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Her experience as a new mother: "I'm still trying to figure it out. And I have a feeling I will try to do the same for the rest of my life. Some people put it like it's very idyllic, some people put it like it's a torturing experience, but it's not quite one thing or the other. It's like life—it comes with everything."
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On how meeting Gerard has restored her faith: "I think, if you can prove the existence of God, it can only be proven through love. I even had lost my faith for a while. I was becoming an agnostic. And it was really hard, because I was always very religious, and for a few years, maybe because—it sounds so corny—I was not feeling the love like it was supposed to be, I started to think that there was no God. And suddenly I meet Gerard and the sun comes out."
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Peter Roberts gasps in horror at what multiculturalism and the practice of importing massive hordes of welfare colonists have done to the homey suburb where he grew up:
When you see your homeland, which was what Greenacre was, turned into a minefield, or a battlefield, or a refuge of drug dealers, criminals, drive-by shooters and terror — you find yourself in a quandary. It's all part and parcel of the greater good, of the New Australia, of the emergence of alternative cultures — it's just a settling-in process.
Whatever the apologists say, it's traumatic to read about the new Greenacre where I had my roots. It's tragic to see things go so wrong.
The police are powerless. I've seen it first-hand. They are harassed and intimidated for simply doing their job. The Premier says we can have confidence in the police to apprehend the culprits of a recent murder in Wilbur Street. Even if they do, which is unlikely, as the local residents live in permanent fear of reprisals, can they stop the next shooting and the next?
Australia has some of the most repressive laws in the world regarding firearms ownership. As in Chicago, this results in deadly anarcho-tyranny.
Soon Greenacre/Lakemba will be an enclave of little Lebanon, with all the worst features transported from a failed country to a new one, one still proud of its tolerance. I am told time and again that tolerance is not weakness. A bit like saying appeasement is not weakness. But I'm growing more sceptical.
That was my home — the place where I simply couldn't imagine living anywhere else once — transformed to the place where I could never imagine living again.
Greenacre is a suburb of Sydney. It could just as easily be a suburb of London or Los Angeles.
Eventually the civilized will run out of places to retreat to. Then the whole world will be the Third World. Multiculturalism will have triumphed.
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Posted on 07/01/2008 10:39:03 AM PDT by Red Steel
Today marks the second day of Obamas Enduring American Values week. Todays topic: faith.
The Illinois senator will unveil its plan to overhaul the Bush Administrations Faith-Based and Community Initiatives by helping religious organizations better learn how to apply for federal aid with a Train the Trainers program, and focusing the groups to provide summer learning programs to children.
Obamas plan will not scrap the current program, the campaign says, but will fix it. President Bush came into office with a promise to rally the armies of compassion, establishing a new Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. But what we saw instead was that the Office never fulfilled its promise, Obama will say today in Zanesville, Ohio.
The $500 million a year program, the campaign says, will level the playing field for religious groups and federal funds cannot be used to proselytize or provide religious sectarian instruction.
The proposal drew praise from President Bushs one-time director of Faith Based and Community Initiatives office, John Dilulio. In a statement distributed by the Obama campaign, Dilulio said, His plan reminds me of much that was best in both then Vice President Al Gores and then Texas Governor George W. Bushs respective first speeches on the subject in 1999.
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You know, faith based groups like East Side Community Ministry carry a particular meaning for me. Because in a way, theyre what led me into public service. It was a Catholic group called The Campaign for Human Development that helped fund the work I did many years ago in Chicago to help lift up neighborhoods that were devastated by the closure of a local steel plant.
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We see through his hypocrisy, but most of America will eat it up. Neither the MSM nor McCain will call him on it.
I'll be surprised if he doesn't make a jump in the polls in the next couple of weeks.
wouldn't it be nice if someone compared obama's positions/past/experience with W's? they're sounding more and more alike with each passing day.
Evangelical does not automatically equal conservative. Just look at Huckabee for example. There is a major segment of the "social conservative" group that loves big government as long as that big government is doing "Christian" things.
Perhaps Al-Queada can get a grant to help make their bombs.............
I can't wait to hear the backlash from liberals since they all railed against W's faith-base initiatives. What's that chirping noise?
The Illinois senator will unveil its plan to overhaul the Bush Administrations Faith-Based and Community Initiatives by helping religious organizations better learn how to apply for federal aid with a Train the Trainers program
Looks like Rush nailed it. He was just talking about this and said it was all about expanding govt power. This will be the camel's nose under the tent.
Excellent point....spot on!
She does look more like James Brown than Jackie Kennedy.
B. Hussein is for it before he will be against it. I can't express how much I despise that evil lying POS.
I'd like to see a campaign listing all of obama's statements that sound like W's, and asking "what change?"
Look at her picture - notice the ear rings. Is it USSR sickle and hammer? HUH ?
When Obama talks about faith, it`s all I can do to not barf.
That chirping you hear is the Obamazombie masses chanting "yes master, we can".
There are millions of evangelicals who are fiscal liberals.
They don't label themselves as such but when they hear "the Gov't wants to give money to the suffering and underprivileged" they wrongly believe that message to be christian compassion.
