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I come before you as a Captain, but one who has learned from the ways of the past. I address you now to speak both of myself and of the belief that I hold for the future. We are humans, creatures of free thought and free speech. We gather in groups, connecting with those who are like-minded. We form these bonds because it is impossible for us to live alone, but even then, we think and act as freely for that is the gift of our being.
Yet even such gifts can be abused at times. Often we do not realise that the weight that our tongue may be enough to sink another in grief. Each word that we speak must be chosen carefully, for the power of the speaker compounds the weight of his speech. Some, carrying their first spark of greatness, might take this too far and abuse their strength. I was one of those individual, if you had known me in my early days. I spoke carelessly, without concern for any other and I viewed this as my given right. Indeed, I was shown to be very wrong.
I then learned to choose my words carefully, maintaining a calm and polite demeanour at all times. I became mechanical in a sense, logical, but still bearing several parts that mark me as human. This was a wonderful step forward for me, but it was pride that was my undoing. Having believed that I had conquered control, I slipped back into old ways without even being aware. It mixed itself and disguised its form underneath the skin of 'justice' and 'hope', but such are the faults of being human. It was a failure on my part, and it is one that I will not allow myself to repeat.
In this matter, I am clear and I do pledge to the crew of the Black Fedoras that such a thing would occur again. Yet, I must also clarify several key thoughts on the matter.
I have asked myself, in moments of quiet and isolation, if indeed I would have taken the same course of action. As I have said in private to many, my answer remains a solid yes. I would still have chosen to teach a lesson that could be taught to another. I would still react to something that I see as being ill-fitting with the societal norms of mutual respect and mutual kindness. However, I would make certain that should I choose to teach a lesson in future, I would do so in the manner befitting a man of example.
I would choose my words carefully; I would shy away from those that could be misconstrued as overt aggression and I would give my debilitators no excuse to find neither fuel nor fire in the ideals that I preach. A vast majority of what I do, I always view as a benefit to the larger mass. To act for the greater good, this is what I believe in as a leader. I stand by my judgement that my actions will lead to better outcomes, yet it is the means by which this is reached that continues to stand in question.
Some may not feel comfortable with a heavy handed approach. To them, I apologise. Yet, if the rod is spared then the child will be spoiled and indeed that helps no one. Would you have me remain a passive bystander, possessing the power of change yet doing nothing to change an unsightly scenario? That is not a man that I believe you would ask to lead you. That is a man that is only worried about his own image and when the time comes he will be equally unlikely to save any others, concerned only with saving himself.
I would rather be looked down upon by some, those who believe in a sugar-coated fantasy, than to know that my lack of action will lead to no improvement in the world. I was raised by its harshness, taught lessons by its tough nature and through all of this I have been forged.
I will say again, that given the same circumstances, I would always take the same course of action. I would not deviate from this path, but I would tread it carefully. I would watch the weight of the words that I speak and choose carefully those that represent what I am trying to teach. I would not give in the demon of anger and I would stay my tongue as I would stay any blade that I point at my enemies. This I vow, because my words themselves have continued to reach a point where they are no less sharp. Yet I must remind you that I would definitely act. Even if I would be damned by such an action, I know I would have to act. My beliefs compel me, but I hope to commit no foul in the inception of that act.
This I swear to you, as Chenbeard the Pirate. I am the terror of the seven seas, the bane of the unscrupulous. I am the untrained poet, the writer who carries no plaque; but before all, I am but a man. It is for that reason that I am thankful, each and every day. I am thankful for those who would judge me as I have judged others, for in no other circumstances may we know the measure of the man.
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Pikachu was Ash's first Pokémon, given to him by Professor Oak because Charmander, Bulbasaur and Squirtle had already been taken by other trainers. Pikachu refuses to stay inside his Poké Ball unless he absolutely has to, so he is usually seen sitting on Ash's shoulders or his head, or travelling by his side during their adventures. Pikachu is the only Pokémon Ash always has with him, other Pokémon come and go as the story progresses, most of Ash's Pokémon currently not with him stay at Professor Oak's lab/ranch.
Ash's Pikachu is somewhat special, being considerably more powerful than the average Pikachu and because of this Team Rocket's Jessie and James are constantly trying to kidnap him and deliver him to their boss, Giovanni.
Like Ash's Bulbasaur, Ash's Pikachu refuses to evolve.
