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We don't have any technical specs in the article. We don't know if any airline will actually pay money for the system. No different than many other programs. You might be surprised how much info is out there on military systems as well.
This is a discussion on Why would this information be published? within the Off Topic & Humor Discussion forums, part of the The Back Porch category; http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080105/...lines_missiles DALLAS - Up to three American Airlines jets will be outfitted this spring with laser technology being developed to protect planes from missiles fired ...
DALLAS - Up to three American Airlines jets will be outfitted this spring with laser technology being developed to protect planes from missiles fired by terrorists.
Officials said Friday the anti-missile systems won't be tested on passenger flights. But the tests, which could involve more than 1,000 flights, will determine how well the technology holds up under the rigors of flight, they said.
The first Boeing 767-200 will be equipped in April or later, American spokesman Tim Wagner said. American operates that Boeing model mostly between New York and San Francisco and Los Angeles.
American said it is "not in favor" of putting anti-missile systems on commercial planes but agreed to take part in the tests to understand technologies that might be available in the future.
The anti-missile technology was developed for military planes, and U.K.-based BAE Systems PLC said Friday it won a $29 million contract from the Department of Homeland Security to test it on passenger planes.
The technology is intended to stop a missile attack by detecting heat from the rocket, then responding in a fraction of a second by firing a laser beam that jams the missile's guidance system.
The device on the belly of the Boeing 767-200 aircraft will be operational but won't be tested on regular flights, Wagner said. The use of a signal to mimic a missile attack has already been tested in the air, Wagner said.
Those tests also showed that the anti-missile systems didn't interfere with the jet's other controls, officials said.
American, the nation's largest carrier, has been working with BAE on the project for a couple years. In 2006, BAE installed its hardware on a Boeing 767 that wasn't used to fly paying passengers.
About a year ago, BAE invited reporters to American's maintenance base in Fort Worth to see a jet outfitted with the laser-jamming device called Jeteye.
"We are now entering the next phase," Wagner said, which is "to see how the system holds up on an aircraft in real-time conditions weather, continuous takeoffs and landings, etc. and to test its maintenance reliability."
Burt Keirstead, director of BAE's commercial airline protection program, said BAE's contract requires it to prove that Jeteye will operate without failure for 3,000 hours of flight and sets a goal of 4,500 hours.
"If there is one aspect of performance that is hardest to satisfy, it's reliability," Keirstead said. "We predict we'll meet the (3,000-hour) threshold, and we hope to get to the (4,500-hour) goal."
BAE expects to test the device through 7,000 hours of flying in 2008 and early 2009, he said.
With the latest contract, BAE has received more than $100 million in funding for aircraft-protection systems. Keirstead said BAE's technology will cost $500,000 to $1 million per plane to install.
Congress has approved funding for anti-missile research partly out of fear that terrorists armed with shoulder-fired weapons could hit jetliners as they take off and land.
Fort Worth-based American, a unit of AMR Corp., has said anti-missile defense is best handled by stopping terrorists from getting missiles that could shoot down commercial jets and by improving security around airports.
I would think that you would want this capability withheld from those who would try to take down a plane. Seems to me that terrorists will use this information to find other ways to take a plane down.
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We don't have any technical specs in the article. We don't know if any airline will actually pay money for the system. No different than many other programs. You might be surprised how much info is out there on military systems as well.
Procrastinators are the leaders of tomorrow.
I think just "saying" the planes have these gadgets will deter some BG from wasting expensive ammo
somethings are better left unsaid.. jams the missle guidance system with a
laser beam.thats nice,where dose the missle go from there???(hopefully
back to the terrorists but i dought that) no , i would say somewhere
on the ground. whos the enstien that thought this up.
(SHERIFF BUFORD T. JUSTICE) "what the hell is
the world coming too"
We advertise too much information about our fight with terrorists...Brit's do one thing correctly, that is...not letting the media publish reports on 'who did it', etc...during investigations.
Proverbs 27:12 says: The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
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Don't guess the article discloses anything of interest to terrorist other than to deter them, thinking it wouldn't do any good to shoot a missile if its going to be stopped. You can rest assured that if there is anything thats really secret the enemy can get it from some member of congress - their mouths don't stop.
Its a shame that youth is wasted on the young.
Hoe do you know that this is not "misinformation" ?
Lots of stuff that gets published is deliberatley miseleading to make an enemy eitheir think something that isnt so or to make them choose a different path.
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If it's not someone in congress leaking state secrets then you have the media leaking secrets. Like when the media told everyone that we had a Osama video before Osama even released it. They advertise our survellance tecniques, etc.
I say prosecute a few people for Treason or for releasing Top Secret, Secret or Classified material and it'll stop.
Heck, we even had an ex security advisor walk into the National Archives and steal Secret and Top Secret documents, then destroy them and the DOJ didn't do squatt.
I thought OPSEC meant something.
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I believe Israel has been putting these things on their commercial aircraft for years. I guess we are slowly being convinced the cost is worth it (I seriously doubt it). If you are in the business of terrorizing aircraft, I would think you know this technology is old news.
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To realize how important this defense is to our national security one only has to imagine a plane of 500 innocent Americans being shot out of the sky. The outrage of Americans would be heard throughout the land and the question 'Why did we allow this to happen since we have the technology to stop it?' would be constantly repeated.
And then what? After the fact we would equip our planes. We can do that BEFORE we are attacked. Further, it would be a disasterous blow to the air industry and our economy would be greatly harmed.
Of course, the airlines are balking as it is foreign to them that they have a responsibility for the safety of their passengers against terrorist attacks.


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handstyle battle anyone? i missed out on the proper battle coming up i guess... i kinda want a word with a j in it. need to work on them...
Noise never PM'ed his entry so it hasn't gone down yet
If you really want to battle someone, i'll battle you.
it's been quite a while since the last handy battle. what's up with that?
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I'll set it up, i'm sure Msfyt won't mind
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Maybe we should send the entries to proper (msfyt is a woman/cant do anything right)
Hey im new to the site and i wanted to know where the hell i look for upcoming battles and their deadlines, etc.
If anyone is down to do a 3D battle pm me.
Looking for a 3D battle. so if your down get at me through pm.
Gawdamnit proper! Thought we said no long words anymore!!!!!
Haha, Blockbuster isn't long. That has enough letters to make it look real legit.
proper... since you set up a handy battle.. i guess after?
i mean i guess we'll battle after the bs battle. cause i want in on this i wish it was a longer word though... lol
It was Blockbuster originally but some people thought it was too long so whatever.
eh im fine with it. i like f's anyways.
