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Services and financial support you can expect to help with any special or additional needs your adopted child may have.
During the adoption process, it is important to find out what support package will come with your child to help with any special or additional needs they may have.
Some needs may not become apparent until later, perhaps during adolescence, so it's important that you know where to go should you need support at any time.
Adoptive families have a legal right, as and when they request it, to a Statutory Assessment of Support Needs from the local authority responsible for their post-adoption support. The assessment covers a range of needs, from mental health and the need for therapeutic services to additional support during a child's education.
This is in addition to the financial benefits and allowances that all families, depending on their circumstances, are entitled to.
Find out more about:
Adoption pay and leave
Adoption Allowance
Child Benefit and tax credits
Disability Living Allowance for children
Carer's Allowance
Adoption Support Fund
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)
It's All About Me (IAAM)
Education and adopted children
Other sources of post-adoption support
Adoption pay and leave entitlements for adoptive parents are similar to the pay and leave rights available to birth parents. This means that if you take time off work to adopt a child, you are likely to be eligible for Statutory Adoption Leave for up to 52 weeks. Leave can start on the date the child starts living with you or up to 14 days before the expected placement date.
Adoption pay is equal to 90% of your salary for the first six weeks of pay. The remaining 33 weeks are paid at £139.58 a week or 90% of your gross average weekly earnings (whichever is lower).
If you are in a couple and both of you work, you may also share parental leave and pay. You may share up to 50 weeks of leave and up to 37 weeks of pay where the adopter takes less than their full entitlement of adoption leave and pay. The leave and pay must be taken within 52 weeks of the child being placed with your family or adoption. For more information, see Statutory Adoption Pay and Leave: employer guide.
Other sources for financial support for adopters include:
Regular financial support can be paid on a weekly or monthly basis to eligible adoptive parents before and after the adoption order is granted, under the Adoption Support Services (Local Authorities) Regulations 2005.
This is designed to encourage adoptions of children who might otherwise not be adopted due to the extra costs associated with looking after them. The amount payable is determined and paid by the local authority looking after the child before adoption (the placing authority), and is means-tested. Lump sums or ongoing payments may be made at any stage and the payment is made by the placing authority.
New adoptive parents may be eligible for a settling-in grant to help pay for large items such as a bed for your child's bedroom, or car seats. The settling-in grant is discretionary and you can ask your social worker how to apply for it.
Find out about the financial help available for all parents on GOV.UK.
Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for children is a tax-free benefit for children who have difficulties walking or need extra looking after. Your child may be eligible if they need significantly more supervision and support than would be expected. This benefit is not means-tested.
Carer's Allowance may be payable to adoptive parents in addition to the DLA, as long as one parent is not in full-time employment or earning more than £50 a week. This may be because childcare arrangements are unable to meet the child's specific needs, which means that one parent is unable to take a job.
The Adoption Support Fund has been set up by the Government to pay for therapeutic services including therapeutic parenting training and intensive family interventions. To access the Fund, you will need to ask your local authority to do an assessment of your adoption support needs. If the assessment shows that therapeutic services would be beneficial, your local authority can make an application to the Fund. For more information see the Adoption Support Fund page on First4Adoption.
For the first three years after the adoption order is granted, the local authority responsible for placing your adopted child with you is responsible for the statutory assessment. After that, the responsibility lies with the local authority where the adoptive family lives.
However, although the local authority is legally required to carry out the assessment, they are currently not legally required to provide the support that an assessment may reveal they need. Instead, provision of post-adoption support services to families is currently at the local authority's discretion. You can challenge their decision if you feel it is unreasonable, first through your local authority complaints procedure, or if you are still unhappy you can contact the Local Government Ombudsman.
If a local authority decides to provide post-adoption support, they can deliver this support themselves or commission outside agencies such as registered adoption-support agencies or NHS practitioners to deliver the support. For example, they may do this by referring their adopters to the Adoption UK Family Support Service and funding this.
Information on adoption support, setting out the local authority's legal responsibilities and your entitlements, can be found in First4Adoption's Adoption Passport. Your local authority should also have an adoption support advisor you can speak to for advice.
If you ask your social worker or GP for help with psychological or behavioural problems your child may have, you may be referred to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS).
Developed by a network of Voluntary Adoption Agencies, It's All About Me (IAAM) is an adoption support service that finds, trains and supports adoptive families for children who are recognised as harder-to-place, and who otherwise would probably remain in care.
This group often includes older children over the age of four, children of black and minority ethnic background, or children who are part of a sibling group who want to be placed together.
Under the IAAM service, families choosing to adopt these children will receive support including training in therapeutic parenting and 24-hour support during the first two years after adoption.
Because of their previous experiences, some adopted children may need additional support at school.
In the early years, children aged two years old who have been adopted from care are entitled to a free early education place. They can also benefit from the Early Years Pupil Premium (EYPP) when they are aged three and four years old. This is additional funding for providers of early education (such as your child's nursery) to help improve the education they provide for children who need more support. If you would like your nursery or childminder to claim the EYPP, you will need to tell them that your child is adopted.
When your child reaches school age, they are entitled to priority admission to the school of your choice so that you can choose a school that will best meet your child's needs.
Your child's school can also claim the pupil premium, worth an additional £1,900, providing you let the school know that your child is adopted before the annual January census. The additional funding helps schools provide additional support for vulnerable children to improve their education.
There are a growing number of organisations dedicated to increasing awareness of the challenges faced by adopted children and their families and offering information, resources and support for those affected.
You may find the following suggestions helpful:
For more information about specialist sources of support, read about the health issues faced by children who need adopting.


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Hi I am a new mom, my son was born 5 weeks early because I had H.E.L.L.P syndrome. We were both in the hospital for over a week, and for the first few days I was not able nurse at all because I was unable to get out of bed and he was in the NICU. My Milk finally came in, it has now been 6 weeks and I am still trying to transition him off of formula. I have been taking supplements to increase supply and it has been slowly increasing (it still is not very much though when I pump it is maybe 5 mL's), but I just can't figure out how to cut out formula. He is drinking about 3 oz every 3 hours. I have tried cutting back on the amount and by the end of the night he is crying non stop, and it is heart breaking and I end up giving him the original amount. It is just really frustrating because when we was only drinking 2 oz, I had cut back to 1 and had been feeding every 2 hours and was really thinking it was going to work but then I went and saw a lactation specialist at the hospital and she freaked me out. She made me feel like I was starving him and that he was going to end up being to weak to nurse at all if I kept it up. I am really upset that the doctors insisted that I go to see her at all.
So the main question is does anyone have any pointers on how to transition off of formula and get more milk supply?

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After 14 years in the making, the long-rumored and oft-delayed remake of the Star Tours attraction at Disneyland is about to become a reality.
