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Once Upon a Time Season 2, Episode 14 Quotes: "Were We Friends"?
The characters on Once Upon a Time might have their hands full with breaking curses and slaying dragons and whatnot, but that doesn't mean they're too busy for a good zinger.
We've rounded up the 10 best quotes from this week's episode, Season 2, Episode 14: "Manhattan," including Charming proving that he's not a fan of pumpkin pie.
10. Rumplestiltskin [about Henry]: "Then I'll just have to kill him."
That's pretty much Rumple's answer for everything.
9. Emma [to Gold]: "Your magic globe didn't give you an apartment number?"
They just don't make magic globes like they used to.
8. Belle: "Were we friends?"
Regina: "We spent some time together."
In a word: No.
7. Neal: "Y'know, there's not a ton about my father that I remember that doesn't suck."
That's what happens when your dad is stomping people to death right and left.
6. Emma [about Baelfire using his own name]: "That probably wouldn't fly as an alias."
Emma is hoping Bae isn't quite that lazy.
5. Rumple: "So yes, my actions on the battlefield left my son fatherless — but it would have been nice to know all the pesky details."
If you ask us, details are overrated.
4. Villager [about the injured soldiers]: "Lucky bastards."
Yes, who wouldn't envy a person with a massive flesh wound?
3. Henry [to Emma, about finding Bae]: "Maybe you should have said FedEx."
Actually, there are three words that will make anyone open their door: Girl. Scout. Cookies.
2. Emma [to Neal]: "Hey, I am the only one allowed to be angry here!"
Apparently, there's a quota when it comes to emotions.
1. Charming: "It's a good thing we don't have Thanksgiving in our land because that dinner would suck."
Yes, but Charming should keep in mind that stuffing is delicious.
Catch the next episode of Once Upon a Time on Sunday, March 3, 2013 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on ABC.


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April 3, 2013
As head of the Small Business Administration, Karen Mills helped guarantee $106 billion in lending to more than 193,000 small businesses, including two record years of more than $30 billion each. She's the first SBA administrator since the Clinton years to have a Cabinet-level position. She'll step down once her successor is chosen.
Q: You're the first SBA chief with Cabinet-level status in years, and the SBA seems to have more clout under President Obama. What's up?
Mills: We have a president who understands small businesses and entrepreneurs, and he understands what they need to grow. He understands cash flow. He understands our loan products. When you have a leader who actually understands these things and a Cabinet that works together in a very collegial fashion, something like small business, which needs the partnership of all the agencies, plays a very important role in many of the administration's efforts.

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Sullivan & Cromwell has a long tradition of supporting its LGBT lawyers and non-legal personnel and of serving the LGBT community through pro bono legal representations and other contributions to LGBT causes (see LGBT Pro Bono Activities below). The Firm is proud of, and values, this ongoing commitment to promoting equality and rewarding merit without regard to sexual orientation or gender identification.
The "LGBT Network" was organized in order to further the Firm's commitment to the LGBT community as a whole, provide a nurturing social and professional community for LGBT individuals within the Firm and enhance the inclusive environment of the Firm overall.
Among other things, the LGBT Network:
- facilitates S&C's involvement in LGBT pro bono work and its support of LGBT organizations;
- promotes recruitment of LGBT personnel; and
- organizes professional, social, and educational events.
Sullivan & Cromwell and our individual lawyers are proud to support many organizations dedicated to the LGBT community, just a few of which are listed below:
- ACLU Lesbian and Gay Rights Project and AIDS Project
- Empire State Pride Agenda
- Human Rights Campaign
- Immigration Equality
- Lambda Legal
- Lavender Law
- SAGE (Services for Advocacy for LGBT Elders)
- Servicemembers Legal Defense Network
- The Trangender Legal Defense and Education Fund
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- David H. Braff (Litigation)
- Mitchell S. Eitel (Corporate)
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Sullivan & Cromwell has a long-standing commitment to providing pro bono legal assistance to members of the LGBT community. In addition to the pro bono matters handled by our lawyers, the Firm also sponsors several pro bono projects and community activities.
Below are a few cases in which S&C lawyers have provided such legal services:
- S&C is partnering with the ACLU of North Carolina to challenge the state's ban on same-sex marriages, as well as the state's ban on two-parent adoption that effectively bars same-sex couples from joint adoption.
- S&C continues to partner with Immigration Equality to represent applicants from nations around the world seeking asylum on the basis of sexual orientation.
- S&C sponsors the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund's name change clinic, which serves low-income members of the transgender community in New York who are seeking to change their legal names to conform to their gender identities. In 2013, S&C celebrated the 100th name change in which the Firm had been involved.
- 2013 marked the 24th year that S&C lawyers have hosted a bi-weekly legal clinic at New York-Presbyterian Hospital's Center for Special Studies and its Gay Men's Health Crisis satellite location to provide estate planning services to impoverished individuals living with AIDS and HIV. Since 1989, lawyers at the Firm have dedicated more than 13,000 hours to the project.
- S&C lawyers joined with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to challenge an Arkansas statute, Act 1, which prohibited unmarried cohabiting couples from serving as adoptive or foster parents. On April 7, 2011, the Arkansas Supreme Court struck down Act 1 as an unconstitutional violation of fundamental privacy rights under the Arkansas Constitution, allowing same-sex and unmarried opposite-sex couples to adopt in Arkansas.
- S&C lawyers assisted Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE), an organization dedicated to serving and advocating for older LGBT individuals, with the purchase and funding of the nation's first senior center devoted specifically to members of the LGBT community.
In 1994, Sullivan & Cromwell became one of the first global firms to provide health coverage to the same-sex domestic partners of its employees. Today, the Firm also provides Family and Medical Leave Act leave, adoption assistance, relocation assistance, and other benefits to same-sex domestic partners. Sullivan & Cromwell lawyers from the Estates and Personal Group also are available to assist with respect to powers of attorney, visitation instructions and healthcare proxies, which have particular importance to LGBT personnel and their families. Specific questions about the benefits provided by Sullivan & Cromwell may be directly addressed to Melanie Corpuz.
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text: I think a time that my psychology knowledge came to my rescue would be when I got my first pigeon. I hand fed him and every time I fed him, I'd shake the food tray. This conditioned him to associate the shaking noise with food and he eventually became very tamed. I took him outside and flew him. He would fly and then come right back when I shook the can. The video I posted is an example of what the pigeon eventually was able to do (not my pigeon).


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To better prepare nursing graduates for the transition from the classroom to the bedside, the Seton Family has implemented an innovative residency program. Seton also encourages and supports nurses at all levels of the organization to continue their education and seek additional certifications and degrees.
A newcomer to both nursing and the Seton Family, Sara Shannon is a staff nurse on University Medical Center Brackenridge's seventh-floor Medical/Surgical and Telemetry unit. A former newspaper reporter, Sara switched careers after a life-altering personal experience.
"My husband was treated with a serious illness on the eighth floor of UMCB in 2003. I was so impressed with three nurses in particular that I decided to spend the second half of my working life as a nurse," she said. "When I saw the positive impact nurses can have on both patients and family members, my heart just opened up. Nursing became my passion."
After earning her associates degree in nursing, Sara volunteered at Seton Southwest, where she learned about Seton's RN Residency Program. "I was close to finishing the nursing program and had a nagging concern about whether I could serve my patients like I wanted to," she explained. "When I found out about the residency program, I was relieved to know I would be supported during my first months on the job."
