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BLAINE - Area residents are being encouraged to make a date with their mothers on May 16 to take part in a special basket building program.
Held at the historic Blaine Bridge from 2 to 4 p.m., the Building Baskets event is part of the Pease Township Park District's "Building Bridges" program. Bringing people together at the site of the historic Blaine Bridge to reconnect with their community and take one step closer to their environment. Join local craftsmen and artisans, farmers and historians as we come together to build bridges.
Participants will be making hanging flower baskets at a cost of only $10 per basket which includes basket, topsoil and flowers. Families are encouraged to participate to make something for mom will love.
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Angela Feenerty, clerk Pease Township Park District, Bailee McNamara, second grader at Saint Mary's School and Robin Rhodes, Rhodes Florist, prepare for the Basket Building event set for May 16. Bailee hopes to build a beautiful hanging flower for her mother at the second annual Basket Building at the historic Blaine Bridge.
All materials provided by Rhodes Florist. Refreshments will be provided Building Baskets started as a way to attract local families to the historic Blaine Bridge in Blaine.
Angela Feenerty, clerk Pease Township Park District, stated, "Billed as an alternative to the traditional flowers for mom on Mother's Day, this event was designed to bring moms, dads, children and grandparents together for a common cause. Realizing that most moms pretty much expect and love flowers on Mother's Day, we wanted to put a twist in the mix that would give moms their flowers, and also let them spend some quality time with their children and families."
Last year's event drew over a hundred participants, and 98 hanging flower baskets were built in less than 45 minutes. Volunteers were on hand from the local garden community to assist the children with the baskets. The staff of Rhodes Florist was also on hand to direct and assist in the building. Basket builders were provided an empty basket, potting soil and flowers to use in their creations. Flower choices included geraniums, pansies, marigolds, impatiens and more.The entire event is sponsored by the Pease Township Park District and Rhodes Florist.
Feenerty stated, "Mostly we had children and their moms building the baskets together, but we also had several dads and even some grandparents taking part. Some of the folks who participated didn't have children at all. They just wanted to support a community event, and take home a hanging basket for their front porch. Everyone was welcome."
Belmont County Department of Development Director, Sue Douglass brought her mother to last year's event to build a few baskets.
"Douglass was instrumental in saving the historic Blaine Bridge, and said that she was so very delighted to see the bridge being used in such a productive way," said Feenerty.
"Pease Township Trustee Roger Weaver was also on hand last year. He and his granddaughter came and built several baskets to take home to mom and grandma. Mr. Weaver was largely responsible for the forming of the Pease Township Park District, whose mission it is to maintain the historic site and provide community events. Weaver said he envisioned events such as this taking place on the bridge, and was happy to see things going so well."
The historic Blaine Bridge is the oldest stone bridge in the State of Ohio. It is listed as the State's Bicentennial Bridge. This arched structure was built in the shape of an S in order to minimize the effects of the flowing water from Wheeling Creek. The bridge was built in 1825 as part of the National Road.
"The basket building will take place on the bridge itself. The bridge crosses Ohio's Wheeling Creek, and provides the only public access to the creek. Visitors to the bridge are always surprised and happy to see that the bridge is so beautiful. Part of this is due to the natural beauty of the creek area, but part of that beauty is also due to the hard work of the landscaping class at the Belmont Corrections Institute. The inmates from the prison have provided the landscaping at the bridge, and take great pride in making this one of the most beautiful sites in Belmont County," said Feenerty.
For more information about Building Bridges or the Blaine Bridge Park write to the Pease Township Park District, 72105 Jones Road, Martins Ferry, Ohio 43935


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Katy D 'Vendim' by Sergey Akion
Katy D is also known as Ekaterina E and I have her profile under that name.
She has a very dainty, pretty and delicate look and one that immediately made me hope her nude modeling career would be long!
A chair positioned in front of a wall covered with elaborately draped curtains provides the posing platform for the vast majority of this voluminous (167 image) MetArt erotic photo series. The model, one I have commented on once before, utilizes it quite well, and comes up with an impressive variety of poses and positions on this solitary piece of furniture.
Katy D's presentation is somewhat less polished and styled than the previous set I critiqued, but she exhibits a similar emotional range and versatility here. She can look young and innocent, older and wiser, sweet, devilish, playful, and thoughtful — and in a set containing so many photos she explores all of these looks, and then some more.
Considering that this is a model who can project so many looks, Sergey Akion made a clever decision by shooting her on such a confined, compact "stage." With her slender body and delicate features a model like Katy D might get lost in a more expansive, more complicated set design. Here she's front and center and the artist can experiment with lighting and composition while Katy experiments with mood and position.
I always welcome these large sets — who among us doesn't like more of a good thing? — but that's not to say that this pictorial would suffer with a bit of judicious editing. There are several "bloopers" in this big bunch, and a couple of shots that simply shouldn't have been included. It is easy enough for the MetArt member to ignore or discard these flawed images, but why include them in the set to begin with?
When it comes to picking favorites in "Vendim," I like Katy D's glamour look in #060, and her far away eyes in #074, as well as the painterly quality of #088, the spontaneous smile in #129, and the moody, stylish beauty of #135. What are your thoughts about this set, good, bad, or indifferent? Feel free to share your opinions in the comments, below.
Her profile: Katy D
Preview Gallery: Vendim

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Tech stock Facebook (FB) and defense contractor General Dynamics (GD) paid the highest effective tax rate of the largest 100 S&P stocks in tax year 2012, with whopping 89% and 161% effective tax rates, respectively, according to a recent report by financial website WalletHub.
Meanwhile, a number of big bank stocks including Morgan Stanley (MS), Bank of America (BAC) and AIG (AIG) got off scot-free with a negative tax burden thanks to big breaks from Uncle Sam.
That means these big bank stocks actually were due a refund instead of a tax bill.
You can view highlights of the report here on WalletHub — which, it's worth noting, is based on tax data from 2012, not 2013. After all, today is the deadline for most Americans to file their tax returns, so it's hard to compile last year's data quickly.
Some items of note include:
- The rate of S&P 100 companies' international taxes is about 30% less than U.S. taxes.
- Tech companies — including Apple (AAPL), eBay (EBAY) and Google (GOOG) — pay roughly 80% lower rates abroad than in the U.S.
- Six S&P 100 companies actually paid a negative overall tax rate (and thus got tax refunds) for 2012. In addition to BofA, MS and AIG, pharma stocks Abbott Laboratories (ABT) and Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY) along with telecom Verizon (VZ) avoided taxes and got a check back from Uncle Sam.
- The average overall tax rate for corporations in the S&P 100 was 26.9%.
WalletHub compiled 2012 data on company profits, withholding practices and tax payments on the state, federal and international levels to determine effective and deferred tax rates for each business. Check out the report here on WalletHub for more info.
Jeff Reeves is the editor of InvestorPlace.com and the author of The Frugal Investor's Guide to Finding Great Stocks. Write him at email@example.com or follow him on Twitter via @JeffReevesIP. As of this writing, he did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities.