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Thunderbolt | Electric | Showdown in Pewter City |
Leer | Normal | The School of Hard Knocks |
Agility | Psychic | Electric Shock Showdown |
Quick Attack | Normal | Electric Shock Showdown |
Thunder | Electric | Showdown at Dark City |
Bite | Dark | Make Room For Gloom |
Double-Edge | Normal | Friend and Foe Alike |
Tackle | Normal | Going Apricorn! |
Iron Tail | Steel | All Things Bright and Beautifly! |
Volt Tackle | Electric | May's Egg-Cellent Adventure |
Electro Ball | Electric | Pikachu VS Meguroco VS Koaruhie!! |
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Ikue Ōtani | 17 |
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Inuko Inuyama | 0 |
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Name: | Ash's Pikachu |
Name: | サトシのピカチュウ |
Romanji: | Satoshi's Pikachu |
Gender: | Male |
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1st manga book: | Pokémon: The Electric Tale of Pikachu #1 |
1st anime episode: | Pokémon #1 |
1st anime movie: | Pokémon: The First Movie |
Aliases | Satoshi's Pikachu |
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Pokémon the Movie: Black - Victini and Reshiram
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Pokémon Heroes: Latios and Latias
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Full name | FC Liefering |
Ground | Red Bull Arena, Salzburg (capacity: 31 000) |
Peter Zeidler | |
League | Regionalliga West |
2012/13 | Champion promotion to Austrian football First league |
Website | [Club home page Club home page] |
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GLEN ALLEN, Va., Oct. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Star Scientific, Inc. (NASDAQ: STSI) announced today that the press release issued 10/24/2012, titled " Star Scientific Announces Successful First Look at the "Flint" CRP Human Study and Provides Updated Report on ASAP Human Thyroid Study", incorrectly stated the interim results of the "Flint" CRP study. In the release, the Company reported: "After one month of supplementation, CRP levels dropped in 26% of the subjects with diabetes, compared with a drop in CRP levels in 12% of the general trial population of subjects who did not have diabetes." These figures reflected an understatement of the decrease in CRP levels after anatabine supplementation. The correct figures are as follows: 11 of 18 (61%) diabetic subjects on metformin had a CRP reduction, as did 31 of 81 (38%) subjects in the general trial population not taking metformin. Overall, 42 of 99 (42%) subjects had a decrease in CRP after only one month with anatabine supplementation.
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30.01.09 - By Vivek Wallace: This weeks Call Em Out Fridays segment takes a look at an individual whose recent actions have placed him under high scrutiny. For years he was viewed as one of the sports perennial figures, but suddenly, everything that made him famous is widely questioned, leading most to believe the end could be near. As we analyze this fighter, like any of my other Call Em Out Fridays segments, we take a look at all angles involved. A supportive perspective, the critics perspective, and in the end, to keep things fair and balanced we review a more neutral perspective. So with no further ado, we now shift the focus of the spotlight to the Tijuana tornado, better known as Antonio Margarito. Antonio Margarito - (Supportive perspective): For over 15 years now, the sport of boxing has been a safe haven which has served as a home away from the reality of life a poverty stricken life which practically molded Antonio Margarito Montiel.. Tired of a life that offered little more than an occasional ray of sunshine in the midst of much 'rain', Margarito decided at only the tender age of 15 to turn professional in an effort to assist a family that barely had a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of. Initially, his move to the professional ranks wasnt quite smooth, as he would lose 3 of his first 12 bouts. The hunger he developed for food in poverty apparently struck in unison with the hunger he would develop for success in the sport, as this boy quickly transformed into a man, not only withstanding the wrath of those in front of him, but evolving to a point in which he was able to deliver his own as it would later define his identity. Extremely active, very determined, hard-nosed, and granite-chinned; the Margarito blueprint was in full effect, and even the early losses he notched werent enough to slow his drive, as his eventual rise in the sport would become evident with each victory. By April of 2005, Margaritos evolution had apparently come full swing as he made the most of exposure received on a rare and introductory ESPN pay-per-view moment, devastating the powerful and undefeated Kermit Cintron in only 5 rounds. At this point, his presence in the welterweight division was firmly felt, earning him the nickname most feared man on the planet, partly because he had become a name many had recently learned, yet adamantly refused to use. At the time, he was viewed as the most likely candidate to remove the pretty from Floyd Mayweather's face, but the once thought to be missing flaws had become legible .which takes us to the critics perspective on Tony. Antonio Margarito - (Critics perspective): For all the upside witnessed in Margarito, the flaws would soon become equally as evident. Perhaps the biggest of them all, complacency in the form of frequent motivational lapses; Also known as the 'silk pajamas' theory. After his victory over Cintron, he would go on to defeat Manuel Gomez, and escape a tough outing against the rugged Joshua Clottey, but to some it came as no surprise that leading up to what would be his biggest challenge at the time, his hunger was in question. Whether it was a lack of motivation or not, no one knows, but by the end of the night, Margarito would suffer a loss to a fighter who viewed him as