateful its leaders have decided to allow us the temporary access that is crucial for the force main replacement. That's a project that will benefit the entire Marocco said, "We have always wanted to be a blessing to the community and are thankful that we can be at this time by providing access so that the county can fix the sewer problem in "I am thankful for the mayor and his staff who stepped in to resolve the concerns expressed by King's Cathedral." Jeannine Johnson, secretary of the Niu Valley Community Association, said, "We're pleased to hear that King's Cathedral has agreed to allow the City's sewer replacement work to resume. We're very appreciative that the mayor resolved this so our sewers won't back up." Access to the parking lot is needed for drilling equipment to install a replacement for a corroded force main under In order to perform the directional drilling for the permanent underground replacement line, the City initially obtained agreement to use part of the shopping center parking lot from Sofos Realty, which manages the shopping center for King's Cathedral. In August, the church overturned that agreement due to a conflict with the contractor. The City then tried working with the church and its attorneys on a very restrictive agreement to use only 4,600 square feet, which includes the landscaped area fronting the Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant and its drive-through lane. However, issues with insurance and other restrictions could not be resolved and caused negotiations to break down. Given that an agreement could not be reached, the City suspended work on the project earlier month. Mayor Hannemann called for a meeting with Marocco, and they were able to resolve the issues. Work is now scheduled to resume on January 15, 2007. (Reporters please note: Force mains and sewers are both types of underground pipe that carry wastewater or sewage. The difference is, in a force main, the stuff flows under pressure – it's pushed along from the pump station. In a sewer, gravity moves the wastewater.) -30- Contact: Eugene Lee, Director of Design and Construction, 523-4564 Craig Nishimura, Deputy Director of Design and Construction, 523-4716 Eldon Franklin, Chief of DDC Wastewater Division, 527-5386 |
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By Matt McCann
Normally Matt McCann's article would not be written by a dog, but this is an exception. My name is Sophie, and I am part Jack Russell terrier and part Chihuahua.
Most humans find me very cute. Dogs like me and other pet friends have a lot to say. We can help you develop need and urgency when you sell long-term care insurance. That's right; we pets can be your best friend when you meet with your prospects. I know you just want to toss me a treat so I get out of your way, but if you did that, then you would be making a big mistake. You see, many pet owners like us as much as their own children. This means we earn a level of love that is different than the love of your prospect's own children.
OK, so how can you use us to help you help our human friends? First, understand the psychology of the pet owner. Ask questions about their pets. Act like you are interested in us. If you do, you will score big points. If you are doing a webinar, there might be signals that there's a dog in the house (we sometimes bark). My cat friends are more mysterious. Simply ask about pets when asking about family. If you discover the prospect has a pet, then ask about us and seem interested.
Another question you can ask is, "Who will take care of your pet if you are unable to do it yourself?" Many times, you will hear concern in their voice. You can use this concern to help them and us pets, too.
A number of carriers have benefits that can help your clients' pets and address this concern. For example, with Transamerica, the insured can choose to take a monthly lump sum equal to one-third of the monthly benefit in lieu of all other benefits. The cash benefit is paid directly to the insured and may be used in any way he or she sees fit, with no receipts required. This is part of the standard plan and has no additional cost. This money can be used, in part, to pay for someone to walk the pet, take the pet to the vet, etc.
MedAmerica is cash, and cash is as good as money, so I hear. The policyholder receives the full amount each month when he or she qualifies for benefits. No care is required, there are no bills — they just get the money. Again, some of this money can be used to help us, your clients' pets.
John Hancock has an affordable cash rider which provides 15 percent of the monthly benefit in cash (on top of any reimbursement) to the policyholder. Again, this money can be positioned for your clients to help us pets.
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In an interview with Inside Higher Ed, Anthony T. Kronman, author of Education's End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life, discussed higher education's movement away from from the most important questions in life.
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Kronman's book makes a passionate plea to revive the humanities' lost tradition of preparing young people to address life's most important question, what living is for. Kronman explores how political correctness and the research ideal have led the humanities astray, and he argues that the study of life's meaning is an essential component in higher education.
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- President Emeritus of Williams College Francis Oakley says, "Kronman unfolds here a sustained argument marked by subtlety, force, nuance, and considerable appeal."
- A "bold and provocative book" written with "eloquence and passion," says Michael J. Sandel, author of The Case against Perfection and Public Philosophy.
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The matte finish this leaves is partly due to the amount of skin-damaging alcohol this contains followed by the aluminum starch. This is absolutely not greasy but the fragrance is nearly overpowering and the alcohol is definitely concerning. Exposing oily, acne-prone skin to products with alcohol can trigger more oil production at the base of the pores, leading to more breakouts and enhanced problems with oily skin. Last, this cannot hydrate for 24 hours; in fact, it's minimally moisturizing at best and won't do a thing to make dry, flaky skin look or feel better.
