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He who is without theism can hardly wear the cloak of theism, now can he. And only the liar will say otherwise. It takes as liar to claim theism, while claiming to not have theism.<quoted text>
You can't accept that can you. Your only argument is minds being deluded when you know dang well that Laveys satanist are atheist. Evidence has been shown and you still deny it. Your opinion needs evidence. Ha!
Why Atheism Will Replace Religion
There are 14736 comments on the News24 story from Aug 27, 2012, titled Why Atheism Will Replace Religion. In it, News24 reports that:
Please note that for this article "Atheism" also includes agnostics, deists, pagans, wiccans... in other words non-religious.You will notice this is a statement of fact. And to be fact it is supported by evidence (see references below). Now you can have "faith" that this is not true, but by the very definition of faith, that is just wishful thinking.
Join the discussion below, or Read more at News24.
"Citizen_Patriot_ Voter_Atheist!"
Since: May 09
#62 Nov 29, 2012
#63 Nov 29, 2012
Look up the word PERISH == You shall perish as if you were NEVER EVER HERE IF YOU ARE NOT SAVED BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB =THE SON OF GOD -JESUS CHRIST...ONLY A FOOL WOULD WANT TO BE ERASED AND PERISH.....REPENT AND ACCEPT CHRIST BEFORE YOU DIE....I HOPE YOU GET THE CHANCE TO REPENT BEFORE YOU DIE BUT WHO KNOWS YOU MAY DIE VERY FAST!!! THEN ITS TOO LATE....GOOD LUCK
#64 Nov 29, 2012
I've never made any excuse for my grammer.
I write what I feel.Just like those old Mississppi blues I listen to while I reply to your comment.
Unlike the dislike you feel for me,I am overjoyed to be able to respond to you.
"Citizen_Patriot_ Voter_Atheist!"
Since: May 09
#65 Nov 29, 2012
You do plead that excuse quite often. What barriers did you face? Was it disabilities that hindered you, language, politics, law? What prevented your education from being all that it could be? Were you originally slated to earn more than just the two degrees?
If you are by chance referring to Jumper's educational barriers, you can't ..... because those you do not know, but I have just pointed out his lack of education, so maybe your two cents worth of misdirected noise will spur him to reconsider that.
Jumper if you do consider attaining higher education, there is one school to steer clear of. Notre Dame seems to provide a math program, that falls far below that of any grammar school.
"Citizen_Patriot_ Voter_Atheist!"
Since: May 09
#66 Nov 29, 2012
Wait a minute, you don't get to separate the Educated Twit from the holy roller herd, he is them, he is what they best exemplify. He is dishonest, he is a liar, he will instigate any bit of shit, for the sake of starting shit, and he will and does condemn, any and all who do not walk the same walk that he has chosen that we all should. How can you even think he is less than the perfect christain?
"Citizen_Patriot_ Voter_Atheist!"
Since: May 09
#67 Nov 29, 2012
Oh, damn disgusting filth. Pull them back up! How dare you? You can't bring your nasty self in here and drop trou in our living room?
Yuck!!!! We need more bleach!
"Citizen_Patriot_ Voter_Atheist!"
Since: May 09
#68 Nov 29, 2012
Consider my view. I am looking at someone who gleefully contemplates bringing about my death, in the most unseemly of manners, versus who you are seeing. And that is someone who has never and will never in any manner wish for your death. Hell, I am a paragon of virtue compared to you, so yes, you should be thrilled to be posting to me, while I have no choice but to know my skin will crawl at the very thought of interaction with you.
#69 Nov 29, 2012
Where do you get that I said anything about your death,other than the gossip I heard floating around topix? I didn't know if they where kidding or you did pass on.
I don't really belive that stuff,but somtimes it's true.
I hope you bully me and others for years to come.
"Fortes Fortuna Juvat, "
Since: Dec 09
Wichita. Ks.
#70 Nov 29, 2012
Listen you have no idea where I came from. 43 years of religious belief only to see the truth of it. No I cannot believe in any god or gods as for the bible it is only the works a man and only man. You have all this hate in your heart because of religion. I do feel sorry for the likes of people like you.
"Fortes Fortuna Juvat, "
Since: Dec 09
Wichita. Ks.
#71 Nov 29, 2012
I am sorry that you believe in the bible of hate, murder, rape, genocide, and believe that it is proper follow and believe that all that is OK and right as long as it is in the name of your gods.
You are blind to all the wrong and hate of your bible and religious belief. You twist the words to mean what you want and not what they say. No man wrote your bible not any god.
"Israel for Ever and Ever"
Since: Nov 08
Right Here with my feet up
#72 Nov 29, 2012
Atheism cannot replace religion per say as atheism is in it own way a religion.
"Israel for Ever and Ever"
Since: Nov 08
Right Here with my feet up
#73 Nov 29, 2012
I would respectfully like to ask, why did you turn against God and His word the Bible? I would really like to know what made you make that decision.
"There are other issues."
Since: May 09
Location hidden
#74 Nov 29, 2012
Lol! You can't even comprehend the meaning of "educational barrier". While I am here, you also tend to use attitudinal and social barriers. As far as what I have faced, you make it up since
"Citizen_Patriot_ Voter_Atheist!"
Since: May 09
#75 Nov 29, 2012
Here is a small sampling of the stupidity that you have brought to our door
>>> http://www.topix.com/forum/religion/atheism/T...
Do you not remember your idiocy here, just a little over two years ago? You regularly implied that our deaths would bring you much pleasure, anything from being lost in Mexico, to being burned as fertilizer, to being cooked and eaten. Here is just a small sampling of that stupidity, there is lot's more still posted.
and here are your actual words as to the reason for your dismal education>>>>
jumper wrote: I blame the pulic school system in my area.Back in 82 we had text books that stated America will put a man on the moon some day
#76 Nov 29, 2012
That sure was somthing!
I had forgotton.You went through all that time and research just to find those old comments from a past that put behind me?
Thanks! You know...you're not such a bad sort after all.
One does grow nostalgic for the 'good ol days' but now we must forget the little mistakes from the past and move on.I have,but you seem to want to dwell on it.
We'll talk about it later over a nice cup of tea.
#77 Nov 29, 2012
'Oh yea.I forgot.
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"Sombrero Galaxy"
Since: Jan 10
I'm An Illegal Alien
#78 Nov 29, 2012
Religion is illogical. Atheism is logical. Why believe in what cannot be proven?
"Israel for Ever and Ever"
Since: Nov 08
Right Here with my feet up
#79 Nov 29, 2012
Can you conclusively prove the non existence of God?
"Sombrero Galaxy"
Since: Jan 10
I'm An Illegal Alien
#80 Nov 30, 2012
No, but I cannot prove that Leprechauns do not exist either.
"Israel for Ever and Ever"
Since: Nov 08
Right Here with my feet up
#81 Nov 30, 2012
Leprechauns were not the point you said that it is illogical to believe in something that cannot be proved to exist. I am saying it is illogical to dismiss something you cannot disprove, and call it illogical. Logic does not work that way
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For since we believe that Jesus died and was raised to life again, we also believe that when Jesus comes, God will bring back with Jesus all the Christians who have died. - 1 Thessalonians 4:14
There was a man who started exercising regularly when he was in his twenties, stopped smoking in his thirties, regulated his weight in his forties, and died anyway before he was fifty. So goes the tale told by men who don't like to exercise, don't want to stop smoking, and refuse to watch their weight. These men are ignoring well-documented evidence that disciplined living can add to the length of a man's days. But they are right that, whatever precautions are taken, men ultimately "die anyway"!
