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BP shareholders rejected a resolution on April 15, Special Resolution No. 25, which would require reports on the financial, environmental and social risks of Canadian oil sands drilling. Shareholders voted on the resolution during the annual general meeting in London. Only six percent of investors voted in favor of the resolution, while nine percent abstained, and over 85 percent voted against it. Shell, ConocoPhillips and ExxonMobil all plan to file similar resolutions.
BP is set to invest $10 billion in the Sunrise tar sands project located in Alberta, plus spend $2.5 billion converting a refinery in Toledo, Ohio so it can process the synthetic crude oil produced from the tar sands. BP's capital investment in 2008 was over $30 billion and $20 billion in 2009. However, BP only invested $4 billion in alternative energy since 2005, which is something that CEO Tony Hayward touted during the annual meeting. "All forms of energy will play a role in our future, from oil sands to solar," Hayward said.
Environmentalists are concerned about oil sands drilling. Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from oil sands projects are higher than emissions for conventional oil. BP estimates emissions to be 5 to 15 percent higher, but Pembina Institute, an environmental think tank, estimates oil sands emissions are up to 40 percent higher. Other concerns about oil sands drilling include deforestation, water use and toxic waste creation.
The World Wildlife Federation released a report last month (WWF) report about oil sands drilling. The Canadian Energy Research Institute estimated that $379 billion investment is required by 2025 to bring production to around four million barrels per day (bpd). Canada has probable reserves of 315 billion barrels. Tar sands production is presently around 1.3 million barrels a day (bpd). Estimates of future production range from 2.5 to 6.2 million bpd by 2020.
According to the report, $379 billion could do the following:
Continued oil sands drilling would increase atmospheric carbon up to 12 parts per million (ppm). The current level of atmospheric carbon is around 430 ppm and increasing. The critical tipping point the majority of scientists agree on that would cause devastating impacts is 450 ppm and beyond.
In BP's sustainability report for 2009, it laid out the reasons for investing in Canadian oil sands:
BP has a clear strategy to invest to grow exploration and production profitably through a portfolio of leadership positions in the world's most prolific hydrocarbon basins. Canada's oil sands more than qualify, being second only to Saudi Arabia in terms of proven reserves. BP creates value through the application of technology and capability to drive performance and operating efficiency. Also, through BP's Midwest US refineries there is a distinctive opportunity to create a balanced portfolio of upstream production and downstream conversion, which will allow BP to participate in the margin across the whole value chain.
The U.S. imports more oil from Canada than from any other country, about 19 percent of its total foreign supply. "Oil sands represent a decision point for North America and the world," said Simon Dyer of the Pembina Institute, a Canadian environmental group. "Are we going to get serious about alternative energy, or are we going to go down the unconventional-oil track? The fact that we're willing to move four tons of earth for a single barrel really shows that the world is running out of easy oil."
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Canadian, if you are as outraged, please sign the petition, Stop Selling Tar Sands of Canada. Americans, if you are equally outraged, sign the petition, Stop the Alberta Tar Sands Pipeline to the US.
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Hey, Canada! Do something about Tar Sand drilling! British Petroleum is responsible for the oil drilling fiasco in the Gulf of Mexico! B.P. does not give a damn about environmental or social risks to any the area. The bottom line is GREED! B.P. is one of the worst, if not the worst, polluters of the world! They use it, then they leave it for others clean up, suffer from or deal with. B.P. should not be allowed to do any more ANYTHING, ANYWHERE, EVER! The shareholders are reprehensible, greedy bastards, and may they all rot in hell for the trauma and devastation that they have plagued the environment, the people and our precious earth!
I really need to live some place where it is easy to walk everywhere. It would be nice to be able to afford a hybrid that gets 75 MPG average.
Should we be surprised? If you invest in an oil company, your concern is not for the environment but for the almighty $$. I'm shocked that 6% voted yes. They must have misunderstood the question. I agree... "British Petroleum" shouldn't even be allowed in North America. We can make a mess of our land just fine without the Brits help ! Why is it we do nothing until it's a crisis ?
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[1] March 6, 2015 at 3:40pm
Just love it when they eat their own!!
Just shows why O loves dictators, Castro, Chavez,Putin etc.
he wants to be just like them when he grows up, or King for life.
If Menendez goes so does a lot of Hispanic votes, they really love him.
In reply to the story Report: Justice Dept. to Bring Corruption Charges Against a Sitting Democratic Senator
[21] January 20, 2015 at 4:56pm
I'm sure others remember all over the middle east the crowds in the streets cheering when 9/11 happened, those were the moderate muslims???
Their mosques that are being built in every state thus claiming that land for Allah, kind of like dogs pi##ing to mark their territory.
Every country that has allowed them in is now having terrorist problems, coincidence? they all read the same Koran.
January 3, 2015 at 12:40pm
I have never understood why they keep re nominating a crying drunk, but then it is congress, but I agree with most other comments here that he is constantly making back room deals with Obama.
