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Thank you Kim, they are my favourite videos, so clear.
Thank you for that tutorial! I like scalloped edges, and that made it look so easy.
i didn't watch that one yet..i did mine with a saucer! and some chalk!Originally Posted by wolfkitty
i love rounding out my corners too!
Love this link I bookmarked it. Thanks for sharing :!:
sign up for thier news letter..and they will tell you when then have made more videos! plus you will get to see the deal of the day!
Kim, I saw that one today! Is that not the best!!!!!! I want one of those rulers asap!!!!!!! I especially like how the directions have a chart that does the math for you :D
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hum soulds like gonna be a big mess there wonder if we should be more worried today
This is a discussion on Terror Attack On London! within the Carry & Defensive Scenarios forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; Organized terror attack on London. Put on your TV news CNN or FOX. Underground bombed. 3 buses bombed. all cell phone serivce out & most ...
Organized terror attack on London.
Put on your TV news CNN or FOX.
Underground bombed.
3 buses bombed.
all cell phone serivce out & most land lines out due to overload.
military called out.
Update: Group claims responsibility in the name of AL Queda.
Update: Financial district shut down.
known suicide bomber on one bus that had the entire roof blown off.
Bush spoke. G8 summit leaders stand united against terror.
Update: Scotland Yard said 7 explosions confirmed.
AP News said 3 in underground - 1 one on bus confirmed.
Another source said 6 confirmed.
Last edited by QKShooter; July 7th, 2005 at 09:15 AM. Reason: UPDATE
hum soulds like gonna be a big mess there wonder if we should be more worried today
90 confirmed casualties so far in London
Lots of Injuries.
CNN said buses being used as ambulances.
I think 6 synced explosions so far & one that failed to go off.
Tony Blair to speak.
Last edited by QKShooter; July 7th, 2005 at 07:01 AM.
One im watching says 6 syched bomb's in the Tubes then as people were evacuating tot he bus's the bombs on the bus's starting going off 3 bus's .. Also now saying they did for sure find explosive material
Our Prez Bush is within 500 miles of there for the G8 summit talks.
The underground ~ All bus & railway service is shut down.
Last edited by QKShooter; July 7th, 2005 at 07:15 AM. Reason: update
well off to work keep us updated QK
2 known dead......death toll expected to rise.
300 treated at hospitals
150 seriously injured
possibly 2 to 45 people dead - not confirmed
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Terrorists are cowards. Instead of joining the army and picking up a rifle to face their enemy nation's army face to face like men, they slink in the dark, pouncing on unsuspecting and unarmed civilian men, women and children. Cowards.
There's an entire al Queda faction in England, who have been living there for quite some time, having jobs and raising families there. There's been a few press stories on them. While they sip English tea, enjoy English hospitality and other English goods and services, wear cool new Western duds, and practice their religion unoppressed, they want to destroy it and turn it into a cesspool where boys learn how to make pipe bombs and women are stoned if they dare show a bare ankle. It's like saying, "I have a brand new swimming pool. I think I'll chuck feces in it and then go swimming."
"Americans have the will to resist because you have weapons. If you don't have a gun, freedom of speech has no power." - Yoshimi Ishikawa
You're RIGHT Betty Terrorists are cowards. BUT---they are using a tactic(unfortunately) that is very effective. Another unfortunate thing is that other countries are going to have to expierance terrorism in their own"back yard" before we(America) will have real allies in the war on these cowards. Pepole will have to die.Economys will have to be threatened. Money will have to be spent, before we will have real friends that will help us fight the WAR. It is very sad to ponder. It's like drunk drivers. They have to kill hundreds and thousands of people on the roadways before people will not tolerate it anymore. Why does so much blood have to be shed before anything happens??---------
You'll notice that the ones calling down these attacks rarely intend to deprive themselves in their cause. It's more like "I have a brand new swimming pool, and I use it everyday. I think I'll chuck feces in yours and threaten to kill you if you do anything about it."Originally Posted by Betty
Actually, though, the political and religious reasons cited for attacks are merely excuses. These are just ruthless creatures who enjoy the power of killing and causing fear, for perverse pleasure. They are a disease of humanity and need to be excised.
- Tom
You have the power to donate life.
Yes, it is a very effective tactic. We'll see how England handles the matter - they have my sincere sympathy.they are using a tactic(unfortunately) that is very effective.
I also hope they don't go knee-jerk backwards. Spain bailed out on us when they were attacked, and England has the nasty habit of disarming their populace to curb crime. In a country where homeowners are told to lock themselves up in their second story when being burglarized and you're prosecuted for defending yourself, what are they going to do about terrorist attacks?
We must not kowtow to terrorists. We must eliminate them like they're crabgrass - down to the last blades and roots.
"Americans have the will to resist because you have weapons. If you don't have a gun, freedom of speech has no power." - Yoshimi Ishikawa
So if I am sitting in my car on the freeway and the terrorist come along and start shooting people. We cannot defend themselves because the politicians and LawEnforcement at the top who advise the politicians have removed our rights to carry firearms who is to blame for my death??? Will it be the politician or the terrorist? Should the politician be charged with aiding and abetting the terrorist??? Its a matter of time and they the terrorist are using their own way to fight against what they feel are wrongs. Remember it only took 2 guys to frighten people around Washington DC.
As you slide down the banister of life,
May the splinters never point the wrong way.
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Betty & FortyFive...all of you.
Well, I talked to a woman here "A BRIT"...in the US (this morning) who works at my Family Dr. office (She lives in G.B. and is here on a "temp" & her parents live in G.B. now)
She had NOW shifted from being POed at T. Blair for "siding" w/ Bush to supporting this war on general random terror. Better late than never. Hopefully that will be the way most of the world viws this.
This is going to eventually tie directly into Iraq.
I was away from the TV for awhile but, I heard the Egypt's Top Envoy was murdered at right about the same time.
Thinking about it now I should have originally posted this thread in the Homeland Security area.
I just woke up & hit the news on & wanted to get the story posted ASAP.
So I was decently..."Not Awake Yet" & put it here.
Last edited by QKShooter; July 7th, 2005 at 01:01 PM.
ya know i would say to blow these back into the sotne age but there basicly there all ready ...