I had made this to show everyone it wasn't difficult but whatever
I wrote BLOCRBUSTER, haha.
that looks tight proper!
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been a busy girl
enjoy the battle for this week proper
ill set up one for next week
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Luke Graham: Baseball on the upswing
March 28, 2011
Steamboat Springs — Can baseball be making a comeback? Let's look at it. Football is the alpha male, no questions asked. All you have to do is turn on the television and get NFL lockout talk shoved in your face.
This might be the opportunity baseball needs. Predictions for this season are coming in a few paragraphs, by the way. But first, a few lockout thoughts.
Major League Baseball knows what a lockout can do. Look at what happened to baseball in 1994. After the season ended with no World Series and the lockout finally ended in April 1995, no one watched. No one cared. Just a bunch of overpaid guys arguing with their billionaire bosses.
Heck, last year, more people watched "American Idol" than the World Series.
But now, baseball has a chance.
Football probably will always be king. But a long lockout would turn some people away. Say it extends into late summer and early fall, a time when, normally, many fans have lost interest in the 162-game baseball schedule and already started looking at NFL training camps.
If that's not there, baseball will be the game. The late season will become the postseason and people will watch.
Colorado should be a good indicator — it's Broncos country. Although, with the Broncos' poor season and the Rockies' relevance, some could argue that trend is shifting.
Still, even last year, people were looking forward to the Broncos' season before baseball ended.
But if the Rockies are in contention and there is no NFL season, an October baseball ticket would be the hottest commodity in town.
Just a thought.
Now, to my favorite column topic of the year: baseball predictions.
Last year, I nailed Felix Hernandez as American League Cy Young and Neftali Feliz as AL Rookie of the Year. I also had Boston not making the playoffs.
Sadly enough, my prediction of the Rockies winning the 2010 World Series was dashed. My man-crush on Joe Mauer didn't help him to the MVP, either.
But hope springs eternal. Here are my picks for the new season:
■ AL MVP: Kevin Youkilis, Boston — Love him in what's probably the best lineup in baseball. Red Sox fans just would love a healthy year.
■ AL Cy Young: Justin Verlander, Detroit — Chalk up 230 innings, 250 strikeouts, 20 wins and a new shiny trophy.
■ AL Rookie of the Year: Tsuyoshi Nishioka, Minnesota — Japanese batting champion and top import this year. He'll fit in Minnesota's lineup and be one of the top second basemen in the league.
■ National League MVP: Troy Tulowitzki, Colorado — I am picking Tulowitzki until he wins it. Best defensive shortstop in the league and new face of Colorado sports. Please, please, please stay healthy.
■ NL Cy Young: Roy Halladay, Philadelphia — Easy choice. See the past 10 years.
■ NL Rookie of the Year: Aroldis Chapman, Cincinnati — Somehow the lefty still qualifies as a rookie. Making his second appearance on the Luke Graham MLB picks list, as I had him in the same spot last year. He'll save 45 games.
■ AL Wildcard: Oakland
■ AL East: Boston
■ AL Central: Detroit
■ AL West: Texas
■ AL Division Series: Boston against Oakland; Texas against Detroit
■ AL Championship Series: Boston against Detroit
■ NL Wildcard: Atlanta
■ NL East: Philadelphia
■ NL Central: Cincinnati
■ NL West: Colorado
■ NL Division Series: Colorado against Philadelphia; Cincinnati against Atlanta
■ NL Championship Series: Cincinnati against Philadelphia
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Water coming up through cracks in basement
I have been looking around and mostly finding threads and how to's on water coming through walls. We have recently purchased our home and we are getting water in our basement. I can stand over the cracks after a good rain and literally watch the puddles of water form at the cracks and seams in the basement. Some are coming from the wall to floor joint, but mostly the floor but none that i can notice coming outta the walls. The house was built in the mid 20's and there are two sump pumps currently installed and seem to be working. I'm not sure what to do, i would be willing to cover the walls and floors from the inside together somehow but is a large basement. Digging doesn't seem to be a reasonable option as I am not noticing the walls leak, can anybody help please?!?!?
Where are you? are the leaks right after a rain storm or days later? have you checked on the grading of the ground around the house and the gutter system? You say two sump pumps, on either side of the house, together or what and are both the inlets working?
Did you have the house inspected?
You definitely have water under the slab and around the basement. You are just seeing where it enters the basement and not the source of the leakage behind a waterproofing barrier (if any) or the way the water is getting around the basement. It takes some hydrostatic pressure to force the water through a crack or joint, the water outside is higher than the point of where the leak shows up.
Since you have two pumps installed there must have been a reason they were installed in the past.
A few possibilities:
1. You drain tile could be ineffective or partially collapsed. That is a reason you get some water to activate the sump pumps a little, but the tile is collecting all the water around the basement.
2. There could be a leak in a pipe in the soil. A buried pipe for the storm water from the roof gutters could be one source and this could be very quickly after a rain storm. Another possibility is another buried drain line in the area is leaking and the water finds its way to the area around your basement (this would take more time).
3. Water could be following a trench excavation (new or old) back toward your house. Utility line trenches, sump discharge trenches or something similar could be possibilities.
Has any excavation been done withing a 100-200 feet of the house in the last 10 years?
As mentioned, the time delay between the rain and the time when the leak appears is important to get an idea of the possible source.
If you have water coming through floor cracks any surface applied material would be very temporary.
Yes, I have noticed the grading around the house, 3 sides seem to be sloping away and the side with the driveway might be almost level but i believe to be sloped away a little bit. We are located in iowa and have a good distance between houses. The sump pumps are pretty much on each side of the house, driveway side and opposite side. As far as excavations, am not sure, not sure how to check on something like that or with the tiles and drains outside. It had been raining most of the day yesterday and started noticing it just before diner time and than this morning the floor was steadily covered before i left for work with a few dry spots here and there... The biggest question i guess i have is this something i can fix myself? I am pretty handy and can operate a shovel or digging equipment, just wouldn't know where to start with it all nor am i rich.
Thanks for all the input!
There is a good chance that you are seeing groundwater entering your basement from cracks in the floor. The level of groundwater is determined by a combination of local topography (the grade of land around your house), the precipitation, time of year, and soil properties. The best way to handle groundwater is to install a perimeter drain around the house, and direct the flow away from your basement, typically to a low spot on the lot.