We need someone who will stand up to the machine and throw a wrench into it, Gowdy or Gohmert would be a good start. I also would like to see Term Limits.
[3] December 30, 2014 at 3:15pm
The dictators plan right on track for a race war, so he can call for martial law and remain dictator forever.
I like animals to much to compare these cretins to them, they are cowards, they will never face a person one on one, there always has to be two or more against one old person or a woman.
I have never considered myself racist and have lived many years, but the more I hear everyday about these senseless beatings, lootings, arsons, murders and the war they have created on anyone not black I feel a change to my thinking.
They say they want respect. LOL, then earn it like normal people do.
December 15, 2014 at 2:11pm
In the 1970′s I worked in a large discount store in east L.A., I was told by a customer that I had no business working there since I didn't speak Spanish, so the problem has been there for a very long time, they should just give Southern Ca. back to Mexico like they want and as soon as these idiots figure out they are back in Mexico where they didn't want to live and there is no welfare, watch out Washington State.
Left Mexifornia and have never been happier.
[5] November 21, 2014 at 3:23pm
It's really funny how they bring up Reagans bill, that was approved by congress, and totally gutted by the DEMS of everything that was good, FED ID, taken out by DEMS, funding for the fences defunded by the DEMS, when you really think of everything that has happened in this country over the last 10 years you have to remember since 2007 til 2012 the DIMS HELD BOTH HOUSES, and yet everything is the PUBS fault, sure wish thee PUBS would get some b### and fight them on their terms, I know it's hard to stoop to their level but that's the only way to beat them.
In reply to the story CNN Anchor Calls Out Press Secretary Josh Earnest on Live TV: 'But Here's the Problem...'
[2] November 21, 2014 at 3:45pm
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[4] November 15, 2014 at 3:26pm
Is it true that once Muslim prayers have been held in a certain place that place then belongs to Allah? I can't believe people are so naïve about the growing threat of Islam in our once great nation, they don't want to assimilate they just want it their way and cause trouble everywhere they go. England, France, Germany all having great Muslim problems, I guess we're next.
God Bless this once Great Nation
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[2] November 15, 2014 at 3:57pm
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[1] November 15, 2014 at 4:09pm
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[10] September 28, 2014 at 3:01pm
Just another case of Affirmative Action, plus since you can't ask anymore on an application if the applicant has a criminal record who knows who they hire.. Does Eric Holder have to vet them?. Sure hope the next Prez. starts from scratch.
[4] August 18, 2014 at 5:00pm
This is all of Obummers agenda, he and Holder have been stirring the racial pot since he took office, I don't know if it will be these upcoming elections or 2016 but these riots will be breaking out in all inner cities, then Martial Law, then no elections King forever.
I lived through the L.A. and Watts riots, (finally left that once beautiful state) these cretins burn and steal their own neigbourhoods, to the ground then piss and moan that they have no stores open in their areas, well DUH!!.
I really feel sorry for the police they are dammed if they do and dammed if they don't, maybe they shouldn't respond to any calls to these cesspools,since most of them don't pay taxes anyway, and just tell them to call one of their local gangbangers if they need help.
Just goes back to you can't cure stupid.
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[3] August 18, 2014 at 5:06pm
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[25] July 25, 2014 at 4:24pm
Our great leader has been importing these terrorists and others for 5 years now, are these his private army?
I'm sure everyone that has a brain has noticed every country these cretins move to is having nothing but trouble, I don't believe there are moderate Muslims, they all read the same Koran and hate all infidels ( Mainly Americans because according to their sick minds we are the Big Satan) and yet we allow them on our soil, I think they should all be deported back to the hellholes they came from and let them kill each other,.which they also seem to enjoy.or send them back to the stoneage they came from. Really warped cretins.
God help us save this Great Nation.
[2] July 18, 2014 at 6:42pm
Wow! thank God I thought It was just me, everyone of these spokespeople who are supposed to be there to relay something for us are so flippant and arrogant, and have ATTITUDE I guess that must be a requirement on their resume.
Anything they can't answer is, classified, under investigatiom, or ask someone else.
What also must be required is being ugly, or is that an inner reflection of their black souls.
God help us get through 2 more years of this hell.
In reply to the story What the State Dept. Spokeswoman Tweeted Out Thursday Night Has Her Taking Heavy Fire
[1] July 18, 2014 at 9:06pm
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[3] July 15, 2014 at 3:31pm
That is so sad that a good young person has to put up with the hatred that is so pervasive to-day.
I lived through the 60′s when this all started and now we have an administration that have continued the Sal Alinsky doctrine rules for radicals. If you want to know where this is all going just read it it lays it all out step by step,,divide the nation pit one group against the other, cause chaos, demoralize our great military(Jane Fonda comes to mind) overwhelm the system(thousands of illegal children(social services), I wish I knew the answer,
When I vote once and someone goes on TV and says they voted twice and nothing happens to them how do you win.
