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HOUSTON, Dec. 4 -- Valero Energy Corp. Chairman and CEO William E. Greehey said Tuesday he'd rather swap than sell Ultramar Diamond Shamrock Corp.'s 168,000-b/d Golden Eagle refinery in the San Francisco Bay area, as part of the company's deal with the US Federal Trade Commission to complete that proposed merger.
Greehey told reporters in Houston that he is exploring both possibilities. However, he said, "We're not interested in losing refining capacity."
Valero Energy announced Monday it accepted the FTC's stipulation that it divest that refinery and some northern California marketing assets valued at more than $1 billion as part of the pending merger between the two companies (OGJ Online, Dec. 3, 2001).
That agreement will permit the merger to be completed before yearend, prior to divesting that refinery and 70 associated Beacon and Ultramar-branded retail sites throughout northern California, Greehey said. The consent decree gives Valero a year to dispose of those assets.
UDS operates a 78,000 b/d-refinery at Wilmington, Calif., and Valero has a 135,000-b/d plant at Benicia. Geehey said Valero expects synergies from the merger will exceed the original target of $200 million.
UDS bought the refinery a year ago from Tosco Corp. for $950 million, including the cost of inventories and a $150-million earnout payment. It said its capital improvements would total $180 million by yearend. Net book value of the retail network is $35 million.
After the merger, Valero will be one of the three largest US refiners with 12 plants and capacity of nearly 2 million b/d. It will operate more than 5,000 retail outlets in the US and Canada.
Greehey said Tuesday his company plans to continue its strategy of growth through both acquisitions and internal expansions. He noted that there are "a number of refineries for sale" in areas of the US where Valero currently has no operations.
The UDS acquisition is being funded half in debt and half in stock. Valero officials earlier indicated they would use half of the anticipated divestiture proceeds to aggressively buy back stock to maintain the 50:50 split of equity and debt originally anticipated in the merger agreement.


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Intellectual property rights and patents are great assets for many companies and procurement are at least partial stewards of them. They are often attractive assets of course (even from just a sales/marketing perspective), but they are sometimes open to legal disputes – more about this later.
In the case of procurement solutions, competing vendors have material legal exposure – in part because there are so many competitors in the sector that have filed for protections with the US Patent Office. Moreover, end customers (i.e., procurement organizations) should care as well given potential vendor/supplier risk and need to implement (forcefully, especially in the case of SaaS) workarounds based on court judgments if licensing agreements do not occur (and the losing party has to cease and desist).
Perhaps most important is the fact that there are competitors out there with patents who aren't afraid to use them. In court. One of the more avid patent collectors is Ariba (now with deep SAP pockets) who has been adding around six patents per year to their IP portfolio.
As of late, Ariba and SAP have been relatively quiet on the legal front – although Ariba and Coupa are still slugging it out at the moment over a lawsuit that Ariba filed years ago. That aside, what exactly do those patents cover – and what might the impact be?
We're digging into these issues in a series on Spend Matters Plus – we think you will be surprised! In the first research brief we looked at some of Ariba's patents that touch on transformational price factors in auctions, P2P shopping experience, and business network supplier profile management. So far, we think those patents alone should keep quite a few competing providers up at night.
Assuming they are enforceable of course.

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FindAGrave, as I understand it, is a graves registration database. That means that memorials listed as 'Burial Unknown' should not be on the site longer than 30 days past D.O.D. The site isn't called 'Find the Name of a Deceased Person.' It seems that some are confused about these things. If you are one of those, see the FAQ's.
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I have been deluged recently with suggestions and requests to make relationship links which simply cannot be possible. When you ask me to link a child to parents who would have been 3 years old at the time of the child's birth, something's very wrong somewhere. Of course, if you wish, I can easily post anything you submit and attach your name to the erroneous information. There is enough bad data on the internet as it is and I really don't want to be adding to the problem. But if you insist... Please keep in mind, just because it's on the internet doesn't make it true.))) Since FindAGrave rules prohibit the use of external links (they can go dead or change over time), I won't create them.
I have 'isolated' the bulk of the 2 preceding paragraphs with ((())) because the current 'Edit' system no longer provides for the submission of documentation and has thus made them irrelevant. It seems that now the addition of any data is more important than the addition of accurate data which has been properly sourced. Previously, when someone submitted an edit, it was via a message which provided a text format for submission of documentation which I could then 'copy and paste' to add the data, along with the documentation, and the name of the member who submitted the information. As it stands now, I would have to message everyone who submits a change with a request for a source and wait for a reply. That reply might never come and the data would automatically be added after 21 days anyway. I.M.O.
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Am I allowed to make a mistake? Did you have to take that tone? It was the first thing I looked at this morning and wow, it just made me feel awful. I've taken down my profile and am considering taking down messaging for good.
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I am Michael Wood and I maintain a website dedicated to the 16th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Civil War regiment at www.mkwe.com/home.htm. I collect and present all information, images and other material I can find on this unit to which my great great grandfather belonged. I noticed you have published a photo of the gravestone of one of the 16th OVI's soldiers, Samuel Foreman, from the Fockler Cemetery #29371111. I am asking your permission to present this photo on my website in the "Laid To Rest" section at http://www.mkwe.com/ohio/pages/gravesites_00.htm. My site is totally non-commercial and is a memorial to the regiment and for the research and enjoyment of those interested in the Civil War or the 16th OVI in particular. Please let me know if it's ok to use your photo. Also, I want to thank you for helping to find and preserve photos and information on our ancestors on FindAGrave.com. You are performing a valuable service for many and helping to keep alive the memory our ancestors.
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William Lynn Lighty was my great grandfather. My grandfather's name was Jaquette Harris Lighty. He actually went by Harris so it would be easy to confuse and understandable that he was listed as just Harris. I have no idea where the Jaquette name came from. It certainly sounds french but there are no other mentions of Jaquetts in the family at all.
The information that you compiled is fascinating and much appreciated. I went to Penn state and had no idea at that time that I had ties to Tyrone. I happened upon this site as I am going back to Penn state at the end of September and planned on trying to find my great grandfather's grave site.
