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Selflessness Is Selfish
Everyone is selfish no matter what. This is because selflessness isn't even possible. The choice to ever be "selfless" will always be driven by a form of serving one's self? No person chooses to be selfless because THEY absolutely hate it or are against doing it. People choose to be selfless because THEY want to, or believe they should be because of some virtue they hold dear, etc. Regardless of the reason for choosing it, the reason always serves some aspect of their self/being. Even a person choosing to give an item to someone which they really don't want to give them chooses to do it because of another "side" of THEMSELVES driving them to do it. In this case, the only selfless act they could commit is to choose NOT to give the gift so as to NOT serve their primary driving force for giving it (themselves). But again, could a person ever bring themselves to this decision without a selfish reason?
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Selflessness will always be driven by serving one's feelings, values, or desires which is ultimately serving yourself.
No person chooses to be selfless because THEY absolutely hate it or are against doing it. People choose to be selfless because THEY want to, or believe they should be because of some virtue they hold dear, etc. Regardless of the reason for choosing it, the reason always serves some aspect of their self/being.
If you do not wish for private blessings but truly in your being for the greater good of the community, from your heart, your selflessness is motivated by pure intent. rather than an adopted ego identity. you are a vessel of goodwill. your feeling is for humanity. which others may perceive as self-serving if they lack comprehension of their own inconsequentiality.
The only possible selflessness would be choosing to deny your desires simply because they're YOUR desires to deny regardless of whether those desires were "selfish" or "selfless".
Even a person choosing to give an item to someone which they really don't want to give them chooses to do it because of another "side" of THEMSELVES driving them to do it. In this case, the only selfless act they could commit is to choose NOT to give the gift so as to NOT serve their primary driving force for giving it (themselves).
Even if you did this you will always have a reason for choosing to do this, and it will always be YOUR reason.
Therefore it will always be selfish. Even if the reason is random like mere curiosity or something like that you're still serving that part of your self.
One always acts in his self-interest unless some external uncontrollable forces take over. Even amid those circumstances, he'll choose the best possible solution. BECAUSE he's selfish! Even when a person sacrifices, he's being selfish
ex: if I sacrifice or give up my job to look after my crippled/disabled child, I still am being selfish. It's my child & it's imp for me! If I give up my job to serve some orphans I haven't ever met, I still am being selfish in the sense that I'm trying to be virtuous!
Selflessness is a redundant word
As everyone including the ones who claim to be selfless are in fact selfish!
An "ultimate service to one's self" isn't what defines "selfishness".
Selfishness and selflessness are in the initial DESIRE to be either. Selflessness particularly then is found in the desire to be selfless not in the choice to serve that desire. Yes, when making a decision, we all naturally choose to go with the strongest desire WE'RE presently feeling for something. That's the point, though. Not everyone's strongest desire IS to be selfless. Though every person is 'ultimately' serving themselves the difference is in the KIND of self being 'served'. There's FAR more to distinguish us from each other than the fact that we all ultimately serve ourselves in this sense. The simple fact that one person's ultimate desire could be serving others and another person's could be serving themselves shows they're drastically different than each other especially considering the vast differences in behavior that would follow the two. To say it another way, how could you possibly view these two people and their behavior the same way or consider them equally selfish? Think about it. Imagine the kind of person and what they'd do when their greatest desire and value is to serve themselves (obviously at the cost of others). And imagine the other kind of person and what they'd do when their greatest desire is to serve others (at the cost of themselves). I couldn't assess them according to this philosophic definition of selfishness. That's too heartless and shallow. You tell me. Which one's truly selfish: the person who SERVES others because it makes them "feel good" or the person who ABUSES others because it makes them "feel good"? Can you dare equate them by saying they're BOTH selfish? If you do, then I dare to assume it's because you just want to win the argument.
"To say it another way, how could you possibly view these two people and their behavior the same way or consider them equally selfish?"
It does not necessarily mean their behavior is viewed the same way, the point is that deep down inside after many twists and turns eventually you find motivation itself, which is what drives selfishness. One quick point, highly motivated individuals are more selfish, you know, those "overachievers". Selflessness comes out of selfishness, it is just highly, highly refined.
The argument detaches the issue from a person's relationship to OTHERS.
You can't be truly selfish OR selfless without the existence of other people. If only one person existed on earth we wouldn't consider them selfish if they lived only for themselves and their desires. (I'm ignoring the fact that they also have a relationship with the earth and its needs for the sake of the point.) In that same situation we wouldn't consider them SELFLESS if they strangely decided to deny themselves. This is because there are no people to benefit from the decision nor is that the REASON they made it. It's the presence of others and the awareness of their needs that gives substance to selflessness or selfishness. This is why we consider it selfish for a Mother to only feed her baby soda pop and cheese puffs when she KNOWS it would harm the baby in the long run. The existence of the baby and the mother's awareness of what the baby needs is what gives her the opportunity to either be selfless or selfish. Coincidently, no one would accuse the mother of being selfish if she truly didn't know it would harm the baby. Selflessness is far more than only denying one's desires. Who, if forced with the sudden decision to save a baby from harm at the expense of loosing a limb asks themselves, "For which reason am I going to do this: for the baby or for the good feeling I'll get about myself from doing this?" Nobody. If anyone ever chooses the baby it's safe to assume their primary driving force and ultimate reason for the decision was the baby's well-being. Selfless desires only arise when others exist and when the person cares about them.
Try telling that to a parent, volunteer, or friend who sincerely sacrificed precious things for the sake of someone they loved and remember to block your face from the inevitable slap.
Sometimes we take philosophy or rationale too far and try to completely detach our hearts or souls from our minds. They function best when they function together not in isolation of each other. They both have great power. You can use rationale to make anything sound true, and once your heart is convinced of something not even the greatest counsellor or intellectual can convince you otherwise with reason and argument. So, if we're simply honest with ourselves concerning the matter we all know deep down when we're being selfish and when we're truly being selfless. Period.
Though I agree doing something selfless in order to avoid guilt and sadness is selfish (as well as doing it for good feelings), that isn't what a person feels when we are concerned about another. We just want to help the person or make him/her feel better, with little or no concern for what we will gain (both physical and spiritual). In fact, feeling guilt for hurting a person may be a sure sign of compassion and concern for the person, though it can be viewed under a selfish light in making a decision(though that light doesn't entail that same concern itself).
It's easy to say 'look at what people give up for the people they love' and use that as proof of selflessness. However, the fact that they are going out of their way - doing something they ordinarily wouldn't want to do - for someone they care about only serves to proove that selflessness is selfish. True, they are putting themselves out, but they are doing it to bring relief or aid to a person they value. That person's happiness affects their own happiness, and leaving them to suffer would leave someone with unpleasant feelings of guilt and sadness. Therefore, performing the 'selfless' act is, essentially, self-serving, albeit on a subconscious level.
Objective reality is a selfless medium which everyone is responsible for.
Selflessness is not necessarily a relationship to other persons. It must include a relationship to objective reality which is depended upon by everyone. Objective reality is a medium which defines and sustains life. It is the common property of everyone. It universalizes existence. Constructiveness and rationality are defined in terms of objective reality. Therefore, people must learn to contribute to life through objective reality while limiting subjectivity to personal concerns.
This is a contradictory argument
By stating that, by acting selflessly, people are commiting a selfish act, one removes them from the set of so-called selfless people. Selflessness, by definition, is not in anyway selfish. The argument shoud be whether people can achieve selflessness. This could be presented in many hypothetical scenarios, but take this one:
A child is born with the part of his brain missing or inactive (no slating the science, this is not a medical point) that controls empathy, the ability to notice and react to other peoples emotions. By commiting selfless acts, the child could not gain any sense of reward at all from his actions, he doesn't have the capacity to care what other people think. If this child, therefore, acts selflessly, it cannot be selfish, there is no upside to him.
A normal person may or may not be capable of this, but it remains fact that it is possible.
Not every act has a selfish motive.
There are other things that may also be selfless other than love, just as long as you are not concerned with yourself. There is, for example, loyalty, in which you would do anything that a person says without expectation of money or benefits, instead the reason being that you just want to do what the person says. Love's opposite, hate, may also be selfless, though not for another person. When you feel hate, you just want to hurt somebody, unlike love, which is the opposite. In this case, you are also not concerned with what you gain or benefit. Since these reasons are selfless, why isn't love?
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The central pivot of this argument is on the implications of the word selfish vs selflessness in regards to morality and virtue. If we say selfish=bad, then of course the person who always gives of themselves could never be considered selfish. But if we say selfish=self serving or merely acting in ones best interest, the debate becomes valid. Very few people who say no to this argument would have a problem acknowledging the wisdom in telling a profoundly selfish, destructive teen that if they TRULY wanted to serve themselves in the long run, they should stop focusing on themselves so much and turn outward.
Consider that even the most "selfless" acts may be driven by things such as:
– Avoidance of guilt (taking care of those less fortunate, if you would feel bad not doing it. Although the act in itself is an honourable thing, the driving force is still the way that you feel)
– Desire to appear virtuous (it feels good to be seen in a positive light by friends/family/colleagues. If you argue that some people do not advertise what they are doing, then they likely fall into the above category)
– Religion (the afterlife is a powerfully motivating force, building up treasures in heaven is for one's benefit alone)
the word self should be replaced by ego. the self has no desires. serving others instead of oneself can be viewed as an egotistical way of life too, as the motivation comes from ones own desire. selflessness does not even exist because the self is always present, people need to stop confusing the terms. however, when you drop your ego your actions will naturally become right according to circumstance.


