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Section 1: General Purpose
- 1.1) The Legion of Super-Heroes shall be an organization devoted to preserving the peaceful life of sentient beings throughout the universe.
- 1.2) Having duly qualified under the United Planets' statute-in-council #2958-07Q ("The Legion of Super-Heroes Revenue Act"), as amended from time to time, and appropriate United Planets' Revenue Codes, especially Sections 108.9 and 283.6, (otherwise known as the "Not for Profit Heroes Amendment"). the Legion of Super-Heroes shall be an independent organization responsible only to the President and Council of the United Planets and such authorities as they may from time to time designate.
- 1.3) Under the terms of the laws cited in Section 1.2 above, the Legion of Super-Heroes' finances shall be administered to fulfil the purposes of this Constitution by non-members of the organization under direction from the current Leader of the Legion of Super-Heroes and without any interference from any private individual or local government.
Section 2: Membership
- 2.1) There shall be three classes of membership in the Legion of Super-Heroes: active, honorary and reserve members.
- 2.2) Active members shall be those duly qualified and elected individuals who shall be on call twenty-four (24) Terran standard hours per Terran standard day (except as provided in Sections 2.3 and 4.2 hereof), and who shall devote substantially all of their time to the Legion of Super-Heroes.
- 2.3) Honorary members shall be those worthy individuals who do not quality for active membership hereunder but whom the active membership wishes to honour with inclusion in the Legion of Super-Heroes.
- 2.4) Reserve members shall be those duly qualified end elected individuals who shall be prepared to take action in the event of an emergency when active members require assistance or are unable to respond, and who shall devote such reasonable portions of their time to Legion of Super-Heroes duties as the Leader may from time to time require.
Section 3: Admission to Membership
- 3.1) To qualify for active membership, a candidate must:
- (i) have at least one genuine super-power not activated, assisted, or powered by extrinsic means;
- (ii) be able to fully control such power; and
- (iii) be courageous and of good character.
- 3.2) Candidates may be proposed for membership by any member or may propose themselves on such occasions when the Legion of Super-Heroes may announce a willingness to examine candidates. Candidates are subject to evaluation by the standing the Committee on Membership to determine the candidates' qualifications and merits, including any reasonable testing procedures the Committee may deem necessary and desirable. The results of such evaluation shall then be presented to the membership by the chairperson of such Committee, along with the candidate.
- 3.3) Voting on new active members shall then take place as provided in Sections 8.2 and 8.3 hereunder. Candidates elected shall be promptly inducted into active membership.
- 3.4) Worthy candidates not elected may be elected to reserve membership status, or may reapply for active membership at a later date.
- 3.5) After election and induction, new active members shall undergo a probationary period as the standing Committee on Membership shall see fit.
- 3.6) In times of emergency, any team of active members may grant provisional active membership to an individual they deem worthy who is assisting in the resolution of such emergency. Upon the resolution of such emergency, such provisional active member shall immediately become considered for active membership as provided hereunder.
- 3.7) Candidates for honorary membership may be proposed for membership by any active member. Candidates are subject to evaluation by the standing Committee on Membership to determine their merits. The results of such evaluation shall then be presented to the membership by the Chairperson of such Committee.
- 3.8) Voting on new honorary members shall then take place as provided in Sections 8.2 and 8.3 hereunder. Candidates elected shall be promptly informed of such election and offered honorary membership and, upon their acceptance of same, shall be promptly inducted as honorary members.
- 3.9) To qualify for reserve membership, a candidate must be either:
- (i) a former active member;
- (ii) an honorary member; or
- (iii) a worthy candidate for active membership not elected to active membership.
- 3.10) Candidates for reserve membership may be proposed to membership by any active member. Candidates are subject to evaluation by the standing Committee on Membership to determine their qualifications and merits, including any reasonable testing procedures the Committee may deem necessary or desirable. The results of such evaluation shall then be presented to the membership by the chairperson of such Committee, along with the candidate.
- 3.11) Voting on new reserve members shall then take place as provided in Sections 8.2 and 8.3 hereunder. Candidates elected shall be promptly inducted into reserve membership.
- 3.12) After election and induction. new reserve members shall undergo a training period as the standing Committee on Membership shall see fit, prior to assuming their duties.
Section 4: Resignations or Expulsions from Membership
- 4.1) Members may resign at any time without cause.
- 4.2) Members may, with the consent of the Leader or of a simple majority of the active membership, place themselves on voluntary leave or part-time status. Such consent may be revoked at any time, and during such time members shall continue to have all obligations ordinarily incumbent upon Legionnaires except as to the proportion of time they shall devote to Legion-related duties.
- 4.3) Members shall be subject to expulsion for any failure to conform to the provisions of this Constitution applying to them. Grounds for expulsion shall include, but not be limited to:
- (i) failure to continue to fulfil the requirements for membership as set forth in Section 3.1 hereof;
- (ii) failure to fulfil the duties of a Legionnaire or attempting to subvert another member from doing so;
- (iii) failure to obey the Leaders orders;
- (iv) disloyalty to the Legion of Super-Heroes;
- (v) cowardice, dishonesty, or fraud;
- (vi) becoming magically or psychologically unfit for duty and failing to place oneself on voluntary leave or suspension;
- (vii) revealing Legion of Super-Heroes secrets or confidential information acquired while serving as a Legionnaire;
- (viii) knowingly taking the life of a sentient being in other than a provable situation of self-defence or as a provable only available alternative to the death of sentient beings.
- 4.4) In the event a member is accused by another member of conduct meriting expulsion, the Leader shall suspend the accused and conduct an inquiry into the accusation. The result of such inquiry shall be presented to the active members in the fashion of a trial, with the accused given all the benefits of such a proceeding, including representation by an active member.
- 4.5) At the conclusion of such a trial, the question of expulsion shalt be as provided in Sections 8.2 and 8.3 herein, except that the accused shall have no vote on the question.
- 4.6) Members expelled or resigning from the Legion of Super-Heroes and not awarded either honorary or reserve membership must submit to psychotherapy to remove all memory of Legion of Super-Heroes secrets or confidential information gained while serving as a Legionnaire, and must return all Legion of Super-Heroes property and surrender all benefits end privileges of membership.