The next on the list will be the riots and Martial Law, King Obama forever.
God help this once great country and our Military who protect us all, unfortunately even the ####oles.
In reply to the story Military Fiancee Says She Found Vile Letter on Car Windshield Over Her 'I Love My Soldier' Bumper Sticker
[1] July 15, 2014 at 3:41pm
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[2] July 11, 2014 at 2:41pm
This is just another CYA move, since Obummer and Holder have been sending massive pink slips to our military in the field,( OVER THERE FIGHTING BEING KILLED AND WOUNDED ORDERED BY THIS COWARD) dissing our veterans for earned healthcare.
But let's give 4BILLION to help ILLEGAL,ILLEGAL, ILLEGAL ALIENS.
I have lived a long life but I have never seen such despicable excuses for human beings as this President and his minions.
Nostradamus predicted the Anti-Christ would come from an Asian country, Indonesia is close enough for me.
God Bless our Military and bring them home safely.
February 12, 2014 at 2:44pm
The fact that Nidal Hasan was on Obama's transition team was really scrubbed and hushed up fast after the shooting.
No worries though Obama is importing them now, oh you just have a little terrorist in you, no problem, between them immigrating and coming in from the southern border he will soon have his civilian army.
I agree treason.
In reply to the story TheBlaze Investigation: How Obama and the Army Betrayed the Victims of Fort Hood
February 5, 2014 at 5:57pm
Poor little Nancy Nazi, the Progs have had the free run of getting donations from everyone and everywhere since the 60′s what the courts decision did was level the playing field, they tired the IRS, blackmail, Senate nuclear option to stuff the courts with Progs. they are running out of options.
Nancy dear READ THE CONSTITUTION TO FIND OUT WHAT IS IN IT!!!!!
Who says Botox doesn't affect the brain, she is living proof it does.
November can't come soon enough.
Kerry signed the Small Arms Treaty without Senate approval, God Help Us.
In reply to the story Nancy Pelosi's Call for Changing the Constitution
January 31, 2014 at 11:49am
The Big Meeting at the WH!!!!
Gee we stole all the money from the SS trust fund.
We stole all the money from the Medicare fund
I got it!!! lets start a new fund that we can steal from and spend more money from all these hard working fools, they're to stupid to know the difference and I am the Messiah.
January 21, 2014 at 12:32pm
I don't know if it is just me but I see pure fear in all these progressive/liberals as they see their power quickly slipping away.
Watch them all lash out at all the honest God fearing people, The Tea Party, Conservatives, Republicans, and all this starts at the top, President on down, like they say fish rots from the head down.
They are finding out Alinsky tactics don't work on people with a brain, and thank God people are starting to see these people for what they are EVIL!!!!
We are winning they are losing and going into exorcist mode, heads spinning and all. EXPOSE THEM ALL.
Truth and honesty is cleansing.
In reply to the contribution Glenn Beck's Open Letter to Gov. Cuomo: Are We Welcome in New York?
November 22, 2013 at 2:15pm
Hey if it's okay with the Black Panthers to place bounties I see nothing wrong with the AB doing the same thing, I mean fair is fair in this new world we live in.
I thought the Planet of the Apes was fiction, guess not.
Time to start playing Cowboys and ###### again, was a fun game, gave everyone a chance, not like the cowardly games these punks play on old people and people just minding their own business, but as always they run in packs because they couldn't handle a one on one fight.
November 17, 2013 at 5:04pm
I don't know if it is just me but why are DEM women so butt ugly and sour faced looking all the time.
Course the men aren't much better, I get chills every time they have Waxman on.
I think Liberal/Progressives are a disease and eats away their souls and produces the ugliness we see in their person and vileness that spews from their mouths.
Well I guess hell needs people too
Nancy is as big a liar as her King/Obama.
November 14, 2013 at 10:16am
The Messiah is going to force the insurance companies to re-instate your cancelled policies{by unconstitutional EO again) until Jan.2015, DRUM ROLL here UNTIL AFTER THE 2014 elections to save the sorry A##ES of the DIMS up for election in 2014. PATHETIC!!!!
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Israel pays compensation to U.K. for damaging Commonwealth Forces cemetery in Gaza operation
Israel initially resisted accepting responsibility for the damages, which raised a furor in Britain.
Israel has paid the U.K. $145,000 for damaging a British war cemetery in the Gaza Strip during an Israel Defense Forces operation in the summer of 2006. Israel initially resisted accepting responsibility for the damages sustained.
The IDF launched the operation in July 2006 after Corporal Gilad Shalit was abducted by Hamas militants.
IDF forces entered the Gaza Strip and reached the British war cemetery on the outskirts of Gaza City. Bulldozers, tanks and helicopters used in the operation damaged cemetery structures, gravestones and shrubbery.
Some 3,500 soldiers from the U.K., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and India, who were killed fighting the Ottoman army during the conquest of the area in 1917, are buried in the cemetery. Some 200 World War II fatalities are also buried there.