Thing is about them being cowards and not wanting to join a army to fight for there country most the countrys dont have the balls to attack us only by sneak attacks can they do it
RSSZ, I think you hit the nail right on the head.Originally Posted by RSSZ
Notice how all the world leaders are standing together, at the G8 summit, to say how mad they are at all the terrorist of the world. Unfortunitly this solidarity will only last a week or two.
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Beadboard Ceiling
Hello everyone.
I live in a 1960's farmhouse that has mostly plaster walls and ceilings. In a office area I am wanting to install beadboard to the ceiling. My questions are.......
Can I nail to plaster? If not, I am guessing I could use floor adhesive to attatch the beadboard to the ceiling.
I am planning on useing 8' planks that are tounge and groove. The only problem I can forsee is I would have to wait for each board to dry before I hammer another board into place.
If any one has ever had this issue or can give me some advise, I sure could use it.
Ok I have seen this done before, as the walls were plaster they applied ¾ plywood with liquid nails and attached it to the walls and also screwed the plywood to the wall and then used a nail gun to put up the beadboard.
I did something similar in my home. Epson is basically correct - but you want to make certain to screw either the sheets of 3/4" plywood or furring strips into the ceiling joists. Altogether it will be heavy so you need to be sure it is very well secured.
how wide is the room and how long is the beadboard? Can't you go perpendicular to the joists and nail drictly into them?
I'd use 1x3 firring strips every 16" depending on the thickness of the beadboard
I'd go with the 1"x4" furring screwed/nailed to the joists, then use a brad nailer or stapler to fasten the beadboard to the the strips. The plywood idea is nice, but kind of costly in comparison....
Thanks for all the ideas. The room is about 12' x 10'. I wasn't sure if I could punch thru the plaster with a brad gun and hit the joists. I plan on doing the ceiling kind of like laying a floor and making my seams off set each other every 4 or 5 boards.
I am kind of liking the Cape Cod look, because my office area is a tan and brown with a chair rail. Dark brown under the chair rail. Darker color wood flooring going on the floor later on. A lot of windows in the office that are painted a gloss white along with the chair rail. So I am figureing on white for the beadboard as well.
Was going to stain it a mahogany, but with the dark flooring going in....naaaaa.
Maybe going 12" OC would be better.
Couldn't hurt....
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BOSTON -- In an experiment that appears to refute current theory, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute scientists have found that removing three key proteins believed essential to cell division and growth had little impact on normal tissue development of a mouse embryo. These same proteins, when overly active, have been linked to cancer cell proliferation.
With one significant exception, the absence of proteins called cyclin D1, D2, and D3 seemed to have no deleterious effect on development of the tissues and organs of laboratory mouse embryos. "D-type cyclins" are molecules that sense growth signals from the cell's environment and, when appropriate, switch on cell division and growth. But when the system is faulty, the cyclins over-respond to the growth signals and can cause cancerous growth. The discovery that these proteins aren't indispensable lends encouragement to an idea that blocking overactive cyclins could halt the growth of cancer.
In the Aug. 20 issue of Cell, lead author Katarzyna Kozar, MD, and senior author Peter Sicinski, MD, PhD, report on developing the first mouse embryos to date in which all three D-type cyclins were absent or "knocked out." It had been thought that at least one cyclin was required for an embryo to be viable and its tissues to form normally. Yet the "triple-knockout" mouse embryos followed a normal course of cell division and proliferation until as late as 13.5 days, when most tissues and organs are already formed. A typical mouse pregnancy last 18 days.
(In a companion paper in Cell, researchers from Spain report similar findings involving protein kinases called CDK4 and CDK6, which are molecular partners of the D-cyclins. Embryonic mice with both CDK molecules knocked out had normal tissue development as well.)
The unexpectedly viable embryos contradict theory and previous laboratory experiments. The only abnormality in the triple knockout mice was a deficiency of blood-forming cells, causing them to be pale and anemic, and was ultimately fatal. But the Dana-Farber researchers can't yet say if this would create problems for an anti-cyclin cancer therapy in patients. "It's not known whether D cyclins are required for blood cell generation in adults," said Sicinski. "We are addressing this in ongoing experiments."
The blood system issue aside, the results remove a major theoretical objection to developing drugs that would inhibit, or block, overactivity of cyclin D proteins, according to the study's authors. Excess cyclin D production has been seen in tumors of the breast, head and neck and stomach, and in some blood cancers.
The main function of the D cyclins is a linking one. They respond to signals outside the cell and turn the cell-cycle machinery on when needed, enabling the cell to adjust to changes in environment. How this process is carried out in the mouse embryos with no D-type cyclins is a puzzle, says Sicinski who is also an associate professor at Harvard Medical School. "There must be alternative mechanisms that allow the cell to respond to the environment when the D-type cyclins are missing," he speculates.
But the blood-forming cells may lack such an alternative pathway, said Sicinski, and it is highly likely that cancer cells don't, making them vulnerable to future drugs aimed at D-cyclins, or their partners, the CDK kinases.
In the Cell report, the researchers say they attempted to induce cancer in cells taken from embryos lacking the cyclins, and they remained stubbornly normal. By contrast, cells that contained the cyclins were easily made cancerous by the insertion of cancer-causing oncogenes.
That was what the scientists had hoped they would see, based on experiments reported by Sicinski in 1995 showing that mice lacking cyclin D1 had very little breast tissue and, when crossed with cancer-prone mice, had offspring that were largely protected against breast cancer.
It was those and other findings that raised the prospect of cancer therapy using drugs to block D1 and other cyclins. "Now we think it should be safe to target the cyclins with drugs that would be designed specifically to inhibit them," Sicinski says.
In addition to Kozar and Sicinski, the paper's other authors are from Harvard Medical School, the University of Oxford, and the Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine.
The research was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is a principal teaching affiliate of the Harvard Medical School and is among the leading cancer research and care centers in the United States. It is a founding member of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (DF/HCC), designated a comprehensive cancer center by the National Cancer Institute.