It is possible that your house does not have a perimeter drain, many houses do not (I don't have one at my house). Unfortunately, it was not common to install perimeter drains 30 or more years ago, only recently has it become common practice.
The sump pumps will only reduce groundwater to the level the pumps draw down to, so for example if the low level cutoff is 3 inches below your slab, groundwater cannot be lowered more than 3 inches below your slab using the pumps. Additionally, the pumps only draw from a limited area. The lower the permeability of the soil beneath your slab, the smaller the area the pumps will drain.
There are some things you can do yourself, and others that may require professional assistance. Installation of a perimeter drain is a relatively simple project, however you need a backhoe and a good design for the drain. You also need a suitable place to direct the water to. If you can get a backhoe, or hire an operator, you could do some or most of this work yourself. A perimeter drain is most likely to eliminate your problem. If you wish to pursue this option, I could give you some ideas about how to construct one.
You could lower the sump pump pits. This would allow the pumps to draw the groundwater down further, and would potentially eliminate your inflow problem The further you lower the pump pit, the more often the pumps will run. Lowering the pits typically requires you to dig a deeper hole, which is harder than it sounds when the hole is full of water. This is a project best undertaken during the dry season.
There are also interior drain systems that are typically installed by professionals. They are typically pretty expensive, but can be very effective.
Attempting to waterproof your floor from the inside is almost impossible, and even if it worked, the pressure of the water underneath the floor could crack the concrete. I don't recommend it.
Interior drain tiles can be a DIY project if you have a little help. I did it with help from my 12 year old son and a few of his friends (took took out the small concrete section and dirt/clay, brought in the rock/sand to surround the perforated pvc and hauled in the sand & gravel for the 100 lf of wall).
I did hire a contracror with a saw to come in and cut/score the areas for removal (6' long x 16" wide) that were separated by about 8" - 12" of slab that was not removed.
I did the knocking out and the mucking of the wet clay and installation of the sump, pump, the sand/gravel and pvc placement and concrete mixing for the floor patches. I also put in drains from the block cores to the drain tile area. I also applied Thoroseal to the walls for insurance.
Topography is not an absolute of dryness or leakage. My driveway was so steep that several times my car (on warm tires) slide down the driveway in the winter. My water source as from the attached garage 30 at a minimum away from the basement, but the stem walls intercepted the natural grainage, so the water followed the footings to the lowest point. In my case, it took about 8 hours after the start of a hard rain and the original (now solved) leakge continued for several days after the rain because of the amount of water that was stored in the soil.
Total time was 3 week-ends and a few nights a week, but the toting out was done whenever the schedule permitted.- Not costly and it worked, but some sweat was needed.
It took time some observations and some engineering to determine the reason for the water.
We had this exact problem 2 years ago after nearly 10 inches of rain over a 48 hour period, which was after a 18 inch snow quick thaw/melt due to rapid temperature change. I was bewildered to find water coming up thru hairline or slightly larger cracks in the basement slab. The responses you've received from others are correct. I would concur that you probably have hydrostatic pressure due to water needing to escape (it will find it point of least resistance/lower pressure) and travel to it...in this case your basement. It is because the water levels under your slab are at such a level that the pressue is pushing itself against the slab and ultimately through the cracks.
I had some concrete experts evaluate and ended up having a full perimeter and 3 cross channels (running from wall to wall) of interior drain tile installed under the slab. While costly, so far it has proved successful. We live on a higher water table to our 2 interior pumps and 1 exterior pump operate about 4 months out of the year (early to late spring).
Good luck, I know how troubling this issue can be.
Hmm...So it sounds like my best bets are to to develop a plan to put in a perimeter drain around the house, dig my sump pump pits a little deeper, and to cut strips of concrete in the different rooms of my basement and lay gravel and tile running to the sump pumps? They all sound do-able if I probably googled a how-to for plans because it sounds like all the equipment needed for any of the jobs I can just zip up to the rental store and pick up. Unless somebody has something like that readily available or know of a good place to find one? So, besides digging the pits deeper, which should I try first or should I do both? And now we are getting into winter, should I wait till after all the snow melts and the rainy spring to try to tackle this or before right now before the ground freezes?
Thanks again for everything!!
Your pits may already deep enough since they usually do not collect too much water from the soil, but receive it from the drain tile. A larger or deeper sump will only increase the amount of water it holds until the sump pump kicks in. The pump will just not run as frequently, but longer when it does run. The amount of water the drain tile collects determine how much water you can get rid of.
I am having a similar problem. I just took out some old tile in my basement and noticed a damp spot in the middle of the room. I wiped it up and was surprised to see that the small puddle slowly seeped back up. I am laying new ceramic tile in this room and I'm wondering if there is something that I can do to seal this hairline crack before I tile it or if I will need to look into doing work on the perimeter drain.
Seeping floor cracks are a tell-tale sign of high water table under the basement floor. Concrete is not waterproof on its' own, so it's usually most realistic to manage it by lowering the water table via drain tile/clear stone/sump pump systems. That said, every situation is unique, and generally needs professional on-site evaluation to come up with the best resolution.......
Tryihg to seal the crack in the floor while doing nothing else is likely to be unsatisfactory after a few years. The crack could open up again due to settling of the house and/or vibration from trucks on the street outside.
Are there any 3 inch or 4 inch pipes emptying into your sump pump pit?
If not then you might not have a perimeter drain system and the seepage up onto the middle of the basement floor indicates you need a perimeter drain system.
In most cases the drain system around the perimeter only is good enough.
For an existing house, an exterior drain system or an interior drain system is usually decided based on how difficult it would be to install one versus the other. An exterior system will need a lead in pipe through the foundation or footing to the inside pit or could use an outside pit.
The significance of digging the pit deeper after installing drain lines is so the pump can run longer cycles without having the water level rise to cover the drain pipes which can cancel out the benefits of the drain pipe system.
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I think the whole reason for the fisheye is to get a 180 degree shot to cut down on the amount of shots that need to be taken.
First off thanks for the comments! I also plan on getting a fisheye lens with one advantage being the less shots… this is especially true where clouds are moving in a somewhat quicker fashion… the logic of course is if you are getting a full 360 at 12 shots or 36 bracketed along with the 42-45 degree angle up and the zenith shot you are 72 images…. with fast moving clouds could be a problem. So, different situations require different solutions..
thanks for sharing vibes…and matt too..
you should go for the tut vibes! very interesting method! Im a photographer as my hobbie…what else do you know that is helpful?
