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I cannot say anything to make these deaths less painful. Iam am so sorry for you lossees. I am sure someone will be along to offer you better support than I can. I feel your pain and anger through the word of your post and it reminds me of a sad and similar conversation I had with my SIL. Cruse (i thin k) helped her a lot
I want to give you a big hug.. fuck MN etiquitte
Please bear with me this may get very long and rambley ad is very very long I appricate you reading to the end. - I am crying and can hardly see the screen. Please excuse any typo's etc for this reason plus have had a couple of Vodka's. Please feel free to ask me any questions I promise I am not a hairy bloke or someone under a bridge although my story may seem that way.
I am sick of death I am sick of losing people. I don't know how much more I can take.
1st was my brother - I was only just 7 years old - I was 7 on 7th October he was born and died on 2nd November 1984. He lived for an hour was born at 29 weeks. I can still remember holding him after he died, how heavey he felt in my arms and being just 7 he was heavey to me. how yellow his skin was, (due to the condition he died from) how cold he felt the room we were in etc I have flashbacks about him 29 years later. I remember sooo much from that time. My mother blamed me for his death. I admit I played her up I was screaming for attention from her - I was being S abused at the time, she was only ever interested in my brother. She only ever wanted boys. She had me then my brother then my brother who died.
Fast forward I had My DS followed by my 1st DD 20 months 1 day later. she died aged 14 weeks and 2 days (3 months old) because of SIDS/Cot Death my DS was just 20 days from being 2 years old. My mother told me the day that DD died that I would never know what it was like to lose a child she also tried to orginise DD's funeral behind my back. A nurse at the hospital told me that I was young I could have another baby 20 minutes after my DD was pronounced. I have worked with FSID now called the Lullaby Trust and produced a police training video on how to deal with parents in the aftermath of a sudden infant death. This video is still being used to train police officers. If any police officers are reading this then will out me (my DD's name begins with G so you will know I am genuine I was wearing a pink top in the video). My arms still ache to hold her 11 years after she died watching those who are going onto secondary school hurts like hell cos she should be joining them this year. DD was a beautiful little girl who had just started to see the world round her, her smile was like a lightbulb and would light up the whole room.
4 years 1 month and 8 days later her daddy died My then DH. Suddenly and unexpentanly just 18 days after DS's 6th birthday. I was 28 years old a widow with a 6 year old DS and an 7 month old DD. 2 police officers at my door to tell me that he had been found in his lorry that morning. Both DH and DD died on a Weds. I still miss and love him 7 years on, long to hear his voice and for his strong arms around me ( i have since remarried).
2 years 8 months later DH's mother died - we were pretty close I saw her minimum once a week. I saw her 4 days before she died and she told me she was 'on her way out' I told her not to be so silly. 4 days later 2 police officers at my door to tell me she had been found at home, her neighbors alerted police as her milk hadn't been taken in. Why didn't I listen to her?
2 years ago the man who kinda adopted me as his daughter always looked out for me died because of cancer. Its a really long and complicated story but he was also my Late DH's best friend. He was amazing he took my DS under his wing after his dad died and was a father figure to him.
2 weeks ago my nan died. I am trying to support my grandad as best I can but all I am getting from my family is ' I will never know what it's like to lose a partner' for fucks sake I did lose my partner yes we were only married for 3 years we had been together for 9 years my grandparents had been married for 66 years I am sick of death I am sick of being told how I feel I am sick of being told I have no idea how it feels when in fact I know how it feels
Sorry this is long but just wanted to get it out.
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Are we being too self-conscious as Canadians, or should we take this seriously? For those who prefer print to video, David Akin has the full transcript.
Update Not three minutes after this post went up, the following email arrived from the Prime Minister's Office noting that the U.S. President, when in front of the cameras with the Prime Minister, gave him a ringing endorsement:
Obama: "I want to again publicly thank P rime Minister Harper for being an outstanding partner to the United States. We appreciate his excellent work, we very much appreciate the Canadian people and we're looking forward to seeing them next week in both the United Nations context and the G20."
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Crime hits 25-year low
Crime has fallen to its lowest level in 25 years in Scotland's largest police force area.
Strathclyde Police says detection rates have also risen to their highest level over the last six months.
The force is particularly pleased at the fall in violent crime - and expects even greater improvements with the introduction of 200 more officers.
Overall there has been 6.5% fewer crimes committed in the last six months in the Strathclyde area.
The force is now on course to end the year 2000 with the lowest crime figures since it started recording them in 1976, the year after its inception.
The overall decrease is partly due to the first significant fall in violent crime, which has until now been a particularly hard nut for the police to crack.
Only last week government ministers and all Scotland's eight police forces teamed up to fight violent crime in the first ever Scotland-wide anti-crime campaign.
Murder rate
A "nationwide offensive" was launched after statistics recorded a significant rise in the national figures last year.
However, the latest figures showed that violent crime is down by 13% in Strathclyde in the first six months of this year.
That includes a 26% fall in the murder rate, 42.5% fewer attempted murders and a 17% fall in the number of robberies.
Housebreaking is down by almost 14% and car crime has dropped by 19%.
More than Ł4.5m worth of drugs were also seized.
Detection rates are also improving and now stand at 44%.
However, the force did report a major increase in the number of racist crimes.
They rose by 144%, from 107 to 261 crimes - with a detection rate of 72%.
Mr Orr said, "Whilst any upturn in crime is a cause for concern, I am confident that a significant proportion of the rise in racially motivated reports is as a direct result of revised procedures introduced by Strathclyde Police to encourage members of ethnic minority communities to report crime.
"Racially motivated crime has no place in our society and those who perpetrate it will be rigorously pursued."
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He said the falls in crime levels over the last five years had been "tainted" by the difficulty in making an impact on violent crime.
"This year, the force's Spotlight Initiative turned its focus directly on reducing violent crime with its safer streets campaign and across the board, falls in violent crime have been observed," he said.
Mr Orr believes the Scottish Executive's recent announcement of 200 more officers will allow the force to drive crime down even further.
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LONDON A group of research students from the Malardalen University (Vasteras, Sweden) have developed a near clone of the ARM7 processor CPU and are now considering how to improve it. One possibility is to add the multiply instructions they originally omitted to minimize the gate count of the core, dubbed BlackARM.
The researchers are also considering whether to make the VHDL source code available for free under an open-source license, or whether to try and build a business around their work.
Either step, however, could incur the wrath of ARM Ltd. (Cambridge, England), which developed the original ARM7 and has its own business model based on licensing ARM cores to chip makers and receiving royalties for chips that include the cores.
Raimo Haukilahti worked on BlackARM as part of his PhD thesis on a reconfigurable multiprocessor platform, alongside Mikael Collin and Mladen Nikitovic, two research engineers at the Malardalen Real-Time Research Center at Malardalen University. The group claims to have used only public-domain documents and Web information to develop the BlackARM principally the instruction-set manual for the ARM7TDMI core.
The three, together with supervisor Joakim Adomat, will present a paper at the Design Automation and Test Europe conference in Munich, to be held March 13-16.
