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The University of Hawaii returned $32 million to the National Institutes of Health Tuesday. It was money that was to help build a state-of- the-art biohazard laboratory in Kalaeloa.
Failure to reach a lease agreement with the military is one of the reasons for pulling the plug on the plan.
Another is the business plan that would have put the University on the hook for more than $2 million in operating costs.
With the project on hold, there is also $15 million in state funding that could be used elsewhere.
One of the projects under consideration is considered by some to be in the worst condition of any building on campus.
The sorry state of Snyder Hall isn't something a university can be proud of.
You can see the rust and smell the mold in the leaky, creaky structure.
The laboratory sinks don't work, and some equipment is so old you can't get parts.
Looks are deceiving in one second-floor lab where all the glassware from the labs gets sterilized.
Everything from beakers to petri dishes, all get put into autoclaves.
But what's scary is what the students don't see.
The steam vent behind the autoclaves is literally eating away at the walls of the room.
The biology labs, which are more than 50 years old, support the University's largest undergraduate program.
So if you're a student paying tuition, imagine the shock of working in these conditions.
Its overhaul is a top priority for UH Manoa.
So is the construction of a small BSL 3 laboratory-- a sophisticated, secure lab that can be tapped in the event of an infectious-disease outbreak.
"At least we have something smaller in scope and we can continue to do research in infectious diseases, and also to have the ability to respond in the case of an outbreak," said Vasillis Syrmos, vice-chancellor for research.
Without a state of the art lab to back up another facility at the medical school.
Syrmos maintains the need to overhaul Snyder remains high.
"It's not going to go away. It's not a questions of if, but when, the next incident is going to happen," Syrmos said.
The goal is to transform Snyder Hall into what is now taking shape in the building next door, at Edmundson Hall.
The former dean of biology, Chris Womersley gave us a tour of new labs that will be in use later this fall.
"We can switch all of these around. We have the modular design we can raise these up they are all adjustable," said Womersley, gesturing to the lab tables.
Unlike in Synder, there are emergency shutoff valves for power and gas.
They are dream labs for professors and students working under less than ideal conditions now.
It is what's possible, sooner than later, if the money gets included in the budget.
A dreary reality in Snyder now, with hopes it gets transformed soon.
"It's worse than embarrassing," Womerley said.
But transferring the $15 million to this project isn't so simple.
It will need approval from the UH president, the Board of Regents and state lawmakers.
All that needs to happen in the next few weeks before the end of the legislative session.
And there are competing needs from other campuses, like West Oahu, the UH Hilo Pharmacy School.
And there's the pressing backlog of repairs to the general Manoa campus, some-- which deal with health and safety.


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Attack on democracyMarch 02,2014
The House Education Committee is considering a bill that would deliver a body blow to local democracy in Vermont while pursuing the phantom of education reform. Gov. Peter Shumlin has spoken favorably about the bill, and his new education secretary, Rebecca Holcombe, testified in its support before the committee last week.
It is always tempting to pander to property tax payers, but if Shumlin were to back the forced abolition of local school boards, it would represent a shameless reversal of his previously held position.
The committee is at work on a bill that would eliminate the authority of town school boards, creating a super-board at the district level that would oversee numerous schools in a district equivalent to a supervisory union. It is seen as a way of saving money and helping schools improve education for children.
No one has described how either benefit would occur. The bill is really a make-life-easy-for-the-superintendent bill, a reshuffling of the education bureaucracy that would destroy the civic life of small towns from Pownal to Canaan.
Often school consolidation measures emerge as pipe dreams of Chittenden County politicians or education bureaucrats who look at well-functioning large districts, as in Burlington, and conclude that the rest of Vermont might function in the same way.
Indeed, large districts such as Burlington and Rutland have many advantages because they are unified municipalities. But the rest of Vermont is not like that. For the many small towns of Vermont, the local school board is the most important and active democratic entity in town. It is the focus of a towns civic life. It engages townspeople in the most important and expensive activity of their local government. To take away their authority over budget decisions would be to undermine local democracy throughout Vermont.
In place of local boards, responsive to local concerns, there would be a large district board where each small town might have one representative among many. In suburban Chittenden County, that sort of governance might be acceptable. In most of Vermont, it is not.
Educators talk about the improved education the new system would provide. But how the bulking up of a central office 10 or 15 miles away would improve education in a local school has never been explained. Improving the quality of teaching is an important goal, and it is possible now through the active support of the central office and the effective leadership of a principal.
Holcombe complained that educational quality is uneven among the many schools of Vermont. But that is the human predicament. Some teachers and principals are better than others. No one has said how shifting authority away from local towns would provide better teachers or principals.
The financial savings that would result from the consolidation of authority are also something of a chimera. Is the bulk purchasing of copy paper worth the tumultuous transformation now being contemplated? Schools will still need principals and teachers, and the district will still need superintendents and assistants. If administrators are no longer required to attend to the needs of multiple school boards because the boards no longer have real authority, what that means is the administrators have been permitted to ignore local concerns. Otherwise, the central office will still require personnel to help local schools.
Consolidation always lurks as a potential reform when administrators have run out of other ideas. The Legislature has taken steps to encourage local districts to consolidate schools. A few have done so. But it should be a telling signal that many have looked at the prospect and refused.
Holcombe commented that when she was principal of a small school, the local district could not afford an assistant principal. How removing the authority of the local board would change that was left unexplained.
The state of Vermont is what it is: a state of many dispersed, independent-minded towns that want to run their own affairs. There are advantages and disadvantages. Test scores suggest the state is doing quite well despite the disadvantages. State policymakers should not undermine the advantages.
Instead, they should refrain from pandering to the perennial complaint about taxes and defend a system that Shumlin himself has described as the best in the nation. Improvements in education are always necessary, especially professional development to ensure that teachers in the classroom know how to teach effectively. Those efforts might well be intensified.
Numerous forces are driving taxes higher this year, including declining enrollment. Luckily, most Vermonters are protected because of the provision of the law that pegs taxes to income.
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Neil L. Moore, 58, a resident of the Clover Run Community, Parsons, departed this life Friday, Oct. 25, 2013, at his home. He had been in his usual health. Death was sudden and unexpected and attributed to a massive heart attack.
He was born Sunday, May 29, 1955, at Parsons, a son of the late Brown Moore and Dorothy Evelyn Price Moore, who survives at Clover Run, Parsons.
On August 18, 1979, at Leadmine, he was married to the former Nancy Lea Watring, who survives.
Also surviving are one son, Bryan Neil Moore and wife, Alena, of Mountain Lake Park, Md.; one brother, Terrance Brown "Terry" Moore and wife, Debbie, of Blackman Heights, Hambleton; one sister, Nancy Lou Moore Shaffer and husband, John, of Nestorville; his mother-in-law, Mary Elizabeth Knotts Watring; two sisters-in-law, Mary Jane Smith and husband, Wayne, and Rebecca Ann Filler and husband, Rick, all of Horseshoe Run Road; six nephews; one niece; and 10 great-nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his father-in-law, Berdean O. Watring; and one nephew, Steven Shaffer.
He was a graduate of Parsons High School with the class of 1973, of which he was a four-year member of F.F.A. and vice president, a member of the yearbook staff, the journalism club, the Parsons Echo school paper and a teacher's aide. He was a graduate of Davis & Elkins College with the class of 1998, of which he was a member of the Phi Beta Lambda, a national business fraternity, and Beta Alpha Beta Fraternity. He was an employee of Citizens Bank of WV, where he was a personal banker and licensed in investments.
He was a member of the Parsons Lions Club, of which he was the treasurer. Neil loved the outdoors, hunting, fishing, sports and movies.
The family will receive friends at Lohr & Barb Funeral Home of Parsons from 5 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday. Final rites will be conducted from the funeral home parlor at 11:30 a.m., Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013. The Rev. Neil Precht and Rev. James Snyder will officiate and interment will follow at the Pifer Mountain Cemetery at St. George.
The family suggests that expressions of sympathy be in the form of contributions to the Five River Library, 301 Walnut Street, Parsons, WV 26287 or the Parsons Lions Club, c/o Gerold Matlick, 100 Pinecrest Drive, Parsons, WV 26287.
Lohr & Barb Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements for Neil L. Moore. Condolences may be expressed to the family at www.lohrbarbfuneralhome.com.


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RUSH: We go back to Eureka, South Dakota, this is Charlie. I'm glad you waited, sir. Welcome to the EIB Network.
CALLER: Rush, thank you very much.
RUSH: You bet, sir.
CALLER: I am totally honored and humbled by being able to wish you, sir -- the supreme conservative commander of the world -- mega dittos and Merry Christmas.
RUSH: Thank you very much, and the same to you, sir.
CALLER: I have a number of things about Mike Huckabee that I really, really love and I'd like to push one really neat idea. When my kids were in school, I told my children that if your science teacher wants to talk about evolution, you raise your hand, you stand up, and you say, "Sir, if you want to think that you came from apes, my father has instructed me to let you think that, but the Hoffmans do not, sir," and Mike Huckabee's conservative response to the creationism on national television to millions and millions of people, just put fear into the hearts of all the liberals who want to think that there is somebody else out there besides God running our lives.