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Cosmopolitan Living: Glenn Sestig
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BeschreibungThis book presents a wide variety of projects by the young Belgian architect Glenn Sestig, who founded his eponymously named studio less than ten years ago. The company has made a name for itself with the great diversity of its creations, and this book offers an opportunity to compare these designs in one place. Placing these reports alongside each other makes it possible to define the essential aspects of his style and his language of forms. Is it possible to talk in terms of 'a Glenn Sestig style'?
Yes, in a sense, it is. Most of the interior designs he has created to date have at least two characteristics in common. The first and most important characteristic, the backbone of all his projects, is the extreme precision, the rigueur, of his work. The architectural line, the proportions, the perspective, the relationship between the surfaces: all of these are constructed with such mastery that it is easy to forget the careful consideration that has gone into their design and creation.This rigueur allows Glenn Sestig to focus on the essence, onto which he then projects the personal character of every creation. The great versatility shown by this architect during the first decade of his work is also remarkable: clients have asked him to renovate a city apartment with a design to satisfy aesthetes, and, on a different scale, he has also transformed a former bank with spectacular volumes into a temple to fashion. Glenn Sestig has clearly exhibited his ability to pinpoint the essence of a project, and also proven himself a virtuoso within another register that typifies his work: that of elegance and refinement. This feature of his work consists of several aspects. His fondness for very exclusive furniture and objects, often combined with works of art, is perhaps the most easily visible aspect. The second aspect lies in his choice of materials and the inventive way he interprets them to suit the project. One of the many examples: the use of Moroccan tadelakt on the vaulted ceiling of Molotov, a private club located in an époque building.
The way Glenn Sestig works with materials cannot be detached from the choice of colour and the interplay of light: these too are an integral part of the base material from which he creates his spaces. However, his skill is also based on a cosmopolitan vision of the world in which we live, work and travel - and this is undoubtedly the aspect of his creations that lies closest to Glenn Sestig's heart. Hollywood, Latin America, China or Japan, Africa... different countries take it in turns to feature in his projects, perhaps in a reference to a particular weaving technique, the imaginary atmosphere of a salon where people dance the tango, or the glamorous boudoir of a 1930s star. Make no mistake, though: these references are not conventions and they are never obvious. They are distilled from the art of the moment: his virtuosity could also be seen as sensuality.
So, there certainly is a Glenn Sestig style, a language of forms that Glenn Sestig employs. This can be seen on a large scale in his first furniture creations, his objects and, in particular, his lighting designs, such as the Regard lamp, developed and distributed by Kreon, and an international success in the world of fashion. A new classic has most definitely been born, based upon the clear-cut line and the sophisticated character of the object, as demonstrated by all of his first projects.
Untertitel: 'A & D'. Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: BETA PLUS
Erscheinungsdatum: Juli 2008
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Graphicaudio Releases Robert Mccammon's I TRAVEL BY NIGHT
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GraphicAudio is pleased to announce release of Robert McCammon's old West themed vampire-adventure I TRAVEL BY NIGHT. Available for digital download, this story combines GraphicAudio's trademark high-quality sound effects and music for an extra layer of emotional mood setting and excitement.
Director Nanette Savard says of working on the recording "Since I had directed Robert R. McCammon's THE WOLF'S HOUR and THE HUNTER FROM THE WOODS for GraphicAudio, I was excited to have the opportunity to direct I TRAVEL BY NIGHT. As with those books, McCammon masterfully combines the genres of horror and historical fiction, with fascinating characters and attention to period detail. Sound Designer Brian Rogers and I had a lot of fun bringing it all together. It's a wild ride!"
The cursed hero of I TRAVEL BY NIGHT is a man named, Lawson. As a soldier in the Civil War battle at Shiloh, he was forcibly given the gift of undeath by the mysterious vampire queen LaRouge. However, Lawson chose a different path for himself. Clinging to what remained of his humanity he fought his way free of the Dark Society's clutches. And in the decades since, he roamed late nineteenth-century America, doing what good he could as he traveled by night, combating evils mundane and supernatural, and always seeking the key to regaining a mortal life.


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[ 3 syll. i-ma-ra, im-ara ] The baby girl name Imara is pronounced iy-MAA-Raa- or IY-Maa-aa- †. Imara's language of origin is African-Swahili and it is predominantly used in Swahili. The name Imara means 'strong'.
Variants of Imara include Imarah, Imarra, and Imarrah.
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Baby names that sound like Imara include Iamar, Iana, Imani (Swahili and English), Imanie (English), Imaree, Imarey, Imari (English), Imary, Imonee, Imoni, Inaya (African, Arabic, and Swahili), Inia, Inoa (Hawaiian), Iyana (English), Iyanna (English), Linnea (English, German, and Scandinavian), Yue Yan, Imarie, Iunia, and Einmyria.
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"For the marketer, the freelancer and the entrepreneur…"
For the marketer, the freelancer and the entrepreneur, the challenge is to level set, to be comfortable with the undone, with the cycle of never-ending. We were trained to finish our homework, our peas and our chores. Today, we're never finished, and that's okay.
It's a dance, not an endless grind.
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There is one thing that makes afternoon receptions entertaining. I had one today from four to five but it really makes very little difference what day it is, for it is the casual conversations that you have after you have shaken hands with everybody and you go into the dining room and walk around, which makes them really entertaining. Sometimes it is just some nice person who takes you by the hand and says: "Please tell the President how grateful we are for what he has done." Sometimes a lady catches my hand and says: "You really look nicer than your photographs," which is a little hard on the newspaper photographers but very pleasant for me! Or you come to a group and have a conversation somewhat like the following: "I think I should like to live for one year in the White House. You look as though you enjoyed it so much Mrs. Roosevelt." I respond that I find a great many things of interest and my lady answers "Well, you know Mrs. Coolidge was asked before she left how she liked it here, and she said it had been a lovely experience." I have lived here long enough to know that Mrs. Coolidge in all probability never made that remark, but if she did it was a "chef d'oeuvre" in the way of being non-committal.
A lady told me to-day that she had a photograph of my father taken years ago in Abingdon, Virginia, with a little girl whom I remember well. Miriam Trigg was her name, and when I was eight I felt as though I knew her and I was very envious because she could ride her pony with my father and I was in the north at school.