British diplomatic sources say the Gaza war cemetery contains graves of British and other foreign soldiers who were killed in conflicts in the region from as early as World War I.
Many tombstones in the graveyard are marked with a cross or Star of David, indicating that both Christians and Jews were buried there.
A few local gardeners tend the cemetery for the British government, and it is considered an especially beautiful site.
A few weeks after the incident, the British embassy in Tel Aviv lodged an official complaint with the Foreign Ministry, Defense Ministry and IDF for damages in the cemetery as well as a demand for compensation. Despite the complaints, Israel refused to discuss the issue or accept responsibility for the damages for some time.
The affair, exposed by the Daily Telegraph, raised a furor in Britain, since it touched thousands of families. The British media said the IDF had desecrated a sacred place.
Finally, following repeated requests by British ambassador Tom Phillips, Israel agreed to discuss the issue. Although the debate took a long time to come to fruition, British officials said it was held in a positive atmosphere and they were pleased with the outcome.
Ironically, some two weeks ago, a day after receiving the compensation from Israel, Palestinian gunmen blew up the two-meter-high stone monument in the British cemetery, causing serious damage.
Mohammed Awaja, the cemetery's caretaker, said he heard the explosion. "We had no idea it was in the cemetery until two hours later when we discovered the explosion had blown up the monument," he said.
British officials rarely visit the area since Hamas' take over of the Gaza Strip and only local gardeners take care of the cemetery. This makes it difficult to repair the damages at the site.
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DUBLIN, Ireland, April 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Shire plc (LSE: SHP, NASDAQ: SHPGY), the global specialty biopharmaceutical company, will announce first quarter 2009 earnings on Thursday April 30, 2009.
Results press release will be issued at: 12:00 BST / 07:00 EDT Investor conference call time: 14:30 BST / 09:30 EDT
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How are you doing today?
Good. I was just singing some lyrics from Rent to myself.
Which song?
"Seasons of Love." A classic. My grandmother was a violin player, and one of my earliest memories is of watching her play in musicals. It was one of my first introductions to classic American songwriting.
When did you first perform at the 9:30 Club?
The first time was when I was an opening act for OneRepublic in 2007. Since then, I've headlined it once, and I'm headlining again this time. My favorite part is when you're loading in and you watch the place turn from just a room to the 9:30 Club as the crowd comes in.
What's it like to perform at a venue that means so much to you?
I've got to say, it's a little stressful. Because you have a lot of friends and family there. My first time, I just wanted it to be done so I could say, "OK, I've had my 9:30 Club moment and now I can move on with my life." But it's very cool.
When did you first know you wanted to be a musician?
I knew I liked music early, and I sang these made-up songs. I was eight when my teacher at Takoma Park Elementary said, "Well, it's nice that you're making these songs up--what you do after that is you write them down." So she actually wrote down the sheet music for it, which I still have, framed in my office. Then, in college, I made a recording and printed up a couple hundred copies. People would knock on my door and ask for the disk, like I was a drug dealer or something. I started to think, hey, maybe people actually want to hear me do this, and I started performing live more.
You were signed to Madonna's record label, Maverick, but it shut down before your debut album was released.
It was a good learning process. At the time, it was definitely difficult but I learned a lot, and really I came out knowing more than ever that I wanted to do music. If I didn't really want to be doing this, I couldn't have stuck through it when times got tough.
How long have you been working on your new album, Moving Up, Living Down ?
I recorded it over two months, one in London and one in LA. I'd actually never been to London so it was a great way to first experience it, to actually live there.
Did you see any bands there?
I saw this guy named Paul McCartney . . . He was doing the Hard Rock Music Festival in Hyde Park. That was amazing, because I'm a huge Beatles fan. And the next day I saw Stevie Wonder, who's also a big influence, so that was pretty cool.
How would you describe the feeling of this new record?
I think it's about transition. I made my first record when I was living in the suburbs of Maryland, and then I moved to New York City, so this one is kind of about finding my place, going into adulthood. I traveled a lot during this album, so there were lots of hellos and goodbyes, lots of floating around.
What's next for you?
I'm excited to be touring at the same time that people are getting to know the [new album]. I've always felt like the songs have a certain personality when I write and record them, but then they take on a different personality when the fans get to know them and sing along.
Obviously New York is great and all, but do you ever miss suburban Maryland?
My parents still live there, so I get to come back pretty often. When I was growing up, downtown Silver Spring didn't exist in the way it does now--when I go there and stop by Whole Foods it's like Utopia, with everyone getting along. So it makes me happy to see the city getting bigger and better. I have a ton of DC and Maryland pride and I'm happy to call it home.
Eric Hutchinson plays the 9:30 Club this Saturday, May 5. Tickets are sold out.
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Presidential candidates must ask for protection to be considered, but the criteria limit the recipients of protection to a precious few. Presidents, vice presidents and former holders of those offices all receive protection, with their families.