The conference paper discussing the system-on-chip is entitled "Socrates: A multiprocessor SoC in 40 days." In it, the authors describe how they have implemented a multiprocessor system comprising two ARM-clone cores, together with a hardware real-time scheduler and an I/O unit on a Xilinx Virtex XCV1000 field-programmable gate array. The two processors share the 16 kbits of RAM available on the FPGA.
The students said that their decision to develop the clone was made after it proved impossible to obtain a "university license" for an ARM7TDMI from ARM, and it was too expensive to obtain the processor as intellectual property in the form of a hard core.
"It's a clone. It's implemented in an FPGA. It runs almost every ARM instruction," said Collin. "It's rather slow: 15 to 17 MHz," he added.
Instruction subset
The processor executes a sub-set of the ARM7TDMI instruction set, but the multiplication and coprocessor instructions, and the state-changing instruction do not work. The state-changing omission means that the clone only operates in the full 32-bit ARM state and cannot drop into the Thumb mode of operation, which expands 16-bit Thumb instructions into 32-bit ARM instructions on the fly, or makes use of an arithmetic logic unit that can handle both the Thumb and the full ARM instruction sets.
The Socrates group further simplified the ARM core by opting not to implement an ALU pipeline.
"For predictability reasons we built it without a cache. And there's no ALU pipeline, just a simple state machine. Basically it's an ARM instruction chewer," said Collin. But the group has also included a prefetch instruction, something not included in the ARM7TDMI.
"We have discussed whether we should put it out for free. Some people at the university think we should. Others think we should be more restrictive," said Collin.
"It has not been decided yet. Legal aspects have to be considered in depth," said Adomat, the group's lecturer and supervisor.
In the past, ARM is has discouraged open-source enthusiasts seeking to clone ARM cores. The company is suing PicoTurbo Inc. (Milpitas, California), a commercial developer of an ARM clone, for alleged patent infringement.
Mike Muller, chief technology officer at ARM, said the company had cooperated with universities all around the world and was very open to helping them get access to ARM cores.
With regard to BlackARM, Muller said, "Assuming it is an academic activity, rather than a commercial activity, I think we'd be broadly supportive. But we'd like to do that within a legal framework."
Muller continued, "However, we don't take commercial cloning of the ARM lightly."
As to the possibility of an open-source BlackARM, Muller said, "Obviously I wouldn't like it. I would rather work with them."
"The only approach we have made to ARM was when our supervisor met with a representative of ARM Sweden at a Mentor Graphics open day in Kista. He said it [our project] was interesting but we never heard more," said Collin.
Collin said that the team opted not to write a multiplier in the VHDL description of BlackARM because it would have taken up a considerable number of logic gates in an FPGA, and the team needed to get at least two processors onto the FPGA to meet the multiprocessor brief.
"Multiplication can be done in software, by repeated add instructions," Collin said. "For every instruction not supported an illegal exception is generated which also can be used to detect MUL instructions and 'trap' to a software multiplier."
The EDA tools the group used include VHDL for the design description; ModelSim from Model Technology Inc. for simulation; and Leonardo Spectrum from Exemplar for synthesis and for targeting the Xilinx Virtex device.
At this point, it's still not clear whether the BlackARM processor works properly.
"We have a little problem with the FPGA," said Collin. "We first got it [the design] up on the simulator in September 2000, but then we had to do a few bug fixes. With a 20-week master's thesis you don't get time to do a full physical debug; but the simulator is running applications," said Collin.


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It looks like a fairly nice leak (of images and specs) have recently surfaced for the LG Escape. The Escape, as implied by the branding in the images, will be heading to AT&T. Of course we have yet to learn anything in terms of when that release may be happening. That though aside though, the LG Escape is expected to arrive running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich with 4G LTE connectivity and with features to include a 4.3-inch qHD IPS display, dual-core 1.2GHz processor, 1GB of RAM, NFC (Near Field Communication), a 2150 mAh battery, 1.3 megapixel front-facing camera and a 5 megapixel rear-facing camera. With that, these are certainly not the highest-end in terms of specs, however with a fair purchase price — this could make for a nice addition to the AT&T lineup.
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Veteran and motivational speaker J.R. Martinez honored at last night's Heroes Gala Photo: Brad Barket/PictureGroup
You've seen the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) commercials: They're the ones on TV and on Hulu where a young man returns home from war and is greeted with empty streets reminiscent of a post-apocalyptic Roland Emmerich movie. Suddenly, another man in camo comes out to a street corner and shakes the man's hand. IAVA's slogan for 2009? "We've Got Your Back."
And got your back they do: In 2008, Paul Rieckhoff, Iraq veteran and founder of IAVA, lobbied Congress to pass the G.I Bill which ensures affordable college education to all veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan. This year, the IAVA is also working to increase health care coverage of veterans by $4.5 billion.
The stars were out last night at New York's Gotham Hall for the third annual Heroes Gala of the D.C. grassroots lobby group, but nobody was looking at the celebrities. Instead, the real stars of the evening were the servicemen and women themselves, who populated the non-profit, non-partisan event hosted by Brian Williams, as well as Rieckhoff, MTV's Van Toffler and veteran-cum-actor-cum-motivational spokesman J.R. Martinez, who delivered the night's most moving speech after being awarded for his courageous service for veterans.
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"NBC Nightly News" host Brian Williams plays master of ceremonies after his recent trip to Afghanistan
Also on hand were former Wonkette and Air America on-air host Ana Marie Cox (who we found when we saw her tweet "#iava knows how to treat returning vets: MASHED POTATO BAR! (Srsly, everyone w- medals on their chest has been by") and former FishbowlNY'ers and current Mediaites Glynnis MacNicol and Rachel Sklar. Jonathan Schliefer, who has been working as policy director for IAVA for seven months worked the room making sure everyone felt at home, while IAVA rolled out their newest commercial for veterans, "Camouflage."
Another award winner, MTV Networks prez Van Toffler, whose original program "Return to Duty," airs tonight.
J.R. Martinez spoke on his tour in Iraq which left scars on 40 percent of his body, and how his work at the V.A. hospital in Fort Hood (now in the news because of the horrendous shootings last week) gave him the courage to go around the country speaking to fellow servicemen and even become one of the faces of this war when he landed a supporting role playing a veteran on "All My Children."
Afghanistan veteran Wes Moore, Martinez, IAVA founder Paul Rieckhoff
By the time the PS22 chorus came out singing Styxx's "Sailing Away," there wasn't a dry eye in the house. "Please remember you have a moral obligation to support those who served," said Rieckoff, "Make every single day Veteran's Day."
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Stable's 5-year-old mare Sweet Repent has won eight of her last nine starts for
trainer Dave Braddy going back to the summer of 2009, and will be a heavy
favorite to go four-for-four this year in the $150,000 Elmer Heubeck Stakes
Saturday at Calder Casino & Race Course, one of eight stakes races worth a
total of $1 million on the annual Florida Million Day showcase program
for Florida-breds.
The Elmer Heubeck will
share top billing on the card with the $150,000 Carl Rose Classic led by P and
G Stables and partners' 3-year-old Turbo Compressor, recently shipping into
Palm Meadows for trainer Todd Pletcher; and Bonnie Heath Farm's 6-year-old Mad
Flatter, who invades Calder for a third time from Kentucky, winning the $100,000 Spend a Buck
Handicap (G3) on both previous trips.