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Today's "hottie of the day" is a group of gorgeous men.
There are 24 in total, and all of them are fuckin' yummy, fit and hot !
I personally have a crush on alllllll of them, seriously !
I wouldn't mind having hot sex with all of them …
Which one is your favorite ?
Damn. Only one? Can I please have the curly hair stud in back row center?
pics too small! need larger version…
The Asian one the the left..in the front row, and the shorty dead in the middle.. back row, next to the black guy with the black speedo on
what i give to do a group that big sometime
Front row left is the guy I would pick to bang my head against the headboard! But yeah…hopefully they each take a turn!
Not ONE Black guy in that whole mix, huh?! Not even a token one–SMH
Line them up, I'll suck them all. Cum bath.
Yes id like to order about a dozen of them to the left. And
Id like some in the middle. Lol
i don't see even one guy with a hairy chest so i will pass on all of these pussys
I like the tanned one in the back, standing up in the white shorts.
Theyre all hot
I'd say which one, but my comment would probably get "moderated" like all the others…
I'm with you Dave! I'd try them all out at once them put them in rotation 😉
Yes!!! Numbers 1-24 will do just fine thank you!
They'd all look much better if they didn't shave all their body hair… not that I'd toss any of them out, but it would be much more appealing (to me).
be hot to line the all up n suck them one by one
Silly Rabbitt, you know you can't be in love with 25 guys all at once! We all know 3 guys at a time is : stimuls overload!
What do you mean, which "one" is my favorite? they're all carbon copies of 1 man. six pack abs and artificially smooth. How about a group of diverse guys to pick from? my tastes aren't this narrow!
Can I just have them line up and take turns fucking me?
bend me over and line them up! two holes for them to ALL enjoy!
bokake time
are there any black guys in this? also, totally agree that there is no diversity in this at all. muscular and smooth… okay…. can i get some chest hair, some REAL ethnic diversity and possibly men who look like REAL men?
I think they are like Lay's potato chips. I couldn't possibly eat just ONE!!! 😉 what can i say?
Can the guy on the right with green shorts. Please jump me!
Not a single hairy chested MAN in the group. I would just say pass on all.
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Joe Gaiter sat down with Arkansas Pine-Bluff DT Heero Abdulai for an interview!
Joe Gaiter: Who is Heero Adbulai?
My full name is Ibrahim O. Abdulai born in Chicago raised in Lagos Nigeria from a family of 3 kids I am the first born. I got the name Heero while back at home. In English my full name mean "hero the helping hand of God" I stuck with that and answer to Heero.
Joe Gaiter: What will you miss the most about playing at the University of Arkansas at Pine Buff?
Heero Adbulai: The bands the college experiences the energy and affect we brought to a whole city and most of all them Turkey legs.
Joe Gaiter: How will you prove yourself on the field?
Heero Adbulai: By putting in work off the field my off season is officially called work season. Because this isn't college anymore where I can man handily my enemies this is the NFL were boys become men and men become legends. I am going to prove my self on the field by simple working harder than I ever have to be the best.
Joe Gaiter:What are your hobbies off the field?
Heero Adbulai: Iam really a book worm majoring in chemistry with a minor in math and criminal justice I spend alot of time studying or playing my guitar
Joe Gaiter: What NFL player reminds you of yourself
Heero Adbulai: William "the fridge" Perry because he had hands and great balance.
Joe Gaiter: What is your biggest strengths on the field?
Heero Adbulai: Speed off the ball hand movement and playing mind games I pay attention to little tendencies offensive linemen give off and use them to beat them
Joe Gaiter: What is the hardest part about playing your position?
Heero Adbulai: It's the trenches if you don't have hear please don't come up in The trenches it's non stop thumping in there we dont get plays off like DBS we are the front line of defense games are won and lost on our back
Joe Gaiter: How will you elevate your skills to a NFL level?
Heero Adbulai: I plan on training hard and long before and after the draft to stay in the best shape possible because I want to survive the mini camp and rookie mini camp with the highest approval from my coach then from there excel at all my skills and learn more
Joe Gaiter: Who has been your biggest influence in your football career?
Heero Adbulai: My family because they have done so much to get me to this point and kept me focused
Joe Gaiter: What goals do you have for the NFL?
Heero Adbulai: I want to start and play at least 6 games of my rookie year and break or hold the most tackles for lost at some point for a defensive tackle.


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Date: April 12 2013
Leg-spinning all-rounder Brenton McDonald has taken a big step out of the shadow of his older brother Andrew, winning the Jack Ryder Medal as the best player in Victorian Premier Cricket.
McDonald, 28, was rewarded for helping Melbourne to the First XI premiership with 568 runs at 46.39 and 54 wickets at an average of 15.98.
He shaded St Kilda veteran Graeme Rummans by eight votes. Emma Inglis, captain of Brunswick Park, was judged the outstanding player in women's club competition.
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Verizon Samsung Fascinate Android 2.3 Gingerbread update finally rolling out now
Verizon's Samsung Fascinate has finally received its serving of Gingerbread. After many, many months, if you still own a Fascinate you've got something to be happy about. That is, of course, unless you know that Gingerbread simply isn't the latest Android version anymore.
But hey, at least you're getting an update. Or about to. According to Android Police, the EH03 Android 2.3 Gingerbread update for the Fascinate has started rolling out and should hit your device via OTA. That said, it's quite possible that this rollout is staggered, so if you don't see the update just yet, don't panic. It will probably arrive in the next few days. You can try to manually check for it via the Settings menu.
Alongside the Gingerbread bits, the update also comes with new widgets, icons, and colors, some new calendar options, contact searching via last name, and MMS delivery reports have been added.
All the necessary info is contained in this handy PDF that Verizon put out.


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The Pipevine Swallowtail can be a difficult butterfly to identify, because there are several other butterflies with the same size and colors. Pipevine Swallowtails can have a wingspan up to 3 1/2 inches. They are black with bluish-green metallic color on the hind wings. Females have a row of yellowish-white dots, males do not. When a Pipevine Swallowtail folds its wings while it's resting, you will see a curved row of bright orange dots underneath its wings. Pipevine Swallowtails are found in fields, meadows, gardens, parks, open woods, roadsides, and stream sides. These butterflies fly from April until early Fall.
During breeding season, the male Pipevine Swallowtail patrols a territory, waiting for a female to arrive. After mating, the female lays several eggs on the underside of a leaf. Eggs are rust-colored. Pipevine Swallowtails only lay their eggs on host plants which their larvae will be able to eat. Host plants include plants from the Pipevine Family, such as Dutchman's Pipe and Virginia Snakeroot. Larvae will not eat any other types of plants.
Butterfly larvae, called caterpillars, are small and stick together when they are first born. They eat the leaves of their host plant and grow quickly. Plants in the Pipevine Family have chemicals in them which are poisonous to most animals. Caterpillars are able to eat them without being harmed. In fact, the chemicals stay inside the caterpillars and make them poisonous to most predators. Caterpillars are not poisonous when they are young, but after they have eaten a lot of pipevine and have grown, they are poisonous and move off to live on their own.
Pipevine Swallowtails are a big help to other butterfly species without even trying. Because adult butterflies are poisonous to predators from all the pipevine they eat as caterpillars, most birds avoid them. Other butterfly species have developed mimicry. Mimicry is when one animal copies the look of another, and gains protection. Some species that mimic Pipevine Swallowtails include Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (females), Eastern Black Swallowtail, Spicebush Swallowtail, and Red-spotted Purple. None of these species are poisonous, but birds avoid them because they have the same color and size as Pipevine Swallowtails.


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Your brother comes up missing. You are worried and you think the best thing to do is to go hire a private detective. Kyra (Amy Smart) locates a detective and tells him all about her brother and how he is involved in computer programming and she feels something is very wrong. Leo (Brent Butt) listens to her story and decides to take the case.
Okay, this is all well and good except Leo is not a detective but a salesmen from across the hall. He just happened to be in the detective's office when Kyra showed up. Leo figures it could be good for some laughs and it might spice up a rather boring life. They don't waste any time and they try to find out what Kyra's brother was working on. They go up against large corporations and scheming individuals who are simply interested in money.
Leo could have just told Kyra who he really is but as a salesman for a novelty company and the fact that he can't stop thinking of Kyra , yes he is infatuated with her. The laughs come easily as you would expect.
Eone brings us this little film of comedy and crime in one quality DVD. You can find it hitting the streets on June 17, 2014 for your home enjoyment. So take the time to laugh and laugh some more. This is a must for your personal library.