Then too, people remind me about letters they have written. Luckily I have a fairly good memory for letters and I am not often caught. Now and then I feel a little as I did about a letter which came to me when my husband was Governor of New York State and which began: "Dear Mrs. Roosevelt I am the farmer's wife who wrote you last year about the old age pension." The farmer's wife, poor dear, I had had several hundred farmers' wives write on the same subject!


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Treasuries Inch Up Ahead of Fed Chief's Speech
It took a while, but the September bond finally cleared out some technical deadwood at the intersection of its 100- and 200-day moving averages just below 102 on Monday in very light trade. The catalysts were not really new, but the recurring themes of equity weakness, emerging market angst and eroding commodity prices set off a brief round of curve flattening.
The September bond stalled just shy of 102-15 June 28 highs, but the charts have been opened to 102-25/28 late June highs. The 2s/30s spread narrowed to +152 basis points before widening back out to +155 basis points. Some early European broker buying of September bonds and 5s set the tone, with bullish writing of bond puts also a positive factor. The CRB fell to 205 before recovering, with weakness in energy and grain groups weighing on the commodity index.
Corporatations remain profitability-challenged, and stocks look likely to lag until the Q2 earnings season climaxes this week. A pair of Fed members (Moskow & McTeer) spoke over the weekend, but offered opposing views on whether the economy would recover later this year. May inventory data suggested the correction is well under way.


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LAHORE, May 5: The government's failure to pay their dues of Rs34 billion to the eight independent power producers (IPPs), which had invoked sovereign guarantees, seems to have left them nearly high and dry.
At least two plants running on oil with a combined capacity of around 425 megawatts, the CEO of one of the IPPs told Dawn on condition of anonymity, had shut down on Saturday, a day after the government defaulted on its contractual obligation, due to lack of cash to purchase oil.
"The others will close down over the next few days," he claimed.
"The closed IPPs will not start generation unless the government pays them their dues because they do not have money to purchase fuel for their plants."
In response to a question, the CEO said the heads of the eight IPPs were going to hold a crucial meeting on Monday to discuss their future course of action and decide their strategy to deal with the new situation arising from the government's failure to fulfil its legal commitment.
"It is quite disappointing that the government is not taking the issue of sovereign guarantee seriously. Its ministers and officials concerned have not said even a single word so far as to what the government plans to do to honour its commitment and make our payments," he said.
He insisted default on sovereign guarantees was not a trivial issue, but stopped short of threatening to use the "option of raising the issue in courts outside Pakistan" available to the affected IPPs.
"Taking legal recourse outside Pakistan will have adverse repercussions for the country. A case outside Pakistan against this sovereign default will immediately result in severe reaction by the global financial sector. The banks will stop honouring trade documents from the Pakistani banks and insist of cash payments. The foreign interests in these IPPs could even go to the extent of attaching the properties owned by the Pakistan government in other countries," the CEO said.
The IPPs say the sovereign default has jeopardised their investment amounting to Rs200 billion. In all, the IPPs say the government owes them a total of Rs69 billion Rs44 billion to the four power plants running on oil and Rs25 billion to those operating on gas for electricity produced by them since October. Out of this, they say, an amount of Rs52 billion is overdue for more than 60 days.
The non-payment of their dues over the next few days could force these power producers to default on their project loans of over $1.6 billion.


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Phil's Day 2015 is a day to celebrate philanthropy and the impact it has on the University of Iowa. These are just a few of the many UI students who were able to study or conduct research abroad in the past year, gaining invaluable experiences and memories that enhanced their education and lives, thanks to the generosity of private donors. Read on to learn about their unique adventures and projects.
On June 7th, the University's Alumni Association presented Sandra Barkan, formerly associate dean of the Graduate College, and her late husband, Professor Joel Barkan, with its Distinguished Alumni Award for their contribution to international studies at Iowa. In accepting the award, Sandra explained why she and her husband regarded international studies of such great importance and described the establishment of the University's Center for International and Comparative Studies, forerunner to today's International Programs. Following is a summary of her observations.
Thanks to the support of generous private donors, these UI students were able to study or conduct research abroad in the past year, gaining invaluable experiences and memories that enhanced their education and lives.
UI alumni Carl and Claire Stuart recently established a scholarship fund to support international travel experiences for students in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
UI Student Government wants you to step out of your comfort zone. Try a food dish you've never had before, talk to someone you've never met, or go to a cultural event on campus. These are just a few of the things you can do to expand your Iowa experience.
Imagine that you live near a smog-filled city of six million people where, despite the best pollution prevention and forecasting efforts by city officials, residents often are mistakenly told to remain indoors on clear days and advised to go outdoors when the air is polluted. Some of us likely would stay put and endure the conditions, while others would move away to a different city. But UI alumnus Marcelo Mena-Carrasco chose a different path—he joined forces with UI colleagues as well as officials of the city of Santiago, Chile, to implement a dramatically improved pollution-forecasting model for the city of Santiago.
Citizen diplomacy may well be our state's most valuable export. For more than 50 years, Iowa has been front and center in volunteer, people-to-people diplomacy through our long tradition of Sister State relationships. Sister State exchanges bring the world to our doorstep and have helped Iowa build deep and lasting friendships throughout the world, resulting in greater cooperation and trade.
Amy Bowes, a Study Abroad adviser at the University of Iowa, was lost. It was 2005, and she had just graduated from the UI with a degree in political science. She remembered the Peace Corps building she had seen while interning in Washington, D.C., and decided to volunteer. Six months later, she was teaching high-school English in Lesotho — a country in Africa. Bowes said she now uses her experiences of feeling unsure about travel and her future to relate with students on campus today.
Two Japanese Kizuna Fellows shared their touching first-hand accounts of the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011 in a presentation Monday, August 5, at the Johnson County Crisis Center where the two are interning for the summer. In addition to their personal experiences, they discussed the food-bank system of Japan and the struggles of their home communities to return to normal life.
One local church continues to open its doors to international students arriving at the University of Iowa by offering free necessities.
Faith Baptist Church, 1251 Village Road, will host its 11th-annual International Furniture Giveaway on Aug. 17, an event Assistant Pastor Jake Mangold said is the biggest way the congregation meets students.


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Dressed to grill: Vince Colosimo as lawyer Matthew Billings.