Sara joined the second RN Residency cohort in January 2007. "The program prepared me to provide the best care I could for my patients and families when the residency was over," she said. "I felt confident and prepared to step up. I learned who I needed to talk to if I saw something that needed to be addressed in the plan of care."
The debriefing groups were Sara's favorite part of the program. "Basically, you go in a room with other residents and senior-level nurses. You spill your guts. You laugh at yourself. You get advice about how to handle situations differently the next time. And, most importantly, you realize that other new nurses feel like you do."
The Seton Family is currently working with ACC, UT, Texas State University and Concordia University to develop a Nurse Articulation Acceleration Model. The goal of the project is to bridge the gap between what nursing schools are teaching and what healthcare providers actually need from graduate nurses.
- Setons RN Residency Program
- Nursing Faculty Development Cooperative Grant
- Seton's Nurse Scholarship Endowment
Setons RN Residency Program
Setons RN Residency Program was created to better prepare nursing graduates and newly licensed registered nurses for the transition from the classroom to the clinical environment. Through a mix of classroom work (with an emphasis on team-based training), mentoring and other hands-on support, Setons RN Residency Program participants gain the confidence and technical competence needed to provide exemplary patient care at the bedside.
Since the RN Residency began in September 2007, Director of Nursing Education Toni Rowin, RN, MSN, said the 18-week program has helped Seton recruit high-caliber nursing candidates.
Nursing Faculty Development Cooperative Grant
The Nursing Faculty Development Cooperative is a new program that was established to prepare experienced nurses to serve as nursing faculty and clinical nurse educators. The cooperative is directed by faculty with The University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing. It also includes nursing faculty from Austin Community College and site coordinators from the Seton Family as well as other area healthcare providers.
Grant funds will be used to develop and implement three graduate-level online courses. Funds will also be used to help recruit and mentor nurses to participate in the program and help pay for tuition. The current priority of the program is to recruit masters-prepared nurses because their educational credentials best position them to quickly assume faculty positions in nursing schools.
Three graduate courses in nursing education will be offered during the June 1, 2008, to May 31, 2009, grant period: Conceptual Foundations of Nursing Education, Strategies of Teaching and Clinical Teaching. All three courses are designed to prepare nurses to teach in nursing schools, to assume clinical nurse educator and staff education positions and also to teach individual and groups of patients. Currently, 12 Seton nurses with MSN and BSN preparation are enrolled in the first of three graduate-level online courses.
Seton's Nurse Scholarship Endowment
The Seton Family of Hospitals established the Seton Nurse Scholarship Endowment in 2005 to support Seton employees pursuing their education in nursing. The endowment helps Seton attract and retain nurses within Central Texas by providing financial support for continuing education, certifications and advanced degrees. Sixty scholarships have been awarded in the last three years to nurses and prospective nurses from throughout the network.
To date, more than $2.5 million has been contributed by physicians, nurses, volunteers, corporations, individuals and staff. Seton employees have contributed more than $300,000 to the endowment through the Seton Cares Employee Campaign.
Recipients are chosen by a committee, and members say they are inspired by the applicants and their stories. Angela Stalbaum, RN, senior director of nursing with Seton Medical Center Austin, served on the committee during 2008. Reading these applications made me even more proud of my profession, she said. The stories of what led these wonderful individuals to seek nursing were amazing. Donating to this effort is so well worth it!
"The number of scholarship applicants and their stories really show the significant need and impact our Seton Nursing Endowment Scholarship fund has within our own ranks."


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WFDF needs your support !
Dear NFB member, as you might know, the World Flying Disc Federation continues to pursue its application for official recognition by the International Olympic Committee. The application we submitted last year is in the process of being updated as we need to respond to a set of entirely new questions that were introduced into the process effective as of January 1st, 2013. Our renewed application will be submitted early March and hopefully will be considered at the May 2013 IOC Executive Board meeting.
One of the new questions relates to social media and asks for the number of followers on Facebook and Twitter. WFDF has only introduced its Facebook page last July during WUGC2012 and currently has fewer than 1300 "likes" on Facebook and less than 700 followers on Twitter. We think it would help to show a significantly higher amount of interest, when we submit these figures to the IOC. Accordingly we would appreciate it if you would visit immediately WFDF's Facebook and Twitter accounts and ask other social media followers and your friends to also follow WFDF's pages. For reference, these are :
Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/#!/worldflyingdisc
Twitter : http://twitter.com/WorldFlyingDisc
Thank you. We really appreciate your support. Wish us success.
Robert Rauch ( WFDF President )


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Carolyn Baxter
Posted By Royer on March 2, 2012
Carolyn Baxter, 91, a resident of Oak Grove, Mo passed away Feb 28, 2012.
She was born Feb 18, 1921 near Forest City, Mo.
Her career was primarily at Lake City Arsenal, a federal employee until her retirement.
After which, she enjoyed volunteering at St Mary's Hospital in Blue Springs.
She is survived by 4 of her 5 children: Patricia Elliott (John), Karen Goellner, Stephen Baxter (Karen), Gregory Baxter.
Her son, Paul Baxter, preceded her in death.
She is also survived by many grandchildren and great-grandchildren, as well as her sisters, Eva Daise and Colleen Cooperider (Frank).
The graveside service is to be Sat, March 3, 2:30, at Oak Grove Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Little Sisters of the Poor.
Arr: Royer Funeral Home 101 SE 15th ST Oak Grove, MO (816) 690-4441


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I've found the Juice Pack to be an essential part of my interconnective armoury. Can't remember the last time the battery ran out when I didn't want it to.
the juice pack "air" looks pretty impressive, especially if it actually doubles your battery life… sadly no such things are available for my Google G1, it now has a huge protruding extended battery.
the Juice Pack and my phone have become one, as the battery somehow got "wet" and only holds charge for half an hour. Juice Pack = AWESOME
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opinionBy Ben Adam Shemang
Nigeria has sent troops to Mali for peacekeeping operations in that country. Where are its embedded correspondents? Nigeria has provided the Force Commander, in the person of General Usman Shehu Abdulkadir. Nigerian journalists should be there to provide its citizens with information, firsthand. Anything short of that, Nigerians back home will see this war from the perspective of the foreign media. In fact the CNN, BBC, RFI, France 24, DW, Aljazeera, are already there and the Nigerians will judge the success of their troops from the eyes of these international media organisations.
See the case with Darfur, Western Sudan. Nigeria has about 3,000 troops there. There are no Nigerian journalists there to tell the story the Nigerian way. It is like there is nothing happening in Darfur as there is no one telling the story to Nigerians and the rest of the world from there.
There is a saying in America that America does not win any war unless CNN says so. No wonder they see that organisation as a partner in progress. Nigeria cannot afford to tell the story in its own perspectives in these war zones, should the trend continue. In this modern times, is there still that perceived mutual suspicion between the press and the military? Count many of the "who is who" in Nigeria, they were journalists and very committed to the development of the country. Name them -Herbert Macaulay, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Adeyemo Alakija, Lateef Jakande, Obafemi Awolowo, Yusuf Bello Dambatta, Babagana Kingibe, Yaya Abubakar, Babatunde Jose, Ike Nwachukwu, Segun Osoba, Boni Haruna, Aja Ajolochukwu, Marshal Harry, Adams Aliyu, Chukwuma Anueyiagu...and counting.
The way and manner a good gentleman officer of the armed forces loves Nigeria's national security interest is the same way and manner a good gentleman of the press does for this country.
Wikipedia defines national interest and national security as "a country's goals and ambitions whether economic, military or cultural". Another definition is that it is "a multi-dimensional view and response towards protecting National Interest against threats, both internal and external".
