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Obama's Birth Certificate: Is Alan Keyes a Sore Loser?
Alan Keyes has filed a lawsuit to stop the state of California from casting its electoral votes for Prez-Elect Barack Obama, unless he can prove he is a "natural born" citizen of the U.S. The record shows that Obama was born in Hawaii, on Aug. 4, 1961, and a "Certification of Live Birth" has been posted online to back up that position. Is Keyes just a sore loser? In 2004, he lost his bid for a U.S. Senate seat in Illinois. Who won that race? Barack Obama!
"If we would learn what the human race really is...we need only observe it at election time." - Mark Twain
Maybe, it's the Joe Lieberman effect! He's in, he's out, he's back in the Democratic Party fold again. It is all so confusing. So is the fact that the Philadelphia Phillies, finally, won the World Series this year and the massive financial meltdown by the banksters on Wall Street! Who can know for sure? Here's what the record shows: Alan Keyes, a perennial candidate for public office in a number of states, including Maryland, has recently filed a law suit in Sacramento, CA. It seeks to stop that state from casting its "electoral votes" for Prez-Elect Barack Obama, until he proves that he is a "natural born" citizen of the U.S. Sounds like a sore loser to me. Mr. Keyes, as a Republican, ran against the Prez-Elect for the U.S. Senate seat in Illinois, in 2004. Sen. Obama gave him a good thumping by getting over 63 percent of the vote. Is Mr. Keyes looking to get some sweet revenge by filing this case?
The evidence is compelling that the Prez-Elect was born in the Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women and Children, in Honolulu, Hawaii, on Aug. 4, 1961. Hawaii was a state at that time. Sen. Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, who died in 1995, was an American by birth. She hailed from Wichita, Kansas. His dad, Barack Obama, Sr., was from Kenya. His parents divorced in 1964. In 1967, the Prez-Elect then moved to Indonesia with his stepfather, Lolo Soetoro and his mother. In 1971, he returned to Hawaii, to live with his grandparents, Madelyn and Stanley Dunham, who for all practical purposes, raised him. Obama's father died in 1982. (1)
Thanks to a neutral web site, FactCheck.org., for shining some light on the birth certificate controversy. (2) It has made a copy of Sen. Obama's birth certificate, (Certification of Live Birth), that is in the possession of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and reproduced it on line. FactCheck also produced an item from the "Honolulu Register" newspaper, dated, August 13, 1961. It shows the birth of "a son" to Mr. and Mrs. Barack H. Obama, on Aug. 4, 1961. It even gives the parents' home address. FactCheck also underscores that the officials in Honolulu responsible for maintaining birth records at the Health Department have seen the original birth certificate and "verified" that it is a valid document. (2) Such evidence is, indeed, cumulative and very persuasive. You would think it would have silenced the critics, but it hasn't.
Background: The original lawsuit that started this brouhaha was filed in a federal court in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in August, 2008. It charged that Sen. Obama wasn't eligible to be president, since he was "born in Kenya." The U.S. Constitution mandates that only a "natural born citizen" of this country is qualified for that office, (Art. 2, Sec. 1). The defendants named in that case were Sen. Obama and the National Democratic Committee (DNC), among others. The trial judge, on Oct. 25, 2008, dismissed the suit saying that the plaintiff, Philip H. Berg, didn't have "standing to sue." Mr. Berg immediately appealed the judge's decision to the Supreme Court, where his Petition for a Writ of Certiorari was recently denied by Justice David Souter, on Nov. 3, 2008. (3)
I think any Plaintiff, Mr. Keyes or Mr. Berg, is going to have a long, legal road to travel in this kind of case based on what I've read. As I write, however, the legal action over it has reportedly attracted millions of hits to various internet sites. You would think that the fastest way to finally resolve any doubts was for the DNC to produce to the court a certified copy of Sen. Obama's original birth certificate, under affidavit, and under seal, from Hawaii. Did the DNC do that? No, it didn't. It filed a motion to get the federal case tossed out, without it having been decided on the merits. Its strategy worked, but is that result good for the Prez-Elect?
Mr. Berg, the plaintiff in the Philadelphia litigation, is a former Deputy Attorney General for Pennsylvania. (3) The birth certificate dispute will now bounce along in the court system, both state and federal. Suits have been filed in twelve other state and federal courts by various plaintiffs throughout the country. More importantly, this matter will also drag on in the Court of Public Opinion. Shouldn't this issue be laid to rest before the inauguration, set for Jan. 20, 2009?
If the DNC had produced a copy of the certified birth certificate, the Philadelphia federal court case would have become a legal "slam dunk." (Pardon my use of that expression, ex-CIA Boss, George Tenet!) The DNC's failure to do so has heated up the Internet and has some folks screaming wild things, such as: Obama's name should be taken off the ballot in all fifty states!
What exactly are the critics claiming? They are alleging that the "Certification of Live Birth" posted on the Web, now on two different sites, is a fake, and not the real McCoy. (3) (4) (5)
On the "Certification of Live Birth" posted on Sen. Obama's site, (6) and FactCheck, (2), Obama's father's race is shown as "African." African isn't a race. Obama's mother is listed as "Caucasian," since she was of the White race. The "African" designation for Obama's father made that certificate questionable in the eyes of some naysayers. (4) (5) But, FactCheck's explanation makes more sense. It says that the Department of Health officials by tradition have left it up to the parents of a newborn child to "identify" their respective races. (2)
Others on the Net are claiming, that the online document produced on Sen. Obama's site is a creature of "Photoshop!" They use the term: "photoshopped." They also insist that a "Certification of Live Birth" isn't an "official" birth certificate. (4) (5) Many of the questions raised by these critics have been answered, in detail, by FactCheck. (2)
FactCheck underscores that a "Certification of Live Birth," is the "short form" used by the state of Hawaii's Health Department. It added: "The long form is drawn up by the hospital and includes additional information such as birth weight and parents' hometowns...Hawaii...does not give the option to request a photocopy of your long-form birth certificate, but their short form has enough information [in it] to be acceptable to the [U.S.] State Department." (2)
The crux of the matter, however, is the authenticity of the original birth certificate of Sen. Obama, which sooner or later, must be submitted either to a court of law and/or in the Court of Public Opinion. Sen. Obama online "Certification of Live Birth" hasn't, unfortunately, resolved the dispute, it has only intensified it.
