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Politician Jeffrey Kitingan is admittedly an enigma in Sabah, having moved from one party to another searching for that elusive 'link' called 'compatibility'.
For "hopping" from one political party to another, Sabah's maverick politician Jeffrey Kitingan has been proclaimed as a "Father of Struggle to Reclaim Sabah" by the party he currently heads – State Reform Party (STAR).
STAR, which also has a chapter in Sarawak, was brought to Sabah by Jeffrey six months ago. The party now claims to have garnered close to 200,000 members.
The former Internal Security Acts (ISA) detainee reminded party supporters in Bingkor, Keningau, over the weekend that the Bornean state called the "Land Below the Wind " is an independent country and whoever subscribes to a vision of an "independent Sabah" must join STAR.
"As long as we are alive, there is still hope and it is this hope that made the people of Sabah support STAR. The coming general election is an opportunity God is giving us to change the present government for the better," he said when launching the Bingkor STAR branch.
Jeffrey also explained why he had over the years been switching political parties, saying that he was looking for "solutions" for Sabah and had not found the parties he had initially joined suitable or capable of fixing what was broken.
The former senator and deputy federal minister who hopped from one party to another in a record six times said it had never been done for his personal interest.
Elected as Bingkor assemblyman on a Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) ticket in 1994, a party led by his brother Joseph Pairin, he tried unsuccessfully to take control of PBS.
After failing, he ditched it to join a group of party leaders to form Parti Bersatu Rakyat Sabah (PBRS).
There he tried but again failed to helm the party, which went on to be headed by Joseph Kurup.
He then quit PBRS to join Pandikar Amin Mulia (now Parliament Speaker) in Angkatan Keadilan Rakyat (Akar) where he tried but failed to be the president.
Akar later dissolved and Pandikar, party leaders and supporters joined Umno.
Jeffrey ditched Pairin twice
Jeffrey, who had also once headed the PBS government "think tank", then rejoined PBS but only to ditch his brother again.
This time he brought with him six PBS lawmakers to re-join PBRS. He tried again but was unable to unseat Kurup as president.
He left PBRS and submitted an application to join Umno but was rejected.
The Harvard University-trained scholar then joined the opposition fold and was made one of PKR's leaders, but again decided to say "goodbye" to his latest party when he was sidelined from heading the party in Sabah.
Although the ruling Barisan Nasional leaders have been discrediting Jeffrey for switching parties – some calling him the "King of Sabah political frogs" – he is not disheartened.
Instead he points out that almost all politicians in Sabah, including Chief Minister Musa Aman and Pairin had, in one way or another, also changed political parties.
Musa left Usno for Umno while Pairin left Berjaya and Pasok to form PBS.
Jeffrey said they were all merely looking to see which way the political wind blew before changing course.
He said Musa and Pairin would stick to Umno as long as the party is in government and as long as they have positions. But they would jump to other parties if Umno is no longer ruling.
"They are actually 'fat frogs' now, so they don't jump anymore. They stopped hopping when they have gained positions and comforts for themselves," Jeffrey told a large, appreciative crowd in Bingkor.
"I switched parties as none of the party I joined can carry my struggle to regain the independence of Sabah. Everyone eventually falls for lucrative positions and self-comforts," Jeffrey explained.
Elusive dream
Jeffrey also warned Sabahans against supporting the Peninsula-based PKR as it would be like "getting out of the frying pan into the fire".
Supporting non-local opposition parties, he said, would only weaken Sabah and strengthen Malayan hegemony over Sabah.
On the coming general election, Jeffrey announced he would again take on Pairin for the Keningau parliamentary seat and is likely to contest in Bingkor, which is now held by Justin Guka of Upko.
In the last election, Jeffrey contested both seats on PKR ticket.
In the 2008 election, Pairin won Keningau with a majority of 4,264 votes when he garnered 14,598 votes against 10,354 polled by Jeffrey.
Independent candidate Peter Kadou lost his deposit after only securing 560 votes.
Jeffrey almost regained Bingkor when he polled 4,418 votes, losing to Guka by 171 votes after the latter secured 4,589 votes.
Two independents lost their election deposit – Thomas Uling Anggan (164) and Victor Learnadus (129).
This time around, Jeffrey's political vehicle is STAR, and the party will be contesting most of the state's 60 seats.
His aim is to gain enough seats to topple the BN state government and fulfil his dream of becoming Sabah chief minister.


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Out producer Christine Vachon, whose many acclaimed independent films include Boys Don't Cry, Far From Heaven, One Hour Photo, and Camp, is one of three honorees of the National Board of Review's 2004 Producer's Award. Vachon will be honored alongside Gale Anne Hurd (Aliens) and Kathleen Kennedy (Seabiscuit). Vachon's award was announced Wednesday alongside the NBR's annual list of awards, which included Best Foreign Film honors for the gay-inclusive The Barbarian Invasions, the Best Film Made for Cable TV going to HBO's adaptation of Tony Kushner's Angels in America, and a Breakthrough Performance award for Charlize Theron's portrayal of lesbian serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster.
The NBR is a group of film aficionados rather than professional film critics, but the organization is usually first among awards-giving bodies in the year-end pre-Oscar season. Here is a complete list of the 2003 National Board of Review awards:
Best Film: Mystic River
Top Ten Films: Mystic River, The Last Samurai, The Station Agent, 21 Grams, House of Sand and Fog, Lost in Translation, Cold Mountain, In America, Seabiscuit, Master and Commander
Best Foreign Film: The Barbarian Invasions
Top Five Foreign Films: The Barbarian Invasions, Best of Youth, Monsieur Ibrahim, Autumn Spring, The Man on the Train
Best Documentary: The Fog of War
Top Five Documentaries: The Fog of War, Capturing the Friedmans, My Architect, Winged Migration, Spellbound
Best Actor: Sean Penn, Mystic River and 21 Grams
Best Actress: Diane Keaton, Something's Gotta Give
Best Supporting Actor: Alec Baldwin, The Cooler
Best Supporting Actress: Patricia Clarkson, Pieces of April and The Station Agent
Best Acting by an Ensemble: The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
Breakthrough Performance, Actor: Paul Giamatti, American Splendor
Breakthrough Performance, Actress: Charlize Theron, Monster
Best Director: Edward Zwick, The Last Samurai
Best Directorial Debut: Vadim Perelman, House of Sand and Fog
Best Adapted Screenplay: Cold Mountain, Anthony Minghella
Best Original Screenplay: In America, Jim Sheridan, Naomi and Kirsten Sheridan
Best Animated Feature: Finding Nemo
Best Film or Miniseries Made for Cable TV: Angels in America
Billy Wilder Award for Excellence in Directing: Norman Jewison
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Career Achievement, Cinematography: John Toll
William K. Everson Award for Film History: Richard LaGravenese and Ted Demme for A Decade Under the Influence
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"We're getting close anyways and yeah, I think I'm through dragging the family across the country and the kids have started school now. I've done that long enough and it's time to stay home," Wood said.
The former starting pitcher is in his 13th year in the majors and his 10th year with the Cubs. He also spent time with the New York Yankees and Cleveland Indians in 2009 and 2010. Wood has a 3.64 career ERA with a 85-73 record and 63 career saves.