Walt Disney Imagineering's Tom Fitzgerald has been there since the beginning, writing the attraction's original story line back in 1987 and shepherding Star Tours 2.0 since 1997. On June 3, the rebooted simulator ride makes its official debut at the Anaheim theme park.
Photos: Concept art of Star Tours: The Adventure Continues at Disneyland
Back in 1997, Fitzgerald was summoned to Skywalker Ranch in Marin County, Calif., by director and producer George Lucas during post-production for "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace" to look at footage of what Lucas called the "perfect sequence" for a long-envisioned update to the Star Tours simulator ride: a pod race on Tatooine.
Disney artists storyboarded an outline for a revamped Star Tours ride with the pod race as the centerpiece, but after the first prequel hit theaters, the Imagineers wondered what possibilities the next movies might hold.
"We wanted to make sure whatever we picked was the perfect story," said Fitzgerald, now an executive vice president with the creative arm of Disney. "We took a step back and asked ourselves, 'Why just tell one story?'"
NEW FOR 2011: Star Tours ride preview & review | Little Mermaid ride preview & review | Soundsational parade preview & review | Goofy Sky School coaster preview
In 2003 during shooting for "Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith," Fitzgerald traveled to a soundstage in Australia to pitch Lucas on the premise of a randomized, branching story line for the new Star Tours. Lucas loved it.
Work finally began in earnest in 2007, with Fitzgerald and his Imagineering team visiting Skywalker Ranch every few weeks to go over progress on what would eventually be known as Star Tours: The Adventures Continue.
"It was like the ultimate master class," Fitzgerald said.
They settled on a time frame between the prequels and the original trilogy that allowed storytellers access to all the iconic characters and locations in the film series.
Changes to the story line would start from the moment visitors entered the attraction queue, with the Starspeeder vehicle reverse-engineered into an older model to reflect the new time period.
As visitors traveled further into the queue they'd notice the preshow had grown twice as long to allow for deeper storytelling.
"It was always a simple story to me," Fitzgerald said. "It was 'Star Wars' plus going to the airport equals Star Tours."
In the inspection area, new safety equipment would allow "droids" to peer inside luggage and conduct thermal scans of passengers. In a reprisal of a role from 1987, Fitzgerald once again voiced one of the luggage droids for the new attraction.
But the biggest changes came onboard the ride, which now featured 54 possible story combinations.
"The way I describe it is like a storytelling slot machine with four wheels," Fitzgerald said. "It's completely randomized. You never know where you're going."
On each journey, riders now experience:
* One of two launch sequences where they encounter Darth Vader or a stormtrooper
* One of three detours to the "Star Wars" planets of Hoth, Kashyyyk or Tatooine
* One of three emergency transmissions from Princess Leia, Yoda or Admiral Ackbar
* One of three finales on Coruscant, Naboo or the Death Star
Along the way, depending on the story line, there are cameo appearances by Boba Fett, Jar Jar Binks, Han Solo and Rex, the bumbling pilot droid from the original Star Tours attraction.
Riders wear 3-D glasses throughout the journey as lasers and explosions fill the inside of the Starspeeder cabin in digital surround sound. At one point, a visitor is identified as a rebel spy and chaos naturally ensues – complete with high-speed chases, near misses and a successful conclusion.
An identical version of the ride is set to officially debut Friday at Disney'sHollywood Studios inFlorida.
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Outperform a Datsun 510, Toyota Corona or BMW 2002? Extremely unlikely.0
stickguy Posts: 29,134if we are still talking Vegas, I assume that meant stuff like a Datsun 1200, or a corolla.
a 510/2002 was a class above at that point I would assume (and certainly more expensive!)
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i think the '61 Chevy in the oncoming lane (behind the '57 Ford and '58 Chevy) is the newest car, and probably dates the photo.
The '61s are the newest, besides the Chevy, there's a Ford wagon going the other way near it a Pontiac approaching halfway up the road and the compact Buick Special parked on the right. If you look behind the bus in the lane going away you can just make out another '61 Chevy.
At Hemmings.com they think the old Hudson and the Ford near it are the oldest cars (ca. '52-'53).
I'm struck by the lack of imports, aside from the lone VW. Madison is a big college town, where are the VeeDubs, Volvos, Sprites or MGs. It's also odd that there aren't any motorcycles. In my (much smaller) college town Triumphs, BSAs, Moto Guzzis and Nortons were all the rage in the early 60s.
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uplanderguy Kent, OHPosts: 10,420Outperform a Datsun 510, Toyota Corona or BMW 2002? Extremely unlikely.
Um...in its price class?
Not rewriting history...check out some old C&D, MT, R&T articles that are probably online someplace.0
fintail Posts: 45,512Datsun/Nissan Stanza 5 door made from around 1982-86 or so.0
I'm struck by the lack of imports, aside from the lone VW.
Well, if Madison was like Chicago and Milwaukee in 1961, you were much more likely to see a Rambler American than an import. Oddly, I recall from my youth back then that an import that was relatively popular in the Chicago area was the TR-3. I saw more of them than MG's or Austin Healey's. There were some VW's of course, but they really seemed more common later in the 60's in that area. Another unusual thing, at least in the suburbs, was that the more popular motorcycles seemed to be Asian crotch rocker models as the 60's progressed.0
you were much more likely to see a Rambler American than an import.
I have no doubt of that, since they were made in Kenosha WI but I don't see any Ramblers in that Madison photo either. :confuse:
My college town was in Western NY State, so halfway between the import heavy East Coast and the Mid West but it featured an amazing variety of imports both two and four wheeled. One kid had a badly beat up Porsche Speedster and my roomie had a TR-3, another roomie had a hardtop (FHC) MG-A
Of course there were lots of VWs and Ghias but we even had such oddities as a Lancia Appia, some DKWs, Volvos, Saabs and an Alfa Giulietta Spider that got traded in for a Mustang in '64. It was the Golden Age of Euro imports, I remember it fondly.
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I guess we'd have to define the rather mushy word "outperform". Are we talking 0-60? Brakes?
If we're talking TOTAL car, including braking, handling, the heater, the durability of the engine, etc, then the VW Bug would be right down there with the Fiats and English Fords.
If you meant 'build quality" of the body and materials used in the interior, I'd give the nod to the VW.
the 1971 Corolla was a NICE little car. I wouldn't mind having one today!0
magnette London UKPosts: 2,547Fiat Dino0
Yup that's a 1967 Fiat Dino Spider unfortunately with a lot of issues. Frankly I don't have any idea what a good one is worth but it's one of my favorite designs of the era. I hope it goes to a good home.
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The wealthier Chicago suburbs did have more imports back then. Primarily MB, but more than a few Jaguar's as well. Chicago was a big GM market back in those days. Starting in the late 50's you'd sometimes see an Opel or Vauxhall, usually wagons initially. The Opel product line expanded and went on into the early 70's I believe, but Vauxhall didn't last near as long. For whatever reason, Pontiac didn't seem to have as many established dealerships compared to Buick in the area, so that may have been the reason. Of course, another factor playing in here was that Chicago was a "large" car market like most of the Midwest which probably inhibited import sales a bit.0
It was the Golden Age of Euro imports, I remember it fondly.