If I was to get a fisheye lens would I just need to point the camera vertically upwards and take the bracketed shots or would I still need to rotate the camera and take several shots?
Which would you say is best… with or without a fisheye lens? I know Paguthrie uses one.
I can get on the roof of my flat and see for miles without anything in the way. We have some awesome colours in the sky before sunset and pretty clouds in the south of England.
OK just had a little looky at a fisheye lens and they are quite expensive. So it's going to have to be the multiple shots technique for me.
You can check out: http://www.borrowlenses.com/ which is a great resource for testing any lens before purchase! Definitely worth the rental and the prices are very fair. I am getting the Canon 180mm Macro lens later this month for a weeks trial before I decide on purchase!!
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[CONCACAF UNDER-20 WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP] The USA moved into the semifinals of the Concacaf Under-20 Women's Championship in the Grand Caymans with a 3-0 win over Jamaica on Saturday night.
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Notre Dame freshman Morgan Andrews set up Jordan for the
opening goal in the 31st minute with a looping pass that found Jordan, who brought the ball down off chest and smashed a half-volley past Jamaica goalkeeper Chris-Ann
Chambers. In the 40th minute, Sullivan, the lone high school player on the U.S. team, made it 2-0 from the penalty spot after Lindsey Horan was taken
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UCLA goalkeeper Katelyn Rowland earned her second straight shutout as the USA extended its winning streak in Concacaf qualifying to 12 games.
The USA lost forward Makenzy Doniak for the remainder of the tournament. The Virginia star suffered broken right hand during the opening game against Costa Rica and will need surgery
after she returns home.
Summer Green, who replaced Doniak after she was injured in the first match, earned the start against Jamaica. The only
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USA 3 Jamaica 0. Goals: Jordan 31, Sullivan pen. 40, Meehan 82.
USA -- Rowland; Sullivan,
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Jamaica -- Chambers; Lue, Plummer,
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Patching into existing drain with washing machine
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My washing machine is in my basement directly under my kitchen sink. Currently I drain it into a wash tub that empties into to a recessed floor drain.
The drain leading to the kitchen sink above is exposed in the basement and runs right past the washer. Can I patch into this line with a 'Y' and a trap and drain the washer that way?
I know code requires one trap per fixture. I think I'm safe but I want to make sure this is OK. Can I do this? (see picture)
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should work.
use a 2" pipe through the trap then increase it to whatever your drain is then use this for the tie in at the drain
its a T wye with a street 45 to give you a long turn T 90 ( hard to find in one piece ) for a better flow.
Watch the trap height (ckeck local codes)
One thing to watch (check your local codes):
P2706.2 Standpipes for automatic clothes washers shall extend a minimum of 30 inches (762 mm) and a maximum of 48 inches (1219 mm) above the finished floor. Access shall be provided to all standpipe traps and drains for rodding.
Hum... pulled up the current IRC, and the 12" requirement is not there, the current requirement is:
"Standpipes shall extend a minimum of 18 inches (457 mm) and a maximum of 42 inches (1067 mm) above the trap weir. Access shall be provided to all standpipe traps and drains for rodding."
So ignore that portion of my post above.
I missed that too, but the standpipe is definately important! :yes:
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If any unusual transactions are made from an account, customers would immediately be sent the text alert by their credit card provider.
The system would enable companies to act more quickly to protect consumers who are unaware their card has been stolen, and to combat fraud. If the customer is simply going on a spending spree of their own, they can inform their bank in order to prevent their credit card being barred.
The security scheme is being tested by Barclaycard, which provides credit cards to more than 8m British customers. It is trying to protect its customers from the spiralling problem of fraud, which is costing the economy more than £400m a year.
Rather than send a letter through the post to warn of unusual spending, it has been sending text messages to more than 50,000 customers to test the response.
Barclaycard reports that the text-message alerts are prompting consumers to cancel their cards far more quickly than when a letter was sent through the post: usually within two hours of receiving the text message as opposed to two days when a warning was sent to them by post.
A Barclaycard spokesman said the trial was an important step towards beating card fraud. 'We are trialling text alerts to customers if any potentially fraudulent activity is occurring on their account,' he said. 'It is a question of all of us trying to stay one step ahead of the credit card criminals.' But he added the firm did not yet know when the system would be introduced for all its customers.
The news comes a week before London hosts a conference on plastic card fraud. The problem of stolen or counterfeit credit cards has led to a 30% increase in money lost to fraud between 2000 and 2001. Although PIN numbers will replace signatures in credit transactions within the next few years, it is still unclear when and who will pay for the new equipment which will be able to accept hi-tech cards.
John McVitie, a specialist in credit card fraud prevention, said: 'With fraudsters able to counterfeit cards so easily these days, it is very good to see a card issuer implement such a system as this and it is to be hoped that it is copied by others. The card industry must react much faster to make life difficult for the fraudster.'
Barclaycard will also ask customers to notify them if they are going on holiday. This will allow them to put a note on the customer's account so their card is not thought to be stolen when it is used abroad.
Royal Bank of Scotland said they would also like to hear from customers who intended to go abroad for some time or spend large sums of money over a short period.
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The Home Office is expected to unveil a special police unit to tackle credit card fraud within the next few weeks. The team will work closely with banks in an attempt to eradicate the organised gangs which make millions from fake credit cards each year.
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Here are my favorite styling combos. With all of them, I supersoak, plop, and air dry or diffuse. If I have a few flyaways once hair is dry, I use a little MD as a pomade and smooth it over dry hair. (Note: If I use too much and hair looks greasy, I turn the diffuser back on for a couple minutes and re-scrunch). In high dews I finish with MD as a pomade all the time; in fall/winter/spring, some of the time.
My hair is 3A, fine (although there is a lot of it), and not porous. It tangles easily; I have an oily scalp; and I easily get over-conditioned. Consequently, I use small amounts of the creamier products, and always apply to soaking wet hair or supersoak to enhance product distribution.
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Cisco's Stepping Up To Collaboration As Business Transformation
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Following on to Rob's great analyses of Cisco's Jabber and PostPath acquisitions, here are some additional things that Information & Knowledge Management Professionals should tune into regarding Cisco as the new collaboration kid on the block:
- First, Cisco is building a meeting-centric workspace product with WebEx Connect. Think about the key documents, chats, connections, calendar, contact lists, business and collaboration widgets, and video links hosted in a workspace with persistence, invitation- and approval-based access, and all the piece parts of a real workspace. That means you should be putting Cisco on your vendor list when looking at new team collaboration scenarios.