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Thank you for your help and encouragement, ~m
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RE: Enoch Hollingsworth
they are 2 different boys.... my guess is that they were trying to carry on the name.... unfortunately,
both passed as infants.
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RE: Van Pelt Burial Ground
Burial lists-- inc, in some cases, months of death too.
I also have lists for the Lane burying-ground, the one off Milltown Road (I lived opposite the field where it was located --- and my grandfather always plowed around it)
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Van Pelt Somerset County--
I grew up on the farm this was part of-- I've collected additional/more complete burial information from:
The Genealogical Magazine of NJ 12 (1937)
Somerset County Historical Quarterly (1916)
Contributions to the Family History & Genealogy of the Van Campen Family of America (Messenger-Gazette article, 3 May 1940)
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What is the location of the Van Pelt Cemetery?
on a knoll, near the Raritan River, near Sutton's cow tunnel, off Rte 22?
on the former farm of Harry Sally?
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A few days ago, we saw a red band trailer for the horror anthology "V/H/S," now an international trailer for the film has surfaced online, giving us a few new glimpses at the 'found footage' inspired creeper. There's floating dinnerware, blackbirds flying in a hallway, a dead body floating in a creek, arms and hands coming out of walls, a vampire-like succubus in a hotel room, human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together! What the hell is going on in this movie? We don't exactly know, but we're definitely looking forward to it. Directed by a slew of genre helmers (Adam Wingard, David Bruckner, Ti West, Glenn McQuaid, Joe Swanberg, Radio Silence), the segmented film revolves around a hired crew of robbers who break into a mysterious abandoned house, where they find a large cache of videotapes, all containing sinister recordings of unexplained events. The film will open in theaters on Oct. 5th, but will also be available on VOD starting on Aug. 31st.
When a group of petty criminals is hired by a mysterious party to retrieve a rare piece of found footage from a rundown house in the middle of nowhere, they soon realize that the job isn't going to be as easy as they thought. In the living room, a lifeless body holds court before a hub of old television sets, surrounded by stacks upon stacks of VHS tapes. As they search for the right one, they are treated to a seemingly endless number of horrifying videos, each stranger than the last. Bringing together some of the top filmmakers in the game today, this wickedly conceived horror anthology sends the viewer through a gauntlet of suspense, terror, shock, and downright brutality -- instantly distinguishing itself from a sea of lackluster found-footage horror flicks. The diverse and deviously creative minds behind V/H/S shatter any preconceived notions about the genre, making it feel inventive and captivating once again.
directed by Ti West, Glenn McQuaid, Joe Swanberg, Adam Wingard, "Radio Silence"
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Welcome to the 2012 Hunger Games
Posted on May 1, 2012
By Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch
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Then, of course, there are thousands more Americans who were so grievously wounded they might have died in previous conflicts, but are now surviving with severe brain damage, multiple missing limbs, or other profound mutilations. And don't forget the trauma and mental illness that mostly goes unacknowledged and untreated or the far more devastating Iraqi version of the same. And never mind Afghanistan, with its own grim numbers and horrific consequences.
Our wartime carnage has been on a grand scale, but it hasn't been on television in any meaningful way; it's generally been semi-hidden by most of the American media and the government, which censored images of returning coffins, corpses, civilian casualties, and anything else uncomfortable (though in our science-fiction era when every phone is potentially a video camera, the leakage has still been colossal). Most of us did a good job of being distracted by other things—including reality TV, of course. The US Ambassador and military commander in Afghanistan were furious not that our soldiers struck jokey poses with severed limbs, but that the Los Angeles Times dared to publish them last month. And those whistleblowers who took the effort to reveal the little men behind the throne are facing severe punishment. Witness one Hunger-Games-style hero, Bradley Manning, the slight young soldier turned alleged leaker, long held in inhumane conditions and now facing a potential life sentence.
The Return of Debt Peonage
In The Hunger Games, kids in poor families take out extra chances in their District lottery—that is, extra chances to die—in return for extra food rations; in ours, poor kids enlist in the military to feed their families and maybe escape economic doom. Many are seduced by military recruiters who stalk them in high school with promises as slippery as those the slave trade uses to recruit poor young women for sex work abroad.
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And then there's another form of debt peonage that is far more widespread in our strange and ever-changing land: student loans. The young are constantly told that only a college education can give them a decent future. Then they're told that, to pay for it, they need to go into debt—usually into five figures, sometimes well into six. And these debts are, in turn, governed by special laws that don't allow you to declare bankruptcy—no matter what. In other words, they are guaranteed to follow you all your life.
One of my close friends wept when her husband began to earn enough money to pay off her $45,000 loan, structured so that it looked like she would continue to pay interest on it for the rest of her life; not so dissimilar, that is, from the debts sharecroppers and workers in company towns used to incur.
In other words, we're creating a new generation of debt peonage. And she's not the worst case by far. Early in the Occupy Wall Street moment, she told me, someone arrived at Zuccotti Park in downtown Manhattan with markers and cardboard on which participants were to write their debt. What shocked her was how many of the occupiers in their early twenties were already carrying huge debt burdens.
According to the website for Occupy Student Debt, 36,000,000 Americans have student debts. These have increased more than fivefold since 1999, creating a debt load that's approaching a trillion dollars, with students borrowing $96 billion more every year to pay for their educations. Two-thirds of college students find themselves in this trap nowadays. As commentator Malcolm Harris put it in N + 1 magazine:
"Since 1978, the price of tuition at U.S. colleges has increased over 900%, 650 points above inflation. To put that number in perspective, housing prices, the bubble that nearly burst the U.S. economy, then the global one, increased only fifty points above the Consumer Price Index during those years. But… wages for college-educated workers outside of the inflated finance industry have stagnated or diminished. Unemployment has hit recent graduates especially hard, nearly doubling in the post-2007 recession. The result is that the most indebted generation in history is without the dependable jobs it needs to escape debt."
About a third are already in default. You can only hope that this bubble will burst in a wildcat strike against student debt, and if we're lucky, a move to force tuition lower and have a debt jubilee.