the proverbial 'jackpot', knowing that few others were willing to take such a risk in fighting him. After the brief moment of adversity to a man whose hunger rivaled his own, Margarito jumped back on the horse and began to re-write the memories, blasting through Golden Johnson and a still fearified Kermit Cintron. Those two solid outings put him back at centerstage in the sports deepest division where he would face the man most considered to be the heir apparent to Floyd Mayweather jr, Miguel Cotto. In what remains the largest purse grossing fight of his career, Margarito would perform to perfection, stopping the Puerto Rican champ for the first defeat of his career in a watershed moment for him. With such a huge act to follow after the victory over Cotto, Margarito would find himself (according to close sources) facing motivational issues once again, as well as a brutally honest scale that reminded him exactly how long the road to greatness can really be. Lack of motivation and weight struggles apparently weren't enough to stop the show. After a 6 month layoff, Margarito earned another grand payday, but his opponents name ('Sugar') would be the only thing sweet that night, as he would suffer a devastating and potentially career stalling lost. Only this time, due to a hand-wrapping controversy that resulted in an indefinite suspension, the loss may not only be in the fight, but potentially the battle at life itself, as some feel charges to follow may even turn criminal. In a country known for second chances, we now shift the spotlight to a more neutral perspective on Margarito to support this arduous balancing act. Antonio Margarito - (Neutral perspective): When you really sit back and analyze the evolution of Antonio Margarito, a few things become evident. Relative to the whole complacency and lack of motivation argument presented by the critics, if I could play devils advocate here, you have to wonder how easy it would be for anyone to become complacent when you're the literal equivalence of a modern day "rags to riches" storyline. I don't think any of us truly know if Margo became complacent based on his new found fame and extended bank account, but there's a huge difference between a man who was once hungry, and an opponent who's still 'starving'. It was the efforts of those opponents that got them the nod over Margarito, not alleged complacency, or anything else. I think you have to commend him as a man who took a life that gave him nothing and found a way to turn it into something. If for no other reason, he deserves a certain level of respect for that. Where that respect becomes neutralized is the fact that recent questions raised unfortunately aren't questions many care to have answered. Did he cheat? If so, for how long? All of the hypotheticals that have come about as a result of the alleged hand-wrapping controversy have gone a long way in setting a certain tone in the court of public opinion. The old adage states that one is innocent until proven guilty, but that theory is about as far away as the stashed evidence of his alleged past wrongdoing, if such was the case before the recent discovery. No one can deny his hunger and drive to succeed, but using illegal methods to maintain that level of success would go down as the ultimate 'eraser' in a career that up until now had been beautifully scripted - despite its regular adversity. With his future and possibly his freedom hanging in the balance, we all remain eager to see what piece of information will spring forward and tip the scale in one direction or the other. Until that moment, I think it's important for each of us to withhold judgment, for in the end, only the words of the commission will matter. He either did it or he didn't, and even though it won't erase his past, it'll surely define his future. With or without the sport of boxing. With or without the support of its fans. (Got questions or feedback: Contact ESB's Vivek Wallace at email@example.com and 954-292-7346, follow his work at 8CountNews and The Examiner, or show him some love at Myspace).
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BATON ROUGE, LA (NBC33) — Scott Morgan and four of his coworkers don't give blood regularly.
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Perhaps the problem with using test scores (strictly speaking, improvements in test scores over time) to evaluate teachers is simply this: the people being evaluated are also the ones administering the tests.
The best suggestion I have seen is to just remove test administration to a separate body. Just as the SAT**, for example, is run by someone other than the local schools, with tests held away from the school grounds. Suddenly, there is no way to cheat by changing answers. And, assuming that the exact questions are randomly selected from a large pool of possible questions, about all you can do to "teach to the test" is to actually teach the material that the test is supposed to evaluate.
For anyone who has objections to this, please explain why those objections do not apply to the SATs.
** the SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) is given near the end of high school in the US. It is a critical part of the evaluations that universities make on which students to admit. Do badly on the test, and your college choices get seriously limited.
ON MARCH 29th, a grand jury in Fulton County, in which most of Atlanta lies, returned a 65-count indictment against 35 teachers and administrators in the Atlanta public-school system. Among those charged was Beverly Hall, Atlanta's former superintendent of schools. During her tenure she racked up an impressive array of awards and accolades for the stunning gains in test scores achieved by Atlanta's students. But prosecutors, as well as an investigative team assembled by former-Governor Sonny Perdue allege that those gains rested on neither pedagogy nor diligent study, but on something far simpler and more invidious: cheating.