Section 5: Membership Activities
- 5.1) Upon admission, members are required to swear an oath of loyalty to the Legion of Super-Heroes in a manner as may be prescribed from time to time by the standing Committee on Constitutional Matters. A similarly prescribed oath shall be sworn by all Legionnaires annually at a rededication ceremony held at the Legion of Super-Heroes headquarters on Earth.
- 5.2) Active members shall keep the member or members charged with Mission Monitor Board Duty aware of their location at all times.
- 5.3) Active members shall be deputized as officers of the Science Police and, to the extent possible, shall cooperate with the Science Police Commander and his designated representative.
- 5.4) Members shall participate in ongoing educational and training activities as required by the standing Committee on Membership. Such activities shall include language education, although the only language required prior to a Legionnaire assuming active status shall be Interlac.
- 5.5) Members shall receive no salaries and/or rewards or compensation from any person or organization other than the Legion of Super-Heroes. Any sums received that cannot be waived shall be donated to the organization's treasury. The Leader shall periodically set living allowances at various levels for active, honorary and reserve members, which shall be paid out of the Legion of Super-Heroes' funds.
- 5.6) Active members shall also be entitled to housing, security, food and clothing that will accommodate their needs at the Legion of Super-Heroes' expense.
- 5.7) All members are required to design a personal uniform, with the aid of Athramite staff if needed, that accommodates itself to the required standardized look of the Legion of Super-Heroes.
- 5.8) All members will be issued a serialized Legion flight ring, regardless if the wearer needs the aid of flight or not, for communication and location purposes. The ring is the property of the Legion of Super-Heroes and can not be given away. Penalty for doing so can result in expulsion in Section 4.3.
- 5.9) Members with substantial personal financial interests shall be required to declare them to the standing Committee on Constitutional Matters, which may require the member to divest such interests or place them in a blind trust for the duration of such members' membership.
- 5.10) Members shall have the right to participate either in person or via telecommunications in all Legion of Super-Heroes meetings at which any matters are voted upon or to call meetings at any reasonable interval.
- 5.11) Members shall be entitled to medical care at the expense of the Legion of Super-Heroes for all injuries received while Legionnaires.
Section 6: Leadership
- 6.1) Each year the active members of the Legion of Super-Heroes shall select a Leader and a Deputy Leader from among the full-time active members in a manner conforming to the requirements of Sections 8.2, 8.3 and 8.4 hereunder.
- 6.2) The Leader and Deputy Leader shall serve for concurrent one-year terms and may be re-elected for consecutive terms.
- 6.3) In the event of the resignation, expulsion, leave of absence, death or incapacity of:
- (i) the Leader, the Deputy Leader shall become Leader and shall appoint a new Deputy Leader;
- (ii) the Deputy Leader, the Leader shall appoint a new Deputy Leader; or
- (iii) both the Leader and the Deputy Leader, the senior active member shall serve as temporary Leader, with a new Leader and Deputy Leader to be selected at the first opportunity in a manner conforming to the requirements of Sections 8.2, 8.3 and 8.4 hereunder.
- 6.4) The Leader shall be the supreme commander of the Legion of Super-Heroes, answerable only to the United Planets Authorities and restricted only by the applicable provisions of this Constitution.
- 6.5) The Leader may authorize the Deputy Leader or any active member as an acting or temporary or team Leader with an appropriate portion of the Leader's authority hereunder.
- 6.6) Members shall, in all instances, be required to obey the orders of the Leader and/or the Leader's duly authorized representative, so long as such orders conform to this Constitution.
- 6.7) The Leader may be suspended temporarily by a unanimous vote of the standing Committee on Constitutional Matters, and such suspension shall last only until a court-martial may be held as provided in Section 4 hereunder.
- 6.8) The Leader is responsible for the funds of the Legion of Super-Heroes under Section 1.3 hereunder and shall have the full freedom to use those funds to fulfil the purposes and requirements of this Constitution.
Section 7: Committees
- 7.1) The enumerated authorities set forth in this Section 7 shall be given to the standing Committees set forth herein. In this respect, the authority of any given Committee with respect to the matters set forth shall be superior to the authority of the Leader or any individual Legionnaire.
- 7.2) In addition to the standing Committees, ad hoc Committees may be composed and charged with specific responsibilities from time to time by the Leader or by vote of the active membership.
- 7.3) The standing Committee on Constitutional Matters shall have the final authority to rule on all matters of interpretation of this Constitution, to draft amendments and/or revisions of this Constitution at the voted direction of the active membership, and with respect to all elections and to the Leadership itself. This shall include authority to call and preside over a court-martial of the Leader, as provided in Section 6.7 above. In addition, this Committee shall arrange for the keeping of an appropriate history of the Legion of Super-Heroes and all archival files and shall designate the flag, handshake, oaths, and other indicia of the organization.
- 7.4) The standing Committee on Constitutional Matters shall also have the authority to disband the Legion of Super-Heroes.
- 7.5) All rulings of the Committee on Constitutional Matters shall be by majority vote, except the ruling to call a court-martial of the Leader or to dissolve the Legion of Super-Heroes, which must be unanimous. All rulings of this Committee shall be binding upon the Leader and the membership.
- 7.6) For the duration of their membership, whether as active, honorary, or reserve members, the standing Committee on Constitutional Matters shall consist of Cosmic Boy (chair), Live Wire, and Saturn Girl. In the event of the incapacity, resignation, or expulsion of one or more members, the Legionnaire or Legionnaires of greatest seniority shall replace them, with the most senior member of the Committee serving as chair.
- 7.7) The standing Committee on Membership shall have the responsibility for maintaining an active search for suitable candidates for membership, for making recommendations to the membership concerning candidates, and for supervising the ongoing education and training of all Legionnaires.
- 7.8) All rulings and recommendations of the standing Committee on Membership shall be made by majority vote of the Committee, and with respect to the education or training of individual members, shall be binding upon such members.
- 7.9) Until such time as otherwise designated under Sections 8.2 and 8.3 hereunder, the standing Committee on Membership shall be chaired by the acting Leader and shall consist of not more than three additional members as may be elected from time to time by the active membership under Section 8.6 hereunder.