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Strengths: Some fragrance-free products; all the sunscreens but one contain either avobenzone or titanium dioxide for sufficient UVA protection; some commendable moisturizers with sunscreen; some good, inexpensive cleansers, and scrub for dry skin.
Weaknesses: Repetitive moisturizer formulas that rarely rise above the median for excellence; jar packaging is pervasive; the at-home peel/scrub kit is mostly disappointing; a couple of irritating moisturizers; no products for those with skin discolorations; limited options for oily skin.
Health is vital. That's the opening line on Vichy's catalog, followed by "Start with your skin." Perusing the opening pages of this catalog, it's easy to see how someone could get wrapped up in this L'Oreal-owned company's belief in listening to the signals skin sends us and then choosing products to address whatever problem skin is signaling you to correct. That might include acne, blackheads, eczema, discolorations, broken capillaries, and even excess oiliness. No surprises there, and it is sound advice to adapt your skin-care routine as your skin's needs (and signals) change. The problem is that Vichy's products, though well intentioned, are incapable of addressing several common problems, including most of those listed above. About all you can expect from most Vichy moisturizers is relief from dryness. That's it. Every product's claims "talk the talk," but they cannot possibly walk the walk because what's in them is, for the most part, standard, and without any research behind it to show that it makes a difference.
A big-deal ingredient for Vichy is their Thermal Spa Water. It is said to reduce irritation, strengthen skin's natural defenses, and provide free radical–quelling activity thanks to its trace minerals and salt. There is no substantiated proof to support these claims, save for a somewhat primitive chart Vichy provides to show this water helps reduce cutaneous signs of irritation (what it was compared to, if anything, is unknown). Two other L'Oreal-owned brands, Biotherm and La Roche-Posay, have similar special waters, each claiming to be mineral-rich. Yet if these are so unique and wonderfully beneficial for everyone's skin, why don't all L'Oreal-owned lines such as Lancome, L'Oreal, Kiehl's, SkinCeuticals, and The Body Shop, use them, too?
As expected, there are some bona fide winners among Vichy's products, but using Vichy exclusively with the expectation that their products have the answer to whatever your skin needs to have fixed is like thinking green tea is the only food your body needs.
Note: Vichy is categorized as a brand that tests on animals because its products are sold in China. Although Vichy does not conduct animal testing for its products sold elsewhere, the Chinese government requires imported cosmetics be tested on animals, so foreign companies retailing there must comply. This requirement is why some brands state that they don't test on animals "unless required by law." Animal rights organizations consider cosmetic companies retailed in China to be brands that test on animals, and so does the Paula's Choice Research Team.
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text: Nov 22, 2012 00:05 Foray into science of chemistry Foray into science of chemistry Advocate staff photo by ADAM LAU -- Central Middle School students Cade Kernan, 12; Hunter Nickens, 11; and William Migue, 11; from left, dip their hands into a tub of goo on Nov. 14 during the 2012 ChemFriends Exposition at the Gonzales Civic Center. Ascension Parish sixth-graders attended the two-day giant science fair, where local chemical companies showed experiments and explained how products are made. Darlene Denstorff| Ascension Section editor Nov. 22, 2012 Comments GONZALES — Caroline Bridges giggled as smoke left her mouth after munching on a graham cracker dipped in liquid nitrogen. Caroline, a sixth-grader at Central Middle School, was one of more than 1,800 Ascension Parish sixth-graders to attend the 16th annual ChemFriends Exposition held Nov. 14 and Nov. 15 at the Gonzales Civic Center. Area industries, a fire department and educational institutions used anything from bananas to flowers to a myriad of chemicals to teach students about science and chemistry. Caroline and her classmates learned about chemical reactions and what happens to items when they are exposed to liquid nitrogen. The science experiment was led by Air Products employees. "It's good but cold," Caroline said after eating the frozen cracker. "It stuck to my cheeks. It was so, so cold." At the booth manned by Occidental Chemical Corp. lab chemist Trish Singleton and others, students learned about acids and bases. "It's so fun to watch their eyes when they get it," Singleton said. "I'm enjoying seeing the kids' faces as they see the colors change and understand what is happening. You can see the light bulb go off." Richard P. Bergeron II, an environmental manager at Occidental Chemical Corporation and chairman of the ChemFriends committee, said the expo started in 1997 to raise students' awareness and interest of science and chemistry. Over the years, he said, the volunteer group that organizes the event "have got it down to a science." "We really only meet as a group once with all the partners before the expo," Bergeron said. Weeks before the event, schools begin organizing their end, getting permission slips signed and lining up buses to transport the students to and from the expo, he said. "This is a huge effort on the side of the school board and the schools and we can't thank them enough for all the