An 800-page report details how the cheating occurred. Sometimes teachers gave students the right answers during tests; sometimes they gave them out before testing began; most often, though, they simply collected the students' test papers and changed the wrong answers to right ones. The indicted teachers were charged with racketeering, making false statements, tampering with witnesses and, because many of them received bonus checks based on apparently falsified results, theft (not all teachers and administrators face all charges).
Two debates have sprung up around this indictment, one largely Atlanta-centred and one national. Let's do the first one first. Shirley Franklin, who was mayor of Atlanta during most of Ms Hall's tenure atop the school system, wrote on her blog yesterday that "cheating is awful. And so is conviction before a fair trial...[S]ay a prayer for a fair trial for all those charged, say a prayer for every family and child who has been touched by the scandal and say a prayer to calm the public lynching mob mentality that has begun." Ahem. The Atlanta Journal Constitution first uncovered questionable test-score jumps in 2008. Mr Perdue assembled his investigative team in 2010. It released its report in 2011. It is now 2013. "Public lynchings" usually do not take five years.
Undoubtedly, people are angry. If the material contained in the report is true, they have every reason to be angry: their children were cheated. Teachers allegedly manipulated results to make themselves look good and to win accolades and financial rewards that they did not deserve. They did so at the expense of the people they should have been helping. Ms Franklin is absolutely correct that everyone deserves a fair trial. But that does not preclude the public from voicing—civilly and non-violently, of course—outrage that appears to be entirely justified. (There is, by the way, a valid point she could have made about prosecutorial overreach: if convicted on all counts Ms Hall could face 45 years in prison, and prosecutors initially recommended a $7.5m bond, both of which seem unduly harsh. And there is always a valid argument to be made against wanton use of RICO laws. But if there is any reason to doubt that the accused will face as fair a trial as Georgia's courts can afford, Ms Franklin ought to present it.)
The second debate concerns over-reliance on testing as a metric for evaluating teacher quality. Eugene Robinson writes that "the fashionable theory of school reform—requiring that pay and job security for teachers, principals and administrators depend on their students' standardized test scores—is at best a well-intentioned mistake, and at worst nothing but a racket." Also at the Washington Post, Valerie Strauss writes that of the "dozens" of cheating scandals across the country, only Atlanta's was thoroughly investigated, because only Georgia's governor empowered an investigative team. But the other scandals, like Atlanta's, "have been a result of test-obsessed school reform". When the report came out in 2011 Dana Goldstein wrote a nice piece for Slate making a similar point.
Jonathan Chait, proving that the New Republic is less a magazine than a state of mind, makes the counterintuitive argument that teacher incentives ought to remain tied to test scores, even though doing so seems to encourage cheating. "Incentivizing any field," he writes, "encourages people to cheat." Students have long cheated because they have a reason to do it. Given the choice between a system in which teachers' pay is tied to performance, and one in which pay is tied solely to tenure, choose the former, but improve it.
The devil, as always, is in the details. Nobody likes "teaching to the test": not teachers, not students and not parents. As a retiring teacher writes in his valediction, current educational philosophy "strangles creativity, it smothers the development of critical thinking in our students and assumes a one-size-fits-all mentality more appropriate to the assembly line than the classroom." At those lines I can hear anyone who ever had an inspiring teacher cheer. Teaching to the test restrains those teachers: in trying to bring the bottom up, it also (and that is a generous "also") brings the top down. We must find a way to allow good teachers to flourish. But we need not tolerate those who game whatever system is in place.


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Amanda, WHY!? The troubled star went on an inexplicable rant against Rihanna on May 26, and said some amazingly inappropriate and insane things. It's not even a debate anymore — this girl needs help.
Because we haven't had enough Amanda Bynes drama in our lives, she decided to fly off the handle on Rihanna, of all people, on Twitter on May 26. Amanda clearly needs psychiatric help, because she totally just messed with the wrong girl.
Amanda Bynes' Offensive Tweets Starts Twitter Feud With Rihanna
We can't exactly tell what set Amanda off — she seemingly just started going in on Rihanna for no reason. "No one wants to be your lover so you call everyone and their mother that I almost named my new dog Rihanna," Amanda first tweeted. Not completely sure where she was going towards the end of that, but moving on.
Amanda then dropped quite possibly the most insensitive tweet in the history of Twitter: "Chris brown beat you because you're not pretty enough," she wrote. We're completely speechless — to drudge up horrible memories like Chris' abuse against Rihanna just for the sake of attention is completely inappropriate, and just shows how desperate Amanda really must be.
She finished off the rant by tweeting, "you look so ugly tryin to be white." Again, speechless.