- Second, Jabber will be bundled into WebEx Connect as the core presence engine. In other words, this acquisition is, as Rob pointed out, a great way for Cisco to get a global-scale presence engine. But it's also presence designed around a B2B or distributed team environment. And that signals where you should look at Cisco: It's in B2B teams. Or teams that sit on the edge of the enterprise -- sales, product development, supply chain, partner management -- should look at this new option.
- Third, Cisco will make PostPath a paid add-on to WebEx Connect to be run in a SaaS model. Cisco isn't so much interested in competing for your email-only business. But it would love to win your Web conferencing business and create stickiness on that platform with B2B calendaring and email.
- Fourth, Cisco will offer all of this on a pay-by-the-drink SaaS model. It will all be priced per-user per-month if you want it that way. And your business users can get it with a credit card. The reason I'm so excited about cloud-based services and SaaS models is because they match expense with benefit. Even if the three-year costs look the same for on-premise and on-demand solutions, the financial transparency, accounting benefits, and business scaling make the cloud-based option better ... especially if you are a CFO.
Cisco has work to do, of course, particularly around building the partner channel. But this solutions on the way up, and it's time to tune into it.
Now what about business transformation? Well, that's the B2B thing. We need to improve the collaboration of distributed teams and especially multicompany teams. Today's collaboration tools are designed for internal teams, and it's almost impossible to bring partners or customers into the collaboration toolkit. See our recent report on real-time collaboration for more on this.
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Comment from Nicole Hall on Thu, 09/25/2008 - 17:11
Hi Ted, great note. Just one comment, when you write "Today's collaboration tools are designed for internal teams, and it's almost impossible to bring partners or customers into the collaboration toolkit."I would like to ensure you know that is exactly what Cisco is providing, the collaborative tools to provide intracompany and intercompany collaboration.
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Comment from Ted Schadler on Thu, 09/25/2008 - 19:44
Niki:Oops, I forgot to complete the original thought. The rest of the thought is that the incumbents -- Microsoft and IBM -- don't have an architecture that makes it easy for them to serve the B2B team scenario. Email works, sure, but to establish presence or calendars across companies requires a gateway, which is not an extensible solution.Cisco's cloud-based, and invitation-oriented architecture (borne of WebEx) is a better approach to B2B teams. That means that Cisco has a great opportunity to establish a foothold in these business-transformational B2B scenarios. Of course, Microsoft and IBM are not standing still, and Lotus Bluehouse and Microsoft's online services will provide some similar capabilities.But in the end, information & knowledge management professionals and the information workers they serve will benefit from Cisco's innovation.
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I wanted to let all our ohana know that there will be an Ah Leong Ohana Reunion in July. The next scheduled meeting is Sunday, March 27, 2011 at Windward Mall Food Court; Kaneohe from 4:30-6:30 pm. Please please try to make it and bring with you any genealogy info to share regarding our great grandma Rose Kanoelani Ah Leong who married Henry K. Daniels our grandma Thelma K. Daniels Renaud's parents. Kanoe please bring a copy of the marriage certificate and any other info you may have. Jason I know you and Kapua have some info as well so would you please try and make it as well. I will be in hilo and I will try to change my flight so I can come back for it. Kahu Bruce Ah Leong will be conducting the meeting so please introduce yourself to him and the rest of the ohana's.
Ah Leong Ohana Reunion CHANGE!!!! Sunday March 27, 2011, 4pm to 6pm. Location has been moved to the "Garage". Let it be known from this day forward that the "Garage" is located at the residence of Kauahi Clan. Home of Ka'ilihiwa located: 1112 Mapuana St. Kailua. Aunty Millie's same rules apply. Do not bring food. She is graciously making everything available once again, just show up. Mahalo aunty!


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Once you've completed the installation and clicked on Cropper from the start menu, you will have a small icon in your task bar that looks like a box with a + sign in it. Double-click this icon to open Cropper.
Cropper now shows you a box which you can move by holding down the left mouse button in the middle of the box, and dragging it over what you would like to save. You can left-click and hold on the bottom right corner and drag to make the box bigger or smaller. You will see the px size (how many pixels the image will be) along with current output method in the box.
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U.S. Memorial Day road trippers to hit near 10-year high: AAA
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The number of U.S. drivers taking to the road for Memorial Day weekend will hit a 10-year record as travelers gear up for summer after a severe winter, travel group AAA forecast on Friday.
Roughly eight in 10 Americans will take road trips over the holiday weekend, encouraged as well by a steady economic recovery, rising consumer confidence and slightly cheaper gasoline prices over last year, AAA Chief Operating Officer Marshall Doney said in a statement.
"The winter blues appear to have given Americans the travel bug and a case of cruise cabin fever as travel for the holiday is expected to hit a new post-recession high," Doney said.
The group's annual forecast found 31.8 million drivers would travel 50 miles or more on the U.S. holiday, which falls between Thursday, May 22, and Monday, May 26. That would be an increase of 1.2 percent from 2013, and the most since 2005.
The number of flyers will rise 2.4 percent to 2.6 million leisure travelers.
Overall, AAA expects 36.1 million people to travel during the holiday, a 1.5 percent increase over last year and the third straight year the group saw a rise.
The holiday forecast is based historical travel volume and economic drivers including employment, output, household net worth, gasoline prices and travel trends.
With ample commercial crude stocks in the United States, AAA said it expected average gasoline prices at or slightly below $3.63 per gallon, near the $3.66 level the group projected for last year. It found a slight risk that prices could rise if the crisis in Ukraine escalates or if U.S. refiners encounter unexpected maintenance issues. Continued...


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"First it was coach [Rob] Likens, and then coach Likens and I talked for about 15 minutes," Williams said of the day he received his Bears offer. "Then, after that, coach [Sonny] Dykes wanted me to call him, and we talked about the offer for about another 10 minutes."
The Bears want the speedy Williams -- who runs a 4.45-second 40 -- to be the speed slot receiver in the new high-powered offense.
"They told me a lot about the offense," Williams said. "They're coming from Louisiana Tech, which had the No. 1 offense, averaging about 52 points per game, which is ridiculous. They love to throw the ball, and I love to catch it, so it sounds like an awesome deal.
"I can go out wide, go deep, do whatever they need me to do to contribute to the team."