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A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor
From the Desk of Garrison Keillor
A prolific writer, Garrison Keillor is a frequent contributor to newspapers and magazines throughout the United States and abroad. To the right, you find a selection of articles published since 1989, and a few unpublished pieces.
The Dangers of Christmas
From Land's End Magazine
April 6, 1998
Christmas is magical. It's brief, and its powers are limited, but it can make you happy, if that's what you want. It only works once a year, of course. In August, the songs sound dumb. You have to work up to it through the fall, starting right after Halloween. Thanksgiving, of course, is a sort of dress rehearsal, Christmas minus the gifts, and then December is like a fast chute that you sit down on and ssshhhhhhoop, ssshhhhhhoop, ssshhhhhhoop, suddenly it's December 24, there's your tree, the candles, the candy, the stockings, and the traditional Christmas cat. ---You don't have that? Really? I'm surprised. It's an old tradition where I come from. You have to have a cat for Christmas, because at midnight it will speak to you, and oftentimes it gives valuable advice, such as "Attend to old friendships" or "Check tire pressure," though sometimes it says things like, "Implement quality communications by Tuning In Candor, Tuning Out Condescension, and Tuna (canned)." Anyway--- Christmas is magical.
On Christmas Day, when I was a boy, I always woke up at three o'clock in the morning and slid out of bed and tiptoed down the stairs and into the living room. The tree stood immense, dark, glittering, and beneath it a mountain range of presents, and propped up against the fireplace were six red felt stockings stuffed with things. Outside, the moon shone on the drifts of snow, the birch tree in the front yard, the dark houses along our country road. All was still, all was bright. I could feel the vast invisible force of Christmas around me. From my parents' bedroom came the sounds of trombones, snoring, and down below, the furnace heaved a sigh and exhaled hot air out the registers.
In the basement, set up on the ping-pong table, was my Lionel model train layout, a nice oval one with two switches, a sidetrack with a cattle loader that vibrated and made the plastic cows move up the ramp and into the cattle car, and four dark-green passenger cars with illuminated windows. I liked to ease down there, not turn on the light, plug in the transformer, and watch my train go quietly clacking around in the dark.
At three a.m. on Christmas morning, the Moonlight Express sped
through the tunnel and down the straightaway and around the bend, past the village, the storefronts, the houses, the sponge-rubber trees, the cows, carrying passengers through this perfect little world toward a joyful holiday in the distant city --- and the sheer perfection of the picture made me suddenly clench up with trepidation: it was too good to be true, and something terrible was just about to happen.
It's an old family trait, I think: at the moment of pure peace and satisfaction, we blanch, we quake, we imagine something about to explode --- are the burners turned off? is the pilot light lit? did a stranger put a package in our suitcase?
And that's the first danger of Christmas: fear.
Christmas is winter and, face it: winter is a dangerous time. You're about to sit down to turkey and cranberries and the phone rings. Your neighbor's car won't start. He's a good neighbor whose garbage your dog has occasionally raided and whose front yard is chewed up from having been your children's end zone and outfield, so you put on your hundred-pound parka and plunge out the door into the thirty-below blast and pull your car up nose-to-nose with the neighbor's deceased car and get out the jumper cables and try to remember, "Is it Positive to Positive, Negative to Negative? Or is it Positive to Negative?" If you put those cables on the wrong battery posts, it will cause an explosion that will get your town mentioned on the Evening News: the hairy-headed Anchor Man will look into the camera and say, "In the midst of the joy that is Christmas, tragedy struck in (Your Town) yesterday when a car blew up because (Your Name) attached a pair of jumper cables to the wrong battery posts. Now here's Mark with sports." But you remember (it is positive to positive) and the car starts, and you wave to your neighbor and go back to your house, feeling warm and good, and slip on a tiny patch of ice and fall on your keester and twist a disc in your back that you will spend the next decade in search of a healer for and will wind up in India, at the ashram of the Rama Lama Bungee, living on yak yoghurt and meditating six hours a day with your legs sticking straight up in the air.
A person thinks about these things at Christmas.
Christmas trees oftentimes spontaneously burst into flames. Your dog might eat tinsel and need to be rushed to the emergency room. You might have gotten the wrong turkey, one that the Mafia planted in the supermarket, and that isn't giblets in the plastic bag inside the carcass, it's drugs with a street value of six million dollars, and the next knock on your door may be the FBI. Or it may be three large men in blue pinstriped suits and big diamond pinkie rings.
Let's be frank about fruit cake. Okay, maybe your mom makes terrific fruit cake, and you eat two of them every year in the dark while listening to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir sing "Silent Night" and your eyes fill up with tears and this is the emotional highlight of your year. Fine. I'm not here to badmouth your mother's fruitcake. But --- she only makes a few fruitcakes a year, and that leaves the other thirty-two-point-seven million fruitcakes, and let me tell you about them. They're made in March and April in a gigantic factory in Indonesia, sent to the U.S. in the form of thirty-foot fruit logs that are then cut up and wrapped in cellophane, stored in surplus fruitcake silos in Iowa, delivered to stores, sold, and nobody eats them because they're inedible, so you keep it in the refrigerator for six months, and in July it's sent to a fruitcake disposal site in Utah and put into concrete cannisters with millions of other fruitcakes and buried in the desert. (Those mountains around Salt Lake City where people go to ski are former fruitcake disposal sites.)
Now let's talk about "Little Drummer Boy". There are wonderful Christmas carols and others somewhat less wonderful and some that, after eight-hundred-or-so times, you'd rather not hear again anytime soon, and then there are songs like "Do You Hear What I Hear?" whose author you'd enjoy throwing barefoot into a sandburr patch, and then there is "Little Drummer Boy". When I hear a choir go "Rum-tum-tum-rum-tum-tum-tum," I see multi-colored dots and feel the veins in my head bulge. If I'm in a store, I walk out the door and never go back; if I'm in my car, I never listen to that radio station again. I have heard of people whose minds snapped from hearing "Little Drummer Boy" and they dropped their shopping bags and ran crouched through the mall grunting and foaming like Lon Chaney Jr. in "The Return of the Wolf Man" and they had to be tackled by security guards and taken to a sanitarium run by the Sisters of Mercy and kept in absolute silence for three months. They did crafts and flower-arranging and painted water colors and ambled along the poplar-shaded walks and admired the flowers in the Sisters' cloister, and by spring, they were ready to resume their lives, though still under a doctor's care.
Now I'm going to tell you something, and I'll only say this once: the consequences of hearing "Little Drummer Boy" while eating a piece of fruitcake are not pretty, and while I'm not one who goes in for alarming the American people, I know of a young man from a fine family who swallowed a chunk of fruitcake in the same instant that a choir rum-tum-tummed, and that was years ago and we have never spoken of him since.
In my boyhood, Christmas was a holiday owned and operated by women. Women bought it, cooked it, wrapped it, hung tinsel on it, and men stood in the next room and groused about how were they possibly going to afford all of this extravagance.
HE: Where's that cold draft coming from? Who left the door wide open? How many times do I have to tell you? Close the door behind you. For crying out loud. How much intelligence does it take to close a door? Do you have any idea what the price of fuel oil is? It's a lot, I can tell you that. I don't know where you kids think money comes from---- look at this! Lights on! Every room in this house! What's the matter with people around here? You walk in, you turn on the lights, you walk out! Would anyone like to take a look at the electric bill? It's unbelievable, let me tell you. Turn off lights! How manhy times do I have to say it? Would somebody please listen to me once in awhile, for crying out loud?