These evangelicals are not smart people. They are led by a bleeding heart, not their head.
This is a back door to make Christian groups hire Openly Gay people.
This is a back door to make Christian groups hire Openly Gay people.
This is a back door to make Christian groups hire Openly Gay people.
The strategy of a federally mandated train the trainer program and limiting the religious speech of those organizations that take advantage of federal funding disqualifies this program from anything my church can use. It is interesting, the word "evangelical" in it's purist form means those who believe in "evangelism"—proclaiming the good news. This activity is what Obama's team pejoritively labels prostylizing. Why would a truly evangelical church takes funds from an agency that prohibits them from the activity that is part of their core mission.
It was the fact that the federal governments uses federal funds to mandate regulation that compelled the college my daughter attends, Grove City College, to withdraw from the federal student loan program. She is getting a fabulous education in excellent modern facilities for less money than it costs my son to attend our state university.
ping to link in #23...though I am sure you're already all over this.
That's the longest DU thread I've ever seen.
The lefties at DU will hate thing but give it a pass since Obama is doing it. The lambasted Bush as a religous nut for doing this. The ACLU and Americians United for Separation of Church and state will also quitely seethe but let it go without being on all the MSM stating the horror of the program.
1 minute satirical Obama video here:
Hurry before some diversity loving (RIGHT!) Obamaniac at YouTube pulls it.
Actually, I just read the DU thread. Many of them are quoting a new press release that claims Obama's support for faith-based-Charities is "much better" than Bush's. Personally, I don't like the federal government redistributing wealth to any faith-based organization (and I'm a devout Catholic), but apparently the DUers now like it as long as it merely removes things like abstinence counseling. Wow...what a principled bunch those DUers are.
Obama will "fix" the program by ensuring that faith-based funding will only go to truly deserving groups like Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam prison ministry.
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Earlier today, President Obama announced his intention to propose in the FY 2011 budget more than $1.3 billion to continue Race to the Top. The announcement came during a visit with U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan at Graham Road Elementary School in Falls Church, Va.
Designed to incentivize excellence, spur reform, and promote the adoption and use of effective policies and practices, the Race to the Top is a comprehensive vision for school reform backed by a historic, $4.35 billion investment. Winners of the first Race to the Top awards will be announced in April 2010. A second round of applications from states will be due in June 2010, with winners expected in September. States that apply, but do not win in Phase 1, may reapply for Phase 2.
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Acupuncture is the insertion of very fine, filiform needles through the skin at specific points on the body with the intention of manipulating Qi. The filiform needles are solid, as opposed to the hollow hypodermic needles most people are familiar with, and are usually made of stainless steel, but can also be gold or silver.
Acupuncture is based upon the jing luo channel network theory of the circulation of Qi. Although Qi permeates every part of the body, it tends to collect and travel along channels called "jing luo." These are the so-called "meridians" of acupuncture.
The jing luo channel system connects all aspects of the body together into one network of energetic communication.
Just as water flowing through a landscape tends to seek the path of least resistance, so Qi flows through the body. The flow of Qi follows the folds and creases of the body's landscape. It follows the divisions between muscles and the clefts between muscles and bones, collecting in the small hollows and depressions of the body to form pools of Qi.
These "pools of Qi" are places where Qi is concentrated and more accessible. They are the acupuncture points, where Qi can be accessed and manipulated through the use of finger pressure (acupressure), massage techniques (tui na [8]; literally "pinch and pull"), dermal friction [9] (gua sha), cupping [10], moxibustion [11] (a form of heat therapy), and, of course, acupuncture.
The successful manipulation of Qi begins by contacting the Qi in the channel at one or more of the points being needled. This is called "obtaining the Qi" and is heralded by the arrival of the "Qi sensation."
The patient typically feels the Qi sensation locally around the needle site and then in adjacent areas, usually along the associated channel. It has been described as a dull, heavy, aching, or mildly electrical sensation that spreads in wave-like patterns. Most people do not find the Qi sensation to be painful or unpleasant, just unusual.
An experienced acupuncturist can usually feel the patient's Qi through the needle once it arrives at the site. Once the practitioner has obtained the Qi and successfully manipulated it, the needles are removed. The entire process can take anywhere between just a few minutes to over an hour, depending on the condition of the patient. Most acupuncture treatments last about twenty minutes.
Most patients feel pleasantly relaxed and refreshed after an acupuncture treatment. Patients who were experiencing pain before the acupuncture session are often pleasantly surprised to find their discomfort greatly reduced after the treatment.
TCM practitioners use acupuncture to treat a wide range of conditions. Some of the conditions for which acupuncture is commonly used include:
Side effects are rare. Patients may occasionally experience slight bruising at the point of needle insertion.
"Needle Shock": a feeling of faintness, chilliness and perhaps slight nausea. Needle shock happens rarely, but when it does, it is most likely to happen in situations in which the patient is very nervous about the needles, is extremely exhausted or fatigued, or is experiencing low blood sugar from not having eaten for a long period of time before the acupuncture treatment.
Needle shock can be disquieting to the patient but is not considered harmful. Most states that regulate acupuncture require practitioners to provide informed consent forms outlining these possible side-effects.