The traditional roles of the Nigerian journalist -be it radio, television, newspaper, magazine, news agency or the social media- is to inform, educate, entertain, set up an agenda, among others. Within the context of terrorism, economic crimes and corruption in the country, there is a national call to duty; the Nigerian journalist has a great role to play just like the security agent.
The year 2012 saw some synergy between the security and the journalist in forging a common understanding. Just a few examples: Last year, for two weeks, Journalists participated in what is called HASKE BIYU 2012 at the Armed Forces Command and Staff College Jaji, Kaduna state. Officers of the Nigerian Army, Navy, Air Force, Police, State Security Services, Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, National Intelligence Agency, the Customs, Immigration, Fire Service, Prisons, Federal Road Safety Corps, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency attended this course. It had to do with "Joint and Multi Agency Training in Internal Security/Low Intensity Conflict, Counter Insurgence and Stabilization Operations". It was apt that such training took place as the nation is witnessing attacks from Boko Baram, kidnapping and armed robbery.
The journalist has become very sensitive to security issues. He cannot a betrayer. I have always liked the maxim or appeal to Nigerians when it comes to fighting crimes and deviant behaviours that says: "see something, say something and do something about it"
For a long time, the Nigerian journalist and the security personnel have remained strange bed fellows. While the Nigerian security personnel owe the duty to protect citizens always, the Nigerian journalist owes the same citizens the duty to inform them on the goings-on in society at all times.
It is no wonder that they clash as the security personnel has to hide some things or censor aspects of their duty they believe concern national security or national interest. To the journalist, it is news and the public has a right to know as duty calls on him to inform the people. This is where social responsibility of the journalist comes in. The question is, will publishing or airing such news help the public or cause a stir, a riot or reprisal attacks? What is the journalist to do here? Gag himself by killing the story or tell it is a light form? Professionalism has to come to play here. Publish and damn the consequence? That a journalist's story has caused the death of one person or even above one hundred is definitely a calamity.
As expected, security duties and journalism will clash and, sometimes, the journalist ends up worse off as he has to contend with harassment, arrest, detention, and some others forms of infringements on the journalist's fundamental human rights. All of these could be avoided.
Despite all of these situations, the Nigerian journalist has always tried to in his on way to serve the nation according to his capability.
In National Interest and National security, there are always matters arising. Let me move to identity management; talking of a national data based for this country. There appears to be a crisis in terms of who really is in charge of the biometrics of every Nigeria? The biometrics of an individual has to do with the individual Nigerian- the names, photo, sex, age, finger prints, next of kin, residential address, blood group/genotype and many other requirements.
Once upon a time, it was the Department of National Civil Registration that was handling it. This agency was scrapped by the federal government and many of the multi-million Naira equipment imported by Sergem, a French company disappeared with the agency. A national tragedy it was and still is! Now we are starting all over and most of those trained by Sergem, have either been sacked or posted out as pooling staff to other ministries or government agencies for different jobs.
In our usual manner, another agency has been set up known as the National Identity Management Agency. It must obtain and keep the data of every citizen of this country, by repeating the job of its predecessor.


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Dexter Pittman (6-11), former Heat, is now with the Grizzlies as a sub for Marc Gasol (7-1), brother of Pau Gasol, Lakers. Zach Randolph (6-9) is their power forward.
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November 11 – 12, 2011
"The War Comes to Tennessee" — A Sesqui-Symposium
The Battle of Nashville Preservation Society (BONPS) joined with Belmont Mansion and the Lotz House to bring a significant Sesquicentennial symposium on the Civil War in Middle Tennessee on November 11 and 12 to further commemorate and explore the 150th anniversary of the start of the War.
The symposium began with an opening night reception at the Lotz House in Franklin, Tennessee on Friday, November 11, 2011. Attendees were led on a fact-filled and inspiring tour the historic Lotz House Museum by its director and former BONPS president, J.T. Thompson.
The formal Symposium kicked off the following morning at Belmont Mansion at 8:00 a.m. Six guest speakers focused on unique perspectives regarding the Battle of Nashville, Ft. Donelson and Shiloh. The event was moderated by Thomas Flagel, assistant professor of American History at Columbia State Community College. Panelists included:
- Thomas Cartwright – Franklin-based historian, one of the nation's leading authorities on the Battle of Franklin
- Tim Johnson, professor of history at David Lipscomb University, who has appeared on the History Channel,C-SPAN and NPT.
- Carole Bucy, professor of History at Vol State Community College and the newly appointed Metro Historian.
- James McDonough, noted author of Five Tragic Hours and Nashville: The Western Confederacy's Final Gamble.
- Doug Richardson, Park Ranger and Chief of Interpretation at Fort Donelson.
- Dr. Bobby Lovett, long-time professor of History at Tennessee State University and authored several books on African American history, most notably "African American History of Nashville, Tennessee, 1780-1930."
Ancestor Videos. In a unique feature of the Symposium, guests were able to videotape their personal stories of ancestors who fought in the Civil War. Click on the link below to access the videos from the Lotz House website
About the Hosts
Belmont Mansion, an Italianate villa, was constructed between the years 1849 and 1853. Once the summer home for Nashville socialite Adelicia Acklen and her family, it also served as the temporary headquarters for Thomas Wood, commander of the Fourth Corp of the Union army. Surrounded by lavish gardens, the Belmont Mansion estate originally boasted 36 rooms and 19,000 square feet of living space. It was one of the most elaborate antebellum estates in the South. Belmont Mansion was built, furnished, and landscaped by the Acklens and boasted such luxuries as an art gallery, a bowling alley, and a zoo.
A National Historic Site since 1971, Belmont Mansion currently operates as a house museum, maintained by the Belmont Mansion Association. Belmont Mansion is open daily for guided tours, Monday-Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m. For inquiries you may visit our website www.belmontmansion.com or call 615-460-5459.
The Battle of Nashville Preservation Society, Inc. is dedicated to the preservation of historic Civil War sites in Davidson County, Tennessee. The BONPS is a non-profit 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization with open membership. BONPS has been instrumental in helping preserve Fort Negley, Shy's Hill, Confederate Redoubt No. 1, and the Battle of Nashville Monument, among other sites. For more information visit: www.bonps.org.
The Lotz House Foundation is a 501(c) (3) organization dedicated to protecting, preserving and educating people on the history and culture of the historic Civil War Battle of Franklin, Tennessee in 1864. The foundation is committed to enriching lives through preserving the stories of the time along with the lifestyle, furnishings and fine art of the period. For more information visit: www.lotzhouse.com.


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Domestication: The Decline of Environmental Appreaciation by Helmut Hemmer, Cambridge, pp 208, 45 Pounds
We pride ourselves on the achievements of modern science, seeing these as the pinnacle of human ingenuity and inquisitiveness. But in doing so, we perhaps overlook one of the most extraordinary stories of our history: the domestication of about a dozen and a half species of animals that now live as symbiants of ours.
Beginning some 10 to 15 thousand years ago with the dog, our ancestors first tamed and then moulded to suit their own needs a succession of now familiar species: sheep and goats, then pigs and cattle. Another burst of activity occurred some 5000 years later, with the domestication of all our beasts of burden (donkey, horse, the two camels, llama and alpaca, and the buffalo) and finally the cat.
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Workshop on Foundation Directory Online and COS Funding Opportunities
The University of Delaware Library will present a workshop for University of Delaware faculty and researchers on research funding from 10:00 - 11:30 a.m., Wednesday, April 2, 2008, in the Library Instruction Room, 116A in the Morris Library. The workshop is co-sponsored by Research & Graduate Studies.