During his early research on Cal, Williams has found a lot to like about the program and the school.
"I learned that Cal has the third-best business school in the nation, which is, in my eyes, really important, because that's what I plan on majoring in," Williams said. "That's going to be a key factor. I'm still learning some things about Cal, and I'm trying to get down there in the summer and take an unofficial visit, just to check out the campus out in Cali. I mean, it's in Cali, so I'm sure it's just amazing."
Williams is hoping to make a visit early in the summer, and has entertained the possibility of committing on his birthday, on June 16, but it's likely that won't come to pass.
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All it takes is a photo and city will warn neighbors of fines
Mike Liefeld, enforcement manager for the Portland Bureau of Development Services, says his bureau gets nearly 6,000 complaints every year about everything from graffiti to building code violations. Short of staff, the bureau investigates about three out of four.
That means a lot of nuisance complaints never get investigated, and a lot of annoyed neighbors figure they just have to deal with it. To address that problem, two years ago the bureau started a pilot project that allows residents to turn in neighbors and start the violation process by themselves. But only one kind of violation qualifies to be part of this do-it-yourself program: overgrown yards.
Anyone who wants to complain about a neighbor whose yard grass and weeds exceed the city's 10-inch-high limit need only take a photograph of the offending yard and send it in to the bureau with the proper complaint information. The bureau, without dispatching an inspector, will send a violation letter and start fines if the yard isn't cleaned.
Two summers ago, complaints about overgrown grass and weeds with accompanying photos resulted in 130 violation letters, with 28 of those resulting in monthly fines - $233 for each of the first two months and $466 per month after that.
The program appears to be catching on. This year, neighbors turned in 199 residents and 49 of those violators didn't mow or fire up the weed trimmer and ended up being fined.
Liefeld says the program is an efficient way to deal with a code violation his bureau otherwise has to ignore. The only problems, he says, are that a number of people have sent complaints with incomplete information or inadequate photos, and that others liked the DYI process so much they sent in complaints for violations other than tall grass and weeds.
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Nationwide, a number of budget-strapped cities are experimenting with streamlining the process of code violation complaints. In New Haven, Conn., a program called SeeClickFix lets residents direct city work crews themselves merely by sending in a photo and information from their smartphones or computers.
SeeClickFix is proprietary software that founder Ben Berkowitz says is a response to the recognition that cities just don't have the staff anymore to follow up on all complaints. In New Haven, the program started as it did in Portland and many cities, with citizens able to use the app to send in complaints about potholes and inoperable stop lights.
In New Haven, the system worked so well that the city decided to eliminate the middlemen - city inspectors - and have complaints go directly into the work order system for city crews.
The system does not eliminate inspectors for neighbor-against-neighbor complaints such as overgrown yards. But Berkowitz says his company's software is able to filter out most inappropriate and grudge complaints with complicated algorithms that include screening the complainer's past reporting behavior.
Robert Smuts, New Haven's chief administrative officer, says the six-month-old program is working well when it comes to potholes, parking meters and graffiti. In fact, he says the city has been swamped with pothole complaints, and he likes the idea of citizens taking more responsibility and communicating more with their city government.
SeeClickFix even encourages Web viewers to monitor their city's response to complaints by watching how long it takes city crews to fix reported problems.
Smuts says New Haven has learned it can't allow complaints to completely drive the city response system because their boundaries includes Yale University as well as a number of impoverished neighborhoods where residents aren't as techno-savvy. An analysis in April showed that many more complaints came in from neighborhoods with wealthier and better-educated residents.
'We make sure we're not purely basing it on squeaky wheels getting the grease,' Smuts says.
SeeClickFix lets citizens register complaints anonymously, but Berkowitz says the smartphone or Web reporting process probably discourages people from misusing the complaint system.
'Even if you're anonymous, there's a feeling of accountability that sits on your shoulders,' he says.
Confidentiality of complainants has been a controversial issue in Portland. In fact, tall grass and weeds are the only type of city code violation in which complainants cannot stay confidential. That's because, under the new pilot program, tall grass and weed complaints are never investigated by a bureau inspector.
If somebody wants to know who turned them in for an overgrown yard, and is willing to make a public records request to the bureau, says Liefeld, they can get the name.
In two years, how many have asked who dropped the dime on them?
'Not a single person has asked,' Liefeld says.
Tribune Photo: Christopher Onstott • The tall grass and weeds at this Southeast Portland home inspired a complaint to a city program that allows neighbors to start the violation process without waiting for a city inspector.
• City office weeds out weird complaints
Portland residents complain about just about everything, and they complain to just about every city bureau. But dozens each day come in to the city's Office of Neighborhood Involvement, which often forwards the complaint to the appropriate bureau.
The office gets some doozies, says Information and Referral Manager John Dutt. A few of their favorites, according to Dutt:
• A resident complained because 'he was concerned about his scantily clad neighbor' and all the different men he saw coming and going from her home.
• A neighbor complained about children next door playing basketball in their own driveway. The call came in at 2 p.m.
• A resident called the office upset about 'a family with several young boys encouraging them to use the backyard as a toilet.'
• A neighbor complained about another neighbor growing more marijuana than a medical grower's license allowed and that 'the skunk odor was obnoxious.'
• A complaint came in from a woman 'wanting to know what she could do about a neighbor who was watching adult movies with their TV turned up too loud causing her 5-year-old to ask questions about the female screaming noises.'


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Right. My dog's name is Benjamin, but I don't think there's a link on the web to prove it, lol.<quoted text>
Link or it didn't happen?
So if there is no link on the web for something then it didn't happen?
Is this your claim?
Don't dictate beliefs
There are 11176 comments on the The Star Press story from Sep 5, 2012, titled Don't dictate beliefs. In it, The Star Press reports that:
No one else can say otherwise? That is basically saying those who do "believe in God" are better? Hardly.
Join the discussion below, or Read more at The Star Press.
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Feb 24, 2010
Health Benefit of Believing God Cares About You
A new study from chaplains George Fitchett and Patricia Murphy of the Rush University Medical Center found that clinically depressed people who believe in a personal and caring God respond better to medical treatment for their illness than do those who dont believe in a concerned God.
As Murphy, whos also a professor of religion, health, and human values at Rush, notes:
The positive response to medication had little to do with the feeling of hope that typically accompanies spiritual belief. It was tied specifically to the belief that a Supreme Being cared.