RUSH: All right, I'm very curious. I'm glad you called, Charlie, because you're an avowed, committed Huckster, and I want to ask you, what is it primarily about Mr. Huckabee, Governor Huckabee, that excites you? Is it that he's a Baptist minister, former Baptist minister, and is saying things that resonate with you on matters of like you just said, creation and God, is that the primary reason he's attractive to you?
CALLER: Really what I'm attracted to, Rush, is he is kind. He is thoughtful. He is the quickest man on his feet with the correct answers that I think have a moral basis, better than all the other candidates.
RUSH: What all do you know about his policies and the things that he did as governor, the things that he said policy-wise during his presidential campaign?
CALLER: I do not know a lot about what happened in Arkansas. I -- I know that he took on the Clinton machine and he beat them.
RUSH: Well, okay. I actually think he's a populist like Clinton is. I think one of the ways he was... In some states, and Arkansas is one of them, they're really not Republican or Democrat. They're populist in a lot of ways, and Clinton mastered that. I think Huckabee did, too. I think he was able to win the same way in Arkansas that Clinton did, with populism. He's under some fire right now, Charlie, for something. A little piece he wrote in Foreign Affairs, which is the publication of the Council on Foreign Relations, and I want to read to you the opening two paragraphs and just get your reaction to it. I'm not trying to put you on the spot -- and if you'd rather not, I won't -- but, if you'd like to hear them, I'll read them to you and get your reaction.
CALLER: Okay.
RUSH: This is the only two paragraphs. "The United States, as the world's only superpower, is less vulnerable to military defeat. But it is more vulnerable to the animosity of other countries. Much like a top high school student, if it is modest about its abilities and achievements, if it is generous in helping others, it is loved. But if it attempts to dominate others, it is despised. American foreign policy needs to change its tone and attitude, open up, and reach out. The Bush administration's arrogant bunker mentality has been counterproductive at home and abroad. My administration will recognize that the United States' main fight today does not pit us against the world, but pits the world against the terrorists. At the same time, my administration will never surrender any of our sovereignty, which is why I was the first presidential candidate to oppose ratification of the Law of the Sea Treaty, which would endanger both our national security and our economic interests." What's your reaction when you hear those two paragraphs?
CALLER: I would have to say that I would agree with the latter part, being that I don't think it's in our best interests to follow what the UN is doing. I think we should be autonomous from that.
RUSH: Well, that's the Law of the Sea Treaty, but he didn't just attack the UN. He aimed at the Bush administration, and he said it's an "arrogant bunker mentality that's been counterproductive at home and abroad." He also said that America, "like a high school student: If it is modest about its abilities and achievements and generous in helping others, it's loved." Now, I think there's no more generous country in the world than the United States. I don't know what he means by that.
CALLER: I agree a hundred percent, and I would say, too, though, to that, the decrease in deaths in Iraq today would be a firm commitment to that we are following the correct path and George Bush did do the right thing by going in and taking Saddam out.
RUSH: So Huckabee writes this piece basically savaging the Bush administration's "arrogant bunker mentality." Now, one thing I know, I remember back in the '92 campaign, Ross Perot came along, and I had my instincts. I had misgivings about it from the get-go, and I shared those misgivings, and I tried to talk the Perot people out of it. "You people are being fooled. He's not even serious about wanting to be elected. There's something else going on here. I'm going to get to the bottom of it and find out." I found out what it was. When it looked like he was going to win, he pulled out, then he got back in. He basically gave the election to the Democrats and Bill Clinton. But what I remember is that all during that period -- when I was so intense and so purposefully desirous of trying to get the Perot people to see the light -- they didn't want to see it. They were like cultists, and I learned that you cannot talk cultists out of their cult. You just have to let 'em see it for themselves in the time it takes for it all to unfold, and I think with Huckabee, I don't think his people are cultists, don't misunderstand.
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: But I think there are two or three things about him that have drawn people to him, that are going to make them overlook some other things that ought to raise some red flags.
CALLER: Okay. I would have to agree and state that he might be trying to work his way towards the middle, which, in America today, I think if you're going to try to get 54, 55% of the vote and become president, you need to be closer to the middle than the outside.
RUSH: Well, now, what is the outside? Is mainstream conservatism the outside?
CALLER: Uhhh.
RUSH: See, Ronald Reagan didn't move to "the middle." Ronald Reagan got two landslides on straight, down the middle conservatism. It wins nationally every time it's tried.
CALLER: Right. Right. I would say the conservatives today in America aren't out there on the fringe. We do have compassion. We do need to take care of people who are less fortunate than us, but we also can't give money to the government --
RUSH: No.
CALLER: -- expecting them to do it.
RUSH: Conservatives have the compassion to tell people less fortunate than us how to change their circumstances, how to educate them, how to teach them. Because we believe, as conservatives in the full potential of every human being, based on how much that human being wants it, and that's what we try to do. We count compassion by how many people don't need federal assistance anymore.
CALLER: I agree.
RUSH: That's our definition of compassion.
CALLER: I agree. We get up everyday. We have one thing that we need to work on. That's our own attitude. We can either make to or break it --
RUSH: Right.
CALLER: -- in the first five minutes of the morning.
RUSH: My only point to you is that -- and I'm not going to repeat what I did with Perot, because it's not going to work. The only thing I'll say to you is, "I think if you dug deep, you would find..." Well, you admitted it. You think Huckabee is "moving to the middle," because he's moving to the middle, he's abandoning what? The right. He'll stick solid on certain things on the right because he knows that he is attracting a portion of the population based on religious and moral and ethical values, which is fine, but on some of these other areas that also define conservatism like taxes and so forth, he doesn't have the pedigree. But I'm not going to try to talk you out of it. No, I don't even think about it. I'm not trying to talk you out of it. I'm not attacking you because I know you can't, because you called here and you think he's the one true conservative out there because of the things that matter a lot to you, he's right on the money on them. So we'll see what unfolds in the few short weeks ahead to when we finally get nominees for both parties. In the meantime, Charlie, thanks for the call. It's great to talk to you. Thanks for enduring my, quote, unquote, "challenge." You're a gutsy guy.
RUSH: Pete Wehner, who used to work in the White House (he was on Karl Rove's staff, number one behind Rove) has a piece today on Huckabee. It's at National Review Online, and he also wants to take issue with the first two paragraphs of Huckabee's essay that he wrote in Foreign Affairs magazine, particularly the claim by Huckabee that we're too mean around the world; we're trying to dominate the world, and we need to be more like a top high school student, modest about our abilities and achievements, generous, and then we will be loved. If we keep dominating people, we'll be despised, and "the Bush administration's arrogant and bunker mentality has been counterproductive at home and abroad." Now, understandably, Mr. Wehner, is a former member of the president's staff working with Karl Rove. So keep that in mind as I share with you just some brief comments from his essay today.
"The fact is that the United States has sacrificed an enormous amount of blood and treasure to help other nations. Any suggestion otherwise is wrong and even offensive." This animus against the US. "We have, for starters, liberated more than 50 million people from two of the most repressive regimes in modern history (the Taliban and the Baathist police state in Iraq)." That doesn't count all the others that have been liberated over the course of our existence. "The global AIDS initiative qualifies as among the most humane and generous acts in the history of American foreign policy. We give billions in additional foreign aid, including the enormous generosity America displayed in helping Indonesia and other nations in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami ... The United States, while imperfect, ranks as perhaps the most benevolent superpower (to say nothing of its status as a benevolent nation) in human history. Unlike past empires, we are using American power and influence for great good instead of as a means of advancing oppression.
"Beyond that, the belief that if we are modest and generous we will be 'loved' by other nations, and that anger at America is based on our attempts to 'dominate,' is both naive and foolish. Some nations (like Cuba, Syria, Iran, North Korea, and others) will oppose us because they are totalitarian states that hate our efforts to curb their ambitions and advance freedom and self-determination. They are not the loving kind. Other nations (like France under Jacques Chirac) will oppose us because they can't stand the idea of a unipolar world and want to counterbalance it. And other nations (like [the ChiComs] and Russia) will oppose our efforts to end genocide in Darfur and keep Iran from gaining nuclear weapons because of their economic interests. Memo to Mike Huckabee: Sometimes we are despised for all the right reasons" -- Pete Wehner. That's just an excerpt from his piece at National Review Online today.
RUSH: I got something for you to think about here before we go to the break. If you really want the world to love us, really want the world to love us, stop foreign aid. Just cut 'em off! You'll see every country on this planet look at us with love, affection, open arms. They'll come begging on bended knee.