The workshop will focus on two Library databases--Foundation Directory Online and COS Funding Opportunities--that faculty and staff researchers can use to identify potential funding resources, such as grants from private foundations, corporations and public charities. The workshop will cover strategies for searching the databases, using alerting services and RSS feeds, and locating additional grant information on the Internet. The workshop is co-sponsored by Research & Graduate Studies.
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Back in July, Twitter launched a really nifty analytics dashboard. A bit like Google Analytics for tweets, it allows you to gauge the performance of each and every tweet you sent. How many people saw it? How many of those actually clicked your links?
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One can't help noticing how, all across the country, tensions are exploding in reaction to the more vocal stance of gay people, demanding equal treatment. Frequently, Christianity is offered as justification for the hateful backlash against gay rights activism, which is ironic, considering that the central promulgator of the faith unambiguously advocated loving one another. Funny how Christians seem the least capable of keeping this central, simple commandment.
Gay people are basically asking to live free of persecution, demonstrating that they can competently serve in government and in positions of authority in business, not just in urban areas, but also increasingly in small town America, which is where acceptance usually, but not always, stops. These rural bastions of traditionalism are the last front of the battle for the nation's future and proving to be the nastiest. Just as with the civil rights movement, the Bible belt is ground zero and where the media focuses, because traditional bigotry provides ammunition to expose hatred that has no legitimate moral defense.
First I'm going to write a smashing rebuttal of the Christian case against homosexuality based on the Bible… Then, I'm going to pull away the "Emperor's New Clothes" kimono to reveal the creepy boner Republicans have for gay-bashing. My interest in the topic comes from my heritage as a preacher's kid. There are a shitload of Pentacostal preachers in my family, and I read the Bible faithfully until I got into philosophy, especially Nietzsche. My main reason for leaving the faith, other than the fact that Jesus was just a enlightened human and not the son of god, was my desire NOT to be affiliated with other Christians, who betray Christ daily.
First, let's talk scripture.
The scripture is usually offered as a justification for discrimination, because the Bible says that it is sinful for a man to "lie" with another man. This involves the same hypocrisy that Jesus condemned in the Biblical scholars of the time- the Pharisees- who were rigid and arrogant about the "correct" version of the Torah, mirroring the current melodramatic doctrinal disputes which has severed Protestantism into 20,000+ denominations. Christians cherry-pick the sins which are most offensive according to their preferences, ignoring the most basic statements of Jesus. Christians conveniently forget how their prophet singled these behaviors out, saying that all sins are equal in the eyes of god, that final judgment rests with god, and that a person should never point out a speck in his neighbors eyes while ignoring the pole in his own.
One church even decided to ban children from the congregation because they didn't really mind that their pastor was a pedophile, which may actually be a good example of the kind of acceptance that Jesus was all about, spending his time kicking it with drunkards and prostitutes and not shying away from lepers, who were regarded as untouchable and ostracized into self-contained colonies.
Christians then point to Old Testament scriptures which state that homosexuality is "against nature." Well, so is circumcision and a lot of other practices in the Old Testament. One need only take a cursory gander in the book of Leviticus or Deuteronomy to find a trove of completely fucking absurd commandments and injunctions largely ignored today. A by-no-means-exhaustive list might include the prohibitions of wearing garments with more than one kind of fabric, growing different crops on the same plot of land, letting different kinds of cattle graze together, or anybody having sex during menstruation, the punishment for which was death for both parties.
Sodom and Gomorrah, two towns destroyed by god with fire and brimstone, are often referred to as evidence that god hates gays, but this argument misconstrues what actually happened in the story. The demonstration of the evil of the residents was demonstrated when a bunch of locals came to the door of this guy Lot, who was housing a traveler, and asked if they could gangrape the visitor. Lot offered his daughters, which seems like a pretty strange, if not ungodly, solution, but they weren't satisfied. Scholars have debated what was the biggest offense in the situation; some have said it was because they villagers were inhospitable, others that they tried to rape god's angels. The more the story is analyzed, the murkier it becomes, as is usual with Biblical exegesis, but the bottom line is that Sodom and Gomorrah does not neatly establish the Christian case against gays.
Ultimately, Christians can choose between Jesus and Paul, because they are actually quite different. Jesus' own words never broached the subject of homosexuality, despite claims made to the contrary conflating fornication and homosexuality, which is a fallacy. The concept of homosexuality did not exist when Jesus walked the Earth, and only took on its current meaning of a sexual orientation rather than a simple perversion among heterosexuals in 1869.Jesus said love thy neighbor as thy self and focused on salvation through grace. Paul based his doctrine on works, or behavior, which makes sense because he was formerly one of the most extreme Pharisees. If I had to choose, Jesus' words provide the clearest guide to Christian values, but the numerous bloody incursions of the Crusades and the public torture of hundreds of thousands during the Inquisition and basically all of Christian history would seem to suggest that people have frequently not understood Jesus' message.
That is because the Bible is not a good guide for morality. The ten commandments of the Old Testament leave a lot of grey areas and the New Testament probably should have been restricted to the Gospels, without the extremist evangelism of Paul in Greece. Observe the concise moral guidelines of Jainism: "Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being." It's pretty tough to justify burning or boiling witches or hanging thieves upside down with nails through their hands and feet if you just obey the ethical tenets of the Jains.
Now, let's talk about the political platform supposedly based on Christianity.
Given the leaky Biblical arguments against homosexuality and the evident conflict that the church's ostracism has with Jesus most basic advice, even Republicans are coming out against the party's platform against homosexuality. Alex Holzbach, a Tallahassee-based Republican political consultant who served as president of the Florida State University College Republicans, was quoted in a recent Huffington Post article as saying: "When it comes to issues like gay marriage or marijuana legalization, younger Republicans often find themselves asking, 'Why is government involved in this at all?'"
Meanwhile, a prominent Republican Evangelical leader, Russell Moore, who supports a Constitutional Amendment defining marriage as between one man and one women, he speaks confidently about the "Christian sexual ethic," and the "gospel" of Jesus, but when you examine what Jesus actually said, the whole argument evaporates.
The sexual ethic Moore refers to is his church's traditional stance on homosexuality, which has little to do with anything Jesus taught, but everything to do with what Paul said in his letters to the believers of the early church, grouped together with other teachings that the early Catholics thought were authoritative, which opens up another huge debate about which most Protestants don't like to think too deeply. They just want to accept the Bible as is without asking questions, even though Catholicism, the evil twin of Protestantism, was responsible for creating it in 300 B.C.,
It comes down to politics, not religion, because the Bible is a poor guide for most everything, but especially when trying to decode political issues, which allows Christians to throw darts at scriptures to support whatever opinion they have, whether against abolishing slavery, women's right to vote, segregation or the Civil Rights Act, all of which Southern Baptists were against and supported their arguments with scripture.
The Southern Baptist Convention issued an apology for their stances on slavery and segregation in 1995, and they will presumably do so again for their other unjustifiable stances in another century or so, but they are by no means the exception; most other denominations have been on the wrong side of history time and again.
Viewed in this light, the present backlash against gays seems very misguided when people use Christianity to justify their positions. They have most likely not read the Bible themselves or have done so with Medieval interpretations and the contradictory, bullshit political stances of church officials in the forefront of their minds. Homosexuality either grosses them out and inspires their hatred, which is a bit Satanic, or it may just give them a boner they can't begin to deal with, like those creepy Catholic priests.