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Monday, 17 December, 2001, 10:41 GMT
Israel demands 'actions not words'
Israel and the United States have called on Yasser Arafat to follow up his words with actions, after the Palestinian leader gave a speech pledging to rein in militants and calling for a return to peace negotiations.
But a few hours later, Israeli troops shot dead a member of the militant Islamic group Hamas outside his home in the West Bank city of Hebron, Palestinian security officials said.
Mr Nusseibeh was taken in for questioning on Monday after ignoring an Israeli ban on a reception involving foreign diplomats for the feast of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Israeli Public Security Minister Uzi Landau said that allowing the Mr Nusseibeh to host the reception would have "contributed to the loss of our sovereignty in Jerusalem".
He added: "There's a whole series of activities which are in truth terror activities, and part of these activities are receptions."
He took over the Jerusalem portfolio for the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) in October following the death of Faisal al-Husseini earlier this year.
Israeli officials stressed that Mr Arafat's self-rule Palestinian Authority was not allowed to conduct any activities in Jerusalem under the interim peace accords whose collapse in 2000 presaged the current round of violence.
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On Sunday night in a speech also marking the Muslim Eid, Mr Arafat said he "renewed his call to completely halt any activities, especially suicide attacks which we have always condemned".
Raanan Gissin, a spokesman for the Israeli prime minister, responded by saying that Israel expected the Palestinian leader to "dismantle the suicide bombers' assembly line."
"Don't make declarations. Start making arrests, start doing what you promised," Mr Gissin said.
The United States echoed Israel's response with White House spokesman Ari Fleischer saying: "Concrete action... (is) what will be measured and that's what the president will wait and see."
The United Nations Middle East envoy, Terje Roed Larsen, was more upbeat, saying the speech was one of the most important Mr Arafat had ever given and marked a potential turning point in the search for peace.
He said that in the previous 24 hours there had been significant developments on the ground, with Palestinian security forces closing down scores of organisations linked with "terrorist" attacks.
The leaders of Jordan, Egypt and France also welcomed Mr Arafat's speech.
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Mr Arafat's speech also called on Israel to return to the negotiating table.
He said the Israeli Government was waging an "unjust" war, but that the Palestinians would not be humiliated.
Mr Arafat said Israel was using the suicide attacks by militants as an excuse to launch a "brutal" war.
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It was his first address since Israel cut ties with him last week and stationed tanks outside his offices in Ramallah.
In the 25-minute speech, Mr Arafat urged his people to take into account the changed climate following the 11 September attacks on the United States. He also stressed the importance of national unity.
The Palestinian leader's speech followed two weeks of sustained bombardment of Palestinian targets and incursions by Israeli forces after suicide attacks on Israeli civilians.
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text: Johannesburg - It was "disturbing" that two journalists were prevented by police from leaving the scene after photographing President Jacob Zuma's Johannesburg home, so soon after another photographer was forced to delete pictures of the president's convoy, the Mail & Guardian said on Thursday."If this had happened on its own, you would think the cops were just a bit overzealous," said editor Nic Dawes on Thursday."But it is in the context of the assault on Tshepo Lesole at (Chris Hani) Baragwanath and the arrest of Chumani Maxwele."Eyewitness News reporter Lesole was forced to delete his pictures while Zuma was visiting the Soweto hospital last week, and Maxwele was held overnight for gesturing at the presidential motorcade in Cape Town.Capture images for a storyMail & Guardian journalists Delwyn Verasamy and Lionell Faull went to the Forest Town House on Wednesday afternoon to capture images for a story they were working on, Dawes explained."The police on the scene stopped them, questioned them briefly and told them they were not allowed to leave."They were told that a superintendent from Pretoria was coming to deal with it.The office was contacted to say what had happened and Dawes drove to the scene to intervene. An argument then ensued with the police at the house."I asked what they had been doing wrong and all the cops could say was 'no they were taking pictures'. They said it was not acceptable to take pictures there."Dawes said he did not accept this because as far as he knew, the privately owned house was not a key point – a building or site that is protected for national security reasons and can't be photographed.Eventually Dawes said that if they were not arrested and not detained, they were leaving, which they did.Police denied version of eventsHowever, police spokesperson Senior Superintendent Vishnu Naidoo denied this version of events. He said a civilian driver at the house had asked the pair to wait for a presidential spokesperson to arrive to help them.He said Zuma's media aide Zizi Kodwa had been called about the matter."They were advised to wait so that the communications person of the presidency could be called, because they came there on a communication matter," said Naidoo.When initially asked if the house was a key point he said it was not, but later said that as key points are secret he could not say if it was or was not a key point. He believed it was immaterial to the story whether the house was a key point or not.Dawes said this was a latest of a number of incidents.A photographer taking a picture of Communications Minister Siphiwe Nyanda at the Mount Nelson Hotel in Cape Town last week was followed to his car by Nyanda's guard who also questioned him.At gun pointOne-and-a-half years ago, a reporter taking pictures of former Gauteng premier and finance MEC Paul Mashatile's house had a gun cocked at her by a guard. Her licence plate was taken down and traced to her parents home."It is in the context of a trend. What worries me is it seems like vague and ill-defined security imperatives are trumping other basic constitutional rights, and that that message comes down to operatives on the ground from some kind of senior level. I'm not saying it comes from the president, but it is coming from somewhere."The presidency on Wednesday said it would request a report from the police on the Lesole scuffle.Naidoo said Kodwa could provide further information on the matter, but he was not immediately available.Zuma's house was widely photographed when the National Prosecuting Authority were removing what they believed at the time to be evidence ahead of his now abandoned corruption trial.