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Sorry, Ms. Solnit, but your writing style is too convoluted for me to enjoy what you're talking about. Maybe it's because I haven't had my coffee this morning, but I think you'd do well to put in more commas and remove a lot of the clutter. Methinks most of it is left-over scrap from when you used to eat books. I couldn't get past the first page.


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Earlier this week, Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe (Bogie) Ya'alon, the leading candidate to be the next defense minister, gave a briefing to a group of French journalists. He gave out maps of Jerusalem and Maaleh Adumim and showed the journalists that the planned construction in the E1 area would not divide Judea and Samaria into separate parts and therefore would not impede the possible establishment of a contiguous Palestinian state. There are already transportation routes that connect Ramallah and Bethlehem and there is land east of Maaleh Adumim where Judea (the southern section of the West Bank) and Samaria (the northern section of the West Bank) meet.
So why shouldn't Israel build in E1? Because the world has come to see E1 as an area where Israeli construction would choke off the territorial contiguity of the Palestinian people. Unless this impression is changed, going ahead with construction plans in E1 would cause Israel major, and possibly irreversible, diplomatic damage.
This is not the case in Ramat Shlomo, an area that I know well. The growth of Ramat Shlomo is a natural thing, in terms of the Jewish hold over the land of Israel and the city of Jerusalem, for which the neighborhood serves a guard post, in a positive sense.
However, the announcement of the construction of 1,500 housing units in Ramat Shlomo was an invitation for world pressure. Israel would have had an easier time if it had used a salami method of announcing the construction of 100 housing units on 15 different occasions.
Construction in Ramat Shlomo is not an obstacle to negotiations on the future of Jerusalem. It is clear that Jerusalem will remain united. If an opportunity arises to make peace, there may be a need to recognize a special Palestinian and Muslim status in the Holy Basin. But construction in Ramat Shlomo has nothing to do with an arrangement on the holy sites in the Temple Mount area.
But by announcing a massive construction plan in Ramat Shlomo, the government has in fact hindered its ability to carry the plan out. The announcement was unnecessary and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to the world as if he was trying to avoid losing votes to Naftali Bennett's New National Religious Party in the upcoming Knesset election. Bennett's party can conduct its election campaign as it wishes. That is the essence of democracy. But Bennett should be aware of the national price being paid. The Netanyahu government will build as much as it can in Jerusalem. But its ability to do so lessens as political turmoil surrounding the issue increases.
Basically, by pressuring the government, the New National Religious Party has ensured no actual new construction, but rather has only extracted construction declarations that have drawn criticism from Israel's friends around the world. The question for the government is whether one more Knesset seat is worth the heavy price of competing in the race that has been instigated by the right-wing opposition.
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Walter Sharpe played just 18 college games while bouncing between Mississippi State and Alabama-Birmingham.
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The Pistons just drafted a narcoleptic, academically suspect, unknown player from a mid-major conference who was arrested less than a year ago. What's not to love?
Let's face it: Until his name was announced Thursday night, you didn't know anything about Walter Sharpe.
I'll fill you in on a few details: Yes, he really has struggled with narcolepsy. He was academically ineligible last semester, presumably for spelling "Sharp" wrong. And maybe the best sign that he is ready for pro sports is that he already has his first nightclub arrest under his belt. ...


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This is Adrian Nelson. You saw the cover, here's the story. PODCAST
I caught up with him at San Onofre a few weeks ago. Adrian is one of a few people that are a leading force in addressing the lagging sewage treatment processes in Vancouver, Canada. Listen in and hear his story and how he ended up our coverboy for the recent activist issue of Making Waves.


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Managing money can be as difficult as earning it. Proverbs like "A dollar save is a dollar earned" are awfully nice to read and quote but can be tough to put into practice. Starting to track the money you spend is one of the simplest first steps one can take. Once you see how much is going where, you will automatically scramble to cut down wasteful expenses.
Since our generation is known for its acute ADD, noting down every expense on a notebook or an iPhone app won't last more than a couple of days. In the aftermath of the personal finance revolution spearheaded by Mint, there are a ton of online apps to help you pinch personal & business pennies and after the jump we've a compiled a few for your financial well being.
One of the largest barriers facing small business and freelancers is keeping track of invoicing, receipts, payroll and general accounting. This can be a problem because of the expense of the software and/or accounting firm. If you're just getting started, you won't want to invest in an expensive (and often outdated-looking) accounting suite, and Excel for data and Word for invoices will only go so far.
Now, along comes a service called Wave Apps — well, really it is just called Wave, but it is a collection of apps. The five services are designed to make life easier for the small business owner or freelancer. (more…)
Creating invoices is something every working professional has to do in order to get paid from their clients. Some prefer to use Microsoft Excel to create invoices while some people prefer to use online services or software. The problem with creating invoices in Excel is that one has to create a template first and then fill it with the required information. However, this may not be the most convenient method and may take some time to create.
One reason why I prefer online tools to create invoices is that you can easily manage and view all the invoices in few simple clicks and you can connect your PayPal or any other supported payment method with the service. This helps users find out how many invoices have been paid and so on.
At Web.AppStorm, we have shared some very useful invoicing apps, free and paid, that can help users create invoices. Today, we present to you another handy invoicing app that does not only allows users to create invoices and estimated but also allow them to manage their expenses from the same dashboard. The app is known as Scoreboard.
Tracking your expenses properly is really important for a business to sustain, even for individuals who want to find out how much money is going out of their pocket. Since I started working, one of the most difficult things for me was to keep track of how much money I spend every month. As I prefer to manage all my expenses and incomes myself, I also on a lookout for best apps that can help me make this task easier and less hectic.
I've tried many apps, but none ever hit the spot for me until I came across CashBase.
A lot of people that go to college don't get the luxury of having it paid for, and most students graduate with tons of debt to pay. Fortunately, for me, I had parents that saved their hard earned money and wanted to be able to pay my tuition. Well, fast forward ten years and I am back in school again, but this time, I am on my own. I knew I was going to have to take out loans to go back, and we have a plan to pay it all, but it doesn't hurt to get an even better strategy to assess things.