This brouhaha can be over in a New York minute. The longer the DNC delays coming up with Sen. Obama's original "Birth Certificate," the more questions are going to be raised. One web site, which is supportive of the Philadelphia lawsuit, has over one million, four hundred thousand hits. Go check it out for yourselves. (4) Mr. Berg claims millions of hit on his site. (3)
Sen. Obama is on track to be the 44th president of the U.S. Mr. Berg wants to see a certified copy of his "original" birth certificate. I think the facts shows that the Prez-Elect is "eligible." Isn't it in his best interest to set the record straight?
Suggested compromise: The DNC should submit to a judge, in one of the pending cases, preferably in the federal system--a State-of-Hawaii approved, legally sanctioned copy of the "original" long form birth certificate of Sen. Obama. The judge should then answer this question: "Is this birth certificate valid or not?" I believe the answer will be a resounding "Yes!" Case closed! (7)
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama#Early_life_and_career
2. http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/born_in_the_usa.html
3. http://www.obamacrimes.com/
4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyspCRmJv7w
5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIsQJNTvlUE&feature=related and http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2008/08/proof-barack-obama-birth-certificate-is.html
6. http://fightthesmears.com/articles/5/birthcertificate
7. At press time, a case out of New Jersey, that questions "Barack Obama's citizenship," has been scheduled for a "conference" at the U.S. Supreme Court. See, http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=81484
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Thursday Nov 20th, 2008 8:27 AM
What a tangled when they weave when they practice to deceive. As Obama's Kenyan relatives have stated, he was born in Kenya to an 18-year-old American woman who was not allowed to board the plane to the US in her late stage of pregnancy. This 18-year-old was 1 year too young to bequeath her American citizenship to Barack as in 1961, 5 years after age 14 of being an American was required for that act. Then, according to Berg's lawsuit, she boarded a plane to Hawaii some 4 days later and registered Barack's birth at 2 Hawaiian hospitals, but there are no birth records in Hawaii, which had just become a US state in 1960, by the way. Barack's mother divorced the Kenyan husband by age 2. When Barack was age 6, his mother had married an Indonesian, moved to Indonesia and registered Barack in school as an Indonesian citizen. At age 20, Barack traveled to Pakistan on an Indonesian passport; Indonesia does not have dual citizenship. Here is Berg's statement of 8/21/08, just before the Democratic Convention of 8/25-28/08, from http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9920:
"Berg stated: "I filed this action at this time to avoid the obvious problems that will occur when the Republican Party raises these issues after Obama is nominated."
"here have been numerous questions raised about Obama's background with no satisfactory answers. The questions that I have addressed include, but are not limited to:"
".1. Where was Obama born? Hawaii; an island off of Hawaii; Kenya; Canada; or ?"
"2, Was he a citizen of Kenya, Indonesia and/or Canada?"
"3. What was the early childhood of Obama in Hawaii; in Kenya; in Indonesia when he was adopted; and later, back to Hawaii?"
"4. An explanation as to the various names utilized by Obama that include: Barack Hussein Obama; Barry Soetoro; Barry Obama; Barack Dunham; and Barry Dunham."
"5. Illinois Bar Application – Obama fails to acknowledge use of names other than Barack Hussein Obama, a blatant lie."
"If Obama can prove U.S. citizenship, we still have the issue of muti-citizenship with responsibilities owed to and allegance to other countries."
Philip Berg is a Democrat and was the former Pennsylvania deputy attorney general who sued under the RICO statute to expose the 9/11 Inside Job, with Ellen Mariani as the plaintiff. See http://www.septembereleventh.org/documents/mariani_color.pdf
The legal pleadings on Berg v. Obama are listed and linked at
Here is the complaint, Berg v. Obama, DNC, US District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, No. 08CV4083 at
Here is a further explanation of the twists and turns on Barack's citizenship, the Temporary Restraining Order Motion at,
Thursday Nov 20th, 2008 9:59 AM
Why would Obama's mother risk an infant by flying him within days of birth to Hawaii? There is no motive here! In 1961, before the meat of the black civil rights movement, no parent of a black child would have realistically thought that said child would eventually become President. The social state of mind was not there at the time. In order for this "conspiracy" to hold merit (since birth announcements, one of which stating the hospital, were put in two papers), we'd have to believe that Obama's parents thought his being a natural-born citizen would be an issue later in life, and in all honesty, especially for children, it's not an issue until and unless said person tries to run for President!
There's no motive for this "conspiracy"...cut it out already!! -.-
Thursday Nov 20th, 2008 10:01 AM
statement from the office of Governor Lingle.
Thank you for emailing Governor Linda Lingle's office. A recent article in WorldNetDaily.com (October 26, 2008) claiming that Hawai'i Governor Linda Lingle sealed Sen. Barack Obama's birth certificate is false.