work they do," Bergeron said. He stressed that the expo is not a job fair or a career day to promote area industries. "It's for the students, not us," Bergeron said. "It's all about fun with chemistry and fun with science." Once the students arrived, they were divided into groups. Each group lined up behind a high school volunteer carrying a large sign with a letter. The letters represented a chemical element and were color coded to match the booths inside. Students couldn't enter the building until they received a pair of safety goggles. After a quick speech about the rules of the expo and a safety talk, the students were led to the booths. Each group got 11 minutes at four stations of the 16 stations. An air horn was used to let the group leaders know when it was time to move from station to station. Jeanne Broussard, with BASF, quickly handed out green gloves to students arriving at her booth. She and her co-workers guided the students through an experiment that combined two chemicals to make foam. As a former teacher, Broussard said she enjoys the interaction with the students. "It's a fun day with science," she said. Central student Aaron Hayden agreed. As he left the building, Aaron and his classmates talked about an experiment that used cornstarch. "The cornstarch experiment was my favorite," he said. "It was cool to see what happened." The excitement that Aaron and his classmates exhibited is just the result Bergeron said he was looking for. "We want to spark that creative genius in each student," he said. Bergeron said he has met many adults who tell him that they decided to study science in college after attending ChemFriends as a sixth-grader. Get The Advocate in your inbox Subscribe


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Our religion has determined the lawful relationships between men and women and prepared for them the reasons which guarantee their happiness in this world and the Hereafter. Allah forbids any relationship between a man and woman outside the marital relationship. We are, in fact, ordered in the Qur'ân to lower our gaze from the opposite sex, so how can we manage to go further and have such an intimate relationship as a love or a sexual relationship? Allah says: "Say to the believing men that they cast down their looks and guard their private parts; that is purer for them; surely Allah is Aware of what they do. And say to the believing women that they cast down their looks and guard their private parts and do not display their ornaments except what appears thereof, and let them wear their head-coverings over their bosoms, and not display their ornaments except to their husbands or their fathers, or the fathers of their husbands, or their sons, or the sons of their husbands, or their brothers, or their brothers' sons, or their sisters' sons, or their women, or those whom their right hands possess, or the male servants not having need (of women), or the children who have not attained knowledge of what is hidden of women; and let them not strike their feet so that what they hide of their ornaments may be known; and turn to Allah all of you, O believers! so that you may be successful." [Sûrah al-Nûr: 30-31] Any form of sexual relationship between man and woman outside marriage is fornication. Allah says: "Nor come nigh to fornication: for it is an indecent (deed) and an evil way" [Sûrah al-Isrâ':32]. Allah says, regarding His true believers: "Those who invoke not, with Allah, any other god, nor slay such life as Allah has made sacred except for just cause, nor commit fornication; - and any that does this deserves punishment." [Sûrah al-Furqân: 68] Moreover, those who engage in fornication and do not repent are the most maligned of people. Allah says: "The adulterer cannot marry any but an adulteress or an idolatress, and the adulteress, none mary her but an adulterer or an idolater; to the believers such a thing is forbidden" [Sûrah al-Nûr: 3] Allah says: "The woman and the man guilty of fornication flog each of them with a hundred stripes. Let not compassion move you in their case, in a matter prescribed by Allah, if ye believe in Allah and the Last Day: and let a party of the believers witness their punishment" [Sûrah al-Nûr: 2]. The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: "The fornicator does not commit fornication while he is a believer" [Sahîh al-Bukhârî and Sahîh Muslim] A young man once came to our Prophet (peace be upon him) and said: "O, Messenger of Allah give me a permission to commit fornication." The Companions were angry with the way that young man who dared to ask such a thing from the Prophet (peace be upon him), but the Prophet (peace be upon him) did not grow angry and immediately asked him: "Would you like a man to fornicate with your mother?" The young man replied: "No." The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: "Hence other people do not like it for their mothers. Would you like it for your daughter?" The man said: "No." The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: "Hence people do not like it for their daughters...." [Musnad Ahmad]
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Sunderland have made an enquiry to sign Valencia's Argentina midfielder Ever Banega, according to Sky sources.
The 25-year-old has 24 senior caps for his country and signing Banega would represent something of a coup for Poyet.
Banega would become the third Argentinian to head for Wearside this month, with goalkeeper Oscar Ustari and central defender Santiago Vergini - who could make their debut in Saturday's FA Cup fourth-round tie against Kidderminster - already signed.