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Members of the City Council are:
Back Row (left to right): Council Member TJ Thomson, Council Member Ben Quintana, Council President Pro Tem Lauren McLean, Council Member Scot LudwigFront Row (left to right): Council President Elaine Clegg, Mayor David H. Bieter, Council Member Maryanne Jordan
Phone: (208) 384-4422
Email the Mayor
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150 N Capitol Blvd
Boise, ID 83702
William L. Bones
Chief of Police
Contact: BPD Media Relations Office
031010 Man charged with kidnapping part-time roommate &
abusing her dog; Other overnite Felony arrests
Arrested: Bennett J. Bartlett, 47, No Known
Charges:Kidnaping (Not for Ransom) (F),
Cruelty to Animals (m)
Boise Police responded to a call from a
woman about a disturbance at her home on the 5000 block of
West Mercurio, near State & Collister, yesterday,
March 9th at approximately 7:30 p.m. The victim, an adult female,
tells police she returned home that evening to find the
suspect, later identified as Bartlett, had been drinking.
The victim told officers she occasionally allows Bartlett to stay
at her home. A verbal argument began. The victim states that at one
point the suspect grabbed the victim's small dog by the neck
and began to choke it. The dog bit the suspect who, according to
the victim, then began to punch the dog. The victim says she
attempted to stop the suspect, who reportedly began to hit her in
the face. The victim says the suspect prevented her from leaving
through physical intimidation and verbal threats for approximately
two hours before the victim convinced the suspect to leave and
called 911. Boise Police located the suspect riding a bicycle near
35th and State and took him into custody. For the suspect's safety,
because he appeared extremely intoxicated, officers took him to a
nearby hospital for medical clearance before taking him to
jail. Responding officers say neither the victim nor the dog
appeared to have serious injuries from the incident. Neither
required medical treatment. The suspect was booked at the Ada
County Jail on the above listed charges. Boise Police detectives
are still investigating. Additional charges are possible.
The Boise Police Organized Retail Crime
Unit has developed a positive, productive working relationship with
loss prevention agents from many local retail stores, large and
small, local and national chains. The goal of the BPD Organized
Retail Crime Unit is to work with retailers to reduce theft and
fraud, crimes that can impact consumer prices.
Warrant Arrested: Holly M. Petersen, 24,
Warrant Charges:Possession of a Forged
Instrument (F)
The suspect was taken into custody on an outstanding felony
warrant for Possession of a Forged Instrument (bad checks)
The arrest warrant stems from an ongoing investigation into the
cashing of forged checks over several months. Evidence indicates
the suspect was involved in the passing of forged checks at various
retail stores in the area. That investigative information was
forwarded to the Ada County Prosecuting Attorney's Office and
resulted in the felony warrant.
Find out what's happening in your neighborhood. Read the Boise
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Well, I do have to agree on the bikini part. That would make a neat puzzle, I'm sure :-)
I can see that you don't know me. As soon as there is sun and a good temp you can find me in my little boat, in bikini, so how tan do you think I am in summer? And I don't believe that bikinies are only for the young ones.
Can't make a puzzle with 'LOL' written on it, can I? So I'm waiting for the summertime. Get a tan an become a puzzle. How's that for an ad?
Waiting for the Summertime, so I can make a snapshot of you while you're sunbathing. Would make a nice puzzle.
Maybe you could use a church tower as tripod and if you have that lens test, please warn me so I can wave to you. I live at the very South of Ljouwert. South of the canal.
Hmmm, never thought of that myself :-) If that's the camera, what would the tripod look like then? Maybe the lens is so strong that I can zoom in on Ljouwert :-)
I think this camera is specifically to make posters. Great big photos.
Indeed... but then again, standing on the second row is not too bad. I'm not even in the picture anymore :-(
See I told you so......
I guess I do but some fast fingers will come along and bump me off so don't take that picture as yet.
Pkin, looking at the board, you stand in front of the row to have your pic taken.
JiggyB: compensating goes only for cars, not and never for camera's. Even though I git a Nikon myself :-)
Compensating, are you? LOL
No no no no no not me!!!!!!!!
Pffff, when there's a picture to be taken, you stand in front of everyone else (so I noticed)
I can just see carring that one around.....................


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The Hurricanes recruiting scandal has exposed the college football recruiting process.
The Nevin Shapiro scandal involving the Miami Hurricanes has exposed a lot of problems with the process by which players are recruited and the treatment they get once they sign with a big college football school.
But this scandal has also shown us the inner workings of how players are treated and the benefits they are given to entice them to sign with a particular school. Here's a little flowchart to show you each step in the recruiting process.


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text: Jules Bean wrote: > do > a <- m > b <- n > l a x b y > > becomes > > l (<- m) x (<- n) y > > ...with, I suppose, left-to-right evaluation order. This looks 'almost > like substitution' which is the goal. Almost? So then (flip f) (<- m) (<- n) does *not* equal f (<- n) (<- m) ? There goes any hope of my understanding future Haskell code. (<- n) sure looks like an operator section to me, and more importantly a first class Haskell object. What human parsing this would not see a mere function application? And I guess this makes the following complete nonsense: do let a = (<- m) let b = (<- n) l a x b y What about do let (b,a) = ((<- n),(<- m)) -- many lines of code l a x b y Who can say that b was evaluated before a? I hope the language syntax does not evolve beyond my merely mortal ability to desugar it? Dan Weston