Under Hawai'i's state law (Hawai'i Revised Statutes §338-18), copies of vital records may only be released to those who have a tangible relationship to the person whose record is being sought. Neither the Governor's office, nor any other office in the State of Hawai'i, can provide information concerning birth certificates, or produce birth certificates, to anyone except those who are listed in the law governing vital statistics records.
Vital statistics records, such as birth certificates, are protected by strict confidentiality requirements. Specifically, pursuant to section 338-18, Hawai'i Revised Statutes (HRS), the Department of Health, which maintains these records, may not allow the inspection of a birth certificate, or issue a certified copy of a birth certificate, or disclose any information contained in a birth certificate, unless it is satisfied that the applicant has a direct and tangible interest in the record:
(a) To protect the integrity of vital statistics records, to ensure their proper use, and to ensure the efficient and proper administration of the vital statistics system, it shall be unlawful for any person to permit inspection of, or to disclose information contained in vital statistics records, or to copy or issue a copy of all or part of any such record, except as authorized by this part or by rules adopted by the department of health.
(b) The department shall not permit inspection of public health statistics records, or issue a certified copy of any such record or part thereof, unless it is satisfied that the applicant has a direct and tangible interest in the record. The following persons shall be considered to have a direct and tangible interest in a public health statistics record:
(1) The registrant;
(2) The spouse of the registrant;
(3) A parent of the registrant;
(4) A descendant of the registrant;
(5) A person having a common ancestor with the registrant;
(6) A legal guardian of the registrant;
(7) A person or agency acting on behalf of the registrant;
(8) A personal representative of the registrant's estate;
(9) A person whose right to inspect or obtain a certified copy of the record is established by an order of a court of competent jurisdiction;
(10) Adoptive parents who have filed a petition for adoption and who need to determine the death of one or more of the prospective adopted child's natural or legal parents;
(11) A person who needs to determine the marital status of a former spouse in order to determine the payment of alimony;
(12) A person who needs to determine the death of a nonrelated co-owner of property purchased under a joint tenancy agreement; and
(13) A person who needs a death certificate for the determination of payments under a credit insurance policy.
You can find the complete statute at http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol06_Ch0321-0344/HRS0338/HRS_0338-0018.htm
Office of Governor Lingle
Hawaii has two major newspapers, the Honolulu Advertiser and the Star Bulletin. BOTH newspapers include birth announcements, and pages found in the archives of BOTH newspapers record the August 4th, 1961 birth of Barack Obama.
(Link to Advertiser page)
(Link to Star Bulletin page)
Thursday Nov 20th, 2008 11:07 AM
I don't know why ANYBODY even gives this the time of day. Trust me, if he wasn't ELIGIBLE for office, he wouldn't have been made the candidate to begin with. First of all, I don't know about the rest of you, but I had to take GOVERNMENT in order to graduate high-school. So, it doesn't matter where he was born, because his birth mother was an American citizen. An American white lady, no less. So that's it... he's a citizen by birthright of his mother. The only time there's ANY grey area in this matter whatsoever, is the "anchor baby" occasion, and that's not holding up anymore anyway. These people are simply trying to throw a monkey into the wrench (yeah, I know how you're supposed to say it, I just thought that sounded funnier, so shut up) by raising a false issue. Besides... do you HONESTLY believe that the Democrat party would REALLY put someone up for the office of the Presidency, without verifying this a long time ago? Do you HONESTLY think that they would REALLY KNOWINGLY do such a thing? You think they are THAT dishonest, and yet the Republican party ISN'T WORSE THAN THAT ANYWAY? What kills me is the general 'we do no wrong' attitude of the Republicans as a whole. They are actually the biggest haters of America out there... In fact, I think THEY hate us for our freedoms MORE than our so-called enemies.
Thursday Nov 20th, 2008 8:30 PM
Most Americans of all colors who find themselves outside the US while pregnant do whatever they can to get back in time for the baby to be born in the USA as the illusion of the USA as being the greatest country in the world and the beacon of freedom is pervasive, albeit not based on reality. A white American woman who was attending a university is certainly the kind to have many illusions about the USA and would get on a plane as soon as physically possible to get back to the USA to register the baby's birth.
This has nothing to do with becoming president; most people do not expect their child to become president of the US, which requires a person be a native born American. However, American citizenship, either naturalized or native born, is required for many things including being an attorney. One can be a naturalized citizen, but many law schools will not take a naturalized citizen. Some do, so there are American attorneys who are naturalized citizens.
As stated above, in 1961, the American parent had to be at least 19 to pass the American citizenship to the child (5 years after the American parent's 14th birthday), and Barack's mother was 18 at the time of his birth.
As Berg's lawsuit states in the Memo in Support of Motion for Temporary Restraining Order, even if Obama was, in fact, born in Hawaii, he lost his US citizenship when his mother re-married and moved to Indonesisa with her Indonesian husband." The other Indonesian citizenship issues are described above. The basis for this loss of citienzship is the Nationality Act of 1940. His mother could have regained her citienzship if she took an Oath of Allegiance at an embassy, legation, consulate, court or before an Attorney General, any one of which would have a record, but no such record exists, according to the lawsuit. The lawsuit continues in the Memorandum in Support of Motion for Temporary Restraining Order, "even if Obama had and maintained US citizenship (which Plaintiff believes he failed to do), he also holds citizenship in Kenya and Indonesia. Obama has divided loyalties with foreign countries. Thus, Obama carries multiple citizenships, and is ineligible to run for President of the US. US Constitution, Article I, Section 1."