That is where Tuition.io comes in very handy. It's a new web app that helps me visualize my payments and what I need to do. By the time I finish school in about a year and a half, I want to be able to be in a good financial position to pay off the loan as fast as I can, which means I want to start paying on it now. Tuition.io can help with this, and does a variety of other things to help ease your mind when it comes to paying for college.
Call me weird, but one of the things that I take pleasure in doing is our finances each month. I don't know why, but I like to pay the bills and make sure that we are staying on track. One of the hardest things for me over the past few years is that with having a wife and a child as well as having a small business, we have a lot of accounts to manage. Now, even though I love to oversee our finances, I am not the best at keeping track of our spending and could probably do a better job. I have tried a couple of different ways to do this, but have not found something that I can stick with and find useful.
I wanted something where I could just dump all my accounts into and see where and how we are spending our money and where we can cut back. When I read about Personal Capital a few weeks ago, I figured I would try it out to see how well it would work for me. After putting it through its paces, I found that it definitely has some nice features that I like. Let's take a look at it more and see whether this would be a good program for you.
Although I love to do the finances in our household, one thing that I have struggled with is keeping accurate records of our expenses and creating a budget. I tried so many different apps to make this happen, but I have never been able to settle on one that just works for me. For the longest time I was using Mint, and though that was great, the service was just too unstable for me. So the search continued for me and I actually resorted to just checking my bank account every day to see how we were doing financially.
Well, a few days ago, I saw an app called WalletMap and was instantly intrigued by how easy and simple it looked. When it comes to these expense and budget apps those are two words you don't hear too often. So I decided to give it a whirl and for the past few days I have really liked what I have seen so far.
This time last year, I discovered an unknown web application for time tracking, invoicing and accounting named CronSync. My original review, which can be found here, was a positive one scoring an impressive 9/10.
Unlike some apps however, CronSync hasn't been lying idle for the past twelve months. The team, based in Germany, has been hard at work upgrading and adding new features. For the past twelve months, I've watched CronSync slowly get better and better, and over the last two months several fantastic updates have convinced me that a second review was necessary.
If run a business, hate doing the books and are fed up with Excel, read on.
Any time you watch the news, you will find that most of the time, the main topics are related somehow to money. It has been around for centuries, but yet we still can't seem to figure it out. Money can be a great thing, but yet so destructive as well.
One web app has come out recently that piqued my interest because it looked like it paid attention to the details when it comes to money. Budgetable, which is currently in beta, takes looking at your spending differently than some other apps that do similar functions, like Mint. Instead of just looking at your transactions and categories of spending, you get a more in depth look at your money and how it is affecting your savings.
It's always important to manage your finances, whether by setting a budget or tracking daily expenses. While we often tend to track expenses well in the short term, it's also equally important to remember to think about our finances long-term.
Balance Forecasting App is a web application that helps you focus on your finances in the long-term by keeping track of recurring monthly income and bills and then using that data to forecast your financial well-being in many different time periods. It wouldn't be an app to manage your finances down to the last detail, but it's a great way to get an idea of how much money and expenses you'll have in the near future.


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Brownies topped with your choice of three easy, luscious toppers. This decadent brownie recipe lets you create three different brownies.
Heat oven to 350ºF.
Place butter and sugar in bowl. Microwave 2 minutes or until mixture just starts to boil; stir until well mixed. Add 1 cup chocolate chips; stir until melted. Add eggs and vanilla; mix well. Add flour, baking powder and salt; mix well. Stir in remaining chocolate chips.
Pour batter into ungreased 8-inch square baking pan. Bake 30-35 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out with moist crumbs. Top brownies as desired.
Calories: 290
Fat: 18g
Cholesterol: 50mg
Sodium: 140mg
Carbohydrates: 32g
Dietary Fiber: 2g
Protein: 3g
Really, really good brownies and easy! I also made them with milk chocolate chips and kinda like them better. Both ways are awesome!!
I find this recipe VERY easy to make and have had many people ask for the recipe! You do want to be mindful not to overcook them or they become dry - but a little icecream will fix that RIGHT up!
Mouth-watering! I haven't tried the optional toppings yet, but this brownie is truly fudgy and flavorful. I've been asked for this recipe several times!
These brownies have never failed me. I try to use chocolate that is higher quality for better flavor. I've made them many different ways swirled in a peanut butter filling, stirred in mint chips, and various toppings also and they have turned out great every time. Moist, chewy, and deliciously easy.
I made it with the peanut butter cups and it was awesome!!
Wonderful! I like to use Snickers candy bar pieces instead of the peanut butter cups and it still tastes great!
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Once the temperature drops a few degrees, I'm in full-on fall foods mode. Pumpkin bars, apple crisp, cranberry bread…you name it, I'm making it. However, most of it revolves around sweets. Why doesn't dinner get a fair chance?
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measuring national income
To measure how much output, spending and income has been generated we use national income accounts. These accounts measure the:
1. Total value of the output of goods and services
produced in the UK
2. Total amount of expenditure taking place in the economy
3. Total amount of income generated through production of goods and services
National Income is a term used to measure the monetary value of the flow of output of goods and services produced within the economy over a period of time. Measuring the level and rate of growth of national income (Y) is important to economists when they are considering:
The rate of economic growth and where the economy is in the business cycle
Changes to overall living standards of the population
Looking at the distribution of national income (i.e. measuring income and wealth inequalities)
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
GDP measures the value of output produced within the domestic boundaries of the UK. It includes the output of the many foreign owned firms that are located in the UK following the high levels of foreign direct investment in the UK economy in the 1980s and 1990s. Read this article on 100 years of UK GDP
There are three ways of calculating GDP - all of which should sum to the same amount since by identity:
National Output = National Expenditure (Aggregate Demand) = National Income
Under the new definitions introduced in 1998, GDP is now known as Gross Valued Added.
i) The Expenditure Method (Aggregate Demand)
This is the sum of the final expenditure on UK produced goods and services measured at current market prices. The full equation for GDP using this approach is
C: Household spending (consumption)
I: Capital Investment spending
G: General Government spending
X: Exports of Goods and Services
M: Imports of Goods and Services
ii) The Income Method (Sum of Factor Incomes)
Here GDP is the sum of the final incomes earned through the production of goods and services.