Given the inevitability of death, it is surprising that men, who normally plan their lives carefully, pay scant attention to their dying and what lies beyond it. Many of them settle for vague hopes or lame jokes regarding the subject. But that is not wise. Men who major on five-, ten-, and fifteen-year plans as a matter of course should not neglect an infinite-year plan—as a matter of prudence.
Apparently, the Christians in Thessalonica were not ignoring the issue of death. In the church in that city, there was a great deal of consternation about death and what lies beyond it. So Paul passed on to them some information he had received "directly from the Lord" (1 Thess. 4:15). With Christ's resurrection as his starting point, Paul told them, "Since we believe that Jesus died and was raised to life again, we also believe that when Jesus comes, God will bring back with Jesus all the Christians who have died" (4:14). Contained in this statement are several powerful truths. One, Jesus rose from the dead. Two, he will return in great glory. Three, Christians go to be with Christ when they die. Four, when Christ returns he will bring with him those have gone to be with him.
These truths are intended to help those who mourn the loss of loved ones, so that they will avoid being "full of sorrow like people who have no hope" (4:13). It is natural for bereaved people to be anxious about their loved ones. Paul assured the Thessalonians that when the Lord returns "with a commanding shout, with the call of the archangel, and with the trumpet call of God" (4:16), he will come with the believers who have died, and he will be coming for the believers who are still alive on earth. Then they will have a grand reunion with Christ and with each other.
The result of this teaching? "So comfort and encourage each other with these words" (4:18). But remember, this is for those who prepare for eternity.
For Further Study: >1 Thessalonians 4:13-5:11
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Grade Inflation Seen Rising
A professor who has crusaded against grade inflation by gathering and publicizing data has released his largest analysis to date -- and it suggests that grade inflation continues to be a broad problem across much of higher education. The figures may embarrass some colleges and renew a debate over whether students experience enough rigor.
The new analysis found that the average grade-point average at private colleges rose from 3.09 in 1991 to 3.30 in 2006. At public colleges and universities, the increase was from 2.85 to 3.01 over the same time period. The study also examines -- and seeks to refute -- the idea that students are earning better grades simply because they are better prepared. The greatest increases in grades appear to be coming at flagship public universities in the South and at selective liberal arts colleges.
The study was done by Stuart Rojstaczer, a retired Duke University professor who created GradeInflation.com to document these trends. For this study, he significantly expanded the numbers of institutions examined, and the time frame.
In addition, Rojstaczer says that his new study shows that it is possible to tame grade inflation. He finds that Princeton University has largely done so, by making an issue of grades and encouraging professors to give a broader distribution of grades. Further, he finds that there is one sector that has held the line against inflated grades: community colleges.
Rojstaczer's findings will probably resonate with professors, many of whom regularly bemoan grade inflation and say that students are conditioned to expect good grades just for showing up, and that professors who refuse to go along get punished with harsh course evaluations. Many professors who are off the tenure track or who are pre-tenure report great fear of being punished by students (and then not rehired) if they gain a reputation for tough grading, and studies have found correlations between being an easy grader and earning good ratings at RateMyProfessors.com. But other researchers question this study and conventional wisdom and say that reports of grade inflation are themselves inflated.
Various professors start campaigns against grade inflation, but Rojstaczer has stuck with the issue. He gained national attention in 2003 with an op-ed in The Washington Post called "Where All Grades Are Above Average," an article in which he confessed to having let two years pass without awarding a C. The Web site followed, but the new data represent more colleges than ever before and come after several years in which he didn't update the statistics.
In an interview, he said that he releases this information because he believes that not much more is really needed to tackle grade inflation. "People say this issue is complicated and difficult. It really isn't. It's incredibly simple," he said. "You get so fat that it effects your health. You lose weight. I really don't see all the problems in reducing GPAs that everyone else seems to see."
He noted that once Princeton deans said that the issue mattered and encouraged tougher grading, there was a significant change. "How difficult is this?" Rojstaczer asked. Other colleges and universities have seen the opposite trend. At Brown University last year was the first time, for example, a majority of undergraduate grades were A's, up from 42.5 percent a decade earlier.
The issue matters, Rojstaczer said, because "the alternative is a student body that frequently misses class, never prepares in advance, studies about 11 hours a week if they are 'full time' students, and drinks itself into a constant stupor out of boredom. That's not an acceptable alternative anywhere."
Clifford Adelman, a senior analyst at the Institute for Higher Education Policy and a leading education researcher, has conducted extensive studies of grades and degrees, using national data sets, and he believes that grade inflation is marginal -- and that the issue receives far too much attention. (Adelman has criticized the quality of Rojstaczer's past work, and Rojstaczer has in turn been critical of the critique.)
"If grade inflation is so rampant, how come at least a third of kids who start in four-year colleges don't graduate?" Adelman asked.
"My point is not that there is no grade inflation, rather that inflation in the judgment of human performance is something that cannot be proved," he said. In many cases, he said, there is a far more significant shift going on that gets missed in the discussion of grade inflation. "A significant proportion of grades that are not really grades" are being given, Adelman said, as students and professor embrace "alternative signs of student academic behavior" in a way that "devalues grading."
Added Adelman: "I see grade devaluation as a more serious problem for a variety of reasons that Stuart would never consider, but that academic administrators and enrollment managers everywhere instantly understand when the trend is pointed out." Adelman said that he stands by his earlier work, based on national data, that there is not a national surge in grades.
Community College Standards
Rojstaczer's work focuses on four-year institutions, and most of his criticisms relate to traditional college age students. But he notes in his new report that data from community colleges suggest that professors in that sector have been getting tougher in recent years, and have never abandoned the C. Rojstaczer had data from the entire California Community Colleges system (the largest in the United States) and selected other community colleges -- and he found none of the patterns that bothered him in the four-year sector.
Michael R. Chipps, president of Mid-Plains Community College, in Nebraska, said his institution and other community colleges take grades seriously for a number of reasons. One is that community colleges use grades to track how their students do when they transfer to four-year institutions (and he noted that many community college graduates perform better than students who started at four-year institutions). In addition, he noted that because community colleges admit students with a range of academic backgrounds, accurate assessment is seen as important to help students enter the best possible programs and to track their progress.
"Community colleges want the rigor to be sufficient, so that our students can not only prosper in the world of work, but seriously compete with students at the senior level institutions," Chipps said.
Kay McClenney, director of the Community College Survey of Student Engagement, which is based at the University of Texas at Austin, said she hoped the study would lead to more questioning of grades as a measure. "Notoriously, grades are unreliable, and they include measures of just about everything -- attendance, class participation, involvement in group discussions or campus events, and faculty bias -- as well, hopefully, as some aspects of student learning," she said. "I don't know anyone who believes that an A in English 301 means the same thing in my class as in the class down the hall, much less in the class across the country."
As to community colleges, she said that close student-faculty interaction at community colleges encourages frank evaluations. "Teaching and learning is what community college faculty do."