Jockey Fernando Jara has
been aboard Sweet Repent in all three of her victories this season, most
recently a one-length victory in the $75,000 Nancy's Glitter Handicap on July 23, and gets
the return call in Saturday's 1 1/16 miles test.
A daughter of Repent,
Sweet Repent's career has been interrupted several times by recurring problems
with her feet, including a 10-month layoff from July of 2010 until returning to score an
allowance victory on May 13
here this spring.
Sweet Repent had
finished third in the 2010 Nancy's Glitter as the 1-to-5 favorite before going
to the sidelines after winning five straight, including the 2009 edition of the
Elmer Heubeck by 3 ¼ lengths and the Sunshine Millions Distaff at Gulfstream
Park in late January last year by 3 ¾ lengths. Her record now stands at
17-10-2-2 for earnings of $574,000.
Sweet Repent faces five
rival fillies and mares, including West Point Thoroughbreds' 4-year-old filly
Belle of the Hall, recently arrived into Palm Meadows for the winter from New York and Daniel
Centeno picking up the mount for trainer Tom Albertrani.
A daughter of Graeme
Hall, Belle of the Hall finished third last out in the Miss Golden Circle Stakes
going seven furlongs at Belmont
Park on Oct. 23
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last year in the $200,000 Jostle Stakes at Philadelphia Park.
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Police-chase driver in court over girl's death
A man has faced court charged with the manslaughter of a two-year-old girl who died at the end of a police chase on New Year's Eve.
William Ngati has appeared in court with one arm in a cast and bandages on his other hand.
Police laid ten charges against him after he was released from hospital this morning.
They include aggravated dangerous driving occasioning death and armed robbery.
Police were chasing the 26-year-old which they say was driving a car escaping the scene of two armed robberies in Sydney's south-west, when he hit another car carrying the toddler at Ingleburn.
Ngati sat quietly as the matter was heard, and did not apply for bail.
The case will return to court in March where he is expected to appear via video link.
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I served in VS-22 part of the proud CVW-3 on the work-ups and Med Cruise in 1978-1979. Even My father flew aboard Her in 1956 while farrying TBM aircraft to the MED after world war II. My breath ran out of me to here of such things like scrapping the MIGHTY SARA for the Kennedy. Which to me is dispicable and The SARA should be in Jacksonville, Fl Where She was last ported and supported the Great State of Florida. The mighty Sara needs to be in the warmth of the South. Where The Veteran's WILL CARE FOR HER. I will chip paint like I saw the deck hands do and Prime and Paint the Haze Gray that we hated and loved just the same. You Northrener's Keep the Kennedy in the cold of the North and don't you take a red cent away from the MIGHTY SARA
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10 years ago my son brought me a Bonsai from the US.,but in few months,due to very hot temperature at home (I had no air conditioning) it died.when it was dry I decorated it with colored dry petals,using glue, now it looks so surreal,but is here.
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Great drawing..such a shame the Bonsai tree died..but what a wonderful idea of yours to decorate it with coloured dry petals..it looks so pretty. 5♥s
Great work!
Ha! I've tried several times to grow these...or at least keep them alive, and never succeeded yet...great Draw!
Nice work!
Sorry to hear that it died but it is so pretty what you have done with it!!! Very creative!!! Great description behind this too! 5/5
Pure delight!... How inventive is THAT! Lovely draw! 5h's X
so beautiful and nicely done! 5♥s
lovely idea, the art of bonsai is so beautiful! 5/5
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Migrating Realities – Urban Migration
As they say, in India, politics is a sewer. It is full of filth and all sorts of evil. Communalism, fake secularism, regional parochialism, and a lot more isms that keep a common man a mile away from it, are its calling cards. Yet, when Raj Thackeray said, that 'Bhaiyas' (People from UP/Bihar) are creating slums in Mumbai, the heart of our ultra-humanitarian divas sitting in air conditioned studios, went black and blue with hurt. They cried foul, declared raj as reincarnation of Mussolini and Hitler and what not, and pontificated around 'politics of hate' rather than figuring out the validity of the statement, if any.
But, he was right. Not narrowing it down to the people of the two states, but he was right about migrants creating slums.
Having been brought up in Ahmedabad, with hardly any slums around; just a few too small ones, to garner attention, I really didn't understand what slums are. After moving to Mumbai, I was flabbergasted. Even the posh most areas had a slum, and a swanky, 5 crores worth bungalow had slum-dwellers as neighbours. So, Raj may have blamed 'Bhaiyas' for the slums, to score political brownie points, but the problem is real.
For a decade now, urbanisation is happening at a record pace. In the last nine years alone, the farmer population of India has dwindled by nine million: that is 90 lacs. More and more people are moving to the cities in their state or other states. As per some government studies, in next 15-20 years, India will witness history's biggest rural to urban migration. McKinsey predicted that 59 crore Indians, or 40 per cent of the population, would live in cities by 2030. A lot of this migration will be of the ultra-poor rural population, who struggle to find better avenues, which rural areas fail to provide.
Now, when these people move to urban set-up, the problems they face are:
- Defunct PDS, growing inflation: They cannot get food grains etc. from Public Distribution System (PDS), as the system has been defunct for decades now. Even with a semi-functional system, the formalities and the public systems make it almost impossible for 'migrants' to purchase from PDS. And if they move to another state, it is impossible to attain anything from PDS. Thus, they are compelled to purchase from market, which is getting costlier with inflation induced rise in price, shrinking the purchasing power.
- Purchasing power and social behaviour: Since the earning member is either responsible for sending money home, and/or save, to bring family over or save enough to go back after few years with a substantial amount in hand. This, in turn, shrinks the purchasing power furthermore.
- Rentals and property pricing: Skyrocketing price in the urban areas across the country, makes it impossible for the labour class population, to even own a modest house, unless permanently employed. The epitome of this phenomenon would be the fact that it costs more than couple of lakhs to get a 'jhuggi' in dharawi slum, the biggest in Asia.
Thus, increasing food bills, impossible property pricing and shrinking purchasing power are compelling the poor migrants to take it to the slums. There is no framework in place to provide assistance to the migrants. All government schemes, be it of affordable housing, cheap food grains or employment programs, are available to the residents and/or domiciles and not open to migrants. Even worse, the poor sections, really in need of such assistance, are often paperless, making it impossible to create any policy inclusive enough to cover them. Planning commission of India led by supposedly-highly-knowledgeable Mr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia shows the state of unpreparedness at its best. In the beginning of the eleventh five-year plan (2007-12), it was estimated that the total shortage of dwelling units in urban areas was 24.71 million of which 98% pertained to the urban poor. In twelfth five-year plan (2012-17), the figure has gone up to 26.53 million. So, the shortage of urban housing for the poor, in spite of 'planning', rapid expansion of slums and encroachments, on top of legal housing avenues on the free market, has gone up by around 17 lacs.