Poyet has also signed Spanish full-back Marcos Alonso on loan from Fiorentina.
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CHOP Pediatric and Newborn Care at University Medical Center at Princeton (UMCP) is scheduled to begin July 1, 2009. Representatives of both organizations recently met to discuss the enhanced pediatric services that will be available at UMCP. Pictured from left to right are: Amy Lambert, Vice President, CHOP Care Network New Jersey; Barry S. Rabner, President and CEO, Princeton HealthCare System; Madeline Bell, Executive Vice President and COO, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and Dr. Louis Tesoro, Chairman of Pediatrics, Princeton HealthCare System.
University Medical Center at Princeton to Enhance Pediatric Care through Agreement with The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
University Medical Center at Princeton is enhancing its pediatric services at all levels - emergency, inpatient and neonatal intensive care - through a new agreement with The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).
CHOP, one of the leading pediatric hospitals and research facilities in the world, is ranked first overall in the nation in Parents magazine's February 2009 Best Children's Hospitals issue, as well as tops in a number of specific areas in the study, including emergency medicine and neonatology. CHOP also was ranked first nationally among pediatric hospitals for the sixth consecutive year in 2008 by U.S. News & World Report.
Beginning this summer, physicians and other health professionals from CHOP will provide services for children at UMCP as part of CHOP Pediatric Care at UMCP (Pediatric Unit) and CHOP Newborn Care at UMCP (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit).
CHOP will provide pediatric hospitalists on-site 24/7 to care for children and adolescents who are admitted to UMCP's Pediatric Unit. The hospitalists also will provide pediatric consultation to the Emergency Department and the Well Baby Nursery, as well as administer sedation to children if needed.
"CHOP Pediatric and Newborn Care at UMCP is a very exciting development for us and the children and families we serve," says Barry S. Rabner, President and CEO, Princeton HealthCare System. "It is the result of a great deal of hard work by many physicians and administrators at both institutions. I would especially like to thank Dr. Louis Tesoro, Chairman of Pediatrics at Princeton HealthCare System, for his leadership and commitment throughout the process."
"We are grateful for the opportunity to work with UMCP to extend exceptional pediatric care to families closer to their homes, in their own communities," says Madeline Bell, Executive Vice President and COO, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. "We are looking forward to working closely with the pediatricians who care for children in the central New Jersey region."
The new pediatric hospitalist program is intended to support the work of pediatricians currently on staff at PHCS, who will have the option of either caring for their own patients in the Pediatric Unit, or transferring care of their patients to the CHOP pediatric hospitalist.
In addition, CHOP will provide board certified neonatologists to provide care in the NICU and to attend high-risk deliveries as requested.
All PHCS physicians and employees who care for children will have access to the educational services, programs and resources of CHOP's Education Programs, as well as educational programs offered by UMCP. CHOP will also provide PHCS with consultation on timely pediatric issues (i.e., the development of pediatric facilities, enhancing family-centered care, etc.) on an intermittent basis.
Updates on this new partnership will be available over the next few months online at www.princetonhcs.org/pediatrics or by calling 1.888.PHCS4YOU (1.888.742.7496).


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I went to the local dogging site with my friend Carrie recently. I was there, dressed to the nines as a sexy woman with free18 a short mini-skirt and white stockings fishnet stockings and my gold lame top with very big tits. The gold lame is large, reflecting the free18 lights free18 of cars passing me slowly. My shoulders blonde wig does this too, and I had the bright red lips and red and gold eye shadow. Very attractive, straight out of Goldfinger. My girlfriend was in a pinch gel filling your chest lifted and showed her breasts, a chiffon blouse in pink, her blond hair falling over his shoulders and a gauzy silk skirt that showed her as she bent down. We parked and got out and looked up and down the street. A car arrived, the only cars on this street are people who left the main road and looking for fun. I stayed with my car, and she could see it was for her, and was able to see my girlfriend in the car. He stopped and I went to his car. He had his cock and was playing with it, to open the window. I reached in and pushed into place, so I put my head through and take into my mouth. If it was really hard, I asked if I wanted to fuck my girlfriend, and she said yes and left his car and followed me. Meanwhile, another car and took us to see. Carrie got out and knelt before the man and began to suck. I gave her a kiss on the mouth and then changed jobs, I suck and kiss her. The other man got out of his car and went up fondling themselves. I turned around and began to suck. Carrie is now leaning on the hood of my car and lifted the back of her skirt and lets her pink silk panties around their ankles. I told the guy to lick his ass before he could catch her and she did, her anal hole tongue, which is always ready for a shit. I said he could fpiece of her ass, if I wanted, but he fuck me first. So he pushed