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Very sweet draw :)
Very cute! 5/5
my dog actually hoards socks in her bed even though she has toys but anyways 5/5 hearts
simply adorable , sleeping with his toy, looks so cute, i bet he has sweet dreams:) 5 hearts
you seems love the animals, i love them too, i have one cat i love so much, your drawings ar wonderful and realistic like this one...5h
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Recently I have been expanding my horse racing boundaries
and participating in some "for fun" handicapping competitions. I must say, not
only have they been exceptionally entertaining, but they give me a chance to
measure my handicapping skills up against many other fans.
My most recent challenge was to try to pick the winners of 4
races from either Arlington or Belmont on the Thursday cards. When I evaluate any
racing form the first thing I look at is the distance, class, and racing
surface that the race will be held on. To my surprise the first two races at
Belmont were both hurdle races. Before I go further with my evaluation of these
races, I want to be very clear with what my pre-disposed notion of jump racing
is like:
1. Horses fall…a lot
2. Jump racing is primarily raced in Europe
3. I know nothing about jump racing strategy, pace
, or pedigree
4. This sport is a war of attrition
To date, item number 1 above has kept me from actively
looking into jump racing. There are few things in all of sports that make me
cringe more than the sight of watching a galloping horse and jockey fall. My
experience (and developed Pavlovian response) with flat racing is that when a
horse falls, it is typically for a reason that will not have a positive
outcome. Couple this with all of the media coverage of jump races like the
Grand National which count falls a published statistic; I want no part of it.
Now that we have gotten that out of the way, I want to get
back to my handicapping challenge. Looking at these two races, one of which is
a Grade 1 stakes race, I couldn't help but first notice some distinct
differences from flat racing. Top imposts of 156 lbs and a racing distance of 2
½ miles, are these guys nuts?!?!
Once my hyperventilating subsided, I began to really break
down why my mind had just been blown. Having no experience with jump racing,
all I could picture in my head was exhausted horses coming down the stretch of
the Belmont Stakes knowing they had another mile to race and friggen fences in
the way! Ok Matt…calm down…. Not all races are run like you're being chased by
the devil, and when horses pace themselves appropriately, the defining
characteristic of the breed show its truest form. Stamina is not only defined
by sprinting as far as you can, but also by how long you can sustain any level
of activity.
They may not have the short term excitement of a 6 furlong
sprint, but that doesn't mean they can't show the same aspects that constitute
a great horse race. Jump racing is not wrong, it is just different. Yes, when
you put stuff in the way of horses galloping at 25 miles per hour, they're
going to get tripped up, and going to fall. But when you aren't going at full
speed, the falls are less violent and injury inducing. Although still not
pretty, at least I can have some piece of mind.
Running cross-country in high school, my coach used to
always tell complaining teammates, "Every other person in the race faced the
same conditions, so quit whining, get back out there and toughen up!" I learned
quickly, but the lesson was more than just a proverbial slap in the face. It
taught me that on any given day the best athlete may not always win. Those with
the mental toughness to push through adversity can overcome physical handicaps
and have a distinct advantage over competition that solely relies on talent.
And so we circle back to the Lonesome Glory Handicap.
Scanning through the horses, and having no clue about
steeplechase strategy, I decided to find the best competitor and use that
horse. My checklist:
Mental toughness: Needed to have finished all of
their races competitively
Physical toughness: Needed to finish all of
their races…period
Physical Ability: Needed to have won at the top
level of competition
Winning trainer and jockey
I landed on the #2 Demonstrative. He's a multiple G1 winning
hurdler in the USA, and seemed to throw a dud his last time out. The form
record just said "bumped after 9th, steadied." But he won four of
the previous five races, three of which were grade 1's. He met all of my criteria above, and I liked
his morning line odds. Also, did I mention he's by Elusive Quality out of a
Quiet American mare? If there's ever a pedigree that screamed endurance, this
is one of them. Why would a horse with a dream pedigree not be flat racing? I
decided to not speculate on something to which I have very limited knowledge. Here
we go with my Hail Mary.
Demonstrative ended up 4th after trying to rally
four wide around the last turn.
Despite being wrong with my pick, this race reminded me of
what is so much fun about handicapping. I wasn't distracted with speed figures,
track bias, and pace. I just had the joy of taking an approach to finding a
horse that had the characteristics that a winning horse should. Sometimes
ignorance truly is bliss.
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text: Hello everybody! I live in Canada and use Rogers. I want to purchase either a Droid, Nexus One, or Samsung Galaxy S over ebay. Problem is I'm a complete noob and have only ever bought phones through my carrier. My knowledge of what to do is VERY limited. All I know is that I need a phone with a sim card... How do I go about making it work here? I'm sure plenty of people here know the answer so I'd love a bit of help! tl;dr: Live in Canada. Want a phone from outside Canada. How make work? inb4: Yes I have tried Google.


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Food trucks are an increasingly popular trend these days, which is why you may be trying to write a mobile kitchen business plan. Mobile kitchens are exactly what they sound like they are—basically, a kitchen on wheels. People who own and operate these businesses travel from venue to venue where customers need a kitchen. This can include music festivals and other large events where catering facilities are not available. If you are interested in entering this market, your mobile kitchen business plan should specifically seek to a number of key points, some of the most important of which are listed below:
• What demand is there for your service?
• Who are your customers?
• Who are your competitors?
• What will make you unique and successful?
The goal with a mobile kitchen business plan —or any kind of business plan—is to paint a picture that clearly demonstrates your ability to become successful. For an investor or lender, success in this context means that you are generating revenues and profits that you can use to provide them with a return on their investment or to repay your loan. Writing a business plan that includes sufficient research—and sufficiently rosy numbers—can be a challenge even for veteran entrepreneurs. If you want help getting the job done, contact the industry leaders in the field at MasterPlans. Reach us at 877-453-2011 today!


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Speaker: Jon Kelly, SureHits
Are your ads showing up lower for the same bid? Are your keywords getting inactivated because of 'Min Bid' requirements? If you're finding the results of your PPC ad campaign puzzling, you're not alone. It could be your Quality Score -- and it could be costing you traffic. In this webcast, Jon Kelly looks at how Quality Score works, and how you can increase the Quality Scores of your ads. Attend this webcast and find out what goes into Quality Score, and why understanding it is a critical to a successful PPC campaign.
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With stellar Action/Adventure games like Uncharted and Assassin's Creed being so popular these days, Crystal Dynamics took it upon themselves to reboot Lara Croft's character and the series. The majority of Tomb Raider games have been top notch so did Crystal Dynamics ruin an old favourite or bring Lara back to life in all her glory?
Tomb Raider begins with a story where Lara starts out as a young girl on an exploration whom gets lost in the dangerous forest of Yamatai island and through her fight for survival she evolves into a killing machine with an arsenal to rival many action game stars.
Tomb Raider plays very similar in style to the Uncharted series and that is a good thing. The Uncharted series is considered among the best, if not the best in Action/Adventure games for its mix of stellar action, a gripping story and clever puzzles. The 3rd person view that you play Tomb Raider in is almost exactly like Uncharted. The control mechanics are very similar too.
There are several elements that are involved in the gameplay of Tomb Raider. The first I will mention is exploration, with the need to go searching areas for salvage resources in order to gain experience points to upgrade your various skills/tools/weapons in order to be able to open a gate or something to gain access to the next stage of a level or to improve your chances in a fight against Yamatai islands hostile inhabitants.
The next element is the action sequences, which are also similar to Uncharted, especially the gun fights. These sequences are intense and fun just like in Uncharted. You not only have gun fights though, as there are elements of stealth and hand to hand combat involved in taking down enemies. There's the use of a bow and arrow to take out unsuspecting foes in a quiet fashion so that you go undetected which enables you to better your position so that you avoid a mass amount of enemies being alarmed and sent to the scene. As for the hand to hand combat, it reminds me of the recent Batman games where you slowly and quietly walk up to an enemy from behind and with the press of a button initiate a dramatic take-down of your desired enemy.
In addition to this there are also various quick time events which are placed in certain important situations of cut-scenes and are very dramatic and its usually the difference between life and death, depending if you hit the designated button and the right time or not. They are not difficult and if you fail the first time, it doesn't take you back any further than to the start of the QTE, so you'll eventually hit the button at the right time and see the completion of the sequence and move on to the next bit.
Of course no Tomb Raider game would be complete without its puzzles. In this game there are plenty of puzzles to tackle and although they can be tough, some logical thought and trying a couple of things can get the desired result you need in order to progress. There isn't an abundance of puzzles to encounter, so it never becomes tiresome or boring to work through them. A tool that is heavily used in Tomb Raider in order to solve puzzles and gain access to sections of the game is fire. Lara has the ability to light her fire torch at various points throughout the game in order to be able to see through a tunnel or dark area she is going through or to burn a section in a wall or set fire to a explosive barrel etc. to gain access to the next part of the level.
Overall Tomb Raider plays like it should on the current systems and is a very good rival for the Uncharted and Assassin's Creed series in determining the current king (or queen) in this case of the Action/Adventure genre.
Although the current systems are probably at their limits, it's great to see developers use their skills to make games that still amaze. Tomb Raider is such a game. When I first loaded it up and started my journey into Lara's world, I found myself admiring the scenery around her and her character as well of course as she is presented in all her digital glory. While Tomb Raider may not quite be up to the lofty standards of the unbelievable Uncharted 2 due to a few clipping issues and the enemies and supporting characters not being as detailed as Lara's character model, it certainly comes close and will give most other games a run for its money. The lighting is fantastic and everything on screen helps create an awesome atmosphere for your adventure.
Tomb Raider doesn't have the thumping gun fire like Gears of War or the musical score of a Halo, but what it does have does an outstanding job of setting the mood and atmosphere of this great adventure. The voice acting is spot on and the game makes you feel like you are in the shoes of Lara every step of the way.
With a massive adventure to play, plus the multiplayer section of the game (which we will delve into in more detail once the game is released), Tomb Raider won't be leaving your console for quite some time.
Well, its official, Lara Croft's comeback is a resounding success! Tomb Raider excels in every way and is just a joy to play. You are on the edge of your seat every moment and the game commands your full attention and will keep you up to the early hours of the morning because you'll want to see what comes next. A definite game of the year contender already!
+ Lara is back!
+ Gripping adventure
+ Awesome atmosphere
– Minor clipping issues
– Enemies and supporting characters could use more detail