- 7.10) The standing Committee on Security shall also serve as the Espionage Squad, being composed of those active members whose super-powers are most suitable, and shall have the general responsibility for assisting the Leader in maintaining the security of the Legion of Super-Heroes.
- 7.11) For the duration of their active membership, the standing Committee on Security shall consist of Invisible Kid (permanent Leader), Apparition, Chameleon, Leviathan [Violet], and Triad. In the event of the incapacity, resignation, or expulsion of one or more of the Committee, the active membership shall elect a successor or successors under the provisions of Section 8.6 hereunder, considering the suitability of their super-powers and characters.
Section 8: Voting
- 8.1) The active membership shall alone hold voting privileges.
- 8.2) The active membership shall be required to vote on significant questions including but not limited to:
- (i) the method of selecting the Leader;
- (ii) the designation of standing or ad hoc Committees and their chairpersons;
- (iii) revision of the Constitution;
- (iv) admission of new members;
- (v) expulsion of present members;
- but not on matters explicitly under the Leader's discretion or matters explicitly under the discretion of a standing or ad hoc Committee under Section 7 hereof.
- 8.3) For all such votes, a quorum of three-fourths of the active members shall be required to participate either in person or via telecommunications. The quorum being determined to be sufficient, a vote of two-thirds of members participating is thereafter required to carry the question. In the event of a tie or vote insufficient to carry the question, the status quo ante shall prevail.
- 8.4) Unless the question shall be put to a vote of the active membership and carried otherwise for that year, the Leader shall be elected by a simple plurality of active members voting, with the Legionnaire receiving the second-largest number of votes being elected Deputy Leader.
- 8.5) Unless the question shall be put to a vote of the active membership and carried otherwise, all Committees shall make their determinations by a simple majority of Committee members voting, with ties broken by the chair, except as otherwise explicitly prohibited herein.
- 8.6) All other questions shall be decided by a simple majority of the active membership.
Initial version (excerpts only)
Although a version of the Constitution was eventually published in full, excerpts from an earlier version - created by the founders, Leviathan and Invisible Kid - have been given, which are either absent or changed in the published version, as follows:
- A clause "encouraging a diversity of powers among the membership" (Lgs37) was apparently dropped completely.
Bye-laws (excerpts only)
Bye-laws include(d) (all from Lgs 53):
- New Legionnaires shall be voted in by a majority of the current team after reasoned and thorough debate
- Every Legionnaire will be assigned room(s) accommodating their individual taste and needs.
- Monitor Duty: All Legionnaires shall familiarise themselves with basic communications systems and be prepared to stand monitor duty...


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The poll of 2,022 voters by YouGov for the TUC found 46% thought government reforms would make their local trust worse over the next five years.
But 63% said their most recent experience of the NHS was either good or very good.
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111 call ends fugitive's 11 months on the run
111 call ends fugitive's 11 months on the run
Waikato Police are crediting the actions of a rural resident who saw something suspicious and rang 111 resulting in the arrest of a man who had been on the run for nearly a year.
Sergeant Damien O'Kane of the Huntly Public Safety Team said officers were called to the small settlement of Pukemiro about 4pm after a resident reported a couple acting suspiciously.
"The caller to the 111 service described what was going on as; "a home invasion," and as a result Huntly, Ngaruawahia and Road Policing staff attended the call.
"As a result of the caller relaying a timely and accurate description of the offenders and their car, Police stopped a Nissan Primera car on the nearby Rotowaro Rd as it travelled towards Huntly."
The occupants of the car, a 31-year-old man and his 24-year-old female passenger refused to cooperate with Police and pepper spray was used as he tried to avoid being arrested.
"He was subsequently identified as a man who had been actively avoiding Police since escaping custody last April who was wanted on 11 warrants to arrest. He faces three additional charges of resisting Police, possession of meth utensils and unlawful possession of ammunition as a result of yesterday's incident.
"His female accomplice was processed by way of pre-charge warning for obstructing Police."
Mr O'Kane said yesterday's arrest highlighted the value of seeing something and doing something- ringing 111.
"The incident proves that offenders don't just hide in towns and rural residents are just as at risk of criminals as their townie cousins. The advantage rural residents have over those in the City have however, is that they will have a better idea of who and more importantly, who doesn't, belong in their area.
"Police ask residents to shut the gate on rural crime and if they see something suspicious phone us, alternatively non-urgent information can be left anonymously with the independent Crimestoppers on 0800 555111."


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In spite of understandable scepticism,
This weekend will be a sharp reminder to him of how dramatically the events of June 23 and 24 last year ripped power from him and left him bitterly humiliated.
The ALP National Conference, which embraced Rudd as a political hero in 2009, will be desperately trying not to notice him this weekend. In the forum in which he was the dominant figure two years ago, Rudd will be reduced to the lowly status of a non-voting delegate this weekend.
Rudd's only formal task at the conference will be to move the adoption of the chapter in the draft ALP platform headed: Australia's Place in the Changing World. The only specific item of policy he will propose is for Australia to seek a global ban on the use of asbestos.
The platform document has been rewritten to reflect shifts in geopolitics since the last platform was adopted in 2009 – particularly the rising power of China, the so-called "Arab Spring" in the Middle East and developments in the Pacific region.
But no one is expecting there to be fireworks over foreign policy that in days gone by ripped the Labor Party apart.
It is testimony to how Labor has shifted from the left to the centre right that the government's strengthened commitment to the ANZUS alliance and to an increased United States military presence in Australia are now expected to be quietly endorsed.
The Labor Party organisation is quite comfortable with the direction that Australian foreign policy has taken under Rudd's stewardship, initially as prime minister and now as foreign minister.
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There is little sense that there is a foreign policy partnership between Rudd and Gillard. In fact, to the extent that Gillard involves herself in foreign policy, she mostly does it in a separate orbit from Rudd.
Both seem comfortable with this.
Rudd has worked at it with characteristic intensity. He travels almost constantly and is not in the slightest embarrassed by debate about his travel bills.