As to why the Democratic Party would allow this problem to exist, they are the twin party of capitalism with the Republicans and have just as much contempt for the law. The Democrats played their usual role in this election of making sure the workingclass, those of us who sell our labor for less than $76,000 a year, for the most part, did not vote Red (socialist) or Green, but instead voted for the Democratic millionaire, warmonger, death penalty promoter, Barack Obama, instead of the Republican millionaire, warmonger, death penalty promoter, John McCain. While there was much election fraud by the Republicans (no different from the usual election fraud by every big city's Democratic Party machine) in the early voting, they stopped it just enough on election day so Obama could get 52% of the vote, a bare majority, so as to prevent a nationwide revolt against the 3rd presidential election in a row being by election fraud. In other words, the Democrats saved capitalism so the rich could contiue to exploit the workingclass to maximize their profits. These presidential elections are completely staged to give the illusion of democracy; there can be no democracy in a capitalist society, which by definition promotes economic inequality, antithetical to political democracy.
The president in a capitalist society is simply the Chairperson of the Board of the Executive Committee of Big Business. Barack Obama made it clear he is a warmonger throughout his campaign, including in his Election Day speech, he voted for the FISA spy bill, he condemned a good US Supreme Court ruling against the death penalty, calling a news conference to make his pro-death penalty views known, and led the charge to steal $700 billion of our tax dollars for the bankers. All of his political appointments have been reactionary, so far. VP Biden wanted to invade Iraq before Bush did; Rahm Emanuel is a warmonger; his attorney general Eric Holder, is a corporate defender of Chiquita Banana against the workingclass and wants to make possession of marijuana a felony, not a midsemeanor. Hillary Clinton, the possible Secretary of State, is a war criminal. And these are the Democrats connected to Obama, all despicable. Then there is the Republican Colin Powell, a war criminal, who is advising Obama and the Republican Secretary of War, Robert Gates, who is expected to be asked to remain Secetary of War, proving what was obvious throughout the entire campaign, Obama is not about change at all; that was just a sales pitch, as always with the capitalist candidates. (Before WW2, the Secretary of Defense was called the Secretary of War, and that title is most appropriate). Barack Obama is just a lawyer who promotes capitalism; the fact that he is of African ancestry is irrelevant.
It is long overdue that the workingclass vote for people who represent their interests, as did Cynthia McKinney of the Green Party and Ralph Nader, running on the Peace & Freedom Party ticket in California.
Thursday Nov 20th, 2008 8:31 PM
You gotta hear this 90 minute blogradio on why the media has a blackout of the looming Obama Birth Certificate Constitutional Crisis:
Friday Nov 21st, 2008 3:27 AM
We'd also have to believe that the State of Hawaii is playing along with Obama's "trickery" as well. What's THEIR motivation?


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Many twenty-first-century evangelical charismatics in Britain are looking for a faith that "works". They want to experience the miraculous in terms of healings and God-sent financial provision. Many have left the mainstream churches to join independent charismatic churches led by those who are perceived to have special insights into faith and to teach principles that will help believers experience the miraculous. But all is not rosy in this promised paradise and when people are not healed or they remain poor they are often told that it is because they did not have enough faith or are too negative. This study seeks to discover the origin of the principles that are taught by some charismatic leaders. Glyn Ackerley identifies them as the same ideas that are taught by the positive confession, health, wealth, and prosperity movement, originating in the United States. The origins of the ideas are traced back to New Thought metaphysics and its background philosophies of subjective idealism and American pragmatism. These principles were "imported" into the UK through contact between British leaders and those influenced and trained by American "word of faith" teachers.
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The Hutchinson Community College volleyball team has made great strides in head coach Sarah Myers' second season.
So far, the Lady Dragons have made an eight-win improvement from 2010 and went 9-5 in the Jayhawk West, a four-game improvement in conference play. Hutchinson also returned to the upper division of the Jayhawk West and earned a first-round Region VI Tournament match.
The Lady Dragons (14-21) will play host to Dodge City (17-17) at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday at the Sports Arena. The winner advances to the Region VI Final Four on Saturday and Sunday at Newman University in Wichita.
Admission for Tuesday's opening-round matchup will be $5 with preschoolers and HCC and Dodge City students with proper school ID allowed in free.
Region VI Tournament Opening Round
Hutchinson (14-21) vs. Dodge City (17-17)
When: Tuesday, November 1, 2011
At: Sports Arena
First Serve: 6:30 p.m.
Admission: $5 (preschool kids, HCC and Dodge City students with proper student ID admitted free)
Live Video: Blue Dragon Sports Network, 6:15 p.m.
Tuesday's match will be videostreamed live on the Blue Dragon Sports Network at www.bluedragonsports.com beginning at 6:15 p.m.
Last Wednesday with home court for the first round at stake, Hutchinson rallied from a set down to defeat Dodge City in a five-set thriller, winning 18-16 in the fifth set after letting five match points slip through their fingers in the fourth set.
Hayley Young, HCC's freshman setter, had a career-high 54 set assists. Sophomore Jordan Rehm had 18 kills, while freshman Kayla Karmazyn had a career-high 14 kills, sophomore Cassie Wiley had 13 kills and freshman Jade Nelson added 11 kills.
Chantal Birbaum had 16 kills to lead three Dodge City hitters in double figures in kills. Maggie Hans had 15 kills and Sherri Darden had 11 kills.
HCC swept the regular-season series with Dodge City this season, sweeping the Conquistadors on Sept. 27.
Hutchinson has been a very balanced offense all season long seven players averaging more than a kill per set. Rehm lead HCC with 2.41 kills per set and a .166 hitting percentage.
Freshman middle/outside Shayne Haley, who played only one set last week against Dodge City because of illness, is averaging 1.84 kills and hits .208. Sophomore middle Cassie Wiley averages 1.73 kills and hits .229.