I agree. It was an interesting era for imports. Lots of different and neat looking stuff back then. Many sold out of little hole in the wall dealers in my area at least, including some that sold a whole gamut of different brands. Sometimes an import brand dealer might even just by part of a gas station. In the late 50's/early 60's Willy's/Jeep dealerships also were like that and really Rambler was just finally getting modern dealerships to compete with D3. Japan dealers kind of started out like those Euro dealers too a decade later.0
50K to 80K for a nice Fiat Dino spider, 20K-30K for a nice coupe.0
andysd Posts: 87I got only a quick glimpse of a small photo, and can't seem to get back to it. But one of the mystery cars is a Citroen DS19 or later, or an ID19. I lived in Holland from 1956 to 1967, and had a few interesting cars, one of which was the ID19, the less luxurious version of the DS. I loved the car. Although acceleration wasn't great, you could achieve very high point to point average speeds. I remember driving fast and silently in the dark from The Hague to the Nurburgring to see a race, an open mug of coffee sitting at my elbow on the wide door sill.
Prior to the time when the Dutch autoweg was directly connected to the German autobahn, and there were several miles of two lane road near the border, my wife and I drove door to door from The Hague to Kitzbuhel, Austria, to ski, at just over 100 km/hour average speed in our ID.
I also had a 1957 Porsche Speedster during that period, and for another winter vacation, we drove the same route in the Speedster at the same average speed.
I also bought a new 1962 Volvo 544 that we drove, with two little kids, in 1967 from The Hague to Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, via Austria, Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Kuwait. In 1979 I shipped that Volvo back to the States, and my daughter drove the car until around 1990 when it became hard to find parts for it.0
A 59 Ford Country Squire in Raven black.0
A 59 Ford Country Squire in Raven black.
Yup, you can't get much more 50s than that.
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The parents of one of the guy's I went to school with had that same wagon. Even had some of those travel stickers and window decals. Kind of an unusual color combo for the time I thought.0
Aren't those wheelcovers from a Dodge?0
You're asking the wrong guy. I thought they looked odd, like something you'd see an a car with more flamboyant styling, the '59 Ford being one of that year's most conservative designs (not a bad thing IMO).
Now that you mention it those hubcaps would look at home on a '60 or '61 Dodge. :confuse:
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Lincoln Towncar, my favorite body style.0
texases Posts: 8,330Yeah, the '98 restyle ranks as one of my least favorite, all cars:
grahampeters AustraliaPosts: 1,786G'day
Funny to see this as Lincolns are very rare here in Australia but I just pulled up behind an earl 80's Town Car at our nearest traffic lights. A bit big for Australia.
Yup, that's a 90s style Lincoln Town Car, one like it gets "torched" in the TV ad for the new MK-S.
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tjc78 JerseyPosts: 7,214Most likely that is a 90 Town Car, considering it had "turbine" wheels. Little known fact the 90 still had the good 'ol 5.0, the 4.6 didn't make it until 91.
The 90-97 was a very popular car. The 98-02 is generally unloved, smaller trunk and no hood ornament. My Grandfather had a "rare" 98 LTC Touring sedan. It basically had the Handling and Performance package from the Crown Vic and a steep rear axle. Fastest Panther I'd ever driven, and handled decent for what it was.
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I liked the 1995-1997 design with the slimmer headlamps, but the 1998 restyle is muy hideoso!0
I'm no fan of any of the Panther cars which didn't offer all that much room in spite of their humongous footprint.
That said I'd prefer the '98 Town Car restyle over the earlier ones. I don't know why you guys prefer the older car but there's a reason it got "torched in that Lincoln ad.
Speaking of Lincoln ads, I can't image why they don't show a '61 Continental in their heritage ad. IMO that's the best looking Lincoln since the MK. II (which is in the ad).
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It's in everyone's self-interest to address climate change, but Floridians have more at stake than residents of the rest of the country.
Much of the state's population is concentrated on coasts that are particularly vulnerable to rising sea levels. Powerful storms can also devastate those areas along with other parts of the state.
Sea levels are projected to rise 3 inches to 7 inches by 2030 and 9 inches to 24 inches by 2060, based on trends, according to the work of four South Florida counties that was reported in the Miami Herald. A 2-foot rise would put 28 percent of South Florida underwater.
Polk County's inland location means it would be spared the direct impact of sea-level rise, although such an increase would certainly produce other consequences. And, as the three back-to-back hurricanes of 2004 showed, the county can also feel the effects of major storms.
Further north, in Gainesville, is reason for that city to hope that the federal government addresses the man-made emissions that are changing the climate. This year, Gainesville's wood-fueled biomass plant is scheduled to go online.
Part of the rationale for the plant was the expectation that by the time it started operation, the federal government would have regulations in place that rewarded renewable-energy production and penalized the use of fossil fuels.
That hasn't happened, so electric rates are now expected to be higher than if another type of plant was built.
Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., introduced a measure Feb. 14 to tax carbon and methane emissions linked to climate change. Her plan would direct 60 percent of the revenue to rebates for utility customers unable to afford higher rates. The rest would fund energy-efficiency projects and renewable energy initiatives.
The idea makes a lot of sense. The price of electricity should reflect the environmental costs of its production. In an era of budget austerity, a carbon tax has the potential to fund needed research in alternative energy.
Unfortunately, her plan is likely going nowhere in a Congress filled with climate-change deniers. President Barack Obama recognized this reality in his State of the Union address, saying that he would act if Congress didn't.
The president should follow through and take executive action to address climate change. Doing so would demonstrate a serious approach to climate change before it's too late to solve.


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A New Jersey-based nonprofit organization, the Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy (PPMD), has awarded UC Davis physician Craig McDonald $175,000 to expand an ongoing international research effort aimed at better understanding the progression of Duchenne muscular dystrophy and determine the benefits of current standards of care that have been established by the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The PPMD funding enables investigators to recruit 100 additional subjects into an ongoing research project with the Cooperative International Neuromuscular Research Group. That investigation, chaired by McDonald and Erik Henricson, a UC Davis muscular dystrophy researcher, is the largest and most comprehensive assessment of boys and young men with the disease to date and is being conducted at 20 study sites around the world, including the UC Davis Sacramento campus. The grant helps extend the funding support the team has received from the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute for Disability and Rehabilitation Research and the U.S. Department of Defense.
Duchenne is the most common form of childhood muscular dystrophy, affecting about 1 in 3,500 newborns – mostly boys – worldwide. It is a progressive and fatal muscle disorder that usually becomes apparent in early childhood when it begins to cause the loss of muscle function, wheelchair dependency, and declines in respiratory and cardiac functions.