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New Orleans Voudou can be found in many aspects of New Orleans culture. Beyond the obvious commercial exploitations that can easily be seen in the media and the tourist industry, Voudou can be seen in the food, music, architecture and even the predominant Catholic religion found in New Orleans. The tendency is for most folks to separate the sacred from the secular, and when this happens, people miss the Voudou that is right in front of them. But, if they put on their spiritual lenses, Voudou culture becomes front and center. Following are five ways Voudou hides in plain sight in the Crescent City.
1. Mardi Gras Indians
The Mardi Gras Indians stem from a Yoruban tradition called "egungun," which is a masquerade festival and ancestral tradition. In New Orleans, The Mardi Gras Indians "mask Indian" to pay their respects to their Native American ancestors that helped African slaves escape and survive the hostile social and environmental conditions of that era.
With their elaborate costumes and fabulous performances, the Mardi Gras Indians' flamboyant displays cause the average onlooker to miss the important role they play in the history and shaping of New Orleans music and culture. Their contributions to the enduring Voudou tradition lies in the transmission of cultural knowledge via chants, dance and music. Their authentic African rhythms are those that are used in the rituals and celebrations of major Voodoo holidays and rituals.
2. Jazz Music
New Orleans is known as the birthplace of jazz music, which can be traced to the Voduou rituals that took place at Congo Square on Sundays when hundreds of blacks congregated to play music, dance, and socialize. Thus, jazz music is directly connected with African music in the syncopated rhythms, drum beats and characteristic call and response patterns. The Louisiana Black Code outlawed drumming by slaves for a time, which gave rise to the retention and transmission of ancestral musical rhythms via patting juba, stomping and clapping.
Jazz funerals utilize jazz music in the ceremony, as well as Voudou traditions. When the procession leaves the grave site of the person who was just buried, they stop at the cemetery gates to ask the Loa of the dead Papa Guede, also known as St. Expedite in New Orleans, for advice. The advice given is typically that enough mourning has been done and it is now time to celebrate. So, when everyone is outside of the cemetery gates, the leader of the procession calls out "cut loose!" and the music changes from a funeral dirge to high-energy, joyful music in celebration of the life of the deceased.
3. Mardi Gras
Mardi Gras has heavy African influences in its dance, music, masquerading and artistic expression. The popular call out "A Labas!" is actually a call to Papa Legba, or St. Peter in Catholic syncretism. One of the most Voudou of celebrations in New Orleans, Mardi Gras ceremonies take place from 4:00 in the a.m. to midnight, when the Skull and Bones gang start the day off with the Guede in a ritual no one sees, to the procession in the streets where everyone can see and participate.
4. Catholicism
Referred to as the "Black Sister of Catholicism," New Orleans Voudou has been under the influence of the Catholic Church in a number of ways, although the manner in which this has occurred was not the original intention. With the implementation of the Louisiana Black Code (Code Noir) in 1806, African traditional religions were outlawed in New Orleans. Through a process of syncreticism, however, the African Gods became associated with the Catholic saints and representations of certain saints were used as "stand-ins" for the worship of the African Gods. Under this dynamic, St. Peter was Legba and St. Patrick was Damballah Wedo, for example.
5. Food
Connections to Voudou are evident in some of New Orleans most popular dishes. Black Eyed peas, known locally as Hoppin' John, was a favorite dish for the Voudou Queen of New Orleans, Marie Laveaux, for example. Gumbo derives its name from the Bantu word for "okra" and includes ingredients from a variety of cultures, including West African, French, Spanish, German, and Choctaw.


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Home » Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs » Bureau of Public Affairs » Bureau of Public Affairs: Office of Press Relations » Press Releases » Press Releases: 2012 » Press Releases: June 2012 » United States and Sierra Leone Initial Open Skies Agreement
On June 26, delegations representing the United States and Sierra Leone initialed the text of a U.S.-Sierra Leone Open Skies Agreement. The Agreement, which will be applied on the basis of comity and reciprocity pending entry into force, will liberalize our bilateral aviation relationship.
This agreement strengthens and expands our trade and tourism links with Sierra Leone, and will benefit American and Sierra Leonean businesses and travelers. It will expand air service and encourage vigorous price competition by airlines, while safeguarding aviation safety and security.
For more information about Open Skies, please visit: http://www.state.gov/e/eb/tra/ata/
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Released: Dec 01st, 2004
Running Time: 137
Director: Lexington Steele
Company: Mercenary Pictures
Cast: Angel Dark, Lexington Steele, Sarah (I), Simone Peach, Daria Glower, Kaylynn, Mandy Bright, Zenza Raggi, Sharon Wild
Critical Rating: AAA 1/2
Genre: Gonzo, Interracial
Lexington has selected seven beautiful superfucks who enter the arena to engage the Black Viking. Witness the awesome strength of The Man of Steele as he powerfucks like never before!
Lexington Steele has an enormous cock. And it looks particularly enormous in any one of Sharon Wild's three inputs. But when he squeezes it in her ass, her body seems to be defying logic.
Sharon and Lex deliver the best scene. Sharon acts like there just isn't another cock on Earth when she has Lex's tool in her hands and mouth.
Sharon gets some decent competition from Mandy Bright, who manages to take nearly all of Lex into her ass and is still able to stand at the end of the scene.
Lex is the sole guy in two separate threesomes - each featuring two hot foreign girls. Most notable are Angel Dark and Daria Glower, two hot foreign sluts, who handle Lex's poundings without breaking a sweat.
Lex fans will be plenty pleased with this one, as will any fan of watching white girls get slammed with enormous black cock.


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I discovered Dr. Frank Kaufmann speaking on an internet radio show. Although I had never heard of him, he's had a decades-long career traveling the world as an adviser and counselor for peace in conflicts between world religions. He is the director of the Inter-Religious Federation for World Peace (IRFWP) and is also founder and president of Filial Projects among other organizations. I heard him on Cosmic Citizen, a show that airs on Saturdays, 10 AM Mountain Daylight Time at www.blogtalkradio.com/cosmiccitizen.
When I looked him up and found out that the group IRFWP was a Unification Church organization, I was in shock. I still carried unfavorable associations in my mind with the church founded by Rev. Sun Myung Moon (1920-2012), and I remembered old accounts of church members undergoing a "deprogramming" to be freed from domination and control by this "Moonie" cult. One famous book, "Combatting Cult Mind Control" (1988), was written by a former Unification Church member and deprogrammer, Steven Hassan. He has refined his concepts in several books written since then. See his web site https://freedomofmind.com//. But the highly publicized charges that coercion and brainwashing were used to obtain converts to Rev. Moon's church have been hard to prove. I did check out Kaufmann's group IRFWP. It does not appear on Steven Hassan's list of cults and questionable groups. The Unification church is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year.
No one can doubt Kaufmann's bravery as a dynamic representative for interfaith, a soldier of the movement serving on the front lines of religious conflict. Like many in the field, Kaufmann serves as the citizen of a world-wide religious community at the same time as he maintains "membership" in the church where he first found his faith. This is as it should be for an interfaith worker, "It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is," as Hermann Hesse expressed it.
Early in his career, Kaufmann spoke out to ease Hindu-Sikh conflict when Sikh militants of the Punjab were waging a bloody and terroristic fight to secede from India and establish an independent Sikh nation. "There is perhaps no greater offering we could make to God than to establish lasting harmony among the religions and religious believers represented here. Conflict between Hindus and Sikhs hurts the cause of all religions. How we long to say to God with one joyous voice: "Look at us. We who love you with all our hearts also love each other!" And then with the same voice say to the skeptic, the atheist, the materialist, as well as to the seeker, "Look at us. Religion and religious belief are not the source of our present problems; they are the cure. Belief in God does not lead to conflict. It is the foundation for lasting peace." (1988!) http://frankkaufmann.blogspot.com/
In the San Francisco Bay Area our front lines are not as fraught with violence and open warfare, though we should probably take a cue from Kaufmann, and treat our issues with as much seriousness. We are people of faith who must face escalating demands from the oppressed, especially from the 99%, demands for social justice, for policies and measures to counteract income equality, and solutions for a housing crisis that forces poor and working people out of their communities.
Kaufmann urges other interfaith workers to be prepared for "a high wire act," of maintaining a balance when we meet opposition and challenge. He provides a step by step process to guide others in the work. "We enter a world of passions, commitments, and attachments far more powerful even that life and love itself. Religious people easily sacrifice their lives and all that is dear for what they hold true and of God … let us be sure we enter a world where niceness is not the recipe for achievement. We enter a world where being intelligent, or worse clever, is not the recipe for achievement. We enter a hair trigger world where there are 1000s of ways to fail."
"Religion is entrenched and built with strong protections. If we hope truly to change this, more than pleasantness is in order. Serious interfaith activists should be prepared to meet real fear, and expect to have to battle or even plead at times for courage. Change in the religious world cannot happen in a casual or comfortable way." (http://kaufmannoninterfaith.tumblr.com/)
Perhaps he has been a good influence. We see in media reports the photographs of clergy being arrested for civil disobedience, of bad immigration law in Arizona for example. Many of us believe, as this interfaith writer does, in the possibility of bringing peace and understanding between different races and communities, and world faiths like Islam, Judaism and Christianity. If ever there was living proof that such lofty ideals are still alive and well, Dr Frank Kaufmann provides it. In his role as editor-in-chief of both Dialogue and Alliance, and of The New World Encyclopedia, he has done effective peacemaking work in more than 65 countries, including conflict-ridden environments like Israel, Egypt and Palestine, Hindu-Muslim conflict zones in India and Kashmir, the Gulf, Sri Lanka, and elsewhere.
Despite the controversies surrounding the Unification Church, Kaufmann has shown himself to be a warrior for truth in the best sense of the word. For his work as a peacemaker and citizen of the world, Frank was nominated for the Guru Nanak Interfaith Award, along with luminaries like the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu.
He is currently offering a doctoral level course on Interfaith and is presently writing "The Open Door," a primer on how to effectively carry out interfaith activity. He says, "As religions, through dialogue, understanding, and reconciliation develop the ability to work together, we must seek to discover what is the positive good for all that can come of these achievements, this new found harmony, this powerful synergy."
Frank Kaufmann was also a contributor to this online news site, examiner.com, http://www.examiner.com/church-and-state-in-new-york/frank-kaufmann