Rihanna Responds To Amanda Bynes
Amanda must actually be crazy for going after Rihanna, one of the baddest, fiercest females in Hollywood. The Unapologetic singer proved all at once that she was better, smarter, and funnier than Amanda — and way above this nonsense — with one simple response: "Ya see what happens when they cancel the Intervention?" Game, set, match, Rihanna.
Amanda responded quickly (because what else does she have to do besides be on Twitter?), saying, "unlike ur fugly faced self I don't do drugs! U need the intervention dog! I met ur ugly face in person! U aren't pretty u know it!"
All of Amanda's offending tweets were quickly deleted, but we still can't believe they were even sent in the first place. Her New York City antics, her bong-tossing arrest, all of that stuff looks almost normal when compared to this offensive, unnecessary Twitter feud that she unexplainably drummed up. We really hope she gets herself some help, otherwise Rihanna might make sure she gets it.
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Jen K
Posted at 11:02 PM on November 15, 2014
Mental illness isn't a joke. The woman on the right seemed to understand but the woman on the right thought all of Amanda's "crazy" behavior was funny. Rihanna was obviously suffering with mental issues herself when she stayed with Chris Brown which is why it's not okay to make fun of her. Same should be said about Amanda
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Posted at 11:04 PM on November 15, 2014
Posted at 12:37 AM on January 27, 2014
Okay, so I read this article and at first all that was going through my mind was "Wow Amanda. Seriously? You would actually mention the Chris Brown incident? That's just plain low." I think she needs to try and be a better person and not go after people when they are simply being awesome. And I was a huge fan of her's before she went downhill. Now I don't exactly know what to say of her.
Posted at 9:15 PM on December 17, 2013
All mental issues aside, has this girl looked at herself in the mirror lately. Reminds me of the popular girls in high school, she may have been pretty on the outside at one time but she has no inner beauty. She is mean and ugly on the inside and that's what counts the most. Hopefully, once she gets the help she needs and starts taking her psych meds she will be different. However, a black heart is a black heart, the drugs did not do that to her.
Posted at 9:03 PM on August 11, 2013
How is Rihanna not pretty? I don't know if Amanda hasn't done drugs, but Rihanna hasn't done anything wrong, let alone going for the unexplainable behaviour Amanda has displayed (making her look like she's on drugs). I used to like Amanda after watching "Hairspray" when it was broadcasted on TV not that long ago! And I've loved Rihanna since I first heard her music, she's my #1 artist. Personally, Im on Rihannas side. Amanda does need help, her behaviour is dispicable, and she made a dirty move. Once Amanda gets the help she needs, and apologises to Rihanna, Im sure we can all forget these shenanigans and re-love both of them! Best of luck for Amanda (she needs it) and stay strong Rihanna. :-)
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"God doesn't just hate what you do. God hates who you are." — A Well-Known Contemporary Preacher
What this pastor says above, as well as much of what he says in the sermon from which this line is taken, comes from reading the Bible as if every sentence in it can and should be read as bearing the same weight as all others when we answer the question: "Who is God?"
When we read the Bible with the first Christians we begin to understand that the way they read these texts is not the way an uber-rationalist modern reads them.
Since Jesus himself was the one who taught the apostles to read the Old Testament, the way the churches they founded read the Bible is important for us, too.
God never was only the words he utters, or the ones we utter about God — just like we are never the sum total of everything we have spoken or what has been spoken of us. There is so much more to the mystery of any person than mere words; how much more so the mystery of the divine persons.
God is revealed to Christians as three persons in a holy community of everlasting love without beginning, and Jesus is the flesh-and-blood manifestation of their hidden life.
The speech and actions of Jesus — not merely words on a page, but a Person; not just any person but God become flesh; not just any god but the One who is in the bosom of the Father ("God from God, light from light, true God from true God") — are the highest expression of the nature of God ever disclosed to men and women.
We know what God looks like; God looks like Jesus. We know what God sounds like; God sounds like Jesus. We know how God acts; God acts like Jesus.
John, who knew Jesus as well as any of us ever will in this life, tells us simply that God is love. He uses that word over and over again to describe the essence of our holy God. God's being is best signified by the word love, a holy fire of love that purifies; not a love that merely accepts or tolerates but a love that embraces, heals and transforms us.
Like every good poet, every signer who signs, who tinkers with words to point to a reality beyond the signs, John first has an encounter with the Living God in Jesus Christ: he who is the First and the Last, the One who holds all creation together, the visible image of the invisible God. John saw, John touched, John heard this One and that vision, that hearing, that feeling — that knowing — informs everything else, gives inspiration to his reading of the Scriptures, shows John the way to life.
He sees the unseen God love the world in the person of his Son and knows that the only mere written symbol that encompasses all others we can speak about this God is love. Not hate, not wrath, not anger but a holy fire of love that is never content until we find ourselves, body and soul, transfigured to his likeness. God hates nothing that God has made.