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One Year Later: What We're Doing on the White House Rural Council
As someone who was born and raised on a ranch in Colorado, I know firsthand that rural communities are home to some of the most hard-working and self-reliant Americans. I also know that the struggles facing these families are not unlike those confronting Americans across the country: we want our children to receive a world-class education; we want access to quality and affordable health care; we want job opportunities and vibrant local economies; and we want to leave a stronger America for our children and grandchildren to inherit.
That's why I'm proud to serve on President Obama's White House Rural Council where we are focusing our resources across the administration to improve the lives of rural Americans. Here are a just a few things we're doing at Interior on that front:
OUTDOOR RECREATION AND TOURISM: Interior and its public lands support $363 billion in economic activity and 2.2 million jobs annually in the United States. Many of America's greatest natural, cultural and historic treasures, managed by Interior, attract international and domestic tourists to rural areas. We proudly partner with rural communities because the recreational opportunities provided by these natural assets are tremendous engines for economic growth and job creation for all Americans.
INVESTMENTS IN VITAL GOVERNMENT SERVICES: As the economy continues to gain strength, many local communities still face challenges in funding essential services, such as police, fire protection and emergency response programs. As part of the Administration's commitment to supporting localities that face these hurdles, today I was pleased to announce that we are investing nearly $400 million through the Payments in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) program in local governments, largely in rural America. These funds will help more than 1,850 communities make critical investments in important community services such as, public schools, roads, and water systems.
ENERGY: Under the President's leadership, the United States is experiencing a historic escalation of renewable, clean energy development that is benefitting our economy, our environment and rural communities. In 2010 alone, Interior permitted nearly 4,000 megawatts of solar, wind and geothermal energy projects on public lands, supporting the creation of over 7,000 jobs and multi-billion dollar investments in rural America. Even more projects were added over the last year.
WATER: Water is the lifeblood of any community, and Interior is a major supplier to rural communities in the West. The Obama Administration has provided nearly 9 million rural residents with access to a safe water supply and sanitary water system and over 3.7 million rural residents with access to new or improved systems that will deliver safe, clean drinking water.
CONSERVATION: In 2010, President Obama launched the America's Great Outdoors initiative to establish a conservation and outdoor recreation strategy for the 21st century built on partnerships with communities across the country. From the Flint Hills of Kansas to the Dakota Grasslands to the Crown of the Continent in Montana, we're working hand in hand with farmers, ranchers, and other landowners to conserve these critical habitats and preserve a way of life that supports the local economy.
As we embark upon year two of the White House Rural Council, I look forward to working with the President, my colleagues, and rural communities across the nation to continue this great march of progress.
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So rather than Trek XI it led to a discussion about Seven's emotions and whether she should feel guilty about being part of the collective. At least it was about Voyager this time.
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JANEWAY: Maybe we can do better than giving you a crash course in exobiology. Maybe we can provide you with a consultant.
SHMULLY: I'd be delighted, but how?
JANEWAY: By isolating the computer's exobiology datafiles and merging them into a an interactive matrix.
PARIS: A hologram!
JANEWAY: Exactly.
SHMULLY: That may not be as simple as it sounds. It would need to be nearly as sophisticated as I am; tactile interfaces, personality subroutines.
PARIS: Harry could do it.
JANEWAY: Search the database for a leading exobiologist, if you want to add a personality it may as well be based on a real person. I'll have Harry meet you in Holodeck two.
Please tell me that I'm not the only person who noticed that Janeway decided to create a new lifeform on a whim and none of the characters give it a second thought.
This is incredibly reckless stuff right here, it's like making a clone and harvesting its organs and then throwing it aside once you're done with it. Either holograms like Shmully are people or they're not and for the last four years it has been shoved down my throat that they are.
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TABOR: It's just that I'm used to taking orders from B'Elanna, that's all. And to tell you the truth, she doesn't...
SEVEN: ...doesn't like me, yes, I am aware of that. However, the Captain left me in charge [of Engineering] during Lieutenant Torres' absence.
Meanwhile Lt Carey and Ensign Vorik have been assigned to astrometrics because Janeway decided to play musical chairs with the department heads. Samantha Wildman was put in charge of security for the day while Ayala was made first officer and told to wear a dress. Janeway really loves fucking with the minds of the recurring characters.
MOSET: I just wish we had access to my laboratory, it has all the instrumentation we would need. Well, we'll just have to improvise.
SHMULLY: Not necessarily. We may be able to create a reasonable facsimile of your laboratory in our Holodeck, providing of course, you can give an accurate description.
MOSET: Down to the smallest detail, it's more of a home to me than my home.
Moset is a hologram being run by the computer. His recollection is based off of data in the computer database. They don't need him to program it into the computer because it's already in the godsdamn thing!
TABOR: You don't have the right to violate the memory of my family! As long as that Cardassian hologram is online that's exactly what you're doing.
CHAKOTAY: It's not that simple.