Main Factor Incomes
Income from employment and self-employment
Added to Profits of companies
Added to Rent income
= Gross Domestic product (by factor income)
Only factor incomes generated through the production of output are included in the calculation of GDP by the income approach. Therefore, we exclude from the accounts the following items:
Transfer payments (e.g. the state pension, income support and the Jobseekers' Allowance)
Private Transfers of money from one individual to another
Income that is not registered with the Inland Revenue (note here the effects of the Black or shadow economy where goods and services are exchanged but the value of these transactions is hidden from the authorities and therefore does not show up in the official statistics!)
iii) The Output Method
This measures the value of output produced by each of the productive sectors in the economy using the concept of value added. Value added is the increase in the value of a product at each successive stage of the production process. We use this approach to avoid the problems of double-counting the value of intermediate inputs. The main sectors of the economy are the service industries, manufacturing and construction, and extractive industries such as mining, oil together with agriculture
The Difference between GDP and GNP
Gross National Product (GNP) measures the final value of output or expenditure by UK owned factors of production whether they are located in the UK or overseas. GDP is only concerned with incomes generated within the geographical boundaries of the country. So output produced by Nissan in the UK counts towards our GDP but some of the profits made by Nissan here are sent back to Japan - adding to their GNP.
GNP = GDP + Net property income from abroad (NPIA)
NPIA is the net balance of interest, profits and dividends (IPD) coming into the UK from UK assets owned overseas matched against the flow of profits and other income from foreign owned assets located within the UK.
In recent years following the abolition of exchange controls in 1979 there has been an increasing flow of direct investment into and out of the UK. Many foreign firms have set up production plants in the UK whilst UK firms have expanded their operations overseas and become multinational (or trans-national) organisations.
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âThe girls who believe in tragically romantic vampire nonsense are the worst.â Indeed. ;)
Author's Response: What can I say. I'm a bloke, I'm in the wrong demographic. Dracula, now there's a good vampire novel... -N-
you should write your own original stories, you know. You are awesome!
Author's Response: Thanks.
And leave all this lot unfinished? I do't think so. :-D-N-
Ooh!!!!!! I love a good mystery! What an awesome story! You sounded like you knew a lot about police work! I'm very impressed with this. I don't know what else to say, really, except that I am never going near cursed objects again!!!!
Author's Response: Thanks for the review. Iâm glad you liked it.
My knowledge of police work is a combination of research and cop-shows.Again!? When did you last go near a cursed item? :-D
Hey! This is a great story but I'm a little confused about Bobbie. Is she a muggle working with the aurors? do you have any other stories that describe her in more detail? Other wise a great story! thanks~Sarah :)
Author's Response: Thanks for the review. Detective Inspector Robert E Beadle is indeed a Muggle, and one day I'll tell the story of how, and why sge ended up working with the Auror Office. She also appears in MIT: Muggle Interface Team, and in 9the unfinished, sorry) MLT. -N-
Very well done, so is Susan going to meet up with tech guy in the future?
Author's Response: Thanks. I have no plans for Susan and Simon, not yet, anyway. -N-
Nice poke at the Twilight series, which annoys me a lot. Also nice to see Lavender with some depth not just a silly girl from book 6, but growing up and making a life for herself. Great job
Author's Response: Thanks. The poke was at sexy vampires in general. I've read Dracula, and the Count is a monster. Lavender had grown up by the battle, and I've forced more growing iup on her in some of my other stories. -N-
And the plot thickens, i like mysteries and I didn't think I would. I also like how you have developed Susan Bones.
Author's Response: Thanks for the review. Writing this gave me a huge anount of respect for mystery writers. It isn't easy (at least I don't find it easy). I'm rather foond of "my" Susan, thank you. -N-
Well Archie did warn them, good start looking forward to seeing how the MLT or MIT I handle things.
Author's Response: Thanks for the review. Of course, Archie was simply making stuff up. -N-
I love this! I love the dynamic you've established between Bobbie, Lavender and Susan, and I'm 99.9% certain I know who the killer is (smug smile!).
Author's Response: Thanks for the review. I've been establishing the Busan/Lavender relationship for a while, and it helps that I know how, when and why Bobbie meets the magical world. I'll submit the final chapter the moment one of the two stories I have in the queue is approved. -N-
OK the suspense is very well done. Keep on writing!
Author's Response: Thanks, I hope to submit the final chapter very soon. -N-
I thought this story was already finished. Are you rewriting it? I already know who the killer is because I've read it before. ^^
Author's Response: You do.It was three hastily written chapters with a number of typos (and a plot hole). It will be 5 chapters when it's re-written, and no, I'm not changing the identity of the killer. -N-
Damn. Cliffhanger. I have no idea who the killer is. Maybe I'm just not paying close enough attention; perhaps I should go re-read. :)
- Katie
Author's Response: There will only be one more chapter to this rewritten and expanded story. You wonât have long to wait to find out the killerâs identity. I think Iâve given you enough clues. -N-
That was a great chapter. A great ending too. To bad their couldn't have been one more chapter.
Author's Response: Thanks for the review. Challenge deadlines and a holiday (Im back, obviously) forced me to wrap this up much more quickly than Id originally intended. Once the competition is judge this story will be expanded. -N-
Most ingenious!
Well done you kept me guessing right to the end.
Author's Response: Thanks. -N-
Wow! I think I've just managed to get my head round it and can safely say I had no idea who it was :) Also I LOVED Lavenders reference to tragically romantic vampires (ergh) !
Brilliant story :D Well Done !
Author's Response: Thanks for the review. Ive discovered a new respect for mystery writers. Getting the of course its obvious it was X reaction is not easy.
I must write that vampire story. -N-
Great chapter,
Lavender is so useful with her witch brain and her werewolf nose.
Love the interplay between Lavender and Susan.
Author's Response: Thanks. I love writing the interplay between Lavender and Susan. so there will be more MIT stories. -N-
Its been a couple weeks since I checked your work but this story is definitely up to par. I don't yet know 'whodunnit' but I will be looking for clues. Good job!