RUSH: I'm serious, and I remember proposing this way back in the early nineties: a drastic change to foreign aid. We have two lists. We have the list of supportive, good countries, and we have the excrement list -- and if you're a country, you don't want to be on the excrement list. How do you get on the excrement list? Very simple. All you do is trash us. You run around, and you criticize our country, you criticize our president while you're taking billions in aid from us, you get on the excrement list, and you get cut off -- and you don't get off the excrement list until you've done two years of praising this country and thanking it and so forth. I guarantee you, it will never happen, but it would make us the most loved nation on the face of the Earth -- until about a year after they get off the excrement list, then if they start trashing us again, then we'd have to put 'em back on the excrement list, and we'd have to have the guts to keep doing that.
RUSH: This is No-dra in Palm Desert, California, or Nah-dra. How do you pronounce your name?
CALLER: Nah-dra. [Spelled "Nodra."]
RUSH: Nah-dra. I got it right the second time. Welcome to the program.
CALLER: Thank you, and Merry Christmas.
RUSH: Same to you.
CALLER: Huckabee, there is a [George C. Scott] movie that was made quite a few years ago. It was called The Flim-Flam Man.
RUSH: (laughter) Yes.
CALLER: That's Huckabee.
RUSH: I thought you were talking about Elmer Gantry for a second.
CALLER: (laughing) Well, probably that, too, but anyway, it's a movie. He's a water diviner and he keeps double-talking everything and everybody looking for his water, and that reminds me of Huckabee.
RUSH: What do you have against Huckabee?
CALLER: What?
RUSH: What do you have against Huckabee?
CALLER: What do I have against Huckabee? He says one thing one time to an audience and another thing to another audience.
RUSH: Like?
CALLER: In Arkansas he raised taxes. Everything that he could tax, he raised, and now he's telling people he doesn't believe in raising taxes.
RUSH: Even though he's done it as governor?
CALLER: Even though he's done it as governor. So that --
RUSH: Well, who is your candidate out there, Nodra?
CALLER: Me! No, I don't have one. (laughing)
RUSH: (laughs) We all think we could be doing better jobs than these guys are!
CALLER: (laughter) Probably, right now. But the other thing Huckabee is a minister in a church. Would we elect a Catholic priest?
RUSH: Well, he's "former."
CALLER: You're never a "former." I mean, once you're a minister, you always have that Word behind you and that feeling behind you, and would you elect a rabbi as a president?
RUSH: Would you elect a first lady?
CALLER: If it was the right one.
RUSH: Yeah, okay. (laughs)
CALLER: (laughing)
RUSH: I thought I'd trip you up; you're too fast for me.
CALLER: Well...
RUSH: By the way, what's the weather like out in Palm Desert today?
CALLER: Sixty.
RUSH: Sixties. Is that normal for this time of year?
CALLER: Yes. Probably December and the first part of January are our coldest months. Now we start warming up to 70 and 80.
RUSH: Well, cool. I hope you have a Merry Christmas, as you said at the beginning, Nodra. Thanks so much, I have to run because of the constraints time and the very complicated programming format.
CALLER: Have a good day.
RUSH: You do the same.


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I went back to the story to be sure I was right on what I had posted. I was. They were both hit by 75 pound of steel. They were asked if the incident would affect their view of the sport. They said no that they were aware of the dangers. When asked what they would want if they were offered anything because of the incident and the lady said she'd want 2 tickets in the best seats for the rest of her life.
I love her humor.......
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WHY! Why, Why, Why, Why, WHY???
Okay, the word "why" is starting to look and sound really weird. I must have pondered that decision for hours. Girardi is an idiot. Seriously. I am really mad at him right now. My anger didn't subside yet. It won't until they win tonight. My God. How can anyone be that stupid? Watching them lose to the butt-ugly-non-cutie Angel team made me sick. I managed to avoid throwing my shoe this time, but I did go on a cursing rampage. Ask A.J. over at "Yankee Yapping." He'll tell you how infuriated I was. I also punched my thigh and it still hurts a bit. When the Yankees lose like this, I get angry. It is not healthy. If they care about me even just 1% as much as I care for them, then they would win tonight so I don't kill myself. My Yankees lost game 3 of the ALCS 5-4.
Pitching Analysis: Andy Pettitte was great yesterday. It's really a shame that they lost. He allowed 3 runs over 6 & 1/3 innings. Andy did his job very well. Joba came in with 1 out in the 7th, and was totally ineffective. He let the go-ahead run score. Coke and Hughes pitched the 8th, and Hughes also pitched the 9th, and gave up a leadoff double to Mathis in the 10th. He was pulled for Mo, who gave a gutsy performance and escaped a bases loaded jam without allowing a run.
David Robertson got two EASY outs in the 11th. And, for some unknown reason, Girardi pulls him for Aceves. WHY? I-friggin-DK. Ace gave up a run in game 2, but thanks to Arod that was erased. Taking out a dominant guy and replacing him with a not-as-dominant guy who allowed a run the other day is an absolutely inane, brainless move. And sure enough, Aceves eff-ed things up for the Yankees, and for me. I don't even want to think about it. Do you have any idea what seeing THIS sh!t does to me?:
I don't wanna see this. EVER AGAIN. The YANKEES are the walkoff guys. Not the Angels. STOP CELEBRATING!!! YOU SUCK! YOU ONLY WON BECAUSE GIRARDI IS A MORON!!! IT WASN'T BECAUSE OF YOUR SKILL! YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO CELEBRATE!
Okay, on to offense.
Offensive Analysis: The Yankees' 4 runs came on the strength of 4 solo homers. By Jeet, Arod, Johnny, and Jorge. That was it. Just homers. Now I love the longball, but they need to score in other ways. The Yankees were horrible with runners in scoring position yesterday. They had a ton of chanced to break the game open, and they couldn't do it.
Okay, so I was miserable after this loss. But hey. At least we have a 2-1 lead in the series. And at least we are in the postseason. C "Cy" tonight, I think he's the perfect guy ot have on the mound for tonight. GO YANKEES! I STILL LOVE YOU! AND I ALWAYS WILL!!!
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Oh Virginia, you should never hit yourself. If it ever comes to that point, you buy a rally monkey* and torture it
[* – a stuffed one, of course]
But anyway, yesterday was pretty gross. CC's gonna get us out of it. I can feel it in my bones. LET'S GOOOOOO !!!
Sorry about the loss yesterday. I would appreciate if you showed at least a tiny, little bit of respect to the Angels. I've been rooting for them and honestly, the way you wrote about the Angels really pissed me off. They are a great team and they do NOT suck. It was a just a tough loss for the Yankees and it's not the end of the world for them. Simple as that. I am not going to start some kind of fight with this thing. Hell no. Both Yankees and the Angels are strong teams and they deserve to play like this in the ALCS. By the way, congrats on being number 33 on the latest leader's list.
Yes, you WERE infuriated! It made me mad, too, but it is difficult to win extra innings games on the road. (I mentioned that in my blog) But I can imagine your frustration…hope you didn't go on a tirade like the Angry Nintendo Nerd..lol
didn't I tell you Girardi is a Cro-Magnon moron?
They'll probably still win despite him!


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Shumlin to rely on payroll tax hikes
MONTPELIER Gov. Peter Shumlin said increases in the payroll tax will play a major role in the public financing system he wants to use to fund single-payer health care.
The public discussion over single-payer has taken a back seat of late to the health insurance exchange set to come online in the beginning of October. The new online marketplace, a product of the federal Affordable Care Act, will offer consumers a platform from which to comparison shop from a more strictly regulated slate of coverage options.
But even as the state launches a $6 million outreach campaign aimed at building awareness of Vermont Health Connect, as the exchange is being called, Shumlin said his administration still has its eyes on the single-payer prize.
What (the exchange) does is basically subsidize the current system, so thats OK, Shumlin said. But like most things that come out of Congress, it doesnt really solve the problem.
In an interview this week on City Room, a public-access cable show, Shumlin said hes still committed to delivering a publicly financed, universal health care system by 2017. And his administration, he said, is readying a financing plan that will rely in large part on the payroll tax.
And the question is where do you have capacity in the other taxes income, sales, room and meals, we all know what they are to be able to integrate some of those taxes with a payroll tax to come up with a more fair system based upon ability to pay, Shumlin said. And thats the challenge for the Legislature. And for us.
The challenge of developing a plan looks to be falling more on Shumlin than on his Democratic colleagues in the Statehouse, who rejected a plan earlier this year to split responsibility for the development of a public-financing proposal between the legislative and executive branches.
The administration is spearheading that task now, with input from lawmakers, and will present a proposal to the Legislature in January 2015.
Shumlin said theres no question that the payroll tax will figure prominently in the plan, but that his administration will have to figure out how to avoid the kind of economic disruption that would inevitably accompany a sudden increase in the surcharge on wages.
For companies that already provide health insurance to their employees, Shumlin said, the new payroll tax wont be terribly jarring.
Right now as an employer I can tell you that I pay something that I call a health care tax And for businesses that are already paying a health care premium ... its not a big shock to tell us were going to be paying a payroll tax instead of a health care premium, Shumlin said. We dont care what you call it, were already paying it.
The problem with the payroll tax, according to Shumlin, arises when the new surcharge is assessed on Vermont companies that dont already provide insurance.