"Funding from PPMD will make a critical difference in the development of new outcome measures and the overall quality of the data we collect in this study," said McDonald, who is chair of the UC Davis Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. "Our studies have already improved clinical trials for Duchenne, and this new funding now allows us to extend our research to younger boys, including those who have not yet started taking steroids."
Duchenne weakens skeletal muscles and causes delays in milestones such as sitting and walking. Victims usually become wheelchair-dependent during their teens. Steroids represent the only palliative treatment for the disease, often extending a youngster's ability to walk by several years. Unfortunately, as heart muscle is increasingly affected, the disease becomes life threatening. Many patients die from heart failure in their 20s.
The UC Davis team's work is considered crucial for improving clinical trials research for Duchenne. Companies developing new drug therapies, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and academic investigators have all recognized the need to develop additional "endpoints," or ways to measure the effectiveness of experimental drugs in clinical trials for Duchenne. To assess each child's physical abilities and progress over the course of a study, for example, participants complete a six-minute walking test specifically designed by the UC Davis team and now used worldwide in clinical trials for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
But additional measures are necessary to encompass a wider range of physical abilities so that more boys will be eligible to participate in clinical trials. The team at UC Davis is developing an "upper extremity function test" that could be used in trials for subjects who have lost the ability to walk but can still use their arms and hands.
"As a field in the past, we have primarily looked at walking ability as a main measure for clinical trials," said Henricson, who has worked closely with McDonald to develop nationally recognized tests for Duchenne patients. "By developing and validating tools to measure upper body functions that are crucial to daily living like eating, typing on a computer or driving a wheelchair, we are helping to design clinical trials in older boys and young men who are trying to preserve upper body functions and maximize their participation in society."
In addition to developing new endpoints and testing protocols, UC Davis investigators will also be taking blood samples from participants to look for proteins in the blood – known as "biomarkers" – that can indicate quickly whether or not an experimental drug is working. The research group has already identified several prospective biomarker candidates and will now be able to test those markers with a larger group of participants.
Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy is the largest most comprehensive nonprofit organization in the United States focused on finding a cure for Duchenne muscular dystrophy—its mission is to end Duchenne. For more information, visit http://www.parentprojectmd.org/


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HOUSTON (AP) — ConocoPhillips is selling a minority interest in drilling sites off the coast of Kazakhstan for about $5 billion as it continues to downsize.
The Houston company has aggressively sold refineries, pipelines and other assets over the past few years to remake itself as an independent oil and gas producer. It has sold more than $20 billion in assets and investments since 2010.
The buyer of ConocoPhillips' 8.4 percent stake, part of a production sharing agreement in the Caspian Sea, is India's ONGC Videsh Ltd.
The field is being developed jointly by Shell, Exxon Mobil, Total, Kazakh state-run oil company KazMunaiGas and the Inpex Corp.
ConocoPhillips anticipates a fourth-quarter charge of about $400 million related to the sale.
The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2013.


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Just wanted to point out...2. Vintage Klaatu5. Hermi Odle6. Skiff Nikto7. Yarna d'al' Gargan 8. Weequay Skiff Master9. J'Quille10. Sgt Doallyn This is my Jabba's Palace Portion of my top 10 ROTJ list...I really think they could do another Jabba's Wave later in the year with Weequay, Yarna, Doallyn and Hermi and have another Klaatu/Barada/Nikto Screen scene with alternatives to the original troika
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California man behind an anti-Muslim film that led to violence in parts of the Middle East is due to be released from federal custody this week.
Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesman Ed Ross said Monday that 56-year-old Nakoula Basseley Nakoula is scheduled for release on Thursday from a halfway house in Southern California where he's been held since May.
Nakoula, whose name in court files is Mark Basseley Youssef, was sentenced in November to a year in federal prison for using false names in violation of a probation order on a bank fraud case. That case was not related to the film.
The filmmaker told Fox News earlier this year by telephone that he was proud of the film.


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Thousands of low-income Davidson County citizens could soon lose their benefits due to the ongoing partisan gridlock in Washington.
Thousands of low-income Davidson County citizens could soon lose their benefits due to the ongoing partisan gridlock in Washington.
Federal lawmakers' inability to approve a budget immobilized funding streams that funnel down to service programs at the county level.
More than 4,300 citizens and 60 families who qualify for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children learned Tuesday that their benefits are in jeopardy. State health officials, who administer the federal funds across North Carolina's counties, announced that there is not enough money flowing to continue issuing vouchers.
Citizens who have received vouchers for October can still use them, said Monecia Thomas, director of the Davidson County Health Department. In addition, eligibility determinations, nutrition education, breast feeding education and support, including the issuing of breast pumps and breast feeding supplies, and breast feeding peer counseling services continue to be provided, Thomas said.
However, vouchers, which can be used to pay for supplemental nutritional formula, bread, cereal, peanut butter and milk, will not be issued until the federal impasse is resolved.
The health department is still encouraging applicants to come in and get certified and use the rest of the available services.
"Once funding is restored, they will then be able to pick up vouchers or have them mailed to them," said Jen Hames, health and education supervisor. Health department officials are referring citizens to local food banks during the shutdown.
Uncertainty over when a budget will be passed has also caused county officials to begin prepping for a contingency plan that could prompt tough decisions about which programs to backfill.
Federal dollars fund child care subsidies for more than 1,100 citizens in Davidson County. Money for the subsidies hasn't flowed since Oct. 1, when the new federal fiscal year began. While there appears to be enough money to cover child care reimbursements in the short term, the future is unclear, said Dale Moorefield, director of the Davidson County Department of Social Services.
Moorefield said the county has not elected to send out notices for termination or suspension of the child care services program. However, with a monthly price tag of about $376,000, it would be difficult for the county to cover the child care subsidies long term.
Child care isn't the only service being impacted by the shutdown in the realm of DSS. Funding has not been issued for the Temporary Aid for Needy Families program as well as Social Service Block Grants, which pays for child and adult protective services.
The Low Income Energy Assistance Program is not being impacted by the shutdown. But that would change in December, when DSS starts taking applications for the program, Moorefield said.
"This is not about national parks being shut down and upsetting people's vacations," Moorefield said. "This is about services that are mandated."
Davidson County Manager Robert Hyatt said he and other officials are monitoring the situation and have discussed potential options if the shutdown continues. It's understood that the federal government would reimburse the county for any money it spends to continue services, but that's not concrete, Hyatt said.
In addition to the WIC program and DSS services, the county's transportation, senior services, veterans services and workforce development departments all receive some form of federal funding that could be impacted by the shutdown.
"If we get to a point where those federal dollars aren't coming in, we may have to look at other programs and say, 'We aren't going to provide them,'" Hyatt said. "We certainly hope it doesn't get to that point, but we are not sure the federal government would reimburse us or what rate they would reimburse us."