The unpreparedness of the government, coupled with high rural-to-urban migration, will have spiral, staggering impact on the country's economy, social structures, law & order, and industrial growth. The lack of framework to address urban housing shortage will give birth to more and more slums, encroaching on public land, furthermore crippling the systems of the cities. With cities nowhere capable to handle even the current population, the increasing rate of migration will completely break down the system, creating wide gap in its law & order, transit and water supply systems. A slum, unlike residential apartments or high-rises, has a social organism of its own. Often, crime becomes rampant, and law and order situation deteriorates more and more.
What India is witnessing, Brazil has already witnessed 50 years ago. The mass migration to urban areas created huge 'favelas' (Brazilian word for slum), with extreme poverty, lack of amenities, rampant crime and alarming law & order situation. Ultimately, Brazil government was forced to disband the favelas and resettle entire population by the millions at the cost of tremendous burden on the economy. Even then, after spending millions, and resettling lacs at government cost, favelas are still growing, and increasingly more and more territories within favelas are inaccessible to police even today.
While there cannot be free-for-all schemes by the government, sponsored by tax-payers' money, there needs to be a centralised mechanism to identify & assist urban migration, to provide them with legal housing at some cost so as to curb the growth of slums. This is a dangerous suggestion to make, given the Socialist onslaught in India since the Congress took over in 2004, but the way the urban inter-state poor migrants are left to fend for themselves, is a dangerous situation that will unravel extremely unpleasant administrative and social problems.
PDS also needs to be revived, probably with computerised all-India-valid cards to provide the migrants easy access to cheap food-grains, providing the migrants with mobility to hop across states, when required. Computerised cards can identify the issuance to migrants and compensate the state for the same, while keeping the federal structures intact.
Ministry of Urban Housing and Poverty Alleviation, with its funding of Rs. 70,000 crores per year, have introduced various schemes to address this problem without any basic understanding of the issue. The schemes primarily works on giving away urban housing for dirt cheap price, and it does not cover 'the paperless' and 'the migrants'. The government's money to buy land, constructing houses and selling them to poor at almost free is both inefficient and financially imprudent. No government, with population as large as ours can possibly keep doing this forever. The mind-set of giving away stuff for free is fearfully self-destroying and the entire system needs to be shifted to 'rent' basis rather than 'allotment'. While it is generally agreed that government needs to do something to solve the housing crisis for the urban poor, it is never a sin to get some rent. Government, by its very nature and definition, is a "Socialist" entity, but the mentality that giving away free things to poor concludes the responsibility is unfair to both the poor and the tax-payers, who are exploited to finance these romantic fantasies of free house for all.
All in all, India needs to look at this problem in a whole new manner, throwing away the Socialist goggles that Left-Liberals sitting in influential positions across administration, academia and intelligentsia have forced us to wear. The unproductive and burdensome subsidy-doles-and-entitlement policy just won't work in 21st century India, as migration has created patterns in housing and food consumptions that are totally incompatible with the way, we have been doing things.


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Freese pushing for weekend return to lineup
HOUSTON -- Though his right ankle remained wrapped, David Freese pushed himself through some baseball activities on Wednesday. That's certainly good news for the Cardinals, who will finish this series in Houston without Freese ever taking the field.
Freese took swings off a tee in the batting cage on Wednesday afternoon before doing some running on the field. He will spend time at Busch Stadium on Thursday -- a team off-day -- for additional treatment and strength tests. He described his ankle as "less sore" than it was a day earlier.
A return to the field during the upcoming home series against the Nationals has not been ruled out for Freese, who suffered the mild ankle sprain when his foot got caught in a soft spot of the batting cage floor on Monday. He walked around the clubhouse on Wednesday without appearing to limp.


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Mumbai, Oct 1 (IANS) Melody queen Lata Mangeshkar was so touched by the flood of birthday wishes that came her way, that she came up with a unique way to thank all — including Prime Minister Narendra Modi. She says all her fame and acclaim is due to the love and appreciation of her fans.
The Bharat Ratna awardee, who is also called the 'Nightingale of India' for her melodious voice, tweeted to thank the prime minister, while she shared a short clip on Facebook to express her gratitude to her fans.
Lata turned 86 on Monday — the same day that she lost her nephew Hemant Bhosle — and the Hindi film fraternity wished her a year full of happiness.
Lata tweeted: "@narendramodi Greetings. I'm humbled that you took out time from your busy schedule to wish me on my birthday".
She also shared a link on Twitter, which led to a video on Facebook.
In a video clip, the singer said: "I would like to thank you all for your good wishes on my birthday. You all have liked my songs till now and I know that it is because of your love and appreciation that I have gained all the acclaim. I'm indebted to you all and I can never forget this forget. Thank you."
Lata is known for songs like "Aayega aanewaala", "Dil wil pyar wyar", "Bindiya chamkegi", "Tune o rangeele kaisa jaadu kiya", and "Aaja shaam hone aayi". Her track to salute the valour of Indian Army with "Aye mere watan ke logo" still brings tears to the eyes.
Her younger sister Asha Bhosle lost her elder son Hemant on Lata's birthday. He was suffering from cancer and breathed his last in Scotland.


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Is anyone else disappointed that the PVP limit on players is 12? After playing BF4, anything less than 12v12 seems very last gen and slow paced. Even killzone had 24 player matches. At the very least have a big team battle game type like in Halo. While 3v3 and 6v6 can be fun and challenging, sometimes its just fun to jump into chaos and see who comes out on top. Anyone else agree? Some of you guys seem to think I'm comparing BF4 and Destiny directly. I'm merely using it as an example. I do not want 64 player matches. I do not think every map should allow 24 players. All I'm asking for is a couple maps that [b]can[/b] support 24ish players. Such as, Halos big team battles did. Or even CODs Big team deathmatch.
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the netbook does exactly what it says on the tin it is quite fast and has a lot of memory for a small machiene, it main drawbacks ae the origanal key board is tiny my t&y key broke so i am using a usb keyboard which is about the siz of the screen ope flat, it can be hard to sometimes read the font or view graphics, it comes with a lot of oem software not all of it is 100% uselfull i.e the dvd wrighter, the disk creator and the cd player as this machiene does not have a cd or dvd drive inside, the net book is suprisingly light though and very easy to carry round, great for work or if your a student, i have played heavily graphicly intense online mmorpg's on it and it seems to handle game play quite well with not much lag and good performance, and if you don't like the default windows operating system you can change at the moment i am running a copy of easy peasy linux on it and it runs really well and was easily installed off of a usb stick.
Traveling around the world I needed a small footprint laptop. The nb100 came to mind because of its price and size.
I checked a lot of other machines but liked the keyboard and the touch pad which wasn't bad. The in built web cam works well with skype messenger etc.
I paid a little extra money (25 pounds) to double the available memory which made a huge difference and really i worth it.
I have also used the unit with an external keyboard and monitor which turns the unit literally into a portable office.
Negative aspects- the keyboard is little difficult to read in low light conditions. The battery seems to be inconstant lasting sometimes for an hour sometimes for 3 hours but it gives plenty of warning and the charger is very small.
