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Bills Digest No. 198 1998-99
Excise Tariff Amendment (Aviation Fuel Revenues) Bill 1999
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Excise Tariff Amendment (Aviation Fuel Revenues) Bill 1999
House: House of Representatives
Portfolio: Treasury
Commencement: The amendments outlined in this Digest commence on 12 May 1999
To increase the rate of excise duty on aviation gasoline and kerosene.
Refer to the Digest for the Customs Tarif f Amendment (Aviation Fuel Revenues) Bill 1999.
Main Provisions
Item 1 increases the rate of excise duty on aviation kerosene to $0.0271/L.
Items 2 and 3 increase the rate of excise duty on aviation gasoline to $0.0271/L.
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I managed to find a post I wrote for this site on December 31, 2010, titled "Some perspective on the 2C limit for the new year". I've pasted it below, in its original form. (Note that since I wrote this nearly five years ago, another IPCC report has been published.)
Imagine, if you will, a report on the environment commissioned by the United Nations that required the work of a 152-member committee from 58 countries.
And consider that the final report included the following text:
Clearly man has had nothing to do with these vast climatic changes [moving in and out of ice ages] in the past. And from the scale of the energy systems involved, it would seem rational to suppose that he is not likely to affect them in the future. But here we encounter another fact about our planetary life: the fragility of the balances through which the natural world that we know survives. In the field of climate, the sun's radiations, the earth's emissions, the universal influence of the oceans, and the impact of the ice are unquestionably vast and beyond any direct influence on the part of man. But the balance between incoming and outgoing radiation, the interplay of forces which preserves the average global level of temperature appear to be so even, so precise, that only the slightest shift in the energy balance could disrupt the whole system. It takes only the smallest movement at its fulcrum to swing a seesaw out of the horizontal. It may require only a very small percentage of change in the planet's balance of energy to modify average temperatures by 2°C. Downward, this is another ice age; upward, a return to an ice-free age. In either case, the effects are global and catastrophic.
By now, those of you used to what passes for my sense of humor are no doubt wondering which of the earliest IPCC reports I"m talking about and quoting. Was it the Second Assessment Report, published in 1995? The First, from 1990? (The most recent one, published in 2007 and commonly known simply as "the IPCC report", was the Fourth.)
Of course not. The document in question is the book, Only One Earth: The Care and Maintenance of a Small Planet, by Barbara Ward and Rene Dubos, published in 1972. Yes, 1972. With that knowledge in hand, please take a minute to re-read the paragraph I quoted.
While I haven't read the whole book, what I've found from quickly skimming it suggests that much of it is as thought provoking, and sometimes as jarring, as the text above.
You can reach your own conclusions about this remarkable book which seems to have fallen through the cracks of our collective memory. For me, the "here's yet more proof that we knew what we were doing to the environment long before even James Hansen's 1988 Congressional testimony" factor is more than enough to ponder.
Happy New Year, one and all. Be safe, hug your loved ones, and find perspective wherever you can. 2011 beckons, and it"s going to be a lot of things, but "dull" isn't on the list.
In case you're wondering, I found this book while trying to track down the source of the largely unquestioned 2°C-of-warming guardrail that supposedly separates "acceptable" from "unacceptable" climate impacts. Somewhere in the vast and dusty hallways of the Intertubes I stumbled over a reference to the book, and, much to my delight, a used book dealer had a copy for sale on Amazon at a stupid-cheap price.
This is the earliest discussion I could find of 2°C being used in any way similar to the "guardrail", and it only strengthens my belief that we've grandfathered in this guideline and would come up with a lower number if we started from scratch with our current understanding of the Earth System.

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Companies in the city have been finding it difficult to fill vacancies with properly skilled staff.
Firms say part of the problem is that the jobs are seen as badly paid with unsociable hours.
The measure was one of several key recommendations made in a five-year
tourism strategy to reinforce the industry in the city.
Launching the strategy at Hampden Stadium, Eddie Friel, chief executive of Greater Glasgow Tourist Board, said the problem has grown from Glasgow's growing success as a tourist destination.
"We have to make sure we invest in young people who are currently not in employment.
"There isn't another industry where you can move to a management position more quickly.
"Where you start has nothing to do with where you finish.
"We have to present tourism as a first class career because it is still perceived as a poorly paid career."
New hotels have been springing up across Glasgow over the last three-and-a-half years.
Convention business
The amount of bed space has increased by 30% during that time and an extra 5,000 jobs have been created.
The boom is being driven by convention business, which has increased by 25% in the city this year alone.
Tourism Minister Mike Watson said: "We have to make tourism more of a career prospect than it seems at the moment.
"Some of the employers I feel don't value their staff enough.
"It is not surprising that many of them feel undervalued and leave the industry quickly.
There are some schemes already up and running which are proving successful, but Mr Friel denied there were too many
strategies for tourism.
He said the proposals differed because they
aimed to help unemployed people fill vacancies.
The Glasgow Tourism Action Plan outlines how nine developments at key city attractions, including the Kelvinhall Art Gallery & Museum and the Clydeside area, will be managed and detailed strategies for attracting further business.


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Extreme prognosis: Samuel Johnson says his latest film, The Illustrated Family Doctor, is the kind "you'll either like or really, really not like at all". Photo: Sahlan Hayes
Playing a smug womaniser in a hit TV show has its drawbacks, including strangers feeling the urge to beat you up, writes Catherine Keenan.
Few actors divide people the way Samuel Johnson does. "Prat" was a common response at the mention of this interview with him. And while some women obviously find him raffishly charming - there's a reason he was all over our TV screens for a while - men, in particular, tend to foam at the mouth at the mere mention of his name.
Johnson says when people stop him in the street, they usually say: "You're Evan", referring to his role on The Secret Life of Us, the hit Network Ten series, and leave it at that. "Or they say, 'That's that f---head out of that f---ing show. Let's bash him!"' Once, things got so out of hand that Johnson's attacker ended up in court.
It's the smugness that does it. Actors are often over-identified with the characters they play, but Johnson seems to be considered indistinguishable from Evan.
And Evan was nothing if not smug. Despite being badly dressed, not especially handsome and mightily self-absorbed, the twentysomething writer had a vulnerability and an I-know-you-want-me smile that lured a string of Australia's most attractive actresses between his grubby sheets. (It's this that seems to get men's backs up so.)
Johnson, 27, has similar self-confidence. "I've always been arrogant. I'm not sure if it was Secret Life that did it to me. Anyone who says I've changed is wrong." He says this, of course, with exactly the sort of cheeky grin that makes you forgive him/want to punch him. I'm inclined towards the former, if only because he's brighter, less of a luvvie and more indiscreet than most actors.
"I keep trying to assume the official line on things, but I just can't. I wear my heart on my sleeve and often I read stuff about myself and think 'what a c--khead I sound like.' But, anyway ..."