And the question is how to ratchet in the folks that are paying nothing slowly enough so it doesnt hurt their bottom line, Shumlin said.
Ultimately, he said that in the single-payer system, the state needs to have everybody whos in business in Vermont paying something.
Shumlin said the job will be a heavy lift politically. But he said hes convinced the debate is a winnable one.
Opponents are going to say this will be the biggest tax increase in Vermont history. Fair enough, Shumlin said. But its going to be the biggest health care premium reduction in American history. Were just going to swap a health care premium for a publicly financed health care premium.
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|Flofer Nighthawk
|Harl Marrhammer
|'Countess' Victoria
"So finally I meet with the Queen of Hearts, so named because you take them by fair means or foul?"
Victoria waits to see who this woman is, and what influence she might have over her favourite knifeman.
|DM Zyren/ Heart of Light
By whatever means are necessary.
comes a soft voice from within the shadows
Follow me, I bet it's starting to rain again soon.
The door opens and the crimson-haired woman known as the Queen of Hearts asks you to come in.
The ground floor of the house consists only of one large parlour with heavy red carpets on the floor and white furniture. Hearts are everywhere: On paintings, pillows formed like them, on the table cloth, on the wallpapers etc.
The vixen grins as she notices Kirk's expression
Well, you have to stay true, don't you think?
Aramis growls quietly as Harl suddenly appears in front of him
Sometimes I feel sorry for your declining race...but not today...and you he turns to Flofer Hit the road, you clown! If your elven friend does not want to find a mutual agreement with me, it's his own fault if he loses to this Narumek.
|Flofer Nighthawk
Hit the road, hit the road,
Aramis slipped on a slimy toad,
running away from Narumek,
afraid he'd break his fat little neck... Flofer strums on.
Psst! Harl, Narumek's the guy who has that black armor, right? he whispers out of the corner of his mouth.
Narumek all dressed in black,
with his little cape hanging off his back,
On the other side is Aramis,
with his trousers filled up with...chicken
|Harl Marrhammer
|Flofer Nighthawk
|'Countess' Victoria
|DM Zyren/ Heart of Light
Not at all
she smiles and looks expectantly at Kirk
I guess you've come to speak about Aramis de Voisseur - or Jacques de Boche, as he is known to the people of the Boarwood in Galt...
Aramis grimaces and walks over to his squire and readies his bow.
A judge now enters the archery range and points at bales of hay with targets affixed to them.
Dear knights of Sinaria, archery has always been one of the many talents the counts of this land have possessed. In times of peace it's done for sports and hunting, in times of war it can thin the enemy lines...tonight you will have to prove how able you can handle bow and arrow. In the first round you will have to hit a target 20m away - a very simple task.
Aramis laughs loudly
20m? What a joke, I can do that blindsighted, hah!
|DM Zyren/ Heart of Light
; according to this table:
Scroll Costs
|GM Harpwizard
"In the first round you will have to hit a target 20m away - a very simple task."
"I would be honored to put myself forward for this test. If you are ready, I will begin." Solaric holds his bow firmly in his hand, and then he places an arrow upon the string. The elf pulls the arrow back to his ear and concentrates. He then releases the arrow and lets it fly.
1d20 + 4 ⇒ (13) + 4 = 17
|Kirk Spearborn
"Indeed, I have. We are of the opinion that he is attempting to win the tournament using... unscrupulous means, at best. He wants the Countess's hand, and he's determined to get it. We could probably get him thrown out of the tournament based on behavior and conduct alone, but that might be too messy."
"Solaric Zekkaran is brave, strong, and noble. He deserves to sit at the Countess's side, and they both deserve more than the treacherousness spectacle Aramis is undoubtedly planning."
"What would you do in our situation, milady? Something must be done, and things could escalate if its not done soon."
|Flofer Nighthawk
|'Countess' Victoria
"Kirk has well summed the situation, the man is a boar and a boor, and has no place being any sort of fit consort of the Countess. There would be a lot of suffering and tragedy should he be elevated to such influence, and it would be bad for business"
|Harl Marrhammer
|DM Zyren/ Heart of Light
Solaric's arrow flies true and hits the target. Some knights nod, but Aramis just snorts
Child's play!
The DC of the bales is always 10
Aramis attacking Hay Bale 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (16) + 7 = 23
The Queen smiles genuinely as she listens to your little story
So you're little helpers of Shelyn, mhm? How romantic...and there's nothing in it for you? Well, as I indicated, Aramis de Voisseur has not always been his name. He was born and raised in a small village in the Boarwood and worked as a beater for the count of Voisseur...whose only son died during a hunt...
she lets her last words trail off, waiting for your reaction.
@ Jo: Correct
|'Countess' Victoria
"Well that makes sense, that man has a regal bloodline about as pure as porridge. I took him for a pig, I am glad my judgement of his character has borne out to be true, I hate to think the worst of people without foundation"
"Of course there is something in it for us, a happy ending. Who doesn't love a happy ending? Of course it becomes a little bit of an argument of it being 'Happy' for whom; I hardly expect Aramais to be weeping with joy, weeping yes, joy no"
|Narumek The Unforgiving
|DM Zyren/ Heart of Light
Sir Narumek, you may now use one of the three gilded arrows every contestant has in his quiver. the judge says before turning to the whole group of knights
Everyone of you has these three gilded arrows he may use over the course of the competition whenever he misses the target in a certain round.
Pah Aramis snorts That won't help you, Narumek - you can't even hit the door of a barn with that piece of wood you call a bow!
@ Jo: Yeah, no problem
So what are you going to do with that information? You may have already guessed it, there have been investigations back then in Galt and many people were curious about the circumstances of the young lord's death, but in the end, no one found any proof of Aramis' guilt.
|Narumek The Unforgiving
After a while he raises his head, pets Ivy and thinks about his next steps...
|'Countess' Victoria
"What will we do with this information? Nothing, it is of no great value at this point in time. The man is not in a winning position so we have little to gain by bringing him into question, and if anything we show our hand early by doing so. What the information does suggest though that if it is true then we face a lesser repurcussion from trimming the Galtish family tree - they won't miss an adoptee quite as much as a legitimate heir, and should they create a nuisance about the issue we could certainly use the illegitimacy to silence them anyway"
"Perhaps you are the Queen of Hearts; I suppose that either makes me the Queen of Clubs representing what my obstacles soon get hit with, or the Queen of Spades on account of them unerringly ending buried in a shallow grave"
"Your information simply makes my choices a little easier and less complicated"
|DM Zyren/ Heart of Light
@ Johenric:
The texts from Carrion Hill, written in the weird language Aklo, a language used by such different but nonetheless hideous races like the linnorm, aboleths, shogoths and gibbering mouthers begin to confuse you after the first lines
Make a will check DC 20
We do the closed room after you have read/ tried to read the texts.
@ Narumek:
Aramis grins, he seems satisfied with bringing your blood to boil. The judge however, points at the gilded arrows
I guess you will use one? Otherwise you will be eliminated in this round.
@ Vicky:
Interesting - I had expected you to run around and spread the news as soon as you can...I like people who can patiently sit in the shadows waiting for the right moment to come...which brings me to the next thing I found out...I heard that Aramis has used some of his contacts to make sure that a group of Ulfen mercenaries has been taken into the ranks of the city guard.
Did anybody already investigate these magical items?
3 Scrolls - gentle repose(found during Carrion hill; after the death of the second victim)
1 Spellbook(found during Carrion hill; after the death of the second victim)
Strange looking, rusty key, with CHA embossed on it. (found during Carrion hill; after the death of the second victim)
2 Rings (found during Carrion hill; after the death of the second victim)
Red potion (found during Carrion hill; after the death of the second victim)
|'Countess' Victoria
"Mercenaries? Well that is something. A few well placed people can always make a large hole, and the Ulfens aren't shy of spilling blood, they shed it like a sailor spills coin in a whorehouse."
"Suppose now we need to find the middleman between Aramais and the Mercenaries, he would no doubt be passing orders to them via an intermediary, because I would be willing to throw a few coins into a wager that he had set instructions for this intermdiary to carry out some foul deed should Aramais end up as filler for cheap pastries sold on the wharves"
"Thank you for the information, of course, whilst curiously asking my motivations and rewards in all this I note you haven't been forthcoming with your own... perhaps you have something to benefit too from Armais coming to a bad end, or is it just an overwhelming sense of civic duty?"
|Narumek The Unforgiving
|Harl Marrhammer
|DM Zyren/ Heart of Light
The judge steps back and nods
Then you may fire again.
@ Jo:
I guess all objects from carrion Hill have been identified/ and or used by now.
You are able to concentrate and shield your mind from the dark energies emanated by the book. The text tells of a world beyond the stars, a dark universe where horrors like the Yog-Sothoth dwell, waiting to invade distant worlds.
The more you read of the text, the more your mind becomes swamped with the horrors depiced and displayed in strangely crude drawings...