Bottom line if you want a really small light useful laptop that can be used as a portable office and you want a well known manufacturer then the NB 100 is a good choice. I run office applications and several online tools using it no problem. Good price and simply does the job
i had wanted a netbook for a while now as i am often out and about with either work or leisure and felt like my main laptop was sometimes a pain to take anywhere.
i had this when netbooks were still quite new and my husband first bought me an acer with a linux operating system which after powering up i instantly didnt like and made him take me to choose my own so i new i had what i wanted from a netbook.
i choose this as i was familiar with the xp operating system from the past although my main laptops are on windows 7 and windows vista.
i find that this laptop has alot of power for something so small. the 8.9 in screen means that is is big enough to read and small enough to fit in a small handbag or similar so it is flexible enough to take on a plane, to the park on a train or anywhere. i use a pay as u go dongle with my netbook so have access to the internet anywhere. this i find improves its usability.
it is also a lot more of a sturdy netbook then many around.. ok it is a little thicker and heavier than some but it is stil very compact and for me i find its durability a big advantage.
i run my own games website so accessing the internet at any point is vital to me but this netbook has never so far let me down in anything ive asked it to do including letting me easily remote access my server.
I am really fond of my old Toshiba laptop. It's big and it's clunky, only has a 15 inch screen, but it's familiar: loaded with lots of useful stuff and frankly too valuable to tote about where it might get lost stolen or broken. Furthermore the notion of accessing e-mail or the internet on a mobile phone device is just too fiddly and beyond my ageing eyesight. Yet, when out and about I still want to be in touch, able to access information, data and send meaningful ( not text speak or hieroglyphics) out to friends and relatives. Enter then the concept of a Netbook computer. You will have seen many examples in the high street shops and white goods outlets, and it even seems that some mobile phone contracts offer them as an incentive. (I rest my case then that there is no competition between the versatility and usefulness of such powerful miniscule computers compared to the compromises built into scaling such functionality so far down so that it fits on a phone). I am happy to carry my phone separately and just boot up my Netbook PC when the need dictates. With a plethora of choice for me familiarity and trust in the Toshiba brand attracted me to the mini marvel. I gleefully selected My Toshiba NB100 from Amazon, electronically submitted payment of £249.98 and waited for the postman to arrive. This he did some two days later in April 2009 bringing a simply boxed package containing a Toshiba NB100-12A 8.9-inch Netbook, Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz, 1GB RAM, 120GB HDD, Windows XP Home When you look on Amazon now you will see this model has already been superceded by a version with 160 GB HDD,...... but what the heck I am really quite pleased with mine.
***Reasons For Believing***
Once I had opened the box, plugged the power cord in and pushed the start button I was away; up and running. This little gizmo which is not much bigger than a paperback book, sports an 8.9 inch screen (meaning it's actually bigger than many portable DVD players that do such yeoman service keeping the kids quiet in the back of the car) and with all the familiarity of Windows XP. Not for me the intricacies of mobile windows or Linux operating systems, my trusty XP makes it easy to transfer and load existing files and shortcuts. I quickly disposed of the 'free' Norton Antivirus software, loaded my own and happily set up Mozilla Firefox as my browser. I quickly discovered that the touch pad although sensitive and convenient really does not suit me, (any more than it does on it's big Toshiba brother) so opted to plug in to one of the three USB ports a small retractable corded mouse. This made things much easier and I was soon flying about the screen setting all my personal preferences. It has the solid feel of a Tosh, the image on the screen is crystal clear, but yes. it is still quite small, and on a busy page can be quite awkward to read even with the help of my glasses. Opting for large fonts does not make things much better, you just have to scroll about more to read the whole contents of the page, so I opted for the standard settings. Battery life is claimed to be up to 3.5 hours, but I have never managed more than 2, before dire warnings of meltdown if you don't plug, in are sounded. I suspect 3.5 hours is realistic if you just say work in Word, don't change any other applications or pages, nor load the internet and type very very carefully. So 2 hours longevity as I crash round from programme to programme; to mail and web pages is probably the more realistic!
***A Communication Tool***
Reasons for wanting such a compact gadget were obviously to capture data and information but also to be able to use it's inbuilt communication channels. Here this gadget excels. Wireless connectivity easily searches out the hotspot options around you and connecting is just as easy as being at home. Armed with a mail2web account, you can pick up your e-mails remotely and initiate or respond just as you would do from the comfort of home. There is even a tidgy integrated webcam for those amongst you who want to stream pics whilst you chat: although I must admit I have not got around to mastering it yet, and to be honest I am not sure that I will be bothering. The keyboard is small, compact even, but all the keys are discreet and I quickly got the hang of picking out most letters. If there is one complaint it's that in scaling things down some of the keys have been moved from where I am used to finding them, in particular the ubiquitous 'Delete' key ........which has somehow migrated to the bottom right of the keyboard, where I still have trouble finding it!
Curiously the device comes with a back up CD which is interesting since there is no inbuilt CD drive, so any recovery would have to be initiated form another PC, whereby you may as well have accessed the Toshiba website directly for the recovery data to load onto a flash drive. No doubt this will be a cost saving in future versions!
Sound quality and graphics are adequate for most general media files and the speed of the machine is not nearly as dire as I had anticipated. In fact it's not really that much slower than either my desktop or the ancient laptop itself, so this should not be a factor to deter you. Instruction booklets are adequate, but the this is so simple and self explanatory, I have mot really needed to use them. The Toshiba website is superb and any imaginable question or support issue could be resolved with persistence.
***Will it Catch On ?***
For me I have to say the jury is still out as to the future of these mini netbooks. They are powerful and compact, much less fiddly than a web enabled phone, but still cannot really compete with the clarity and comfort of a 15 inch laptop. Much more portable so ideal for travellers I really have to question the claim it would be an ideal replacement for the larger screened version if you have the space. However withe its memory, speed and functionality just like the larger brethren for me it's just so much easier than a smart phone.
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10 Symptoms of Lung Cancer You Should Never Ignore!
9. Fatigue and Pain in Your Fingers
If you are feeling tired/fatigued all the time, and your fingers are in pain, it may be an early symptom of lung cancer. If the skin that's on your palms starts getting thick, and you happen to notice an appearance of pale or white folds, you may be experiencing a condition that is known as "tripe palm." This condition places you within the high risk group for lung cancer. Your fingertips may appear raised or wider under the nails or may feel warm, swollen, or reddened. You might also notice difficulty picking up things and clumsiness. In case you happen to notice this symptom, you should consult your doctor immediately.
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Thursday, July 22, 1999 Published at 13:58 GMT 14:58 UK
World: Asia-Pacific
War of words over sect
A peaceful protest outside Xinhua offices in Hong Kong
BBC News Online has received a flurry of e-mails on the quasi-religious Falun Gong sect which China has now outlawed as illegal.
Many of the e-mails object to the arrest and harassment of practitioners in China.
The Falun Dafa Practitioners of North America say the crackdown by the Chinese authorities violates human rights and calls for the immediate release of all those arrested.
One e-mail from California says the authorities in China are persecuting and arresting practitioners who are just "striving to become better and better people in society".
Another says that devotees in China are displaying "unbelievable patience" and courage in response to the provocations of the Chinese authorities.
'Oriental exercise group'
E-mails also object to the movement being labelled as a sect or cult.
Another from Ohio says Fulun Gong "teaches us to be good citizens".