HER: What?
It was like an opera. The tenor stalked from room to room, singing his lament about the electric bill, and the soprano
went shopping. Our next-door neighbors, the Bergs, had outdoor Christmas lights that were like Las Vegas and when they switched them on, our lights dimmed and our TV picture flickered. But my dad hated to see the few lights on our little Christmas tree left on for more than two minutes. He'd watch us and if we took our eyes off it, he'd say, "Nobody's looking at this!" and bend down and pull the plug.
If you walked up to him and said, "Dad, I'd like a bike for Christmas," he'd lower his antlers and paw the rug with his hooves and tell you to go get a job and earn it yourself. But Mom would overhear and she'd buy you that bike, and when he saw it and groaned, she'd help him get over it.
But every year, in early December, she would say to him, "What should we have over for Christmas this year?" And he'd say, "Why can't we have a nice quiet Christmas? Why do we have to invite everyone we know over? We buy all that junk and cook twice as much food as we need and get worn out and every year we promise ourselves that next year we'll have a quiet Christmas. So why don't we have it."
A big danger, especially for a child: The Quiet Christmas.
If they weren't such good children, they would say: LET'S HAVE A BIG CHRISTMAS, AS BIG AS POSSIBLE, OR BIGGER. Hey, let January be quiet, which it will be anyway. There's plenty of time for quietness in February and March. Let Christmas be big and loud with lights blazing and music blaring and rafts of food cooking and a vast assortment of gifts arrayed under an immense Christmas tree.
Mother says, "Maybe, instead of all of us exchanging gifts this year, we should draw names."
No, the good children shout inwardly. Don't draw names! What if Aunt You Know Who gets my name, she'll give me something small and dismal, like for example a jar of natural organic dandelion jelly. A book about rocks, to go with the one she gave me last year about shrubs. A cassette of traditional Swedish humming tunes.
That's what Quiet Christmas would be: six of you at the table, eating squab and puree of parsnips, the house decorated by a professional Christmas designer, with one gift by each place, and yours is a recording of an 89-year-old herring fisherman from Goteborg humming.
Spare us.
I remember an old radio show called Dreams Come True, about a rich old coot and his wife named Elmer and Edna Hubbard, who left the giddy social whirl of New York City to settle in the quiet town of Nowthen, where they opened a coffee shop called The Golden Rule. Elmer and Edna liked to make large anonymous cash gifts to townsfolk who were struggling with particular problems but nonetheless had a positive outlook on life, such as Little Wendy, who suffered from a fatal scalp disease but who nevertheless had a sunny disposition and was doing good deeds for people left and right. Elmer and Edna paid for her to go to the Mayo Clinic where her scalp was replaced with one from a caribou and she came back to Nowthen all happy and beautiful, even though her hair was now that dull beige caribou color.
A guy came in the Golden Rule and had a cup of coffee and complained a blue streak about the weather and his wife and his rotten kids and his lousy job and his clunker of a car --- he didn't get a dime; but another guy who had heavy debts from his cat Linda's kidney operation but still hoped to go to Texas someday and see Sis and the girls --- he went home and there was an anonymous check for thousands of dollars.
It was interesting. You'd listen to some grumpy guy go on and on about his troubles, and little did he know that the man in the white apron was a big tycoon who would be glad to give him a snootful of money if only he'd be a little more cheerful. Well, the moral was clear enough to me --- if you want something so bad that you can't live without it, you're probably not going to get it, but if you're perfectly cheerful and okay whether you get it or not, you'll probably get it. This seemed unfair to me, a boy who wanted a great deal, especially at Christmas, and it still seems unfair, but there it is.
The danger of wanting something too much and therefore making it impossible.
I, for example, would dearly love to receive a model train layout similar to the one of my childhood, which rusted and decayed. I remind myself every year not to want it too much, but I do, and I never get it. A man my age can't simply walk into a store and buy a model train set for himself; people would talk, people would chuckle behind his back, and one day he'd come home to find an attorney sitting smiling in the living room, who would explain to him in easy-to-understand terms, using simple declarative sentences, why his financial affairs will hereafter be managed by his nephew Vince.
I keep telling myself, "I honestly don't care if that model train layout is under the tree or not," but that's not the truth, and I know it.
I am something of an expert on Christmas, having celebrated it so many times, and I know about family tensions. Christmas is a time for joy and love, but families aren't only about joy and love, they're also about people being mad at each other.
The worst family fights are between women. Men are good at mass destruction, but when it comes to sniping and scratching and poisoned courtesy, women have it all over us, and if you put a bunch of women in the kitchen, you're going to have trouble. (This is why it's a good thing for men to cook the meal, but never mind that now.) A sister says something to a sister-in-law, and there are tears, and someone winds up weeping in the bathroom, and this can take hours to repair.
Once, in St. Paul, I was so nervous about having my entire family for Christmas that I took the goose out of the oven, spilled hot fat on my wrist, dropped the goose and the glass pan it was baking in, the glass broke, hot goose grease splattered the entire kitchen floor, and I got grease burns on my ankles. I snatched up the goose and set him on the counter, and I told my sister and mother, who had come running from the living room, that everything was under control, no problem (What crash?), and I removed the goose's skin and lightly mopped him with dry towels to collect any stray glass particles, and put him back in the oven, and I changed my greasy socks, and it was a long day, and let's leave it at that.
The next year we had Christmas in New York with friends, and I did a prime rib roast, pink in the middle, served with a bottle of Barolo and a Yorkshire pudding. (A goose is a marathon, compared to which rib roast and Yorkshire pudding are a walk around the block.) There were two babies, a dog, and my wife's old uncle at this Christmas, which made for a festive dinner. The dog prowled under the table for spillage, the uncle talked about home improvement projects in a voice loud enough to strip wallpaper, and after dessert, I got to demonstrate my baby-handling skills. If you hold a baby close to your chest and talk to it in a soft bass voice, the baby will lose consciousness in less than a minute, depending on what you talk about. I walked around the living room and I said to the baby, "I like your parents, for the most part, though frankly they're not the most exciting people I ever met, in fact they're way too fond of boredom, in my opinion, so probably as you grow up and find out how small-minded they are, you'll naturally rebel against them, and when you do, remember that I'm on your side. I'm with you, kid, all the way." The baby went right to sleep.
Back when I was in college and came home for Christmas, I'd visit my old classmate Corinne who was home from college and whose parents lived down the road and across a meadow from my parents'. She was a rebel and a Democrat and she usually came home and got into an argument with her father within twenty minutes, often about an inappropriate boyfriend she had invited for dinner. Maybe he wore Army surplus clothes and heavy black hornrim glasses and had been a student at the University for about fourteen years and used words like "dichotomy" a lot. Her father, Hilmer, was Republican, a Shriner, a plumber, and believed that a dichotomy was something you needed to repair as soon as possible, and when he saw her and the boyfriend sitting, arms around each other, kissing, it gave him conniptions.
He would take her aside and ask, "Did you ever ask yourself how he would ever be able to support you?"
Corinne said, "Why is it that the only thing you ever think about is money?"
He said, "Somebody has to."
She said, "I hope I never get to be like you."