At a reception for college composition instructors Wednesday night in San Francisco, professors from community colleges were not surprised that grade inflation seemed less present at their institutions than at four-year institutions -- and they were proud of their standards, too.
Sandie McGill Barnhouse, who is chair of the Two-Year College English Association and who teaches at Rowan Cabarrus Community College, said that community college professors see it as part of their mission to teach students of a "diversity of entering skills," so there is no assumption that everyone in the class will do well. She said that many community college students haven't had great high school experiences and so aren't the type to demand an A on everything.
Sharon Mitchler, associate professor of English and humanities at Centralia College, a community college in Washington State, said that she thinks grading at community colleges may be more honest because that's the way students want it. Her students, she said, are focused on how improving their writing will help them professionally, and they want to see that the course will give them new skills they can use, not a letter grade.
"If I gave out all A's, my classes would think I'd lost my mind," she said.
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The Connecticut motor vehicle exemption helps determine whether you can keep your car, truck, van, or other vehicle if you file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. Here you'll find information about the Connecticut car exemption: how much it is, what types of vehicles it covers, how it works for married couples, how to find the applicable statute, and more.
(For more information about exemptions, including how they work and which ones you can use, see our Bankruptcy Exemptions area. For information specific to the motor vehicle exemption, see our Motor Vehicle Exemption in Bankruptcy area.)
Connecticut's motor vehicle exemption plays a large role in determining whether or not the bankruptcy trustee can take your vehicle to repay your unsecured creditors. If the equity in your car is less than Connecticut's car exemption, then the trustee cannot sell it. If the equity in your car is significantly more than the applicable exemption amount, the trustee is likely to sell your car to repay your unsecured creditors. For details, see The Motor Vehicle Exemption: Can You Keep Your Car in Chapter 7 Bankruptcy?
Keep in mind that even if your car is safe from the bankruptcy trustee, the lender may be able to repossess your car during or after bankruptcy. To learn more, see Your Car in Chapter 7 Bankruptcy and If You Are Behind on Your Car Payments, Can Chapter 7 Help?
In Connecticut, you can exempt up to $3,500 in equity in your car or other vehicle.
Connecticut allows you to choose between the state exemptions or the federal bankruptcy exemptions. The federal motor vehicle exemption amount changes every three years. To find the current amount, see our article The Federal Bankruptcy Exemptions.
If the equity in your car is more than $3,500, you may be able to cover the extra equity by using a wildcard exemption. A wildcard exemption can be applied towards any type of property and can be added to the motor vehicle exemption. Connecticut has a $1,000 wildcard exemption.
For example, let's say you own a car worth $4,500 free of any loans. You can add the $1,000 wildcard exemption to your $3,500 motor vehicle exemption to exempt the entire value of your car so the bankruptcy trustee cannot take it and sell it.
Some states allow married couples filing a joint bankruptcy petition to double the listed exemption amounts. In Connecticut, married couples filing a joint bankruptcy can double the motor vehicle exemption to $7,000. Similarly, your wildcard exemption is also doubled.
Learn more about joint bankruptcy options in Nolo's section on Bankruptcy Considerations for Married Couples.
The Connecticut motor vehicle exemption covers your car, truck, van, or other vehicle. But you can only use it to exempt one motor vehicle. If your car gets damaged or destroyed, any insurance proceeds you receive are also exempt to the extent your motor vehicle was exempt.
You can find Connecticut's motor vehicle exemption at Connecticut General Statutes Annotated § 52-352b (j).
You can find the Connecticut statutes on the website of the Connecticut General Assembly at www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap906.htm#Sec52-352b.htm. To learn how to find state statutes, see Nolo's Laws and Legal Research area.
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My mom surprised me today. She got up this morning and we did the regular drag me out of my warm bed to go out thing and then she took off driving and after a bit she started talking to us like she always does and she told me I was going to get to see my GRANDPA TODAY!!! I really love to see my grandpa. I just love to sit in his chair with him and cuddle, his brat holly tries to be mean to me though cause she doesn't want to share. He doesn't let her though. Mom made me take a bath when we got there. I hate getting baths! Water in my nose and I just look terrible until I am good and dry. I don't care if it does make me smell good. (well actually I do, but I don't want her to know that). Anyway, I had a wonderful day sitting with grandpa. But then we had to go back to our truck. One of these days, I think I am just going to tell mom I want to stay for a week or 2 and get out of the truck. I love my mom and I would miss her, but it would be nice to stay with grandma and grandpa for a while too. I think she would let me. She loves me and spoils me.
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Well we have been traveling again. (surprise!) So I have just been hanging out on my dash bed. I got to go see my Grandma and Grandpa this last weekend and I really loved that. I just adore my Grandpa. He lets me sit in his chair with him, but his girl Holly is kind of a snot and she growls at me. She is just so insecure! She does scare me though. I am not much of a fighter. Grandpa protects me though. It is always fun when I am there. I can go run around the yard and go in and out of the house as many times as I want ( as many times as I can get them to open the door for) And there are birds and squirrels to chase. I may be small but I can run pretty fast when I want to. Anyway, mom has stopped the truck for the night so it's time for my night time run.
what a day, mom made me get up at 6:30am just to cause she thought I would need to go out. Oh well, went back to sleep in my throne on the dash afterwards.
Got a little warm up there so I made the boy who is with us (mom calls him her grandson) come and get me and put me on the bed where I could lay on my other pillow and be cooler and sleep some more.
Then when we parked for the night, she did it again. Made me get up and go outside. The grass was horrible and stiff. And there were these 2 other dogs out there, they wanted me to play....really...I don't think so, I walked over to mom and made her pick me up!! Much better.
Then her and the boy went out for a while and the came back with strawberry ice cream.. Yum Yum Yum.... and she thought she would actually get some!!! NoT!!
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April 14, 2014
With today's blog post we're taking a special look at homelessness and substance use disorders in recognition of Alcohol Awareness Month.
It's not uncommon for people experiencing homelessness to also struggle with alcohol and drug problems. In the 2013 homeless Point-In-Time Count, one in five people experiencing homelessness said they had a chronic substance use disorder. The proportion of chronically homeless people with substance use disorders is estimated to be much higher, and the condition frequently co-occurs with mental illness.
As troubling as these numbers are, they do not show the complete picture. Rarely noted, for instance, is the obvious fact that the vast majority of the 20 million people in this country with substance use problems are not homeless. That suggests that people with substance use disorders might be homeless for reasons other than substance use. Poverty, lack of access to treatment, justice involvement, strained family supports – these factors can also contribute to housing instability, compounding the effects of a substance use disorder. Therefore, in addition to treatment, some people will need help addressing these factors if they are to recover and become stably housed.
That's why some communities choose to use a Housing First approach to ending homelessness, offering the most vulnerable people experiencing homelessness permanent housing with the voluntary services. Services might include behavioral health treatment, primary care, employment services, peer support, and intensive case management. Research shows that this approach works – helping re-house people successfully and often lowering the public costs of homeless assistance.
People recover from substance use disorders in different ways. One person might be able to make progress living with or near others with substance use disorder. Someone else might have more success living in an environment free of past influences associated with the substance use disorder. So for people experiencing homelessness with substance use disorders, strategies must be flexible and offer a choice of supportive housing models.