Talk to Rudd about it and he will tell you that after four years of Labor government, Australia's place has been comprehensively redefined and that the world sees a very different Australia to the one that it saw under
In an interview with The Australian Financial Review this week, Rudd was characteristically confident that the orientation of Australia's foreign policy and its priorities were where they should be.
He insists that Australia is now seen as a good global citizen with a voice in world affairs that is respected and that carries weight appropriate to its ranking as a significant economic power with broad, legitimate foreign policy interests.
Almost without catching breath, and with feeling, he spells out in detail his analysis of the change for which he immodestly takes much of the credit.
Rudd says Labor has pursued a foreign policy that has "redefined the benchmark" of Australia's place in the world compared with the one that existed before the Rudd government came to power.
"As of 2007 we had an accumulated international image of Australia shaped by a series of declarations and actions by John Howard," Rudd says.
At the end of the Howard years, Australia had embraced "the doctrine of pre-emptive military strikes against south-east Asia".
Australia was perceived as hostile to the United Nations, which had been "systematically denigrated" by Howard and Downer.
Australia was seen, under the Howard government, as "having failed a basic test of government accountability in the wheat for weapons scandal".
Coming out of the Iraq war there had been "an absolute Australian government complicity in the intelligence failure" and reasons for going to war which were "political . . . not a considered national security decision".
"We also had a Howard government that had badged itself globally with the Tampa affair," Rudd says.
"In the early years in particular before
"So, in summary, what did we have?
"Howard perceived globally as a believer in the Anglosphere, Howard perceived globally as contemptuous of the UN as the ultimate source of international authority on international security policy interventions.
"And a Howard perceived within Asia as, out of his own mouth, as a US deputy sheriff.
"So that was actually the benchmark from which we started."
Rudd says that over the past four years "in terms of foreign policy reality and international perceptions" Labor has undertaken a complete transformation.
He puts at the top of his list of policy outcomes Australia's role in the establishment of the Group of 20 as the pre-eminent global economic leadership forum. He puts the role Australia has played in rapidly transforming the East Asia Summit into the pre-eminent regional forum for dealing with strategic, military and economic tensions on the same level.
On the US alliance he says: "We are obviously seen as a strong ally of the United States but prepared fundamentally to disagree with them, to wit, the decision which I took as prime minister to withdraw from Iraq. That is simply often glossed over but it happened in the first 12 months of the government assuming office.
"So we closed the chapter of the Iraq war and that was noted extensively across the Middle East and beyond.
"But also on the broader perception of our relationship with the United States, it is not one of simply universal acceptance of the wisdom of every stated US policy. But, at the same time, we have deepened the relationship in areas which really count for the Australian national interest in this region."
Rudd rejects out of hand criticism that the strengthening of the ANZUS alliance has put at risk Australia's economic relationship with China. He says he is "confident we have got the balance right". Rudd bristles at the idea of giving John Howard credit for effectively managing the competing pressures of relations with China and with the US – something some commentators have done, even suggesting Howard handled it better than Rudd and Gillard.
Rudd says there has been "a bit of a retrospective gloss" on Howard's management of the relationship with China that completely overlooks the fact that Howard's then-defence minister,
Hark back to March 1996 when US president
Howard, in the prime minister's job only a few days, backed Clinton who sent a carrier group to discourage any Chinese effort to take the island by force.
Beijing was none too pleased.
Australia, after all, purported to support a One China policy, though this policy anticipated a peaceful reunification of the island with China.
Relations were in the "deep freeze" for months until Howard made his first trip to Beijing. It was a valuable lesson for the prime minister on pushing the boundaries of the Australia-China relationship.
In the following 10 years he worked hard to turn the relationship around, building political trust and developing the bilateral relationship to a high level of engagement. Howard sought to promote areas of "agreement and positive endeavour" (economic ties) over "those things that make us different" (read: concerns over China's authoritarian government, military build-up) and his policy has paid off handsomely.
Cheap goods from China and the billions of dollars in energy and resources deals have contributed to more than a decade of continuous growth for the Australian economy and fuelled China's remarkable accelerated development.
While emphasising the primacy of the US alliance, Howard differentiated himself from US president George W. Bush on China's meteoric rise, stressing Australia saw an opportunity where Washington saw a threat – particularly over China's military build-up. By the time China's President,
Of his critics on his handling of the China relationship, Rudd says: "What I think is quite extraordinary is when certain people in Australia see any criticism emerging from Beijing as if this is a sign that Australian policy is, by definition, wrong. I think we actually need some fresh perceptions of how we manage this debate which all nations in Asia and the world are deliberating on at present. That is just the reality.
"My attitude is that the government has pursued a balanced relationship with China, one which recognises all the economic opportunities, one which recognises all the strategic realities, one which recognises all the contradictions in human rights and seeks to chart a course through the middle of all the above."
Rudd believes Labor's reorientation of Australia from support for unilateralism to multilateralism has dramatically reshaped perceptions of Australia.
"We are now active in every UN multilateral institution in a way we haven't been, frankly, for decades," he says.
"On Security Council deliberations, though we are not a member, I am proud that we led the charge with others on the need for action on no-fly-zones in Libya and then were significant humanitarian players on the ground.
"Within Asia the activism has pitched around the Asia-Pacific Community, a project we began 3½ years ago with a speech which was the subject of comprehensive derision by many.
"If you go to the original speech, it's very clear we said we needed a single regional institution in the Asian hemisphere which had all major players around the table and which had a total agenda to consider, political, economic, security, environmental and other matters. We had never had that before. We now have it." Australia has also acted to pursue its interests in the Indian Ocean as well as the Pacific. Rudd says the international standing of Australia is now what it should be.
"We are a middle power with global interests, we are the 12th or 13th largest economy in the world, fourth largest in Asia, we have a significant security policy footprint within Asia and are comprehensively engaged mulitlaterally and bilaterally around the world, of necessity," he says.
"I think we are seen as comprehensively engaged global citizens, I think we are seen as a comprehensively engaged regional citizen with a very activist diplomacy and a clear-sighted view of where we want to prosecute our national interests, our national values and building of regional and global institutions."
There was just one issue during this interview on which Rudd was uncharacteristically coy – the prospects of success of Australia's bid for a seat on the United Nations Security Council.