TABOR: It is to me. Crell Moset killed thousands of people in his hospitals, as long as we're willing to benefit from his research we're no better than he is.
Oh, I get it now! Tabor is deeply upset about the fact that Moset experimented on members of his family. I didn't get that at all from the last two scenes he was in, I really needed this third one where he repeats himself so that slow people like me can catch up. This is a very considerate script for the mentally challenged.
I liked what this episode was trying to be about, but this is the second time that Jeri Taylor has written an episode where the message at the end does not fit with the message of the rest of the episode. (The first being season 2's
) Everyone who wanted to destroy the Moset hologram was reacting from an emotional position while Doc Shmully was desperately trying to get everyone to be rational. He wins them around in the end, only to change his mind in the final minutes and react as irrationally as everyone else was. There's some good scenes and it gets points for trying, but ultimately the episode is a boring mess that doesn't know what it is trying to say.
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First of all. I love girls who have deep meaningful and insightful conversations about life. LOVE IT. Did I say that I love it when girls have deep meaningful conversations about life? In fact just today I was talking to a girl specifically because she: likes to read books, genuinely nice to others for non selfish reasons, not afraid to show her true personality (I think you need help here), not bothered by others judgments, admits her faults and what she is proud of.
I spent time with her, got some lunch-sort of-more like a snack but we sat down and talked. I got her number and learned a lot more about her. It was great. I guarantee I would not have talked to her if I didn't see those great qualities in her in the first place. I mean yeah she was beautiful (that's just a bonus, I feel extremely lucky :) )
hope this helps. Bottom line? people do want to see the real you. Stop being superficial. You can't be friends with everyone, you have to be genuine to yourself so that you can meet others who are also genuinely interested in the same things you are. You can't and shouldn't please everyone, you'll come off as superficial if you do. Besides, if there not willing to like you, THE REAL YOU, then why would you want to spend time with them? If they can't even accept you then you shouldn't even waste your time.
I hope I don't sound rude, I really just want to help.
Thank you for your comment. I appreciate the perspective and actually I'm an honest, blunt and in your face kind of person. So I always show the real me; however, not many people can handle that I've learned in my life. Which is why I'm not considered an easy person to get along with yet I can have conversations with almost anyone. :p I don't care to be liked or wanted by others but it would of been nice to hear that he liked my personality as equally as my appearance. Oh well, Atleast he's honest
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I hate talking over the phone tbh, I would rather talk to people face to face. In any event, don't let it get to you, because if now at the back of your mind you start thinking, am I boring? do I have a bad personality? or anything of that nature, it's going to make things worse for you. Some people like stimulating conversations, others don't care, at the end of the day, people will always have something to say, so it's no point even worrying
Thank you! I agree as well.
Everyone is different and some people might not be able to stand your personality while others might love you to the ends of time. I could probably go on about the technical specifications of an A-65 RPU core diaphragm which would bore anyone except others who are interested. The other aspect is the question itself. You might as well have asked if your dress made you look fat. Sure, he could have said 50/50 but that could have been seen as an easy out and it might not have seemed sincere.
For me, a persons beauty is about a combination of what I find physically attractive as well as who someone is as an overall person. It's a blend that isn't separated because for me it's all one thing.
Yeah your right and I know he's not shallow so I do appreciate his honesty! Thanks for the comment
You sounds sorta negative, an not willing to open up.
Personality depends on the person, some can talk on phone for days, others prefer face to face quality time, sometimes its the opposite. But relationships are meant to work with each other through the good an bad times, but communication makes it all worth while.
Only you know if you have a bad personality. Some relationship like arguments, with break up make up.
a question is never too hard .. for a guy to answer.. if they don't answer its because they are feeling a certin way and they don't know how they feel yet .. so just give it sometime and ask him again and see what he sayss . and you hve not bad personalitly.. no one does if someone don't like no one its because that their opion.. don't let it get to u
Thank you, I agree with you very much since I've recently started dating him and we are both very private ppl. It might just take him a while to see my amazing personality. :p thanks again.
your welcome
He hesitated! Hahahaha more guys get into crap this way. Yes his answer was bullsh*t. Sounds to me he doesn't care about your personality because he feels your looks are all he needs. I will give you this advice: when you date men that only date for physical reasons you miss out on some of the best parts of a relationship. If something happens to your looks,he will be gone and after someone else. Try not sleeping with the guy for months, when you date. Seems like youve been labeled as a sex provider, more than a partner. Most women would hate to be you in this senario. Go out and get yourself a real man and dump that child your currently with.
Sorry, I haven't had sex with him. :)
Not everything about life has to be deep and meaningful. Playful and innocent is fun to.
I'm always trying to be witty and funny in my conversations. Try to say something funny next time. I'm better he's the one that always makes you laugh, right?
Ironically, no I'm the funny one! However, I am more sarcastic than actually funny. I'm also serious in nature and my boyfriend knows that. But it doesn't mean I can't take a joke. :p thanks for the comment.