Hilmer smiled. "I'll let you know if you get close," he said.
Corinne told me once that she dreaded going home. She still went, though. But she said she didn't look forward to it.
The danger is that, one Christmas, we'll dread it so much that we can't go. We'll almost rather spend Christmas at a hotel. And you know what that means. A quiet tasteful Christmas. (See Danger No. 3.)
Children were nicer when I was a kid, maybe because winter was much colder then and the snow was deeper; now it comes up to your knees but back then it was up to your waist. That's because of the greenhouse effect. Not much snow in a greenhouse. Anyway, you struggled home through the deep drifts, carrying a load of heavy books (we had homework back then) and the cold wind froze the tears on your eyelashes and you wanted to cry out, "Get me out of here! I can't stand this any more!" but you couldn't, of course, because children had to be good back then, especially in the weeks before Christmas. Nowadays, it's different. Kids can throw their parents down the stairs and nobody says boo about it. I have seen a ten-year-old child throw its parents, both of them, down the stairs, and the parents just wiped the blood off themselves and climbed up the stairs and said, "Do you want to talk about it?" And do you suppose that rotten child was punished for what she had done? No, she was not. She was given expensive toys for Christmas and a late-model car and a Lands' End shoulder bag filled with rubies and emeralds. This happens more and more nowadays.
The danger of spoiling children rotten is a real danger. And the way to save children from spoilage is to maintain some discipline. I would never give a Christmas present to any child who had thrown me down the stairs, no matter how much it whined and begged. But one must make this clear to the child, before one finds oneself hurtling into the basement: you throw me, you owe me.
Christmas can't ever be danger-free, of course. Christmas is a work of art, and art is filled with danger, art is made by people who know about suffering. Van Gogh was tormented by hallucinations when he painted those fields of flowers. Beethoven was going deaf when he wrote the Ninth Symphony. Emily Dickinson wrote "Success is counted sweetest/By those who ne'er succeed/To comprehend a Nectar/Requires sorest need" as a woman so withdrawn from normal social contact that, when her family entertained visitors, she preferred to listen from behind a screen in the hallway.
The beautiful Christmases that I remember from childhood were created by women who had gone through the Depression, the Dirty Thirties, the dust storms, and after you have tasted dust, then you may be ready to create some elegance and music and wrap the presents so beautifully that even a small child will know to unwrap them slowly and deliberately, not rushing. Thus, the artfulness of the paper and ribbons serve to prolong that delicious moment of suspense and make the gift a wonderful surprise.
The greatest danger of Christmas is that we may be too dull, too dopey, too stuffed, to get joy out of it, and Christmas will be wasted on us.
It is a magical day, though, and among the old customs, the foods, the music, is something that has the power to open our hearts. Some simple thing that can surprise us.
How beautiful and dazzling bright,
One candle on a winter's night.
How beautiful these harmonies
That echo through the centuries.
And in this singing we shall find
The blessing given to mankind.
A blessing without price or end,
A blessing on your house, my friend.
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The house price divide between the north and the south of England widened over the summer as strong growth boosted values in and around the capital, figures show today.
A report from the UK's biggest mortgage lender, Halifax, showed that the average asking price in the third quarter of the year in the south of England had reached £265,921 - 68% higher than the average price in the north, which was £158,636.
The margin fell to a low of 56% in the first three months of last year, but annual price inflation of 18.6% in Greater London, 13.7% in the south-east and 11.1% in East Anglia had contributed to a widening gap, Halifax said.
The figures show that, in the three months to the end of September, average house prices in the north of England fell by 2.1%, while in Yorkshire and the Humber and the north-west they had stagnated, edging up by 0.4% and 0.1% respectively.
However, Halifax said the slowdown followed a five-year period of strong growth in the north, which had seen house prices almost double since the third quarter of 2002.
In the south, prices rose by 53% over the same period. As a result, the margin between prices in the north and south had fallen from 115%.
The lender said price rises in Greater London had outstripped those in the rest of the UK over the summer months, rising by 2.3% over the third quarter.
However, the bank said this was a lower rise than in the previous few quarters, suggesting the market in the capital was starting to cool.
Northern Ireland, which has seen huge price inflation in recent years, recorded a summer fall, but the 3.2% dip in prices did not offset the 8.2% growth of the previous quarter and did little to dent annual house price growth in the region.
That still stands at 47%, and of the 10 UK towns seeing the biggest year-on-year increases in prices, eight can be found in Northern Ireland, Halifax said.
The bank's chief economist, Martin Ellis, said: "Nationally, house prices in quarter three were 0.9% higher than in the previous quarter. This compares with increases of 2.3% in quarter two and 3.0% in quarter one, marking a continuing steady downward trend in the rate of house price growth since the end of 2006."
But Mr Ellis suggested the market was unlikely to collapse in the near future.
"The UK economy is in a strong position. Sound market fundamentals, including high levels of employment and a shortage in the number of properties available for sale, will continue to support house prices," he said.


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Where's her friends I high places now??? She repeatedly threatened neighbors and relatives with this stupid crap. What a low life!
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It's not her fault- really? I think you would think differently if it were your mother. You mean to say that when drug addicted people who rob and kill should just be forgiven because they have an excuse? Same difference! I know the victim's family. It was a horrible ordeal for a long time. They can never recapture those years their mother was held captive. Unbelievable!
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She is a bully and a thief. Let Jim Traficant help her now! We'll see how many of Jimbo's friends go visit her in prison. See ya Linda.
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I know MY mother always offered her children the first toke. This woman really needs a clue.
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Target security breach likely to speed adoption of more secure chip-based cards in U.S.
The recent Target credit card breach is set to generate a boom in demand for higher-security, dual-interface cards, with U.S. shipments forecast to surge twenty-fold from 2013 to 2018, according to a report from IHS Inc.
The recent Target credit card breach is set to generate a boom in demand for higher-security, dual-interface cards, with U.S. shipments forecast to surge twenty-fold from 2013 to 2018, according to a report from IHS Inc.
Shipments of the higher-security cards to U.S. consumers will grow from 12.6 million in 2013 to 251.2 million by 2018, according to the report "Payment and Banking Cards–World–2013."
An estimated 40 million credit card records and 70 million other records were stolen from Target customers during the 2013 holiday season, representing one of the largest credit card breaches in history.
"It is clear that Target is going to have to do something significant and dramatic in order to win back customers and regain consumer confidence," said Don Tait, senior financial and ID market analyst at IHS. "Moreover, the Target security breach may prove to be the catalyst that speeds up the adoption of more secure chip-based payment and banking cards in the U.S."
Chip-based cards such as EMV (Europay, MasterCard and Visa)—a global standard using integrated circuit (IC) cards and IC card-capable point-of-sale (POS) terminals and ATMs for authenticating credit and debit card transactions—offer consumers greater protection against fraud than traditional magnetic stripe cards, which may require processing of only the card number and validity dates. While EMV cards are widely used around the world, they represent only a tiny fraction of the 1.3 billion payment and banking cards in circulation in the U.S.
"Criminals are likely to migrate to areas where fraud is easier to carry out," Tait noted. "With the majority of the rest of the world well down the EMV migration road, the U.S. represents an easier target for criminals bent on financial fraud."