Plus, you have to admire his honesty. I say I've just seen his latest film, The Illustrated Family Doctor, and straight up he asks for feedback. "Not 'Oh, I loved it, I thought it was great, I think you're wonderful' kind of shit. What didn't you like about the film?"
It's a bit slow, I venture.
"Yeah. It's a bit slow. It's a very deliberate film," he says eagerly, and waits for more.
It has the lumpiness of a movie that's been adapted from a novel.
"Yep. Yep."
Many other reservations flit through my mind. The utter blankness of his character, Gary Kelp, who does nothing as his life falls apart. The unfunniness of the jokes. The sheer portentousness of it all. But what does he think of it?
"I really like it. It's my kind of film. It's a deliciously black comedy that I don't think is specifically designed to make the audience feel comfortable about what they're looking at."
That's certainly true. Gary's job is copying reference books to create a compendium of diseases, and while compiling it he comes down with unsightly skin and eye conditions that the camera lingers over in icky detail.
"The director's quite enjoyed the idea of making his audience a little squeamish, because that puts you where the protagonist is. He's squeaming his way through life. It's the kind of film you'll either like or really, really not like at all."
Which means it may not be the triumphant return Johnson was hoping for. After the surprise success of Secret Life, Johnson was for a time more ubiquitous than Eddie McGuire, seemingly on every voiceover and ad, flogging everything from Barinas to bras.
He was quickly and massively overexposed - this is when the male foaming-at-the-mouth reaction seemed to set in - and figured if he didn't take time off he would be forced to. He hasn't done an ad or commercial telly for a year now, no voiceovers for two.
Instead, he has been living a very un-luvvie life in the small Victorian spa town of Hepburn Springs, north-west of Melbourne, in a "recycled brick, mud, timber A-frame with a mineral spring and a state forest behind me".
He also went back to university to study the social sciences and failed first year for the fourth time. "Once again, I excelled in alcoholism."
And he went to Europe, where he "fell in love".
With Europe or a person? "How can you not do both?"
The girl was from Ipswich, Queensland, as it turns out. So has he seen her since? "Nah." Not a long-term love, then? "It was a European love. Fleeting and orgasmic." He flashes that cheeky smile and this time I do want to punch him.
In The Illustrated Family Doctor, due in cinemas early next month, Johnson plays a character who is a world away from Evan: droopy, dull, so lacking in energy he's almost inert. Now that Secret Life is well and truly dead, he must be hoping it will signal a new start - his post-Evan life - though he doesn't seem terribly worried about it. Indeed, Johnson seems worried about very little.
There have certainly been difficulties in his life: 10 different schools as a kid; a sister who had cancer but survived; a mother who died when he was three.
"Yeah. She killed herself. Manic depressive. Too many trips," he says, stretching out on his bench seat as if he's talking about the weather. His sister, he casually adds, found her dead at the age of 12.
Yet, the way he tells it, he has mostly coasted through life, and especially through his career. He was discovered in his first school play, aged 15, by Fred Schepisi's ex-wife, the late Rhonda Schepisi, and had jobs and an equity card a couple of weeks later. Things rolled along steadily until they exploded with Secret Life. "I'm like the lucky charm in the family. I keep waiting to get cancer. Or get hit by a truck or something. Because the luck I've had, it's scary."
He readily admits there have been moments when this easy success has gone to his head. "I spiralled off a couple of times. Post-Home and Away, when I was 15, I spiralled. Post-Secret Life, I spiralled. It's just such an impossible kind of world to reconcile. You end up thinking, 'F--- it, I'm just going to get wasted.' I've always enjoyed a drop. I like the way it makes me feel. And you only have to get drunk once in front of industry types and all of a sudden you're Bill Hunter."
In Hepburn Springs, however, things are different. Johnson says it was disconcerting at first to leave showbiz behind, but he got used to it. He lives with his dog, Thomas, and doesn't hang out with actors. "Most of my friends are chefs and/or alcoholics. One of my friends is a drug dealer. She's been doing it for 40 years; she's a veteran."
He will need all his luck and more if the acting is to continue, as he's never had the formal training that would allow him to do roles demanding accents or get involved in American productions. It's Australian shows or nothing, a pretty risky position for any actor to be in. "I'll probably be pulling beers before too long," he says, flashing that smile again.
Bet he'll look pretty smug doing it.
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Lake Walcott State Park
Rupert, Idaho 1 course · 21 holes Driving directions
Videos of Lake Walcott State Park » Mike's Ace Hole 12 Lake Walcott State Park Disc Golf
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Troy L › May 20, 2010 at 7:26pm
too bad its on a par 2
Zak Fortuna › May 22, 2010 at 12:03am
What was that? like 160ft? it looks so short.. :<
Justin H › May 22, 2010 at 9:36pm
it is a raised green.
Mr Dger › May 23, 2010 at 6:37am
still an ace though, and it looks like he at least didn't break out his new katana for however short of a hole it is. nice throw man.
Brady Boyter › May 25, 2010 at 2:12am
it is a little over 200 ft. it is an aceable hole fore sure, but the video doesn't do it justice. it is one of my favorite holes ive ever played.
Larry Laub › June 18, 2010 at 3:24pm
Very nice ace,the video doesn't do the hole justice it is alittle harder than it looks there.
FLEX McCallister › November 11, 2010 at 8:24pm
what number hole is it?
Larry Laub › November 11, 2010 at 9:13pm
Hole 12 the Island hole!
TOE "Tee Off Even Under Pressure" UP › February 4, 2011 at 7:22pm
what a nice shot it hit the chains pretty good i swear there is nothing better then that sound {>]--- O- - - - -ching!!
Jeremy Sayer › June 28, 2014 at 9:22pm
I believe the Island hole is now number 13, since they have added 3 more holes to the course.


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This post is too much. Is it even possible that Sukie was the Susan
WALKINGSTICK Cherokee Indian? I am just sick about this post as the
person who could have answered this (my mom) died in April. Are there
any HENSONS mixed with any of these lines or PELTONs or McKAY/McCAYs?
Long shot I know.
>RE:Owen Adkins & Agnes Goad and related...(web searches yielded a little here and there)...
>1. at http://www.melungeons.com/articles/may2005.htm
>The Adkins (also spelled Atkin, Atkinson, Aiken, etc.) were multiply intermarried with my pioneer Cooper, Blevins and Burke families from Wayne County, Kentucky. Before settling as one of the leading families in Watauga, they came from Pittsylvania County, Virginia, suspected to be an important staging area for the movement of Melungeon families onto the northern and eastern boundaries of the Cherokee.