Given the various ways people find strength in recovery, one question communities face is whether to require that only homeless people who abstain from substance use can receive housing and services. Recent studies on this topic tend to show that housing outcomes are just as good or better when abstinence is not required. Further, stable housing itself, once achieved, can eventually motivate people with substance use disorders to enter recovery programs and find success on their own terms. However, housing programs may be pressed for funding that allows for non-abstinence-based options.
April is Alcohol Awareness Month. September is Recovery Month. Between now and then, here are three questions for communities working to end homelessness to explore:
- How can homeless assistance providers improve their screening and referral protocols for serving people with substance use disorders, including culturally competent practices?
- Are housing options available to support diverse approaches to recovery?
- What state and local policy changes are necessary to promote recovery and housing stability for vulnerable people with substance use disorders?
Resources for advocates:
- TIP 55 – Behavioral Health Services for People Who Are Homeless, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
- U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness
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Greenpeace Video Pressures LEGO To Cut Ties With Shell In Order To Save The Arctic
Everything is NOT awesome with the oil corporation's plans to drill in the Arctic
LEGO is one of most beloved and admired toy companies in the world, but the bad news is that Shell has been taking advantage of that reputation to improve their public image and hide plans to pillage oil in the arctic. Thankfully, Greenpeace is on the case, and they've created a video to encourage LEGO to cut their ties with the oil company. It depicts an Arctic LEGO scene drowning in oil, and has already managed to rack up over 2 million views in just over 24 hours.
This particular video is focused on the fact that Shell want to drill for oil in the Arctic. In the past this wasn't possible, but as climate change continues to take its tool, there is more opportunity for oil companies to drill previously inaccessible places. Apart from the fact this would exacerbate global warming further, and damage the area's delicate ecosystem, scientists also point out that an oil spill in those freezing conditions would be impossible to clean up.
As Greenpeace points out in an FAQ Blog Post:
Shell is spending money on making itself appear caring and family friendly by putting their branding on the things we love and is using its relationship with Lego to divert attention away from its dangerous plans.
The two companies have had ties for around 50 years, and LEGO has plans to renew its deal with Shell at the end of the year. Even though the companies values are at odds with each other, it's the prospect of greater sales that has so far kept LEGO in cahoots with the oil giant. Greenpeace posed a few thought-provoking questions on this particular point:
Does the world's most profitable toy company have to put aside its stated values in order to increase its sales? Would LEGO partner with a cigarette company to help bring its bricks to the masses?
Some have argued that LEGO bricks are made from oil, in an attempt to undermine the campaign, but it's worth pointing out that:
Lego has pledged to phase out the use of oil and replace it with a sustainable alternative by 2030. It's also worked to reduce its packaging and ensure all its packaging and printed materials are FSC-certified.
If you haven't already, make sure to watch the video, and then head over to the Greenpeace site and sign the petition – it only takes a few seconds.
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"Microsoft got caught"? Dejavu
Dejavu? Vista days? Now its Windows 7.
So this time:
"Microsoft assembled a package of patents "relating to open source" and put them up for sale to patent trolls"...
"Open Invention Network, working with its members and the Linux Foundation, pulled off a coup, managing to acquire some of the very patents that seem to have been at the heart of recent Microsoft FUD campaigns against Linux." - See Jim Zemlin's article:
AND this training of Linux vs Windows 7 for Best Buy employees (see my previous blog entry on this)..
"Inaccurate statements include the assertion that Linux vendors offer no authorized support, and that iPod or video chat support is not available on Linux. One particularly laughable statement is that Linux is not as secure as Windows 7."
All of this, after acknowledging their worries of Linux - Canonical, Red Hat as well as Netbooks in their SEC filing...
$11.9M fine for anti competitive office pricing
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Germany fined Microsoft $11.9M for pressing a retailer to sell Microsoft Office for a certain price: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&taxonomyName=Windows&articleId=9131265&taxonomyId=125
"Microsoft said in a statement that it doesn't agree with theBundeskartellamt's decision, but it chose to pay the fine rather thanenter a long legal dispute."[Read More]
10 issues Microsoft has NOT addressed in Windows 7 - per eWeek
Short and sweet top 10 list of issues with Windows 7:
To net it out...
1. Too much of a learning curve
2. Upgrade challenged from XP (forget it), from Vista (recent study had 30% of responders having issues)
3. Security
4. Bloatware
5. Not value for Enterprise
6. Starter edition a non starter
7. search needs to get better
8. little online integration
28,000 free Ubuntu based pcs for students in Assam
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Check this out. Assam government in India has given 14,000 PCs loaded with Ubuntu Linux operating system to well performing students. 14,000 more to be distributed in 2009.
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380,000 Panasonic users moving to IBM Lotus
Check this out...
380,000 Panasonic users will start using IBM Lotus web mail, cloud software.. Their US users are switching from Microsoft to IBM Lotus.
48 hours $200 discount to attend IMPACT 2009
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We love our twitter friends so, 48hrs only: special reg code: IMP9TWT for $200 discount on #IBMIMPACT 09 SOA conf http://tinyurl.com/d2muej
IMPACT details: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/websphere/events/impact2009/registration.html
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a Project Liberate proof point: Directions on Microsoft analyst says customers are not renewing Microsoft Enterprise Agreements
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Check this out:
A new report by Directions on Microsoft analysts Paul DeGroot and Rob Horwitz called "5 Reasons Why Microsoft Licensing Is Hard" claims that Microsoft licensing isn't likely to get any easier any time soon..."
Microsoft doesn't think there's a problem," report co-writer DeGroot said in an interview Wednesday. "The money keeps rolling in ... Microsoft looks at the numbers and the reality is that most customers don't have a choice."
And despite Microsoft's rosy view of things, he said that some enterprise customers have chosen not to renew their contracts this year because "the customer doesn't understand the value of what they bought or how they bought it," DeGroot said."
Check out http://www.ibm.com/software/info/liberate for ways to free up money.
Try this TCO Calculator to see how much money you can save: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/offer/roi-calculator.html
Acer president's Vista concerns
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After Dell and HP, here is yet another concerned Microsoft partner and PC manufacturer: http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,134962-pg,1/article.html
"Acer president Gianfranco Lanci today became the first major PC manufacturer to openly attack Microsoft over the Windows Vista operating system. He was quoted in the Financial Times Deutschland . Lanci said the operating system was riddled with problems and gave users and businesses no reason to buy a new PC, according to the report."
Business 2.0 blog provides more links on this topic: http://blogs.business2.com/smallchange/2007/07/windows-vista-c.html[Read More]
Antony's Top 6 Social Business predictions
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1. Activity Streams drives Systems Integration across People and Internet of things
2. Expertise on demand re-defines how work gets done
3. Every Employee becomes a brand advocate
4. Social serious gaming dominates user engagement
5. Your customer will manage your reputation
6. Workers determine performance and incentives
Are all SOAs equal? Are all Architectures equal?
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Interesting blog from Kerrie Holly on SOA similarities:
As Grady Booch said while back, and like computers, if you have a bad architecture, you have a bad SOA... garbage in garbage out
Can a given industry have a reference SOA? sure...
Can we standardize business services? some, but probably not all... there will always be some competitive differentiation.
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Are you ready for IMPACT? May 3-8 in Las Vegas
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Are you attending IMPACT?