What one word can adequately encompass the profound mystery of humility acted out in the God who becomes what God has made, acted out in dining with sinners, acted out in cleansing the Temple, acted out in God's voluntary sacrifice for us and for the whole world on the Cross?
When we allow ourselves to encounter the God the apostles bear witness to in Jesus Christ — in every deed and word from Bethlehem to Golgotha — we then (and only then) comprehend, in his great light, all of the Scriptures. Jesus opens our minds to understand them.
The only exhaustive Word that the Father speaks is Jesus Christ.
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Law enforcement wins Battle of the Badges trophy
Wichita and Sedgwick County law enforcement came out on top Tuesday as the Central Plains Red Cross announced winners in this year's Battle of the Badges.
Wichita and Sedgwick County fire departments were hoping for a second consecutive win, but lost by 23 votes.
Now in its 19th year, the friendly competition pits area law enforcement and fire departments against each other, as blood donors vote on their favorite first responders. This year, law enforcement won with 446 votes.
"We came out on top, which is great because we don't have to listen to the firefighters all year," said Capt. Brenda Dietzman of the Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office.
Dietzman said she couldn't wait to get back to the office to send out a department-wide e-mail.
"People like to know," she said of their victory.
The fire departments typically win the local competition, and Dietzman said they do in most other communities that hold similar competitions.
"The fire departments always win because everybody likes fire departments, right?" she said. "They like the big red trucks.
"We're one of the few communities that law enforcement actually wins. So it's great to have that relationship with the community."
The 21-day blood drive over the holiday season collected 967 pints of blood and 534 units of platelets, surpassing the Red Cross's goal by a fairly large margin.
Central Plains Red Cross spokeswoman Cari Merrill said blood donations are typically down this time of year, as illness and weather conditions keep donors from making and keeping their appointments to donate.
"It's all fun and games for our first responders," Merrill said of the competition, "but ultimately it's our patients who are the winners."
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White House press secretary Jay Carney said Wednesday that the Obama administration will not use the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in the battle over raising the debt ceiling. Carney said it is up to Congress to raise the country's borrowing limit although house Democrats are urging President Obama to consider invoking the constitutional provision. The 14th Amendment states in part that "the validity of the public debt of the United States...shall not be questioned."
With the recent jump in Treasury yields and as market conditions deem good enough with plentiful eager buyers to make deals go smoothly, companies have flooded the market with new debt for 2013, having sold $52.75 billion in debt in five business days. Here are a few that made mention: Bank of America Corp. sold $6 billion in debt; Berkshire Hathaway Finance Corp., an arm of Warren Buffetts Berkshire Hathaway Inc. sold $500 million in debt; Comcast Corp. sold $2.95 billion in bonds; Mexico issued $1.5 billion in 30-year bonds at a record low yield of 4.19%; Staples sold more than $1 billion in debt; Toyota Motor Credit sold more than $1 billion in debt and Turkey sold $1.5 billion in 10-year debt at a record low 3.47%.
Senator Bernie Sanders, Independent of Vermont, seized an opportunity in the departure of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. CEO Jamie Dimon from the New York Federal Reserves board. Dimon left the New York Fed board after his second term expired at the end of December. Sanders believes the departure of Dimon represents a good time to make public his intent to re-introduce a bill this year that would ban any financial industry executive from sitting on any of the 12 regional Fed boards. Sanders says Dimon represented a major conflict as he sat on the New York Fed board during the 2008 crisis, while J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. received more than $390 billion in low-interest loans as part of a Fed bailout. If enacted, the Sanders measure would represent a dramatic overhaul of the Feds structure first established in 1913. Sanders would have all three classes of directors chosen by the Federal Reserve board of governors in Washington, which is made up of individuals nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate. Jamie Dimon was the poster child for why we need to end the serious conflicts of interest at the Fed, but he was not alone. Two-thirds of the directors at the New York Fed are hand-picked by the same bankers that the Fed is in charge of regulating, said Sanders in a statement. Allowing Wall Street CEOs to serve as Federal Reserve directors and hand-pick its members and staff is a clear example of the fox guarding the henhouse.
A report out on Wednesday indicates Morgan Stanley is planning to start laying off 1,600 workers or nearly 6% of the bank's institutional services and infrastructure support units, starting on Monday. In Morgan's most recent annual report, they reported 61,899 employees worldwide.