Wiley is HCC's leading blocker and has the fifth-most blocks in team history. She is averaging 1.17 kills. Haley averages 0.85 kills per set.
Rehm leads the Lady Dragons in digs with 3.26 digs per set. Freshman libero Paige Forrester averages 3.16 digs.
Young, who has two triple-doubles this season, is averaging 6.65 assists per set.
The Hutchinson-Dodge City winner will meet the Barton-Garden City winner at Noon on Saturday at Newman University. The Barton/Garden match will be played at Great Bend on Tuesday.
In other first-round matchups on Tuesday: Pratt is at Seward County and Cloud County is at second-seeded Colby.
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Opening round at home sites
Tuesday, November 1
No. 5 Dodge City (17-17) at No. 4 Hutchinson (14-21), 6:30 p.m.
No. 8 Garden City (1-31) at No. 1 Barton (25-11), 6:30 p.m.
No. 6 Pratt (10-20) at No. 3 Seward County (21-14), 6:30 p.m.
No. 7 Cloud County (6-28) at No. 2 Colby (27-13), 6:30 p.m.
Final Four at Newman University, Wichita
Saturday, November 5
Match 1: Noon – Hutchinson/Dodge Winner vs. Barton/Garden winner
Match 2: 2 p.m. – Seward/Pratt winner vs. Colby/Cloud winner
Match 3: 4 p.m. – Loser Match 1 vs. Loser Match 2
Match 4: 6 p.m. – Winner Match 1 vs. Winner Match 2
Sunday, November 6
Match 5: Noon – Loser's bracket final
Match 6: 2 p.m. – Championship Match
Match 7: 4 p.m. – 2nd Championship Match (if needed)


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Today was the release of many new thing from Apple and still more to come. iOS 5 launched, Find My Friends, as well as a whole new world that owns a new Apple device. But also, the iPod Touch 4th Generation was rereleased in the white color. The original iPods all came in the white color so there was no reason Apple needed to ditch it with the iPod Touch. The 4th Generation is still super speedy with the A4 chip so it can definitely handle most of the iOS 5 features. Only downside to this is that iPod Touch owners won't be able to get in on iPhone 4S and iPad 2 exclusives since they do have a lot more power. Seems like Touch owners got a bit left behind this year.

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Former North Platte resident Doug DaMoude, 64, was shot and killed in Lincoln Friday by a deputy after officers went to his foreclosed home to force him out of it.
Five shots were fired. DaMoude was pronounced dead on the scene.
According to a KLKN television report, four sheriff's deputies were serving a court order to evict DaMoude at 5901 English Park Ct. around 2:30 p.m. Friday.
A locksmith tried but failed to pick the lock, so the deputies kicked down the door.
Friends and family were shocked by what allegedly happened. They said DaMoude was a pleasant, fun-loving guy who loved the outdoors and wouldn't hurt anything bigger than a fish.
"A struggle ensued, they told him to drop the weapon and shots were fired," Lincoln Police Chief Jim Peschong said in a press conference.
Peschong says DaMoude had been sending mail to the police department and sheriff's office for weeks, threatening to use deadly force on officers that tried to enter his home.
He said 16 other weapons were found in the residence.
DaMoude's friend Bob McFarland of North Platte said they were pals in high school, and DaMoude attended the funeral of McFarland's mother in August. DaMoude said he spent so much time at McFarlands as a kid that he felt close to her.
McFarland said DaMoude was competitive but was basically a big guy who wouldn't hurt anyone. He was a 225-pound tackle on the football team and held the North Platte High School record in the discus for awhile. He sang at the McFarland's wedding.
"He was a nice guy, always smiling," McFarland said. "I can honestly say that he never got in any fights."
"There were 4-5 of us who hung out together," he said. "We hunted and fished a lot."
"He was an awesome brother," DaMoude's sister Janet King of North Platte said. "I was 5-6 years older than him and I took care of him when we were kids. There was not a mean streak in his body."
DaMoude bought the house in Lincoln in 1998, and received a three-day notice on Dec. 9 to vacate because it was sold in foreclosure, according to KLKN television report that cited county records.
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"It's a shame," McFarland said.
DaMoude was born March 30, 1950 at North Platte to Harrison and Oleta (Miller) DaMoude. He lived in Wellfleet until he was 5 when the family moved to North Platte, according to his obituary.
Services will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, at the First Lutheran Church of Lincoln, where he was an active member.
He attended Cody, North Platte Jr. and Sr. High School. He attended and played football at the University of South Dakota. He moved to Lincoln after college and lived there until his death. He was an avid outdoorsman and a Husker fan. He spent many hours hunting and fishing with family and friends.
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But even with the increased funding, the county is still operating at a loss.
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Tampa Bay Watch, a nonprofit dedicated to protecting and restoring Tampa Bay, is holding a holiday art contest for kids in kindergarten to eighth grade. The theme is "Holidays in the Tampa Bay Habitat," with art focusing on the bay's estuaries, shorelines, watershed and creatures that live in those places. The best artwork will be featured in Tampa Bay Watch's annual Christmas card. Art should be on letter-size paper, one side only. It will be judged by a panel of Tampa Bay Watch staff and community partners. For information, go to tampabaywatch.org.
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JUDY WOODRUFF: Next tonight, political turmoil in Russia and more challenges to Vladimir Putin.
Margaret Warner has the story.
MARGARET WARNER: Freezing temperatures did not deter the determined crowds protesting in Moscow on Saturday. Police put the gathering at 30,000, organizers at four times that many.