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[1] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/sites/default/files/images/thumbnails/acupuncture3.jpg
[2] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/explore-healing-practices/traditional-chinese-medicine
[3] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/conditions/back-pain
[4] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/conditions/headaches
[5] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/conditions/arthritis
[6] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/tips-change/sarah-used-traditional-chinese-medicine-leg-numbness
[7] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/tips-change/erin-shares-story-about-acupressure-pregnancy-nausea
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Hello. My name is Meredith Dunn. I'm the web team's new intern, and I have never blogged before.
I recently graduated from Liberty University with a B.S. in Business Marketing. I can honestly say that I have a true passion for business and a genuine love for marketing. They're challenging, they inspire, they're innovative, and they're excellent examples of competition in our socially saturated and economically dependent culture.
At the same time, marketing stimulates and increases jobs, technology, products and services, as well as creates economic stability for our country and the world. Ever since my first week of college, I have wanted to be a business woman, never once having changed my major or my mind.
That being said, upon graduating, I was very apprehensive about entering into the "Corporate America" setting. I despised the idea of reporting to an office, sitting in a cubical behind a computer, and being forced to substitute "number crunching" for human contact.
More than that, I have a deep, intrinsic fear that I will get lost in some cosmic void, becoming obsessed with work, money, the stock market, and most of all … myself.
I have witnessed such lifestyles. The selfish pursuit of wealth has left its captives devastated, lonely, and feeling as though their lives are without an innate meaning or profound purpose.
Scared of becoming yet another cog in this immortal and endless machine, I desperately wanted to find a place to work that would fulfill the deepest passion and longing in my soul: to make a difference.
I think that any Christ-follower, because of the change that Jesus has made in his or her heart, wants every area of life to be reflective of His image and productive for His kingdom. He has in fact called some to go to "Corporate America" to be a light. Others He has called to the medical field, mission field, or asked that they simply mow a field. Whatever the individual case may be, God has absolutely created and fashioned each of us with a specific talent, tool, or trade that we are to use for His glory.
My new journey begins here, at Compassion, where I will be interning for the next six weeks. I am working in the marketing department, and as I said earlier, I'm on the web team.
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[Numeracy 500] Re: Equality, unary signs, and operations...
Michael Gyori michael_gyori at yahoo.com
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My only reservation is that a unit of measurement of temperature is entirely
abstract, while being in the red is not. When we *owe* money, our balance is
negative, even if the money we owe is positive...
Michael A. Gyori
Maui International Language School
From: Chip Burkitt <chip.burkitt at orderingchaos.com>
To: Michael Gyori <michael_gyori at yahoo.com>
Cc: The Math and Numeracy Discussion List <numeracy at nifl.gov>; Ladnor Geissinger
<ladnor at email.unc.edu>
Sent: Tue, August 17, 2010 7:06:27 PM
Subject: Re: Equality, unary signs, and operations...
I agree. A balance scale makes an excellent metaphor for equality.
I remember a bit about the unary minus sign and your contention that it has no
physical representation. Of course, the same could be said for the concept of
number. Counting is actually a fairly sophisticated exercise. It requires
knowledge of a number system, understanding of one-to-one correspondence, and
confidence that the quantity does not change if items are counted in a different
order. Even tallying, which does not require a number system, still requires
fairly powerful abstract reasoning. For example, if I say, "I have fourteen
chickens," the number fourteen is an abstraction. It cannot be derived from the
chickens; it has to be brought to the chickens. So fourteen (or any number, for
that matter) also has no physical representation. It could be argued that
fourteen is what all groups of fourteen items have in common, but that reasoning
is circular and neglects other properties that groups of physical items have in
common (e. g., occupies space, color, mass, duration).
Nevertheless, numbers certainly have more common applications in the lives of
students than unary minus signs do. When I introduce negative numbers, I give
examples likely to be common to everyone: below zero temperatures (especially
here in Minnesota), overdrawn bank account, and below sea level elevations. It
is especially easy to understand operations on temperatures (e. g., Most
students know that warming up 10° from −17° is −7°).
Chip Burkitt
On 8/17/2010 5:42 PM, Michael Gyori wrote:
Hello Chip,
>I wonder whether Ladnor might be willing to weigh in further at this poin with
>respect to the nature of equality. I don't know what a "real" mathemetician
>is, but if there is such a person, I would consider him to be one... :)
>As for equality, the reason I like the metaphor of a scale in discussing
>equality is that it connects numbers with physical physical phenomenon and
>shared background knowledge (by and large). Scales don't compare what's on
>either side, they just tell you that weights are the same when they're balanced.
>On another note, we had some very interesting discussions about unary signs a
>while ago. I contended and still contend that they had no physical
>existence. I'd be really interested in further discussion about unary signs
>vs. operations.
>Michael A. Gyori
>Maui International Language School
From: Chip Burkitt <chip.burkitt at orderingchaos.com>
>To: numeracy at nifl.gov
>Sent: Tue, August 17, 2010 7:28:47 AM
>Subject: [Numeracy 496] Re: What does equality mean?