Vince Colosimo joins the high-flyers on The Practice. Debi Enker reports.
Vince Colosimo's whirlwind stint on The Practice began in March with a 16-hour flight to Los Angeles. Arriving on a Wednesday, he was whisked from the airport for a full day of production. His scenes, playing lawyer Matthew Billings, were the final ones required for episode 18 and the producers had been waiting for him to touch down. Four days later Colosimo sat down with his friend and Lantana co-star, Anthony LaPaglia, to watch his debut on David E. Kelley's eight-year old legal drama. Twenty-one million Americans also tuned in.
Welcome to the world of TV, American-style. It's a place where things can happen fast. "I was exhausted after that first week," Colosimo recalls. He wasn't too tired, however, to recognise the five-episode stint as a big break in a tough market.
"I don't know how it is for other Australians who go to America but, in my experience, you do the auditions, you try out for a pilot and then, if you get a pilot, they sign you up for years and years. Then, hopefully, the network picks it up. If they don't, you've done all that work, and you get paid, but nobody sees it, which is the case 90 per cent of the time. Here, I didn't have to do an audition, I was in a show that was running, I got to play a guest lead and I was on-air four days after I shot it. So it was quite a rare experience."
Colosimo had been making trips to the US for a few years and has an American agent. With an appealing lack of pretension, he says: "Apparently [The Practice's creator] David E. Kelley wanted to talk to me. So we sat down for about an hour and had a chat about anything and everything. Basically, I crapped on about how much I used to enjoy LA Law and that I was a big fan of Susan Dey.
I went away and nothing happened for six months." Then the call came and things happened "so fast it wasn't funny".
Colosimo had previously played a guest role in LaPaglia's hit series Without a Trace, but he arrived at The Practice at a testing time. Last year the show underwent a savage round of cost-cutting and a substantial cast shake-up. Now writer/producer Kelley was shutting down the business and trying to fashion fitting farewells for its stalwarts: Eugene Young (Steve Harris), Jimmy Berluti (Michael Badalucco) and Ellenor Frutt (Camryn Manheim). At the same time, he was sowing the seeds for a new series.
The final episodes of The Practice see Kelley moving James Spader's character, Alan Shore, and Rhona Mitra's Tara to the law firm of Crane, Poole & Schmidt, where he introduces a new team that features William Shatner and Rebecca De Mornay. Shatner plays the endearingly eccentric litigation lion, Denny Crane. Colosimo is his diplomatic second-in-command, the smooth operator who pacifies angry staff and soothes querulous clients.
In the US, it has evolved into Boston Legal, which premiered earlier this month, starring Spader, Shatner and Monica Potter. Colosimo's character does not appear in the new series.
Colosimo diplomatically describes the process of winding up one series while laying the foundations for another as "ambitious". In spite of the pressures, however, he found the set to be a friendly one. "I was in awe, knowing that William Shatner was going to be playing my boss, and he was the loveliest man, like a great uncle ... They were very welcoming, cast and crew - so welcoming, you wonder if it's truthful or not. I suppose it's my Italian background that makes me wonder why people are being so nice to me, like I have to watch my back."
The Practice airs Mondays and Tuesdays on Seven at 9.30pm. Vince Colosimo's episodes begin on Tuesday.


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I think Logan Ryan is best tackler/run support corner. I think Banks is even more adept at it. I don't think that's the defining asset in what Giants look for in a corner though. Rhodes can at least be coached to do so.
So sacrifice a potential cover corner for one who can tackle? That's absurd even for a tampa2 team. Not demeaning its value in the eyes of scouts, but it will always be evaluated within the context of the player's cover abilities. And tackling can absolutely be taught, especially when you have a guy with the size and length of Rhodes.
Besides, Giants already drafted Hosley, to be the nickel no less, who himself was inconsistent in wrapping.
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We need a player who is going to step in right away and can play a majority of downs. That has not happened in a while. Rhodes has a better chance than ansah. We also need major help at the tackle position. Fluker is a beast and will be there at 19. I am still waiting to see what the plan is for the over paid Webster and Diehl. Personally, I think we should dump both of them. I would have gotten rid of them before Bradshaw. I would not mind trading up for the right price. Although, I would trade out of the first round and get two first rounders next year to move up and grab Clowney from South Carolina. The guy is a beast. The next LT.
I have no issue nor did i with Xavier Rhodes as our 1st rder... Maybe i thought 19 was a tad early but i wouldent' of fret to much.. I'd of always been fine at 24-31 range... Trufant is gonna be going pretty high as well.. Im fine taking Jamar Taylor or Darius Slay in RD 2.. Jonathan Banks might fall to late 1st rd, so u might be able to trade down and get ex picks and get a guy like Jonathan Banks and ex picks or something like that..
I would say you have it the other way around. As of now, I wouldn't call him a good tackler and he does take poor angles. But I hardly think he's shown a propensity to shy away from blocks at the POA. If anything, he just doesn't know how use his hands and arms to his advantage which can be coached.
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Following the sale, Hungry Local will be run as a standalone service under the new name, Hungry Deals, where the users will be migrated over to the main Buyometric offering. The typical number of new deals available to Hungry Deals users will increase from 5 to over 200 per day.
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|6 weeks 2 days ago
|Great series if you're
Great series if you're looking to get a decided schematic advantage, though to be honest these first three are the best. Books 4-8 were a huge disappointment.
|9 weeks 2 days ago
|*Cite. Just take it easy,
*Cite. Just take it easy, Walter.
|31 weeks 6 days ago
|Carr never even had a 3-game
Carr never even had a 3-game losing streak in a single season.
|32 weeks 2 days ago
|Somebody actually created a
Somebody actually created a college version of Tecmo Bowl (with 2016 rosters) for NES emulators.
|42 weeks 16 hours ago
In S3, mobster and total psycho Robert Quarles is trying to bribe Raylan, and Raylan mocks him with a sarcastic comment asking if he learned that in business school.
Quarles looks real pleased and replies, "UofM. Go Blue!"
|42 weeks 17 hours ago
|Yep. The founders were
Yep. The founders were doctoral candidates at UM. And in a few episodes, Ann Arbor is referenced as shorthand for the Initiative.
|48 weeks 3 days ago
|if it's just us, seems like
if it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
|1 year 13 weeks ago
|Because the cage only unlocks
Because the cage only unlocks when there's a winner. If cage matches didn't "work" (i.e., produce a winner), then everyone would still be locked in the cage.