Coupled with the security breach at Target, card issuers are preparing to implement a number of liability shifts in the next two years that will likely further speed EMV migration in the U.S. These include:
- Effective October 2015, American Express will transfer liability for certain types of fraudulent transactions away from the party that has the most secure form of EMV technology.
- In October 2015, Visa intends to institute a U.S. liability shift for domestic and cross-border counterfeit POS transactions.
- MasterCard has announced that after October 2016, banks can hold ATM operators liable for fraudulent withdrawals and cash advances from credit and debit cards.
Despite the host of factors driving the adoption of chip-based cards, the costs to do so will be significant, Tait noted.
"It is not just the expense of replacing payment cards that needs to be taken into consideration, there is also the cost of replacing the payment infrastructure, including the POS terminals at merchants' premises. It has been estimated that the cost of updating the U.S. to EMV—cards and card payment network—ranges from $18 billion to $20 billion."
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Before the calendar turned, 2016 already had the makings of a pivotal year for manufacturing, and for the world.
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Sports Access Discussion Group
The second meeting of the homeschool sports access discussion group convened by the Virginia School Boards Association (VSBA) was held on September 6, and once again, The Organization of Virginia Homeschoolers was there to represent the interests of the homeschooling community. As at the initial meeting on July 31, group participants represented various organizations associated with public schools, including the Virginia High School League, the Virginia School Superintendents Association, the Virginia Secondary School Principals Association, the Virginia Parent Teacher Association, and school board members from around the state. Private schools were represented by Dick Kemper, executive director of the Virginia Independent School Activity Association.
VaHomeschoolers Contributions
The group continued its dialogue on public school interscholastic sports and activities access for homeschooled high school students. VaHomeschoolers presented information and answered questions on the multiple legal avenues available for homeschooling in Virginia and on the varied laws and policies under which many other states allow homeschooled students to participate in public school sports and activities. VaHomeschoolers' research in this area is the most comprehensive available, and was well-received by discussion group members. Our data indicate that, at present, 30 states allow some form of sports and activities access for homeschooled students; 21 of these states have laws guiding homeschool access, while the remaining 9 allow homeschool participation under policies of some kind. Each state's specific rules and guidelines can vary significantly, from "full" access (by which any qualified homeschooled student can try out), to more "limited" forms of access (where local policy may allow or bar homeschooled students; or where part-time public school attendance may be required).
Valuable Discussion — But No Progress Yet
While the discussion group continued to engage in meaningful dialogue about the various concerns that group members have about how homeschool sports and activities access might work, if it were implemented, it is clear that there is still significant resistance among at least some group members to collaborating to craft policies under which Virginia's homeschooled students could participate in VHSL programs. VaHomeschoolers continues to believe that, even if the group does not end up agreeing on the basic premise that homeschoolers should be permitted to try out for VHSL athletics and activities, the collaborative dialogue process is valuable and may contribute to a better outcome in the General Assembly in 2013, when Delegate Rob Bell (R-Albemarle) plans to reintroduce his bill on the subject.
Schedule Changes
Please note that the meeting previously scheduled for September 17 has been cancelled. The discussion group will meet next onOctober 1 at 10 a.m. at VSBA headquarters, 200 Hansen Road, Charlottesville. Meetings are open to the public, and homeschooling families are welcome to attend. Brief time for public comment will be provided.
Religious Exemption in the News
A recent report on Virginia's Religious Exemption (RE) option by a University of Virginia law professor and his students is making headlines. UVA's Child Advocacy Clinic on September 11 released the report by Professor Andrew Block, which examines the unique nature of Virginia's RE and questions whether children under the RE are receiving an education. Various media outlets have picked up the story, including The Washington Post.
The UVA report does not suggest any specific amendment to the RE, but does recommend that "educators and policy makers should re-examine the statute," with particular attention to the question of whether the RE, as currently written, "violate[s] an exempted child's fundamental right to an education" and whether school boards need specific, legislated guidance on how to process RE claims.
VaHomeschoolers' Position
VaHomeschoolers has spoken with Professor Block about the issues and concerns raised by this report, and we have spoken with reporters covering this story. We have written our own response to the report, highlighting our concern with the fact that the public dialogue on this issue seems to be based on (and may contribute to the growth of) a fundamental distrust of the motives, decisions and lifestyles of Virginia's homeschooling parents.
As an inclusive homeschooling organization that advocates on behalf of homeschoolers of all religious faiths — and those who practice no religion — VaHomeschoolers is confident that the vast majority of parents choosing to file under the RE, like other homeschooling parents, take their children's educations extremely seriously and dedicate themselves to ensuring the quality of those educations. We will continue to work to safeguard the variety of legal homeschooling options available to Virginia families, including the Religious Exemption, and to keep you informed about our work.


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The UK has some of the highest levels of wealth concentration in the developed world. It has an economy where most mature markets are dominated by a small number of players and the barriers to entry are far too high.
It is not an exaggeration to suggest that in many areas, from energy to banking to groceries, the UK has a monopolistic rentier rather than a market economy – a system in which certain individuals or small groups gain market dominance and excessive returns through anti-competitive practices. This conspires against innovation and is detrimental to the small and emergent businesses that generate growth and spread prosperity. Added to this, our education system, by specialising too early and often in the wrong areas, fails to produce students with fully rounded skill-sets. We are simply not equipping our future workforce with the means to safeguard our, and their, economic future. This is one reason why the real value of wages in proportion to growth in GDP continues to stagnate or fall. Our long-term productivity dilemma is a function of market capture and the effective de-skilling of the population.
We believe that shared prosperity cannot be achieved by simply tweaking the market. Britain needs significant demand and supply-side transformation, with new visionary institutions re-ordering our economy. We need long-term solutions that give power over wealth and assets, not simply handouts, to ordinary people. Central to this process of economic empowerment is an ethical, practical and adaptable education that gives people the skills to build their own businesses, or develop their own talents, rather than a conveyor belt to a service industry of low wage and less return.
New financial institutions to promote small business lending are required, and this involves smaller, more specialised and decentralised banks that can deliver advice as well as capital. We wish to explore ways in which all financial transactions can be linked to a wider social purpose and profit, which itself needs a transformation of the legal framework within which economic transactions take place. We believe that the future lies in the shaping of a genuinely social market which would be in consequence a genuinely free and open market. Internalising externalities and creating a level economic playing field in terms of tax paid and monopolies recognised and challenged, remains beyond the scope of contemporary governments to deliver. Such a vision requires new concepts. The viable transformative solutions lie beyond the purview of the current visions of both left and right in the UK.
A key opportunity to break both individuals and communities from various cycles of deprivation lies in securing sustainable work contracts and undergoing personal and professional development that will open up pathways to promotion and engaged compelling work. However, a major skills gap precludes many from entering into the workforce: many businesses are seeking skill-sets that are rare to come by, and many people have rare skill-sets and talent that many businesses do not recognise.
The financial crash of 2008 exposed Britain's economic settlement as fundamentally broken. Inquiries undertaken immediately after the crisis exposed a culture in the banking industry that revered short-term profiteering over long-term national prosperity.
The past 30 years has seen the deepening concentration of ownership and a widening disparity of outcomes in the UK. Today, the country is divided between the few who are assetrich and receive exorbitant returns, and the many that have been denied access to meaningful assets while the relative worth of their wages has steadily declined. Recent analysis has put this divide into sharp perspective: the richest 1 per cent own as much in property, pensions and financial assets as the poorest 55 per cent, while this difference is further exacerbated by the ever-widening chasm in income levels. Unjustified by merit and result, but owing all to the leverage that built-in market advantage delivers, we are rapidly creating an economic serfdom that we thought long abolished.