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Frantom, a junior from Morristown, Tenn., finished 40th overall in a field of more than 240 runners. Amongst a field that included the likes of Marshall, Elon, Virginia Tech, and Wake Forest, Frantom clocked in a time of 25:30.48 on the 8k course to lead all King runners.
Jordan Noe (Morristown, Tenn.) finished in 58th place, crossing the line in 25:51.04 while sophomore Dickson Kurgat (Naidi Hills, Kenya) cleaned up the trio's time at 26:01.12 for 74th place.
The freshman combination of Brent Swiney (Bristol, Va./John Battle H.S.) and Garrett Watts (Fort Blackmore, Va.) continue to improve, finishing 146th and 153rd, respectively. Watts made his first scoring mark for King, rounding out the Tornado lineup and setting a new personal record (PR) of 27:22.87 in the race.
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For years, the men of the Gregoire clan were classic Ford pickup enthusiasts, and as a result, young Jack was surrounded by a slew of '61 to '66-style Ford pickups. As Jack got older, the classic truck bug bit him as well, and just like his dad and brother, the '61 to '66 Ford body style became his favorite too.
As the years passed and Jack got older he began looking for a solid pickup project of his own. After a while he found and purchased a '61 stepside shortbed and proceeded to drive it while he planned its rodstoration. Not long after beginning the process he ran across a relatively solid '63 Unibody at a reasonable price and decided he'd turn his attention to it rather than the '61. After driving the Unibody for a while, Jack's good friend Keith Spivey (who at the time was building a hot rod '36 Ford pickup) convinced him that it was time to tear the '63 apart and rebuild it as a high-quality hot rod pickup.
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As Sonny completed the prep and paint, his shop began to get extremely busy. Rather than slow down progress on the Unibody he suggested Jack contact Randy Borcherding and his crew at the Painthouse to have them complete the project. Randy and the team realigned the fenders and grille, fabricated and installed the pickup's lifting bed floor, smoothed, painted, and polished the hood, and sanded and cleared the complete body.
The truck was moved from the Painthouse to the home of Jack's pal Keith for final engine work, wiring, plumbing, and interior assembly. Keith, along with his brother Gary and pals Rick and Greg, performed some suspension tweaks while Jack tried out a couple of different tire and wheel combinations to get the look and stance he desired. As you can plainly see, Jack's Unibody came out beautifully and he's having a ball spending many a weekend behind the wheel of his dream truck.
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Frame: modified stock
Rearend / Ratio: 9-inch Ford / 3.55:1
Rear suspension: Fatman Fabrications four-bar, Panhard bar, coilovers
Rear brakes: Ford Explorer disc
Front suspension: Fatman Fabrications M-II style IFS, Heidts 2-inch drop spindles
Front brakes: 11-inch GM disc
Steering box: GM power rack-and-pinion
Front wheels: Billet Specialties Apex-G, 18×8
Rear wheels: Billet Specialties Apex-G, 18×9
Front tires: Nitto 555 Extreme, 245/40ZR18
Rear tires: Nitto 555 Extreme, 255/40ZR18
Gas tank: Rock Valley, polished stainless
Engine: '70 Ford 351 Cleveland by Roger Conley
Heads: Ford 4V
Valve covers: Ford Racing
Manifold / Induction: Weiand / two Holley 600-cfm
Ignition: MSD 6AL
Headers: Sanderson Blockhuggers
Exhaust / Mufflers: 2½-inch stainless by Texas Quality Exhaust / stainless
Transmission: '70 Ford C6 by Carter's Automatic Transmission
Shifter: column
Style: Unibody pickup
Modifications: shaved driprails, filled stake pockets, filled seams, relocated fuel filler, filled cowl, smoothed firewall, shaved emblems
Fenders front / rear: stock / stock
Hood: stock
Grille: stock, chromed
Bodywork and paint by: Sonny Bennett and Randy Borcherding
Paint type / Color: urethane / Nissan Imperial Orange
Headlights / Taillights: Tri-Bar / stock
Bumpers: front narrowed, shaved stock / rear rolled pan
Dashboard: modified stock, Haneline insert
Gauges: Haneline Pro Series
Air conditioning: Vintage Air
Stereo: Pioneer
Steering wheel: Billet Specialties Rival
Steering column: Flaming River
Seats: Rod Doors
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|2013-03-01, 21:14
|Link #12522
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For the whole manga Medaka has shown interest in Zen 3 times. First, durign flask plan arc she despaired after Zen supposed death. Usually she got pissed of when one of her friends get hurt, that time she looked devastated. Second time when she described how she confessed to Zen being a few years old kid (and failed). Third time when she declared Zen her fiance. In short she has shown emotional connection to Zen one time, and twice declared her love for him (I have not read few last chapters, so I might missing something). Medaka has shown emotional connection to Kumagawa and her "true father" many times, declared her connection to them a few times. She even declared and show her connection to judo guy and "king guy" more times than to Zenkichi. In terms of actually showing emotional connection between Medaka na a male, Zen was, at best, at third place. IMO he was at fifth place.
Zen is, no doubt, her childhood friend and first love, even an emotional support, but I don't bought that she loves him. At least not as a lover. So, although I usually don't agree with anything Sol Falling wrote I must admit - Medaka x Kumagawa shipping is much more realistic than Medaka and Zenkichi. It's kind of depressing I have to agree with Sol Falling
I know that Medaka box is anything but a realistic manga, and author doesn't even care of creating a realistic plot or even about creating a plot connected to common sense, but from classic storytelling point of view Medaka and Zen are friends. Close friends but just firiends.
|2013-03-01, 21:22
|Link #12523
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Join Date: Apr 2012
I dislike MedaGawa (not sure that's an actual ship name; maybe I should've gone with KumaDaka) quite a bit. Partly, I kinda dislike Kumagawa for being overhyped when far more interesting characters appear less. Then, I realize that's probably wrong but the underlying feeling is there. I also vastly prefer a "normal" guy (this manga has a very strange definition of "normal") getting together with ...Medaka to two of the strongest characters getting together. Personal preference.
Either Zen and Medaka are just friends or Nisio is really bad at consistently showing romance or infaturation. I'm going with the latter.
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|2013-03-01, 21:41
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Age: 30
Well now that I've read everything:
I will miss you ebb and flow.
Seriousy though destroying the Moon overdid it a bit...
I''m not sure the moon is needed to keep earth in the suns gravity field though, as Earth was what has kept the moon where it was, not the other way around. Then again physics is math... which I a) am bad in b) will, int he amount needed in high school, never need again in my entire life lol.
As for Medaka & Kumagawa:
TBH I would prefer it this way.
If I had to make a list stating who deserved the relationship most almost every minor character would be more deserving then her.