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A rondeau (plural rondeaux) is a form of French poetry with 15 lines written on two rhymes. Variant forms may have 10 or 13 lines. It makes use of refrains, repeated according to a certain stylized pattern. It was customarily regarded as a challenge to arrange for these refrains to contribute to the meaning of the poem in as succinct and poignant a manner as possible. The rondeau consists of thirteen lines of eight syllables, plus two refrains (which are half lines, each of four syllables), employing, altogether, only three rhymes. It has three stanzas and its rhyme scheme is as follows: (1) A A B B A (2) A A B with refrain: C (3) A A B B A with concluding refrain C. The refrain must be identical with the beginning of the first line.
Perhaps the best-known rondeau is the following World War I poem,
In Flanders Fields, by John McCrae:
[n] a French verse form of 10 or 13 lines running on two rhymes; the opening phrase is repeated as the refrain of the second and third stanzas [n] a musical form that is often the last movement of a sonata
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rondel, rondo
classical music, poem, rondelet, roundel, serious music, verse form
\Ron*deau"\, n. [F. See {Roundel}.] [Written also {rondo}.] 1. A species of lyric poetry so composed as to contain a refrain or repetition which recurs according to a fixed law, and a limited number of rhymes recurring also by rule. Note: When the rondeau was called the rondel it was mostly written in fourteen octosyllabic lines of two rhymes, as in the rondels of Charles d'Orleans. . . . In the 17th century the approved form of the rondeau was a structure of thirteen verses with a refrain. --Encyc. Brit. 2. (Mus.) See {Rondo}, 1.


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Tehran, June 8 (IANS) An Iranian court on Monday resumed the trial of a Washington Post reporter over spying and propaganda charges, media reported.
Jason Rezaian, a 39-year-old Iranian-American, was first tried on May 26 at the same court — Branch 15 of Iran's Islamic Revolution Court, the official IRNA news agency reported.
Rezaian faces charges of "espionage, collaboration with hostile governments, gathering classified information and disseminating propaganda against the Islamic Republic", Rezaian's lawyer Leila Ahsan said earlier.
Rezaian assumed his job as Washington Post correspondent in Tehran in 2012. He was arrested on July 22, 2014, along with his wife, Yeganeh Salehi, a reporter for The National newspaper based in Abu Dhabi, and a female freelance photographer.
Salehi and the photographer, who were released on bail in October 2014, also appeared in court on Monday.


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Saving life and limb
Doctors give life back to woman with nearly fatal blood clot
This article from the National Institute of Health Web Site, December 2002
http://www.cc.nih.gov/ccc/ccnews/dec02/ Three months ago Rebecca McDonald gave birth to her third child, Jordan. A couple of weeks later, a blood clot had formed in her pelvic area and stretched its way down to her calf. The swelling from her leg became crippling. Her life began to revolve around a wheelchair, her bed and doses of morphine for the pain.
"The scary part was not knowing what the future was going to be," said Rebecca, a stay-at-home-mother of three from Boise, Id. "How was I going to parent my children from a bed?"
And how was her husband Robert going to care for her, a newborn, two daughters, ages five and seven, and still hold down his job as a dentist?
Pictured are (l to r): Denise McLaughlin, R.N., 7E charge nurse; Rebecca McDonald; 3-month-old Jordan; Robert McDonald; Dr. McDonald Horne and Dr. Richard Chang.
They were unsure; but, more than 2,300 miles away, Clinical Center Doctors Richard Chang and McDonald Horne were searching for patients like Rebecca.
"She's very healthy and runs every day," said Robert McDonald. "She was running before she became pregnant and started running again after the baby was born."
It was then that she began to have pain in her left calf area. "We thought that maybe she just stretched the muscle. She took Ibuprofen, but it got worse," said Robert. "So we went on a Saturday to a clinic just to get it checked out."
The clinic sent them to the emergency room at St. Luke's Hospital in Boise. "After they ran some tests, the nurse came in with tears in her eyes and said she was happy that we came in when we did because she had a pulmonary embolism and it was life threatening."
A pulmonary embolism is a blocked artery in the lungs that is generally caused when a blood clot or a portion of a clot from another part of the body travels to the lungs.
Rebecca was placed on anticoagulants, medications used to dissolve and prevent blood clots. After a week in the hospital she was sent home. "The treatment wasn't working. Her leg was getting bigger and becoming worse. It was twice the size of her other leg." said Robert. "I rented a hospital bed because she couldn't go up and down the stairs. The pain pills were like TicTacs. . . they just weren't working . . . so we went back to the emergency room and they put her on morphine."
As a dentist, Robert said he was familiar with clinical trials. So he went to his computer and began looking for websites that could give him information about clinical trials for severe blood clots.
"NIH was the first website I found. I called them the next day at six o'clock in the morning and they said Rebecca would be the perfect candidate," said Robert. "We took a flight out that same night."
According to Dr. Chang, chief, Special Procedures Section, Department of Radiology, Imaging Sciences Program, nearly 200,000 people suffer annually from deep venous thrombosis or DVT, a blood clot in the lower part of the body.
"Most of these cases will be treated with anticoagulation drugs alone. This would be great if anticoagulation was perfectly effective," said Dr. Chang. "Anticoagulation is extremely effective in the prevention of pulmonary embolisms, and it is also fairly good at preventing DVT in the first place. Where it fails, is in clearing the clot in the leg and preserving the function of the veins in the legs."
In Rebecca's case, anticoagulation wasn't working. As her uterus expanded during the pregnancy, it pressed against the veins in her pelvic area, narrowing the vein channel. This reduced blood flow and allowed the blood to clot.
According to Dr. Horne, senior clinical investigator, Hematology Services, Department of Laboratory Medicine, even if the anticoagulants worked in clearing the blockage, the vein would still be narrow, increasing the chance of developing another blood clot.
Anticoagulants will dissolve a clot within several weeks or several months. However, it leaves behind damage to the vein. Within each vein are delicate valves that allows blood to flow up the leg. Without the valves, or with damaged valves, pressure builds up in the veins, leading to swelling, and potentially reclotting, and possibly skin ulcers.
"But if we move the clot out quickly, the venous valves remain functional," said Dr. Horne.
And that was the theory behind their research. In 1998, Dr. Chang and Dr. Horne began recruiting patients for a clinical trial for treatment of acute deep vein thrombosis.
For almost 15 years, Dr. Chang treated cancer patients who developed blood clots in the neck and arms caused by catheters used during chemotherapy. "We studied and tried different ways of dissolving the clots, but we weren't quite happy with the results from techniques used in the general medical community," said Dr. Chang.
By 1994, Dr. Chang and Dr. Horne decided to test rtPA, a natural protein that was generally used for patients who have had heart attacks. By using a catheter to spray the enzyme directly into the clot, the doctors hoped to dissolve the clot within days, if not hours after treatment. Unlike the other alternative choices of clot dissolving enzymes, rtPA sticks directly to the clot, allowing prolonged enzymatic action, dissolving the clot to restore a channel for blood to flow again. Anticoagulants themselves do not dissolve clots and when patients are placed on anticoagulant therapy alone, their physicians are relying on natural clot-dissolving enzymes to penetrate the clot and dissolve the clot. This is a very slow process when the clot is large and blocks flow of enzyme reaching the area.
"Ideally, patients should get rtPA treatment within two weeks of diagnosis. Referring doctors should not delay if the patient has extensive DVT," said Dr. Chang. "Thrombolytic therapy is very effective when the clot is fresh. Doctors and their patients should not adopt a wait-a-month-and-see approach, because they will miss the period when thrombolytic therapy is most effective."
However, many doctors have been reluctant to support what Dr. Chang and Dr. Horne have found to be successful among patients they have treated with DVT.
"We received limited patient referrals from other physicians," said Dr. Chang. "They said it wasn't proven, it doesn't work, it's too dangerous; all information from older studies over 10 years ago. I think this is no longer true and thrombolytic therapy deserves a fresh reevaluation."
And the results are starting to prove him right.
Of the 14 people who have participated in the study, all have had successful results—including Rebecca. Within three days Rebecca was walking. Within a week, she was back to running two miles a day.
"It's not a coincidence that this clotting occurred after Rebecca's pregnancy. We were surprised that it didn't happen during the pregnancy," said Dr. Horne. "However this case was unique because of the severity of it. This is a young, active individual who had pain and swelling in her leg that was not improving with anticoagulants. Eventually, she would have been severely debilitated and crippled."
Blood clots can develop from pregnancy, birth control pills, hormone replacement, cancer, and several other rare situations, according to Dr. Chang. "Many people who are athletic or have an active lifestyle are at a higher risk, especially if they become sedentary or confined to a chair or a bed for a period of time," he said.
That's exactly what happened to Dr. Ryszard Pluta, clinical staff physician, Surgical Neurology, NINDS. After returning from a 17-hour flight from China, Dr. Pluta felt a pain in his right calf. He decided to have an ultrasound and found that he was suffering from economy class syndrome.
This condition results from long hours of minimal movement on an airplane when passengers are crammed into small quarters.
"Nearly ten percent of travelers develop DVT, but less than one percent are actually diagnosed," said Pluta. "Many fly in business class or first class, but the same percentage get DVT."
Pluta was accepted into the clinical study and within a week returned to his regular activities of running, tennis, swimming, and golfing.
"This is a blessing," said Pluta, who now flies more European airlines that remind passengers to stretch and move around every hour to avoid the risk of blood clotting. "The fact that this is giving people a real chance to go back to their normal life is great."
– by Tanya Brown, NIH
This article from the National Institute of Health Web Site, December 2002