>You are probably right. There is undoubtedly a consistent definition we can
>apply. I was not accurate in saying that certain transformations change the
>equality. What may change, however, is the amount of information present in the
>expressions. For example, squaring an expression loses information about whether
>it is less than or greater than 0. Conversely, taking the square root of an
>expression introduces ambiguity about the sign (unless there are contextual
>clues to eliminate one of the possibilities). Likewise, in the second example,
>transforming the equation from y/(x − 1) = 3 to y = 3x − 3, loses the
>information that x ≠ 1 unless we specifically preserve it. The nature of the
>equality is unchanged.
>The point I intended to make was that the balance metaphor serves as an
>excellent touchstone for students learning about what the equal sign means. For
>basic operations (+, −, ×, ÷), it is flawless as far as I can tell. If anyone
>has an alternative or wishes to critique the balance metaphor, please reply.
>Equality is reflexive, symmetric, and transitive. That is, for any real numbers
>a, b, c:
> a = a
> if a = b, then b = a
> if a = b and b = c, then a = c
>I think that these three properties are sufficient to define equality for real
>expressions, but I am not sure. Perhaps a real mathematician could weigh in on
>Chip Burkitt
>On 8/17/2010 12:34 AM, Michael Gyori wrote:
>>I fail to understand why the definition of equality is subject to variation -
>>say in relation to the level of numeracy of our students. I have
>>always understood equality in math to signify equality in value. If you perform
>>the same operation on identical values with different expressions, of
>>course doing so might result in inequality, as you appear to state in your post
>>below. My question is, why can we not apply a consistent definition to equality
>>when teaching math at whatever level we may be doing so?
>>Michael A. Gyori
>>Maui International Language School
From: Chip Burkitt <chip.burkitt at orderingchaos.com>
>>To: numeracy at nifl.gov
>>Sent: Sat, August 14, 2010 6:59:24 AM
>>Subject: [Numeracy 493] Re: What does equality mean?
>>I think the difficulty is that mathematics requires rigorous definitions and
>>logic, especially as one advances in it. However, for ABE or GED students, it is
>>usually enough to know that the equal sign is like a balance scale. In order for
>>the sides to be in balance, the expressions on both sides must have the same
>>value. If you add something to one side, you must add it to the other side as
>>well to maintain the balance. If you subtract from one side, you must subtract
>>it from the other side as well. When students get into algebra, they need to
>>know that some transformations of an expression can change the character of the
>>equality. For example (−a)^2 = a^2, but it does NOT follow by taking the square
>>root of both sides that −a = a. Likewise, y/(x − 1) = 3 needs to be qualified by
>>x ≠ 1, even though the equation can be transformed to y = 3x − 3, which has a
>>solution for x = 1 at y = 0. For most purposes in ABE or GED classes, the
>>balance analogy works well without getting into abstract discussions about
>>various kinds of equivalence relations and the transformations that change the
>>relation or leave it unchanged. If anyone has a better explanation of the equal
>>sign for ABE and GED students, I would like to hear it.
>>Chip Burkitt
>>On 8/14/2010 1:04 AM, Michael Gyori wrote:
>>Greetings all,
>>>After all this discussion about what the equal sign (or equality) means, I find
>>>myself somewhat in a maze. A discussion of equality takes us into a potentially
>>>esoteric realm from the perspective of our students.
>>>Might it be time to attempt to more clearly (and simply!) define terms among
>>>those who teach math?
>>>Michael A. Gyori
>>>Maui International Language School
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Cheese institute embezzler gets 13 months
RUTLAND A former University of Vermont employee was sentenced Monday to 13 months in jail and ordered to pay back $200,000 she was convicted of embezzling.
Jody Farnham, 55, of Burlington, pleaded guilty to stealing from the colleges Institute for Artisan Cheese between 2006 and 2012 when she served as its program support specialist.
During that time, she stole $200,000 in a wide variety of ways that federal Judge Christina Reiss said included altering tuition checks and fraudulently billing for travel and other expenses.
On Monday in U.S. District Court in Rutland, Farnham began paying those expenses back with a $350 check that her attorney Robert Hemley said would be the first of many.
Shes committed to regular payments going forward, Hemley said.
During an address to the court, Farnham briefly broke down in tears while acknowledging the money she stole that she said was taken to provide for a lifestyle her daughters had come to expect before she divorced her husband.
I felt threatened and vulnerable after the divorce. I should have asked for help but didnt out of pride, she said. When the opportunity presented itself, I chose to do the wrong thing.
That Farnham stole the money to provide for her family was one of the mitigating factors Reiss said she considered while deciding on a sentence.
But the judge said there were a number of aggravating circumstances that she took into account.
One of the main concerns Reiss said she had was that Farnham had taken money for her own use while employed by the Burlington School District. She was fired and ordered to pay back that money but was not charged criminally, the judge said.
Its sad that you didnt take note and say, Whatever I do, Im not doing that again, Reiss said.
The judge said Farnham knew she was stealing from a financially fragile institution when she took the cheese institutes money.
You knew you were hurting that program and, in fact, it did not survive, Reiss said of the operation, which closed in 2013.
Reiss said she was concerned that Farnham, whose thefts were discovered in 2012, didnt begin making restitution payments until Monday.