If you want to read on Pass a Will save DC 25
The Queen of Hearts smiles and puts one of her golden locks behind her ear
The man you're looking for is a certain Vaclav Klaus, a sergeant of the guard who is responsible for recruiting. then she hesitates for a moment My motifs? Didn't he tell you? she looks at Kirk now.
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Full of curiosity but disgusted by the dark text, Johenric folds the sheets and put it back in his backpack.
Ivy, I think this is not our priority now; however in the future we might need it. Now, I think we have to solve another riddle. Get Action where action needed....
Johenric packs his staff, put Ivy on his shoulder and moves to the academy to investigate the room.
|'Countess' Victoria
"My friend is a man of tight lips and silent secrets, he has passed to me very little, I'd like to hear it from you...the source is always preferrable to second hand information after all"
|DM Zyren/ Heart of Light
Isabel smiles and gives Kirk a knowing look
He has just promised me that once the time has come he will help me out with his "special skills".
The Vizyalesh academy is as dark and terrifying as it was the last time you visited it. The heavy black oak doors groan creepily as you push them open and the empty corridors don't look any more inviting than they did last time.
Directly to the secured room?
|GM Harpwizard
|Harl Marrhammer
Johenric pushing the door open steps inside the academy. He takes a breaths and oversees the room.
Perception 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (10) + 7 = 17
After taking a deep breath, he casts dancing lights and let them enlighten dark niches.
Perception 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (12) + 7 = 19
By letting the dancing lights moving up front about 15 ft., Johenric positioned at the limb of light goes slowly but surely towards the secured door.
|'Countess' Victoria
|Kirk Spearborn
"And I expect you'll be letting me know as soon as those skills are needed," Kirk says solemnly to the Queen.
|DM Zyren/ Heart of Light
Hey, don't worry, graduation is great! And yeah, you're right it's a good excuse.
@ Kirk and Vicky: What are your next steps?
@ Solaric: Yeah, you can surely roll for Narumek.
@ Jo:
Slowly you advance to the secured door - past the gigantic library and the twisted stairwells. It feels like the thick carpets soak up all the noise around you - a fact that unnerves you since you won't be able to hear a pursuer up front.
|GM Harpwizard
|DM Zyren/ Heart of Light
|GM Harpwizard
|'Countess' Victoria
Well finding out what is happening with this queen, then its off to find this northman after letting the party know and those who want/need to come can make ready...
|Narumek The Unforgiving
|GM Harpwizard
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Wade didn't do so hot this season but he was one carrying the Heat last year. I think it's only a matter of time before we see Wade destroy teams again. Besides, he doesn't need jumpshots when he's one of the few players that can tear through elite defenders and get to the rim easily.
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The Newman Project, which promotes safety for local seniors, helped to equip 20 homes in Curry and Roosevelt County this week.
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It was a cold and blustery March morning, and as I made fresh tire tracks through the light dusting of snow, I saw a mink dart across the driveway and under a rock along one of the three ponds at the Augusta Acres homestead in Welcome Lake, PA. It was too cold for the sap to be running yet, but the plastic tubes and hundreds of buckets lining the way to the house were ready for the sap to flow as soon as the temperature rose above freezing. In the distance, a small flock of ducks waddled along the bank of the frozen pond as if also wondering whether the ice would melt soon.
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ODESSA, Texas — Marcelo Andres scored on a rebound shot midway through the first half and Texas-Permian Basin went on to a 2-0 victory over Eastern New Mexico University in men's soccer on Tuesday.
Junior goalkeeper Josh Bussen stopped the initial shot by the Falcon's Brandon Pepper, but Andres converted the deflection to break the scoring ice at the 24:22 mark of the opening half.
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Pen or Pencil: National Dropout Prevention Program Targets Arkansas Youth
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In Little Rock, Arkansas, on July 20, 2009, about 150 junior and senior high school students, many of them from nearby Pine Bluff, attended a day-long summit to discuss the importance of public service and education. Guest speakers at the event at the Peabody Hotel were actor Charles Dutton and Carlotta Walls Lanier, president of the Little Rock Nine Foundation, among others. "We're trying to help them make good choices, to give them some skills and some tools to not be disruptive in class but stay in school," said Rev. Jesse Turner of Pine Bluff, executive director of Interested Citizens for Voter Registration, who brought 70 young people to the summit.
The summit, called "Pen or Pencil: Take a Stand to Keep Year Seat," was sponsored by the National Alliance of Faith and Justice. The Pen or Pencil program uses history, civic education, social studies, and other academic standards and strategies to reduce dropouts and delinquency and promote mentoring, said Dr. Beautinia Robinson of Los Angeles. Robinson, director of the Southern California Foster Care Mentoring Network, said 11 staff attended the event. "Mentoring is so important," she said, adding that her agency works with more than 19,000 youths in Los Angeles County.
Students attending the summit were trained on how to start Pen or Pencil programs in their schools by using student voice and other leadership skills to motivate youth to serve. Dutton, an actor who has starred in several movies and television shows, spoke of growing up as a teenager in Baltimore, where he dropped out of middle school and at 17 was convicted of manslaughter and spent several years in prison. "I do these kinds of things often with kids because I was one of them," he told reporters later. "They wrote me off. The state of Maryland said I wasn't going to amount to anything. I would be a defective, incorrigible, delinquent the rest of my life and I would spend the rest of my life inside of penitentiaries," he said. "But I tricked them and those kids will have the chance to trick them as well."
Students attending the event also were presented autographed copies of Silver Rights, the true story of a poor Mississippi family in the 1960s and the parents' decision to send their children to what at the time was an all-white public school. Gloria Carter, one of the children, signed the books before they were given to the youths.
Pen or Pencil, a program of the National Alliance of Faith and Justice (NAFJ), a national United We Serve partner, is a social action and educational movement designed to influence the lives of youth at greatest risk of academic failure and potential incarceration. "Pen" is short for penitentiary; "Pencil" refers to education. To learn more, visit http://www.nafj.org.


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text: WHAT IS HELL , FROM A MAN WHO WAS THERE ,STANDING OVER IT malachi the prophet posted:9/7/2012 10:41:58 PM MY MIND WAS THERE,BUT MY BODY WAS NOT ON MY 40TH NIGHT IN PRAYER I WAS TAKEN TO THE HEAVENS... I RODE THE ANGELS HIGH WAY TO ST PETER SQ, WE PICKED UP A MAN IN WHITE. AS I CROSSED ARE EAST SEA I SAW IT TURN TO OIL,OIL,OIL REV 16 ...... LAST I WAS OVER DUBIE //I SAW GREAT IRON DRAGONS(CRANES)DREDGE THE SEA FLOOR,AND MAKE ROCK OUTER WALLS FOR PROTECTION.. THEY DUG UP THE SEA FLOOR AND MADE FROM ABOVE LOOK LIKE A DRAGON WITH 7 HEADS OR 7 LEAVES(S.A FLAG)WAR FLAG OF END TIMES THE BEAST OF REV 13 IS THE PALM TREE DUBIE, THE CAPITAL OF NEW MUSLIM ORDER... ARAB LEAGE,MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD,ALLAHS ARMY ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ REV 4 THEN I SAW A DOOR STANDING OPEN TO THE HEAVENS,A WORM HOLE I WAS IN ARE OUTER ATMOSPHERE,IN SPIRIT WE WENT FROM 1 PLANET TO THE NEXT, IT WAS HELL= ABOUT THE SAME AS ARE SECOND PLANET,VOLCANIC SULFURIC(WHY DEVILS SMELL LIKE SULFER)... THE DIFFERENCE, CREATOR GOD MADE THIS PLANET, AS THE GREATEST OF 6 DEMENSIONS, TO APPEASE SATAN AND TRANSGENDERED WIFE LUCIFER(THE UNIVERSES TOP TRANNY COUPLE)LUCIFER LEAD REBELLION,SATAN WAS ALLOWED TO WORK ON EARTH,GODLY AT FIRST ..... ______________________________________________________________________________________PLANETARY PRINCE/LORD =JESUS___:) WHY THE FALL FROM GACE, A NEW 24 RACE HUMAN WAS CREATED (US) UNIVERSAL FATHER CREATED ITS PLANETARY PRINCE THE GREATEST BIENG IN UNIVERSE UNDER HIM, THERE WHERE 24 SEAT,SATAN 21 RACE WAS ALLOWED BY AC-KAN AND NEPHILIM RACES AFTER TO HOLD .. SEAT, AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD... GODS RIGHT HAND MAN HIS WIFE WAS THE GREATEST SINGER EVER CREATED LUCIFER THEY ARE ... BOTH GENDERED SATAN TWARD MAN LUCIFER TWARD FEMALE=LIKE ON EARTH =HOT CHICKS WITH DIC_S/OR THE WOMAN THAT LOOKS AND .... DRESSES LIKE A MAN.