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You may be able to tag along with a British Museum JW 'Bible-Tours' london group, which are almost every Saturday starting in the British Museum central courtyard (Some bible tours are £4 or £15 each (payable in advance), others are free [we suggest you give the guide a good tip if you enjoy], best to email us well in advance to see whats available). Please book at least 14 days ahead if possible. Come as smart as you reasonably can.
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It is a mock up of the intercept window.
Notice the buttons for intercept, disengage, tail until over land etc.
It is a mock up of the intercept window.
Notice the buttons for intercept, disengage, tail until over land etc.
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I like the red non-art top down view. I think it fits better with the theme of the intercept window. The art view could be shown after pressing a button ... maybe as list of photos of that class of ufo that are on file or something in that vein.
+1 for art view from my side. Last build has art view and I hope it will stay
Hmm, this thread is old, but I'll throw in my 2 cents.
Perhaps on first contact, you would only get the radar signature (Red Top Down), But after fighting it, and winning you would have access to photos from the pilots. Or perhaps this would unlock after the crash site investigation and recovery. Or Research?
Subsequent Interception Engagement range reached screens would show the Art instead of the Radar Signature.
I'd still love to have some indication of where exactly this engagement is taking place. Its really difficult to work out what squadron is fighting when you have two identical squadrons up in the air at once.
Also it would be nice to know what region gets the relations bonus as a result. There might be times when youd rather shoot it down in Russia than in Europe if you get what I mean?
+1 on art view. And when their are no escorts, their should be no mentioning of it in the UI screen.
I must ask, why are all the weapon and menu graphics in the air combat UI made in totally different style than all the other graphics in the game? You should pursue an unified look thorough the game, so the minigun, missile and fighter jet graphics IMO should look "realistic" in the same manner as soldier portraits and their weapons, no? This way you won't have problems like this, where different windows and screens don't match overall atmosphere.


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Kip Compton: Cisco's NDS deal will boost MSOs' connected TV plans
Hours after Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO) announced a $5 billion deal to acquire NDS, FierceCable caught up Thursday with Kip Compton, CTO of Cisco's Video and Collaboration Group. While Compton says the NDS deal will help operators using Cisco's Videoscape software platform deliver programming to connected TVs and other devices, he insists cable set-tops won't go away any time soon.
FierceCable: Does Cisco see NDS as way to deliver subscription video content to connected TVs?
KC: That's absolutely part of it. We're living in this duality right now where service providers want to deliver to the consumers' devices, which may be smart or connected TVs, as well as tablets, PCs, mobile phones and so forth, but still have large installed bases of set-top boxes that they also need to bring into that service mix. So NDS's software solutions enable us to help service providers deliver content and services to set-tops they already have, set-tops they may buy as well as this class of devices that consumers may buy--either the connected TV or something else. We think the ability to do that in a consistent way with a single architecture and a consistent user experience is really valuable and really important going forward.
FC: There's a lot of speculation that Cisco is looking to exit the set-top business. Will Cisco continue to make set-tops, or at least outsource the production of set-tops?
KC: We're not exiting the set-top business. I don't know how much more simply or directly to answer the question. Our customers have told us ... it's going to be a long time. They're not going to show up at a customer's home and say, 'Sorry, you don't have a connected TV so you can't have our service.' There is absolutely a transformation, a shift happening, whether it's smart TVs or other devices, and we are empowering that as part of our Videoscape architecture and strategy since we announced it in early 2011, and NDS propels us much faster down that path. But we anticipate that for many years to come service providers will need set-top boxes because they're going to connect all of the consumers' devices, including existing television sets that don't necessarily have Internet or IP clients in them. They're going to connect all of those to their services.
FC: When will we see a U.S. cable MSO able to deliver an entire video programming lineup, including VOD, to a connected TV without using a traditional set-top?
KC: There are some customers quite frankly who are pretty close to doing that today with hybrid gateways. There are a number of challenges that have to be overcome to do what you mentioned. A hybrid gateway device is able to take content off of the traditional digital QAM channels and put it onto the home network. That's an important transitional architecture that enables service providers to bring the full breadth of their services to those IP devices without having to simulcast all of their services in a different format on their cable plant, which will obviously take up a lot of bandwidth. So I think you may see that fairly soon, but I think the thing to watch is the use of the hybrid technology.
FC: Do you have commitments from some of your U.S. customers to deploy gateways from Cisco?
KC: We launched a number of gateways at the CES show this year, including new Videoscape Multiscreen Gateway. We don't have any updates on customer commitments but you can assume we launch products that we expect our customers to buy.
FC: In order for a cable operator to offer all of his programming to a connected TV, would he have to convert to an IPTV platform?
Compton: They certainly are going to need some way of addressing that connected TV. Many of those connected TVs have HTML5 browsers built in, so they would need in that instance to develop an HTML5 version of their user interface and their guide and the experience that the subscriber is actually going to see. They're going to have to connect that to some sort of backend over IP in terms of authorizing services and all of that. At that point there are two ways they can go. They can go either with a hybrid gateway which really translates from the home IP network to the traditional cable network which enables them to deploy that without retrofitting their digital QAM infrastructure. Or they can go full native IPTV, which would involve transmitting that content in IP from the headend across the cable plant, which would obviously need incremental bandwidth allocations to support that. We think this is a transition that is going to play out over several years and that a lot of traditional cable customers will leverage the hybrid technology first, and as they have more and more network devices deployed, start to transition to an IP transport on the cable plant itself.
FC: What else can NDS do for Cisco?
KC: We're pretty excited about this one. We think there is a core set of technology and product that they bring to our Videoscape platform that will enable us to accelerate that. They bring us the ability to expand our customer base, both from a segment perspective, particularly with satellite, and also a geographic perspective, with emerging markets like India and China. They bring us a tremendous services team that customers have given us particularly strong feedback on and is really well suited for Videoscape as a software platform and the type of services that service providers want. And they bring us a world class user experience design team and a world class user experience in the NDS Snowflake electronic program guide that a number of leading operators around the world have adopted. So we see this as a multidimensional, transformational deal for us and we're pretty excited about what it means for our Videoscape strategy.