I enjoy deep meaning full conversation. I love conversations that stimulate the mind. Anyways not the point. but,
Mabe your boyfriend is just with you because your attractive, and doesn't care about your personality. Mabe he's with you because he just wants to have some1 sexy next to him, and doesn't care to stimulate your mind. Just his.
Sorry but you seem to be a pain in the ass. You seem insecure and controlling. you are far from accepting who you are and you are angry.
yup, she definitely is a complicated one with some issues, but we aren't allowed to judge, especially if it's negative.
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Thanks for your comments. However, I'm not a insecure person but controlling I admit to because I like things generally my way but that doesn't mean I'm not understanding of others and their needs. I don't believe any individual is simple and without flaws. I know mine and I am accepting of them. I did not state in my post that I had an easy personality. I admit I don't but I also believe that you don't need to be compatible with everyone but just your significant other.
I agree with some of what you said. I think as long as you leave the world a better place and are good to others (actions and not just words) but understanding someone's viewpoint is not as important as bending and or compromising with someone. I of course believe that you do not need to be compatible with anyone but your significant other but I also know that human pride is a ridiculous thing in most cases. You do seem wise regardless of your stubbornness which is an odd but a good combination.
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He wouldn't be your boyfriend if you had a bad personality...He was just trying to be a good boyfriend. Oh, and guys know better to answer questions...they try to avoid it because they will always be wrong...even if they are right...
Girl, I really wouldn't worry about that. He seriously wouldn't be with you if you had a bad personality. I would be really happy if I were you.
There's a lot of good going on in this answer.
Thank you, your right. I suppose I might have expected too much honesty there. :p
:) have fun and be yourself girlie <3
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When Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu visited US President Barak Obama this week the talk was one of concern on the way each side was handling the issue of Iran acquiring nuclear weapons and tempers were getting frayed, although each leader kept his cool. There were great expectations of American support of the military option from the Israeli side but the American president kept to his diplomacy and sanctions option to the frustration of his visitor.
Obama told his visitor that the US had all options on the table available for use including the military options but his visitor did not believe him. Neither did Obama sound convincing as he accused his political opponents in the Republican Party of beating the drums of war in accusing him of not doing enough to defend Israel by not stopping Iran by force or allowing Israel to go solo in this regard.
Indeed, Netanyahus's frustration was summed up in the historical analogy he gave on Auschwitz-the Holocaust venue-when US leadership during the Second World War vacillated on attacking the Nazis because it feared the ferocity of Hitler's retaliation. In effect then Netanyahu was telling his host that it is about to repeat the mistake of a predecessor in office over the expectations of sanctions to stop Iran acquiring nuclear weapon rather than military intervention.
Netanyahu's high expectation is similar to that of a young man describing his father's expectation of God when praying. 'Father had great expectation of God' he recalled. 'He did not actually accuse God of inefficiency but when he prays his voice is strident and forceful like that of a disgruntled guest in a badly managed hotel'.
In Washington this week when talking with Obama on Iran's nuclear acquisition, Netanyahu reminded me of this man's father.
However in real and pragmatic terms Netanyahu told his US audience that he will never allow his people to live in the shadow of annihilation which is no exaggeration since Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad has vowed to wipe Israel off the world map. Indeed at a stage in his press conference with Obama, Netanyahu quipped that the Iranians call the US 'the Great Satan' while Israel is by inference the 'Junior Satan' since they are allies in the same boat in the confrontation with Iran.
To me, any way, Netanyahu has made his point and Obama too has shown his hand and has literally pulled rank on the Israeli PM that as the US president, he holds the ace on how to deal with Iran not acquiring nuclear weapons. It really does not matter now, how or when the US and Israel prevent Iran as they must, to preserve the state of Israel against Iran's stated objective of its destruction. It again will not matter much if Israel acts unilaterally on the matter to save its neck as it is naturally expected to do as a sovereign state.
It will however matter no end and create a political and military tsunami in the US and beyond, if Iran acquires nuclear power without being stopped by the Obama administration that has publicly and consistently deemed such an acquisition unacceptable. Obama may have for now shown Netanyahu who the real boss is in the Israeli –US relations, but in the process the US president has unwittingly put his political life on the line especially in an election year. Obama is now being seen to be soft on Iran, an implacable foe of his nation, that in rather similar circumstances on leadership vacillation made the Jimmy Carter presidency a one term one over the Iranian hostage crisis during the regime of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. This episode created the creepy impression that Democratic Party presidents in the US are weak in tackling foreign crisis decisively.
This view was further strengthened later by Bill Clinton's dithering on the break up of Yugoslavia and the subsequent slaughter of thousands of Bosnian Moslems in Sbrerenica in Bosnia Hercegovina. Worse still it was rumored that the Clinton presidency was warned, but ignored the warning towards the end of its second term, that Al Qada was planning to attack the US. The ignored warning happened as 9/11 in the first year of Clinton's successor and made the war on terror the consuming subject of George Bush's presidency from 2001 -2008.