Even a nominal monthly payment shows that a person wants to make this right, she said.
Hemley asked the judge to sentence Farnham to three months in jail and three months of home confinement, but Reiss said that would be too lenient. The judge also said a potential 18-month sentence identified as the maximum sought by the prosecution was too high.
Farnham was ordered to turn herself in to begin serving her sentence July 29.
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All i read was the word poo by zetsu
Oh thats why Obito supports Madaras Eye Plan because he can live with rin in this " dream " land together
awesome,now i know where obito got his mask,
hurry up next week i want more
next chapter it will show how rin died
what would make obito snap that he would harm his own sensei and comrades and go against konoha and even his own kin - uchiha?
I loved this chapter. It explains Obito's white goop that comes out of his arm when wounded there. That's been bugging me since the Minato fight.
And I can't wait for the next chapter. Obito wearing Zetsu armor, running in, f*cking the Mist Shinobis' shit up... It's gonna be awesome.
I'm thinking that slightly odd swirl guy is the persona "Tobi" that obito later takes on, because if you remember, Obito as "Tobi" talks funny and saws very random things, and in this chapter he was asking about the mechanical functions of poo... Just something to think about.
Originally Posted by Bonkers
what would make obito snap that he would harm his own sensei and comrades and go against konoha and even his own kin - uchiha?
rin death,he ask kakashi,why you let rin die/
i also think,madara order the hit on rin,he send one of the zetsu to kill her
so obito can sick payback,on the leaf,and fallow thru with madara wanted him for
Yup I thought that was weird too. Bah let's just wait Kishi'll tell us in due time. On another note, i think that the reason so many people, myself included, refused to believe Tobi was Obito besides the plotholes ( plotholes can be filled, Kishi is trying right now ) is because it was too obvious. Tobi's name is Obito's reverse in japanese, the S/T etc... No suspense at all. Kishi should have been more discreet. To finally learn it was Obito would be choc and we'd eager and not pissed for some explaining
i knew it was obito,when i saw kakashi use his MS,cuz his MS,is the same as mask man MS,and they look the same,
and yes i cant wait to see what kishi gone wright for us,i cant wait
Originally Posted by RogueUchiha
Kishi, if youre trying to tell us that obito wore a zetsu suit and fought minato as equal then i got two words for you , **** YOU
yup agreed. FUUUUUUUUUUSION. dbz anyone?
This is great. I guess the tobi/zetsu guy that Obito wore explains the change in voice. Can't wait for the next chapter.
Originally Posted by RogueUchiha
Kishi, if youre trying to tell us that obito wore a zetsu suit and fought minato as equal then i got two words for you , **** YOU
Do you have any idea how powerful Zetsu is? Combine his considerable chakra sucking powers/mimic powers and then add a sharigan to it and you have a relatively powerful ninja. Plus add the fact Obito's special Sharigan power is that he can "phase" through stuff, so that makes him on par with almost all ninja. (If you can't touch it, but it can touch you, then you're screwed for the most part).
Makes sense that obito eventually takes madara's eyes since the kyuubi recognized them when they faced each other.
so obito realy kill hes clan dawn hahahah
I predict more whining, kishi trolled us, *****es *****ing in 604 -->605 prediction thread.
You want a "better" story? How about YOU stop trolling kishi and pay for the manga, freeloading cry babies.
I'm thinking maybe that zestu takes control of obito and that's why he turns its madara plan to control him.somehow he will break free help defeat madara and die saving the leaf
Is it just me or is there a weird parallel between Rin Kakashi Obito and Sakura Saskue and Naruto? Their team pic with Minato is so like team 6's pic it's close to creepy... talk about flashbacks...... good episode can we get back to Saskue and Orochimaru now? Lol
Last edited by wargear; 09-27-2012 at 12:17 AM.
Tobi suit originally designed so Madara could leave the cave and survive...yep
Originally Posted by ChocolateBear
I like obito's flashbacks compared to kabuto's
Hahaha so true.
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Reader addresses issues in the sheriff's department
As I am only allowed one letter per month, I thought I would comment on recent incidents and news stories that were in The Inter-Mountain.
I was more than a bit dismayed to read in the March 9 paper that Darlene Phares was no longer employed in the sheriff's office. I don't know what happened and probably never will because the county commission and the Sheriff's office do not feel that the public has a right to know anything they do, unless it is going to make them look good.
Darlene has been with the sheriff's office for many years and I find it hard to believe she would have left voluntarily. She will be missed. I have had the good fortune of knowing Darlene for many years and she is, quite simply, a class act and a finer person has never walked the face of this earth.
Mike House was asking about around-the-clock coverage by the deputies. I believe it would take a lot more than 10 deputies to provide 24-hour coverage for this county.
If Mr. House is so concerned about that (and it is a valid concern) then he should contact the Legislature to appropriate more money so more state police officers can be hired so Randolph and other counties could have law enforcement on duty 24 hours. Keep in mind, Randolph County is a large piece of real estate. How many officers will be enough? Also, are we willing to pay the extra taxes necessary, state and local, to hire these extra officers?