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Summary: Study finds "healthy" obese women who've had a baby before are at less risk for childbirth complications than first-time moms of normal weight.
With all the health risks associated with obesity, you would think childbirth risks would be high for obese women who are pregnant. While being obese does can the risk of complications and medical interventions during childbirth, a new study shows that not all obese women face the same health risks.
The study, conducted by Oxford University researchers, and published in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, found that for otherwise healthy women, the increase in risk may not be not be as great as previously suspected.
"The increased risk was fairly modest for obese women who did not have conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes or a previous cesarean section, and the risks were quite low if the woman had given birth previously," said lead researcher Dr Jennifer Hollowell of the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit at Oxford University in a university statement.
"It is important to appreciate that we are not saying that obesity isn't important or that obesity doesn't increase a woman's risks during pregnancy," she added. "We found that around half of very obese women giving birth in obstetric units have medical problems or pregnancy complications when admitted. But our study focused on women who were obese but otherwise healthy when they went into labor, and some of them had much lower risks than might have been expected."
In fact, the findings showed that among healthy women with an uncomplicated pregnancy, childbirth risks are influenced more by whether someone is a first-time mom than whether they are obese.
The researchers analyzed data for 17,230 obese women with low risk pregnancies or health problems, comparing BMI to any type of complication during labor and childbirth.
The risks of complications during childbirth did go up with increasing BMI among these healthy women. However, the increase was modest: Overweight, obese, or very obese women showed a relative increase in risk of 6 to 12 percent compared with women with a normal BMI.
Most of the additional risk of needing treatment was accounted for by giving drugs for slow labor among those with a high body mass index, though risks of serious outcomes for mother and baby were also increased.
However, the results showed that whether a woman has had a previous baby plays a larger role in influencing the chances of needing hospital care.
Fifty-three per cent of women of normal weight having their first baby had an intervention or a complication at birth. The figure was 21 percent for very obese but otherwise healthy women having a second or subsequent baby.
The research may have implications on where women can give birth, said Hollowell. In the U.K., where more women opt to include a midwife in their birth plans, women with a BMI over 35 are advised to give birth in an obstetric unit to reduce risk. She believes that whether a woman is having her first child or already had children should be taken into account as well.
The researchers hope their findings influence delivery options and settings for healthy women, including obese ones, without additional risk factors.
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I visited this site (www.warriorsforinnocence.org) while trying to find out about a recent scandal on LiveJournal.
Only later did I see reports in several places that the site is "loaded with Spyware".
I have nothing abnormal in AdAware, SpyBot or HijackThis but of course negative evidence is not proof. Can any expert check it out and see if there's anything there?
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Posted 01 June 2007 - 03:21 PM
Nothing untoward showing up in the Page source, just a few Javascripts. Where did you see the reports about the site being loded with Spyware?
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Posted 01 June 2007 - 04:28 PM
Nothing untoward showing up in the Page source, just a few Javascripts. Where did you see the reports about the site being loded with Spyware?
"WARNING: some BB readers report that the site is spyware-laden."
"FYI: People are reporting spyware infestations after visiting the WFI site."
"I then attempted using Internet Explorer, as that is still the staple browser used on the 'net. Again, I experienced a lag, although slighter this time, and received a lot of active x warnings. (I don't keep "active x" on except with a few trusted websites; instead, it's commanded to prompt in each case.) After browsing the homepage of the warriors site, I again closed the browser and scanned. This time, my scanners found a collective 189 new objects. Because IE does use active x (and the other browsers do not), a lot of spy/malware was able to sneak onto my system."
Some computers have allegedly become seriously infected with spyware if you surf over to "Warriors for Innocence" ...
Posted 04 July 2007 - 12:54 AM
They sure have a lot of javascript (most of it, if not all, from blogger.com or related urls), but I can't find anything overtly malicious in the source. What I am reading is that WFI has claimed some responsibility for some of the LiveJournal deletions a few weeks ago, and may be the victim of targeted rumors by some of the pedophilia "community" after their journals were removed for violating LJ's terms of service. Running their homepage through vURL didn't show up any active infectors.
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Kirk boosted the artists' productivity up to eight times when he proposed and won approval from business leaders to construct a server farm for video-imaging rendering, to take the processing load off individual workstations. Now, instead of using their own workstations, the artists send scenes they've completed to the farm--essentially a large collection of blade servers--so they can immediately move on to their next scenes.
The render farm so far has cost the Burbank, Calif.-based company $50,000. Kirk was able to sell the idea because of its potential business benefits. "We're developing larger environments--massive battlefields, for example--with exponentially more detail," says Kirk, who meets with the CEO and business departments regularly. The work they're doing now translates into a more appealing product and, the company hopes, more sales.
But too many IT departments in emerging enterprises, defined by Network Computing and InformationWeek as organizations with fewer than 5,000 employees, find themselves stuck in tactics mode: fighting fires and struggling to convince executives that IT isn't just the computing equivalent of the local car shop--a place they never think about until something breaks, and that always charges more than they want to pay.
The good news is that almost half the respondents to our poll say they are working more closely with business management than they were a year ago. Yet only a quarter believe top management makes business goals and objectives clear to IT, indicating there's still a long way to go before business and IT truly align in emerging enterprises. The picture isn't necessarily brighter a few years down the road: Only 12 percent of the respondents say their IT organizations will have the greatest need for strategic planners in the next five to 10 years, with more respondents predicting their skill needs to be bread-and-butter IT functions, including IT operations (35 percent) and programming (19 percent).
"You get caught in the trap of, 'The IT guy is the geek with the pocket protector,'" says Orin Owen, director of IT at G&T Conveyor, a $100 million manufacturer of airport baggage-handling systems headquartered in Tavares, Fla. Executives' perceptions of IT affect the relationship adversely, Owen says. "The business side hasn't recognized that IT can help them advance the business."