"No matter how policemen treat us, we will return them our compassion _ That is the real difference between us and any other sect or cult."
Another practitioner describes the group as respectful people, "genuinely good people, physically and mentally healthy human beings."
'Suicides and murders'
China's official state news agency Xinhua has carried a number of reports expressing a very different view on the Falun Gong sect to coincide with the ban on the group.
In addition to spelling out justification for the ban, the reports attack the movement's founder.
Xinhua also gives prominence to a Chinese Communist Party Central Committee statement forbidding party members from belonging to the sect or following its practices.
The statement says party members who currently practice Falun Dafa must "separate themselves from Falun Gong organisations and make a clean ideological break from them".
It accuses the movement of "propagating a set of malicious fallacies, seriously corroding the minds of some people" and warns that those who refuse will be expelled from the party".
"Every party member should have a deep understanding of the political nature and severe harm of the Falun Gong organisation," said the statement.
Xinhua also accused the movement's founder, Li Hongzhi, of "seriously disrupting social order and sabotaging hard-earned social stability, establishing illegal organisations to erode and harm people in body and soul" and "using fraudulent methods".
In a fourth item, Xinhua reported that the "dire consequences caused by Falun Gong to the psychological and physical health of people are innumerable, according to facts collected by certain departments".
"Serious results have been reported, including sickness, handicaps and even death from the practice of Falun Gong."
"A number of people jumped into rivers or off buildings, or killed themselves in other ways. Some even cruelly injured or killed relatives and friends," the agency reported.
It went on to cite examples of illness and suicide amongst sect followers, including the case of a clerk who allegedly killed his wife with a kitchen knife when she tried to stop him from practising.


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- For good health and the ability to wake up to a brand new day, everyday.
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- For the kindness of strangers, especially those who continue to volunteer to help the victims of Hurricane Sandy.
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Windows Vista Ultimate Service Pack 1 (SP1) will be initially available only to users who have installed certain language packs, Microsoft has revealed.
The company said that delays in updating more than 30 bonus language packs will mean that those using Vista Ultimate with 31 language packs must wait for SP1's "second wave" before installing the update. However, Vista Ultimate users running the English, French, German, Japanese and Spanish language packs should be able to get SP1 in the middle of March.
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Microsoft offers Vista Ultimate 'Exclusives'
"We will be releasing Windows Vista SP1 in two 'waves'," Microsoft program manager Nick White in a post to the Vista team's blog.
The warning wasn't completely unforeseen. A month ago, when Microsoft said it had wrapped up release to manufacturing (RTM) and was shipping SP1 to duplication, it also spelled out a rough calendar for release. According to that timetable, Ultimate SP1 would appear as an optional download on Windows Update this month with just the five languages, as an automatic update mid-April, and the full 36 packs sometime next month, presumably after the mid-point.
Nor is this the first install glitch caused by the language packs. Last October, Barry Goffe, the director of Vista Ultimate, noted that users had had trouble installing the add-ons, and said an install component had been patched to fix the problem.
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gender/name reveal
I read in a parenting magazine about a couple who for their gender reveal had their family unscramble the letters in their daughter's name. (They later used the letters to decorate her nursery wall with her name.) It sounded like a great idea, except the name was, in my opinion, an unconventional spelling and a gender-neutral name--Paityn. I don't have any real problem with the name itself, but I was wondering if I was wrong in assuming it was ill-suited to their scramble game.
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I agree that Paityn was ill-suited to the scramble game. As a general rule, a name that looks like the spelling was chosen by playing a scramble game is ill-suited to a scramble game.
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Honestly, I'm just shocked there are people out there still naming their kids Payton... or any badly spelled form of it.bio: Raphael David, Ignatius Peter
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I like the idea, but if you're going to spell a name wrong, it doesn't really suit the game....
Also how is it a gender reveal when you pick a unisex name? That could be girl or boy!
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Jacksonsville cuts ex-Packer Carroll after arrest on weapons and drug charges
The Jacksonville Jaguars released former Packers' corner Ahmad Carroll Monday after he was arrested Saturday on weapons and drug charges.
Police said Carroll was spotted in the middle of a restaurant disturbance in his home town of Atlanta.
Officers said Carroll admitted having a 9mm pistol and a search of his car turned up 11 pills of what apparently was Ecstasy.
He faces charges of carrying a weapon without a license, possessing a firearm in the commission of a felony, and drug possession.
He's free on a $7,000 bond for the moment.
Carroll, 23, was the Packers' first-round draft choice three years ago. He was active for two games for Jacksonville last season and played in one. Carroll had three interceptions in 35 career contests.


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IT's an interesting way to sell a Budget.
In the face of a strong backlash, one Coalition MP has suggested Australians should tour Asia and live like the locals to put their "First World complaints" into perspective.
George Christensen has aired his view on Twitter, posting a picture of a small topless child standing in a crowded street littered with rubbish.
Aussies should do tour of Asia & live like locals to put these 1st world complaints re budget in perspective #auspol pic.twitter.com/FR4MvkxxI1 & mdash; George Christensen (@GChristensenMP) May 22, 2014
Aussies should do tour of Asia & live like locals to put these 1st world complaints re budget in perspective #auspol pic.twitter.com/FR4MvkxxI1— George Christensen (@GChristensenMP) May 22, 2014
When someone replied saying "Translation: Aussie battlers should take a glimpse at LNP model for Australia's future", Mr Christensen went on to explain his point of view.
"No you should just see how minuscule ur complaints are on a global scale," he argued.
The Federal Member for Dawson said "try getting any serious form of welfare in Thailand or other SE Asian nations," when another person insisted "most of Asia is not like that".
He even went on to ask how the Abbott government's budget will lead to a mother facing the prospect of homelessness.
"That means nothing to a single mum who will be homeless with her kids next week," someone had tweeted in response to his photo.
Shadow Finance Minister Tony Burke criticised Mr Christensen's tweet.
"It really says it all when the Coalition's new three word slogan to defend the budget to Middle Australia is 'better than poverty'," he said.


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Here is what mentally ill Congressman Allen West posted on his Facebook page:
People have asked me before is there any area where I could praise President Obama? Certainly, he has an impeccable penchant for understanding the power of the bully pulpit. President Obama is also very adept at promulgating deceptive language masquerading as policy, actually just insidious political gimmickry. This "tax policy" is an example as well as today's speech on his "energy policy" shall be. Here is the bottom line, last night it took 70 dollars to fill the tank of my 2008 H3 Hummer, what is it costing you? What does it cost the President to fill his gas tank?
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Cubs Minor League Free Agents ... Nineteen Cubs minor league players became free agents on Nov. 7 The Cubs had 19 players in their system become minor league free agents on Monday, Nov. 7. The Cubs have already re-signed one of the 19, right-hander Andury Acevedo. According to Baseball America the following 19 players became free agents: RHP Andury Acevedo, RHP Frank Batista, RHP Cole Brocker, RHP Aaron Crow, RHP Stephen Fife, RHP Miguel Mejia, RHP Starling Peralta, RHP Drew Rucinski, LHP … [Read more...]