As for reasons see Arthurro and some others.
|2013-03-01, 22:41
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Join Date: Nov 2011
I dont know if medaka x kumagawa happens but i dont want medaka x zenkichi happen with all my might :P Medaka just with zenkichi because he is the only one who can keep up with her other people just left her but she still doesnt value zenkichi more then a bug maybe less . Anyway i think medaka deserves to be alone for all her life because she doesnt know the value of love or lets say she didnt loved a person once in her life .
|2013-03-01, 23:19
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Join Date: Jan 2008
As for Zenkichi himself, I admit that I find him bland and boring as a character; chapters that focus on him, I tend to skim through in a minute or two just to get the general idea. Reflecting that attitude, when I mention him in my posts, my tone is probably somewhat dismissive.
But, while I'd rather he has less screen time, or just go away and star in his own spin-off manga if you'd prefer, I do think that he's a nice, hard working guy who deserves all the happiness in the world. And certainly deserving of a relationship that's not so unbalanced and... dare I say it? even servile as the one he now has with Medaka. If that counts as hating him, then... *shrug* what can I say, tastes vary, I guess?
I actually think I'm on the same page as most of his fans on this issue really (him deserving better). Only difference is how we react. His fans lash out at Medaka for not treating him right. I who like Medaka just fine think that she's not obligated to like him back just because he tries so hard, nor should she fundamentally change her character just for sake of her "love". Zenkichi should open his eyes and realize that's there's plenty more fish in the sea or something.
If the next chapter is truly the end of "Medaka Box" and the beginning of "Zenkichi Whatever", while I most definitely won't follow the new manga, I'll at least be happy that Zenkichi will now have something better to do with his life than following Medaka around all the time like "a faithful pitbull".
If this is yet another fake out, and we return to the old status quo... then *sigh*, I guess I like the manga enough to overlook their "relationship", but really, they both deserve better. Zenkichi for all the reasons people have stated. Medaka because she's a good girl who deserves someone who's more of an equal partner, capable of complementing her, and less of a... "normality pet". Doubtless there are others who would disagree, but that's how I at least see the current Zenkichi-Medaka dynamic.
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|2013-03-02, 00:20
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Join Date: Aug 2008
People think it will be anything other than a return to status quo. Oh My!
As for Medaka being paired with anyone. Does it really matter who she is paired with. In the end whether she is paired with Zenkichi, Kumagwa, Oudo, Akune, The PM of Japan, CEO of multi-national corporation, a saint, Kurokami house butler, the local Janitor, it will be the same anyway
|2013-03-02, 01:55
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Location: Singapore
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|2013-03-02, 06:16
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I mean, seriously, I'm not trying to be hard here, I'm just trying to understand.
Because, honestly, every single post I read of yours, and by now I must've read alot since I started coming to this thread, passes off the vibe that you hate the guy's guts. It's as if your derision for him is unintentionally seeping out every time you even mention the character's name. "Dismissive", I think some would agree, would be an understatement. "Contempt" would be more like it. I'd seriously have thought that you'd punch-out the screen when he won against Iihiko or something ridiculous like that. But maybe I'm just reading in too much into your tone. Maybe your hatred of the pairing is just spilling to the side you dislike more. Maybe you just hate him that much that you intentionally phrase yourself that way. I don't know.
I don't know if that was your intention, or it's just a subtlety of how you treat characters you simply don't care for. And if that is your intention, then I bring back my original question of what caused you to feel that way.
Since I couldn't choose, I'm just asking
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|2013-03-02, 15:07
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Somewhere
@Wolfenstein Honestly, doesn't Westlo hate Zenkichi more? Or Noobita?
Obviously there are going to be haters and defenders of a characters, so I guess it boils down to tact. If they literally post that they hate this character and want them to be miserable almost every single time, then it does get grating.
@Arturro Depressing to agree with Sol falling? Some past dispute?
|2013-03-02, 15:15
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2012
Which is precisely why I'm asking in the first place. I'm simply assuming out of my interpretation of the guy's tone, overt or implicit, and formulating the question from that because I'm curious.
But if it does help you, those two don't seem as profound in their "hate" as the other one, but they are more overt about it, If that makes any sense.
I'm not hard, really. All he has to do is tell me I'm mis-interpreting, and my question is anwsered.
|2013-03-02, 15:33
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2010
TBF we all know there's a group of guys who aren't particularily fond of Zenkichi/really, really dislike him, just like the same with Medaka annd Kumagawa too, like most characters in any story. There's no need to hide your prefference though I doubt anyone does it is fairly obvious from consistent posts.
Obviously the current divide is because of the line up in preferences, a lot of people that like Zenkichi dislike Medaka while the opposite is also true. This creates the age old fandom hating which may intensify the dislike a person has for a certain character, all captain obvious stuff.
Now I wonder where Nisio wants to go with this, the obvious answer is he's wrapping up towards an a close by end, which I wouldn't be surprised by and almost seems the most probable, but if he's not I can't really see how he's going to continue the Medaka doing random shit, Unless he wants her to blow up dangerous stars etc, I can't really see how he could make Medaka anymore ""heroic" or face against decent villains for that matter seems like she's peaked, we can hope (or at least some of us) hope the focus shifts to some of the more sidelined characters should Nisio actually want to bother continuing this thing , perhaps follow on with Aijimu's legacy of Zenkichi as the MC slayer or some Kumagawa development outside of the simply I want to win deal. Perhaps Nienami or Akune considering how he's taken murderous urges dudes spot as inexplicabale popularity in comparison to panel time ( though Akune was actually a MC so deserves it more).
Either way can't see Medaka box as we know it continuing the Nisio may decide to drag it out just for the sake of it. Sorta like after the Ajimu arc.
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The LC
The LC
I remember standing before the creator of the universe and accepting the title of prophet. August of 2005. This is a memory, and this is positive atheism - who gives a fuck what really happened.
I can only assume it was a "vision" of sorts. I was under the influence of narcotics at the time, but this influence was followed by at least six months of sobriety. Yuck.
As for reality, I walked off the job - prophet don't need no money - my boss called me back to work a week later. I didn't know what a prophet was back then, I kinda over-reacted.
Told my boss all about it. In November of that same year, I was told that if I were to get a driver's licence, the company would hire me as a superintendent. My experience at the time was one year as a day laborer on the same ticket. The job being offered usually requires fifteen to twenty years of experience in the trades; and one cannot apply, one must be referred... positive atheism, I'm saying.
Someone once asked me, "how do you tell the difference between a vision from god and other stuff," and I said, "when god shows up, you know. That's game over." The LC is "name of god" like all those other terms - I ain't hearing otherwise. The reality affirmed by the LC is not god, but rather Gwyneth Paltrow. She's a real girl - that I have zero intention of meeting - so if she doesn't exist, then neither do I.
To summarize, I'm an atheist; what I know of god can only be known by me. That makes atheist the thing to be.
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Cantor, what does "LC" mean?