Starts with Billy Crystal... http://www-01.ibm.com/software/websphere/events/impact2009/index1.shtml?S_TACT=108AU73W&S_CMP=default
It will be all about working smarter...
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Ascendant point of view as they get ready for IMPACT
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Good discussion with Ascendant, a leading IBM business partner, as they get ready for IMPACT
"We are working heavily in the health care space, both payors and providers. Additionally, we are currently engaged with several Blue Cross Blue Shields across the country to optimize their member portals and create more agile, online business processes. We have created and combined a unique set of capabilities for our customers. By combining user experience architecture, requirements engineering, and business value measurement with an SOA execution, we are helping health care payors align key business metrics to the user's experience and then ensure end-to-end execution of the solution. The technical solution often encompasses many parts of the IBM platform, including WebSphere Portal, Process Server, Lotus Connection, DataPower, Rational Team Concert and Build Forge.
We are also helping customers across a variety of industries adopt and execute social computing strategies. We are currently working on many corporate communication and collaboration strategies and are creating "internal Facebook-like" solutions, extending online communities to partner communities. Working with a variety of large brands to improve their online shopping experience, we are stressing the importance of "social commerce" applications and strategies in the shopping experience."
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AT&T $50 netbooks and ASUS Eee PC Linux netbooks
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Netbooks are on a roll...
AT&T announced a $50 plan with integrated wireless network cards: http://shopping.yahoo.com/articles/yshoppingarticles/221/att-to-offer-50-netbooks/
ASUS has been selling a $350 linux computer: http://shopping.yahoo.com/p:ASUS%20Eee%20PC%204G%20Laptop%20Computer:1995318985;_ylt=AphDuU.7FZUfzsL6979kKfyP98Uu
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Attend Smarter Collaboration Webinar
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Join IBM Executives in a series of Smarter Collaboration webinars:
Attend this webinar July 7th on free open source portals: myth, hype or reality
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Attend. Effective Team Collaboration in an On Demand Workplace: Bedfont, England, May 23rd. half day technical customer briefing. Or in Amsterdam on May 24th.
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Meet IBM technical experts at Bedfont, England on May 23rd. They will deliver a half-day technical customer briefing entitled "Effective Team Collaboration in an On Demand Workplace." Or if you are in Amsterdam on the 24th afternoon, that will work too...
Register Here: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/offers/techbriefings/details/dve.html?S_TACT=105AGX01&S_CMP=HP
This event will highlight how organizations can benefit from the capabilities of our Lotus technologies to become, and remain, a flexible, highly responsive on demand business. This road show is unique in that the content is delivered via live demonstrations and technical discussion.
The agenda is as follows:
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Automatic blogging and Twittering while watching TV shows
Check out this IBM patent for a special TV remote control that allows you to automatically blog and twitter about the TV show you are going to watch:
Avatar and Smarter Collaboration
AntonySatyadas 1100009CNT Tags:  avatar 4,850 Views
Watched Avatar in Imax. What a treat. The whole family enjoyed every bit of it...
Interesting to see this article on "is this concept really possible": http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/02/03/avatar.technology.science/index.html?hpt=C2. Personally I dont think its gonna take centuries to realize this vision. Probably a decade. I bet :-)
BBC article on smarter workplace by 2030
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Good BBC article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8127334.stm
"Head offices and individual desks are likely to disappear in favour of hot desks, collaborative spaces and decor that adapts to a worker's mood" ...
"By 2030," she said, "all these pieces of kit will be embedded throughout the environment and become completely transparent."... "A fully integrated set of technologies will follow users wherever they are," said Dr Puybaraud.
"The whole focus is on user empowerment. Walls could become screens showing diaries, documents or video conferences. Homes and cars would measure mood and tune surroundings to, for instance, soothe a worker if they were feeling stressed"
A tiny smart mobile, with a folding screen and a powerful pico-projector could be the gadget that co-ordinates the way information is passed on, speculated the Johnson control report...
Been there, done it... lessons from history in WSJ of working smarter
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Interesting article from Nancy Koehn, Harvard Business School in WSJ on how companies have weathered the storm before...
Heinz in 1875 - build trustworthy business relationships, kept employees with delayed wages, collect AR - accounts receivables.. And create and feed new markets - from horseraddish and pickles to ketchup!
Proctor & Gamble in 1930s - Market, market... "We are going to market the hell out of our products, and we're going to do it on radio," ... soap operas
IBM in 1932 - invested $1B in R&D when everyone else were cutting back..
"Everybody else in this game is slicing R&D. Watson is actuallyemploying more people, building more machines and still telling thefactory that even if he can't sell them, to keep adding to inventory" until 1935 with the social securities act the data processing market opened up..
and about leadership: "We have to be thinking -- as many are already -- about the opportunities that lie nestled within the turbulence all around"
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Although contestants on the Channel 5 show will believe they are taking part in a series of tasks against a wild animal, they will actually be facing world famous gorilla impersonator, Peter Elliot, complete with actors playing a 'trained handler' and a 'wrangler'.
The four challenges to be carried out include passing a beach ball back and forth with the furry friend, taking a photograph of a housemate with the gorilla, making the beast dance and bonding with it.
All successfully completed tasks are worth 30 seconds each.
After completing these four, the housemates will then take part in the final challenge - named Bananageddon - which involves 500 bananas being placed around the garden, each worth £1 towards the shopping kitty.
All housemates will then have the amount of time that they won earlier in the task to collect as many bananas as possible, while avoiding the wild beast roaming free in the garden.Reuse content


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Study Recommends Mexico Opens Hawaii Consulate
The Migration Policy Institute, a Washington think tank, and researchers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, are recommending that Mexico's government open a permanent consulate in Hawaii to serve a small but growing population. That recommendation was included in a study presented today that said people of Mexican origins in Hawaii have different experiences on the islands than in the other U.S. states. The study says people of Mexican origin make up about three percent of Hawaii's overall population, with 38,700 people. The biggest jump in the past decade has been on the Big Island, where the population of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans grew 85 percent since 2000. The study says a permanent consulate would make it easier for Mexican nationals to access services and act as an intermediary between the Mexican community and state and federal government.


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Click image above for directions to Gille Park
This is a fast flat, scenic run through our award-winning Gille Park. The course has been newly certified to facilitate a wider starting area. Scoring will be done by Elite Racing Systems and will feature the B-Tag from ChronoTrack Systems, the world's most advanced timing system. The B-Tag is a disposable UHF-RFID tag that stays mounted on the runner's bib
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Booms and busts in China's stock market: estimates based on fundamentals
This article empirically models China's stock prices using conventional fundamentals: corporate earnings, risk-free interest rate and a proxy for equity risk premium. It uses the estimated long-run stock price misalignments to date booms and busts, and analyses equity market reforms and excess liquidity as potential drivers of these stock price misalignments. Results show that China's equity prices can be well modelled using fundamentals, but that various booms and busts can be identified. Policy actions, either taking the form of deposit rate changes, equity market reforms or excess liquidity, have significantly contributed to these misalignments.