For people diagnosed with clinical depression, medication certainly plays an important role in reducing symptoms. But when treating persons diagnosed with depression, clinicians need to be aware of the role of religion in their patients lives. It is an important resource in planning their care.
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Yes, I saw some of those, Hedonist. There are some links I posted about church growth. But there are also links like the ones you found which show declines in the broader picture.
You know, the Bible tells us that during the end times, people will fall away from the faith, and the world will get worse and more evil, so we recognize that Bible prophesy is in the making.
As for this part in your post: "Only 21% of Americans attend religious services every week." - well, that's unfortunate, since more Americans could live longer, healthier lives if they had a belief in God. Our scientists and medical researchers have told us that. It's supported by studies and evidence I've posted earlier today with links.
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#2213 Oct 3, 2012
Oh yes, and EVEN people in the UK would even have a better chance of living longer, healthier lives if they had a belief in God. LOL
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#2214 Oct 3, 2012
Unable to show proof? Check.
Ad Hom attack trying to redirect from said failure?
Loser Christhole goes down like his daughter at a motley crew concert? Check.
I humbly accept your surrender. So as I have proven churches are closing down left and right so is it any mystery why they are attacking non believers?
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#2215 Oct 3, 2012
Still waiting for this proof you claim to have.
This is the best you can do?
You're just another xtian gasbag.
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#2216 Oct 3, 2012
That's yet another failure to refute me.
I'll take it you agree with me when I say that the god of the New Testament is communist.
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#2217 Oct 3, 2012
Why are you frightened to share with us what brand of xtian you are?
I guess your religion teaches you how to be a coward by hiding behind insults.
Are you embarrassed?
Come on, you can do it - don't be a frightened little maggot.
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#2218 Oct 3, 2012
Which god are you talking about?
Please be specific.
For all I know, you're a Hindu.
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#2219 Oct 3, 2012
Talking to yourself?
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#2220 Oct 3, 2012
Must I correct you in spelling as well as in your choice of invisible sky pixie?
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#2221 Oct 3, 2012
What's pathetic is the way you choose supernatural mumbo jumbo instead of reality.
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#2222 Oct 3, 2012
I notice you don't deny your lies.
"Is that all you've got?"
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Barebacking faux kitty again?!! Gross!
"Citizen_Patriot_ Voter_Atheist!"
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#2224 Oct 4, 2012
That doesn't belittle Christain faith. Christain faith belittles itself.
You also can't rewrite history, and keep it truth, by claiming that Adolph Hitler wasn't a Christain. There are thousands of pieces of evidence, including his own words that says he was a Christain. That specific churches and religions are now embarrsassed by it, doesn't change that in the 1930's and 40's Hiltler was a Christain acting as the Christain leader, of a Christain country.
Now that he is dead, all the religitards wan't to change his religion, but that is not possible. Say what you will, the truth stays the same. Adolph Hitler was a Catholic Christain!
Google: Gott Mit Uns
The German words, "Gott Mit Uns" means God With Us and appeared on Nazi soldiers belt buckles during WWII.
"Life may be sweeter for this"
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#2225 Oct 4, 2012
"Life may be sweeter for this"
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#2226 Oct 4, 2012
No, I don't know that. What evidence is there that Hitler was not a Christian? That he was a murderous psychopath? Some quotations?
If I want to point the finger at the Christian faith using Nazi Germany, I point to the German clergy and the German people, not Hitler. I could stipulate to Hitler being a non-Christian, and the picture is still abysmal for Christianity.
The claim has never been that Christianity made Hitler evil, which is the implied claim when theists point at him and other psychopathic heads of personality cults like Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot. The claim is that Christianity as an ethical system failed in Nazi Germany as it did everywhere else it has been put to the test.
Arguing over whether Hitler was a Christian or not is merely a distraction. Do you think that Christianity is off the hook for its role in the human catastrophe that was Nazi Germany - even if it were only a permissive and facilitative role - if it can be shown that Hitler was not a Christian?
Germany was Christian. Nearly the entire country acquired its moral fiber from the Christian church and Christian culture, just like Hitler. Under the duress of military humiliation and depression, Germany welcomed and supported a man like Hitler. When it was needed most, as usual, Christianity failed again as an ethical system. Humanist would have performed better.
I have no doubt that if the people posting as skeptics on this thread characterized the German people instead - that is, if Germany embodied the humanist values of people like Hedonist, Serpent, Khatru, and Chess Juror off the top of my head - there would have been no Holocaust. None of them would have accepted what a Christian nation embraced.
I said that Christianity failed as an ethical system in Nazi Germany as it always has when put to the test. It failed in colonial Salem, and it failed in modern America again in 2004, an unconscionable election outcome involving Bush, the Christian clergy and the Christian masses. The American people "re-elected" a reprobate on the advice of their priests, pastors and ministers, even when it was clear by 2004 that Bush had lied them into war, given huge tax breaks to the wealthy on the backs of the poor and middle classes, was using the Constitution as toilet paper, had outed a CIA operative and was sanctioning torture in all our our names. Humanists typically rejected that - I sure did - whereas Christians typically embraced it.
We need communities with stronger moral fiber than this, and I believe that the values of humanism as replacements for Christian values can do this better than any other course of action.
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Prove it - otherwise, you're just boring everyone.
"Life may be sweeter for this"
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#2228 Oct 4, 2012
I have been listening - most of my life. Here's what Jerry Falwell said to Pat Robertson on television about 9/11 :
[1] "And, I know that I'll hear from them for this. But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the Pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way - all of them who have tried to secularize America - I point the finger in their face and say 'you helped this happen.' " - Jerry Falwell
[2] Robertson responded: "Well, I totally concur ... We have insulted God at the highest level of our government. Then, we say,'Why does this happen?' It is happening because God Almighty is lifting His protection from us. Once that protection is gone, we are vulnerable because we are a free society." - Pat Robertson
Robertson is not only condemning what he feel is American impiety, he seems to also be taking a poke at the vulnerability of being "a free society."
Anyway, men like that define Christian dogma for millions of American, who believe that the Christian god smites man periodically.
Only a fool would believe that? I don't believe that. Christians do. The most prominent and influential Christians with the biggest and loudest pulpits say things like that, as I just demonstrated.