Re: Mike House's (and others) call to open the county commission meetings with a prayer: Hang tough on that issue, commissioners. You will be opening a can of worms if you give in to that crowd. What church or denomination will be selected to give the prayer? If you decide to allow a pastor from a different church or denomination to give the prayer, what will you do if a Muslim Cleric shows up and wants to participate? What about a Hindu or Buddhist or Druid or any other religious figure? If you allow one, you must allow all.
Shelly Moore Capito said recently that she "has never seen the windmills turning." She must be driving the corridor at night. I drive that road several times a week and the windmills are almost always turning. Of course, for her to say that alternative energy is a good thing might be taken to mean she is against the coal industry. I am not anti-coal. I support it strongly; however, I want it done in a responsible and safe manner.
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Onalaska students may notice some changes to their buildings this year, specifically upgrades to security.
The district budgeted $100,000 for that purpose, focusing on how people gain access to the buildings.
Changes would include locked entrances, camera and buzzer system, and panic buttons for a secretary to alert authorities to a problem.
Finance Director Larry Dalton says all of these changes are being done with the student in mind.
"In school, the biggest issue in terms of security is always students, it's not outsiders it's how we're going to manage our student population so all that has to be hand in hand with the student management part of it," says Dalton.


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A church celebrates with a Living Nativity
December 15, 2011 —
BETHANY, PA — Every year, local churches in our area find special ways to celebrate the Christmas season. Among the most interesting of such traditions is a living nativity held by the Bethany Presbyterian Church. At the annual event, members of the congregation reproduce realistic scenes from the New Testament's story of the nativity of Jesus Christ, with actors and live animals.
Beginning in the historic church on Route 670, the scenes spill out onto the church grounds with imaginative interpretations of the traditional story, colored by modern music and even humorous themes.
The nativity this year took participants on a quasi-journey in Bethlehem, with scenes of the rapacious King Herod, the adoring Magi, the stunned shepherds, dancing townspeople, a cute group of merry baby angels and an indifferent inn keeper. Visitors could also experience the rustic stable with animals, the Baby Jesus, the Virgin Mary and her husband Joseph, attended by a flock of the heavenly hosts.
The journey ended, appropriately enough, in the local inn, where there were warm drinks, cookies and good cheer.


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Stagnation, the New Normal
So, U.S. consumer confidence unexpectedly plunged in January to its lowest level in more than a year. The U.S. economy unexpectedly posted a contraction in the fourth quarter of 2012 — for the first time since the recession — "defying" expectations that economic growth is in our future.
If the economy were as vibrant as President Barack Obama has told us it is, a belt tightening in a single sector of government surely wouldn't be enough to bring about "negative growth." But one did. Unexpectedly. No worries, though. Pundits on the left tell us that this contraction was good news — possibly the best contraction in the history of all contractions. The White House blamed Republicans and, I kid you not, corporate jet owners because — well, who else? But mostly, the left is bellyaching about the end of temporary military spending and a brutal austerity that's enveloped a once great nation.
There's a small problem with that argument. There is no austerity. In the fourth quarter of 2012, Washington spent $908 billion, which was $30 billion more than it spent in the last quarter of 2011 and nearly $100 billion more than it spent in the third quarter of 2012. Taxpayers took on another $400 billion in debt during the quarter. If this is poverty, can you imagine what robust spending looks like?
If we took the argument at face value, though, it means this: The left is contending that George W. Bush's wars have been propping up the economy for years. They believe that spending, no matter where we "invest," is tantamount to economic growth — that trillions in deficit spending ostensibly meant to "stimulate" the economy is really meant to artificially inflate the gross domestic product. If this were true, the only question we should have is: Why don't we spend five times as much and grow the economy fivefold?
Meanwhile, on Earth, the economy has averaged 150,000 new jobs a month for the past two years — even with the Federal Reserve pumping in tens of billions every week — barely enough to keep up with new entries into the labor force, much less the exodus from it. The unemployment rate has hovered around 8 percent for a year. The only thing growing is Obama's popularity. And really, isn't that the most vital thing for America?
White House spokesman Jay Carney says that "we continue to be poised for positive economic growth and job creation." Poised? Yes, we're always poised. Something, someone, may be getting in the way. With the payroll tax holiday expiring and new taxes on the way (via the fiscal cliff deal and the institution of Obamacare), it seems unlikely the next few quarters will feature impressive growth.
We can measure the failure by using benchmarks set by not Rush Limbaugh or Fox News but the administration. In 2009, the White House projected that GDP growth would average 4.6 percent in 2012. The next year, the White House projected that growth would reach 4.3 percent on average last year. In 2011, it downgraded to an average of 3.6 percent. Wrong again. Last year's growth was actually 2.2 percent. And that number was achieved by injecting billions in monthly debt for an array of liberal hobbyhorses.
The GDP numbers may still be revised. But if we weren't waist-high in the worst recovery since the 1800s, none of this would matter. We'd be discussing 4 or 5 percent quarterly growth rather than 1 or 2 percent, whether we cut some military spending or not. Today stagnation is the normal — and totally expected.
David Harsanyi is a columnist and senior reporter at Human Events. Follow him on Twitter @davidharsanyi.
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#212008 - 08/05/13 11:27 AM Rhyming trouble.....