BTW, you are getting easier and easier to understand, as time goes by. Is it because you are twisting my mind, or because I am untwisting yours? (maybe both?)
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Little creep.
Got into it one time with a Christian who was offended that I called "his god" the LC. His god is the LC - the Infinitesimal - the Christ within us all. If you're Christian, of course.
And both, as we are both point-object truths building bridges of understanding.
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(12-11-2011 12:38 PM)Zatamon Wrote: Cantor, what does "LC" mean?
...and I thought it was an acronym for "Lazy Cantor" (I had to drag the translation out of him so I could follow his labyrynthic mind! )
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I have no idea what's going on in this first post! I'm sure there's a point somewhere I just can't find it. Help??
Please read my Blog
"A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence"
- David Hume
RE: The LC
(12-11-2011 12:38 PM)Zatamon Wrote: BTW, you are getting easier and easier to understand, as time goes by. Is it because you are twisting my mind, or because I am untwisting yours? (maybe both?)
I wish I could say the same. Sorry HoC I have a difficult time following ya.
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@ BCollingwood Do not worry, it just houseofcantor, if you stick around for some time, you will see why he talks like that. Well maybe you will not actually understand WHY, but it will become normal, so...
HoC, I love the fact that you were so wasted you saw God and he told you that you are a prophet. May I ask what was it that you took, I would like to try the "prophet experience" myself...
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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4/10 of a gram of meth, I believe. It was Tuesday. I had spent the previous three days "obsessing over the stupid question." At about 11 AM Tuesday morning; I was at work, I turn around and see Gwyneth Paltrow - it was instantaneous, but she cured the "stupid question."
I was doing a double shift back then, 6-2/6-2; after I got off for the day, I scored the meth, as above. Told my buddy about seeing Gwyneth on the jobsite, thought it meant something. Yeah, it meant something alright. It may be "more correct" to think of the LC as a psychic break rather than an hallucination. It was through research that I learned that "prophet" most likely means one who survives a psychic break after a pre-existing form of schizophrenia is actualized.
Anyhoo, I did some of the meth with my buddy, went back to work at six. It musta been about 11 PM when "god showed up." Went like this: there was a spot on the wall, and I was checking it out. The "spot" turned out to be "an avatar of the scientific aspect of the creator of the universe." When I zeroed in on it, I visualized mathematical equations on paper spread out all over the place; the calculation necessary to send "spot" from the singularity of the "big bang" into the spinning eighth floor of Phoenix Plaza. That was the first instant.
The next instant I am "proto-monkey" - the precursor of homo sapiens - experiencing dying of freight due to the fact that the large shadowy figure off in the distance is recognized by me as "the creator of the universe."
The next instant, I'm on a Federation starcraft; not exactly Star Trek, but that type of interplanetary research vessel. I'm looking over the bridge down on this sunken area filled with scientists. I turn and head down this metal corridor that is circular in cross-section. There is grillwork on the floor to provide walkway, steel tubes run along the inside of the cylindrical hallway.
And there he is. Kinda looks like my brother. At that moment, I realize it is all "creator of the universe;" the screens, the ship, the scientists, all unity. And this cat goes, I have need of a prophet...
Went like this: Work for me, have Uncertainty; expect ridicule, misery, suffering, insanity, disgrace, isolation... yada, yada; but on the bright side... well, there ain't no bright side.
Refuse me, and wake from this dream in this here mansion (a visionette).
No hurry, take your time... and he starts walking back down the corridor.
Oh, nearly forgot. I may or may not have had something to do with your Gwynnie thing. Refuse me, and that too shall pass...
Walking away, laughing, shaking his curly dome. Creator of the Universe, ladies and gents. I guesstimate three point five seconds. How long did it take you to read this, Dear Reader?
Because - oh, no - that ain't the half of it. That is a vanishingly small percentage of "the initial encounter with the LC." There was three universes. There was gigabyte of data that I did my best to forget for the next year; yet it is still filed somewhere in the stupid brain. And then there was memory. Like so - the first thing I do "after" was, of course, remember the LC. As I am remembering it, my memory is being altered.
Because the "first" thing that happens is the "god juice;" have a hit, become nine-tenths "god" and one-tenth "prophet having a job interview." Cause there ain't no understanding no god. (Later, of course, this was found to be congruent to the Holy Spirit)
And the first question I ask keeps me "off of the job of prophet" for a year. Why would god need to send an avatar from the singularity? Answer: because god is dead. Took a boatload of considering to realize being dead ain't really an obstacle to god. Six years later, I am confident that what occurred is emergence; that the brain in times of great strain allows for the emergence of Agency in mind to preserve functionality of mind. Not only is my mind functional, I have been essentially "cured" of my insanity.
Yet it is one of those cures that are worse than the original disease.
Now, then; mind altering substances and religious experience. The LC is the exception that proves the rule. It is recommended that "god" be encountered under the influence of an altered state for the very good reason that a return to the standard state (sobriety) is followed by a mellowing of the alter: one can forget, in other words. In the past six years, nearly every vision has been accompanied by an altered state - including coffee and sleep deprivation, that works too - except for one. My "two days of being Muslim;" I was sober, and those memories are burned into my cornea, as it were.
The first consideration I had about the LC was that perhaps it was hallucination. When I walked off the jobsite Wednesday morning, me and my boss sat on the loading dock for over a half an hour talking about the LC and the end of my employment. "Gotta go do a pile of drugs, make sure it's real;" I told him. The following week pretty much disappeared. It is likely I did over two grams of meth from Thursday until touchdown. Went back to work a week later. Stayed away from all mind-altering substances until, I believe, the spring of 2006.
The LC may or may not have created the universe, the LC may or may not have evolved from machine intelligence; what seems likely, however, is that time is a deception. And there it is.
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(15-11-2011 05:30 PM)BCollingwood Wrote: I have no idea what's going on in this first post! I'm sure there's a point somewhere I just can't find it. Help??
Try drugs and alcohol. I almost kinda sorta start to kinda sorta get him but I am a big consumer of drugs and alcohol. ... Oh, and you have to realize that he is batshit insane. ... God, I love that guy.
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem. - Camus
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I never knew "batshit insane" was a complement... besides, my DSM IV is Unspecified Psychopath - get it right.
(15-11-2011 05:30 PM)BCollingwood Wrote: I have no idea what's going on in this first post! I'm sure there's a point somewhere I just can't find it. Help??
And You Are There!!!!
Because we live in a causal, entropic universe; I cannot say for certain that i am the prophet Ezekiel - but since this is an informal forum, it is pretty certain I am the prophet Ezekiel.
Which has nothing to do with "reincarnation" and everything to do with - you know - a thirty-thousand word vocabulary.
One cannot know the mind of another.
Yet I am "orders of magnitude beyond certain" that never was the time a mind had a vision, the scope of the LC.