I meant "you" in the collective sense - second person plural. And no, atheists are not responsible for the intense atheophobia in America. Christians like the two men named above are, as well as the people that penned these words, all of which have been heard and read by millions or billions:
[3] "The fool says in his heart,'There is no God.' They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; there is no one who does good" - Psalm 14:1
[4] "But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone." - Revelation 21:8
[5]No, I dont know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God. George H. W. Bush
In these quotes, freethinkers are called unpatriotic, unfit citizens, corrupt, vile, bereft of goodness, the moral equivalent of murderers and whoremongers, and appropriate for eternal torture according to the judgment of a perfectly just and loving god. No wonder we are so despised. Who could endure that kind of bad press for millennia and not be?
If freethinkers were to characterize Christians like this for a few decades, you would be just as reviled as we are now.
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You pore thang. You're crying and whining again, lol.
Like I said before, since it was you who made the first claim, and I quote you:All these churches closing down are hoping someone buys them as well. One in my area was made into a strip club. Neat!--- you should have backed that up with links, or it's nothing but gibberish.
SO: When you show your links, I show my links. I promised you that before, and I keep my promises, but you don't......you failed and let us all down, just like we can always depend on you to do.
Until you fix your problem, you remain the loser you always have been, so nothing's new.
In the meantime, I've already posted plenty of facts and links which support my positions but you don't read those, so why would you read anything new?
Tell you what you just keep a pickin' at yore boogers, same as you always do, lmao.
Oh, and try going to church with grandma when you see her over the holidays. You never know, it might add years to your life:
Health Benefit of Believing God Cares About You
A new study from chaplains George Fitchett and Patricia Murphy of the Rush University Medical Center found that clinically depressed people who believe in a personal and caring God respond better to medical treatment for their illness than do those who dont believe in a concerned God.
As Murphy, whos also a professor of religion, health, and human values at Rush, notes:
The positive response to medication had little to do with the feeling of hope that typically accompanies spiritual belief. It was tied specifically to the belief that a Supreme Being cared.
For people diagnosed with clinical depression, medication certainly plays an important role in reducing symptoms. But when treating persons diagnosed with depression, clinicians need to be aware of the role of religion in their patients lives. It is an important resource in planning their care.
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I got the liners on there this weekend, without taking the wheels off, without too much trouble (although the wife's hair dryer helped with some stubborn edges), only to find myself staring at 2 screws that I needed to drive, and no way to drive them in without removing the wheels.
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Workers have removed radioactive soil from a Tokyo playground where extremely high radiation levels had frightened local residents for days, official said.
Soil underneath a slide at the municipal park in the Ikebukuro district showed radiation readings of up to 480 microsieverts per hour.
Anyone directly exposed to this level would absorb in two hours the government's annual maximum radiation threshold.
Contractors dug out soil from the spot on Friday, and the radiation reading returned to normal, around 0.06 microsieverts per hour, according to local reports.
Workers suspect the contamination was from radium, which is used for medical tools and glow-in-the-dark paint for watches, reports said.
Yukio Takano, the mayor of Toshima Ward, where the park is located, said in a statement that the problem, which fanned fears for the health of area children, was likely to end soon.
"The amount of radiation has been dramatically reduced after a test excavation" of the soil, said the statement, released late Friday.
The contamination came to light after a local resident reported it on Monday, but officials say they do not think it is connected to the disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.
The park, Ikebukuro Honcho Densha no Mieru Koen, was built in 2013, two years after the Fukushima reactor meltdowns, on what was previously a parking lot for Tokyo's sanitation department, a local official said.
Top soil at the lot was replaced before the land was turned into a park.
Many families in eastern Japan continue to survey the levels of radioactive contamination around their homes, distrustful of government assurances that most places were not affected by the Fukushima crisis.
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For our chili heads that love everything hot and hotter still, many of you have been asking for a simple to prepare Ghost Pepper hot sauce recipe that you can make at home. Here is a great one that you can make and use as a sauce for ribs or shredded pork. You can even use it as a mop sauce too.
When preparing this particular recipe, you want to protect your hands, eyes and skin while handling the hot ghost pepper so please wear an apron, goggles and gloves while handling these types of peppers.
2 cups of white vinegar
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
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1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
pinch of ground black pepper
Put on your apron, goggles and gloves and pick up your dried peppers. You will want to place them in a large bowl full of water until they are nice and moist. This can take a few minutes up to an hour to complete. Once they are done use a knife to remove their stems, seeds and membranes.
Place the vinegar, salt, peppers, lemon juice and ground black pepper into a large blender container. Place the lid on top and process for 2 minutes on the medium setting. Once done pour the mixture through a strainer and discard the skins and chunks. You may have to strain your sauce 2-3 times to get all of the skins and chunks out of it.
Place the sauce into a clean, empty glass jar and place into the refrigerator for a day or so for the flavors to combine. This sauce will keep for several weeks refrigerated.
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Attorney General John Kroger today announced a multi-state settlement with the DISH Network, L.L.C., a satellite TV provider that is the subject of hundreds of complaints by Oregon consumers in the past few years.
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Outbuilding / Merit
Dan Rockhill may be the only architect in the country who's designed a home restaurant. The zoning-be-damned outbuilding he fashioned for a Lawrence, Kan., chef serves as the dining room of a not-quite-legal establishment run by the owner and his wife. "There's no sign, you can't park in front, and you have to ask where it is," Rockhill explains. "It attracts people looking for something just quirky enough."
The concept sounds tailor-made for Rockhill, an iconoclast who takes building as seriously as design. He and project architect David Sain renovated the owners' kitchen into a commercial-grade one and added on an apartment for the chef's mother-in-law. The new, transparent dining room sits just a few feet behind the house. Insulated glass, steel cross bracing, and a grass roof fortify the 30-seat structure against cold and wind. "It's an out-of-your-mind building," said one judge approvingly. "It's bold and graphic."


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Eagles begin season with hopes for repeat state title
In West Anchorage, the 2013 state high school football champions are looking to reload and repeat.
The Eagles are preparing to put on an air show this season: head coach Tim Davis said the team will practice what's known as "Air Raid offense."
"It just relies on a few staple drop-back passes, some quick passes just to exploit space," Davis said. "And we play fast, we love going fast, tempo it up and go, go, go."
The coach said the West team includes many young players; a double-edged sword that brings both blessings and growing pains. That's where the defense comes in.
Dave Tuilimu, a middle linebacker for the Eagles, continues to push himself on the field.
"Every year I try to get better and better," he said. "Try to get better for myself and my future, and especially for my teammates."
If West is able to win a repeat state championship this year, it will mark the first time in 13 seasons a large school has won consecutive titles.