It was the second round of mass rallies across Russia this month, fueled by charges that the ruling United Russia party cheated to win the Dec. 4 parliamentary elections.
NATALYA SOLOVYOVA, protester (through translator): I'm enraged by the falsifications. They actually stole the votes of people who didn't vote for them. I got angry, and that is why I'm here.
MARGARET WARNER: Blogger Alexei Navalny was detained after the first round of protests, but he was back by Saturday vowing, "If these crooks and thieves keep cheating us, we will take what is ours."
ALEXEI NAVALNY, blogger (through translator): It is an obvious machination, obvious fraud done in such a brazen way that it is impossible to tolerate this any longer. I think at least 150,000 people gathered here despite the cold temperature. But even if it were minus-20, the number would be the same.
MARGARET WARNER: The target of the crowd's ire? United Russia's man Vladimir Putin, who has held power for 12 years, first as president and now as prime minister.
Former finance minister Alexei Kudrin, who still talks to Putin, called for the new parliament to be dissolved and face new elections.
ALEXEI KUDRIN, former Russian prime minister (through translator): I support snap elections. I'm ready to take part and facilitate this dialogue in order to work out the solutions.
MARGARET WARNER: But at United Russia's headquarters today, Putin rejected the idea of a new vote and sounded dismissive of the protesters.
VLADIMIR PUTIN, Russian prime minister (through translator): The problem is they lack a consolidated program, as well as clear and comprehensible ways of achieving their goals, which aren't clear either. They also lack people who are capable of doing something concrete.
MARGARET WARNER: He did call for reforms to govern future elections, however. And he pledged a clean process in the presidential balloting in March, when he hopes to regain his old office.
VLADIMIR PUTIN (through translator): As for me, as a candidate, I don't need any vote-rigging. I want the election to be maximally transparent. I want everybody to understand it.
MARGARET WARNER: Current President Dmitry Medvedev also proposed political reforms in his final State of the Union speech last Thursday. He and Putin catalyzed Russian discontent by announcing in September that they planned to switch jobs again.
Then came the allegations of election fraud and days of angry protests. Saturday's demonstrations were the largest yet since those that brought down the Soviet Union, which was dissolved 20 years ago this week.
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who resigned on Christmas Day, 1991, called for Putin to do the same during an interview on Saturday.
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV, former Soviet president (through translator): I would advise Vladimir Putin to step down now. It has been enough, three terms, two terms as president and another term as prime minister. Three terms, that's enough.
MARGARET WARNER: For now, though, Putin shows no sign of taking that advice. He's pointing toward the March 4 presidential election day, when he will need at least 50 percent of the Russian vote to avoid a runoff.


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I hate seeing all these posts about Britney and K-Fed so close together but when I found out Kevin Federline was banging a porn star I couldnt help myself. Star magazine claims Kevin Federline was having an affair with former porn star Kendra Jade a month before Britney Spears filed for divorce from him. The two met in Las Vegas in December 2005 while Britney was visiting her family in Lousiana and apparently stayed in touch to have sex.
"Kev and Kendra had sex at their friends' apartment multiple times, starting in early October," a source told the tab. "Their friend would phone Kendra and a few other girls to come hang out, and it would always end up with Kevin and Kendra heading off to the spare bedroom!" Now that K-Fed is a single guy, will he and Jade become a couple? Not likely, says the source, explaining, "They're just friends who have sex." When contacted for comment by Star, Jade said only, "I'm in a committed relationship."
Besides the fact that it's Star reporting, I find it tough to believe anybody would use Kevin Federline for sex. A human toilet maybe, even a trash can. But sex? That'd be like using Lindsay Lohan to cheat on the SAT's. Which sounds like a good plan until you find out you scored so low they've sentenced you to death.


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Business figures have backed calls for the federal and state governments to get serious about reinvigorating the Council of Australian Governments' reform agenda, as the Prime Minister is due to hold an important meeting on the issue today.
As reported in The Australian Financial Review yesterday, the head of the body charged with evaluating the progress of federal-state reforms has warned that the COAG agenda has stalled and the intergovernmental body is at risk of eroding confidence in the system. COAG Reform Council chairman
Business people echoed Mr McClintock's concerns about the glacial pace of the reforms.
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"The regulatory burden just continues to mount in all sorts of areas – corporate regulation, reporting on energy efficiency, industrial relations burdens [and] environmental approval."
Businesses operating nationally are urging governments to address 27 agreed deregulation hot spots, including directors' liabilities, business licensing and payroll tax, and competition reforms to energy, infrastructure and water markets. COAG, the intergovernmental body comprising the Prime Minister and state premiers, has met once this year.The federal government said yesterday the working group on business regulation and competition had met four times in 2010 and would meet later this month.
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"The many reforms already completed include a national system of trade measurement, a national system for health professional registration and accreditation, national regulation of trustee corporations, national regulation of mortgage broking, margin lending, non-deposit lending institutions and credit providers, and standard business reporting."
Treasury's brief said there might be merit in narrowing COAG's scope to focus on policies that would have the greatest impact on the economy.
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The Buddha in the Attic
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"A delicate, heartbreaking portrait . . . beautifully rendered . . . Otsuka's prose is precise and rich with imagery. Readers will be . . . hopelessly engaged and will finish this exceptional book profoundly moved." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Julie Otsuka's long awaited follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine ("To watch Emperor catching on with teachers and students in vast numbers is to grasp what must have happened at the outset for novels like Lord of the Flies and To Kill a Mockingbird-- The New York Times) is a tour de force of economy and precision, a novel that tells the story of a group of young women brought over from Japan to San Francisco as "picture brides" nearly a century ago.