Obama won the US presidency in 2008 by denouncing the war and promising to bring back troops and close Guatanamo Bay where high profile terrorist prisoners are kept. But he first sent more troops to Afghanistan before creating a deadline to bring troops home from Afghanistan and has not been able to close Guatanamo Bay to date, towards the end of his first term.
Now, another war looms in the Straits of Homuz over the Iran nuclear crisis and the US president is still clinging to the strategy of war aversion that won him his first term, in the hope that it would fetch him a second. Surely someone should tell the lovable US president that times have changed. This surely is 2012 not 2008 and most importantly on this Iran nuclear issue, procrastination is the thief of time. More disturbingly, the history of US democratic leadership dithering on crucial world issues, with its attendant terrible global consequences, must not be allowed to repeat itself.
In the same vein there have been great spats between great friends in many parts of the world in recent times, especially this week. I will mention some in passing and dilate at length on others as I did on the Obama–Netanyahu controlled macho brawl on Iran. The first is the deportation tussle between Nigeria and S Africa over yellow fever cards. Next are the defection of a minister in the Assad regime in Syria to the side of the protesters and the insistence of the Supreme Court in Pakistan that corruption charges against the President of Pakistan must brought to court by the PM this month otherwise the PM must go to jail. After this we take a peep at the problems of the euro zone and the statement in a documentary that said that the 17 nations that formed the European Community 'married in haste and will divorce at their leisure'. These are issues that seem like ordinary disagreements but are really fundamental eye openers on history, economics, governance, loyalty, and constitutionalism.
Starting with Nigeria and S Africa the issue is one of history and lack of respect for it and the S Africans are the culprit. Even if Nigerians at any S African airport have no entry documents it behoves the S African authorities to stand them aside decently and do the needful to allow them entry into that nation in the shortest possible time and the reason is historical. Without wasting words I say categorically that without Nigeria there would have been no S Africa today led by the ANC government in power in that nation. The S African government in power today can find out about that from former presidents Nelson Mandela and his successor Thabo Mbeki.
Nigeria led the anti apartheid struggle that culminated in the collapse of apartheid and Nigeria civil servants had their salaries deducted monthly to fund the anti apartheid struggle and S/Africa has no right now to maltreat Nigerians at any of its ports for any reason whatsoever. That really is the kernel of the matter and for now the S African government owes Nigeria an apology on the unwarranted deportation of Nigerians.
In Pakistan the Supreme Court has fallen out with the politicians who were itS main ally in getting rid of former military President Pavez Musharaf. The Supreme Court ruled then that Musharaf must rid himself of his military uniform before he can be elected president and Musharaf sacked the Chief Justice of Pakistan then. The politicians then protested and saw to the ousting of Musharaf and the reinstatement of the CJ. Now it is the same CJ that is supporting the military against the politicians by insisting that charges should be brought against a sitting president that the PM insists has immunity against prosecution while in office according to the constitution. Yet the party of the president won recently the parliamentary elections into the Pakistani senate which in a democracy shows that the mandate of ruler ship is with the politicians the Supreme Court is prosecuting and not the army it is favoring. What a sad day for the rule of law in Pakistan?
In the euro zone which is in financial turmoil Germany's strict handling of the crisis has raised sour grapes about its political and economic past. As a result of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's insistence on prudence and balancing the budget being made a law in the euro zone some fiscally restive members of the euro zone have accused Germany of making them suffer for its loss of the all powerful former German currency the deutsch mark which Germany forfeited at the advent of the euro. Some observers have said that at the end of the second world war an European Germany emerged which has now been replaced by a German EU dictating the pace and direction of finance and political economy in the euro zone. Which really is unfair given that Germany has led by example of good fiscal discipline which if the PIGS of Europe namely Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain had followed would have spared the rest of Europe and their own citizens the agony of riots and resentment over palliative austerity measures that manifest in retrenchments and lost pensions. Germany insists that euro zone member nations must strictly cut their coats according to their cloth in order for the zone itself to exist so that the euro does not die.
That should not cause a quarrel as it is basic good husbandry which is applicable to any responsible government as well as its citizenry. Germany deserves commendation for this and not the present suspicion and vilification of those in the euro family tilting dangerously towards obvious fiscal indiscipline and the resultant economic pain and distress.
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Inevitably, the UIL blows up that best-laid plan with a curve ball in the realignment.
Carroll and King were on the receiving end of one of those breaking balls when they were put in a six-team district, while four other Region IV-5A districts have nine teams.
That left the Tigers and Mustangs looking for five nondistrict games in a seller's market without a lot of other teams looking.
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King was in the same situation. Mustangs coach Eddie Hesseltine had a good idea of four nondistrict games heading into the day, getting agreements with Flour Bluff, Moody, Ray and Victoria East right away. The fifth game was a struggle before finally settling on powerhouse Smithson Valley.
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