>OLD SURVEY BOOK NO. 1 page 7 PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY
>William Atkinson 200 A on both sides Pig River Survd Mar. 31 1747 at a gum on the Lower side of Pig River and thence N10E 90p. to a red Oak N65 W137p to a Beech on a branch S10 W204p. crossing a branch to a red oak S10E110p. to a red oak on Pig Riverand thence down the same & across it to the beging.
>William Atkinson 150A on both sides Pig River Survd 31Mar. 1747 beginning at a red oak on the upper side driver thence N81W48p. crossing sd River to a maple on Harping Creek S89W184p. crossing sd Harping Creek & the River to a white Oak N8W96p. crossing a Branch to a pine N60E70p. to a red oak E98p to a red oak S64E70p. to a pine S10E103p to the begin.
>Transcribed by James Burnett
>From notes of Mrs. Anderson, Dec'd
>These Adkins are traced to a James Atkinson, a Quaker who came to Philadelphia in the 1600s, probably from a Welsh port. His great-grandson William Adkins left a will dated Jan. 22, 1784, probated March 15, 1784 (D&W Bk. Vol. 11 p.136), and was buried near Cooper's Old Store, Pittsylvania Co., Va. William's son Owen was born about 1750 in Lunenberg County, Virginia (the parent county of Pittsylvania) and died in Watauga, Hawkins County, Tennessee about 1790. He married Agnes Good/Goad, from the same family that provided the spouse of Valentine Sevier (1701/02-1803). They were the parents of John Sevier, the first governor of Tennessee, and one of his sons, Valentine, married Sarah Cooper. The Seviers go back to Don Juan de Xavier of a Sephardic family that took refuge in Narvarre during the Spanish Inquisition.
>In 1836, Benjamin Adkins built a log mill on the Little South Fork of the Cumberland near Parmleysville, Kentucky, made of huge squared logs. This mill, with rifle slits on two levels, is still standing. He left a will in 1839 showing $10,000 in debts owed him and an estate of great value. Numerous family members moved first to Sequatchee (Marion County, Tenn.) and subsequently to Sand Mountain and to a hidden cove at the foot of Fox Mountain called Anawaika, or Deerhead, on the Georgia state line, about 1835, when the Trail of Tears began. Some proceeded west to Arkansas. William E. Adkins (about 1828-1862) married Susan E. (Sukie) Cooper (about 1831-1901), the daughter of Isaac and Mahala Jane Cooper, April 20, 1847, in Henry County, Tenn. Descendents filed unsuccessful applications to be enrolled as Cherokee in Indian Territory.
>William Adkins enlisted in the 1st Arkansas Union Cavalry (Company M) on September
>17th, 1862 in Marion County, Arkansas. His muster-in roll is dated October 1st, 1862 in Springfield, Missouri. He served under Brigadier General J. M. Schofield in the Army of the Frontier and was killed during a battle at Crane Creek, Stone County, Missouri on November 20th, 1862. His "Inventory of effect of a Deceased Soldier" signed by William S. Johnson, 1st Lieutenant, Company M, 1st Arkansas Union Cavalry stated: William was 5 feet 7 inches tall with blue eyes, brown hair, and a light complexion. He was
>buried in his clothes where he died. Susan Adkins applied for and was granted a military pension on June 2nd, 1863.
>"When I was little my Great Grandma Adkins (Virgie Stanley) use to tell me stories about my Great Grandfather's (Arthur 'Aud' Adkins) Grandmother. She said her name was Sukie and she was a Cherokee Indian. I later found out that 'Sukie' was a nickname for Susan. She also mentioned the name Mahala Blevins. --Steve Adkins, Arkansas.
>Atkins (R1b DNA) is thought to be derived from "one of Aix/Aachen," the capital of the Frankish empire under Charlemagne and an important Jewish mercantile center (WSWJ).
>[2009 sender's note: My own Adkins go back directly to Charlemagne...and continue to Adam & Eve of legend (somewhere around 140 generations through Judah). Unproveable of course, but interesting. You may visit my site (www.adkinshorton.net) to see where your folks may at some time connect. Adam & Eve are both listed with a surname of "of Eden". The way I list ancient names varies...so easier to give a link for Charlemagne: http://adkinshorton.net/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I5904&tree=ah. This is a live dynamic database. GEDCOM files are downloadable (partial or with login, full). My personal email is .]
>2. an online family tree pedigree at http://littlecalamity.tripod.com/Genealogy/AdkinsFamily.html
>3. Sevier lineage w/Joanna Goad at http://www.johnsevier.com/jstime.html
>and John's Wiki information at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sevier
>plus the various Indian killing info, etc.
>Good luck...Doug
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>I am searching for information about Owen Adkins b. ~1750, d.1790 TN (actually
>till VA at that point). married to Agnes Goad, daughter of John Goad and
>argaret Childes. According to a source, Agnes was born in Pittsylvania Co, as
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Box Incentives (each extra box you bought you got a $20 buck card incentive)...we got 2 Drew Stanton 07 Topps Highlights Auto (PC Item and a 05 Zeinth Dual JSY of Joe Namath and Eli Manning Sn /250). Plus you also got a random jersey or autograph card (we got an 03 Fleer Authentics Chad Pennington Authentics Ripped JSY card and a 06 UD Rookie Debut Future Star Materials Demetirus Williams Ravens JSY w/stitching). We also were given one random Press Pass Auto (I got Dennis Dixon, wife got Matt Flynn). Given the low turnout, they had 6 extra auto's (which coincidently was the same number of people we had playing so we all got an extra auto - I got Kevin Smith and my wife pulled the Silver Chris Johnson
My only complaint. After 4 boxes....still didn't finish a full set (I did get all 5 SP Base Cards though)..missing 2 cards. Also short 1 card on the Power Picks Insert set (1:4 odds)...but trip's of McFadden so its not all bad Player lots for the bay (yes starting tomorrow I think I'm rescinding my eBay boycott...I hate to do it, but my wallets dry and for a business standpoint, if they're fees are lower than naxcom and sales are higher...guess you gotta go where you can get the most money I guess....so I stand behind my they suck statement, but its an evil I'll deal with since I'd rather hate ebay than break cards, then hate eBay and open no cards...of course if I could just quit opening cards I wouldn't have this problem
You get 5 Auto's per box (which we did including the 2 boxes that had gu'd jerseys in them...so very happy with this!). 2 Boxes had 3 Relections, while 2 had 2). Only scanned the /100. The /500 were Talib, Hawkins, and Hester Base, Charles and Smith Collegiate Leaders, and a Glenn Dorsey All American. Intersting note here are that 3 of the 6 are SN 305/500.