Michael can't imagine any other scenario (like you, I, or any normal person could) explaining how people would get out of the cage, therefore cage matches must work.
|1 year 13 weeks ago
|That's why it's funny.
That's why it's funny. Michael Scott would expect people to remain in the cage indefinitely.
Much like he expected some result from simply shouting out loud that he was declaring bankruptcy. He's very much a literalist.
|1 year 18 weeks ago
|Sometimes, when nobody's
Sometimes, when nobody's around, I watch Terminator 2.
|1 year 18 weeks ago
|The original Teenage Mutant
The original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie from 1990. Loved it as a huge Turtles kid when it came out and recently watched it with my nephew after we saw the Michael Bay one. Just as entertaining as I remembered.
I'm not actually embarassed to admit it (obviously), but I think I'm supposed to be.
|1 year 22 weeks ago
|BattleFrog is the brand name
BattleFrog is the brand name of the obstacle courses. The show is colleges competing on those courses. Like if there was a "Crossfit College Challenge."
Like most of ESPN's programming, I didn't watch the show or even know it existed...
|1 year 29 weeks ago
|Yup. And Ferrigno coaches
Yup. And Ferrigno coaches their special teams.
|1 year 37 weeks ago
|1 year 38 weeks ago
|Both are definitely enough to
Both are definitely enough to give you nightmares, but I gotta agree with justin—A Brave New World scared the shit out of me even more.
This webcomic pretty much illustrates why:
|1 year 43 weeks ago
|Bryan Harsin took over from
Bryan Harsin took over from Petersen and coached Boise State last year, but otherwise I agree.
|1 year 44 weeks ago
|No, we've never seen his
No, we've never seen his character before.
But we have seen the guy who says "he's everywhere!" That's Mr. White, the guy who executed Le Chiffre (and inconsequentially saving Bond from further torture) and then confiscated the diamonds in Casino Royale. He was last seen as a member of the Spectre-like organization Quantum in Quantum of Solace, claiming that "we have people everywhere."
So I wouldn't be surprised if Spectre reveals that Oberhauser/Blofeld has had a hand in things throughout the entire run of Craig films.
|1 year 51 weeks ago
|There actually were
There actually were occasional screams and battle sounds after the fog rolled in, but they were muted a bit to keep the eerie atmosphere. You can especially hear them when the Thenn looks through the hole in the Hardhome wall.
I'm assuming the fog was cover for the first wave and that unlike those inside the wall, the wildlings outside never had much of a chance to fight back. After all, the majority of the wights we saw were waaaay too decayed and skeletony to be the wildlings outside.
|2 years 4 weeks ago
|It's definitely the
It's definitely the Winterfell set. Which makes sense--with Stannis and his army at Castle Black, it'd be crazy for both Roose and Ramsay to suddenly go south to Moat Cailin and meet two people who are heading to Winterfell anyway.
|2 years 8 weeks ago
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|3 years 40 weeks ago
Well, I mean, it's not like he's quoting himself. Take it up with Brian.
|3 years 45 weeks ago
|Christopher Nolan, actually
Christopher Nolan, actually (which I'm sure you knew, just had one of those aghh brain moments). The Batman / Inception / Prestige dude. He did Insomnia with Al Pacino, too. The guy doesn't make bad movies.
|3 years 45 weeks ago
|Did you say...InGen?
|3 years 50 weeks ago
|Embed views count. There are
Embed views count. There are a couple of exceptions, but none of them apply to Youtube videos posted here. You're good to go, folks.
Though it is more awesome full-size.
|3 years 51 weeks ago
|Maybe so, but they also
Maybe so, but they also regressed from 9-4 to 6-7 in 2009. I'll begrudgingly accept that kind of offensive improvement from Sparty this year.
|3 years 51 weeks ago
I have all sorts of exciting activities planned.
|4 years 1 day ago
|2012 odds
These were his 2012 odds:
Danny Sheridan @DannySheridan1
So yeah. Apparently, in his mind, the only thing holding them back last year were Bell and Sims. Good luck with that.
|4 years 4 days ago
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|4 years 4 weeks ago
|No problem.
Switching to the OL for the Jets? Sounds like just another easy day for BWC...
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The price of petrol has risen to its highest point in more than two years, hitting family budgets and putting pressure on weak retail spending.
Unleaded fuel in Australia is selling for an average of $1.43 a litre, a 29-month high, and is tipped to rise further this week as unrest in North Africa and the Middle East stokes fears of more disruption to global oil supplies.
The national average petrol price has risen by almost 13¢ in the past 10 weeks and is almost $1.50 a litre in some capital cities, Australian Institute of Petroleum figures show.
The rise will add to short-term inflation pressures and has increased both household and business running costs. The average monthly household fuel bill has jumped $25 since mid-December to $200, broker CommSec estimates.
The rapid growth in petrol prices has been underlined by official figures out yesterday showing the value of imports climbed 6 per cent in February to just over $18 billion – a $1 billion increase from the previous month.
Accounting for much of the rise was a 26 per cent jump in the cost of fuel, reflecting a big rise in international crude oil prices on fears that unrest among major producers could hurt global supplies.
Global fuel prices have risen by about 40 per cent since mid-2010, including a $US25 increase in the cost of a barrel of crude oil since the Tunisian uprising began in late December.
The price of light, sweet crude oil futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange reached close to $US103 a barrel yesterday over escalating military activity in Libya. Concerns are emerging that high fuel prices could hamper the global recovery and force inflation higher.
In a report out yesterday, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development warned that if oil prices stay high for a sustained period, economic activity among the world's leading developed countries could be cut by about 0.5 of a percentage point, while inflation might rise by 0.75 of a percentage point.
CommSec chief economist Craig James raised doubts that the effect of higher oil prices on growth would be as great as the OECD estimates, and was sceptical that they would stay so high for long.
Mr James said the price rise was being driven by speculation about possible disruptions to global oil supplies rather than demand.