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Yet another earthquake rocked the Gilmer County area Friday morning.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, a 2.6 magnitude earthquake hit just south of Glenville at around 7:00 a.m. Friday morning.
5 News has not heard of any damage being reported so far. This is the third earthquake to hit the area in the past month.
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The kidnapping and torture of a man in Lompoc last year was ordered by high-ranking gang leader Raymond Daniel Macias to ensure the victim paid overdue "taxes," a prosecutor said Friday in a Santa Maria courtroom.
Senior Deputy District Attorney Ann Bramsen gave her closing argument in the criminal trial of Macias and Luis Alfredo Almanza in Santa Barbara County Superior Court.
Defense attorney Michael Scott, who represents Macias, is scheduled to make his closing argument Monday morning before Judge Patricia Kelly. Almanza's defense attorney, Charles Biely, also is scheduled to make his closing argument Monday.
The two defendants are charged in connection with the January 2013 torture and kidnapping of a Lompoc drug dealer by several gang members. The crime led to a grand jury issuing indictments against 11 people, Lompoc law enforcement officials announced in June 2013.
"Raymond Daniel Macias was the boss," Bramsen said. "He was in charge of the entire Surenos organization throughout Santa Barbara County for almost three years."
As the reported leader of the Santa Barbara-based criminal gang called the Eastside Krazies and the broader Surenos, Macias — who is named in the Santa Barbara gang injunction to limit members' activities — set the expectations, enforced the rules and hand-picked the local gang's upper management for Santa Barbara, Lompoc and Santa Maria.
"He was one who called the shots," Bramsen said.
Macias, whose gang moniker is "Boxer," reported to the Mexican Mafia's Central California leader in Fresno.
The gang leaders employ fear and intimidation.
"They used that to complete their goal. Their goal was to collect money, to make money, sell drugs … ," she said.
But the victim, identified by his moniker of Sicko, disrespected the gang leaders by not paying money owed and then hiding out and ignoring phone calls.
"Each time you don't follow the organization's rules, just like anywhere, there's consequences," Bramsen said.
And in the gang culture those consequences typically are violent. She noted one prosecution witness told of Santa Barbara and Santa Maria murders after the victims had refused to pay "taxes" to the gang.
"These are very simple every day things that cause great violence in the gang culture," Bramsen said.
In fact, Macias selected his co-defendant, Almanza, to oversee the gang's Lompoc operations, picking the man who allegedly bragged of committing killings in Texas and being part of a drug cartel, according to Bramsen.
"They knew Mr. Almanza would do whatever he needed to do to further the goals of the organization," Bramsen said.
Lompoc was a lucrative location for the gang with the most methamphetamine sales there.
Once they arrived at the garage on A Street, the gang members attacked the victim, with Almanza allegedly using the dull side of a hatchet to hit the victim's upper arm and later cutting him on the torso.
They later spread a tarp across the floor of the garage, presumably to protect the garage from blood, Bramsen said. Then they waited, for Macias and another gang leader to show up. The victim was praying and shaking in fear, Bramsen said.
"He's convinced, at that point, that he's going to die that day," Bramsen said.
To save his life, Sicko agreed to Macias' demands to pay the overdue taxes and to be "poked," the gang term for stabbed.
"That is what Macias wanted — money," Bramsen said. "He owed Macias and it was mostly Mexican Mafia money."
Macias is charged with kidnapping for extortion, torture, sale of a controlled substance and solicitation for torture.
Almanza, whose nickname is "Lucky," also is charged with kidnapping for extortion and torture plus use of a deadly weapon while committing a crime.
Both defendants also face gang enhancements.
While the defense portrayed Macias as a peacemaker who worked with La Palabra, a nonprofit organization involved with at-risk teens, Bramsen said the defendant bragged about spending time in a Pelican Bay State Prison unit for Mexican Mafia members and sports several gang-themed tattoos..
She also noted many of the prosecution witnesses have criminal pasts.
"None of them are angels, but we're not in heaven," she said.
Many of those named in the original indictment were witnesses in the trial.
The indictments and arrests came after an eight-month investigation, law enforcement officials announced in a Lompoc press conference in June 2013.


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Liberal High School and SCCC sports are canceled or postponed Tuesday. A high wind warning is in effect in Liberal and the area with winds gusting up over 50 miles per hour and forecast to blow up to 60 miles per hour. Here are the postponements and cancellations at LHS and SCCC.
LHS girls soccer vs. Guymon
LHS baseball vs. Dodge City postponed to May 9.
LHS boys tennis at Emporia moved to Wednesday.
LHS jv boys tennis at Dodge City canceled
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SCCC baseball vs. Clarendon canceled.
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Those crazy party nights might have caught up with Scott Disick. According to TMZ, he drank so much that he had alcohol poisoning. So now, Scott allegedly quit drinking and is in counseling.
On June 22,2014, Scott went out partying at a nightclub in The Hamptons. Between drinking beer and mixing it with harder liquor, Scott became so drunk that he had a difficult time forming a sentence. He thought someone had drugged him, so he went to the emergency room at Southhampton Hospital.
The doctors ran various tests, but they couldn't find any drugs in his system. The doctors diagnosed the problem as alcohol poisoning.
It was just after his girlfriend, Kourtney Kardashain, kicked him out of the house. She screamed at him, "You need to be a more responsible father and get better. There is another baby on the way! You need to straighten up or get out!"
While Kourtney attended North Wests birthday party, she left Scott at home to teach him a lesson. However, Scott didn't stay home to meditate on the error of his ways, he went out and partied.
Although many TV reality shows like, "Keeping Up With the Kardashians," and "Kourtney and Khloe Take the Hamptons" are scripted, a source declared that this is not the case. No cameras followed Scott as he made his way to the ER that night and his problems may not make it into the show. The situation was so terrifying that Scott decided it was time to change.
The source told Radar Online, "He decided to change because he hit bottom and wanted to get better.He just hit a wall between the new baby, the traveling for Europe, the filming and being back home in New York with his old friends. It all just hit him."
Scott decided to turn his life around. He is working out at the gym and he is going to counseling. TMZ reports that Pastor Rich Wilkerson Jr,., is the one who is counseling him. If the name Pastor Rich Wilkerson Jr. sounds familiar, you are right. He is the minister who married Kim and Kanye in Florence, Italy.
Do you believe that Scott will stop drinking and partying to be a better partner to Kourtney and a good father to his kids, Mason, 4 and Penelope, 2 with another baby on the way? Or is he too much of a party guy and it will take much more to make him quite his wild ways.


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NASA's twin-engine Dehaviland research aircraft requires upgraded avionics for present and future research missions, according to contract documents released Friday by the agency. The aircraft, based at Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, is a preproduction model that is utilized for various airborne research missions. A work site within 150 nautical mile radius of Cleveland is required due to government oversight personnel schedule.
Also known as a Twin Otter, the plane is a DHC-6 series 100 serial number 4 research aircraft (tail number N607NA).
"NASA Glenn Research Center will transport the aircraft to and from the contractor work site at a date and time determined by the technical manager and pilot, after consultation with the contractor," the agency said in contract documents. "Period of performance end date shall be four months after receipt of order and aircraft. The goal of this task is an upgrade of NASA GRC's DHC-6 Twin Otter research aircraft with digital avionics suite. This hardware upgrade will be used initially for the remote sensing research mission and for future research missions."
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In the Midnight Rain
Ruth Wind
2000, Women's Fiction
Harper, $6.99, 406 pages, Amazon ASIN 0061030120
Ellie Connor is a biographer who specializes in famous musicians. As Ellie tells it, she's void of talent herself when it comes to music, so she has made a career of writing about singers and songwriters. The blues are her favorite and strike such a mellow chord in her that she loses herself completely in the notes, almost as though they were part of her very soul.
Ellie's current project has brought her to the small town of Pine Bend in East Texas, where a celebrated blues singer/songwriter lived (and perhaps died) some fifty years earlier. Beautiful black singer Mabel Beauvais was on the verge of legend when she virtually vanished from the face of the earth. Mabel's life, and the truth behind her disappearance, are the driving forces behind Ellie's visit to Pine Bend and the biography she's determined to write.
But Mabel Beauvais isn't the only reason for Ellie's arrival in Pine Bend. It seems that her mother had passed through the small community some thirty years earlier when the bus of hippies she was in broke down. Ellie's mom stayed the summer, and fell in love. When she returned home, it was to deliver Ellie, then disappear again, only to die shortly thereafter without revealing who Ellie's father was. He was a boy who was sent to Vietnam at the end of that long-ago summer, but was he one of the ones who came back to Pine Bend, or was he one whose name is carved on the town's war memorial?
Enter Blue Reynard, a man with whom Ellie has been corresponding for the last year via e-mail, and who may be able to help her. Drop dead gorgeous, Blue is a man Ellie knows she's going to fall in love with. He's a rich, handsome widower, and he's simply too emotionally needy for her to pass up. Ellie always falls for the needy ones; she can't help it. When Blue starts to fall, too, sultry and seductive Southern nights are sure to follow. But Blue has baggage of his own, and the closer Ellie gets, the more terrified Blue becomes. Loss and pain are his constant companions, and he knows letting Ellie into his life will only cause him more grief down the line.
There's much more the to the story and every bit of it is rich with emotion and truth. There are no false notes, no contrivances. The people Ellie encounters are real and complex, fair and flawed. The author easily blends the white and black communities in Pine Bend, blurring racial lines into nothingness, which is exactly how it should be. While race does play a factor in the story, it is dealt with realistically; character actions and reactions are true to each individual, not to any stereotypes. Nicely done, Ms. Wind.
The characterizations are vivid, the conflicts very real. When Ellie finally gets to the bottom of everything, a succession of revelations brings it all together, in ways Ellie had not anticipated.
I gave this book an A- due to a few eensy inconsistencies, and the overuse of a couple of phrases that pulled me a bit out of the story. Nit-picky, I know, but there you have it. No book is perfect, but this one does come close, sugar.
In the Midnight Rain pleased me. It made me cry, and I laughed at the bits of humor. I loved the hero (did I mention he's not only rich and handsome, but he's very smart, and he raises orchids?). The heroine was a woman I could probably know in real life, and whose company I would enjoy. Actually, I think I would enjoy all the lovely people in Pine Bend, and I think you would, too.
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Turner Classic Movies will remember the life and films of classic screen icon Lauren Bacall with a marathon of movies on September 15 and 16, 2014. The actress, famed for her own film career and her legendary romance with costar Humphrey Bogart, died on August 12, 2014, at the age of 89. The TCM tribute is timed to mark what would have been her 90th birthday on Tuesday, September 16. Over the two day period, TCM will air 11 movies starring Bacall as well as a 2005 interview with host Robert Osborne. Here is the complete schedule for the tribute programming.
On Monday, September 15, TCM starts the special event with "Private Screenings: Lauren Bacall" (2005) at 8 pm Eastern. Several of Bacall's most popular pictures are scheduled through the rest of the evening. "To Have and Have Not" (1944), Bacall's first feature and first collaboration with Bogart, airs at 9 pm. Their stylish noir outing, "The Big Sleep" (1946), follows at 11 pm, and "How to Marry a Millionaire" (1953) airs at 1 am, with Bacall joining Marilyn Monroe and Betty Grable. A repeat showing of "Private Screenings" begins at 2:45 am. Bacall then stars with Paul Newman in "Harper" (1966) at 3:45 am.
TCM officially begins its Tuesday lineup at 6 am with "Bright Leaf" (1950), in which Bacall stars with Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal. At 8 am, Bacall joins Doris Day and Kirk Douglas for "Young Man with a Horn" (1950). Bogart returns to the schedule with "Dark Passage" (1947) at 10 am and "Key Largo" (1948) at noon. Bacall then stars with John Wayne in "Blood Alley" (1955) at 2 pm. "Sex and the Single Girl" (1964) airs at 4 pm, and the tribute programming winds up with "Designing Woman" (1953) at 6 pm.
The two-day programming block highlights many of Bacall's most iconic screen performances, but fans wishing to see more of the star should also track down some of her later work, including "Murder on the Orient Express" (1974), "The Shootist" (1976), and "The Mirror Has Two Faces" (1996), which earned Bacall an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. You can learn more about Lauren Bacall by watching the video at the top of this article. For more information about the TCM tribute, visit the official TCM website.