The Daily CCO: Aroldis Chapman, One-Run Games and Other Cubs News and Rumors
Monday was a long day for the Chicago Cubs and then the team played and lost the first game of the Crosstown Series on the South Side on a walk-off in the bottom of the ninth. The Cubs acquired Aroldis Chapman from the Yankees for a package of four players headlined by top prospect Gleyber Torres and the pitcher the front office received for Starlin Castro, Adam Warren. Shortly after the Cubs announced the trade, the team sent out statements from Tom Ricketts and Aroldis Chapman. Part of … [Read more...]
The Daily CCO: Cubs Reacquire Chris Coghlan, Shake Up Iowa's Roster
While baseball focused on day one of the draft, the Cubs spent Thursday's off-day making a trade, signing a free agent reliever and shaking up its Triple-A roster. And once again the front office proved there is never a dull moment when it comes to the Cubs. The Cubs re-acquired OF/INF Chris Coghlan from the Oakland A's for INF/OF Arismendy Alcantara. The Cubs will officially place INF Tommy La Stella on the 15-day DL before the first of three in Atlanta on Friday night. La Stella tweaked his … [Read more...]
The Daily CCO: Cubs Getaway Day News and Notes
It is getaway day and an early start for the Cubs after a frustrating loss to the Phillies on Tuesday night. The Cubs had chances late to at least tie the game but were unable to push across a run. Even with dropping the first game of the season to the Phillies, the Cubs are 11-3 in their last 14 games, and have a chance to have Meat Loaf on the flight to Atlanta. John Lackey gets the ball in the season finale with the Phillies (12:05pm CDT). The Cubs have six more games on the road trip … [Read more...]
Cubs Down on the Farm Report – 06/08/16
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The Daily CCO: Cubs First to Forty and Updates on Soler, Almora Jr., Contreras
The Cubs won for the 11th time in 13 games Monday night behind Jon Lester. The Cubs built, what appeared to be a comfortable lead, and held on for a 6-4 win over the Phillies. The Cubs improved to 40-16 on the season, 24 games over .500. And the Cubs became the first team to 40 wins this year. The Cubs are actually the fastest team to reach 40 wins since Lou Piniella's Mariners. The Cubs are on pace for 116 wins, which would tie them for the all-time record. The 1906 Chicago Cubs and 2001 … [Read more...]
Checking In on Outfielder Matt Murton
Matt Murton has put up good numbers since coming off the disabled list. And Friday he started the three-run rally in the eighth inning that led to Iowa's comeback win and the team's seventh victory in a row. Murton reached base twice Friday night. Murton walked and scored in the eighth and his single in the ninth put Munenori Kawasaki in scoring position for Arismendy Alcantara to knock in. The I-Cubs activated Murton from the disabled list on May 19. Murton was placed on the DL for the … [Read more...]
Cubs Down on the Farm Report – 05/30/16
With the best record in the Midwest League, South Bend continued to blow away the competition thanks to Ian Rice and Eloy Jimenez. A scoring slump for Myrtle Beach ruined fine pitching by Jake Stinnett and Zach Hedges. Chesny Young and Bijan Rademacher remained steady for Tennessee. Meanwhile, Iowa benefitted from the awakened bats of John Andreoli and Matt Murton. Wishing everyone a Happy Memorial Day, here is today's Down on the Farm Report. Low Class-A – South Bend Cubs (31-17) The … [Read more...]
The Daily CCO: Fifteen Over and Cubs News and Notes
The Cubs opened the four-game series against the Nationals with a 5-2 victory and improved to 21-6 on the season, 15 games over .500 after 27 games. Ben Zobrist drove in four of the five runs and Kyle Hendricks shut out the Nationals for six innings. The Cubs have now outscored their opponents 164-68, that's a plus-96 run differential tied for the second largest run differential through 27 games since 1900. The 1939 Yankees had a plus-96 run differential. The 1902 Pittsburgh Pirates had a … [Read more...]
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Versuri DR. Elmo - Did you have to wait till doomsday to say i love youtrimise de Andr4utza.CHORUS:
Did you have to wait till doomsday to say "I love you"?
Did you have to wait till the missiles were in the air?
Now that the world's on red alert & we've all hit the dirt
Now you tell me that you care
For 10 long years we've been a-courtin'
For 10 years there's been only you
I've wined & dined you & I've tried to incline you
Toward tellin' the preacher "I do"
But tonight while we were dancin', an earache siren
Made 5000 waltzers hit the floor
& while everyone else was sayin' their prayers
You turned to me & said "Darlin', I'm yours"
Come let me put my arm around your shoulder
& tell me that... that you love me again
& let's hurry & find us a preacher, darlin'
Or my best man will be an ICBM; well...
So let these words be our epitaph
To be certain that our marriage will last:
"Till death do us part, don't open your heart
Till just before an H-bomb blasts"
(Better too late than never.)
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Governor Mitch Daniels today revived the decades-old tradition of "Each Governor Plants a Tree" on Arbor Day by adding a bur oak, a species native to Indiana, on the west lawn of the State House.
"We're resurrecting this program of tree planting after many years and it couldn't fit more perfectly with our efforts to protect, conserve and add to Indiana's natural beauty," said Daniels. "Indiana is now a national leader in conservation so it's fitting to bring back the tradition Olive Inez Downing set so many decades ago."
The tradition of tree planting originated with Indiana author Olive Inez Downing, who encouraged Governor M. Clifford Townsend to begin the program in 1939. Downing's idea was for each Indiana governor to plant a tree during his term. Members of Downing's family participated in today's event, including niece-in-law Mary Jane Downing and grand nephew John Downing and his wife Nadine.
Six Indiana governors and one lieutenant governor have planted nine trees on the Statehouse lawn. The last tree to be planted by a governor was a sycamore, grown from the famous seeds carried to the moon on Apollo 14 by astronaut Stuart A. Roosa. Governor Otis R. Bowen planted the tree in 1977 during his second term.
Other governors who planted trees were:
April 14, 1939: Governor M. Clifford Townsend
April 14, 1944: Governor Henry F. Schricker (1st term)
April 26, 1946: Governor Ralph F. Gates
April 29, 1949: Governor Henry F. Schricker (2nd term)
April 12, 1957: Governor Harold W. Handley
April 10, 1959: Lt. Governor Crawford F. Parker
April 14, 1961: Governor Matthew E. Welsh
April 9, 1971: Governor Otis R. Bowen (1st term)
April 19, 1977: Governor Otis R. Bowen (2nd term -- moon tree)
The bur oak tree planted by Daniels was donated by Cardno JFNew, an environmental and ecological solutions company headquartered in Walkerton and home to one of the country's largest native plant nurseries.
Among other conservation and protection projects:
The Indiana Tree Project is a joint effort between the Indiana Natural Resources Foundation, the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Division of Forestry, and the citizens of Indiana, dedicated to planting and expanding Indiana's forests. For each donation of $10, DNR will plant a new tree in one of the state's forests. Those making donations will be provided with the exact location of the tree planted. So far more than 12,000 trees have been purchased since the project launched in mid-December. The first planting is scheduled for May 4 at Morgan-Monroe State Forest.