his hard cock in my first and was always very excited when free18 Carrie aspired to another. Then he took me and Carrie got behind and put his cock in her ass. She loved it and went on sucking the other. He pushed me so that I could hope for, and I was able to suck the other. It was hard and free18 the first guy was pumping when another car pulled up. There free18 were two men who were in search of action. Both Carrie wanted, which was a shit to her husband and three are waiting their turn ! She loved it, and put his hand to masturbate while sucking the other and continue to fuck her ass. I thought it would never come, but finally gave his free18 cheeks a beautiful ass some hard slaps, curses, and then shot his load up her ass. One man was right behind him when he retired. I started sucking one of them slipped and the other cock in me and was very excited and came within minutes. It was very nice, but his penis was really big and really touched me to the limit. Carrie took the other was as fast as the other, but none of them left, they wanted to make everyone else to see. Finally, they all had, and I went to pee. Carrie moaned: ' Pee on me, my love,' so I went back and my aim flow of gold into her pussy and the top of his socks. Then I knelt down and urinated on the face and mouth. The other guys have started this year and two of them in the urine in the immediate enthusiasm. She opened her blouse and pushed it urinated on his signature good split. She is like a cake, she really loves adventure and humiliation, so dirty. I rubbed free18 my pussy pee in your hair and crotch with his hand and so excited that he was leaning over the car and Shagged his good and hard. Even if they come, was one of the tough guys backand she sucked until I came in her pussy, and I followed Carrie was not yet through all this shit, but I was rubbing her clit and helped the guy with the cock in her pussy while hammering and I could say free18 that was coming. I have to free18 take the other two types in each of her breasts and sucking hard and kissed my mouth, dirty whore called a dirty little slut, and she started moaning 'fuck me hard, fuck me as hard as you can 'before he collapsed in a shuddering orgasm and then urinated on her own legs.


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Oru CBI Diary Kurippu
K. Madhu
The first in a series of films on the CBI, this film introduced the iconic Sethurama Iyer, the no-nonsense, shrewd CBI officer superbly played by Mammooty. The story tells the nature of a murder investigation by the CBI officer and the uncovering of the crime in a thrilling manner. The film became a trendsetter of sorts, and is also known for its fantastic title score by Shyam.
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hey guys! i just joined this forum (but have been reading it for years, not sure why it took me this long to register and post )
I just traded my 650r in for a ninja 1000 2012 no ABS. The thing is fun , thats for sure but id like a bit more power. What mods are popular for increasing HP? New exhaust? If so, any suggesstions?
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Super dollar may have had its day
PUBLISHED: 13 Apr 2012 14:38:40 | UPDATED: 14 Apr 2012 02:54:36PUBLISHED: 14 Apr 2012 PRINT EDITION: 14 Apr 2012David Bassanese
Once upon a time, the idea that the Australian dollar could trade above parity to the United States dollar seemed fanciful. Yet we've now been living with this state of affairs since November 2010.
But life is rarely stable in global currency markets, and I am starting to feel that the days of a super-charged Australian dollar are numbered. At best, the $A won't rise much further – and will continue to trade a range between $US1 and $US1.10. But it would not surprise were the $A to soon go below parity again. And if history is any guide, when and if the $A turns, the drop could be quite rapid.
For many sectors of the economy this would be great news. The squeals of pain from our trade-exposed manufacturing and tourism sectors have grown louder in recent months. And even the mining sector is no longer enjoying ever-rising export commodity prices, and would welcome a lower currency to help boost the $A value of offshore earnings.
With Australia's sharemarket top heavy with miners and large companies with significant offshore operations, a weaker $A should be a net benefit to stocks overall. Indeed, the significant underperformance of the ASX against global peers over the past year or so has come at a time of currency strength.
So why might the $A fall? Because many of the factors that pushed it up are beginning to reverse.
For starters, export commodity prices – which surged through better part of the past decade – appear to have finally reached a peak late last year. The terms of trade, or price of exports relative to imports, reached twice its 40-year average in the September quarter last year, and eased back 1.6 per cent in the December quarter.
With new commodity supply coming on stream, and attempts to shift Chinese economic growth into a more moderate and less capital investment-intensive phase, the price of Australia's coal and iron ore exports will likely ease further – although it will remain at relatively high levels by historic standards.
Australia's inflation-adjusted real exchange rate appears to have peaked. The real exchange rate fell by 3.5 per cent over the September and December quarters last year, but stayed at a relatively high 28 per cent above its 40-year average.
A second major driver of the exchange rate is relative interest rate differentials. If interest rates rise relative to those overseas, the $A tends to rise as foreign investors shift money to relatively higher yielding local cash and bonds.