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Was off the road a few days because of the temp, but I've made some upgrades. Got me a set of lobster gloves and a balaclava. -15C on Friday and they worked like a champ.
Today, only -3C but 2-3 cm of snow+rain made things pretty soupy. Don't think I'll be doing doings those conditions much more; too slippery and treacherous.
Cold, clear, beautiful.
Missed 3 days of riding due to weather (ice storm) and out-of-town travel, so I was itching to ride this morning. Then a stupid cold front rolled through our area early in this morning with temperatures hovering around freezing. The local forecasters were calling for icy roads, so I ended up driving. Hopefully I can make up some mileage later this week.
Wonderfully crisp 40 degree ride in this morning! I need to go look in the Bible and see if God has identified 40 degrees as the perfect cycling temperature - If not, I'm writing it in next time I go to Mass. The ride home (which will take place in about 3 hours) will be assisted by a 17mph tailwind. Is life good, or what??!? Ride Free!!
ice storm, sleet. Studded tires where important today. Of course I didn't have them on but dealt w/ it. They are on now. Of course the ice has melted.
I came down to get my bike for the ride home - flat tire.
I hate flat tires and I have far more than my fair share of them.
Once again, it's a rear tire. Never the front, always the rear. I just walked to the bus station, I'll deal with it tomorrow.
I've had a couple of front flats lately. Don't worry, they will come. :-)
Today was very nice - the rain came between commutes and I stayed warm and dry.
Second day that I'm stuck at home with high fever and feeling like I got hit by a truck. Hope to be up and about tomorrow and in good enough shape to commute to work by bike.
No commute today, we had 2-3 cm of snow last night and we'll have freezing rain today. A 27.2 kms ride with a strong headwind on that?!? No way! Tonight we should have a high of 8 celcius and rain so I should be good tomorow.
Have a nice ride everyone.
A mild morning, wet streets and quiet.
Finally back on the saddle after 4 days of travel and weather difficulties. Very warm this morning for this time of year with temps in the upper 40s, and the high is supposed to reach about 70 this afternoon. The roads were "sweating" this morning, I guess from it warming up so much after an extended cold spell, so it was nice having fenders even with clear skies. I'll need to wash my bike well this weekend due to all of the salt on the roads from last Friday's ice storm here.
Came close-ish to getting t-boned this morning, but since the driver was crossing the arterial I was riding down via side streets I just braked hard and turned onto the same street she was pulling onto. At that point I was a little ahead of her on the side street and it was very obvious she screwed up, but she refused to even make eye contact. Oh well. I barely get worked up about this stuff anymore.
Calm and pleasant. Saw many, many birds on the first, more rural portion: egrets, herons, hawks, robins. Then passed a long line of backed up cars as I got into civilization. I tried to not be smug.
Fast and warm!! It was about 11 degrees a couple days ago, today it is 60.. Go figure!! ;)
The ride to work was 38 degrees into a 15mph headwind. It was pretty easy though I just caught a lower gear and spun easily and enjoyed it. It is snowing here today, but I expect my ride home will be on dry streets - just cuz that's the way El Paso is - and they are predicting a west wind (tailwind for me) of 25mph sustained. That's hardly even exercise lol :lol:
Easily the most difficult commute I've ever been on - I had to ride directly into a 30mph headwind gusting to 45 on my wife's single speed. I felt like I was riding one of those tiny clown bikes up the Himalayas. Can't wait for my new bike to get here; it may be a single speed but at least I won't look like I stole it from a 12 year old girl.
It was just pissing light rain on the way in the morning. The commute home...well, it's coming down really good now, my bike actually get cleaned. :D
The low-energy problem that had been bothering me for the last few days seems to have gone away. I celebrated my 38th birthday today with a couple of very satisfying commutes.
I've noticed a lot more bird songs in the mornings this week. Spring is soooo close....
first day in about 2 weeks i could ride. 35F and driving rain. was glad to have it.
55 degree morning in January in DC. doesn't get much better than that.
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I'd like to personally thank the Clive, IA snow plow operators. Their careful efforts ensure that the entirety of the snow from the intersection is deposited squarely on the bike path/sidewalk intersection ensuring that I get extra practice to improve my cyclocross mounting/dismounting at EVERY intersection. Aside from their help, the ride was uneventful and nice, with about a 4-5" blanket of snow and temps in the low 20's. This afternoon will be colder and the wind will be in my face, but I'm still looking forward to the trip.
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User talk:CodyDelis
You are not allowed to get rid of talk page contents, even the welcome template. Make your userpage at User:CodyDelis. Thank you. Mudkipluvr4ever 19:57, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
Your talk page
That stuff is for your userpage, you know... it'd be at CodyDelis. Just saying. ▫▪Ťïňắ ♫♥ 20:06, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
- Look, that little intro about you up there? It's for your USERPAGE, here: User:CodyDelis. This page is a TALKPAGE, for you and others to talk about things related to Bulbapedia articles. So, I suggest you stop editing this page for your personal information. Please read the welcome template on the top to get familiar with the rules here, since this is not Wikipedia. —♥ Jello 20:39, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
You've been making too many edits to the
User talk: namespace lately. Please take your conversations to the forums, a chatroom, e-mail, an IM service, or something similar, as that many edits will slow down the server. --▫▪Ťïňắ ♫♥ 20:30, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
- Plus put personal info on your userpage. You have it linked twice already by two people. Please move your personal info to it. Mudkipluvr4ever 20:38, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
I noticed you have been editing the
User: namespace a lot recently. You may not be aware of this, but Bulbapedia has a Userspace policy that asks users to try and minimize the number of userspace edits they make in a short period of time. Heavy editing of these personal pages can put undue stress on the server, so please leave your page alone for now and go help out in the mainspace. Bulbapedia is an encyclopedia, after all, so please help us to complete it! If you edit the mainspace more often, you will be allowed to edit your userpage more often too. Thanks! --▫▪Ťïňắ ♫♥ 04:49, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
Actually i only edited it twice within the last hour and a half, so i dont see how it slows down the server, and I also have been using preview. PokeMSTR 04:51, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
- The point is that you need to edit articles on the mainspace (Nothing with a prefix like User: or Talk:), not the server stress part. You have not edited a single page on the mainspace so far, and you kinda need to do so. ▫▪Ťïňắ ♫♥ 04:52, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
Yes, but i have already edited a Clefairy TCG page, and gave more info for the HGSS page. PokeMSTR 04:54, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
- That is one page. A single page vs about 30 edits or so to any other namespace. That needs to be fixed as soon as possible.