=NO-DITES/HERMAPHRO"DITES" ISAAC TOOK AS A WIFE... THESE WHERE THE SUPER MEN OF OLD THE MEN OF RENOUN GEN 6 THEY ARE THE REASON FOR THE FLOOD,ADAMITES MIXED NO-DITES AND THE SONS OF GOD,SATAN AND ADAM/EVE HAD SEX AT THE .. TREE OF KNOWLEDGE= THEY MADE CAIN .ABLE WAS BORN TO ADAM /EVE 2 YEARS LATER/ CAIN WAS RAISED WITH A NO-DITE NAMED SANSA SHE MARRIED SARGON THE GREAT =THEY MADE THE NORTHERN TRIBE. CAIN KILLED ABLE WHEN HE WAS 20 ABLE 18 OVER EVERY DAY .... TAUNTING HIM HE WAS THE SUPER RACE,AND YOU ARE FROM THE DEVIL.... ABLE LINE WAS TO RULE THE EARTH=KINGS LORDS ALL WAS ABLE .... +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ PLANETS HAVE AGES MANY COME AND GO... STAGES , DIFFERENT MAG. FIELDS =THERE WAS A REGISTRY FOR NEW PLANETS ......... 4 WHERE UP =HELL ,EARTH,NEW EARTH, SHANGRALA = THE GREATEST OF RESOURCES,MINERALS=WAS HELL EACH PLANETARY PRINCE(JESUS) CREATES THERE OWN PLANET,THE ELDERS SATAN/LUCIFER WOULD NOT=SO CREATOR GOD MADE THEM THE GARDEN OF EDEN PLANET ....... ALL THE WORLDS AND UNIVERSES COULD NOT COMPARE. EVEN THE HEAVENS,SUPER UNIVERSES, OR MT. OLIMPUS 3ED HEAVEN ARE DEMENSON ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WHY SO MAD THEY LOST SEAT AND MOVED BACK 3 SPOTS AWAY FROM GODS RIGHT HAND, THEY RECIEVED 1 PLANET BUT THE NEW HUMANS RECIEVED 3 PLANETS =1 TO DESTROY(EARTH) A NEW EARTH AND JESUS SHANGRALA BACK UP PLANETS FOR EARTH AGE SHIFT =NOW=DUMMY. LOL THE CHRISTIANS GO TO A NEW EARTH THE BUDDIST GO TO A SHANGRALA A LAND OF FLOWING MILK AND HONEY,OIL AND WINE .... AND ALL THE BIENGS OF UNIVERSE STOCK ARE NEW PLANETS FOR US WHEN WE ARRIVE =DUET 6-10 CITYS /HOUSES,WELLS FOOD...... SECRET KINGDOM 3RD PROMISE LAND =DUET 8-7 GO THERE 14-25 =RAPTURE IS TO A NEW PLANET EARTH ISAH 65-17 /REV 21/22 ..... ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________- LUCIFER GOT 13 ELDERS =GENERAL GOAT BAPHEMET(SUPERMAN/BODY)GOAT HEAD,THE RAM. THE JAGUAR/LEOPARD, IT HAS FEET LIKE A BEAR AND THE MOUTH OF A LION(MAYA GOD OF UNDER WORLD) REV 13-2 13-11 IT HAD HORNS LIKE THE LAMB,BUT SPOKE FOR THE .... DRAGON =BAPHAMET/GOAT= SOLVED ME 1ST ... 3 FROGS THEY WAGED WAR =ALL THE EVIL OF UNIVERSE GATHERED FOR WAR ............ ON P[LANET HELL = THE EVIL TURNED THE PLANET, FROM GARDEN OF EDEN TO A FIERY HELL,IT RAINS SULFER DAY AND NIGHT .TO TRY TO KILL OF EVIL, THE LAKES OF BURNING SULFER,THE BURNED UP PLANET,CHAINS ,BURNED UP BUILDINDS (PEOPLE SAY THEY SAW THAT CAME BACK =SPIDER PEOPLE,GOATS,RAMS ALLIGATORS,LIZARD LIKE BIENDS MANY 14 FT TALL =LIKE GIANTS OF OLD-SPIRITS OF BIENGS THAT FOLLOWED IN THE REBELLION, AND THEY HATE US/ LITTLE JESUS'S WE ARE THE CAUSE THEY BURN,TORMENT ALL FROM 24 RACE OMEGA HUMANS US OF THE 24 CREATURE RACES, LAST 4 TYPES OF HUMANS =NO-DITE AC-KAN NEPHILIM , US 24 RACE DUMMIES ....LOL ,MALACHI I KNOW HARD TO BELIEVE ,ALL MY STORIES WILL TIE TOGETHER = JESUS IS THE 1 WAY OUT, JESUS IS THE WAY .... Jaxerback posted:9/8/2012 12:10:27 AM You realise that you sound VERY INSANE,just a little tip!LincolnGenghis posted:9/8/2012 3:29:46 AM Come on the poor persons got a demon up their ass. ouside of that ..... well actually fuck it you are right jaxer,be the person is about three turds shy of a full toilet flush. LOL Best part of Malachi ran down daddys leg.zepton posted:9/10/2012 5:12:09 PM Wow, how many Bong Hits did you take? Perhaps one too many?malachi the prophet posted:9/11/2012 10:41:25 PM i tell crazy stories and write weird ways ,to stand out be different ,like nostradamus quatrains ,or ancient transwritings in daniel 5-11 says there where chiefs of magicians ,and enchanters, astrologeres,seers oricals witness,messengers ,like chess-prophets,apostles //they tested ,here strengths as merlins or mages with there staffs of wands,moses staff ate the other mages in eygpt =how cool .... +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ i do not say 20 years or 50 -100 this will start slowly summer 2013 then all the earth will burn up,scorch the earth ,the suns rays burn the earth,with no mag. field 7 yrs till holy spirit comes back, it leaves =the great tribulation = ...... the holy spirit leaves =golden greenish mist =like 1453= we have 7 yrs of tribulations but that is the great tribulation a 7 yr period that ends with judgement day (the first of 21 great jugments) start 7 yr period will be in 2013 so add 7 2020 last day dec 31 so before that wust come before dec 31 2020 =my bet shortest day neer by dec 21, day again =dec 21, dec 21,2012 -day 6000 new years day = so dec 21,2020 new years day +8 6008 day 1 year (6008 jan 1st)=dec 21,2020 armageddon rapture the day and the hour unknown = rapture = only 2 things have not happened, rapture .armageddon....... we are in time they are not ,they stood ready for battle for 2007 but the 3 1/2 year way never started = they stood ready for war 13 yrs to soon ,that is the joke of jesus = go to a field 13 yrs to soon a garbage dump no one there ........... gragerian calander(?roman) 2000 +7 jesus used maya calender dec 21 is jan 1st 2012 is 6000 so first day year 6000 ...... second set 7000+ 6000 +1000 more the thousand years period rev 20 see that !!!!! 7 day advent =restore old earth ...... ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ rapture= day and hour unknown = but parable of fig tree states = we have one generation from the inception of the state of isreal ... 1948 plus 1 biblical generation 70 ,many times bible 70 = 1948 +70 MUST BE BEFORE 2018 END DEC 31 ....... i think summer we go to a place the lord will create duet 14-25 he will chose a dwelling place for his name ,for many will be very distant,take 30 peices of silver and go,exchange your tithe(wealth/paper money) and Go go to new earth ... duet 6-10 with florishing citys you did not build,houses filled with goods of all kinds(gifts from around universe)... wells you did not dig,vineyards and olive groves you did not plant,eat on this planet you are satisfied duet 6-10/11 isah 2 it was a great mountian of the lord,isah 65-17.hebrews 12-22 now you have come to the heavenly jerusalem (new earth the city of the living god//also said of shangrala// 23 to the church of the first borns (us that rapture) and to jesus the mediator of the new covenant we are bettewr than the blood of able =able line =lord god king line, a star family .... 12-26 once more i will not only shake the earth but the heavens(the sun/moon) space we enter a new magnetic field ....... 12-28 there fore,since we are receiving,a kingdom that will not be shaking(new earth) =rapture ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 12-29 god is a consuming fire (he turned flesh to clay then stone=called the "terocatta army" 6000 plus men or manhiers of carnaq france =a legion of rome to stone .soul statues +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2nd peter 3-13 in keeping with jesus promise we are looking forward to a anew heaven and a new earth = a new earth =.... a home of righteousness 3-11 since every thing will be destroyed(old earth) 2nd peter 3 the day of the lord 1000 yrs 6000 to 7000 matthew 24.35 24-8 all these are the beginning of birth pains=bam earth age shift .............................. 24-12 stand firm till end and be saved 24-29 immediatly after those days the sun is black moon red,or no light ........ 24-30 the son of man comes down in cloud,with power(cigar shape craft) pillar of cloud/fire =wheel =saucers ............ 24-35 heaven and earth pass away but not gods word 24-36 is day hour unknown =44 so u must be ready , to leave rapture 1cor 15-24 then the end will come but he hands over the kingdom of god(secret kingdom) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ romans 11-25 new (isreal) we be saved -mystery secret kingdom- romans 8-22 we know that easrth will have pains of child birth ,we will also have first fruits of the spirit,(me) 24 in hopes we are all saved =removed caught up/raptured ...... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________- in end all i say is try to rapute get your life ready so god will remove you , be in the book of life of the lamb,..... buy your white robe rev7-9 and go to the fields to leave this planet = malachi LincolnGenghis posted:9/12/2012 2:43:55 AM Like Nostradamus....LoL... hold on for a second while I go take a malachi. Ahh much better. Now it was a step in a positive direction to stop typing with the cap lock on. But I have to tell you the shit is seriously unreadable. It makes absolutly no sense to anyone reading it. I don't know of anyone that even bothers to read it or figure it out. I bet if you ask people might read the first line and go oh its the idiot again. Then they move on to something else. It is kind of funny in a way, your spending all this time writing stuff thatt nobody is going to bother to read. You know I was talking with a friend that is on other sites and he recognized the name malachi the profit and started laughing and said that sounds like the moron that is on the paranormal stories web site. He said we scared him off and started laughing again. Sure enough I went over there and found the same fucked up posts. LOL WHAT DID THEY SCARE YOU OFF? A prophet like you? Lol Now I do have a lower respect for you. 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#5: Nomar Garciaparra
Continuing in the tradition started by Jimmy Curran over at Baseball, the Yankees, and Life; I am dedicating my latest ranking, number five, to a former Red Sox player that has a very special place in my heart.