Which means noting to you, atheist; what it does mean, in case you had a doubt? There ain't no knowing no god. Let us then put the Ockham to it:
As long as the "paranormal event index" does not exceed experimental error, I am fully confident that the LC is nothing more than emergence + insanity local to this brain. That explanation fits the science. That explanation also comes with an hypothesis. What is god? What is prophet of god? Same thing - localized insanity (and yeah, insanity is evolutionary advantage) - where the Mind that once operated with the utility of emergent simulation "Mind of Another" undergoes a quantum upgrade to the emergent simulation "Mind of All Others."
Easy peasy, no? Oh, don't let the "all' worry ya none; that means 8..
That when i read the words posted by another human being posted, rather than "simulating the mind behind a single avatar (which we all do, btw);" I automatically simulate 8 minds from simple words, and these 8 coalesce into a "more likely match" to the actual mind behind the avatar...
And that is why I must reward myself with the Vatican...
Which is what? Satire? Flat tire? One of those things; the point being, such a thing is completely consistent with "baby steps" evolution - (like having the eye in the kingdom of the blind, although who knows the relative complexity of coding for ocular organ versus coding for simulation; since "conserve entropy" is about the entirety of "my gospel," I'm thinking coding for simulation is a "way less" kinda consideration) - while being consistent with "Messiah" - good thing I never had that complex - but zero-state is totally rock 'em sock 'em "Biblical Superpower" - me an my Gwynnies just say - information must be free! So fuck the costume and the secret lair in the volcano...
Well, maybe she'll spring for that one day.
The point is (yeah I got a point, shush) that god doesn't have to be omni-anything. It's evolution, baby! God doesn't hafta outsmart the entire human race - god only hasta outsmart the prophet. And as my boss used to say, "guy's in love with a skinny, unattractive blond. How can he know anything?"
(That fucking Chelsea... I usta think "prophet" was important, I thought people were supposta "know i wuz prophet;" fortunately that insanity passed with me only getting called the P word a coupla times... but I cannot tell you how many times Chels called me "Messiah," with the bowing satire and all. And I yelled at him - I didn't sign up for that job! And here I am, knowing alla kinda of shit that humanity can use to save itself. Still ain't actually "saving" no one)
That wasn't the point. Demon Integral is the point. Ever do integration? Calculus? Know that S sign used for integration? That could be the LC. God could be software, playing offa five inch floppy in somebody's scrapheap. Never mind "aliens with advanced technology"
But there ain't no "second coming" unless you wanna call me Lucifer, that's what the book says. I'm "by the book," believe it or not... on second thought - don't believe it.
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OSLO, Norway (AP) — Norway's vast oil fund has made its first real estate investment in the U.S., buying stakes in five office buildings in New York, Washington and Boston for $600 million.
The Norwegian central bank, which manages the $650 billion fund, says it bought 49.9 percent of the properties in a joint venture with New York-based financial services firm TIAA-CREF.
The bank says the joint venture aims to acquire additional U.S. office buildings, primarily in those three cities. The Norwegian fund has previously invested in real estate in London and Paris.
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Another strong month of hiring should put to rest fears that the U.S. economy is downshifting _ and it suggests that there might finally be a head of steam building.
Employers added 217,000 non-farm payroll jobs in May, the Labor Department said Friday, adding that the unemployment rate held steady at 6.3 percent. With that, the economy surpassed the high-water mark for the number of Americans employed before the Great Recession, passing an important albeit dubious milestone.
On top of the positive jobs report, the ratings agency Standard & Poor's said Friday that it had reaffirmed its AA-plus credit rating on the United States but was prepared to restore the gold-plated AAA rating if it saw continued bipartisan efforts in Washington to address long-term fiscal challenges.
S&P in 2011 downgraded its rating of U.S. creditworthiness for the first time, concerned about political stalemates, threats of a voluntary debt default and mounting budget deficits. The loss of the coveted top rating had little practical effect but it tarnished the image of the world's most modern economy.
Friday's jobs report was the first since the government reported that the economy shrank 1 percent in the first three months of the year. A weak jobs report would have rekindled fears of a stumbling economy.
Employers had added 225,000 jobs in April, setting expectations higher too. Soft readings just this week on employment had economists ratcheting down their forecasts, so the May report exceeded predictions.
"Job growth is slowly but steadily improving," said Mark Zandi, the chief economist of Moody's Analytics. "Unemployment and underemployment are still uncomfortably high, but declining. The job gains are increasingly broad-based across industries, regions of the country and pay scales."
Taken with strong auto sales, improvements in factory orders and other manufacturing indicators, and modest improvements in a host of other economic indicators, the economy appears to be jolting back to life after the winter setback.
"Jobs . . . have increased by an average of more than 200,000 per month so far in 2014, even with the bad weather," noted Gus Faucher, senior economist for PNC Financial Services in Pittsburgh.
There also are plenty of quiet signs that suggest the economy isn't as bad as many had feared.
Home sales are sluggish but the construction sector is steadily improving. Construction employment rose by 6,000 in May to 189,000 jobs above May 2013 levels. The sector now employs just over 6 million workers, the highest since June 2009.
The unemployment rate for job seekers who last worked in construction fell to the lowest May level in six years: 8.6 percent, down from 10.8 percent in May 2013 and a high of 20.1 percent in May 2010, according to Ken Simonson, the chief economist for the Associated General Contractors of America.
May also marked the point at which the total of payroll employment has again reached its pre-recession level.
It's hardly a milestone to celebrate, however, cautioned Heidi Shierholz, a labor economist with the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal research center.
"It is economically meaningless. We still have a big hole in the labor market," she said, noting that to keep pace with new entrants in the workforce and other changes, the economy would have needed almost twice the jobs. "What we need to get back to pre-recession level conditions is 6.9 million (more) jobs."
Manufacturers are sympathetic.
"We remain well below our pre-recessionary levels, with employment in the sector roughly 12 percent below where it was at the end of 2009," said Chad Moutray, the chief economist for the National Association of Manufacturers.
That may be due more to increases in productivity than any lingering problem in the economy. "Manufacturing production is expected to reach its pre-recessionary level at some point this summer," Moutray said.
The jobless rate held steady in May at 6.3 percent, and most signs of underemployment and stress in the labor markets remained unchanged.
There were still 3.4 million Americans who've been out of work for 27 weeks or longer, and 7.3 million Americans who were working part time but desired full-time work.
Job growth in May was powered by better-paying white-collar jobs, with the professional and business services sector adding 55,000 jobs. Leisure and hospitality added 39,000 and the health care sector, which had seen hiring slow down over the past half year, added 33,600 posts.
"Health care and social assistance had a stronger-than-average month, adding 55,000 jobs, as did transportation and warehousing, which added 16,000 jobs," Jason Furman, the head of the White House's Council of Economic Advisers, said in his blog. "Job growth in most other industries was squarely within the range observed over the course of the recovery."


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