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NEW ORLEANS — Have you ever wondered about the efficacy of ozone laundering? A new study from ClearWater Tech, citing research conducted by North Carolina State University's Physical Testing Laboratory in the College of Textiles, may answer your questions.
Cameron Tapp, founder and president of ClearWater Tech, along with Dr. Jan Ballard, supervisor of the NCSU's Physical Testing Laboratory, and Marc DeBrum, assistant sales manager/applications engineer for ClearWater, provided the results of what is described as the industry's first extensive, independently conducted study to determine the ability of cold-water ozone laundering to extend the useful life of linens vs. traditional hot-water methods.
Speaking during a Clean Show press conference, Tapp said the study came about after a conversation he had with a hotel chain's sustainability manager, who complained of yellowing and graying fabrics and increased fabric wear when using an ozone method of cleaning. Tapp commissioned an independent study to be conducted at NCSU.
The study compared laundry whiteness, pill resistance and tear strength using both the EcoTex™ ozone cold-water technology from ClearWater and traditional hot-water methods of laundering linens and garments. A number of studies already exist that confirm ozone's efficiency in killing bacteria, particularly in healthcare fabrics, Tapp says.
ClearWater provided white 60% polyester/40% cotton pillowcases and 100% cotton terry bath towels to be used as samples (all test and control samples were given an initial rinse/dry cycle to remove factory residue). Ecolab supplied chemicals and collaborated on the chemical formulas for wash programs used in the study, and all textiles were washed in the same IPSO washer-extractor.
Ballard presented during the press conference how the study was conducted on 50 cycles of washing using both methods, saying, "We generated a lot of numbers."
The data analysis conducted showed that whiteness of fabric was improved by 9.7% using the ozone method, pilling was improved by 16.77%, and tear strength of the fabric was 6.26% better over fabric laundered using traditional, hot-water methods.
DeBrum offered results showing that the ozone method was at least 11% more efficient than traditional methods. He also went into the cost savings found using ozone. The study by North Carolina State showed a projected 40% overall savings using the EcoTex ozone method: about 5% savings in electricity, 19% for energy, almost 20% in water and sewer savings, and an almost 40% improvement in savings for facility and labor efforts. He said this latter number included time saved on rinses, on overall wash steps and reduced labor time.
The study results come as no surprise to veterans such as Juan Marcano, president and CEO of Riteway Linen Services in Port St. Lucie, Fla. Riteway serves a variety of customers, including high-end hotels and resorts. Acknowledging that many factors contribute to linen life, Marcado's experience points to linen replacement at an annual rate of 20-30% in traditional on-premise laundry operations.
"That's a lot of money for a 100-room hotel working with three pars (sets of linen)," Marcado says in a ClearWater Tech press release. "Our EcoTex ozone process can reduce that replacement by about half, to 12-15% a year, which is a huge difference. It's an even bigger savings for a 300-room resort that will purchase $8,000 to $10,000 terry cloth linens per month."
Tapp indicated that a longer and more scientific version of the report would be published and peer-reviewed in a scientific journal in the near future.
"It was great to have a third party to work with on this study," Tapp says, "and we will make the results available to the entire industry."
The comparative scores and study details are spelled out in Cold Facts, a summary report that can be obtained by contacting ClearWater Tech via its website, ecotexlaundry.com, or calling 805-549-9724. A more extensive white paper is also available, the company says.


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So.. my much awaited Rheumatologist appointment is coming up on the 18th!! Although I have gained some new information that is adding to my confusion a bit. My aunt, cousin (male) and grandfather on my mothers side all have the diagnosis of Anklosing Spondalitis. My aunt says I have some of the same symptoms, though when I looked it up it didn't quite seem to account for all the places I have pain or the IBS (unless what the doctor told me was ibs was actually inflammation related?)
I'm going to bring this to the Rheumatologist to ask him...but I'm kind of wondering...do you think there's a chance it's both? Or that possibly I don't have fibromyalgia at all and that there is a chance that's why the medications haven't been working?
My hip has been really acting up lately and my doctor said it was joint inflammation-- bursitis i think she called it... but after reading the info it sounds like it could be from AS if that's what I have..
I don't even know anymore I guess I just have to wait and find out lol I just wanted to see if any others had similar experiences or knew anything I didn't
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Medlock, J M; Hansford, K M; Schaffner, F; Versteirt, V; Hendrickx, G; Zeller, H; Van Bortel, W (2012). A review of the invasive mosquitoes in Europe: Ecology, public health risks, and control options. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, 12(6):435-447.
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There has been growing interest in Europe in recent years in the establishment and spread of invasive mosquitoes, notably the incursion of Aedes albopictus through the international trade in used tires and lucky bamboo, with onward spread within Europe through ground transport. More recently, five other non-European aedine mosquito species have been found in Europe, and in some cases populations have established locally and are spreading. Concerns have been raised about the involvement of these mosquito species in transmission cycles of pathogens of public health importance, and these concerns were borne out following the outbreak of chikungunya fever in Italy in 2007, and subsequent autochthonous cases of dengue fever in France and Croatia in 2010. This article reviews current understanding of all exotic (five introduced invasive and one intercepted) aedine species in Europe, highlighting the known import pathways, biotic and abiotic constraints for establishment, control strategies, and public health significance, and encourages Europe-wide surveillance for invasive mosquitoes.
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A retired Philadelphia policeman who worked as a U.S. Mint officer was sentenced Thursday to three years in prison for stealing $1 coins worth $2.3 million and selling them to a California distributor, officials said.
From NBCLOSANGELES.COM by Jonathan Llyod
An off-duty Beverly Hills police officer was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence after crashing a pickup into a utility pole, house and retaining wall late Tuesday in Simi Valley.
The pickup, the officer's personal vehicle, came to a stop upside-down on top of the retaining wall. The crash also ruptured a natural gas line, prompting a response from utility crews early Wednesday.
"The damage was mostly contained to the retaining wall and the side of the house," said Sgt. James Buckley, of the Simi Valley Police Department. "No intrusion was made into the house."
Two homes were damaged in the crash. One of the homeowners said she was in bed with her dog watching television when the house started shaking.
"He hit the telephone pole and knocked the bottom half of the pole out," said Jean Donato, a 40-year Simi Valley resident. "Then it took out my retaining wall, the fence, the pool equipment, the air conditioner, the gas line, and then hit the corner of my house. The car ended up flipping and coming through my bedroom wall.
"It was just pure shock. I was scared to death. I was just real grateful to be alive."
Donato's first concern was the condition of the driver.
"It's a miracle that man's alive," Donato said as she looked at the damaged wall and fence on her property.
Jeffrey Sweet, 42, was booked into Ventura County Jail after the 10:30 p.m. crash near the intersection of Blackstock and Royal avenues. He was treated for minor injuries at the hospital.
An internal administrative investigation will be conducted by the Beverly Hills Police Department, according to a statement from police. The Simi Valley Police Department will conduct the driving under the influence investigation.
PT - How hammered was this cop??
Vernell Reynolds, a former Miami cop who stole thousands from a black police officers association to fund her gambling habit, will learn her sentence Wednesday afternoon in federal court.
Reynolds was head of the Miami Community Police Benevolent Association, founded by one the department's first black police officers in 1946. The group advocates for black officers and devotes efforts to charity work to benefit the inner-city.
Several years ago, senior members of the group discovered thousands of unauthorized debit-card withdrawals from Reynolds.
She later was indicted on 16 counts of wire fraud for the embezzlement scheme that lasted from September 2008 to June 2010. The police department has since fired her.
Reynolds was accused of using an association-issued debit card to access its credit union accounts to make unauthorized cash withdrawals, personal purchases and money transfers to her personal credit union account. Thirteen of the withdrawals were made at the Seminole's casino in Hollywood, and one was made at another Indian casino in California, records show.
PT - Did she think no one would notice? Or maybe she thought she could win it all back playing blackjack.
An incident in Kansas involving a Metro police officer and marijuana-laced food resulted in his firing.
The trouble started in June when Officer Edward Karl, 34, was driving through Topeka, KS, after his honeymoon in California.
Officers in Kansas had set up a fake drug check point, then followed drivers who tried to exit the Interstate.
Investigators said Karl and his wife pulled into a parking lot and dropped a bag into the trash that had "several food items containing marijuana, along with a small quantity of loose marijuana 'buds.'"
The couple later admitted to getting the illegal narcotics from a friend while visiting California.
PT - Sounds like they were high and got paranoid. Otherwise he probably would have made it through the fake checkpoint.
Patrick Lefler, a Bakersfield police officer, was arrested last week in connection with alleged sexual extortion and is also under investigation for unrelated accusations of raping a woman while in uniform and sexually assaulting her with his baton.
He has not been charged with either offense.
Lefler was arrested July 18 in connection with allegations of refusing to return stolen property to a burglary victim unless she had sex with him. He's alleged to have sent her sexually explicit text messages.
In the alleged sexual assault, a woman living in northeast Bakersfield says she was visited by Lefler during the first week of June in relation to a burglary report she had filed.
While at the home, Lefler allegedly forced the woman onto her bed and ordered her to remove her clothing. He then penetrated her with his baton, penis and fingers.
The victim said she attempted to fight off Lefler and repeatedly told him to stop during the sexual assault, but she was unsuccessful.
The woman says Lefler told her not to tell anyone and that he may return. She said she did not immediately report the incident because she feared for her safety.
PT - Hard to prove your innocent when TWO women come forward with allegations against you. This guy is nothing but a sexual predator hiding behind a badge.