Author's Response: Thanks, I hope Ive scatter enough information in the next chapter to allow you to make a decent guess before the end. -N-
What a wonderful chapter. Lavender is ? I guess theirs no other word I can find to describe her other than 'always turned on'. Can't wait to see what else you come up with.
Author's Response: Thank for the review. The next chapter will be the last due to the time constraints of the challenge. Theres lots more Lavender, but the Muggles solve the mystery. -N-
Great start!
Looking forward to following the clues.
What a horrid bunch of characters, just like the real thing probably!
Author's Response: Thanks for the review. Time is pressing, the next chapter is submitted. Which of the crew committed the crime? Is this simply a police matter? Why would the Auror Office get involved? -N-
Oooooh a riveting beginning!! Can't wait for more:)
The ending reminds me so much of Quirrell yelling, "TROLL! TROLL IN THE DUNGEONS! Thought you ought to know."
Author's Response: Thanks for the review, your first for my stuff :-D This prologue introduces the suspects. Do you have any idea whodunit? -N-


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Eli Cohen quit as Bnei Yehuda coach late Tuesday night after winning just once in 12 league matches.
Cohen, who was sacked by Maccabi Tel Aviv two matches into the season, replaced Nitzan Shirazi at Bnei Yehuda in December, but struggled throughout his stay at the club.
Bnei Yehuda scored a mere six goals under Cohen and is 11 points from safety after losing to fellow struggler Hapoel Tel Aviv on Saturday.
Ya'akov Asayag and Hezi Shirazi will guide the team for the remainder of the season, starting this Saturday at Bnei Sakhnin.
Ironi Kiryat Shmona coach Ran Ben-Shimon announced on Wednesday that he is leaving the club at the end of the season. Kiryat Shmona, which was only promoted from the second division last summer, is currently third in the standings and faces Betar/Shimshon Tel Aviv in the quarterfinals of the State Cup.
Ben-Shimon's success at the small club has attracted the attention of Maccabi Haifa and Maccabi Tel Aviv and following Wednesday's announcement he's widely expected to sign for one of the Premier League's top sides in the coming weeks. Former Hapoel Jerusalem and Bnei Lod coach Michel Dayan will replace Ben-Shimon at Kiryat Shmona.
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Enjoy this collection of engaging literacy printables that help make teaching reading easy! Most of these free printables do not include directions; however, you will find full directions with all Literacy Mini Packs. All of the files below are in PDF format, so you'll need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader plug-in to view and print the files. If you have problems, please read the Helpful Hints on the Adobe Acrobat Reader Help page. Click the cover illustration at right to see all Literacy Mini Packs.
Interested in specific strategies for literacy? Be sure to check out the Literacy Strategies pages on my site. You can learn about the Reading Workshop approach, Literature Circles, Balanced Literacy including centers, and more!
The activities below are only available in Smartboard Notebook format. They were created with Version 10 of the Notebook software and may not work on other versions. Also, they only seem to work on PCs. I hope they work for you, but at this point in time, I'm not able to offer support for this activities. I apologize for not being able to help if they don't, but I'm still a Smartboard newbie myself!


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S/a one and all,
I want to talk about a topic that plagues the Shia (and indeed all of humanity) and for which not a single piece of truly practical advice has ever been offered. I want to describe my own journey and realizations, and eventually, the end-point at which, alhamduIiIIah, I truly conquered the problem of masturbation so that hopefully others may benefit from my experience and find a way through it as well.
First and foremost, let me say that this post will NOT provide a magic pill that one can swallow. I suggest that the dear readers take the information as it comes. Also note that these are all my personal opinions. They work(ed) for me. Also, this is only me sharing my own experience. I don't instruct anyone to do anything. This is not advice, it is my own story. That is all. Do with it what you see fit. Lastly, this worked for me because I wanted to stop but couldn't find a practical way to stop and couldn't figure out why I couldn't seem to stop on my own. The most important thing is to want to stop and then apply a practical method. Therefore, if I had not wanted to stop, this would be useless.
Background: I had this problem for many years. The worst part of the problem was always the guilt and the loneliness aspect of the problem. I searched everywhere for a practical solution to stopping but all I found was rulings and commandments. Through it all, I constantly questioned the thing called "Choice" and why it was that, given a choice to do it or not do it, I would choose to do it. Why could I not just NOT do it?? What led to one inclining? I always wished that I could find a way of killing that choice, making it a defined thing so that I could only ever take the non-inclining option.
I thought about many things over the years. I began to investigate into the thing called "Addiction". I wanted to know what it was. Why it was. How it was. I came to many realizations about this phenomena. Let's look at the features of addictions:
1. There is a certain something that a person becomes addicted to (which I will refer to as the "thing") and this thing has an excitement factor to it. An common example of this thing may be cigarettes or drugs or other things.
2. When the person has that thing, the person enters a high state (of varied strength, depending on what it is).
3. When the person does not have that thing, they begin to experience withdrawal symptoms such as restlessness, sweating, body aches, inability to think etc, of varied strength depending on what it is.
4. The very first time, the thing provides a very good high but as the person continues its use, the high continues to decrease in strength and effectiveness until it stops giving any form of pleasure but only appeasement from withdrawal symptoms. As time goes by, an extreme feeling of emptiness begins to develop until it is so empty that it is depressing.
5. Discontinuing its use for long while and then resuming its use provides a very first high again and the cycle continues.
6. I also realized that the reason one would incline towards an addiction was the hope of achieving the feeling of the very first high. Picturing that feeling was a very strong attractive force.
Now looking at these things, I realized that it is not only drug-use that has these features. In actual fact, EVERY form of excitement has these features to a varied degree, for example, bungee jumping, video games, sight-seeing, going to the movies, shopping, eating, socializing, working at a job that one likes and, of course, our old enemy, masturbation.
I realized that I was experiencing ALL the same symptoms as listed above with masturbation. The very first time provided a high. This progressed into less and less of a high until it was completely empty and lonely and depressing and it was only providing an escape from the horrible feeling of the need. All the other features too. Also, it was the thought of imagining the (pleasurable) feelings that would draw me towards it.