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One of the key contests on tomorrow's primary ballot in Wisconsin is the battle for the democratic nomination for attorney general. In that race, the front runner candidates agree on more than they disagree. Including the need for more punishments for those having multiple arrests for drunk driving. Susan Happ is the Jefferson county DA
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MUSICIANS kilometres apart will soon be able to play together on electronic instruments as a result of a new system developed in California. The system, called MediaLink, uses optical fibre links to connect electronic instruments together using digital signals. In practice it will be used over distances of a few tens of metres, to connect musical instruments in different recording studios in the same building; at concerts and in theatres it will let off-stage musicians blend with others performing live on stage or in the orchestra pit.
Musicians now rely heavily on electronic instruments controlled by digital codes carried by wires. But so far this has worked only in the same room. Since 1984, a standard called MIDI (musical instrument digital interface) has let instruments, such as keyboard synthesisers, drum machines and bass generators, play together in perfect synchronisation, with notes struck on one instrument controlling sound from another.
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Solar energy is calculated and paid for by watts. Solar panels convert the sun's energy into electricity which is measured and sold as watts. The amount of sun the panel absorbs determines the amount of wattage you produce. If you have a solar panel with a high watt output in an optimum sunshine position for maximum daylight hours you will produce a high wattage output. 1000 watts equates to 1kw, 2000 watts to 2kw and so on.
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You can reduce the amount of watts you use by making as many energy efficient savings as you can. These can include using energy lightbulbs, not leaving appliances on or on standby, taking shorter showers and using lower temperatures when washing. All will greatly reduce the amount of watts you use.
There are plug in devices on the market now that will tell you how many watts a certain appliance uses. Simply plug the device into the wall then plug your appliance into the device. Once you have calculated roughly how much your household expends in energy you can made a decision as to which watt rating panel you need. Or simply use your existing energy bills to calculate this amount.
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It requires a slightly complex maths equation to work this out. You will need to take the figure worked out above as a daily average and divide that figure by the sunlight hours your panels would receive. You can find out the UK's daily sunlight hours by using your search engine and looking for UK insolation charts.
From the above sum you will need to use a multiplier of 1.25 which factors in energy your solar panel system uses to run itself. So the sum would thus be: daily kWh / hours of sunlight x 1.25 = X Watts per day. From this figure you will need to work out what solar wattage panels to use. Take your X Watts figure and divide it by 1000, 2000 etc. which figure represents the 1kw, 2kw etc.
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With clanking machines, grunting musclemen and fit bodies everywhere you turn, the gym can be an intimidating place when you're new to the scene. Combine the bustling environment with feelings of insecurity, and the experience may be so overwhelming you just throw in the towel and head for the door. Been there? Many of us have.
But when a few weeks or months pass and you again decide that jumping jacks in the living room and power walks around the block aren't cutting it, there are some things you can do to make the transition to gym fitness a little less stressful. Here's what I recommend:
Don't overdo it. So many machines, so little time! It's true, but you don't have to use all of them the first week. A common mistake gym newbies make is to overdo it in the beginning, exercising so enthusiastically they end up too sore to return for days. A good approach for week one is to sample a few upper- and lower-body machines, performing just a couple of sets with medium weights. Add in some stretching and cardio at the end of your workout—then call it a day. You should aim for 30 minutes of strength training and 20 to 30 minutes of cardio. If soreness starts to kick in at home, try rubbing on some natural arnica gel for relief.
Use gym etiquette. Safety rules may be posted on the walls, but guidelines for how you should act at the gym may not be as clear. Start by practicing common courtesy (i.e. don't linger on a machine talking on your phone if someone is waiting), and remember these basics: always wipe down equipment after using it; replace dumbbells on the rack when you're done with them; remove weights from machines when you finish your sets. Even if others aren't doing these things, you'll set a good example for those who have forgotten what gym etiquette is all about!
Don't be a copycat. I recently saw a woman performing an exercise incorrectly and was concerned she might hurt herself. I stepped in and asked if I could give her some advice, and she was happy to receive it. It turns out she had "learned" the move by watching someone else—and that person had been doing it wrong. Be careful about taking advice or copying others in the gym. If you're unsure about how to use a piece of equipment, find a trainer and ask for help (they're usually willing to lend a hand), or do some research online about the proper way to perform the exercise. Write notes in a fitness journal and bring it along for reference.
Don't sign extended contracts. Meeting with a personal trainer is a great idea when you're new to the gym. He or she will teach you how to use the equipment properly and recommend exercises that will help you meet your goals. Perhaps you'll feel more comfortable if a trainer is with you the first several times you work out. However, before signing a year-long contract for training services, give it some thought. My advice is to start out slowly—you can always request additional sessions with a trainer if you feel you need them.
Expand your workout horizons. If your gym offers classes—kickboxing, spinning, yoga or Zumba—don't be afraid to try them out! Classes are a great way to add variety to your routine, keeping you from getting bored and increasing your chances of sticking with a fitness plan. I was nervous about trying spin class and waited nearly a year before signing up—then I was mad at myself for not doing it sooner! Once you get through the first class, the next one will be a breeze.
Stick with supplement basics. If you're starting or returning to a fitness program, chances are you're making healthy changes to your diet, too. If you're considering supplements, do some research before filling your cart with sports nutrition formulas. I recommend three types of supplements for beginners: whey protein (which helps support lean-muscle building), BCAAs (to support muscle growth and maintenance) and glutamine (for recovery support).* Using a product such as Vitacost Whey Protein Complex with BCAAs, Glutamine and Glutamine Precursors is a convenient way to get everything you need at once.
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the steering on the benneton seems broken before he is at the corner watch how he rapidly moves the steering wheel and the car barely turns... yet aparently the cars steering suddenly works fine and he rams hill? people only see the few seconds in the clip where schumachers moving the steering wheel full lock ands assume hes ramming when its obvious the steering is barely working if u take notice of the whole clip
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I imagine it'll be much like when Desperate Housewives jumped five years and it was a running plot device for a while and then they kind of seemed to forget about it after a season or so.
On soaps they often try not to be specific about years. I'm sure by New Year's Even both AMC and OLTL will have characters wearing ugly 2014 glasses.


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Chef Ty Thames said he's always had a grand vision for Bin 612, and now his dream can become reality as the restaurant is set to expand into two neighboring businesses on Maxwell Street.
Thames said the moment opportunity arose to expand into Si Belle, a neighboring hair salon, and Desert Rose, a Middle Eastern restaurant also located in the building housing Bin 612, he took action. Expanding Bin 612 has always been on the forefront of his mind, Thames said, because expansion dynamically changes the quality and diversity of the restaurant's authentic Italian menu.
"Bin 612 is kind of a landmark now in the Cotton District. I'm super excited about this move. I've been wanting to expand for about three years, but the opportunity had not come up. We held off and were patient," Thames said. "It's definitely going to be a game changer. I'm excited for us, and I think this is good for Starkville and the Cotton District. I want to make this the definitive and most authentic pizzeria in Starkville."
Overall, the expansion will triple Bin 612's total seating capacity. The restaurant's current main room will be transformed with hinged windows, allowing an open-air, European dining experience, Thames said, while the side dining room will become a conference room available for private reservations.
"We'll have a projector, television and Powerpoint available for clients to use," he said. "If a group decides to rent that room out, we can shut the doors for privacy."
As for outdoor seating, the patio area in front of Bin 612 and on Maxwell Drive will be consolidated for a wrapped, fenced-in area. Outdoor seating will also be available in the back of the restaurant.