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ChristWire's 2010 Top Criminals Of The Year
As 2010 winds to a close, it is a good time to reflect over the highs and lows of the year.
America definitely met with its lows. We had a first entire year with a non-Christian in the White House, and we can see we are no better off than a third-world Muslim sand pit. However, the House has been cleared of all Democrat pit vipers before year's end, so all is not lost.
And so goes life. Highs and lows, ups and downs. Perhaps there are no people who better understand this life lesson more so than criminals. For some reason or other, be it genetics or circumstance, some people just always find themselves on the wrong side of the law.
The upside, sometimes they can provide us great insight and a chuckle. It is my pleasure to present our annual Criminals of the Year, for various crimes and features. They are in no particular order. Let's hit it.
1. Most Enthusiastic
How shocking that at number one, we have a man dressed like a woman for "Mr. Enthusiastic!".
It is no secret that gays tend to have more energy than normal men. This is because that one, gays inherit their mitochondria from their mothers.
Gay men have difference in there cellular alleles that make them favor their mothers more than their fathers. The mitochondria gives them the energy and interests of a woman, which is why you see this man probably takes pride in his long hair, effeminate smile and both ears looped with silver fashion earrings.
I'm sure Bubba at the prison will be happy to see Sally Jane here strolling in. Gays are also more energetic because they tend to find easy jobs like nursing or reception secretary, so they have time to think of their little snarky jokes and fecal orifices all day, which probably is what got this little sprite in trouble with the law.
2. Thickest Neck
There is a term in Georgia we have for stubborn people, and that is "Stiffneck". Stiffnecks sort of move around like Michael Keaton in the first Batman movie. They are muscular but because they have so many steroid induced muscles in the head and neck, their upper body moves very stiffly as one. They must turn their entire upper bodies to just peak over their shoulders.
This stiffneck looks like he may be subdued with some Mexican genes as well, from the think eyebrows and puckered lips. You can also see he is only 5'6″ eye level, which is tall for a Mexican but this one looks of mixed ancestry.
Hopefully his neck is double strong as it is wide, for he'll need it where he's going when all the black perps decide they want to take El Ponyhorsie for a ride.
3. Most Political
Wiccan are witches who dress in emo style clothing. They do blood rituals and if you've ever seen teenagers standing outside of a Twilight movie, with their faces painted as clowns and drinking something called Faygo (a play of Gay/Fag-0, a homosexual juice) you've seen the modern wiccans.
Wiccans are very Satanic and even responsible for the respreading of diseases such as rabies and hunta virus. They bite rodents and bats in rituals and there is a rumor that Ozzy Osborn is also one of these dark Satanists.
As you can see from this otherwise normal looking man, anyone can be one. Luckily, the cops knew to look out for this one because he permanently identified himself as a Wiccan with the body tattoos (Wiccans tend to rebel against order by being Vegans and also occult signs), though most Wiccans are demonic and hide themselves in with normal people like Vietnam Charlies.
4. Best Cap (Male)
This normal man is under a black influence. From his age, he looks sixty but really is probably only in his thirties, meaning he grew up a rebellious white teenager in the 1980s listening to thug rappers such as Prince, The Sugar Hill Gang (several founding members of the notorious modern gang the Los Angeles Crisps) and a raw Will Smith when he was a gang member as well.
You can see the music inspired him to do drugs and wear juiced caps on his heads. In the 80s, blacks wore shower caps in their hair to hold in 'hair juice' which made their hair have shine upon the inherently, kinked afro textures.
You can also tell it was 80s black influence from the Puma jump suit this proselyte thug is wearing. Unfortunately for him, that pink shower cap is going to make him a prime target for several Satan torpedoes when prison shower time comes around, and there is no secret that in prison they tend to always put one in 'the hole'.
5. Best Cap (Female)
This black grandmother sold crack cocaine. You can read the full story here.
Even though this old lady wears the clothing of a proper grandmother and wears the aged skin of a grandmother, we can see that at her roots her innate desire to sell drugs could not be conquered by 87 years worth of wisdom and grace.
It is really scary when you think of all the black gang members in jail right now, or even worse the Mexicans of how when they reach an old age and you think they can be trusted, you see it is not truly the case.
6. Most Theatrical
Thespian is a fancy way of saying 'gay actor'. They use the word "thespian" to get away with publicly doing sashays, gay Shakespearean lisps in pentameter and sonneting other men in the bum shavvy.
Here we see dramatic poses from this perpetrator and stage mascara around the eyes, to give him a fleeting Spaniard look.
These features are not going to serve him well in jail, but rather get him more stage presence then he'd ever wanted.
7. Best Duo
I'm sure this is not the dream our inspirational leader Martin Luther King Jr. had in mind when he dreamt of the day little black children could be good citizens, just like little white children.
Here we see they are under the influence of two homosexual comics, the "Batman" (where a grown man forces a boy to wear stockings and then 'fight' crime with him, returning to the 'Bat Cave' in a sweaty mess of bloodied leggings and seminal groin region musk) and then to the right the Spiderman (the story about a gay man with "Spider Powers" who binds enemies up in New York).
You can guess who was the bad influence in this dynamic duo, but ultimately, comics are to blame for corrupting both of them and they are possibly boyfriend and girlfriend as well.
8. Most Generous
Haiti is a terrorist nation that sits 90 miles off the coast of Florida. Despite trying to nuke us with Soviet wmds in the 1950s, these lowlifes had the audacity to beg us for mercy when God struck then down with a mighty hurricane for their third world sins and defiance unto American and democracy.
This is a rare albino Haitian, who probably got caught as he sneaked into our country from a makeshift car boat. You can see he has on his entitlement beggar shirt but it still did not keep him from the long arm of justice.
9. Best Beard
This is hands down the most interesting beard, somewhat the lovechild of a syncope plagued unicorn and ZZ Top. If you look closely in the eyes, they are red tainted like a smoke drugs Mexican so maybe that was the crime that landed this one in the slammer.
10. Most Creative Facial Expression
You can see hand of Satan here. The eyes are all white and the head grows red with the heated fury of hell's lava itself. It is maddening and notice he wears all black, so likely yet another moon Wiccan who has let Satan enter his body.
11. Best Name
This man's name is apparently Joe Cool, a play on Cool Hand Luke. At first glance you would think this was a normal man, but notice the lack of collar on the shirt, the dingy jeans and then the olive complexion to the skin. It's a best a Greek and more likely a mixed Mexican ancestry at play.
12. Coolest Haircut
Again, notice the red tint to the eyes and the defiant haircut. When your children are rebelling and allowing Satan to fill their thoughts, the first thing to go is usually the hair.
Just look at the little scamp Emma Watson. She cut her hair like a boy after the Twilight movies turned her into a blood lesbian. Then, there is also Justin Bieber who is now a member of the notorious street gang the Los Angeles Crisps.
13. Most Confused