In eight incantatory sections, The Buddha in the Attic traces their extraordinary lives, from their arduous journey by boat, where they exchange photographs of their husbands, imagining uncertain futures in an unknown land; to their arrival in San Francisco and their tremulous first nights as new wives; to their backbreaking work picking fruit in the fields and scrubbing the floors of white women; to their struggles to master a new language and a new culture; to their experiences in childbirth, and then as mothers, raising children who will ultimately reject their heritage and their history; to the deracinating arrival of war.
In language that has the force and the fury of poetry, Julie Otsuka has written a singularly spellbinding novel about the American dream.
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Discussion Questions1. The Buddha in the Attic is narrated in the first person plural, i.e., told from the point of view of a group of women rather than an individual. Discuss the impact of this narrative decision on your reading experience. Why do you think the author made the choice to tell the story from this perspective?
2. Why is the novel called The Buddha in the Attic? To what does the title refer?
3. The novel opens with the women on the boat traveling from Japan to San Francisco. What does Otsuka tell us is "the first thing [they] did," and what does this suggest about the trajectories of their lives?
4. What are the women's expectations about America? What are their fears? Why are they convinced that "it was better to marry a stranger in America than grow old with a farmer from the village"?
5. Discuss Otsuka's use of italics in the novel. What are these shifts in typography meant to connote? How do they add to our knowledge of the women as individuals?
6. Otsuka tells us that the last words spoken by the women's mothers still ring in their ears: "You will see: women are weak, but mothers are strong." What does this mean, and how does the novel bear this out?
7. In the final sentence of "First Night," Otsuka writes, "They took us swiftly, repeatedly, all throughout the night, and in the morning when we woke we were theirs." Discuss the women's first nights with their new husbands. Are there particular images you found especially powerful? How did you feel reading this short chapter?
8. Why was the first word of English the women were taught "water" ?
9. In the section entitled "Whites," Otsuka describes several acts of kindness and compassion on the part of the women's husbands. In what ways were the husbands useful to them or unexpectedly gentle with them in these early days? How does this reflect the complexity of their relationships?
10. What are the women's lives like in these early months in America? How do their experiences and challenges differ from what they had been led to expect? How are they perceived by their husbands? By their employers? Discuss the disparity between the women's understanding of their role in the American economy and what Otsuka suggests is the American perception of the Japanese women's power.
11. Later in this section, the women ask themselves, "Is there any tribe more savage than the Americans?" What occasions this question? What does the author think? What do you think?
12. Discuss the passage on p. 37 that begins, "We forgot about Buddha. We forgot about God. . . . I fear my soul has died. . . . And often our husbands did not even notice we'd disappeared." What does Otsuka mean by "disappeared"? What is she suggesting about their spiritual lives, their inner selves? Do the women reappear in this sense in the course of the novel? When?
13. Throughout the novel, Otsuka uses the phrase "One of us…" Why? What is the effect of this shift in point of view? What does Otsuka achieve through this subtle adjustment?
14. Otsuka writes, "They gave us new names. They called us Helen and Lily. They called us Margaret. They called us Pearl." Discuss how this mirrors the names taken by the women's children later in the novel.
15. Discuss the complexities and nuances of the relationship between the Japanese women and the white women. Was it strictly an employer/employee relationship, or something more?
16. What is J-town? Why do the women choose J-town over any attempt to return home?
17. The section called "Babies" is just six pages long but strikes with unique force. What was your reaction to the experiences of the women in childbirth? Take a close look at the last six sentences of the chapter, with a particular emphasis on the very last sentence. On what note does Otsuka end the chapter, and why? What does that last sentence reveal about Otsuka's ideas about the future and about the past?
18. "One by one all the old words we had taught them began to disappear from their heads," Otsuka writes of the women's children. Discuss the significance of names and naming in The Buddha in the Attic. What does it mean for these children to reject their mother's language? What point is Otsuka making about cultural inheritance?
19. How do the the dreams of the children differ from the dreams of their mothers?
20. Why do the women feel closer to their husbands than ever before in the section entitled "Traitors"?
21. How is the structure of the penultimate section, called "Last Day," different from the structure of all the sections that precede it? Why do you think Otsuka chose to set it apart?
22. Who narrates the novel's final section, "A Disappearance"? Why? What is the impact of this dramatic shift?
23. Discuss themes of guilt, shame, and forgiveness in The Buddha in the Attic.
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Today I turn it on , and it keeps asking me about including stdafx.h
I never heard of this header file and I do have it in the list to the right under the folder header files.
When I copy paste the program into my old visual C++ 6.0 it doesn;t ask for it.
Can it b something went corrupted?
I can post the code but not only it;s uncompleted and full of bugs (probably) I don;t think it;s related since by what I undetstood this header is kinda by default?
I can copy paste all into a new project but I would like to know the cause of it, it would be sad if this is a studio bug...
When I add it (#include <stdafx.h>) it gives me the following error:
fatal error C1853: 'Debug\C_HW.pch' precompiled header file is from a previous version of the compiler, or the precompiled header is C++ and you are using it from C (or vice versa).