While extra seats potentially means extra customers, Thames said he is very excited about the expansion's impact on Bin 612's menu.
"Our problem at the Bin has always been storage and space. There's never enough place to put things," Thames said. "(Expansion) gives us exactly the size we need to operate."
The Bin's kitchen will move into the former Desert Rose location. A full-size kitchen, Thames said, is the key to having a menu with strong, signature items.
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Jennifer Gregory, GSDP vice president for tourism, said Thames' plans for expansion reflects Starkville's growing popularity as a dining destination in North Mississippi. Local restaurants, she said, not only attract people to the area to eat, but also to shop, feeding the local retail and 2 percent food and beverage tax base. New and expanding restaurants are good for other restaurants and the entire community, she said.
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"Ty is a wonderful asset to our community," Gregory added. "He is a very generous and community-oriented person. Having his reputation and skills here really does point to the fact that Starkville is a place with an eclectic mix."
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| Pyongyang, February 26 (KCNA) -- There took place film shows in Thailand and Nigeria from Feb. 11 to 18 to mark the birth anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il (Day of the Shining Star).
Participants of film shows watched Korean films including "The International Friendship Exhibition House".
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HE Kim Jong Il was born in the secret camp in Mt. Paektu and grew up, hearing the gun reports during the great anti-Japanese war as a lullaby, and nurtured wisdom and spirit as a brilliant commander beside the table for operational plans at the supreme command during the hard-fought Fatherland Liberation War.
He started his Songun revolutionary leadership by giving field guidance to the Seoul Ryu Kyong Su Guards 105th Tank Division of the Korean People's Army on August 25, 1960.
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Are these percentages shocking? Perhaps not to those of us who're very intimately acquainted with the typical work scene. Likewise, perhaps not to those of us who've been following the issue of work engagement for a long while and are familiar with what studies have been saying. However, it's important for leaders and managers to familiarize themselves with the concept of engagement, its implications, and what may be the reality at their organization. Take a look at this infographic, see if this describes the scenario at your organization, and share! Continue reading
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Being bored (and zoning out) at work can make us more creative?
Having written about the problem of boredom at work (where an individual's skill level surpasses the challenge of the tasks), lets turn now to one of the possible benefits of boredom… creativity! The following article was very interesting indeed: Being bored at work can make us more creative. Some excerpts follow:
Most of us think of being bored at work as a negative experience, but a new study suggests it can have positive results including an increase in creativity because it gives us time to daydream.
I do find that daydreaming fuels my creativity, although I can imagine this generally being a tough sell to employers. Also, it turns out that zoning out can also help boost creative problem-solving (see More Than Just 'Zoning Out': Exploring the Cognitive Processes Behind Mind Wandering). Even better huh? Continuing on with the article: Continue reading
Why Managing Sucks and How to Fix it
Conventional wisdom posits that the needs of employees and their employer are at odds with each other, however this assumption is not necessarily true. A mutually symbiotic relationship granting employees freedom and flexibility while increasing engagement and, hence, productivity is achievable! Why Managing Sucks and How to Fix it: A Results-Only Guide to Taking Control of Work, Not People will force you to examine how you think about work as well as how we unknowingly support the current, conventional view of work through the establishment and use of flexible work arrangements. Conventional flexible work arrangements, by the way, can't achieve what a results-only work environment (ROWE) can. Continue reading
Surveillance at Work: Issues and Recommendations
The possibility of employers checking potential hires' social networking sites to attain a more in-depth look at what candidates might really be like is now common knowledge. Likewise, most people also know that employers are increasingly monitoring their computer activities at work and that this can come in the form of programs that track time spent on work related and non-work related software as well as the types of websites you visit. These have become part of a "new normal." However, surveillance can be more invasive and extend beyond the workplace itself. It can come in the form of tracking, through GPS, where you drive the company vehicle or employers' hiring private investigators to verify health or injury claims as the following video shows: Continue reading
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According to this website, Looking Busy coach, Jay Schorr has over 15 years of experience looking busy at work and is in demand by both employees interested in learning how to look busy and by managers interested in identifying "looking busy" behavior. Now curious, I emailed him to inquire if he is currently coaching and asked how he came to the realization that his service would be helpful to many people. The answer is, yes, he is currently coaching. Moreover, Jay Schorr's response addresses why it behooves employees to act busy: Continue reading
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The Canyon Run
Level 7 Encounter
So far on DailyEncounter I have posted an encounter based on a scene from a TV show (Double Take), an encounter based on a scene from a book (Statues of Grellenwood) and so I thought I should post an encounter based on a scene from a film. So here is my attempt at recreating the Attack on the Death Star in 4E D&D. I imagine this has been done many times before in D&D, but here is my take on it.
While I have tried to get the maths right on this encounter, I haven't actually run the enocunter myself yet.
The Birthmoon river – usually a raging torrent of an inexhaustible supply of water – has dried up. Investigations by some villagers have revealed that upstream some Goblins are using an arcane portal to divert the river somewhere else. The villagers of Grellenwood have asked the adventurers to destroy the portal so the river can run again. The portal is held in place by an orb. The orb is unprotected. The water is required by the Goblin tribe for nefarious purposes and so is heavily defended by Goblins riding Drakes as well as Goblin archers on the sides of the river banks.
The PCs can use the Bestial Statues with 4 wings (yes, I really am that cheesy!) fromto fly down the dry river bank towards the orb to destroy it. If the PCs wrk out some other way of doing it then great! I love it when players outwit me.
Running the Encounter
Scene Features
River (blue squares) The river is being sucked into a portal generated by the orb. It is an odd sight, the river rages south, but suddenly disappears.
Dried up River (brown squares): To help recreate the feel of the scene, any PC that spends a turn above the river bed and ends their move closer to the orb, gains a cumulative +2 bonus to the Attack roll against the orb.
Orb (O): The defences of the Orb are all 35 and it has 1HP. Critical Hit rules do not apply to the Orb.
The Portal (line between the river and the dried up river bed): The portal transports the water elsewhere. The portal is dependent on the orb. Once he orb is destroyed, the portal disappears and the water resumes flowing down the river. The sheer force of the water crushes anything or anyone in its path, killing creatures that are stood on the river bed.
Banks of the river (green squares): The top of the banks of the river are 20 foot higher than the floor of the dried up river. Due to the moisture and sharp angle of the bank, it takes a hard Athletics check to climb up the banks of the river (although if the check is successful, the player can move up the bank at normal speed – i.e. it takes 4 squares of movement to reach the top from the bottom).