We hit 2 Gridiron Gamers (1:72 odds)
Jonathan Stewart SN 37/150
Mike Hart Sn 122/199
Reflections /100:
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Trophy Club Dan Connor (Chuck Bednarik Award Winner) Sn 034/100
Collegiate Leaders Mario Wanningham SN 031/100
Teammates Darren McFadden and Felix Johnes SN 056/100
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Washington, D.C. – Nevada Senator Harry Reid made the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding the Republican-propagated myth of "job-killing regulations." Below are his remarks as prepared for delivery:
Democrats and Republicans don't agree on much these days. But we do agree that Congress must do something about this nation's unemployment crisis.
With 14 million Americans out of work, there is no more pressing issue facing Congress or the country.
Democrats' plan to address this problem has been straightforward. We have advocated for policies that will create jobs by investing in what makes this country great – our infrastructure, our education system and our innovative workforce.
Despite Republican obstructionism, we have continued to fight for middle-class jobs, bringing to the Senate floor bill after bill designed to put Americans back to work.
Republicans have taken a different approach. They have advocated a wholesale repeal of so-called "job-killing regulations."
They say rolling back everything from limits on air pollution to rules that keep our worksites safe will create jobs and revive our economy. The problem is, that's just not true.
Business leaders and economists of every political stripe agree this GOP mantra is an utter falsehood.
A respected economic advisor to two Republican presidents called this myth – spread by Republicans to cover up their woeful lack of a plan to create jobs – "nonsense" and "made up."
In fact, evidence show that government safeguards have little impact on employment.
A Bureau of Labor Statistics study found that last year only three tenths of one percent of layoffs was caused by regulation. That's according to the executives who ordered those layoffs.
Nearly 85 times as many jobs were lost last year because of a slow economy.
But rather than work with us to turn that weak economy around, Republicans have spent 11 months fighting Democratic policies that would have created millions of jobs.
Meanwhile, they've spent those 11 months focused on killing safety protections that cost a few thousand jobs a year while saving literally hundreds of thousands of lives.
For example, Republicans want to halt updates to the Clear Air Act. Since its passage 40 years ago, this law has reduced emission of key pollutants by 70 percent while the economy has grown by 200 percent.
Long-planned updates to the law would reduce emissions of mercury, acid gases and other life-threatening pollutants into the air, saving lives.
Last year alone, the Clear Air Act saved the lives of more than 160,000 Americans. It prevented 86,000 emergency room visits and 13 million lost work days.
The Clear Air Act has prevented hundreds of thousands of cases of heart disease, chronic bronchitis and asthma.
And last year alone it saved American companies and consumers $1.3 trillion by reducing medical costs and increasing productivity.
Of course, all these benefits come with a price tag. But for every dollar spent complying with the Clean Air Act, this nation saves $30 in emergency room bills, lost work days and environmental cleanup.
And repealing this law wouldn't make the costs go away – instead it would shift them from corporations to consumers.
Complying with environmental safeguards is one of the costs of doing business in the United States. It's part of being a good corporate citizen.
That's why two-thirds of voters say scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency – not politicians in Congress – should set pollution standards.
Seventy-one percent of voters, including a majority of Republicans, support the stronger environmental protections under attack by Congressional Republicans.
Eighty percent of voters believe those safeguards will improve public health and air quality.
There's plenty of evidence that smart, fair regulations save lives and save consumers money.
There's plenty more evidence that stronger watchdogs could have prevented disasters like the 2008 financial crisis or the West Virginia mining accident that killed 29 people last year.
Simply repeating the fiction that regulations kill jobs doesn't make it fact.
But even if there was an ounce of truth in the fable, there are many ways to steer our economy out of the ditch and create jobs that don't risk American lives.


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|I am thinking about starting a new business.
It is based on the Russian Bride website, which in my opinion is a form of human trafficking. I am going to sell Home Grown South African woman.
To start a business like this you need stock. That is the easy part.
I go to any Pretoria pub, make them drunk and then have my legal document way with them.
|The drunker they are the easier it gets... I know you are having sexual thoughts now but I am in this from a business perspective.
If my plan works then I could be exporting 10 000 brides per year.
That means that over the next 5 years we can start a little Afrikaans community in Russia. This open a whole new market of opportunities for exports:
I am also looking at the possibilities of Franchising the "harvest" areas.
ZOMG!!!1!eleventy! I\'m totally interested. But your electronic mail address thingy aren\'t working. Maybe it are broken? Coz, like, emial adresses break all the tiem.
When i tried to emial you I got this:
Technical details of permanent failure:
PERM_FAILURE: DNS Error: Domain name not found
What do that meen?!
:upset :? :cry
You should set up a real one, just to see if you get responses.


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The following is an update to the blog post written by The American Muslim's Sheila Musaji a few days earlier. New information appears towards the end of the post, including celebrities, politicans, and activists who have joined the protest against Lowes (who pulled its advertising from TLC's "All-American Muslim"), statements they've made, action items, and other [Read More…]
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The following is a guest blog from Sheila Musaji, editor-in-chief and founder of the The American Muslim. TLC has a reality series called "All-American Muslim," which has aired four out of a planned eight episodes. The program follows five Lebanese American families in Dearborn, Michigan. The Islamophobia network was enraged that this program only depicts [Read More…]


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Future Force Integration Directorate
What is it?
The Future Force Integration Directorate (FFID), located at Fort Bliss, Texas, integrates modernization efforts in support of Army transformation in order to provide Future Combat Systems (FCS) enabled modular brigades beginning FY 2011 and a fully equipped FCS Brigade Combat Team (FBCT) at full operational capability in 2017 to Joint Force commanders. FFID serves as TRADOC's and ARCIC's primary integrator for the Army's Future Combat Systems (FCS). FCS is a system-of-systems, centered on the Soldier, consisting of a network and a combination of manned and unmanned systems that use advanced network architecture to enable increased levels of Joint connectivity, situational awareness, situational understanding, and synchronized operations that were previously unachievable. FCS is designed to interact with and enhance the Army's most valuable weapon—the Soldier. When fully operational, FBCTs will provide the Army and the Joint Force with unprecedented capability to see the enemy, engage him on our terms, and defeat him on the 21st century battlefield.
What has the Army done?
The Future Force Integration Directorate (FFID) is a new Army Capabilities Integration Center (ARCIC) organization. FFID assists ARCIC in its mission as the Army's leader in the identification, design, development, and synchronization of capabilities into the Modular Force, both current and future, bringing together all Army as well as Joint, Interagency, Multinational and other partners to manage rapid change. FFID supports ARCIC and the Army in their mission to produce a campaign quality Army with expeditionary capabilities. To ensure success, FFID exercises operational control of the Army Evaluation Task Force (AETF) and simultaneously synchronizes delivery, preparation and evaluation of Future Combat Systems (FCS) and associated key and essential capabilities. FFID conducts FCS BCT and Spin Out testing and evaluation activities in order to support the accelerated delivery of select FCS capabilities to the current force, to reduce operational risk, prior to fielding the first FCS BCT.