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Rhyming Trouble
There comes to me a question, your ear toward me bow,
Pray listen to my ditty and do not start a row
Ive lots of words peculiar, enough to fill a mow
And thoughts crowd in upon me, like piglets by a sow.
So lay aside your weapons, let no one draw the bow,
And sit yourselves around me, all neatly in a row,
On clover leaves and timothy, all ready for to mow
Alas, we must be moving, the farmer wants to sow.
Cryptox, in the National Puzzlers League publication Enigma, May 1945_________________________
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#214879 - 04/29/14 11:09 AM Re: Rhyming trouble..... [Re: LukeJavan8]
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More Rhyming Trouble
By way of a diversion from the busy life I lead,
I sit outside on summer days and have a pleasant read;
But when the sunshine disappears and clouds begin to lower,
I run indoors in expectation of a heavy shower.
Sometimes the sky is overcast and ponderous as lead,
So lengthy rainstorms are a prospect one can take as read.
I often hold a party when the temperature is lower,
And all my friends are glad to come, except the odd no-shower.
#214886 - 04/29/14 05:04 PM Re: Rhyming trouble..... [Re: A C Bowden]
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so what's the trouble? .. I like the fact you've used the preferred pronunciation of lower :: to be or become dark, gloomy, and threatening; i.e., to rhyme with (heavy) shower
#214889 - 04/29/14 08:26 PM Re: Rhyming trouble..... [Re: LukeJavan8]
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Quote: Cryptox, in the National Puzzlers League publication Enigma, May 1945
Luke, where did you come across this? Did you know that the Enigma is still being published?
#214898 - 04/30/14 11:28 AM Re: Rhyming trouble..... [Re: wofahulicodoc]
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PS. I did not know Enigma was published still.
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The Checkout – Live at Berklee with Jaleel Shaw February 7
January 31, 2013. Posted by Brandy Wood.Add new comment | Filed under: Berklee, berklee college of music, Boris Kozlov, Cafe 939, jaleel shaw, Johnathan Blake, Lawrence Fields, Live Music, npr music, The Checkout, The Checkout Live at Berklee Archive, wbgo
WBGO presents saxophonist Jaleel Shaw Live from the Red Room at Cafe 939, at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, on Thursday, February 7 at 8 p.m. Shaw will be joined in the concert by fellow Berklee alumnus Lawrence Fields on piano, bassist Boris Kozlov, and drummer Johnathan Blake.
Watch the concert live right here or listen to our on-air stream with host Josh Jackson, and join the conversation below.
Like WBGO's other live broadcasts every month, these shows live on in our video archive and at NPRmusic.org.
If you like what you hear, tune in to WBGO's sister station, The Jazz Bee, to hear recordings by Shaw and other cutting-edge performers. Enjoy!
The Checkout – Live at Berklee brings critically acclaimed, New York-based Berklee alumni back to their alma mater for concerts. Shaw is a member of the Roy Haynes Quartet and the Mingus Big Band, and has performed with Christian McBride, Jason Moran, Stefon Harris, Roy Hargrove, Dave Holland, Jimmy Cobb, and more.
Upon graduating from high school in his native Philadelphia, Shaw received a full-tuition scholarship to attend Berklee, where he graduated with degrees in music education and performance. At Berklee, he received the Billboard Endowed Scholarship, two Woodwind Department Awards, the Outstanding Student Teacher Award, and the Boston Jazz Society Award. Shaw then earned a master's in jazz performance from the Manhattan School of Music in New York.
Better Get It In Your Soul .. Mingus at St. Bart's
February 15, 2010. Posted by Becca Pulliam.Add new comment | Filed under: Boris Kozlov, Charles Mingus, concerts, Gunther Schuller, Jazz Alive, Ku-umba Frank Lacy, Live Music, Mingus Orchestra, Sue Mingus
The low ceilings of several New York basements have put a lid on Mingus's music for a long time now. But this past Saturday night it was quite the opposite as the 11-piece Mingus Orchestra played music that stretched over a big footprint and soared into the domed cathedral of St. Bart's Church. As the concert progressed, it sounded better and better.


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I don't post much these days but I'm still a regular lurker
I have that Spice album somewhere on my old computer's hard drive but I'm not using it at the moment. Whenever I retrieve those files I'll let you know
back on topic, for the videos I used a program called stream transport
not sure if it's still around, try googling it
but it let me download the rtmp:// streams quite easily even though slowly (I remember the transfer rate was about the same as the playback's, say the video was 1hr long, the transfer would also take about 1h)
anyway the hard thing to do was to find the rtmp://xxxx link. I had to look into xml files and whatnot....good times lol
I downloaded a bunch of those lectures, Madlib, ?uestlove, Theo Parrish, Chuck D, Georgia & Dudley, etc....but they are all in my dead computer
Liv, you truly are a god amongst men.