The economist said the United States, the world's biggest oil consumer, had accumulated its biggest fuel reserves in 21 years.
Mr James said that although the bowser price of unleaded fuel was likely to rise by 2¢ a litre in the next two weeks, it would not remain there unless the situation in North Africa and the Middle East deteriorated.
Australian Bureau of Statistics figures underlined the diverging growth paths of business and household activity.
Merchandise imports data showed that overseas purchases of capital goods increased by 2 per cent last month after climbing 3 per cent in January, driven by robust investment activity, particularly in the booming resources sector.
By contrast, the value of consumer goods imports barely grew in February, increasing by just $11 million after shrinking by $79 million in January, highlighting subdued household spending. The reluctance of households to spend, combined with the effects of the January floods and implications for global growth of the Japanese earthquake disaster, have fuelled speculation of an interest rate cut next month.
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It's no secret that many releases with
"live" or "alive" in their title are nipped and tucked
in postproduction. Vocals get tuned, solos are fixed
or replaced, extra instruments are layered on top
of the original performances, and so on. F.O.H.
[Fantom], the new 2-CD release from guitarist
Dweezil Zappa and his 8-piece Zappa Plays Zappa
ensemble, is not that kind of record. Even if Zappa
had wanted to tidy things up, it would have been nearly impossible given the source material
he chose—2-channel digital recordings
captured over several tours, taken directly
from the F.O.H. ("front of house") reference
mixes. What you hear is a snapshot
of what happened on stage and what it
sounded like in the house for any given
Zappa Plays Zappa has been touring
since 2006, playing the music of the late
Frank Zappa. To call Frank's often dense
and polyrhythmic music "challenging"
would be a gross understatement, but
Dweezil—Frank's son—is dedicated to presenting
the material at the highest standard
possible. He and the ZPZ band excel
not only at nailing the notes but maintaining
the character and feel of Frank's
original recordings from the mid 1960s
through the late '70s.
"We've done extensive touring, recording
lots of it, and good performances have
been captured," says Zappa. "I don't have
time to go to the multi-tracks and mix this
amount of material, so I started investigating
whether any of our front-of-house references
sounded good and balanced enough to
be released. I listened to hundreds of them,
and found the ones that had the most consistency—
the right combination of overall
mix balance, as well as depth and detail in
the performance itself."
Once Zappa had cherry-picked the performances,
the only sonic changes that
could be made were the more broad strokes
done in the mastering process. But he went
beyond simply balancing frequencies and
correcting quirks. "I wanted to emphasize
the character of the era of each song," he
says. "The way I did it in mastering was to
use Universal Audio plug-ins to 'print' the
mix as if it were going to a certain kind of
tape formulation on a certain tape machine.
I did some research to see what kind of tape Frank actually used during those periods.
If we were doing something from, say,
Fillmore East, I could look into the vaults
and see what kind of tape was used and
on what kind of machine. I tried to match
those kinds of things to give it that extra
little sonic layer of detail. I think it makes
a difference in how it hits you when you
listen to it."
With all the live ZPZ recordings you had cataloged,
how did you choose the recordings that
ultimately became the F.O.H. record?
The Fractal Audio Axe-Fx II system is the
centerpiece of your touring rig. It can create
such a wide array of tones, yet you still use some
stompboxes. Why?
How did you get the "Willie the Pimp" sound?
It's so weird and throaty—especially when you
get up high on the neck.
What about more conventional blues-rock tones—like on "Son of Mr. Green Genes"?
Is your walnut SG the main guitar you played
on the F.O.H. recordings?
In the Tour Blog section of your web site, you
talk about having to change your technique for
songs from the Freak Out and We're Only in It for
the Money era—the late '60s. How do you practice
While ZPZ plays music from different periods
of Frank's career, there seems to be a slight
emphasis on the music he wrote and recorded
between 1974 and '79. Why is that?
When people who are new to Frank's
music ask me where they should start in listening
to it, I usually tell them to start in that
area, with stuff like Apostrophe (') and Overnight
Sensation, then go back to the beginning, with Freak Out and Absolutely Free. In that tenyear
period from '66 to '76, so many things
changed within Frank's music. Yet, you can
tell that all of the elements were there from
the beginning. As he got players who were
more capable of playing some of his more
intricate music, you started to hear more and
more of that, but he had been writing that stuff since his early teens.
Did you get to see your father rehearse with
his bands much?
Do you run your rehearsals similarly with your
ZPZ ensemble?
Did charts already exist, or did you have to
make your own?
And then you have to find a way to orchestrate
that for ZPZ.
So you're not looking to reinvent the wheel.
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April is National Donate Life Month
WHO: Judy Weimer, 53, was diagnosed with COPD, emphysema and bronchitis on New Year's Eve in 2005 and received a double-lung transplant in 2009 at Loyola University Health System.
"I named my new lungs Lucy and Ethel to welcome them. Lucy acts up once in a while, but they are both working fine," said the humorous and outgoing Chicagoan. Weimer now volunteers for Gift of Hope, the organ and tissue donor network, educating others and signing up potential donors.
"Before my transplant, I was in a wheelchair, hooked up to an oxygen tank 24/7. It took four hours for me to bathe myself," she said. "Thanks to my donor, I now am back with my usual gusto and zest for life."
Weimer said her disease was largely attributed to environmental conditions.
"I lived in Chicago and rode my bike next to exhaust-spewing buses and trucks," she said. "My five brothers worked as mechanics in the family business and I, too, grew up with my head under the hood repairing cars. And, of course, we all smoked cigarettes." One brother, like Weimer, was diagnosed with COPD and emphysema.
WHEN: Weimer is available for interviews from 10 a.m.- 2 p.m. on Thursday, April 26, at Gottlieb Memorial Hospital where she will share her story to encourage others to consider donating organs and tissue. Weimer also is available by appointment. Media must call Stasia Thompson at (708) 417-5036.
WHY: Every year, more than 100,000 Americans will need a life-saving organ transplant, yet last year fewer than 22,000 transplants took place in the United States. A new patient is added to the organ waiting list every 11 minutes. One organ donor can save up to eight lives and improve the lives of up to 50 people by donating tissue. April is National Donate Life Month. Weimer offers herself as living proof of why organ donation saves lives and why everyone's help is needed.