What continued efforts does the Army have planned for the future?
FFID will continue to work important tasks and missions over the coming years. Those tasks include developing and sustaining integration capabilities between Fort Bliss and White Sands Missile Range (WSMR). Beginning in 2010, FFID will oversee the delivery of Spin Out capabilities to modular brigades. Additionally, FFID will promote the Initial Operational Capability (IOC) establishment of an FCS Center of Excellence, no later than FY 2011, to deliver FCS capabilities to modular forces and FBCT's. Most importantly, FFID will continue to integrate and coordinate the delivery of an FCS Brigade Combat Team (BCT) at Full Operational Capability (FOC) in 2017.
Why is this important to the Army?
FFID operations are extremely important due to a plethora of integration efforts associated with the vast multitude of organizations supporting FCS. FFID efforts support FCS fielding, as it is the Army's most critical investment requirement and principal modernization effort that will provide much-needed capabilities to our Soldiers, while increasing America's ability to provide a full spectrum force for national defense. FFID 's development of a sound and executable strategy for achieving the larger FCS program goals will help ensure a seamless integration of equipment, personnel and doctrine in creating a new organization, rather than just a series of new platforms. Ultimately, FFID is working to ensure that we provide the best, most advanced, most efficient, and latest capabilities that our combat Soldiers need, as fast as we can. Through FFID's efforts to accelerate capabilities and field FCS Brigade Combat Teams, we will sustain our Army as the dominant land power in the world, capable of full spectrum operations, while supporting our nation's commitment to ensuring that our Soldiers are never in a fair fight and that they always have the advantage.


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Journal Entry: January 1st, 2002
There's no time really to celebrate the win over the Swedes in the quarter-final. None at all. Right after the game we had to get our players a meal and then we had to get them to bed. Then the staff have to go over tapes and the reports from the Switzerland-Slovakia game and figure out our game plan. It's not a nightmare but it's a bit of a hassle having to do our usual prep work and having to pack up and move from the arena and the town that we've played in through the first round and the quarter-final, Hradec Kralove, to Pardubice down the road. After the game our playesr were lugging equipment, crates, bags, onto the bus. Maybe it's good, just to keep the guys on business.
There are going to be people surprised that our semi-final opponents are the Swiss but I'm not. Even though the Swiss only have four players drafted and the Slovaks have a bunch of kids who are stars in the CHL, Switzerland is clearly the most improved nation at this level of hockey. They won the bronze in the under-20s a few years back in Helsinki and they won the silver medal in the world under-18s last spring--and they were beaten by a Russian team that had Ilya Kovalchuk. Obviously the Swiss are doing something right with their development program.
Before the quarter-finals our kids were understandably nervous. It's the standard line--a four-game regular season and three Game 7s--but there's a lot of truth to it. It's a big leap to go from that opening round into the quarter-final. It's a bigger leap than going from the quarters to the semis or even the semis to the final. The quarters are in a lot of ways the toughest of all, that "hump" game that you have to get over.
Some people might have wondered if we were going to get over that hump and into the semi-final when we got behind 2-0 to Sweden last night. This was a better team than the one that took us to overtime in the bronze-medal game in Moscow last year. They were much more aggressive. They did a lot of good things, setting high picks, playing aggressively. There's a lot of talk about Swedish teams playing the neutral-zone trap, soft defensive hockey. But this team pinched a lot and was very aggressive in the the forecheck. The Swedes were full value for their win against the Czechs the other day and they didn't get out to a 2-0 lead against us by accident.
Still we believe we have a lot of character on this team. I really think we proved it tonight. You'll see other players on other teams let down when there's a score. Mike Cammallieri came through for us in a big way again, scoring our opening goal right off the faceoff after the Swedes jumped out in front by two goals. We had a lot of other guys step as the game went along. Jay Bouwmeester has really stepped here--just a tremendous game for us. Scottie Upshall took a penalty after the first Swedish goal that wasn't what we wanted at all but he bounced back from that and he bounced back from taking a hard hit and played his heart out. I could go right through the line-up.
The tournament is down to the short strokes now. Our guys have responded so far. We have a bunch of players, our key guys, who were in this position last year in Moscow. I have confidence that we're a better team than last year. And a wiser team for the experience of being close last year.
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Global Warming Solution?: Scientists Want To Store Carbon Dioxide Underground
- Jessica Passananti , Design & Trend
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A recent geological report suggests a promising way to cut down on carbon dioxide in the atmosphere: to inject it and store it in rocks underground.
The U.S. Geological Survey conducted a detailed assessment and found 36 regions across the country that have proper subterranean conditions to store between 2,400 to 3,7-- metric tons of carbon dioxide underground.
"This is just one tool in a range of options that we have, but it's an important one to give us additional time to transition from fossil fuels to nonfossil fuel energy," Mordick told LiveScience.
The process, called geologic carbon sequestration, would lessen the amount of carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere. The study identified the largest storage potential in the Coastal Plains region, which encompasses the Gulf Coast.
The geologic carbon sequestration technique works like this: exhaust gas would be captured from power plants before they are released into the atmosphere, which would separate the carbon dioxide from the rest of the emissions. The carbon dioxide is cooled and compressed into a liquidy-gas state. The new state would allow scientists to put the gas under ground.
"The idea is that the carbon dioxide will be trapped there pretty much indefinitely," Mordick said. "Things like oil, gas and brine are trapped in the subsurface for millions of years, so basic geologic principles tell us this is possible. In some ways, it's mimicking natural geologic processes."
According to Yahoo News, the carbon dioxide would need to be injected deep underground. Leaks, however, are a huge concern surrounding the process. Researchers and scientists are assessing all possible risks and ways in which the carbon dioxide could escape.


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According to J.M. Mullis CEO Michael Mullis, a site selector who has worked with Fulton and Montgomery Counties, this region has a lot to offer businesses looking for a great New York location. Mullis noted, "There's not a state in the union with a more diverse workforce and more knowledge than New York. But few people realize the riches available in the Fulton and Montgomery County area."
"When companies think about the northeast they think Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York State," Mullis said. "Within New York, they usually are aware of New York City, Buffalo, Albany and Binghamton, and nothing in between."
According to Mullis, the region offers outstanding:
- Transportation infrastructure. Nearby major roadways offer ready access to Montreal, New York, Boston, and points west. Also nearby are deep-water port access and a highly functional international airport. Rail-spur options are under review.
- Energy. Fresh water and wastewater treatment options are plentiful.
- Permitting. The state process is very good, and local officials work collaboratively to make permitting as easy as possible.
- Incentives. State and local economic development entities understand the importance of incentives to offset local tax burdens to businesses.