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. While Hillary tries to keep a game face on in the face of an unexpected surge in popularity of Barack Obama -- when she's not shamelessly pandering for sympathy with her "woe is me" tears for the women in NH -- Billy Bubba is losing his cool. Some have dubbed this the "good cop/bad cop" routine, and clearly the Clintons have tag-teamed to maximize their impact on impressionable voters earnestly looking for answers on who is the candidate for whom they should vote. Well, along comes Bubba getting all hot and steamed at the mainstream press that he sees as "abandoning him and Hillary" in their time of need. Bill had several heated confrontations with members of the press recently. Here's one that is emblematic of the current competition for media attention with Barack Obama, whom the press has fallen in love with: [size=+2]New York Times[/size] [size=+3]Bill Clinton, Stumping and Simmering[/size] By PATRICK HEALY Published: January 18, 2008 Hillary Rodham Clinton may be the spouse running for office, but it is more Bill Clinton who appears to be feeling the heat. After weeks of complaining publicly about Barack ObamaŌĆÖs record, the news mediaŌĆÖs coverage of the Democratic presidential race, or both, Mr. Clinton on Wednesday ripped into a television reporter who had asked him about a Nevada lawsuit concerning participation in the stateŌĆÖs caucuses this Saturday. Mr. Clinton believed the question had seemed sympathetic to Mr. ObamaŌĆÖs stakes in the suit, Clinton campaign officials said. A federal judge in Las Vegas ruled in the case Thursday, with a decision that will apparently benefit the Obama campaign. The judge, James C. Mahan, held that some hotel-casinos, as arranged by the Nevada Democratic Party, would be permitted to set up caucus precincts on site so employees who work Saturday can participate. Many of those Nevadans are members of Culinary Workers Union Local 226, which has endorsed Mr. Obama, and their votes on Saturday could help him significantly against Mrs. Clinton. The suit was brought by the state teachersŌĆÖ union, which maintained that the arrangement gave the hotel employees an advantage that others working Saturday did not have. Some of this unionŌĆÖs top officials have endorsed Mrs. Clinton. But her campaign has denied involvement in the suit, and when the television reporter suggested a connection between it and her supporters, the former president, stumping for her in Oakland, Calif., narrowed his eyes. As his aides looked on with concern, Mr. ClintonŌĆÖs voice took on an edge. ŌĆ£When you ask me that question, your position is that you think that the culinary workersŌĆÖ vote should be easierŌĆØ than those of other Nevada workers, Mr. Clinton told the reporter, Mark Matthews of KGO-TV in Oakland. ŌĆ£If you want to take that position, get on the television and take it. DonŌĆÖt be accusatory with me.ŌĆØ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/18/us/politics/18bill.html?_r=1&oref=slogin testy, testy!! What up, Bill?!!! //
Do you put the stars on the thread? I noticed that on some of my threads, and I don't know how the hell they got there.
Obama is the Clintons worst nightmare, the Black Community will dump the Clintons so quick they won'r know what hit them the Far Left Politically Correct Liberals will do the same, the media has to be very careful how they handle this, they can't slap Obama around they way they do a "Honkie Christian" one wrong word will bring out the "Racist Sh!t". The nightmare that Pant Suit & Blue Dress have before them is a young Black Man who is no Big Mouth Screaming Trouble Maker like the other two that ran for this job Sharpton/Jackson. Pant Suit & Blue Dress are facing a very young, handsome, inteligent, well spoken, (clean & articulate) Black Man, the Politically Correct Gushing Fawning Liberal Racist Democrats will be all over Obama like flys on sh!t, BUT IT MIGHT BE ANOTHER STORY COME NOVEMBER 2008 WHEN THE WHOLE COUNTRY GOES TO THE POLLS never forget what happened with Bush. Obama will be nominated but not elected. :bricks:
I could never figure that out either they put four of them on mine once and all the thread was "more of my sh!t" :bricks:
Bill and Hillary are in a very tight bind. Bill has to be careful -- Hillary, too -- that he doesn't slip up and say something that he's going to regret. The black folk are not going to be as easily "sent away" as Paula Jones, Catherine Willey, Monica Lewinsky, or the rest of those women in his past. //
Thats what driving the Clintons Insane, "Obama Is Black" if they kill his Cat they are in big trouble. :bricks:
Same as "Black Community" "Black Neighborhood" "Black Entertainment" "Black Vote" "Black Patrolmans Assoc" "Black Caucus" etc, etc, it's the same as some of the more older African Americans living in the South when they speak of the caucasians, they refer to them as "White Folks" Part Of America. :bricks:
. It's funny. Like the biggest elephant the room has ever seen!!! WOW!! How do the Clintons handle THIS one??!! ANYthing they say now may be twisted into a "racist" remark! Any criticism of Obama's position or record or history or views or what and how he says something .... ANYTHING may be suddenly pounced upon, and made into a "racial" issue!! No wonder Bill looks like a caged tiger. Meanwhile, Hillary's handlers are praying that Bill doesn't do to somebody what that tiger in the San Fran zoo recently did to the boy who got smashed and stoned, then taunted the animal (!!). Wow. //
. Well, looks like it worked. Bubba bytched, the media backed off, Hillary walked. Guess they'll try it again. And again. And again. The Clintons HAVE to win this nomination or their entire legacy is in the toilet. Don't look for any punches pulled by the Clintonistas. //


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A fire on North Mesa has messed up the evening for many of the bars and restaurants in the Cincinnati Street area. Most of those businesses are simply full of smoke, but some could be facing much bigger problems.