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- A framework for service recipient inclusion in community IT projects
- Author(s)
- Felstead, Chris; Stockdale, Rosemary
- Abstract
- Not-for-profit organizations put considerable effort into community-based Information Technology (IT) projects to bridge the gap between the 'haves and the 'have-nots' of the digital divide. However, the outcomes of these IT projects are often seen as problematic with service recipients failing to gain the intended benefits. It is proposed that this is often because the recipients fail to be engaged as a result of being ascribed with belonging to a community without the perceived power or ability to participate. It is also proposed that this is an area for further study with a bias towards using Participatory Design Techniques in conjunction with the model suggested in this paper. The researchers believe that this could provide an area of investigation for an Action Research project.
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- Research centre
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- Proceedings of 'Integration, Interaction, Innovation, Immersion, Inclusion', the Annual Conference of the Australian Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group (OZCHI 2012), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 26-30 November 2012, pp. 134-137
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- 2012
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- Ascribed membership; Community IT projects; Framework; IT Projects; Not-for-profit organisations; Recipients; Service recipients; Services; Stakeholders
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May 31, 2012 —
In the wake of the bombings at the Oklahoma City Federal Building or the World Trade Center, you may remember iconic photos of a firefighter cradling a baby victim or a crew raising the American flag above the twisted girders of a fallen skyscraper. You may have similar images in your mind's eye of heroic rescues in your own communities.
You remember these incidents clearly, indelibly, for one reason: they appeared in newspapers.
Indeed, no two professions are more closely intertwined than print journalism and firefighting. It was publisher Benjamin Franklin who used his community newspaper in 1736 to call for the formation of Philadelphia's Union Fire Company, the first volunteer fire brigade in America.
These days, volunteer firefighters in New York State are having a hard time recruiting new members, leading the Firemen's Association of the State of New York (FASNY) to launch a three-year, $2.1 million statewide recruitment drive called "Is there a FIRE in you?" using a $4.2 million U.S. Department of Homeland Security grant.
FASNY's advertising and PR agencies in New York City, Syracuse and Albany will buy thousands of TV and radio spots, more than 100 billboards, plus ads in movie theaters, online and through social media. The agencies, however, have not seen fit to place their message in the medium that has so loyally covered volunteer firefighters in New York for 275 years.
The New York Press Association, the trade association for community newspapers in New York, tried unsuccessfully by telephone and by email to discuss the ways newspapers could help with the campaign. Curiously, the public relations firm hired by FASNY has leaned on community newspaper editors for free coverage of its advertising campaign, including requests for local stories about firefighters who will be the faces of the campaign.
Community newspapers routinely publish stories about fire department recruitment, open houses, grant programs, fundraising events and awards ceremonies. Community newspapers send reporters and photographers, day or night, to cover fires and accidents. They cover the municipal meetings during which fire department budgets and new equipment spending items are discussed and decided. And, in turn, local fire departments spend local funds with community newspapers to recruit volunteers.
The beef community newspapers have with this ad campaign has nothing to do with local fire companies; the complaint is aimed squarely at FASNY. Recruiting volunteer firefighters is niche marketing at its finest, the very thing that community newspapers excel at. The people who are most likely to volunteer for their local fire department are individuals who care deeply about their communities and the people who live in those communities.
Statewide, community newspapers average over 60% penetration in the communities they serve, while the highest ranked television or radio station averages an eight to nine percent share of the viewing or listening audience.
When major advertising campaigns pay homage to youthful trends at the expense of dedicated traditional journalism, it weakens an enterprise that tells the story of volunteer fire departments with the greatest depth and consistency of any other form of media. We are ever-grateful that most businesses and organizations in our communities understand that their support of independent local journalism means photos of future acts of heroism and generosity will find a home on the pages—as well as the webpages—of their community newspapers.
[Michelle Rea is the Executive Director of the New York Press Association/New York Press Service.]


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5-FAM-streptavidin conjugate has been optimized in fluorophore/protein labeling ratio to ensure high fluorescent signal and uncompromised streptavidin function. 5-FAM (5-Carboxyfluorescein) is one of the most popular green fluorophores used for protein labeling. It has the same excitation (495nm) and emission (520nm) wavelengths as FITC. But unlike FITC, whose thiourea bond with protein is unstable resulting in the release of free dye from the protein conjugates over time, the succinimidyl ester (SE) reactive form of 5-FAM reacts with the amine group on the protein and forms stable carboxamide bonds, which is identical to natural peptide bonds. 5-FAM-streptavidin conjugates can withstand treatments during immunofluorescent staining, fluorescence in situ hybridization, flow cytometry and other biological applications without hydrolysis.


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Italian CheesecakeDecember 2006
This dense, creamy classic is a house specialty at La Pastaria restaurant in Summit, New Jersey.
Makes: 8 servings
Prep: 15 mins
Bake: 2 hrs
- 3 pounds ricotta cheese
- 9 large eggs
- 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
- Grated peel and juice from 1 orange
- 1/4 cup heavy cream
- 2 tablespoons pure vanilla extract
- Confectioners sugar, for sprinkling
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees . Butter and flour a 10-inch springform pan and place it on a baking sheet.
- Using an electric mixer, combine the ricotta, eggs, granulated sugar, orange peel and juice, cream and vanilla. Pour into the prepared pan and bake for 11/2 hours. Turn off the oven and let the cake rest inside for 30 minutes. Let cool, then sprinkle with confectioners sugar.