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text: Bangor on a budget. It's a new website designed to connect folks in the area to their community. On Wednesday night, the group launched their new website. It was designed by Links Advantage in Bangor. On it you can find information on where to go for the most cost effective arts, entertainment, and nightlife in Bangor. The group celebrated with a launch party at Coespace downtown. The night's festivities included an indoor s'mores bar, micro cooking classes by Chef on Demand, a DJ provided by Prime Entertainment services, and an interactive website display.A local artist "pigeon" even created an impressive 4 by 16 feet drawing of Bangor."I think that what Bangor on a budget is going to do is just get people excited about what's going on downtown and the surrounding area, greater Bangor area, and show them that there is stuff going on maybe that they don't know about," said creator Aspen Maquera. You can also find contests on the website including a raffle for two tickets to see Miranda Lambert and Dierks Bentley this August, as part of the Bangor waterfront concert series.For more information visit bangoronabudget.com.


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Gorditas roughly translates into "little fatties", which is a reference to their appearance — fat, stuffed corn tortillas — and possibly your appearance as well if you eat too many. A play on my "Healthy vs Hell-with-it" theme, these are basically Tuesday's very healthy, low-fat and wholesome corn tortilla recipe turned into fried corn dough balls stuffed with fatty carnitas (or really anything you can think of) along with cheese, onion, cilantro, lettuce, and salsa. If you look around, you'll find literally tens of different ways people make gorditas.
Sometimes they are just a thick, grilled corn tortillas with the "filling" piled on top; sometimes they are stuffed before cooking (more similar to the way pupusas are made); sometimes they are small and round like a fist; other times they are flat and disc-shaped. What I see in Austin most often is this type: a thick tortilla, grilled, then deep fried, split open like a pita bread and stuffed with any meats or non-meats on the menu: chicharrones, barbacoa, puerco al pastor, carnitas, aguacate, frijoles refritos, nopalitos … the possibilities are literally endless. Anything you can put into a taco, you can also cram into a gordita and it's divine. Crispy fried exterior, creamy and smooth corny interior. Top them with the usual suspects like Cotija cheese (salty, crumbly, similar to Parmesan) or sour cream and fresh onions, cilantro, lettuce, tomato. You'll think you've died and gone to Little Fatty Heaven.
And then you'll wake up there for real after having 10 gorditas and a heart attack.
- Prep Time: 5 mins
- Cook Time: 10 mins
- Total Time: 15 minutes
- Yield: 4
- Dough:
- 2 cups (8 ounces by weight) masa harina
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 1 1/4 cups warm water (approximate)
- Oil for frying (about a quart, or enough to be at least 1″ deep) like corn or peanut
- Fillings (see above text for more ideas):
- Cooked meat, shredded or chopped
- Refried beans
- Cheese and sour cream
- Lettuce, tomato, onion, cilantro
- In a large bowl, combine masa harina, baking powder, salt.
- Add oil and about 1 cup of water. Stir to combine. Add enough water to make a dough that sticks together into a ball, but not so much that it sticks to your hands.
- Divide dough into 4 pieces and pat each out to a circle about 4-5″ across and 1/2″ thick.
- Cook on a hot, dry skillet over medium-high heat for 1 1/2 minutes each side, or until lightly browned.
- Heat the oil to 360-375 degrees and place gorditas in the hot oil. After about 2 minutes, they will rise to the surface. Turn and cook another 30 seconds.
- Allow to cool and drain on paper.
- Split open along the side with a serrated knife. don't cut yourself!
- Stuff with whatever you like and serve right away.


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It is not just the technical ability but also values and attitudes that become critical to success in globally distributed teams. People who have multicultural experience, have lived outside their home countries, or, at the very least, are willing to travel are probably more open to building relationships across cultural boundaries. That goes a long way toward making effective communicators and team members on distributed teams.
Team structures and roles are another key element. Since agile practices are geared to respond to change, the role of a proxy customer collocated with an offshore team is critical for faster feedback cycles on business priorities and requirements. Similarly, even if development is not taking place on site with the customer, it is critical to have a technical role on site who communicates to the offshore team at all levels.
Rotation of people across locations is extremely important for shared context and to build trust amongst the distributed team members. As anyone who has worked on a collocated team knows, the tacit knowledge that team members often have about the project, process, and other people in the project is more effectively transmitted through face-to-face interaction.
Distributed agile teams need to adapt their project planning practices in order to account for team distribution, however most--if not all--engineering practices should continue as they would on a collocated agile team. This is critical, since engineering practices such as test-driven development (TDD) and continuous integration (CI) play an important role in feedback cycles for development teams. Tests, for example, are a very effective way of communicating design intent and requirements to distributed team members.
The other, more social-engineering practice "Collective Code Ownership" is also critical to distributed agile teams. This practice encourages distributed teams to trust each other to work off the same codebase. This obviously needs to be reinforced with other engineering practices like TDD and CI and with the social discipline of not leaving a broken build for the other team to fix unless as a communicated exception.
On agile teams, project planning is a continuous process and not a point-in-time activity. When teams are distributed, such continuous planning needs to consider additional factors: does the remote team have infrastructure available to handle the changes being planned?; do they have the knowledge, or should the change be timed with planned rotations of team members so knowledge and context transfer is more effective?; general availability of the remote team due to local holidays or vacations; etc.
Agile communication practices also need additional considerations. Local standup meetings now need to be run distributed, hence scheduling such communication meetings and taking into consideration different time zones becomes critical. It is unfair, for example, if only one team has to accommodate the others' time zone requirements. I have often seen that teams that share the pain of having to work odd hours are more successful at building trust and collaboration with each other than those which are not sensitive to the other teams' contexts.


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|Been a fan of Vocaloids for a while now. Rin and Len have always been my favorites, so when a group of friends and myself spoke of cosplaying from Vocaloids I called dibs on Rin. (≧∇≦)/
Nothing really done of hers. I have in mind what things and how I would make it in mind already, though.


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Former Wildcats Selected to USA Select Team
May 21, 2012
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Former Kentucky men's basketball All-Americans DeMarcus Cousins and John Wall will be suiting up for the Red, White and Blue this summer as members of the 2012 USA Men's Select Team that will train against the 2012 USA Basketball Men's National Team during its July 6-12 training camp in Las Vegas, Nev.
Cousins just completed his second season in the NBA with the Sacramento Kings where he averaged a double-double with 18.1 ppg (second best on the team) and team-leading 11.0 rpg. He led the NBA in offensive rebounds (265) and offensive rebounds per game (4.1) in the regular season and fourth overall in rebounding. He recorded 36 double-doubles, sixth most in the league.
Wall just finished his second season in the NBA with the Washington Wizards where he averaged team highs in points (16.3) and assists (8.0), while adding 4.5 rebounds and 1.4 steals per contest in 66 games (all starts). He finished seventh in the NBA in assists per game and led Washington in total points (1,076), assists (530), steals (95), minutes played (2,386), field goals made (378) and free-throws made (317).
Both Cousins and Wall were embers of USA Junior National Select teams that competed in the Nike Hoop Summit.
Members of the USA Select Team will assemble in Las Vegas and conduct a training session July 5, then train with the USA National Team July 6-11 (12:00-3:00 p.m. PDT). All practices will take place at UNLV's Mendenhall Center.


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Han Song Interview, London, October 10th
From the BSFA:
Han Song
On Wednesday 10th Octber 2012, Han Song (Chinese Science Fiction author) will be interviewed by Lavie Tidhar (Israeli SF writer), with Antoaneta Becker translating.