- Also, your signature needs to reflect your username... PokeMSTR isn't gonna cut it if your name is CodyDelis. ▫▪Ťïňắ ♫♥ 04:56, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
Yeah well the Clefairy page was incomplete so i helped alot on that one, and the HGSS one was just bothering me, and it does reflect my name, cuz i AM a pokemaster and if it makes u feel better i changed itCodyDelis 04:59, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
- ...just because the Clefable page was "incomplete" and you "completed" does not mean that it clears up the problem you're currently having with the policy. Contribute to the mainspace more, or you may lose the ability to edit your userpage, okay? ▫▪Ťïňắ ♫♥ 05:06, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
Alright look, your 13 as ur page says and im 16, i dont know wtf a mainspace is anyways CodyDelis 05:08, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
- Age does not matter. I just explained to you what the mainspace is, it's any page like Pokémon or Berry without any prefix (which means no "User:" or "Talk:" tacked on). I have no idea how to explain it in more simple terms. ▫▪Ťïňắ ♫♥ 05:11, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
Then obviously i HAVE been cuz the Clefairy page hasnt had those terms on there - unsigned comment from CodyDelis (talk • contribs)
- Take the time to read this over, because I'm done spamming recent changes with this silly conversation. One edit does NOT make up for 30+ edits to everywhere else. No matter how supposedly large it was. ▫▪Ťïňắ ♫♥ 05:16, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
You must be a complete idiot cuz i have helped out then, and yes i read it, and i dont own every pokemon card, i never seen every episode of pokemon, nor have i played EVERY pokemon game, i only look at the pages of that games that i HAVE played, but there is no further info need on them at the time. - unsigned comment from CodyDelis (talk • contribs)
- Yeah, this says otherwise. lol :( ▫▪Ťïňắ ♫♥ 05:23, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
yeah most of the contributions(of what ARE contrtibutions) are with those terms but look at the Clefable page, you know how hard that is to look throughall my cards to find that, and yes i have them in order CodyDelis 05:25, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
- Listen buddy, she may be 13, but she is way more mature than you are acting. You have made more edits to your Userpage than you have the mainspace, which is basically anything that is not your userpage, as in actual articles. This is not myspace or facebook. Please properly read the rules again if you are not clear on them. —♥ Jello 05:30, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
I blocked you for 2 hours as a cool-down period. Tina is offering help, and telling you how things are done, and you're just being a jerk back to be honest. It really put me over the edge when you made it seem like you are better than Tina because you're older. Chill. Virtual-Z 05:31, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
Alright, you claim that i called her an idiot cuz im older. no thats not it if that what ur thinking. I called her an idiot cuz she said that i havnt made any contributions to the mainspace, but i have, even though it was only 1 page. And that got me mad cuz she kept arguing that I havnt. CodyDelis 15:20, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
- "Alright look, your 13 as ur page says and im 16" Virtual-Z 17:05, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
- You are missing the point, Cody. You have made 1 contribution to the mainspace. That is not enough to make up for your 7 userspace (and much more to User talk: and Talk:) edits. Your edit to Clefable (Jungle 1)? Good. Keep doing stuff like that instead of continuing to insist that you've contributed more. Because you really haven't. Size in edits does NOT count at all. ▫▪Ťïňắ ♫♥ 17:16, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
No thats not what i meant about me being 16 and her 13, im saying that i am older and im going to say it, i didnt know what the fucking mainspace was, i was saying that im older and I DID NOT KNOW WHAT IT WAS, In any of that have I insisted i contributed more. I admitted that I contributed to 1 mainspace page. nothing else CodyDelis 19:46, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
- ok wiki master, everyone has been keeping there cool here except you. lets start off with age, which doesnt matter here. not only has Tina been here way longer than you, but shes also (apparently) way more mature than you. but moving onto the topic at hand, the userspace abuse. as a wiki, we grow via productive community edits made to mainspace articles. people editing their userpage does not constitute constructive editing as it gets the site no closer to completion (not that a wiki can ever be completed, but its still the main goal). however, i see you are confused as to what a "mainspace" and "userspace" are. well you would know the difference had you checked out the huge green welcome at the top of the page, OR actually bothered to check out the userspace message that Tina left you. instead of having an argument with Tina about all of this (and coincidentally, resulting in you being blockedtwice) you could have read those pages, understood the situation, not be blocked, and be on your way to maybe actually being a wiki master, as you claim to be. so when you come back, i dont want to see anymore agruing or misunderstanding. all the questions you have can be answered by simply checking out the links provided to you and all you have to do is read them. -- MAGNEDETH 20:00, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
I'm sorry, but i thought EVERY article was a mainspace, I wasn't confused with userpage and mainspace. And I did read the large green box and to let you know, everyone that i have talked to thats new on here says that they dont understand it. CodyDelis 00:49, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
- Try reading this article. It should explain the definitions of and distinctions between the namespaces on Bulbapedia. —darklordtrom 00:58, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
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The use of multiple accounts is forbidden on Bulbapedia, especially for ban evasion (see BP:Blocking_policy#Additional_accounts). Your "friend" Pipmaster has been blocked forever, and your IP address is prohibited from registering new accounts. Your account has been blocked for two weeks. Once this time period is up you are welcome to return to Bulbapedia, provided you contribute to the mainspace in an appropriate manner. Obviously, if you try your previous actions again, the blocking period will escalate to a perhaps indefinite period. Thank you, and I look forward to working with you constructively. —darklordtrom 01:08, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
- You appear to have forgotten that we don't allow multiple accounts. I thought I made the consequences of this clear before. As such, both MtCharizard and you will be blocked now. If you have issues with this rule, then feel free to consult me via email. —darklordtrom 23:34, 16 July 2010 (UTC)


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COOKEVILLE, Tenn., March 21 (UPI) -- A New Jersey man is being held without bail charged with killing Courtney Cash, great-niece of late music legend Johnny Cash, in her Baxter, Tenn., home.
Wayne Masciarella of Cape May, N.J., allegedly stabbed Cash, 23, and her boyfriend Wednesday, killing her and wounding William Austin Johnson, the (Nashville) Tennessean reported. Cash's body was found in a cedar box in her home after Johnson showed up at a hospital with multiple stab wounds, bringing his 20-month-old daughter, who was not hurt, with him.
Putnam County Sheriff David Andrews described Masciarella as a friend of Cash and Johnson. Masciarella, who has a lengthy arrest record in Tennessee, allegedly attacked the couple during an argument.
Cash's grandfather, Tommy Cash, a singer-songwriter and brother of the more famous Johnny Cash, released a statement on the killing.
"Courtney and her boyfriend are beloved members of my family and like you we have a lot of questions and emotions that we are beginning to sort through today,'' Tommy Cash said. "We are completely heartbroken. It is a time like this that we are grateful for our faith and trusting the loving guidance of God."


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What a treat to see that Adah chose one of my designs for her first birthday party!
It is possible that her mom Sara had something to do with it. Sara is the creative behind Sara's Party Perfect and Hick's Paper Goods.
How perfect are these goodies from Tin Can Treats?
I love the sweet bird vase.
The first of many perfect parties for this cute little girl.
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5 comments:
- JMW said...
How adorable!
- November 15, 2010 at 9:36 AM
- About Last Weekend said...
what stunning photos, love that bird vase too - and the dress!
- November 15, 2010 at 9:43 AM
- paige said...
ps...i have loved reading your skin care posts by karee ( i think that's her name)...LOVE those.
i wrote everything down on a list "to-do" or "to -buy"!
- November 15, 2010 at 1:42 PM
- paula said...
what a sweety. The dress is stunning.
- November 15, 2010 at 2:14 PM
- Tickled Pink And Green said...
Oh how adorable! And I love those "vintage" soda waters....you can get them at World Market..... they have several kinds...