text: C. Simon's post on frozen calamari reminds me that that is all I've been able to find. I've asked around for fresh squid, but no dice. Rowand Seafood in Beverly only gets it at Christmas. They have frozen year round, though. At Gloria Foods, the Italian market in town, the nice man said he didn't carry it, then called the other Beverly fish market, Homeport, for me. They don't carry it either. Where might she go, the nice Gloria man asked? Boston, says the Homeport man. And I'm beginning to believe him. Andy's Seafood on Rte. 1 in Saugus - nada. Route 1 Seafood in Rowley - nada. Stop & Shop - you guessed it - and I could swear I saw it there once. Maybe it was at Christmas. What gives? Can I be the only one? Or does everybody use the frozen stuff?


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Last year a team of national intelligence experts assembled a report that projected the future global ramifications of the epidemic if it continues to go unchecked in the developing world. Based on 75 factors that have historically tended to destabilize governments, the panel predicted that the AIDS death toll and the economic costs of battling the disease could cause the failure of redevelopment efforts and democratic experiments throughout the Third World. The basic problems are shortened life expectancy (which has been nearly halved in some African nations) and the creation of a disenfranchised poor population with troves of orphans and broken families. AIDS, the report predicts, will tear through sub-Saharan Africa over the next decade and then through the nations of the former Soviet Union and Southeast Asia, devastating masses and exposing them to exploitation and revolutionary forces. Human rights groups estimate that a quarter of sub-Saharan Africa is already infected.
The arguments for making this a security priority seem sound enough. The question that comes to mind, however, is the administration's timing. Administration officials say they've known all along that AIDS could lead to social unrest in the developing world. Yet they've waited until this year to declare this a security problem, and it took them nearly three months to make the NSC's involvement publicly known. It's certainly ripe fodder for conspiracy theorists that the story detailing the administration's aggressive plan to attack AIDS appeared on the front page of Washington's paper of record on the same day that 300,000 gay activists were expected to descend on the nation's capital for their Millennium March. In these final months of the Clinton administration the President has been scurrying to the left to shore up his legacy on liberal causes. There should be little doubt that the administration wants to be remembered for having done something to battle the plague of the latter half of the 20th century.


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If you or your vet has decided that your pup could lose a few pounds, finding healthier options than some of the meat based treats doesn't have to be difficult. Since we are all looking for ways to save money, making your own dog treats can be cheaper than buying them. There are plenty of recipes for baking dog cookies but if you're not a baker (like me), why not look to buying some produce that you can chop up and share with your canine buddy?
Remember: always cut up the fruits and vegetables and give small amounts. When introducing a new food group into your dog's diet, do it slowly, one new treat at a time, and let their body adjust to the changes. This cuts down on the chances of your dog having an upset belly.
Here's some fruits and vegetables that can be used as treats and rewards:
1: Apples (cut up and do not let your dog eat the seeds)
2: Apricots
3: Bananas
4: Mangoes
5: Pears
6: Pineapple
7: Blueberries
8: Strawberries
9: Raspberries
10: Broccoli
11: Lettuce
12: Beets
13: Carrots
14: Cabbage
15: Zucchini
Keep in mind, some of these fruits and vegetables may produce gas in your dog such as broccoli. Try feeding the stems of broccoli instead of the florets to reduce the chance of a gassy pup. All these treats are low fat, have no artificial flavoring, and provide extra nutrition in addition to their regular meals.
Pair up healthy treats with exercise and your dog will be slim, trim, and strong!


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i have an old para ordnance frame kit that with the exception of this one problem is totally reliabe. it seems after 6-8 rounds fired the slide stop lever will catch the slide even though the gun is not empty. it does not matter which magazine is used ( i have several). the para frame has a wilson slide and brown barrel if that helps. help
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I added an extended reach slide release to my Browning Hi-Power and had same experience. All I can figure is something about the way I hold gun. (I hold lightly) The momentum of the extension must do something as I have no problem with the regular release.
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Sometimes the slide stop sticks too far into the frame and occasionally the nose of the next bullet to come up in the magazine will "bump" it into the lock position. To check: remove the slide, put the slide stop back in the frame and insert loaded magazine. Check the clearance between the nose of the bullet and the tab of the slide stop. If it touches, carefully file the back of the tab, a little at a time until it clears. Sometimes you need to hold slight downward pressure on the slide stop and manually push rounds out of the magazine and up the feed ramp. Feel for the next round coming up in the mag to bump the slide stop.
When filing, remove very little metal at a time and test often. If you goof and take off too much, you can't put it back. Replacing the slide stop is the only cure for that. Remember slow and easy does it.
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thanks guys. i went out and shot with a friend watching, it wasn't my finger or thumb, there was no brass or anything on the slide stop lever, so i drilled a hole on the slide stop in the plunger and now it is fixed. this message oard has been quite helpful, not only in answering my questions but also with reading the old ones, whoever is responsible, thanks.
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Obama to Hold First Twitter Town Hall; Biden Starts Tweeting
President Barack Obama is set to hold his first Twitter town hall on Wednesday.
The president will answer questions submitted by using the #AskObama hashtag via a live webcast at 2 p.m. ET at askobama.twitter.com.
Strauss-Kahn's House Arrest Lifted as Case Faces Possible Dismissal
The sexual assault case against former International Monetary Fund Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn faced possible collapse Friday after credibility issues arose with the woman who alleged assault against him. The issues resulted in the French politician being released from house arrest.
Glenn Beck's Final Fox News Show To Air
Glenn Beck and his trusty blackboard will make their last appearance on Fox News Thursday evening.
The right-wing Beck joined Fox News in January 2009, and at his peak in January 2010, his show averaged 2.9 million viewers daily, the Associated Press reported.
Senate to Skip July Fourth Recess to Work on Deficit
Sen. Harry Reid said the Senate will skip its scheduled recess for the week of July 4th to continue working on cutting the deficit.
Despite Bristol's Claim, Sarah Palin Says She's Undecided on Presidential Run
Despite a claim by daughter Bristol Palin that her mind had been made up, Sarah Palin said Tuesday that she has not decided whether she'll run for president in 2012.
Despite Protests, Greek Lawmakers Approve Austerity Plan [PHOTOS]
Despite protests outside Parliament during voting, Greek lawmakers approved a package of austerity on Wednesday.
Raging Wildfire Threatens New Mexico Nuclear Lab [VIDEO]
A wildfire that burned more than 10,000 acres during the overnight hours Monday was moving dangerously close to the Los Alamos National Laboratory nuclear weapons complex in New Mexico.
The fire, which was 4 miles away from Los Alamos on Tuesday has burned about 93 square miles in less than two days, MSNBC reported.
Guilty of Corruption! How Much Time Could Rod Blagojevich Serve Behind Bars?
Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was convicted Monday of nearly all of the 20 charges of corruption that had been brought against him.
A jury found Blagojevich guilty of 17 out of the 20 charges brought against him. He was acquitted on one count of bribery and the jury was unable to reach verdicts on two counts of attempted extortion, CNN reported.
Michele Bachmann Officially Announces Presidential Bid
Minnesota Rep. and Tea Party favorite Michele Bachmann officially announced her candidacy for the 2012 presidential election on Monday.
Same-Sex Marriage Bill Passes in New York
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Nearly two months after an outbreak of tornadoes swept through Alabama and other states, a Casper, Wyoming radio crew went to check out the damage.
Donovan Short from KISS 104.7 FM went to Alabama to visit family and saw the damage that remained after the news crews were long gone.
Infamous Mobster Whitey Bulger Caught After 16 Years On Run
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Based on review of all public comments and congressional hearings, EPA will not finalize the sewage blending policy as proposed in November 2003.
"Blending is not a long-term solution,'' said Benjamin Grumbles, assistant administrator for the Office of Water. "Our goal is to reduce overflows and increase treatment of wastewater to protect human health and the environment."
To provide clarity in the ways peak wastewater flows are handled, the agency proposed a policy in November 2003 that addressed National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) requirements for municipal wastewater treatment during wet weather conditions. After receiving more than 98,000 public comments, the agency is now in the process of determining other options to address pollutant discharges during wet weather conditions.
EPA will continue to review policy and regulatory alternatives to develop the most feasible approaches to treat wastewater and protect communities, upstream and downstream. EPA will work with Congress, communities, and citizens on effective and efficient approaches that protect communities and ensure compliance with the Clean Water Act.
For more information, go to: http://www.epa.gov/npdes/blending.