- Quality of life. The location offers affordable housing, rural beauty, and nearby access to cultural centers like Saratoga, the Berkshires, and the Capital Region, as well as to the vast outdoor recreational resources of the Adirondack Mountains and Mohawk Valley.
- Proximity to research technology centers like Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, CUNY, SUNY, and the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering.
- Workforce. There is ample workforce to call on in the region, and 21st century workforce readiness efforts by The CEO Roundtable and Fulton Montgomery Community College have brought advanced manufacturing and other critical training resources to the region.
- Shovel-ready sites including three in Fulton County and one in Montgomery County.
Mullis also noted that the new Tryon site will be unique in the state. "This is one of the region's greatest marketing assets," he explained. "It's the best property I've seen in New York State. It has the topography access, buildings, and acreage that will appeal to major companies. It's all there, including a backup power generator, $5 million worth of barbed wire security fencing, and a road network that is amply sufficient for most companies."
Ample Choices for Businesses Large and Small
Fulton County, NY is home to manufacturing and distribution operations for companies as diverse as U.S. retailer Walmart, Greek manufacturer FAGE Yogurt, French bottler CG Roxane, Spanish charcutier Pata Negra, Euphrates Cheese and the global headquarters of medical device manufacturer Epimed International.
The county currently has four shovel-ready business parks with readily available natural gas, electric, water, sewer, heavy-duty road network, direct wire to police and fire protection with easy access to state-of-the-art landfill and fiber optic telecommunications:
- Crossroads Business Park offers a campus-like setting featuring modern infrastructure and natural beauty. Average acres per lot are 3.2; with custom facility construction available in sizes ranging from 5,000 to 20,000 square feet.
- Crossroads Industrial Park features lots averaging 3-acres and is a perfect location for manufacturing, distribution, warehousing and food processing.
- Johnstown Industrial Park has lots averaging 6 acres which are ideal for manufacturing, distribution, warehousing and food processing.
- Tryon Technology Park encompasses 515-acres on County Highway 107. Formerly home to a juvenile detention facility, New York State turned the site over to the Fulton County Industrial Development Agency for economic development. The flagship tenant, a pharmaceutical manufacturer, moved to the park in 2015.


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In the same vein as Brain Age - this game tests your skills with a variety of timed puzzles. It isn't quite as polished as Brain Age and doesn't have handwriting or speech recognition, but makes up for this with a larger variety of puzzles. I actually like most of these puzzles better than the Brain Age puzzles. Both games are cheap (around $20), so why not get both?
Who says gaming isn't educational? Brain Age lets you use your mind to its fullest with semi-challenging puzzles and mini-exercises. This also includes the super fun Soduku puzzles. For the geek in you~Tags: games, puzzles, electronics, exercise, video games, reading, video, writing, AddictiveAdded 8 Years Ago from Amazon.com
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Entrepreneurial groups face a twinned challenge: recognizing and implementing new ideas. We argue that entrepreneurship is less about importing ideas than about generating new knowledge by recombining resources. In contrast to the brokerage-plus-closure perspective, we address the overlapping of cohesive group structures. In analyzing the network processes of intercohesion, we identify a distinctive network topology: the structural fold. Actors at the structural fold are multiple insiders, facilitating familiar access to diverse resources. Our data set records personnel ties among the largest 1,696 Hungarian enterprises from 1987 to 2001. First, we test whether structural folding contributes to group performance. Second, because entrepreneurship is a process of generative disruption, we test the contribution of structural folds to group instability. Third, we move from dynamic methods to historical network analysis and demonstrate that coherence is a property of interwoven lineages of cohesion, built up through repeated separation and reunification.
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I've also needed melatonin to sleep most night since dd was born... Not do much physically but mentally to get ahead of the spinning mind and I have had do many legit reasons to have a busy mind but still. How do you cope? Without harming your health? My son is 4.5 months but dd didn't get much better until almost 2 she's 27 mo now
I have all the pod symptoms necessary for a diagnosis when I'm this tired. I cantvr en ask for advice properly. Please help I don't want to end up in the er
oh, hugs to you. I have no advice but hope you get some great help here- just read your post and had to answer with some sympathy. hang in there. sorry I have no advice or help to offer but I hope someone does and I am sending you strength and hope to get through these challenges.
Oh, my. You poor woman. I am so, so sad for you. It must be hell. I truly hope you can get some support. It sounds like the #1 priorities right now are sleep, any possible way you can get it, and getting to a mental health professional who can diagnose you and get you the help you need. If those things don't happen I too am concerned you'll end up in the ER.
Big, big hugs for you.
Put everything you can forgo on hold. You are in survival mode right now. Strip everything to the basics and do only what is truly needed. Anything that gets in the way of that and is not necessary, get rid of it. You say your daughter watches too much TV for now. That is okay. It is what you need to do now to get through the day. Cross that out of your worry list.
Can you do trades with another mother for your 2.5 year old? I found, for me, watching two kids (my kid plus his friend) was easier in some ways because they have a playmate. Also, it will mean you will get a break from your DD when she is at her friend,s home, you know what I mean? If you have a mom friend that you feel comfortable with to do babysitting exchange, that may help. Just putting it out there as an idea.
How is your home? I ask this because when I am mentally maxed, a messy cluttered home gets to me and further adds to the chaos in my mind. Makes me more anxious, more exhausted, more depressed. So, when it becomes difficult to control my mind, I start by trying to control my surroundings. This comes in the form of just getting rid of crap. Having my home near empty means less messy, less disorder, less stuff for kids to throw around and less stuff for me to trip over and worry about cleaning up. So I chuck everything out. Again, I am just putting this out there just in case you have the energy to do this or your DH to do this and. if you thought this would be helpful in your situation. We are all so different.
Drop all your standards... let go of any sense of performance anxiety you may have. You may not be the best version of yourself right now but you sure are doing the best you can under your current situation. You need to give yourself a chance to recover.
I am just throwing all this stuff out there hoping you will find something helpful in it.
Here is wishing you sleep soon!
Love and peace to you. Feeling for you and your situation.
Jean, feminist mama raising three boys: W (7), E (5) and L (2.15.13)
I'm getting slightly more sleep now, ds is doign a bit better despite cutting his first tooth!