Okay so then I came to an even bigger realization. I realized that addicts were addicts because they had a certain something that kept it going: a reason. A reason to continue doing whatever it was they were doing even though in many cases that thing was even fatally dangerous such as with some drugs. They wanted to continue doing it. That reason was always initially the pleasurable feeling of the high that they hoped to get and later on, the appeasement of the pain they were having in withdrawal symptoms. I also realized that the reason they kept going was because the reason FOR doing it was much greater than the reason(s) AGAINST doing it. So for example, in the mind of the addict, the pleasure of smoking is more valuable than the damage it does to the lungs. The pleasure is more important to the addict than the damage. Such is also the case with masturbation. The pleasure, in the mind of the addict, is more important than a seemingly passing anger of AIIah. I am NOT talking about right or wrong here, I'm talking about what goes through the mind of the sustaining addict.
So at this point I was convinced that, given a strong enough reason, one that out-weighs the pleasure and appeasement of the addiction, an addict would quit. The addict would want to quit and would stop wanting to go on. And without a reason to quit, no matter how many years the addict was put in rehab or locked away or restrained, the MOMENT they were set free they would do it again. No reason, no quit.
I noticed that addicts seemed to be waiting for something drastic and dramatic to happen such as getting a heart-attack, a family member dying as a result of their addiction, or something like this, in order to get a reason important enough to quit. For many extreme addicts even these reasons would not be enough. Point is: they are waiting for a really strong reason of some kind to come along to be reason enough for them to quit. While smokers and drug-abusers can rely on some drastic health issue to come up (God-forbid), masturbaters can't. No such reason will come about.
Having realized this, I remembered many-a-time absolutely wishing that Imam Zamaan (atfs) would come to me in a dream and expressly command me not to do it. This would be my reason. This was the dramatic and drastic event I was waiting for. It didn't happen. I continued.
Okay, so the most important thing required to quit an addiction of any sort is a strong enough reason to quit, one that outweighs the importance and value of the pleasure and appeasement of continuing the addiction.
Then I began thinking about exactly what took place whenever I slipped up. See, many times I tried to put up a fight against my soul and the devil (la) but would find myself slipping up at some point. A few times I observed very closely what was being said and what was happening. Here's what would happen:
1. I would reach the lowest of low points at which continuing the addiction was only providing an empty depressing lonely appeasement from withdrawal symptoms. I would feel so far away from AIIah, and self-hatred was consuming me. This would suddenly become a strong reason to quit. So I'd decide to quit.
2. So I had decided to quit and I was going without my fix and my desires would begin to stir up violently to coerce me to do it.
3. Then, listen VERY carefully, shaitan (la) would come and say two things in order. The first was: "WHY are you doing this?? What is the reason? Why SHOULD you have to suffer like this?" Basically he tries to break the reason that I had used to quit. He tries to show that the reason is irrational by saying things like "Look here, its fun! It feels good! What other way do you have? God is merciful, he understands, you're young and you have desires, just forget about this. Think about how good it feels" Now depending on the reason that one has selected, shaitain (la) will tailor-make his speech to break it down. Many times I would give in at this point. But once in a while the reason was strong enough that I would say "NO! NO! I'm not going to do this. I'm not going back to that lonely depressing God-removed state."
4. If I had gotten past his testing of my reason then he'd say something even more deadly, he'd say "Okay. Fine. HOW LONG are you going to put up with this pain??" He would then convince me that putting up with this pain would eventually kill me, drain me, hurt me beyond repair, finish me off. And many many times, from the fear of suffering I gave in at this point.
So let's recap: he comes and asks two very very specific questions:
1. Why (are you putting up a fight)?
2. How long (can you keep doing this)?
In fact, according to the Qur'an there are three methods (if I remember correctly) that shaitan (la) uses to coerce us to incline towards sinful acts:
1. Giving false hopes.
2. Threatening with poverty.
3. Beautifying an ugly act or making a serious act seem light.
I realized that those two questions were an exact embodiment of these three techniques. He would start by reminding one of the "beautiful" feelings one would get when inclining towards the act - beautifying the evil act. He would promise that it would lead to such happiness and bliss when doing it even though it would only lead to depression and loneliness - false hopes. And then, if one persevered against his challenging the reason, he would threaten an person about how sad and lonely and destroyed he would become if he were to put up with all that pain - threatening with emotional poverty.
But guess what? A few times I did something very very amazing: even though it seemed like I was confirmed to doom by putting up with the pain after his second question, I decided "NO! I'm not going back!" Now it was interesting that the suffering seemed to increase a little bit after that for a few hours but two amazing things happened:
1. The pain SUDDENLY subsided and I felt peace after a period (in my case quite short). It went away. What he had told me was a complete lie. Not only did I not die, I reached peace.
2. I came to a huge realization that I was far far more powerful than I thought I was (in my power of choice) and that if I, in an instant, made a righteous decision (for the sake of the pleasure of AIIah) and PERsEVERED, I would reach peace and NOT death as shaitan was showing me.
Then I came across a verse in the Qur'an al-Karim saying: [46:13] "Those who say our Lord is AIIah and then they PERSEVERE, then no fear shall be on them and never shall they grieve" and this was an absolute confirmation of what I had experienced. If one makes a decision for the sake his Rabb, then his Rabb protects him from the seeming death and unhappiness that will come upon him as long as he PERSEVERES until peace comes. It is a strangeness, one of those absolute perceptional contradictions in life where it looks like you are stepping into flames of death but having done that it turns to "coolness and safety for Ibrahim" and in fact gives us true peace.