Although little of his work has been translated into English* Han Song is one of the most prolific of Chinese SF writers, and has won the prestigious Galaxy prize six times.
*One recent exception is the short story 'The Wheel of Samsara', published in 2009 in The Apex Book of World SF, edited by Lavie Tidhar.
This meeting is presented in collaboration with the British Council.
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The interview will start at 7 pm. We have the room from 6pm (and if early, fans are in the ground floor bar from 5ish).
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Strange Solve result after previous bad input
This is the proper solution to the correctly input system:
Mathematica 6.0 for Linux Itanium (64-bit)
Copyright 1988-2007 Wolfram Research, Inc.
In[1]:= Solve[{a==x + y, b==-x + y},{x,y}]
a - b a + b
Out[1]= {{x -> -----, y -> -----}}
2 2
Here, there is '=' instead of '==' in the 2nd eq:
In[2]:= Solve[{a==x + y, b=-x + y},{x,y}]
Solve::eqf: -x + y is not a well-formed equation.
Out[2]= Solve[{a == x + y, -x + y}, {x, y}]
and then, subsequent properly input systems will still fail:
In[3]:= Solve[{a==x + y, b==-x + y},{x,y}]
Solve::svars: Equations may not give solutions for all "solve" variables.
Out[3]= {{x -> a - y}}
Is this normal?
If so, is there a cure (some "resetting" procedure), apart from
quiting Mathematica and entering back?
Also, is there a way of testing that a previous bad input is indeed
the cause of that strange output? (Because if it happened a long time
ago in the Mathematica history, one might no longer remember.)


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It is understandable that those people who are against gay equality are against marriage equality. However, that is stupid.
Marriage equality has been said to 'fracture' gay communities. I believe some degree of this will happen. The gay identity will never be the same again, meanwhile, marriage will always be almost overwhelmingly (97%+) straight. Since majority rules, and 2% of people don't usually get a say in defining any culture, marriage will be culturally constructed in a straight way as it always has been. Gay couples living under marriage will be a like a racial minority living in a country that doesn't even want to speak of multiculturalism. There will never be any special accommodation for gay couples even when they actually need it, because identical treatment is all a minority can usually demand - and sometimes they even get inferior treatment (e.g. some places where gay marriage is legal gay IVF is banned). Meanwhile, those gay couples not living under marriage will be seen as unstable. This is because they will have no other legally and socially recognised bond to resort to. They will likely become a voiceless underclass.
I personally support marriage equality for various reasons, but I do not think it will bring 'gay equality'. Marriage equality will come at a price, but it is a price to the gay community, and I think they accept it, so I am happy to support marriage equality. For the straight community, marriage has always, and will always, be theirs either way, because of demographics. They have nothing to fear.


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Definition of agnostic
1 : a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable; broadly : one who is not committed to believing in either the existence or the nonexistence of God or a god
2 : a person who is unwilling to commit to an opinion about something political agnostics
agnosticismplay \-tə-ˌsi-zəm\ noun
Examples of agnostic in a Sentence
Even polytheists … were in fact tolerated, as Islamic rule spread to most of India. Only the total unbeliever—the agnostic or atheist—was beyond the pale of tolerance … —Bernard Lewis, Islam in History, 1993
Supporters of education vouchers … will love what Norman Macrae has to say on the subject. Teachers' unions and other opponents of vouchers … will deplore it. Voucher agnostics (and I include myself) might find that the proposal not only answers most doubts but also makes sense on issues they've never much thought about. —William Raspberry, Springfield (Massachusetts) Union, 14 Aug. 1987
I call myself an agnostic. I do not really have any faith, any coherent religious faith, and yet the one thing in my life that I feel passionate and evangelical about is poetry. —Maxine Kumin, "An Interview at Interlochen," 1977, in To Make a Prairie, 1979
How agnostic Differs from atheist
Many people are interested in distinguishing between the words agnostic and atheist. The difference is quite simple: atheist refers to someone who believes that there is no god (or gods), and agnostic refers to someone who doesn't know whether there is a god, or even if such a thing is knowable. This distinction can be troublesome to remember, but examining the origins of the two words can help.
Agnostic first appeared in 1869, (possibly coined by the English biologist Thomas Henry Huxley), and was formed from the Greek agnōstos (meaning "unknown, unknowable"). Atheist came to English from the French athéisme. Although both words share a prefix (which is probably the source of much of the confusion) the main body of each word is quite different. Agnostic shares part of its history with words such as prognosticate and prognosis, words which have something to do with knowledge or knowing something. Atheist shares roots with words such as theology and theism, which generally have something to do with God.
Origin and Etymology of agnostic
Greek agnōstos unknown, unknowable, from a- + gnōstos known, from gignōskein to know — more at know
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Definition of agnostic
1 : of, relating to, or being an agnostic : involving or characterized by agnosticism
2 : noncommittal, undogmatic
3 usually used after a noun a : not preferring a particular device or system "Children are platform agnostic," said Alice Cahn, vice-president of development for Cartoon Network. "If you want to look foolish with a preschooler, say, 'Sorry, you can't watch that. It's not on.' It's TiVoed, it's online, it's on video on demand." — Business Wireb : designed to be compatible with different devices (such as computers or smartphones) or operating systems content that is OS agnostic —often used in combination The application is platform-agnostic, so it can work on your tablet or cell phone.
Examples of agnostic in a Sentence
Cladistics classifies organisms in nested hierarchies based exclusively on their order of branching. (I should say that I am quite agnostic about this theory, so I do not write as a shill.) —Stephen Jay Gould, Natural History, March 1995
The composition comes alive in stanzas V and VI. This is the dark night. I hoped my readers would remember John of the Cross's poem. My night is not gracious, but secular, puritan, and agnostic. An existentialist night. —Robert Lowell, Collected Prose, 1987
… I thought that by the time I was past thirty-five—at the very least agnostic and surely swept by the bleak winds of existentialism—I had abandoned the Presbyterian precepts of my childhood. —William Styron, This Quiet Dust and Other Writings, 1982
Origin and Etymology of agnostic
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AGNOSTIC Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of agnostic for English Language Learners
: a person who does not have a definite belief about whether God exists or not
: a person who does not believe or is unsure of something
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Cars are now using lighter weight materials such as plastic as alternative to metals; engine catalysts are becoming more efficient in lowering emissions of toxic exhaust and particulates; solvent-free paints and coatings are being designed to reduce thermal buildup in a car's interior; rubber compounds in tires are designed to reduce rolling resistance; and biobased materials such as soybean-based foams and starch-based fibers for car seats, and vegetable oil/animal fat-based motor oils and lubricants are expected to become popular.


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The Boissevain Centennials swept their South West Baseball League double-header with the Melita Beavers on Friday night, topping the visitors 3-0 and 15-1.
In Friday's other game, it was Souris Cardinals 3, Deloraine Royals 2.
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UPDATE – 2/3, 3:30 a.m.: The Celtics received very good news on the Pierce injury. He has a strain in the middle part of his left foot, meaning the captain will be listed as day-to-day with the injury.