I'm realizing that maybe the sleep deprivation triggered it, but I have some problems...I have ppd/ppa on good days when i am rested and maybe get some time tomyself and screaming is not too much (ha!) i feel almost normal...but I'm always on edge, if I'm honest I have been sinc eI got pregnant with dd1...it got a bit better when she calmed down aroudn a year old and then I got pregnant and we moved again and again and again. But I'm finally realizing that maybe uncontrollable snapping at people including strangers, extreme irritability and sort of chronic pms type stymptoms may actually be how I manifest ppd. Maybe wanting to crawl out of my own skin and scrape my fingernails ona chalk board just to distract myself when my son cries *is* anxiety...maybe I should really take another look at why I have to take skullcap, or magnesium or melatonin every single night or my mind races and keeps me awake. Maybe I've been living with a lot of stuff I shouldn;t be. Maybe sleep helps a hell of a lot, but I ain't going to be gettign a lot with a 2.5 yo and 6.5 mo sooo yeahh...even though money is very tight I am biting the bullet and seeing a new therpist (i've tried several and just kind of gave up when they told me I didnt have ppd cause I was still showering, or that I had to go on meds and wean but they wouldnt even discuss why I was having flashbacks) this friday. Apparently she used to be a mdiwife or something...I feel like I ahve such a backlog of anger and despair and grief and fear even from my daughter's traumatic birth and now a bit more on top of it from the vbac that was excruciating and left me withmultiple prolapses to deal with and reccomendations not to have more children.
Does anyone know about men and ppd? My dh...seems weirdly detatched from our son, like he just cant open up to him after all we went through with dd....goodness I could really write a book about all this.
Trying to look into same-e and st. john's wort for some more oomph to help my mood but nothign conclusive about them being safe and stuff abotu them probably not being safe and I just do not feel good about medication right now going into my baby...I dont judge others at all but I cant grapple with it, same reason I did not give my son prevacid because I was more scared of the side effects and logn term health problems possibility in such a small baby than living with that hell.
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Hi all,
in order to show you what is going on in my TB, I've just realized two shot clip.
THis one shows the problem:
and this one is what I see when I'm tring to enter into "properties:
As you can see in the second clip, what I got is something different than "properties" windows.
BTW, today I've update TB to version 15: nothing good happened.
Any idea?
howdy mcanonic,
jeepers! the animated screen recording makes all the difference. it LOOKS like the hover effect is turning the message list line to white on white ... and then _leaving_ it that way.
i can't think of anything that would do that - other than hardware acceleration. that is OFF by default in tbird.
the following preferences control hardware acceleration [HA]. please check to see what your settings are for these ...
they should both be TRUE.
take care,
you get to preferences in tbird thus ...
- tools/options/advanced/general/config-editor-button
I've the same boring problem since when I upgraded to TB15 on Mac Os 10.6.
List rows disappear under cursor and text becomes white!
I tried to fix it following Lee_Dailey's method but it didn'work (note: I found only the "layers.acceleration.disabled" setting already set "True", but I couldn't find the "gfx.direct2d.disabled" setting !)
First, be sure you are looking for this in Thunderbird, not in Firefox (a common mistake). If it's not there by default, you can add it.
Right-click on an empty space in the about:config options list and select New.
Then select Boolean and enter gfx.direct2d.disabled as the option name, and true as the value.
Doug Wilson, "The Makai Guy"
Win10 (64bit): FF 54.0.1 (32bit), TB 52.2.1 (32bit)║ Android 7.0/6.0.2: FF 54.0.1, No TB for Android available, dammit!
What a fool believes he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away - Doobie Brothers
howdy riccasoli,
for the mac there is a slightly different set of prefs. the "direct2d" setting does not exist on the mac - it's windows specific. i included it for mcanonic even tho he uses linux since i don't know if linux drivers use direct2d. the mac definitely does NOT.
in tbird you can turn off hardware acceleration thus ...
[hopefully, a checkbox like the one in firefox will be in tbird someday.]
[1] on windows, tools/options/advanced/general-tab
-- on osx, firefox/preferences/advanced/general-tab
[2] config-editor-button
[3] on windows, search for the 1st item below by putting some or all of it in the filter box
-- on osx, search for the 2nd item below by putting some or all of it in the filter box
[4] double-click on it to toggle it to TRUE
[5] close that dialog
[6] exit tbird
[7] restart tbird
[8] test
depending on your video system, you may need to toggle any or all of the above to TRUE. don't bother until you've tried the recommended setting for your OS.
take care,
Many thans Lee_Dailey
I followed scrupolously all your steps but I didn't succeed in resolving my problem as you can see here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/33928000/Thunderburd%20problem.mov .
As you can see I work with an iMac with Mac OsX 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard).
In the configuration editor using as filter the word "layer" only the following items appear (with the default value that I changed to True):
Any suggestion more?
Thanks in advance
howdy riccasoli,
i'm lost at this point. [*sigh ...*]
are you using a multi-monitor setup? i vaguely recall some _very_ odd problems with running tbird on a monitor _other_ than the main one. if you are using two or more monitors, perhaps you could try running tbird on a different one.
take care,
Ok, since I work with only one monitor, unless any good idea to resolve the problem or a miracle, I've to wait for a new release of TB that will solve it. (Un)fortunately in the last times there is a new release every month. I hope that I'll have not to wait too much.
In any case thanks for your kindness and ..my turn next time, I hope!
howdy riccasoli,
i think you can go back to tbird 13 [the 1st post mentioned this problem showed up with tb14 and the current version is tb15] by installing this ...
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbir ... lang=en-US
if you need a different language, take a look here ...
ftp://archive.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.o ... /13.0/mac/
there is also the "extended support release" currently based on tb10. that is here [ignore the idiotic "only for enterprise" stuff] ...
Download Mozilla Thunderbird Extended Support Release for Your Organization, Business, Enterprise
take care,
You're great Lee_Dailey
as you suggested I went back to TB13 and the problem was resolved.
Before I tried to downgrade to TB14 because when I used this version I had no problem. But now also this version shows the same strange behaveour.
So now, before I'll upgrade again, i'll test the new version of TB!
Many thanks again and good things to you.
Few minutes after last post TB announced me the the new version TB16.0 beta2 was ready to be installed. But I stopped the automatic update.
Then I went on the FTP server that you indicated me. But my problem is back again. So TB13 will fit for me as a socket and I'll keep on using it untill next good update.
howdy Riccasoli,
you are quite welcome! [*grin*] glad that i can help a little now and then.
as for updates, you can disable auto-updates thus ...
- tools/options/advanced/update
- uncheck the 1st two items and then select the third
that will stop automatic checks AND force tbird to ask before doing anything if you still managed to trigger an update check.
take care,
I have exactly the same problem. The strange thing is that I have installed two new Dell PCs running Win7/64. One PC is a desktop and one is a notebook. The desktop doesn't exhibit the problem but the notebook does. Both running the same versions of Firefox and Thunderbird, go figure!
I'm now going to experiment with some of the suggestions here.
My problem was first noticed on my notebook running Thunderbird 16.0.1 I have tried uninstalling 16.0.1, then installing versions V15 and then repeating the process with V14 and the problems is unchanged?
The notebook is a Dell Inspiron 17R running Win7/64 with Firefox 16.0.1. I have installed all of the latest updates for Win 7. Thunderbird is fine on my Dell Inspiron 660 desktop with the same software versions??