Foreign capital inflow was a major support for the $A last year. According to estimates by the Reserve Bank, foreign investors now own about three-quarters of federal government debt outstanding.
Especially in the US, official interest rates can't fall any further as they're already practically at zero. At 4.25 per cent, Australia's official cash rate still has some room to fall if need be, and there's a growing chance rates will fall at least a further 50 basis points over the next few months – notwithstanding the past week's stronger than expected March employment report.
Despite the 44,000 gain in employment during March, the non-mining parts of the economy overall appear in need of further interest rate support – given weak consumer confidence and an ailing housing sector.
The fact the Gillard government seems intent on running a very tight budget this year adds to the case for lower local interest rates.
We'll know more about the $A interest rate outlook in two weeks when the March quarter consumer price index report is released.
The other major driver of the $A is global risk sentiment. Even here, the $A faces challenges. First, after a solid performance from late last year, there's a good chance global growth hopes could fade in the next few months – as was evident around this time in mid-2010 and 2011. Renewed concerns in Europe and some recent softening in America's labour market pose risks.
But even if global growth hopes firm, it's likely to be led by the US rather than China. I detect an underlying shift in investor interest away from commodities-emerging markets and back towards the US – which could lead the $A to fall even as global growth improves.
This would be a throwback to the US-centric global economy of the late 1990s. In other words, whatever the outlook for the global economy, the $A risks increasingly seem asymmetrically skewed to the downside.
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'Twas The Night Before Kwanzaa….
'Twas the night before Kwanzaa
And all through the 'hood,
Maulana Karenga was up to no good.He'd tortured a woman and spent time in jail.
He needed a new scam that just wouldn't fail.
("So what if I stuck some chick's toe in a vice?
Nobody said revolution was nice!")The Sixties were over. Now what would he do?
Why, he went back to school — so that's "Dr." to you!
He once ordered shootouts at UCLA
Now he teaches Black Studies just miles away.Then to top it all off, the good Doctor's new plan
Was to get rid of Christmas and piss off The Man.Karenga invented a fake holiday.
He called the thing Kwanza. "Hey, what's that you say?"You don't get what's 'black' about Maoist baloney?
You say that my festival's totally phony?"Who cares if corn isn't an African crop?
Who cares if our harvest's a month or two off?
Who cares if Swahili's not our mother tongue?
A lie for The Cause never hurt anyone!"Umoja! Ujima! Kujichagulia, too!
Collectivist crap never sounded so cool!
Those guilty white liberals — easy to fool.
Your kids will now celebrate Kwanzaa in school!"And we heard him exclaim as he drove out of sight:
"Happy Kwanzaa to all, except if you're white!"
Via Kathy Shaidle's Kwanzaa: fact-free fake holiday invented by convicted felon/university prof
Most [black] people celebrate Christmas NOT #Kwanzaa. It's a celebration that white Trotsky's and black Marxist like to "throw" upon us.
— Ξ BLACK REPUBLICAN Ξ (@blackrepublican) November 26, 2013
Also see:
- The Kwanzaa Con: A Fake Holiday Created by a Rapist and Torturer
-  No. I don't celebrate the fake holiday called Kwanzaa
- Backers say past of founder doesn't diminish Kwanza
- Kwanzaa Is A Fraud of A "Holiday†Created With A Fascist Goal
- Unhappy Kwanzaa – the media are still falling for that fake holiday created by a felon
- Why Black Christians Shouldn't Celebrate Kwanzaa
- MAULANA KARENGA'S HAUNTING GHOST by Mukasa Afrika Ma'at
- On Dr. Maulana Karenga: An open letter by Wesley Kabaila (rape, torture, tiger cage imprisonment)
Wishing A Blessed Christmas To All!
(As you enjoy this beautiful classic painting; Nativity of Jesus by Josefa de Obidos, 1669, listen to the original version of "Do You Hear What I Hear?" below the fold.)
Jesus is the reason for the season…
List: Veterans Day Military Discounts & Freebies *UPDATED*
Enjoy! You EARNED it!
DISCOUNTS HAVE NOT YET BEEN ANNOUNCED FOR 2013. PLEASE CHECK BACK FOR UPDATES –Military.com
Each year businesses honor veterans and servicemembers, as well as their families, with Veterans Day discounts on goods, services, and dining.
Keep in mind that most businesses require proof of military service, which can include a VA Universal Access Card, Military I.D., DD-214 (Discharge Papers), Veterans Service Organization Card (VSO's include groups like the VFW, DAV, AmVets, MOAA, FRA, and the American Legion), or in some cases businesses will accept a picture of the veteran in uniform.