Asked about recent reports from Finland (a competitor for the position) that Australia was now the frontrunner, Rudd refused to be drawn. He says there is still some way to go before the vote next year.
The success of the campaign to join the Security Council would be a big personal victory for Rudd, a crowning achievement for his stewardship of Australian foreign policy.
Probably only one thing would mean more to him: being prime minister again when it happens.
That is territory that this interview did not enter, but it is certain to be the backdrop to everything Rudd does even as he insists that he is happy in his work.
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It's great to have you on the team! I briefly looked over your patch, and
am excited about the idea of a FreeBSD and Linux based application.
Hopefully soon we can have a site up, with svn, and start a productively
developing m0n0Cored.
Everyone, I'm looking at leasing some rack space at The Planet, and setting
up an HP blade server I have. I'll probably setup a Virtualization
environment, and utilize it for individual developer needs in order to speed
up development. If anyone has any suggestions on needs for this development
project, please let me know. I'm working on some great sponsorships for the
project, but we definitely need to get things in place, and not solely
depend on individuals or sponsors.
On 8/2/07, Punky <punkytse at gmail dot com> wrote:
> Hi Junior,
> I would like to join the development of m0n0cored, especially on Linux
> porting of m0n0cored and modules. My first initial patch for Linux
> porting has been posted to the list few weeks ago.
> Currently, my progress was stopped by unknown SEGV in m0n0cored when
> run on Linux, I will get a FreeBSD 6.2 development environment to see
> if I can repeat it.
> - Punky
> On 8/2/07, Junior Gillespie <junior dot gillespie at gmail dot com> wrote:
> > Alex, m0n0Cored or m0n0AP is still alive. I've talked with Manuel about
> this
> > project, and have started preparing an org chart similar to that of the
> > FreeBSD project, in order to speed up development. I'm working on
> acquiring
> > some servers, and bandwidth as well.
> >
> > Anyone interested in having a part in the development of m0n0Cored, and
> > included in the org chart and committers list, please let me know.
> Please
> > include the areas you would be interested in developing, whether it be
> > webGUI, or documentation, and we'll put togeather a list, and get
> started on
> > development.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Junior
> >
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> Regards,
> Punky
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I took this class to help me understand how to create a web page. I will start by explaining a little about myself. My partner and I have been looking for a place to have a ceromony to commit our love for each other. Well, finding a place like that is hard because of our status. So we are working on creating a wedding barn of our own. We have had our pictures taken of our little family. And we are going to call our place 3 Starr Farms.
I will be working on creating the web page with our son who is eleven. He is taking classes in school that is helping him understand what is involved with web pages. He sure is a smart cookie when it comes to computers. While we are busy with that, my partner will be dealing with the business management part of the company. So we are all contributing to the company in a way.
We are hoping to get it going by the beginning of the year. We will not turn down anyone, due to the fact that we know what it feels like. We will also have different prices so if you don't want the whole package or you only want the venue and our bar, because a friend is doing the cooking as a gift then we will cater to them. We are hoping we can also be cheaper then other places. I posted a site below for a wedding barn that is with the whole package.
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From: "Dr. George Tsambourakis" <>
Subject: Re: Life expectations
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 12:17:16 +1100
Many responses, and many miss interpretations,
> Average marriage age was 17 for man, 14 for woman.
> I know it is based on a very small sample and therefore it is
> questionable.
Marriage age refers to the first marriage, not the second, third or forth.
If a man aged 50, married a 20 year old lady and that was her first
than I counted it for her, but not for the man.
> I did a few quick calculations, and it appears that in the 12th
> century, life expectation for a man was 38-40 years and
> for a women 53-55 years.
I do mention the 12th century so I do give a time span.
One claimed that the life expectation difference between a man and a woman
today is some 3 or 4 years. That's of course not true. World wide the
is around 10 years.
Yes, I did take into account those that were assassinated. Being murdered
or killed
in battle was almost a occupational hazard.
Any way I did not claim that my figures are correct. and Yes, these
figures are relevant.
Many, when the date of death is lets say 1050, the give as date of birth
"About 1000".
That means they use a life expectancy figure of 50 years, etc. etc.
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A man arrested earlier this month in Georgia in connection with an August fatal shooting in Northeast Washington has been extradited to the District and charged with first-degree murder while armed, according to police.
Sean Carter, 22, of Northeast, is charged with fatally shooting Bidley Warren, 22, on Aug. 23 in the 1000 block of Rhode Island Ave., about two blocks from the Rhode Island Metro station. Police said the shooting occurred about 10:15 p.m.
According to documents filed in D.C. Superior Court on Tuesday, two witnesses told police they saw the suspect running after the victim with his arm extended, and then heard gunshots. Warren was shot in the head.
On Oct. 3, D.C. police said a fugitive task force in Fulton County, Ga., arrested Carter on a warrant issued by a D.C. Superior Court judge.
The court documents say that Carter told detectives in Georgia that he saw the victim, who he knew as "Bills," get off a bus on Rhode Island Avenue, and recognized him as a man who had attacked him in the past.
Carter told the police that he overheard Warren on a cell phone threaten him, so he went into his house and got a 9mm Beretta handgun from under his mattress, "returned to Rhode Island Avenue and shot at Bills," the court documents state.
His gun jammed as he chased Warren down the street, police said in the court papers, but he managed to clear it and shot the victim after he had fallen to the ground.
"Sean Carter claimed that he did not intend to kills Bills," the court documents state. "He just wanted to scare him."
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Development and Evaluation of WBT Materials for Teaching Algorithm PROCEEDINGS
Yoshito Yamamoto, Tokyo University of Science, Japan ; Hiroo Hirose, Tokyo University of Science, Suwa, Japan ; Hiroshi Ichikawa, Sanno College, Jiyugaoka, Japan
E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education, in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA ISBN 978-1-880094-60-0 Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Chesapeake, VA
In this study, we examine if there are relations between design ability of algorithm and the student's grades between non-programming class and programming class. Then, we make a WBT material for teaching algorithm and verify its educational effect. As a result of the research, there are some students who have no experience of programming and have difficulty in thinking algorithm to solve new problems even after learning programming languages. To help such students, the students who are not good at creating algorithm were determined with a simple test. With the results of self-learning with using the "WBT Material for Teaching Algorithm," it was found that their grades were improved. In addition, we can expect that this king of WBT materials with using a mouse device can be applied to other educational field as well.