Originally, the Celtics seemed optimistic about Paul Pierce's presumed "ankle" injury after the Celtics 99-88 win over the Wizards on Monday night. Pierce re-entered the game to play 17 more minutes after the nasty fall in which Caron Butler rolled over his foot. After the game, he provided his own diagnosis:
"I'll get some X-rays tomorrow, but I think it's not going to be too bad," Pierce told reporters after the game, adding that he thought it was a sprain. "I would have known by now [if it was broken]. I think I'll be all right."
Instead, tests taken on Tuesday revealed Pierce could have a broken left foot, according to an NBA.com report, meaning the Celtics All-Star captain would be out for an extended period of time. Without Pierce, the Celtics would be left without their top scorer and clear team leader. Fortunately, the NBA.com report was inaccurate, and Pierce should be OK.
Pierce missed five games at the end of the December and early January with a knee injury, and the Celtics finished 2-3.
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Protection of the environment during armed conflict.
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Opening address / Conrad Harper --
Framing the issues / Carlson M. LeGrand --
Naval warfare and the environment / William H. Wright --
The Army and the environment: environmental considerations during Army operations / Joseph G. Garrett --
Protection of the environment during armed conflict and other military operations / Robert E. Linhard --The impact of war and military operations other than war on the marine environment: policy making on the frontiers of knowledge / Ronald A. DeMarco and John P. Quinn --This land is our land: the environmental threat of Army operations / Frank R. Finch --
The environmental threat of military operations / William M. Arkin --
Comment / Arthur G. Gaines, Jr. --
Oceans law, the maritime environment, and the law of naval warfare / George K. Walker --
Environmental issues in international armed conflict: the experience of the 1991 Gulf War / Adam Roberts --
Comment / Paul C. Szasz --
International environmental law considerations during military operations other than war / Bruce A. Harlow and Michael E. McGregor --
Environmental aspects of non-international conflicts: the experience in former-Yugoslavia / James A. Burger --
Comment / Raul E. Vinuesa --
Comment / Theodor Meron. Environmental security / Gary Vest --
State responsibility and civil liability for environmental damage caused by military operations / Christopher Greenwood --
State responsibility and civil reparation for environmental damage / Leslie C. Green --
Comment / Glen Plant --
Criminal responsibility for environmental damage in times of armed conflict / Michael Bothe --
Individual accountability for environmental damage in times of armed conflict: international and national penal enforcement possibilities / Gerard J. Tanja --
Comment / Howard S. Levie --
The debate to assess the need for new international accords / Hans-Peter Gasser --
Protection of the environment during armed conflict and other military operations: the way ahead / Dieter Fleck --
Protection of the environment in time of armed conflict: environmental protection in military practice / John H. McNeill --
The debate to assess the need for new international accords / Ivan Shearer --
Comment / J. Ashley Roach --
Comment / Wil D. Verwey --
Comment / Bernard H. Oxman --
Concluding remarks / John Norton Moore.
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Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
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My rating: 4 of 5 stars
If you want a thriller, with some fantastic writing with no cliche's, just gutsy, frail and often intolerable characters you will love this book. It's my first Gillian Flynn book and the fantastic word usage drew me in, then I just got caught in the dysfunctional of this girl, her wacked family and the town she never wanted to come back to. And as good as I am at presupposing book endings... not with this one. I mean, yeah, figured the bad guy, but the twisted, sickness that created this person, man, intense! So I will read Gillian Flynn again. But I need some hard core fantasy for awhile to take the edge of this psychologically tweaked thrill ride.
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A Night Mare for Christmas
Shay beat me bein' born by a lickity split. Made her the eldest, tho, so when we turned fourteen this past November, Mams made her step up to be hired out. I'da gone. I wanted to, Shay din't. Paps wanted a talkin' it through, but Mams's thinkin' was, workin' in the world'd go a'ways to help Shay steppin' into the grow'd up life.
I held Shay when she cried in our bed the night before she was to go. Off to Miz Reardon who had seven young un's. Like Shay'd be any use keeping her husband off'n her long enough to stop bearing for a year or two. 'Tis what I feared, that Tubbin Reardon'd be all over Shay within a month, knockin' her up, disgracin' our family name. 'Twas what Paps feared too, I see'd it in the pulsin' on his temple and the grim-grind of his jaw. He and Tubbin lived a fierce fued 'tween 'em. Had since they's kids.
Shay cried.
I say'd to her. "I be there, twin. Skalkin' ya. Heppin' if you outside with the hauling and laundry and such. I be your shadow. Won't let Miz Reardon see me, nor Tubbin neither. I coddle the kidlins, let 'em be thinking I made a fairy dust."
Shay snorted a bubbly laugh. See, being the second, I was birthed tiny. Got me some short stubbly legs and long, long arms. I knowed my arms growed xtra long cause I had 'em close tight around Shay while we gested inside Mams belly waitin' to be birthed. Since I'm a runtling, Shay dubbed me fairy, let me live to that singular notion. Dresses me the part, duded up in cast off finery we scavenge from the big houses, then she cobbles them apart and back together all new. Beaut'ful makin's, Shay does. With needle, thread, a bit 'o lace and pretend shinola.
Shay's carryin' on sobs brought Mams to our room.
"T'won't be s'bad," Mams shushes and rubs Shay's curled over back. "You're good with little 'uns and Miz Reardon will be ever so grateful for the help. She'll respect and treat ya fine and dandy."
Shay just sniffled the more.
Paps come in too, and gentle like moved Mams out the door before he sits himself down next to Shay. "I'll come for to walk you home ev'ry evenin', Shay girl. If'n that Tubbin so much as brushes your hair with his filth paw, I kill him. Or send the Night Mare after him when he's astumblin' home drunk from the pub a night."
I thinks that'll sooth Shay some, reassurance that Paps'll be there a waitin' her to come out Reardon's gate every night. But Shay falls to skittly-bits at his words. Paps face melts into a powerful sadness and he ups and leaves us too.
Shay reaches round me as I squeezes her harder. Her face tucks into my neck and I hears her speakin' whisper-words.
"Jules, oh sweet Jules. I ain't fearin' Mister Reardon. I got Paps old pig sticker if that rutting boar comes to maul me. It's the Night Mare I fear, to my very soul. We see'd it that once, comin' home late from Hatfield's orchard. 'Member?"
Weren't like to ever forget that night. Fogged it was, making the rough fields look like rolled up clouds of dark ick as Shay an' I stumbles over the plowed furrows, our aprons abulge with pears we pilfered with no permission. We'd hear'd the soft hoof sounds, thought it was milch cows. I was singing our itty-bitty song…
"Two twitchy bitches enjoyin' the rest,
A'takin our time in Mam's womby nest
'Till out we pops birthed, first one then the next,
Paps takes a lookie and yelps, 'We's hexed!'
Mams hangs in fine, spite bustin' us loose,
'A beauty and a beast,' Paps moans 'n hits the juice.
When he sobers up, Mams got us to breast,
When he sobers up, Mams got us to breast,
Lovin' us both and we knows the rest!
Now Paps' lovin' his Shay, even his Jules,
And smart's up to fight if'n—"
And smart's up to fight if'n—"
Then all sudden outa the gloamy mist rears up a monster big horse, black as pitchy mud with eyes a-brim with spite, nose snorting fiery and teeth snap, snap, snappin' at us. Shay and me, we runs…
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