The following is a list of Veteran and military discounts and Buy One Get One (BOGO) offerings. This year's offerings even include some honest-to-goodness free meals.
Note: Not all franchise locations participate in their national chain's Veterans Day programs – be sure contact your nearest establishment to make sure they are participating.
[This list will be updated as more businesses announce their 2013 Veterans Day offerings]
Veterans Day Restaurant Offerings:
7-Eleven – Offers will be offering veterans and servicemembers a free small slurpee on Sunday Nov. 11, 2012.
Applebees - All Veterans and active duty military eat free from a limited menu at Applebee's on Veterans Day (Nov. 11).
BJ's Restaurant and Brewhouse – On Monday, November 11, 2012 BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse will offer veterans and servicemembers will be able to get a free lunch entree or a one-topping mini or individual pizza. Click here to find a location near you.
Chili's – Veterans and active duty dine for free from a special limited seven-item menu from 11am – 5pm on Veterans Day.
Famous Dave's  Free or discounted meals on Veterans Day. Offer varies by location. Click here for list of locations and specific offerings.
Golden Corral – Golden Corral Restaurants' Military Appreciation Monday free dinner will be available on Monday November 12, from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. Military retirees, Veterans, active duty, National Guard and Reserves are all welcome.
Hooters – All Veterans and active duty get 10 Free Boneless Wings with the purchase of a drink.
Krispy Kreme – All active-duty, retirees & Veterans get a free doughnut and small coffee on Veterans Day. Be sure to call ahead to verify your local Krispy Kreme is participating.
Little Caesars® Pizza – Little Caesars will honor members – past and present – of the armed forces on Monday Nov. 12, 2012, by providing veterans and active military members with a free Crazy Bread® with proof of military status or proof of service at participating stores nationwide.
Lone Star Steakhouse – On Monday, 11/12/2012, all veterans and active duty military will receive a FREE entrée from our Stars & Stripes Menu. See your local restaurant for details. Be sure to call ahead to verify local participation. Be sure to call ahead to verify local participation.
Max and Erma's – On Veterans Day, Sunday, November 11, participating Max & Erma's locations are saluting veterans and active military personnel with a free Best Cheeseburger in America Combo.
McCormick & Schmick's Seafood Restaurants – On Sunday, November 10, participating McCormick & Schmick's Seafood Restaurants offer a complimentary entree to vets from a special menu on a space available basis, online reservations are highly recommended. Be sure to contact your local McCormick & Schmick's to ensure they are participating.
O'Charley's – O'Charley's will thank veterans and active duty military personnel, celebrating their service, by providing them with a complimentary meal on Monday, November 12. With their military I.D. or other proof of service, servicemen and women will receive their choices of meal from the O'Charley's "$9.99er†menu.
Outback Steakhouse – The week of November 11th- 12th, Outback will be offering Veterans and servicemembers a Free Bloomin' Onion and Cocoa-Cola product (non-alcoholic) beverage. In addition, Outback is offering all military servicemembers and veterans who present a proper ID* or a photo in uniform, will receive a 10% discount off their entire guest check.
Sizzler Steak House – Veterans and servicemembers can get a free lunch on Monday Nov. 12, 2012 until 4:00pm. The limited menu includes 3 entrees – 6 oz. Steak, Malibu Chicken, or a Half Dozen Fried Shrimp. Click here to check if your local restaurant is offering the Veterans Day freebie.
T.G.I. Friday's – Veterans and Servicemembers can get a free lunch on Monday Nov. 12, 2012. Contact your nearest location for more details on their Veterans Day offer.
The Olive Garden – Veterans and servicemembers can get a free entrée choice from a special menu. The entrée choices include garlic bread sticks and choice of soup or salad. The offer is good on Sunday Nov. 11, 2012 at locations in both US and Canada.
Texas Roadhouse – Texas Roadhouse locations – nationwide – will offer veterans a free lunch on Monday Nov. 12, 2012. Choose from one of 10 free meals, plus sides and a drink. Offer good for ALL veterans – including all active, retired or former U.S. military.
UNO Chicago Grill – Veterans and active military members can get a free entrée or individual pizza with the purchase of an entrée or pizza of equal or greater value. This offer is good from Sunday, November 11 through Monday, November 12. Military ID or proof of service is required, but no coupon is needed.
More at Military.com:
- Veterans Day Travel and Recreation
- Veterans Day Retailer Offerings
- Other Freebies
- Year-Round Veterans Discounts
See full list here.
H/T Dad
Tasha T. Chuyou Brand Marketing Manager for Cheeseburger in Paradise has been gracious enough to send this info via email.