- November 15, 2010 at 9:54 PM
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From: "Penny Wilson" <>
Subject: Re: [CRAIG-L] Blount and Maury Counties----James Craig II related to Thomas Craig????
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 19:01:06 -0500
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Dear Peggy,
I am looking for Thomas Craig who was on the 1850 Benton County TN census.
This is as far back as I have gotten with absolute proof that he is my grgr
grandfather. On the 1840 Carroll County census there was the widow of James
Craig II, Ann (Alexander) Craig and also a Thomas Craig. All I have seen is
just an index to this 1840 Carroll County TN census so I know none of the
statistics on it. When I couldn't find any more leads on my Thomas Craig b.
abt. 1806 TN then I started a process of elimination or either adding to. I
have been researching Stewart County TN, Humphreys County TN, Carroll County
TN and Benton County TN. with the Craig families that lived there. Do you
happen to know who the Thomas Craig on the 1840 Carroll County TN census
was? Could you also tell me who the other James Craig II children are that
you don't have accesss to on the computer you are using? Do you have any
Craig's with the first names of Charles Freeman born abt. 1814, Asa b. abt
1818, or an Eli Craig b. abt. 1812? This Asa Craig married a Matilda G. Lea
on Dec. 16, 1838 Carroll County TN. Charles Freeman Craig married Susan
Frances Presson on Dec. 13, 1849 in Benton County TN. Asa, Charles Freeman,
and Eli were on the 1850 Benton County TN census along with my Thomas Craig.
Any information that you might share would be appreciated. Thank you...
Best regards,
Penny Wilson
----- Original Message -----
From: Peggy C. Wilson <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 5:38 PM
Subject: [CRAIG-L] Blount and Maury Counties----James Craig II
> James Craig II is my husband's ancestor
> Husband: James Craig II
> Born: ca 1760 in: York Co., Pennsylvania
> Resided: in:
> Died: 7 Sep 1828 in: Carroll Co., Tennessee
> Buried: in: Carroll Co., Tennessee
> Other: in:
> Children: Occupation:
> Father: James Craig, Sr.
> Mother: unknown
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> Wife: Susan
> Married: in: Maury Co., Tennessee
> Ceremony: Y
> Born: in:
> Resided: in:
> Died: after 1800 in:
> There are other children....I do not have them in this computer...
> this Wm W. Craig is my husband's ancestor.
> 1 William W. Craig
> MBorn: ca 1785 in: Greene Co., Tennessee/North Carolina
> Died: ca 1844 in: Gibson Co., Tennessee
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> second wife to James Craig II
> Wife: Ann Alexander
> Married: 17 Nov 1814 in: Maury Co., Tennessee
> Ceremony: Y Divorced/Annulled/Separated: Year:
> Born: 1765 in:
> Resided: in:
> Died: 1845 in: Carroll Co., Tennessee
> Buried: in: Carroll Co., Tennessee
> Other: in:
> Children: Occupation:
> Father:
> Mother:
> >>>>>>>>>
> Not sure which Thomas Craig you might think is related to James...the
> records I have indicate his father was James Craig I and there were
> two brother to James II....David Craig and John Craig.
> My records indicate Ann Alexander was married 4 times and put in for
> Rev. War Pension on 23 Jan 1843 in Carroll Co., Tn. She claimed all
> 4 of husbands had served at King's Mountain, S.C. 7 Oct 1780. I do
> not know if Alexander is her maiden name or the name of husband #3.
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> Peggy C. Wilson
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Japanese Officials from Country's Largest Agriculture Co-op Tour Maine CUs
WESTBROOK, Me. - Officials from Japan's largest agricultural cooperative were recently hosted by the Maine Credit Union League and two credit unions to learn more about the movement here and to take pointers back to their native country. The Japanese delegation representing Norinchukin Cooperative Bank, which has $400 billion in assets, Toshihiko Nagai, Manager of Finance and Investment Research Division, and Arihiro Muroya, Chief Economist of the Finance & Investment Research Division, were "impressed by how focused Maine's credit unions are on serving members." As the fifth strongest credit union state in the nation, according to League data, Muroya said the tour "provided an excellent opportunity to learn the strategies and procedures of a successful business model that exists in credit unions." "Credit unions have been able to succeed by carving out a distinct niche in the market and providing excellent services to members," Muroya said. "What we have seen will enable us to reach out and better serve the Japanese people." Nagai was equally impressed with the cooperative spirit here telling League officials "after visiting several credit unions and gathering a wealth of information about the Maine credit union movement, I am left wondering how anyone could not be a member of a Maine credit union." Japanese officials also met with University Credit Union and Five County Credit Union here. From Maine, the pair visited several credit unions in Oregon before returning to Japan on Nov. 1.


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Editor's note: This is an excerpt from "Saints at War: Inspiring Stories of Courage and Valor", published by Cedar Fort this month, which includes stories shared about members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who served in the armed forces. Click here for more about the book.
We left Fort Carson, Colo., in January 2004, and we were about ready to go to Afghanistan in April. During this time, my bishop thought it fitting, right before going to Afghanistan, he said, "Jill, I really feel you should be endowed. I really think you need to go to the temple."
I was 21 at the time, and I was gone 17 months instead of 18 months with all the training involved and everything, and it was like a mission. It really was. My ward sent me off and had a missionary plaque, and I had on my plaque Doctrine and Covenants 68:6, which reads, "Wherefore, be of good cheer, and do not fear, for I the Lord am with you, and will stand by you; and ye shall bear record of me, even Jesus Christ, that I am the Son of the living God, that I was, that I am, and that I am to come."
I knew that I should be of good cheer and should have no fear going to war and preparations to go to Afghanistan. I was endowed in April, right before going to Afghanistan.
I'm so grateful to have made those covenants in the temple and to have that knowledge to that perspective of helping me, and giving me that strength of the gospel, of the promises and the blessings of the temple with me at all times and to be reminded of that through the garments. I felt protection, period. Just with faith in general.Comment on this story
Yes, at first I was terrified in going to war, but once that perspective changed for me, realizing that I should put my faith in God and in this whole experience, I knew that I was protected. I knew that so many prayers were for the soldiers over there. I felt that being a soldier in the Lord's army, and with these garments I felt that in a way it was my armor. I was putting on my armor as a soldier in the Lord's army. I guess this is the way to do it.
Jill Stevens was a member of the Utah Army National Guard when the events of Sept. 11, 2001, occurred. She served for 18 months in Afghanistan during 2004–05. Following this service, she participated in and won the Miss Utah Competition in 2007. In 2008, she competed in the Miss America Pageant and won the "America's Choice" award as voted by Americans watching the event. For her, it was like winning the gold medal. In January 2009, she married Kerry Shepherd.


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CLEARFIELD, Pa., May 15 (UPI) -- A Clearfield County, Pa., farmer said vandals snuck onto his property under cover of night and spray-painted obscenities on three of his goats.
Evan Bellin said the crime, which took place during the weekend, could set him back hundreds of dollars as the goats' wool is used to make cashmere and the paint could take months to grow out, WPXI-TV, Pittsburgh, reported Thursday.
"It's really bad to think they would do that to innocent animals. I mean if they have a problem with me, to come to me. I mean, I have all of my vehicles up here and they didn't touch anything," Bellin said.
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