"I am 6 feet tall, so I needed an extra-long pair of lungs, because you can't just fit any size organ in any person," she said. "My donor was a man who was 6 feet, 6 inches, who successfully donated several organs at his passing. I have written several letters of thanks to his family through the Gift of Hope organization because without his lungs, I wouldn't be here today."


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Date of Stay: July, 2008
Camped in the middle of July and it was extremely hot with no breezes because of all the trees. The mosquitoes were really really bad even with bug spray. The park was nice for a state park.
Date of Stay: June, 2008
The park was really nice. But since the park is on the bay, the beach had tons of sea weed and the water was not very clear. Beach was very small. No breeze being on the bay side, very hot and the mosquitoes were bad. We drove over to the Navarre beach and that beach was awesome. Water was crystal clear and the sand was actually soft.
Date of Stay: June, 2008
Everyone could rate this park differently depending what they want. No pool and no playground. That was fine with us we wanted a place to just relax and sit by the beach and do absolutely nothing. Nice ocean breezes. The beach sand could be a little nicer and if it was I would have given it a 10.


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(The imagined conversation between the Ghost of Osama bin Laden and President Barack Obama)
The Ghost of Osama bin Laden swirled into the Oval Office where Barack Obama was spending the evening going over a pile of requested sign-offs for drone missions.
Osama's Ghost: "Mind if we have a conversation one year after you dispatched my body to the ocean sharks?"
With curiosity reigning supreme, President Obama replied, "Ok, so long as you remain hovering and do not alight to defile this solemn room."
Osama's Ghost: "Thank you. After your SEALs bravely shot, rather than captured, me while I was defenseless in my bedroom, you told your nation that 'for the first time in two decades, Osama bin Laden is not a threat to this country.'"
"Correct, the form of your presence now attests to that fact," the President curtly declared.
Osama's Ghost: "You completely misunderstood. You see my work was completed by the evening of September 11, 2001. After that, the terror that I wanted to implant in American hearts was continued and intensified by George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and you far, far beyond what our little, exaggerated al-Qaeda could ever dream of doing."
"How so? Make it short!" Obama demanded.
Osama's Ghost: "Okay, you want it short? You and your predecessors are ones who, for over a decade, starved your domestic needs in favor of huge military adventures in Asia and Africa, took away the freedoms of your people and replaced them with fear and anxiety over the wildly overblown but very profitable war on terror. You destroyed the esteem of the world's people by reacting to 9/11 with aggressive attacks, torture, indefinite imprisonment without charges, secret laws, secret evidence, secret prisons and routine violations of national borders. You backed tyrants in these countries who slay and loot their own people with U.S. weapons, predatory corporations and political cover. You spy everywhere on the American people and watch your own soldiers commit suicide in record numbers. Do you know why these American soldiers are killing themselves, Mr. President?"
"You tell me, Dr. Freud," said President Obama.
Osama's Ghost: "Because when you send them to Iraq and Afghanistan for wars not of defense but of aggression, and they end up killing so many innocent women, children and men, their consciences are traumatized. Your generals like to say their brains are physically traumatized. By what? Your adversaries have no artillery, bombers and missiles to do that job. It is the trauma of their conscience when they see the burned, broken and dismembered bodies of little children and their mothers and fathers in their homes, mosques, or markets. People were blown up while just gathering together to collect wood or participate in wedding processions. In addition, they see the daily suffering of millions who are maimed and homeless."
"You should talk, after the massacre of my people on 9/11," exclaimed President Obama.
Osama's Ghost: "But at least the attackers went 'down with the ship', as you Americans say, and this attack was designed to make you suffer like you have made us suffer a millionfold over the decades. As a scholar and a son of Africa, you should understand what life is like under American-supported tyrants. Imagine American military bases - even in our holy lands - and the brutal suppression of any resistance to overturn these puppet dictators and expel their infidel masters from the West. If you were not in our backyard, including the Palestinian nakba, or catastrophe, which the U.S. made happen, our martyrs would never have gone to New York and Washington on 9/11."
"Do not lump me in the same room with Bush and Cheney," said an irritated Obama. "They lied this great nation into the invasion of Iraq and played right into your hands, as Bush's own anti-terrorism advisor, Richard Clarke wrote. I opposed this war but vowed to clear al-Qaeda out of Afghanistan by shifting our soldiers from Iraq. You know what happened to you all after that, don't you, Ghost?"
Osama's Ghost: "Yes, Mr. President. Al-Qaeda is not much in Afghanistan, having decided to migrate its activities to Pakistan and encourage our brothers in Yemen, Somalia and North Africa. They are moving into Syria from al-Qaeda in Iraq where it first surfaced thanks to your invasion. The word used by the CIA is 'blowback.' But no one is furthering our basic mission of weakening the U.S. more than the rulers of the country are themselves. Look at your rich-poor economy; Wall Street's destructive greed; crumbling schools, roads, transit, clinics, drinking water facilities; and starved public budgets for the most basic necessities of your people - food for the hungry, healing for the sick, shelter for the homeless."
Osama's Ghost: "Even your people overwhelmingly say that America is going in the wrong direction and they want out of Afghanistan. What is a democracy for anyway, Mr. President? Again, you're doing al-Qaeda's job - weakening your country to bankruptcy until it can no longer continue 'messing in our business' as the Presidential candidate, Ron Paul, says daily. You see, at my compound in Abbottabad, reading occupied me. There was nothing left to do because you Americans cannot resist doing it to yourselves year after year. Given my lack of precautions, I didn't care if I was executed because my mission was fulfilled. Near the end, grieving over Muslims killing Muslims, I became a fatalistic mystic."
"Are you finished, Ghost? I have to decide on some high value targets in three countries. The hunt will never cease," said President Obama.
Osama's Ghost: "But, Mr. President, you had the highest value target of all and you eliminated the chance to interrogate me. Think what I could have told you about the past 30 years for your intelligence services."
"Tell me what, in a phrase. Your time is up!" declared President Obama.
Osama's Ghost: "Well...thank you, thank you for all that you, Mr. Bush, and Mr. Cheney have done, Mr. President."
Whereupon the Ghost evaporated into the ether and the president started signing.