Look into the cold eyes of sin. This is a model criminal. Long, greased Mexican hair, a Sancho bar moustache, drug laden eyes and the cold stare you only see in the crazed eyes of Obama and others under that devil influence. This is just terrifying that people like this exist.
14. Biggest Yankees Fan
Well colored me surprise, an afro on the list. This one has the standard tattoos and not even wearing a shirt, so his baby momma can be enticed to have more welfare kids perhaps.
In the middle we have "NY" a gang sign for New York Yankees, who are far more evil than most gangs combined.
15. Most Afraid
This man is probably innocent and was the fall guy for some guidio Mafioso scheme. It is a shame he got mixed in the wrong crowd and there is nothing more the sally jail inmates love more than kneading the dough of a little Pillsbury Dough boy.
16. Worst Dad
Notice there is also a spider tattoo on the arm. It makes you wonder just how many Wiccans are present.
17. Oldest
This poor old man was caught stealing batteries from his local Walgreens. More and more, our elderly have to result to stealing in this rough Obama economy. Obama is slashing out Social Security and Medicare for the elderly, so he can line the Democratic line item agenda of arming the Iranians with nuclear weapons, Michelle's lavish vacations and abortions for all worldwide.
Obama probably laughs about all this and updates the jailing stats, since most old people are white due to a life of good, wholesome living paying off in better health from good nutrition and good choices. This is evening out the crime rate of blacks and whites in jail, and it is a sick shame they are arresting good elderly people in unfortunate situations in this tough economy.
18. Biggest Clown
Here we have a Wiccan ICP clown. There is a posse, or gang, known as the Fag-os and they also go by Insane Clown Posse. These Wiccans have violent concerts where they force women to strip and have nude orgies and everyone gets fondled, then they do chants to the sound of at least one dozen loud and unsynchronized instruments. You should just run away from these people and they also may call themselves jiggalows.
19. Happiest
This one in the Freddy Krueger shirts has a watermelon smile, so probably is still on some sort of drug rage and not realizing he's in jail.
Blacks are naturally very athletic and when they do hard drugs, it removes their pain perception so makes them a double threat. It may have taken the cops three or four taser shots to bring down this impressive perp specimen.
And he's still smiling just like a black eating some delicious fried chicken and a side of sweet pies despite their sugar diabetes.
20. Best Facial Tattoo
On the neck and check of this illegal doer, you can see the lipsticks of likely a whorenanny. Then the moustachioed portion is shaven and in its place the words "Ladies Love It". I'm not sure what this all means but I'm pretty sure I know all illegals just need to be boarded up and airdropped in Siberia in cold winter so they can get out of our country with their nonsense.
21. Guiltiest
22. Best Smile
23. Second Best Smile
You should not laugh, because when Obamacare first destroys all of the private healthcare companies and Obama then cuts you off the forced government insurance or more likely it crushes under its own weight, all of our mouths are going to look like this.
24. Best Tan
25. Best T-Shirt And Facial Expression Combination
Black women sure have a smug, mean attitude don't they? I'm looking more into that very matter and in the meantime, look at how she smugly smiles at the cops and then wears her pride attitude shirt.
26. Best Eyebrows (Male)
Wiccan Juggalo devil worshipper. Look at all the scary symbols upon the face and notice the Ba'al worship bull toward the scalp region.
27. Best Eyebrows (Female)
28. Coolest Crimped Hair
When I was little, my sister had a Crimpin' Suzy playset and it looks like this young man found one as well.
29. Widest Face
There was a story we covered a few months ago, where a lady was caught eating a stolen deli sandwich, and failed to wipe off the crumbs for her mugshot.
This kid only left a few crumbs in his hair on the left side and upper lip, though then again I don't think too many crumbs are usually missed for this one.
30. Best Attitude
On the side of the head, the word "Vida" which is Mexican for life. You can see this one has also removed socks in potential attempts to elude la migra.
31. Most Creative Facial Hair
32. Best Ponytail
I really wish I knew where to send the letter, as I would request they at least shave this poor sap's hair before Tyrell and Antoine get any ideas of making him play Kristy the 80 Cheerleader.
33. Reddest
This looks more like a Kool-Aid job than naturally, so no telling what's involved with this one. There may be a tie because if you survey a panel of ten blacks, 9/10 of them will say they like "red" Koolaid flavor, which in their tongue red means cherry when you speak of Koolaid.
34. Most Interesting Head
With such a head on his shoulders I never thought he would have crime on the mind. Pretty sad.
35. Grossest
This is just tasteless here. You can see exposed saucer and it is wrong on a man or a women. Then if that was not enough the milksacks of the whore demon tattoo is exposed with a apple fruit as well. This is probably a tattoo of Eve right before she prostituted herself to Satan and ate of her fruits.
36. Best Use Of Hands
Again,why do black women have such attitudes. Of all the criminals of the year, notice the only ones giving real attitudes are…a black women. This is just standard and I'm going to do serious investigation into this one.
37. Not Rick James
38. Most Pimpin
This picture you would think was on Facebook or done at Glamour Shots. "Pimpin" is the black word for "stylish" and it holds other connotations in their tongue as well.
39. Best Internet-Related T-Shirt
40. Sorriest
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February 18, 2010 | Tom Tritton
Some years ago I accidentally discovered a polymer-based adhesive that allowed the irreversible joining of two metal strips. Amazingly, the adhered juncture was stronger than the metal itself, but of course the bond was permanent and could not be undone.
I haven't thought much about adhesion in the intervening years, but a new publication from the GM Research & Development Center has rekindled my interest.
As is often true with new materials, nature was a source of inspiration, in this case the lowly gecko, whose footpads are notoriously sticky. Luckily, the bonding is reversible, or the poor lizard wouldn't be able to go anywhere.
Governing this reptilian interaction are noncovalent van der Waals forces, which are actually quite weak on the molecular level. Ruomiao Wang and Tao Xie reasoned that H-bonding could create a stronger adhesion, but still be reversible because of the noncovalent nature of such bonds (Langmuir, DOI: 10.1021/la9046403, published online 2 February 2010).
The material of choice was a highly crosslinked epoxy polymer with added H-bond acceptor and donor sites. When the material is heated to cure the glue, a tight bond is formed. When heated again, the adhesion releases because the hydrogen bonds that are the source of attraction are broken.
What uses could be imagined for an adhesive that is sturdy under normal operating conditions but reversed on demand? How about reconfigurable rooms or buildings. Perhaps adding extra bumpers to automobiles in slippery conditions. Maybe museums could create exhibits with priceless works that make the objects secure but accessible, yet easily swapped when the next exhibit comes along.
I bet creative readers can come up with all manner of exotic ideas for a reversible adhesive.
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The youngest member of AMD's HD 48xx family, the HD 4830, is expected to be endowed with a 640 Stream Processor packed RV770 GPU, running at 575 MHz and, married up with GDDR3 memory running at speeds of 1800 MHz.
This report from TechConnect Magazine includes some images, courtesy of VR-Zone, of an upcoming SKU offering from MSI.
It is believed that the HD 4830 will see the light of day next week - October 23rd, to be precise.