Yamamoto, Y., Hirose, H. & Ichikawa, H. (2006). Development and Evaluation of WBT Materials for Teaching Algorithm. In T. Reeves & S. Yamashita (Eds.), Proceedings of E-Learn 2006--World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (pp. 164-170). Honolulu, Hawaii, USA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).


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After signing big man Jason Smith with their mini mid-level exception, the New York Knicks will only be able to make further roster additions using minimum contracts. Knicks 101 has already reported that Metta World Peace would like to return to the Knicks now that Derek Fisher and Phil Jackson are in charge. However, free agent Francisco Garcia is another veteran who could help New York for only the veteran's minimum.
Francisco Garcia is one of those players often connected to the New York Knicks but that has never ended up on their roster. That's just one of many reasons why New York's defense hasn't been feared since the Patrick Ewing era.
Garcia is a 6'7", 185 pound shooting guard/small forward. After being selected by the Sacramento Kings with the 23rd pick of the 2005 NBA Draft he played for the Kings from 2005-13 and the Houston Rockets from 2013-14. Now he finds himself a free agent looking for a job.
During his 9 years in the NBA, Garcia has become known for doing two main things; playing defense and shooting jumpers.
Garcia is the ultimate role player and known for being great in the locker room. Despite being a one-dimensional offensive player that doesn't make him any less of a sharpshooter from behind the three-point arc. It also doesn't stop that fact that, despite his age, he's still one of the league's top-tier perimeter defenders.
He's the type of veteran Derek Fisher and Phil Jackson would love. He'd fit in with New York because he can hit open jumpers and greatly help the Knicks improve defensively.
He's not the kind of guy that is a game changer. That being said, you don't sign game changing players for the veteran's minimum. Garcia is the type of glue player who can play a specific role and add and value to the second or third unit of your team.
Adding someone like Garcia could become particularly important if Jackson includes Iman Shumpert in a trade before the season. However, the addition of Garcia would only strengthen the perimeter defense Shumpert already provides should he join the roster without Shumpert being relocated.
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The youngest person on the list is Dustin Moskovitz, the 29-year-old co-founder of Facebook, who's worth a cool $5.3 billion. Mark Zuckerberg, only a few days older, has a much larger fortune: $19 billion, up from a mere $9.4 billion last year when the company's stock was in the tank.
Meanwhile, you can't forget about Sergey Brin and Larry Page. The 40-year-old co-founders of Google have a combined net worth just shy of $50 billion, which if owned by just one of them would be the third-largest fortune on the list -- behind Gates ($72 billion) and Warren Buffet ($58.5 billion).
Other incredibly wealthy tech wunderkinds include Square's Jack Dorsey ($1.3 billion), GoPro's Nick Woodman ($1.3 billion), and Ubiquiti Networks' Robert Pera ($2 billion).
Education and scalability are key to getting rich
Inherited wealth may no longer be the key to hitting the top of the pile, but that doesn't at all mean that class doesn't count. Bill Gates, for example, grew up in an upper-middle-class household, his father a successful lawyer. About half of the Forbes 400 in 2011 grew up in middle-class comfort, compared with about 30 percent in 1982, according to the study by Stanford's Joshua Rauh and Steven Kaplan of the University of Chicago.
"Being super rich no longer requires being born wealthy, but wealth does confer advantages, particularly in access to education," says Rauh. Not only were they well educated, but technology has allowed them to apply their skills "to the most scalable industries: technology, finance, and mass retail," Rauh and Kaplan write.
Consider Amazon.com. The rise of the Internet and the spread of high-speed connectivity made it possible to start a relatively small online store and scale it beyond the scope of even the most well-established brick-and-mortar retailers. Investment banking and financial services aren't part of the technology sector as such, but without high-speed trading, analytics, and global information systems, they never could have become so huge and so dominant.
As Rauh and Kaplan point out, the Forbes List actually understates the impact of information technology on the creation of wealth. It's even more important than you thought.
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I would appreciate a detailed review. If you only do short reviews, or reviews that say things like "parts of this section were funny and parts were not" without giving details, please feel free to review another article for someone who's really looking for that as I'm not. Thanks for understanding. WHY???PuppyOnTheRadio 01:25, October 26, 2009 (UTC)
I've got this one, rejoice. 24 hours. --ChiefjusticeDS 11:04, October 27, 2009 (UTC)
|The humour in your article is pretty good and is only held back by a couple of small problems. The first difficulty I noticed is that you seem unsure of the best way to approach the humour, a HowTo is usually an explanation of the best way to carry out an action, what you seem to be advising is the benefits of being homeless, thus the title doesn't really seem to fit the article. You could change the text in the article and narrate in this style "Now I know this looks like a dumpster, but it's actually a piece of prime real-estate for a homeless person, food is delivered to you everyday and you even have cleaners! I think you had better hop in before someone else steals this incredible find from you. No I'm not going to join you, not while you are still moving in." That is more in the style of a How To, rather than simply presenting the dumpster as a place to live, it involves the reader in the article and focuses on how they will move into a dumpster. Your humour seems to vary between this style and simply explaining what all these things are and the benefits of moving into all of them. The enduring style at the moment is more like a Why? I would recommend you fix that up, it doesn't effect the enjoyability of the article too much and could be swiftly solved with a couple of changes and by moving the article to the Why? section. The only other problem I could see was with a couple of the jokes. The idea of relating the later parts of the article to the response to the quiz questions is a good idea, just make sure the quiz itself doesn't just feel like a time-consuming way of setting up one of the weaker jokes, try to work on the questions in the quiz, or at least utilise the results abit more, it just felt a bit weak to me.