The following enemies are in this encounter:
- 1 Goblin Leader (not pictured)
- 4 Goblin Riders (not pictured)
- 12 Goblin Archers (A)
- 2 Goblin Hexers (H)
The Goblins that are riding the drakes (Goblin Riders and the Goblin Leader) will appear in the PC Start Area on their initiaitve on round 2. The Goblins that are riding Drakes will try and attack whoever is closest to them. The Goblin Hexers will try and and knock back the PCs at every opportunity they get. Once a hexer starts taking damage, it will order its Goblin allies to get close so that it can deflect attacks onto them. When the orb is destroyed the Goblins will flee.
|Goblin Archer
Medium natural humanoid
|Level 4 Minion Artillery
|Initiative +3
|AC 20; Fort 18; Ref 18; Will 18
|Perception +4
|Speed 6
|low-light vision
|Standard Actions
|Longbow (Weapon) ♦ At-Will
|Attack: +10 vs AC
Hit: 5 damage
|Str: 14 (+4)
Con: 15 (+4)
|Dex: 19 (+6)
Int: 11 (+2)
|Wis: 14 (+4)
Cha: 10 (+2)
|Alignment Unaligned
|Goblin Hexer
Small natural humanoid
|Level 5 Controller
|HP 70; Bloodied 35
|Initiative +4
|AC 20; Fort 18; Ref 18; Will 18
|Perception +3
|Speed 6
|low-light vision
|Standard Actions
|Thunder Strike (Weapon) ♦ At-Will (basic attack)
|Attack: Ranged 10; +10 vs AC
Hit: 1d6 +3 Thunder damage.
|Lightning Flash ♦ At-Will
|Attack: Ranged 10; +10 vs Fortitude
Hit:1d8 +3 damage, and the target is blinded (save ends).
|Force Wave ♦ Encounter
|Attack: Area Burst 3 within 10 (all creatures); +9 vs Fortitude
Hit:2d6 +3 damage and the target is pushed 8 squares.
|Triggered Actions
|Lead from the Rear ♦ At-Will
|Trigger (immediate interrupt): when targeted by a ranged attack
The goblin hexer can change the attack's target to an adjacent ally of its level or lower.
|Str: 10 (+2)
Con: 14 (+4)
|Dex: 15 (+4)
Int: 9 (+1)
|Wis: 13 (+3)
Cha: 18 (+6)
|Alignment Unaligned
|Goblin Rider
Medium natural magical beast
|Level 6 Artillery
|HP 52; Bloodied 26
|Initiative +3
|AC 19; Fort 18; Ref 20; Will 15
|Perception +3
|Speed 5 squares (fly)
|Shifty Flight
|When flying away from another flying creature, the Drake and Goblin Rider do not provoke opportunity attacks.
|Standard Actions
|Drake Claws (Necrotic) ♦ At-Will
|Attack: Melee 1; +9 vs Reflex
Hit: 2d6+7 damage
|Drake Shriek ♦ Encounter
|Attack: Close Blast 5; +10 vs Will
Hit: 2d6+3 thunder damage and the target takes a -2 penalty to attack rolls and saving throws (save ends).
|Goblin Longbow ♦ At-Will
|Attack: Ranged 10; +11 vs AC
Hit:1d10+5 damage
|Str: 14 (+5)
Con: 10 (+3)
|Dex: 15 (+5)
Int: 15 (+5)
|Wis: 12 (+4)
Cha: 8 (+2)
|Alignment Unaligned
|Goblin Leader
Medium natural magical beast
|Level 7 Brute
|HP 92; Bloodied 46
|Initiative +3
|AC 20; Fort 21; Ref 18; Will 21
|Perception +3
|Speed 5 squares (fly)
|Shifty Flight
|When flying away from another flying creature, the Drake and Goblin Rider do not provoke opportunity attacks.
|Standard Actions
|Drake Claws (Necrotic) ♦ At-Will
|Attack: Melee 1; +9 vs Reflex
Hit: 2d8+6 necrotic damage
|Force Blast ♦ At-will
|Attack: Close Burst 3; +10 vs Reflex
Hit: 2d6+4 Force damage and the target grants combat advantage until the end of its next turn.
|Force Vacuum (Force) ♦ Recharges on 5-6
|Attack: Close Burst 5; +10 vs Reflex
Hit:2d6+4 force damage and the target is pulled 5 squares and is slowed until the end of its next turn.
|Str: 14 (+5)
Con: 12 (+4)
|Dex: 12 (+4)
Int: 12 (+4)
|Wis: 12 (+4)
Cha: 8 (+2)
|Alignment Unaligned


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Shannen Doherty addresses Jason Priestley memoir, Tori Spelling's reality show 'True Tori' on 'Arsenio'Add to Favorites | Beverly Hills, 90210
Former "Beverly Hills, 90210" star Shannen Doherty was on "Arsenio" Thursday (May 15) and she addressed her former co-star Jason Priestley's new memoir, where he claims she was a total diva.
"Everybody has their own version of the truth and memories are very funny things," says Doherty, denying that she was put-upon to be driven around in a town car and not a limousine.
Hall also asks Doherty about Tori Spelling's new reality show, "True Tori," which is chronicling Spelling's marriage troubles after Dean McDermott cheated on her while shooting in Canada.
"I watch the show and here's my face [ drops jaw]. I mean, wow, wow. It is just all out there, she is baring her soul," says Doherty. "Everybody has their process of what's cathartic and how to deal with something and this might be hers. ... My heart does break for her, it breaks for anybody that is in that situation. That's pretty awful. I certainly hope everything works out for the best. In the meantime, it making for some amazing TV."
Doherty concludes with a message for Tori: "Love yourself. Tori's a beautiful girl and she needs to ignore the haters."
Below, Doherty talks about her latest project, "Blood Lake: Attack of the Killer Lampreys" and shares an awesome clip. It's no "Sharknado," but it's still pretty awesome. Doherty clearly knows it is meant to be funny, and she also is excited to work with Animal Planet because she wants to do projects with the network and Sea Shepherd, a marine wildlife conservation organization.
"Blood Lake" premieres Sunday, May 25 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Animal Planet.
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Desperate times calls for desperate decisions. It's time the Republican party dropped a candidate from its ticket. And it's not Sarah Palin.
At a McPalin rally Wednesday in Pennsylvania, it was reported that after Palin spoke and turned it over to McCain, people in the crowd started to wander off — kind of like McCain himself. Maybe more like so-called fans during the 7th inning of a Dodger game.
McCain has become an albatross around the neck of the GOP. At that rally, he stooped so low he let his wife sling some mud. Even though she came off more like PMS Barbie, she gave it the ol' Fox News try. She got her dander up and said Obama "sent a cold chill through my spine" which she propbably hasn't experienced since McMyFriends told her he bought Viagra. She also snapped at Obama for voting against veterans' benefits — completely oblivious (hard to believe just by looking at her, ain't it?) to the fact that her hubby did too. In fact, McHero has missed 6 out of the last 9 votes in the Senate pertaining to veterans. Then she cherped to the crowd that Obama should "change shoes with me for a day." No, that would be a challenge Rudy 9-11 would welcome. The former America's Mayor has appeared in drag several times in public forums. All done, of course, before his grandstanding moment in history that he eventually drove into the ground. Rudy, the drag thing once is ugly enough; twice it's just plain creepy; and the third time it's … oh, forget it.
McCain had some kind of '60s flashback at that rally yesterday when he meant to say "my fellow citizens" but blurted out "my fellow prisoners." Upon hearing that, Palin's eyes rolled in her pretty little head and she looked to her side as if she wanted to join those people who exited stage right when McBlunder began speaking.
The McCain campaign this week has gone where only Fox News has gone before — in the gutter, or McPalin's Final Frontier. They're trying to link Obama's associationto a '60s radical like it should be a national obsession. This story was first spewed and drilled into the little minds of Fox News devotees by Sean Hannity — whose own obsession with the former radical borders on man-crush. Add to the fact that Palin will only do interviews on Fox Swoons should convince you she is a candidate of contempt and ignorance. Fox is fascism that doesn't even try to hide it. The network is about as "fair and balanced" as forcing a blind person to walk a tightrope. PROMO ALERT! The faux pas news organization can call the Palin interviews "The fox on Fox."
The McPalin campaign will do anything to get voters' minds off the issue of our time. They're even complaining about the latest Newsweek cover with an extreme close-up of Palin that wasn't airbrushed. What a political party of whiners. What, are they trying to win the women vote by way of female vanity?