ady for Opening Day, he needs to take it a bit slower than everyone else simply because he is coming off surgery. I definitely would like to see him in a couple of exhibition games though because it would be tough just to come back without any practice. That's kind of what happened to Josh Beckett. If Lowell is not ready for Opening Day, he should not play. The last thing I want is for him to push anything too far. If he is not ready for Opening Day, I have some ideas:
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I'm sorry, Elizabeth, but I always hated Nomar…he played for the Sox when I liked the Yankees, and he played for Them last year…bad timing, I guess. And only one or two games are televised every day for spring training, unfortunately…MLB.TV should be better than that!
Congrats on the number 5 spot. Nomar is a great player and I hope he has great success and little to no injuries.
Great dedication blog Elizabeth! I like your "projects"! I really think you need to add Angel Chavez; he is looking very good!
Caroline: I loved Nomar, but I can't help that lol. Terrible to see him go– bad breakup.
Darion: He was indeed, he is out of his prime now but he still has potential to be something.
Julia: Thanks!! I'm really liking Angel Chavez as well!
I know a lot of Red Sox fans were crushed when Nomar was dealt, Elizabeth. He was an important member of the organization. Too bad things soured and he had to go. Nice to see ex-Yankee Nick Green as one of your projects!
Wrightway: Exactly!!
Jane: I know right? Weird for me… a Yankee… a project??
Caroline: Thanks!
Great blog Elizabeth, love reading your stuff! And greeting from Greece.
Nomar was a great great player, but I didn't like it when the Padres had to face him and the Dodgers. Great dedication, and congrats on the ranking! Sounds like things are going pretty well in the Red Sox camp. Hopefully Beckett will be able to have an injury-free year this season!
I love Nomar. I like the thing e does with his batting gloves before he bats. It cracks me up!
I love Nomar. I like the thing e does with his batting gloves before he bats. It cracks me up!
Nomar, Ramon, hard to not like the guy… unless you listen to the critics who say he may have been in the "juice". What do you think?
NOMAAAAH!!! I love that guy! He's one of two Cubs I've ever seen play that I like, the other being Derrek Lee. Congrats on the ranking, great dedication, and good luck to your projects!
Congratulations on being number 5, Elizabeth! And great dedication post, too. I've always liked Nomar, and I'm glad he caught on with the A's this year. I'd hate to see him out of work.
Kaybee: I hope that Beckett is injury free. If he feels this good thus far (and looks this good), I sense a successful season.
Melissa: Every time right?
Jeff: Hard to tell, but I don't think so. I sure hope not– that would be a huge blow.
Jen: Thanks! I really like Derek Lee as well. He was also great on the Marlins.
Erin: I hope he can stay off the disabled list!
Congrats on number 5! Nomar was a great player and I'm glad he didn't get traded the the White Sox for Ordonez and got traded to the Cubs. Where is Charlie Zink in your projects?!?
Nomar seems like a good guy, probably the best fielder of the Big 3 shortstops of the 90's.
Hi, Elizabeth …
"Congratulations" on your #5 ranking on the latest "Leader's List" !!! …
You continue your move to the top of the list … Way to go !!!
Nice dedication in honor of Nomar Garciaparra !!! … I remember him as a great player with the Red Sox, but really forgot about the great numbers he had during that time. So, thanks for listing his stats in your dedication. And, it is a shame that injuries really affected his career !!! … It has been reported, today, Oakland has made a one-year offer to Nomar to play with the A's in 2009. So, he may get a lot of playing time in Oakland !!! … An interesting note: Mark Teixeira also played for Georgia Tech, and I dedicated my #25 ranking in honor of Tex [he wears #25 on the Yanks] … So, two "Yellow Jackets" with dedications from the latest Leader's List !!! [I should have a dedication post up soon] !!! … Finally, of all your projects, I am most interested in seeing the Japanese pitcher, Junichi Tazawa, on the mound !!! …
Take care, Elizabeth, and keep up the excellent work !!!
— Jimmy [27NYY], "BY&L"
Elizabeth …
Of course, thanks for featuring my name and blog on your above post !!!
"Congratulations", again, on your #5 ranking on the new List !!!
— Jimmy [27NYY], "BY&L"
Congrats on being numero cinco. Sadly, I miss Nomar on the Sox as well.
p.s. I wasn't able to head down to Tampa for the Yanks spring training this year =( but I'm glad you had a good time going to see your boys.
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Hi! Sorry so slow…internet connection sucks here! Anyway, for the photos, when you click on "insert image" then click the box that says "Use Thumbnail" and in the pixels box, put 550…that is the exact width of these columns. If you want the photo smaller, divide 550 by 2 or 3 (275, etc..) and it will be smaller :O) Hope that helps!
Bob: I've got to see him pitch live! Definitely a potential there though. Future Wakefield.
Brian: Oh yes, when he was in his prime. Too bad he had so many injuries.
Jimmy: Thanks!! Can't wait to see your dedication post. I wish him only the best in Oakland.
Vanessa: Sorry to hear that– but thanks!!
Jenn: Oooh! Thanks for your help!!
A healthy Josh Beckett will make a huge difference. It would be great to see Beckett do really well. He's one of my fav pitchers. If he's anything like he was in '07 he's going to be a pain in the backside of every other team. Not to mention the rest of the rotation. Staying healthy is going to be the key. Just imagine how far you could go with a healthy solid pitching staff; Youk, Lowell and Pedroia at peak form; Varitek back up to snuff; Lowrie at short; Bay, Ellsbury, and the gang doing their best…You think about it, and i'll try not to!
Congrats on the #5 ranking and thanks for taking the time to answer my questions! My guess on who broke Nomar's record would have to be A-Rod (who else could it be?). What is the next spring training came that you will attend? You're lucky to live so close to go. I liked what you said about the starting rotation. I'm also interested to hear about the middle relievers (not much doubt about the closer!). Keep up the great work! The box scores just aren't enough and MLB TV doesn't carry every spring training game! 😦
Hi, Elizabeth and congrats on being number 5. Nice dedication post on Nomar.
I like your list of "projects." I think Lars and Jeff are going to turn out to be very important guys for our team this year.
No trip to Ft. Myers for us this year. Bummer. You will have to have all the fun for us.
Take care,
Canuck: As long as they stay healthy, I think we have a pretty fine year ahead of us.
Jacobyluvr: Actually, it was Hanley Ramirez! But I would've guessed A-Rod too! Hanley is such a good shortstop! I am pretty sure that I can go back this weekend, so I'm excited for that. And what ever happened to gameday?
Jen: Thanks, and I'm sorry to hear that you won't be able to come😦. Maybe next season? Or maybe you'll come down for a Rays series.
Metsmainman: Never! lol.


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A Brief Pause for Insanity
If CNN's Alex Castellanos hadn't compared Michele Bachmann to Margaret Thatcher on CNN the other day, I wouldn't have said anything because the crazies, the Brits and the delusionoids have been saying as much for a while now. But when something that maniacal is aired to millions of susceptible US Americans, I can't help but holla some common sense back into the universe.
Comparing Bachmann to Thatcher is like comparing Wilson Betemit to Babe Ruth! Seriously! The only thing Michele Bachmann and Margaret Thatcher have in common is that they both have vaginas!
Bachmann is STUPID.
Bachmann is DELUSIONAL.
Bachmann is a HOMOPHOBE.
She is a clear and present danger to liberty and to even mention her name in the same conversation as Margaret Thatcher's (did you know she was a chemist by trade?) should be a crime.
And I just couldn't hold that in, so I didn't.
Don't hate me 'cuz I'm right.