|The concept is a good one, while not totally original it is good enough for me. As I said above your tone is closer to that of a Why? than a HowTo, but it all still fits. My recommendation with your tone would be to utilise it to talk down to the reader a bit more, use this {{Username}} template. This idea is done a lot, for the simple reason it is a brilliant way of making an article like this more amusing, I personally think some of the funniest HowTo's are the one's that have utilised it the best. Take a look at this article if you aren't sure what I'm getting at. Even if you don't want to use the username template you should still work at bringing out the idea that the reader is an idiot with your tone, don't be explicit, be subtle. Saying things like "But that won't interest you, because you are an idiot" sounds unproffessional and unfunny, whereas saying "But that won't be of any interest to you, you don't need anyone to tell you what to do, do you? I thought not, now go and punch that Police officer."
|Prose and formatting:
|The prose are absolutely fine, jolly good show with the spelling and such. There is some excess American-ness in your spellings, but I will let that go because I'm such a forgiving type. What loses you the mark is the image formatting. I know you were running out of room towards the bottom of the article, but you should always avoid perching one image on top of another one, it looks untidy (more on those images below). Otherwise there aren't any major problems, the text is broken up nicely, I would suggest that you avoid squeezing text between two images, it looks scruffy. However I am nit-picking now, you have done well on this one overall.
|You lose the mark here for your image formatting problems, sort that and you will be fine. As to the two images which are causing the problems, I really liked the image of the Shanty Town and I would suggest that you scrap the one above it, this would give you soom room to move everything round and sort any lingering formatting issues. Your captions are fine but remember to keep them up to date should you change the tone of the article.
|My overall grade of the article.
|Final Score:
|There were some problems with this one, but midway through writing the humour section the thought occured to me that if I was looking that hard to find stuff to complain about then I was probably ignoring the fact that the article is pretty good and enjoyable to read. My main advice is to fix up the tone and the other small problems that are causing you some problems. Most of the changes required here are very small unless you want to be drastic in your implementation of changes. You know where to find me if you need to ask me anything, but for convenience click here. Good luck making any changes.
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Self-managed superannuation funds are a new battlefront for affluent divorcing couples seeking their fair share of assets, which stay legally bound long after the relationship is over.
Most DIY funds – which contain about $400 billion, or one-in-three dollars invested in super – are run by married couples as a tax haven, super scheme or the latest financial status symbol.
Lawyers say nearly every divorce of well-heeled couples involves dividing pools of assets sheltered in the funds, which were intended to provide a peaceful retirement rather than fuelling a bitter separation.
"Who is going to get the cash, or the unlisted shares that have an uncertain value, or the real estate that may, or may not, improve in value in the future?" asks Marilyn Hauptmann, managing partner of the family law division for Swaab Attorneys. "There is usually a fight as to who gets what," she adds.
About 90 funds are being created a day – about 320,000 last year – and the best industry anecdotal evidence is that husbands and wives are usually the= trustees running the SMSF and jointly responsible to the Australian Taxation Office.
But if marital bliss turns into a nightmare, DIY funds can be used by one spouse – typically the husband – to hide, undervalue or, in the worst cases, defraud the wife of her fair share.
"You need to keep informed," Hauptmann says. "You need to be involved with the accountant every year when the financial statements are prepared, look at the tax returns, understand the assets."
Courts will grant injunctions where there is compelling evidence – such as a one-way airline ticket out of the country and an empty cash account – that a spouse has looted the fund and is preparing to flee the country.
"You need to move quick smart," adds Hauptmann, saying orders also need to be served on the Australian Federal Police to prevent a departure.
A recent court decision found a wife, as a trustee of a DIY fund, was personally liable for it becoming non-complying when her husband, without her knowledge or involvement, withdrew the majority of funds and fled the country.
It's less likely the courts will act if the missing assets from the fund can be matched by other joint assets of equal value outside the fund, such as a house, cars or separate bank accounts.
It can take two years and big legal fees for the courts to wind up a property settlement, even longer if traumatised couples decide to slug it out, often protracting negotiations with sentimental stand-offs over anything from record collections to cheap bar fridges, lawyers say.
"When you effect a super split you are going to have to value everything. The problem is that very often the couples cannot agree on the time of day, much less jointly agree on complex transactions, or one party is totally intimidated by the other," Hauptmann says.
Financial experts recommend some sensible precautions when setting up a fund to protect against the statistically probable likelihood that "I do" in the early years of union becomes ''you don't" if the relationship turns sour.
Catherine Robson, principal of Affinity Private, a financial advisory group that focuses on wealthy women, says the best long-term protection is setting up a sustainable fund at the outset.
Robson, who is also a lawyer and tax specialist, says this means understanding your rights and responsibilities from the outset by creating a well-run, liquid and divisible investment structure.
Peter Burgess, technical director of the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia, a group for fund practitioners, says creating a corporate trustee – which delegates the technical issues and paperwork to professional third parties – makes the day-to-day running and dissolution of a fund much easier.
He adds: "Otherwise, if either spouse steps down as trustee then the other will have to find another individual to act as a co-trustee and all the fund's assets will need to be registered in the names of the new trustee."
Many DIY funds are created to shelter the assets of a family business, such as a shop or warehouse.
"How do you divide if business premises are the only asset in the fund and the wife says she wants $500,000 as a settlement?" Robson asks. "It's a good idea to have only assets that are easily divisible, or actively invest in other liquid assets."
Burgess adds: "Selling a business could also affect other business partners. A possible solution is for the business premise to be acquired in a unit trust structure. Then it may be possible for the fund to borrow to help finance the payment of the benefit to the spouse and prevent a sale."
It's also advisable to have on hand reliable tax experts and lawyers to help sort out rollover tax relief on asset transfers from the fund, as well as any life insurance issues.
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The Best of Consumer Electronics Show 2013 includes Samsung's UN85S9 Ultra HDTV. This Ultra High Definition LED 85-inch 4k TV will be available sometime in Spring 2013 and features LED backlighting, voice command control from its remote and an integrated camera for Skype. The Samsung UN85S9 won CNET Best of CES 2013 for its tilting screen design and LED Backlighting.