Cheeseburger in Paradise will mark Veterans Day on Monday, November 11 by extending a complimentary All-American Burger with fries to active and retired military personnel in appreciation of their courage and commitment to the well-being of the country. To take advantage of this offer, guests must dine in, purchase a beverage and present any of the following when ordering:
-  •U.S. Uniform Services Identification Card
- •U.S. Uniform Services Retired Identification Card
- •Current Leave and Earnings Statement
- •Veterans Organization Card
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Merry Christmas!
From my family and I to you and yours. God bless you one and all.
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Declaration of Independence [Full Text]
The Declaration of Independence: A Transcription
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.–Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do.
And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
The 56 signatures on the Declaration appear in the positions indicated:
Column 1
Button Gwinnett
Lyman Hall
George Walton
Column 2
North Carolina:
William Hooper
Joseph Hewes
John Penn
South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge
Thomas Heyward, Jr.
Thomas Lynch, Jr.
Arthur Middleton
Column 3
John Hancock
Samuel Chase
William Paca
Thomas Stone
Charles Carroll of Carrollton
George Wythe
Richard Henry Lee
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Harrison
Thomas Nelson, Jr.
Francis Lightfoot Lee
Carter Braxton
Column 4
Robert Morris
Benjamin Rush
Benjamin Franklin
John Morton
George Clymer
James Smith
George Taylor
James Wilson
George Ross
Caesar Rodney
George Read
Thomas McKean
Column 5
New York:
William Floyd
Philip Livingston
Francis Lewis
Lewis Morris
New Jersey:
Richard Stockton
John Witherspoon
Francis Hopkinson
John Hart
Abraham Clark
Column 6
New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett
William Whipple
Samuel Adams
John Adams
Robert Treat Paine
Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins
William Ellery
Roger Sherman
Samuel Huntington
William Williams
Oliver Wolcott
New Hampshire:
Matthew Thornton
Source: http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html
Happy Independence Day! Blue Angels With Star Spangled Banner Accompaniment! [Video]
God Bless America
~The Star Spangled Banner~
O! say can you see by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming.
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O! say does that star-spangled banner yet wave,
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner, O! long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
If that leaves you hungry for more Blue Angels action, check this video out. It is 26 minutes long, but has an extreme coolness factor. Fantastic close-up shots! Full screen clarity.
NAF El Centro Air Show
El Centro, CA
Saturday March 10, 2012
Look! Obama Publicly Embracing His White Half
On St Patrick's Day, the only time he ever does. The only time it is politically expedient for him to do so. O's race cards can't play themselves, dontcha know…
Via The Hill
A campaign photo-op, just like when he pretends to be a Christian, and attends church once in a blue moon.
And ICYMI: Dumb: Obama Campaign Website Selling O'Bama Tee-Shirts With *Four* Leaf Clovers


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I wanted to write a poem for Owl this week but it just wasn't happening until I read her post and then I wrote this. I hope you will go to her post first and then come back but go to her post either way it is worth a read.
Dat girl was on fire.
sho nuff burned her up if it was let go.
all the runin in the worl aint gonna put a fire out.
No siree it aint.
Warnt no holy ghost fire that one.
My no! That was an all consuming fire that one.
Burn away the dross a fire like that.
Someone let that kind of fire burn em...
...they be dead or purified...
either way they aint no use to this world.
You better get your ass down to the river little girl!
That aint no ordinary fire
That fire only goes away with the baptizing
and not just any ol baptizing neither
No you need a full immersion girl.
Take yourself all the way under
afore you come back up.
Whooee look at her now
soppin wet glory ta god
Looks different now
with what the fire burned away.
There you go girly
Lookin better.
now ye know
ye GOTTA keep the fire inside
but ya gotta keep the fire INSIDE
Hell yes girl you can't run around
lit up like the inside of this pipe.
That fire is all up in you for a reason
like a steam engine
yeah girl like steeeeeeaam engine
Let it boil but don't stoke the fire too hot or you'll...
...You'll burn your engine out girl
Yeah girl you get to running too fast
and you'll crash.
Your ass end will wind up around your ears.
The fire is your gift girl.
But don't let it run you.
What did she tell you?
while you was under what did she say?
Don't stand there with yer fly trap hanging open
You don't go under without hearing the lady
What did she say?
She's a wise one that one.
Yes she is. Seen it all.
Everylastdrop. She has.
She runs to the ocean you know
And into the sky
Runs down from the mountain too.
If there is something to be knowed
she knows it that one
What did she say?
She told me...
What!? Come on girl spill it.
She said..."Not Yet."
I have read this thrice, and will come back to visit it a few more times. You have blessed me yet again. Thank you. I am honored to call you my brother.
This is so great...I love the loose personal style of this...like something I hear in a poetry slam...xox