The real question is why is McCain hiding behind womens' skirts? He can only draw big crowds at rallies if he has Miss Perkiness at his side. By the way, she's gonna drop the first puck at a Philadelphia Flyers game this weekend. Hokey-smokes! It's the Ultimate Hockey Mom Competition! McCain, meanwhile, is scheduled to referee a shuffleboard competition hosted by the surviving cast members of "The Beverly Hillbillies."
Since Palin will be in Philly this weekend, there's talk of her popping up on the opening of this week's "Saturday Night Live" where she can face-off wth her body double Tina Fey. If she does, she'll ace it. Talk about your game-changer. It'll send Palinfurther into the stratosphere. All the more reason to drop McCain from the ticket. No real excuse necessary — he can tell the public he wanted to spend more time with his houses.
Palin is flying so high she won't need to have a running mate. Besides, she's a Republican.God is her co-pilot.
Heaven help us.


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Nokia Lumia 929 coming to Verizon in November
Nokia is planning to announce the Lumia 929 for Verizon later this month. Expected to go on sale in November, this handset is similar to the Lumia 1520 for AT&T that was leaked earlier but with a few key differences.
Like the Lumia 1520, the Lumia 929 is said to have a 1080p resolution display and a 20 megapixel PureView camera with oversampling functionality. The difference here is that while the 1520 is said to have a massive 6-inch display, the 929 will have a comparatively smaller 5-inch display.
The device will be sold in black and white and possibly in a red color as well. The off-contract price is said to be $500, much less than the $599 price for the Lumia 1520.
Nokia Lumia 929 coming to Verizon in November - reader comments
- John
Nokia is one of the manufactures there are many, the question is: who is the bet samartphone? Hardware wise it is the most advanced but once hardware are allwais evolving it is important to see how far this hardware will be able to run the software...
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latest leak released- going to hit in 2014 as thanksgiving 5 inch 1080p 441 ppi Snapdragon 800 32/64 gb variant No sd card
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So this phone is comming with the SnapDragon 800 (adreno 330) ? If this is true, i will switch from iphone to NOKIA! NOKIA has a great quality :)
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Mustang MonthlyHow To Engine
Diagnose Underhood Engine Noises
Is it a death rattle or just a bad alternator bearing you need to replace?
You're tooling along on your way home from a cruise night or a car show when you pull up to a stop sign. As the engine drops down to an idle, you hear a strange sound from under the hood. It's not a good sound either. Your heart sinks as you realize the sound most likely means expensive internal engine problems and you're going to have to take your Mustang off the road, not to mention spending considerable cash to make it all right under the hood so you can enjoy your Mustang once more.
Hold on though, all may not be lost. The sound you're hearing could simply be a bad alternator bearing--a simple fix that'll get you back on the road in an afternoon. However, that sound could also be coming from deep within your engine and mean you're about to get elbow deep in an engine swap or rebuild. So how do you tell the difference? That's what we're going walk you through in this story.
We recently had an engine noise, a metallic chirping sound, rear its ugly head under the hood of our '90 Fox-body. Intermittent at first (the worst kind of noise is the kind that doesn't happen all the time!) and hard to pinpoint, the noise came and went over the course of several weeks, finally reappearing and staying with us for three solid days. It was at that point we knew we had to get under the hood and delve deeper.
Using a mechanic's stethoscope, the noise was pinpointed to the No. 2 cylinder area. The sound was also determined to be at the top of the engine and based on rpm (we'll get into how we did that shortly). After breaking out the tools and pulling the valve covers, we found excessive wear on the roller rockers. Mind you, this is a 347 stroker with over 120,000 hard-driven miles. We bolted up a fresh set of rocker arms, but upon restarting the engine, the noise was still prevalent. Going back in, and deeper this time, we found failed lifters and damaged cam lobes, including a bad cam bearing. Our day was done and the engine would have to be pulled for a rebuild or replacement.
Hopefully, your engine noise won't be as grave, but if so, you'll at least know how to pinpoint it with these instructions. Feel free to share your engine horror stories with us on our forums at www.mustangmonthly.com!
Identifying the Noise
First and foremost in engine noise diagnostics is identifying the noise. Is it a metallic sound or perhaps a ticking sound? Maybe it is a knocking sound. Whatever the sound, you have to determine its location, operating condition (is it based on rpm, change under load, and such), and at what rate the sound is happening. We can start narrowing the noise down by two primary categories/locations. Generally, an upper engine noise issue will be a ticking sound, while a lower engine noise will be associated with a knocking sound.
Upper Engine Noise
For upper engine noises related to valvetrain, the noise will happen at camshaft speed, which is half the speed of the crankshaft or the rpm indicated on a tachometer. For example, if your engine is idling at 600 rpm, the camshaft is rotating at 300 rpm. As such, a valvetrain noise will occur five times every second at this rpm. Valvetrain parts that can be sources of such noise include the camshaft, lifters, pushrods, rocker arms, springs, guides, and the timing chain. Noises associated with the upper engine and valvetrain will increase in frequency with rpm, but will still be half of the engine (or crankshaft) rpm.
Lower Engine Noise
Lower (or bottom end) noises, generally appear as a knocking sound, deeper in tone than something from the top of the engine. The bottom end noise will occur once per engine revolution. If your engine is idling at 600 rpm (and therefore that is the crankshaft rpm), the sound will occur 10 times per second. Lower engine noise sources include the crankshaft, connecting rods, pistons, main and/or rod bearings, flywheel/flexplate, and various excessive clearances such as a mis-bored cylinder causing piston slap. Like upper engine noises, lower engine noises increase in frequency as rpm increases, but they can also be affected by engine load and temperature as well. A knock might be heard in gear under load, but not in park at idle.
Load and Temperature Variables
As we just stated, engine load can vary the intensity of the noise. Sometimes load will make the noise appear, and other situations it will make it go away. An old trick is to pull the spark plug wire off of a cylinder in question to remove the load from that cylinder, lessening the pressure and usually reducing or eliminating the knocking sound during diagnostic testing. Temperature also plays a vital role in engine noise diagnostics. Noises associated with excessive clearances will often go away once the engine is up to temperature and the metal parts have expanded. Sounds based off of the oiling system (bearing clearances, and such) often do not make noise when cold, but will once the oil has warmed and thinned out. These are all diagnostic tips to keep in mind while checking out your engine for noise issues.
Where to Start
We all hope that a noise coming from under the hood is going to be a small and inexpensive repair. That may not be the truth in most cases, but we can keep a positive outlook until we know for sure where the sound is coming from!
Using a simple mechanic's stethoscope (or even a long screwdriver with its handle nestled into your ear), place the tip of the tool on the accessory drive items first. Listen to the alternator case, water pump housing, power steering pump housing, and so forth. For you late-model owners, check the spring-loaded belt tensioner as well. Be mindful of spinning engine parts, but get in there and check everything. You'd be amazed at what a bad water pump shaft bearing sounds like.
Amplifying the sound with a stethoscope or screwdriver allows you to easily pinpoint the location. If need be, have a friend control the throttle to determine sound pitch changes to the offending part/bearing. If your accessory drive checks out okay, then move rearward, checking components on the way. Exhaust leaks can sound like valvetrain ticking, so be sure to listen around collectors, gasket surfaces, and more. Loose sparkplugs can also cause a metal-to-metal clicking sound due to the combustion chamber's pressure rise and fall, causing the loose plugs to rock in their threaded holes. Listen at the valve covers for rocker related noise. You may even have to get under the car (while it's running) to listen at the bellhousing for a loose or cracked flexplate, or damaged clutch. Remember, safety is your number one priority while performing these checks.


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