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The 1991 Topps Atlanta Braves Team Set contains 30 Atlanta Braves baseball cards including Star Players like Tom Glavine, John Smoltz, Ron Gant, and The rookie card for Chipper Jones. All cards in the set are listed below.
56 Jeff Parrett - 82 Tom Glavine - 111 Andres Thomas - 139 Jeff Treadway - 157 John Smoltz - 196 Jim Vatcher - 227 Steve Avery - 251 Mark Lemke - 287 Mark Grant - 306 Lonnie Smith - 329 David Justice - 333 Chipper Jones - 353 Tony Castillo - 383 Pete Smith - 418 Nick Esasky - 456 Charlie Leibrandt - 492 Ernie Whitt - 514 Mike Stanton - 533 Oddibe McDowell - 567 Dwayne Henry - 582 Marty Clary - 623 Jeff Blauser - 643 Jim Presley - 673 Greg Olson - 693 Francisco Cabrera - 725 Ron Gant - 742 Tommy Gregg - 753 Paul Marak - 759 Bobby Cox - 772 Kent Mercker
Collecting baseball cards and other sports cards is a fun way for the whole family to build lasting memories. Kids, parents and grandparents can all have fun together colleting sports cards.
Baseball Cards and Sports Cards collecting tips: The key factor to remember when building your baseball cards, football cards, other sports cards and non-spots card collections is that the condition of the baseball cards, football cards, or other cards is very important to it's value and the selling price. Baseball cards in lower condition bring far less than those same sports card in top shape. Make sure to protect your sports cards with the proper card supplies every time. If you ever think of selling baseball cards, football cards, or other sports cards your top condition cards will always get better prices than sports cards that are not in top condition regardless if they are old sports cards or new sports cards when you put them up for sale.
There is no right or wrong baseball cards to collect. Many people like Topps baseball cards or Upper Deck baseball cards but there have been many manufacturers over the years and even the ones that are no longer in business anymore like Fleer or Pinnacle are collected by many fans. Some buy only brand new sports cards while other buy only old vintage baseball cards. Price, value or what a price guide says a sports card is worth should not be the only or even the main factor in what you buy. The way to have the most fun with the hobby is to collect what you like and how you like and not what someone else says they think you should.
Many hobbiests like to buy baseball cards by the pack or box and get a thrill out of hitting their favorite player or that hard to find card insert, autograph or relic card. Others like to collect baseball card team sets or cards of their home town players and yet others buy factory sets or build sets by hand. Collecting baseball cards, football cards, basketball cards, or any other types of sports trading cards can be a life long hobby that's fun for the whole family. So above all enjoy your hobby.
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MWC West PREDICTION
HEAD COACH: Bobby Hauck, 6-32 (3 years) | OFF. COORDINATOR: Timm Rosenbach | DEF. COORDINATOR: Tim Hauck
This unit will once again have a new look after head coach Bobby Hauck switched offensive coordinators for the third straight year. The new play-caller is former Washington State quarterback Timm Rosenbach, who was the offensive coordinator at Montana in 2012. His first task will be to cut down the mistakes of quarterback Nick Sherry. The strong-armed sophomore returns following an up-and-down freshman campaign that saw him throw more interceptions (17) than touchdowns (16). But Sherry also showed the potential to be an all-conference performer.
Senior tailback Tim Cornett returns to spearhead what should be a strong running game. Cornett rushed for 1,232 yards, the fifth-best single-season total at UNLV, and had eight 100-yard rushing games. He will be joined in the backfield by Northwestern transfer Adonis Smith, one of the stars of spring practice.
The offensive line, which was plagued by injuries for much of 2012, has the potential to be one of the conference's best. Junior tackles Brett Boyko and Cameron Jefferson and center Robert Waterman are on the NFL radar.
Junior Devante Davis, who caught 61 passes and finished second in the Mountain West in receiving yards (854), and explosive junior Marcus Sullivan, one of the league's top return men, anchor a solid group of wide receivers.
A Rebel defense that allowed an average of 32.6 points and 445.2 yards per game will also have a new coordinator. And it's a coach with a pedigree that Hauck is very familiar with.
Tim Hauck, Bobby's younger brother, joins the Rebels after spending three seasons in the NFL as a defensive backs coach with the Cleveland Browns and Tennessee Titans. He also played safety in the NFL for 13 seasons and once was a member of Bobby Hauck's Montana coaching staff.
The strength of the unit figures to be a veteran line led by senior tackles Alex Klorman and Mark Garrick, along with sophomore end Sonny Sanitoa.
Defensive MVP John Lotulelei, who had 120 tackles at middle linebacker, must be replaced, but seniors Tani Maka and Tim Hasson both return to anchor the linebacker corps. Tau Lotulelei, the younger brother of John, starred during spring practice as a redshirt freshman and is penciled in to start at weak-side linebacker.
The big key will be improvement in a secondary that was prone to surrendering big plays. Senior Sidney Hodge, a fourth-year starter at cornerback, anchors the group.
Senior Nolan Kohorst became the first Rebel placekicker since 1994 to earn first team all-conference honors. He led the team in scoring while converting 12-of-14 field goals and 32-of-33 PATs. Sophomore Logan Yunker takes over for steady Chase Lansford at punter. Sullivan, who averaged 23.5 yards per return, Cornett and Eric Tuiloma-Va'a will handle the return duties.
Many eyebrows were raised when UNLV athletic director Jim Livengood brought back Hauck for a fourth season following back-to-back-to-back two-win seasons that included home losses to FCS teams Southern Utah and Northern Arizona. Hauck has tried to rebuild using mainly high school recruits and finally has some experience with 14 returning starters and solid depth on both sides of the ball. He likely needs to get to six wins and a bowl game to be invited back for another year.
The schedule, which features two well-positioned byes, is favorable for a momentum-building quick start with four of the first six games at home and another at rebuilding New Mexico.