The fire started at about 9:30 this morning at a vacant building at the corner of Baltimore and Mesa. Investigators are treating it as arson. They say a man told them he got into a fight with another man inside the building, stabbed the other man and set the fire. Police are looking for the other man who was allegedly involved. They're checking hospitals for anyone with burns, smoke, or stabbing injuries. The fire did an estimated $150,000 in damage.


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Samsung has now unveiled the world's first Windows Phone 8 smartphone, beating even Microsoft's biggest Windows Phone partner, Nokia. Samsung also recently beat out Nokia as the top mobile-phone maker in the world, so this unveiling adds insult to injury. At a time when phone makers may be re-evaluating their Android strategies due to Apple's big legal victory, Windows Phone 8's chances just got a little better. Nokia's own event is scheduled for early September, so investors won't have to wait long to see what the Finnish company has up its sleeve. While all of these companies have to take a step back and re-evaluate their space in the mobile industry in the wake of Apple's landmark patent win against Samsung, Apple continues to run forward and dominate this space. However, with the impending release of the iPhone 5 and Apple TV on the horizon, the stakes have never been higher for the company. If you're looking for a recommendation on how to play Apple, along with continuing updates and guidance on the company whenever news breaks, we've created a brand-new report that details when to buy and sell Apple. To get started, just click here now.
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Report this Comment On August 30, 2012, at 11:37 AM, wilsantiago wrote:
As said by Nokia, "Every great show needs a warm up act"
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Report this Comment On August 30, 2012, at 11:43 AM, ajaykc wrote:
Shouldn't it be an insult to Google's android? Samsung got so scared that they unveiled WP8 phone which was random like hell. I am not sure if they are allowing anyone to touch it as WP8 is still not ready.
This is a desperate move from Samsung?
Report this Comment On August 30, 2012, at 1:27 PM, Inept wrote:
It's an insult to nobody. It's simply the largest player in the mobile phone industry staying diversified and catering to customers of all colors. As long as there's profit to be made, Samsung will be there to try its hand.
If you can profitably sell a million phones on a dead-end platform, that's still a million phones sold for profit. Samsung is in the business of making money.
All this does is demonstrate that Stephen Elop's assertion that Windows Phone would help Nokia differentiate its product is as ridiculous now as it ever was. In the Windows Phone ecosystem, Nokia still competes against all of the same players as it would have in the Android ecosystem. All the big brands are in the WP ecosystem and Samsung specifically still has all of the same competitive advantages against Nokia. Plus Samsung also has profits from Android to power it and likely halo effect brand recognition from its hugely popular lineup of Android products.
The only difference between the Android and Windows Phone ecosystems from an OEM point of view is scale. Nokia chose to compete just as hard for a vastly smaller market that looks likely to be a dead end.
Report this Comment On August 30, 2012, at 5:04 PM, tweenthelines wrote:
Differentiate=what makes it different? Seems to me there's a boxing ring here somewhere. All capable players trying to knock each other out. Excuse me, I got things to do and people to see.
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Re: two different color eyesI have 2 different coloured eyes - my right is brown and my left is blue with a green patch at the top. Never seen anyone else with this combination! ... eyes and my dad has hazel eyes. I heard it could be linked to Marfan's syndrome? I have tendancies, but no idea how it could be linked! My fave lines ...
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Re:... also includes other medical mysteries such as chimerical heritage syndrome,that is where a persons dna suddenly changes out of the blue and they are no longer related to thier family members.whAts goIng on with that!? :roll: ...
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Re: two different color eyesHi. My 20 month old son has one brown eye and one blue eye. He was also born with dark hair except for a spot on the top back of ... also have a spot of hair that is different? I have read about Waardenburg syndrome and he does not have it. Thanks
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The Fiber Disease... as Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome. This led to his Charlotte founding of ... last March and husband Jerry asked why she had blue glitter on her face. She turned the light back ... But after weeks and weeks of head-to-toe coatings, Debbie's situation had not improved. ...
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