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Did you see any of the debate in Iowa last night? Michele must have been getting some coaching in the ladies room because she didn't come back to the stage right away. Funny/awkward moment. Speaking of Thatcher, can't wait till the movie comes out with Meryl Streep playing her.
As someone who has worked as a community organizer and political blogger for years before adding my baseball blogging to the mix, I can tell you that Bachmann is unlikely to win the nomination. She'll probably do extremely well in the Iowa straw poll coming up and might even perform well in the Iowa caucus early next year, but I doubt she'll actually make any run beyond that.
Take a look at Mike Hucabee as a prime example. He did extremely well in Iowa in 2008, but couldn't get things going beyond that. The very conservative base in Iowa likes the right wing candidates, but they just don't last….usually.
I think Rick Perry is who we really have to look out for. He's very conservative and could quickly gain the support of Bachmann's supporters, but he also somehow is able to make himself look like a moderate to people who don't know him well. It's that ability to promote an extreme right wing agenda while looking moderate that could do us in.
I hope you're right about Bachman, too, Bryan. I'm praying you're right. But she's not the only Christian conservative I'm concerned about. They all scare me.


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Intentionally made in a dry, yet immediately approachable, style this new Promised Land Riesling is at once crisp and refreshing – a true pleasure to drink on those long Summer afternoons... you could even try it over ice!
Originally wine merchants in Sydney, a passion for wine was all part of being a Taylor, and in particular, for the famous French Clarets such as Chateau Mouton Rothschild in Bordeaux's Medoc region. It was this long held fascination for these wines which inspired the family's foray into winemaking, and provides the inspiration and winemaking philosophy behind all Wakefield's winemaking today – to produce premium wines of exceptional and comparable quality in Australia.
It was a single wine - a first growth Bordeaux - which inspired Bill Taylor to take the plunge and to purchase a block of land in the Clare Valley and set about crafting a quality wine, which reflected the terroir and could rival its 'old world' Cabernet Sauvignons.
Almost four decades later, the company remains family owned and the philosophy unchanged. Admittedly, the winery now plants a little more than just cabernet sauvignon – with nearly 750ha of vineyards in the Clare Valley, the family excels in a number of different varieties to make up its extensive, award winning portfolio – from terrific value, everyday drinking wines to the finest Australian wines at the pinnacle of the Wakefield portfolio.
And the same philosophy runs religiously through the family tree today. Following his father's and grandfather's footsteps, third generation winemaker Mitchell Taylor is well aware of his heritage, and passionate in its continuance. A blend of 'old world' estate philosophy and 'new world' winemaking innovation, combined with an almost fanatical attention to detail and obsession with quality, has kept this dream alive, and resulted in wines of tremendous style and quality.


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Thumb Print, 1965
Bruce ConnerAmerican, 1933-2008
Sheet: 41 x 29 in. (104.14 x 73.66 cm.); 1 1/4 x 1 1/4 in. (3.18 x 3.18 cm.)
Norton Simon Museum, Anonymous Gift, 1967
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One of the most important achievements at Tamarind was the establishment of a series of steps to explain, verify and validate the complicated practice of printmaking. One basic requirement was an artist's signature on each work. Bruce Conner, best known for his complex and socially critical assemblages, was engaged with the concept of artistic identity. It is thus no surprise to find the artist seizing on its accepted form—the signature—while working at Tamarind. Conner decided that instead of a signature, his thumbprint should suffice to record all of his prints. This was also a comment on the pristine requirements of the workshop, where any fingerprint on a lithograph was considered an unacceptable blemish, made by a careless printer. All of Conner's lithographs are marked with his thumbprint instead of his signature. This print, his last at Tamarind, uses the thumbprint itself as the subject matter; it has been viewed as a parting comment on the rigid professional standards of printmaking at Tamarind.
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Yes, ladies, it's true. Women really are better than men at multitasking, at least in certain circumstances, according to a new study.
Researchers in Britain gave 120 men and 120 women a computer test, first giving them tasks to complete one at a time and then throwing multiple tasks at them in a fragmented fashion meant to simulate a busy day at work, according to the BBC.
The groups were essentially equal in the first test.
But in the second, men slowed by 77 percent, compared to 69 percent for women.
Women were also significantly better in a second set of tests in which participants were asked to complete tasks in an impossible short amount of time, according to the research published in the journal BMC Psychology.
Study co-author Keith Laws, of the University of Hertfordshire, told the BBC the findings do "rankle a bit with men."
"And of course there are men who are experts," he added. "We'd never claim that all men can't multitask, or that only women can. But we'd argue the average woman is better able to organize her time and switch between tasks than the average man. There's no point denying these differences exist."


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2016 NCAA Div. III tournament qualifier
PELLA—Central College men's basketball forward Matt Greenfield (senior, Huxley, Ballard HS) has been named Iowa Conference men's basketball player of the week, while track and field distance runner Eli Horton (junior, Runnells, Southeast Polk HS) earned men's indoor track performer of the week honors.
Greenfield leading the league—Greenfield averaged 21.0 points and 9.5 rebounds on 16-of-28 shooting in two conference games last week, helping the Dutch clinch a berth in the league tournament. He also chipped in two assists and three blocked shots. Greenfield scored 23 points and hauled in seven rebounds in a four-point win at Simpson before tallying his ninth double-double (19 points, 12 rebounds) of the season in a 17-point win at Coe. He leads the league in conference-only scoring (19.6) and rebounding (10.1).
It is Greenfield's third career weekly honor, all coming this season.
Central (15-6 overall, 8-2 conference) is second in the league standings, one game back of No. 23-ranked Dubuque and two games ahead of Luther and the Buena Vista Beavers (11-10 overall, 6-4 conference), who visit P.H. Kuyper Gymnasium Wednesday.
Horton PRs again—Horton set a personal record in the 3,000-meter run at the Grinnell Indoor Invitational Saturday, finishing more than three seconds ahead of the pack in 8:30.97. It is also more than three seconds faster than his previous personal-best time set at the season-opening Dutch Athletics Classic.
His 3,000-meter time ranks No. 13 nationally. He also owns the 12th-fastest mile (4:10.10) from the Wartburg Select Feb. 8.
It is Horton's first indoor track honor and fifth weekly track honor overall.
Horton is one of six Dutch men's track athletes traveling to Massachusetts for the Tufts University Cupid Challenge and the Boston University Scarlet and White Invitational Saturday. Four of the six will combine for the distance medley relay at Tufts in the morning while competing in open events throughout the day. Horton will cap the trip by competing in the 5,000-meter run at Boston's Track and Tennis Center Saturday night.


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An essential guide to the trouble spots and oddities of R. In spite of the quirks exposed here, R is the best computing environment for most data analysis tasks. R is free, open-source, and has... More > thousands of contributed packages. It is used in such diverse fields as ecology, finance, genomics and music. If you are using spreadsheets to understand data, switch to R. You will have safer -- and ultimately, more convenient -- computations.< Less
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The 4R's discuses Kingdom Principles of REVIVAL, REPENTANCE, RELATIONSHIP, and RESTORATION. 4R's takes the believer in Jesus Christ and non-believer on a 4 PART journey from being religious to being... More > spiritual. Many believers are still not being HEALED, DELIVERED, and SET FREE. 4R's gives biblical insight to getting restored from any trial of Life and how to live a better life in Jesus Christ. What is happening in the pews is not lining up with the way Jesus intended the church to be. Manifestation of the spiritual gifts is lacking. Self-righteousness and indignation for the people of the church is problematic. The church has a form of godliness but still denies the power of Jesus and the Holy Ghost.< Less
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Hint: You can preview this book by clicking on "Preview" which is located under the cover of this book. About the author: George Oliver Smith (April 9, 1911 – May 27, 1981) (also... More > known by the pseudonym Wesley Long) was an American science fiction author. He is not to be confused with George H. Smith, another American science fiction author.Smith was an active contributor to Astounding Science Fiction during the Golden Age of Science Fiction in the 1940s. His collaboration with the magazine's editor, John W. Campbell, Jr. was interrupted when Campbell's first wife, Doña, left him in 1949 and married Smith.Smith continued regularly publishing science fiction novels and stories until 1960. His output greatly diminished in the 1960s and 1970s when he had a job that required his undivided attention. Excerpt from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_O._Smith< Less
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The R compilation book totals 448 black and white photos of a fine array of bands where I don't have enough images for any individual books of the artists in question. An intriguing mixture, as... More > follows, with the number of images of a band in brackets after their name: PHIL RAMBOW (4), RACHEL (24), RAZORSHELLS (4), RED EYE EXPRESS (29), REFORMATION (3), RENEES (9), RESQUE (3), RESTORATION II (14), REX MUNDI (57), REZILLOS (23), RICH KIDS (31), RIOT CLONE (27), RIOTOUS ASSEMBLY (16), RITA LYNCH (58), ROMEO SUSPECT (5), ROSA MOTA (35), RUBELLA BALLET (21),RUBY ZOOM (34), RUGRATS (26), RYECATCHERS (3), THE REVS (22)< Less
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