Are you using the default theme? Does the same thing occur if you launch the application in Mozilla Safe Mode? http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_mode
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The Atlanta Braves tried to avoid the move as long as possible, but they finally had to place Ramiro Pena on the 15-day disabled list with a sore right shoulder. They have recalled Paul Janish from Triple-A Gwinnett to take his spot, ajc.com reports.
Pena had arthroscopic surgery on the same shoulder seven years ago, and it started bothering him again on a checked swing at Dodger Stadium. It wasn't a problem while batting, but Pena said it did cause discomfort throwing.
Janish, who originally joined the Braves via trade last July when Andrelton Simmons broke his hand, hit .207 in 41 games at Gwinnett. He then had shoulder surgery in October after dislocating it.
With their primary utility infielder down Dan Uggla's vision becoming an issue, the Braves have a little uncertainty in the middle infield spots. Tyler Pastornicky started Thursday's game at second base and put together three hits, but his defense is known to be spotty at best.
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Re: Mixed Messages on YoYo's
Posted By: Cid <firstname.lastname@example.com> In Response To: Re: Mixed Messages on YoYo's (Craig D'Orsay)
Date: Thursday, 14 January 1999, at 1:21 p.m.
In Response To: Re: Mixed Messages on YoYo's (Craig D'Orsay)
Well, I'm obviously not the expert here, but I can tell you what the mix of fish is in the tank with our yoyo's currently. As I mentioned before, we have 6 clowns, 2-4", 5 yoyo's, 1.5-3", 4 penguins, 3 dwarf gourami, and a pair of mollies in a 44-gal. tank. There's lots of rock caves and wood with caves, and since the clowns were there first and are bigger, they seem to control that area. There's a clump of hygro that the penguins and gourami seem to favor, and so far, the penguins seem to be the most territorial of all the fish in there. At least they try to be, but the other fish don't seem to take them very seriously. The yoyo's seem to move all over the tank without anyone getting too upset. They go in and out of the caves at times, and at other times, they school loosely for brief periods or follow some of the other fish around. They do have occasional sparring matches amongst themselves, but no more than the clowns do. They don't seem to be terribly shy because they're out front alot, and generally speaking they seem to be rather carefree at this point. I'm like Nancy, I don't know if we're just lucky or what. Or if it's because they're still quite young.
Thank you all for helping me try to sort this out. I guess I'll need to just keep an eye on them for awhile before I make any moves.
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Joe Sarno did his best to bring class to smut throughout the '60s, in a string of "middle-class depravity" exposés that turned low budgets into assets. The director's locations and casts looked authentically shabby, and because Sarno didn't have to worry about playing Radio City Music Hall, his films possessed a bracing frankness about what frustrates people, sexually and otherwise. That frankness doesn't equate to realism, however. Something Weird Video has put four Sarno films on two special-edition, double-feature DVDs, and in all of them, the characters' earnestness only makes the tone more lurid.
Sin In The Suburbs and The Swap And How They Make It both use the trapped-housewife hand-wringing of the early feminist era as a backdrop for melodramas about organized adultery. In both films, whole neighborhoods of married couples can't get it together in the bedroom because of the pressures of work and bills, so they drift from illicit affairs to regularly scheduled masked orgies. The moralistic requirements of the '60s drive-in circuit pushed Sarno's movies toward punishing "this time we've gone too far" twist endings, but Sin In The Suburbs and The Swap are compelling as straight drama because Sarno shows why suburbanites make bad choices. His characters try to be cool about their loosened libidos, but the films imply that sex games are just a salve for economic anxiety and social insecurity. It's like high school never ended for these people.
The other Something Weird disc pairs the stripper character study Flesh And Lace with the rural psychodrama Passion In Hot Hollows. In the former, a nymphomaniac exotic dancer tries to avoid being touched, lest she lose control; in the latter, a shrill libertine returns home with her new hippie stud in an attempt to shock her repressed, masturbation-addicted sister. In both features, nudity is copious but not perfunctory. While most sexploitation movies string crude plots between extended takes of passionless grinding, Sarno frequently had his characters talking right up to and even during the deed, and he often cut back and forth between a sex scene in one room and a heart-to-heart conversation in another. The dialogue isn't especially clever or memorable, but it's sincere.
Something Weird pads both DVDs with raunchy drive-in trailers and short subjects, and adds Sarno commentary tracks on Sin In The Suburbs and Passion In Hot Hollows. The tracks are more broadly historical than scene-specific, and commentary moderator David Friedman sours the mash by making overstated claims: No matter what exploitation aficionados say, Sarno doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as Ingmar Bergman and Carl Dreyer. Still, unlike most of his contemporaries, Sarno had a style, based on withholding action, looping minimalist jazz soundtracks, and using stark shadows to freeze characters in circles of light. His films are haunted by sexual curiosity, and by the idea that desire can't be contained by a wood-paneled den.


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* C$ flat at C$0.9928 vs US$, or $1.0073 * Bond prices drift lower across the curve By Claire Sibonney TORONTO, Dec 24 (Reuters) - The Canadian dollar was little changed against its U.S. counterpart in quiet Christmas Eve trading on Monday as investors looked ahead to after the holidays for any developments in deadlocked U.S. budget talks. Markets were left in limbo last week when President Barack Obama and U.S. lawmakers suspended talks until after Christmas on avoiding $600 billion of spending cuts and tax increases that threaten to send the economy back into recession. Although there is no official date for talks to resume, the two sides still have a few days after Christmas to find a compromise before Jan. 1, when the tax and spending measures start to take effect. "Time is running out. Certainly with holiday liquidity, year-end, and the 'fiscal cliff' overhang, be prepared for the unexpected, I think. But for today, it's going to be a very quiet day," said Matt Perrier, director of foreign exchange sales at BMO Capital Markets. Most political experts and economists expect a U.S. budget deal of some sort. If the talks fail, the "fiscal cliff" could wipe as much as 4 percent off U.S. GDP next year, choking the global recovery before it gets going. At 9:05 a.m. (1405 GMT), the Canadian dollar stood at C$0.9928 versus the U.S. dollar, or $1.0073, just slightly stronger than Friday's North American session close at C$0.9934, or $1.0066. The currency was trading in a tight 26-point range between C$0.9920 and C$0.9946. Looking ahead, Perrier said traders would be watching Canadian-dollar support around C$0.9960 and resistance around C$0.9875-C$0.9900. Trading was expected to remain very quiet until later in the week, with most North American markets closing early on Monday ahead of Christmas on Tuesday, and many Canadian markets remaining shut on Wednesday for Boxing Day. Canadian government bond prices edged lower across the curve. The two-year bond was down 3 Canadian cents, yielding 1.127 percent, while the benchmark 10-year bond fell 25 Canadian cents to yield 1.831 percent.