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Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Erythropoietin Prevention Trial of Coronary Restenosis and Cardiac Remodeling After Acute Myocardial Infarction (EPOC-AMI)
Resource links provided by NLM:
MedlinePlus related topics: Heart Attack
Drug Information available for: Epoetin AlfaU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- In-stent Neointimal volume
- In-stent Late lumen loss
- Semi-Quantitative evaluation of infarcted size of myocardium
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- left ventricular end diastolic volume
- left ventricular end systolic volume
- left ventricular ejection fraction
- left ventricular wall motion index
- binary restenosis
- major adverse cardiac events (death,myocardial infarction, target lesion revascularization)
|Estimated Enrollment:
Stents coated with sirolimus or paclitaxel have been shown to significantly reduce restenosis in selected coronary lesions. However, the potential risk of late stent thrombosis forces prolonged treatment of dual anti-platelet regimen to all the patients after implantation of drug eluting stents. Patients with acute myocardial infarction may have uncertain clinical characteristics, such as occult bleeding focus or further need for surgical procedures. Thus, bare metal stent is considerably alternative for primary PCI after AMI and there remain an appreciable number of patients at risk for restenosis. Use of systemic pharmacological therapy to inhibit coronary stent restenosis of bare metal stent has been largely unsuccessful. We have reported that erythropoietin could enhance reendothelialization leading to inhibition of in-stent restenosis by directly protecting endothelial apoptosis and mobilizing endothelial progenitors. The EPOC-AMI study is designed to assess the safety and the efficacy of systemic administration of erythropoietin aiming inhibition of neointimal hyperplasia after stent implantation in the patients with acute myocardial infarction.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|20 Years to 79 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Clinical diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction within 12hrs of symptom onset.
- Succeeded reperfusion due to primary PCI accomplished bare metal stent
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients with cardiogenic shock (e.g. systolic BP<80mmHg,use of catecholamine, use of IABP)
- Patients with anemia required transfusion
- Patients who are unwilling or unable to comply with the trial protocol
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00423020
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00423020
|Contact: Takahisa Sawada, M.D., Ph.D.
|Contact: Hiroaki Matsubara, M.D., Ph.D.
|Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine
|Kyoto, Japan, 602-8566
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|Principal Investigator: Hiroaki Matsubara, M.D., Ph.D.
Sponsors and Collaborators
Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine
|Study Chair:
|Hiroaki Matsubara, M.D., Ph.D.
|Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine
More Information
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Keywords provided by Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine:
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ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on August 22, 2017
Urao N, Okigaki M, Yamada H, Aadachi Y, Matsuno K, Matsui A, Matsunaga S, Tateishi K, Nomura T, Takahashi T, Tatsumi T, Matsubara H. Erythropoietin-mobilized endothelial progenitors enhance reendothelialization via Akt-endothelial nitric oxide synthase activation and prevent neointimal hyperplasia. Circ Res. 2006 Jun 9;98(11):1405-13. Epub 2006 Apr 27.
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Taniguchi N, Nakamura T, Sawada T, Matsubara K, Furukawa K, Hadase M, Nakahara Y, Nakamura T, Matsubara H. Erythropoietin prevention trial of coronary restenosis and cardiac remodeling after ST-elevated acute myocardial infarction (EPOC-AMI): a pilot, randomized, placebo-controlled study. Circ J. 2010 Nov;74(11):2365-71. Epub 2010 Sep 8.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00423020 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|January 16, 2007
|Last Updated:
|January 16, 2007
Keywords provided by Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine:
Acute myocardial infarction
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Myocardial Infarction
Pathologic Processes
Myocardial Ischemia
Heart Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases
Vascular Diseases
Epoetin Alfa
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Yield: 4-6 servings | Time: 15 minutes | Level: Easy
Chicken scaloppine is a classic dish that is light yet so full of flavor. Scaloppine literally means thin, boneless slices of meat sauteed or fried. To make preparation process easier at home, have your local butcher butterfly or pound your meat to a ¼ inch thickness. I prefer the boneless and skinless chicken breast, but chicken thighs are a good way to stretch your dollar.
2 tablespoons olive oil
3 tablespoons butter
1 pound boneless and skinless chicken breasts or thighs, pounded into ¼ inch thickness
1/4 cup flour
2 eggs, lightly beaten
½ cup breadcrumbs
2 tablespoons mixed Italian seasoning (tarragon, oregano, thyme, basil…)
2 tablespoons Parmesan cheese, grated
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1 clove garlic, minced
1 teaspoon capers
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- For Parmesan Vinaigrette:
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1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
¼ cup + 1 teaspoon champagne vinegar
2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
2 ¼ teaspoons Dijon mustard
1 ½ teaspoons coarse salt
½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
½ cup soy bean oil
¼ cup olive oil
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Yield: 4 servings | Time: 10 minutes | Level: Easy
- For Salad:
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2 avocados
2 teaspoons lemon juice
¼ cup goat cheese, crumbled
1 cup watecress
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½ cup lemon juice
½ cup white wine vinegar
1 teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
½ cup Dijon mustard
1 garlic clove, grated
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De-pit and scoop out avocado and into a mixing bowl. Mash avocado with the pits and lemon juice until slightly chunky or smooth. Season with salt and pepper, to taste.
Julienne beans with a bias cut into ⅛ inch slices. Toss with ¼ cup lemon dijon vinaigrette.
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Time: 30 minutes | Level: Easy
1 quart water
1 ⅓ cup sugar
3 star anise
4 Bosc pears; peeled, cored, and quartered
½ inch orange wedges
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VANCOUVER -- McDonald's Canada says it does not buy eggs that are produced from two Alberta farms featured in a gruesome documentary showing chickens subject to what an animal rights group is calling "egregious animal cruelty."
However, the fast food giant has confirmed in an email to The Canadian Press it does buy eggs from a company headquartered in Ontario that does business with the two farms featured in the CTV W5 documentary aired last week.
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The hidden-camera footage is filmed by Mercy For Animals Canada. It shows hens crowded in battery cages and chicks being violently smashed against hard surfaces by workers and then thrown into garbage bags at what the organization says is KuKu Farms and Creekside Grove Farms.
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