For gamers, CES 2013 introduced the Razr Edge tablet PC Game console. The Razr Edge tablet PC Game console is a Windows 8 tablet powered by either an Intel Core i5 (also configured with an Intel Core i7) processor, Nvidia GeForce Graphics and has accessories to provide it functionality as for either a handheld gaming or the capability of console connected to your TV via HDMI or USB with its dock and 720p output. There is a keyboard that can be connected. Other accessories include controllers similar to the controllers of the Xbox 360 and controllers that resemble Sony Playstation 3 Navigation stick controllers that connect to the sides of the Razr Edge tablet PC game console. The i5 version will have a price tag around $1,000 and is equipped with 64GB SSD and 4GB of RAM. The i7 version will cost around $1,300 and may have the option of either 128GB or 256GB solid state drive with 8Gigs of RAM.
A new concept for a smartphone that was announced at the Consumer Electronics Show 2013 was the YotaPhone that combines the power of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean smartphone with a 4.3-inch LCD HD touch screen and an E-ink display on the back. The E-ink screen mirrors the front touch screen for battery conservation and it also has dedicated apps. There is also a 12 megapixel rear facing camera with 1080p HD video recording and a 1.3 megapixel front facing camera with 720p HD video capture. The curved E-ink screen is made with Corning Gorilla Glass 3. On the bottom of both sides of the YotaPhone is the gesture area that provides swiping navigation between screens (half swipe, full swipe). It runs on a 1.5 Dual-Core Snapdragon processor, 2GB of RAM, and there will be two version equipped with 32GB of memory and another with 64GB of memory. There is no microSDHC card support. The YotaPhone may be released mid 2013, Currently it is still being developed and specs may change.
It seems that curved touch screens are going to be the next big thing when it comes to smartphone design and Corning has begun developing this bendable glass called Willow Glass. Unlike Corning Gorilla Glass 3 that is already on the YotaPhone and keeps the touch screen protected, Willow Glass is an inside layer that improves touch response.
Lenovo Horizon Tablet PC is a 27-inch multitouch Windows 8 Table PC with Lenovo's Aura multiuser interface. Aura features an application control wheel that lets you easily open programs. You can remove and drag applications from the wheel and pin them for use as shortcuts. The Lenovo Horizon Tablet PC includes capacitive air hockey paddles and joysticks. There is also 6 sided die. The Lenovo Horizon Tablet PC has a 1.1-inch profile is expected to cost $1,000 with an i3 core processor, i5 core and i7 core processor versions will also be available.
This concludes a brief summary of the Best of Consumer Electronics Show 2013. There are many innovations to discover. For more information, such as CES TV and awards, take a look at www.cesweb.org and find more innovative products like 3D Systems CubeX 3D printer. The next Consumer Electronics Show is scheduled for January 7 to January 10, 2014 at Las Vegas.
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Project DescriptionThe Municipal Art Society of New York recently presented a program entitled The Next 100, in which they asked three firms to propose designs for Grand Central Terminal.
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WXY sought to find ways to bring new energy and activity to this neighborhood by reinvigorating a number of key places – the base of the MetLife building as a new open space and cultural anchor, opening up Vanderbilt Avenue to create seamless access to the tracks below grade, and a transformed Park Avenue viaduct.
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The contract she provided me to sign is 'An Assured Shorthold Tenancy Agreement'.
OK, thank you I will wait.
I'll have a look and see how to rate the previous answer I received. Yes, she does share amenities in my house, shared bathroom and kitchen. I note the tenancy agreement I signed doesn't not mention access to the sitting room though.
I give her access since she is/was a friend. She does spend a lot of time in her room when me and my boyfriend are there though.
Hi Jo
That is very interesting. Actually this tenancy agreement is only 6 months long which takes us to 4th October and since she is in court that day (litigious by nature I'm afraid!) she has agreed to move out on 5th October. I am inclined to think she will go but there are risks that she will make some excuse to stay longer and unfortunately I am in the States then. I have arranged for someone to be there on 5th Oct to check the house and lock up after her when she leaves at least. I think I will issue her with a Statutory Notice of Eviction by 5th October now, so that any paper trail shows that I have given her over 1 month's notice - entirely fair I think. My main concern is that after 5th October, if she is still there can I change the locks once she pops out on an errand, for example, or, since I have signed this 'AST' would I have to go to the courts to obtain an eviction notice? Sorry, I know this is a very muddy situation!
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That's when the hostess came over to the table and told her she had a call on the restaurant telephone.
Why, then, does working in one almost guarantee a waitress, hostess, or bartender will be at the receiving end of such harassment?
Everyone stood, smiled, greeted, shook hands, smiled—the usual drill when host and hostess greet their guests.
"She was all for Bernie," said one hostess on the party scene.
At the end of the evening, the hostess departed at the same time as her guests, leaving the caterers to clean up the mess.
As guests enter the room the hostess should advance a step to meet them.
My hostess was not only a clever woman, but presumably a generous one.
When she found that her hostess had not yet come down, she was startled.
Your hostess has a particular fondness for flowers and decorates all her rooms with them.
"We must wait a minute or two for Sir Charles," said our hostess.
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The 18-year-old crooner recently debuted the standard and deluxe cover art for Believe on his Twitter. Dropping on June 19, the album promises to be filled with hits including the already-infectious single, "Boyfriend".
While the singer have kept mum collaborations featured on the highly anticipated records, Biebs' pal Kenny Hamilton did leak a photo of JB working with a music icon this Saturday.
According to Hamilton, Justin is currently putting down finishing touches with none other than rapper Kanye West. He tweeted:
Putting the finishing touches on the album and it's gonna be special!@justinbieber and @kanyewest #Believe instagr.am/p/J8abtjtqy2/
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Besides Kanye, Bieber had reportedly worked on a duet with Taylor Swift during the making of the album. However, the word's still out if the track will appear on Believe.
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4 Baltimore City Recreation Centers Awarded Private OperatorsThe Board of Estimates voted to award four Baltimore City recreation centers with private operators. The vote is a step forward for Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's Recreation Center Task Force Plan.
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I was inspired by my daughter's Hawaiian Christmas outfit and today's (12/17/08) Memory Mixer Newsletter Challenge when I created this page! I used "Little Safari" Paper pack and Embellishments by Karen Lewis. When I bought them, I never dreamed I would use them on a Christmas page! Thanks Memory Mixer for helping me think outside the box! For those of you that don't know, "Mele Kalikimaka" is Hawaiian for Merry Christmas!
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This is way too cute! And It is so different then the same old X-mas styles.
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