The Healthy Rivers Initiative is the largest such conservation effort to be undertaken in Indiana. The project areas include 43,000 acres located in the floodplain of the Wabash River and Sugar Creek and another 26,000 acres of the Muscatatuck River. The initiative seeks to protect, restore and enhance the rivers and adjacent land across the state. This will provide important habitat to Indiana's wildlife, threatened and endangered species, and migratory birds and waterfowl. The initiative will benefit the public and surrounding communities by providing increased public access to recreational opportunities.
To date, approximately 6,000 acres have been acquired or are pending in the Wabash River/Sugar Creek project area, and approximately 2,400 acres have been acquired in the Muscatatuck Bottoms project area.
The Bicentennial Nature Trust is a statewide project to protect still more of Indiana's precious natural spaces, announced by Daniels in his 212 State of the State address. The intent of the Trust is to preserve and protect important conservation and recreation areas throughout the state. Property acquired with this fund will become part of the public trust to ensure that the land is protected for future generations. DNR is currently soliciting land conservation project ideas that fit within the spirit of Indiana's Bicentennial in 2016.
Source: http://www.in.gov/activecalendar/EventList.aspx?view=EventDetails&eventidn=55559&information_id=111537&type=&syndicate=syndicate


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Customs officials battle smuggling surge
Customs officials in China are grappling with an increase in smuggling, particularly banned items such as drugs, weapons and endangered animals, state media reported on Tuesday.
The value of goods seized from January to September increased by 20 per cent compared to the same period last year, according to customs figures published by the China Daily.
It said there were 1,415 cases involving goods worth 22.8 billion yuan (US$3.66 billion) over the period, with 549 seizures relating to illegal items such as drugs, protected animals and plants and weapons and ammunition.
Drugs and firearms and ammunition "have a serious impact" on national security and social stability, said Chen Jianxin, deputy director of China's General Administration of Customs' anti-smuggling bureau.
China's overall trade reached US$2.84 trillion during the first nine months of the year, up 6.2 per cent year on year, the newspaper said.
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A morris dancing troupe from Bedford are celebrating their 80th anniversary this month by inviting new members to take part.
Bedford Morris Men first formed in 1932 in part, from a ex-pupils of Clapham Road School, who wanted to carry on with the morris dancing that they were taught at school, by their headmaster, Tommy Northern.
And 80 years later the group is still going strong and have danced across the country and even as far as Bamberg in Germany, the town that is twinned with Bedford.
John Frearson, archivist of the Bedford Morris Men, said: "It's a great social thing and allows us to let our hair down a little bit.
"People are not quite sure and are a bit cheeky and teasy about it because in a way they are a little bit frightened, is there magic there?"
He added: "The morris is a good way to bring communities together, but we do miss out on younger members because if they are not worrying about exams there are a lot of electronic things to play with."
And although there are no surviving members of the original Bedford Morris Men line-up, there are some family links to the early days.
John said: "One of our very early members was Fred Hamer and his son also came into the Morris and was with us for quite a while.
"He is a bit older now but still does a bit of folk dancing."
The morris can be traced back to the 15th and 16th centuries.
One explanation for the use of the word morris for describing dancing, is that men used to blacken their faces to maintain their anonymity, thereby resembling Moorish men. It is thought that the activities and dancing could have been associated with fertility rites or as part of ceremonial or competitive parochial festivities.
There is no historical record of any dancing in Bedford at this time, but there are references to morris dancers in Potton in 1560, Woburn and Bletchley in 1767, Silsoe in 1789 and Stevington 1870.
If you are interested in becoming part of the Bedford Morris Men visit www.bedfordmorrismen.org.uk
Alternatively you can email firstname.lastname@example.com
The group practice once a week on a Wednesday at Ravensden Village Hall from 8.15pm.


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Creaform has received the 2010 Quebec Aerospace Association (AQA) Company of the Year Award.
Of the four finalists, Creaform distinguished itself with strong financial management and strategic planning, continuous improvement, leadership in human resources management, dedication to the environment, corporate citizenship and involvement with the AQA.
"We are absolutely thrilled and honored to receive this award," says Stéphane Galibois, director, Canada Technology Sales and Strategic Accounts for North America. "The 3 other contenders are amazing companies, and it was certainly not an easy pick for the jury."
Aerospace clients such as Bombardier, EADS, Pratt & Whitney, Embraer, Aircelle, Boeing, NASA, Héroux-Devtek and Cessna use technologies developed by Creaform.
Creaform has also announced the sale of its 1500th Handyscan 3D unit, a MAXscan laser scanner for large parts, to car manufacturer Daimler Automotive Co. in China.
Daimler Automotive will use the MAXscan to quality control sheet metal and passenger compartments, execute gap and flush analysis, and check parts. The automaker also expanded its suite of quality control instruments with a HandyPROBE portable optical CMM, which will be used to inspect jigs and fixtures.
"This sale represents a new breakthrough for us in what is now the largest auto market in the world," says President Charles Mony. "We always strive to push off the limits of these technologies, and I think that the release of our new MetraSCAN optical CMM 3D scanner and the award we just received for 2010 AQA Company of the Year are strong proofs of that."
For more information, visit Creaform.
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Snake oil salesmen have been with us for a long time. Sometimes they merely steal money and hope from the vulnerable. Sometimes they do real harm, or even worse.
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Last month, British Columbia Judge Lynn Smith declared Canada's laws banning assisted suicide unconstitutional. Apparently it is not fair for severely disabled people to be denied suicide when healthy and able-bodied people can take their own lives. Really?
What would you say about hunger, if the United Nations wanted to hear from you?
I'm curious about where Jesus spent the time between 12 and 30.
Are you aware of any research that would indicate where Jesus was in this period of his life?
Pope Benedict has reaffirmed his trust in the Vatican's secretary of state and defended him against a barrage of "unjust criticism" in the Italian media.
Pope Benedict has named Archbishop Gerhard Muller of Regensburg, Germany, the new prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Five years after Pope Benedict lifted most restrictions on celebration of the Tridentine Mass, a senior Vatican official says much work remains to make the traditional liturgy fully accessible to the faithful, and to bring its influence to bear on the form of the Mass most Catholics attend.
The Holy See sustained its largest budget deficit of the past decade in 2011 as a result of global financial trends, the Vatican said July 5.
When the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops asked Catholics to dedicate 14 days to the preservation of religious freedom through prayer, education and public action, they listened.
New text in an exhibit at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial offers a less-critical assessment of the actions of Pope Pius XII in dealing with the Nazi persecution of Jews during the Second World War.


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Two young girls taken from their mother at gunpoint Wednesday afternoon have been located and are safe, police say.
Three-month-old Dyniste T. Finley and her 23-month old sister Destiney Finley were abducted by their father at about 1:30 p.m., from a home in the 2900 block of Gilead Street, in Zion, Illinois State Police said.
Police continue to look for the girls' 18-year-old father, Dejavonte Finley.
Waukegan police Wednesday afternoon pulled over 19-year-old Asia Morris, who was driving the burgundy Chevy Impala sought by police. She was alone in the car, claiming she'd dropped the father and the girls off.
Police said additional information will be released.
Published at 2:55 PM CST on Dec 23, 2009 | Updated at 6:12 PM CST on Dec 23, 2009


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