So to recap from this: the TWO things that are required to truly quit any addiction are:
1. A truly strong enough reason to quit. This reason would make one want to quit and remain away.
2. Perseverance with the pain for the period until one reaches the state of peace promised in the Qur'an.
At this point I began to think about the fast of the month of Ramadhan. It all made absolute sense to me. For ONE WHOLE MONTH, we muslims would keep away from the most basic things that keep us alive. There never are any chains to bind us from walking over to the fridge and eating, no one watching, and in all truth, if we did walk over to the fridge and eat something, nothing noticeable would really happen. No thunder bolt would seize us dead. AND YET... we never eat. We never drink. And why? Because we choose it that way. We make a decision and its done. And it suddenly made sense to me: once a year, by force, AIIah forces us to realize that we CAN choose to do something (or NOT do somewthing), anything at all, if we choose to do so. He forces us to see that our power of choice is much more powerful and in control than we think, than we realize. Shaitain (la) constantly bombards us with thoughts of "I CAN'T". I Can't not masturbate, I can't not listen to music, I can't not look at non-mahram's, I can't, I can't, I can't... "It's too tempting. I can't not give in. I can't seem to take control". Once a year, we are forced to realize that this is a blatant lie. We can.
So I set out trying to prove to myself a bunch of "I cans". I stopped listening to the halaal music (according to my marja') that I listened to just to prove to myself I can. And like any addiction, I felt HUGE withdrawal symptoms for two weeks including sweating and body aches and pains. But I can. And I did. And eventually I reached a state of mental peace in which music was not buzzing in my head anymore. But then, since it was halaal and I had proved to myself that I can and the qur'an instructs us not to make that which is halaal haraam for ourselves, I resumed it. I began sitting up completely straight in tashahud after a life time of slumping. It might seem small to some, it was a big deal for me. To this day I sit up straight and after only a few days of struggle, it became natural and easy, as is promised in the qur'an. I did many other thing just to prove that I can.
I'm not saying I can DO whatever I put my mind to, I'm saying I can CHOOSE to do whatever I put my mind to. AIIah decides what actually happens.
Ok, so I've said all this, but hold on a second: my journey was not done with. Having realized all this, I was still faced with a major problem: I still did not have a truly major reason to be able to stop masturbating once and for all. Yes, the loneliness and perceived separation from the creator was a good enough reason for a while, but then when the desires really kicked in full house, it seemed to go back to "Look here, its fun! It feels good! What other way do you have? God is merciful, he understands, you're young and you have desires, just forget about this. Think about how good it feels" and there it would go.
I couldn't understand it. One the one hand, for one month in Ramadhan, I would so fear AIIah that eating or drinking was not even a temptation. It was not an option. One the other hand, it didn't seem to be a strong enough reason when it came to masturbation! Why not??! I couldn't understand!
I began thinking deeply about exactly what it was about eating and drinking in ramadhan that made it so unfavourable as to make it not even an option. I realized that the main thing that scared the living daylights out of me was the fear of having to pay back SIXTY fasts for every one fast I broke and being accountable for all those fasts on the day of judgement! I perceived this as a serious sin whereas, in my mind, masturbation on its own was perceived as minor sin, hence the lack of fear. Paying back SIXTY fasts was so undoable and so out of proportion that it was terrifying. I realized that I saw breaking my fast as a sure way into jahannam and so it was not even an option. It was a strong enough reason to break the addiction to food far greater than the pleasure or appeasement of eating on those days.
At this point, I so wished that there would be some way that masturbating could carry similar grave consquences. I had read hadith that Imam Ali (a.s) had punished a man for doing it by beating his hands till it went red. This was not nearly threatening enough and so had been the years of continued inclincation towards the addiction.
I was reading the resaIIa one night and came across the section on Oaths and saw that if one makes an oath and breaks it, they would have to pay back 3 consecutive fasts. This was quite good. I was onto something. I would go ahead and make an oath that I would never masturbate again. But then I came across the section on Covenants and saw that this was far far more serious. Making a convenant with AIIah is a truly serious affair and breaking it would be attoned with SIXTY consecutive fasts. I would make a convenant with AIIah that I would never masturbate, never stimulate, never nothing like that ever again for the rest of my life. I decided there and then to say "MY lord is AIIah" as the qur'an said and wait for the promise of "not having fear on me and never grieving" and making the convenant and taking the leap of faith.
Let me say, this was quite a scary thing to do. Questions arise in one's mind at that moment, the source of which is mostly the desires and shaitan (la) and which are always in the form of the two questions I mentioned before, that is, 1. "Why (would you ever want to do such a crazy thing)?" and 2. "How long (do you think you'll survive without this)?" It is scary. The actual questions may sound something like this: "Are you CRAZY?? Do you know what you're about to do??! Think of the pleasure you get from it! Think of those lovely feelings you get! Why would you want to put that aside? Doing this is your only source of excitement! It's not as big a sin as you think as you think! You're putting an unreasonable constraint on yourself! Don't do this! You CAN'T" and then "How long will you survive?? How will you go without it?? You're not married, you have no way to do mut'a, how do you think you'll feel just 2 weeks down the line? Look at how you're feeling NOW!!"
My dear siblings in Islam and Shiaism, I can tell you firmly here and now from personal experience that I never regreted making that convenant. Yes, I found it really tough for the first week or two and also occasionally when the shaitan (la)-infested media force feeds something sexually exciting as well. But every time I implored AIIah and the ahlul-bait for help and they did help. But within those one or two weeks, the feelings begin to subside until... I now feel just like I do in ramadhan, masturbation's not an option. It's not a choice. It's just a feeling that comes and then subsides after I leave it for a while. And in a few days, the soul realizes that it's not an option anymore. It stops asking for it. The feeling for me now, is just like standing in the really hot sun. It feels uncomfortable and I must bear with it until I find some shade and it subsides and goes away then.
After the convenant, I have made a final realization which is huge. The reason the desire for masturbating was so strong all the time was because it was an option. It was something that I could choose to do or choose not to do. After the convenant, after it has ceased to be something that is an option, the desire to do it has almost completely subsided. As I said, it feels like standing in the hot sun. It's just uncomfortable and then subsides when I put my mind to something else like watching something. It did NOT kill me as shaitain (la) would have liked me to believe.
I have quit for good by the grace of AIIah.
I hope this helps and share your knowledge and experiences as well please. And if this helps, please make a dua for me and for my forgiveness.
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Falconer called the rising use of vigils and human chains at clinics an unwelcome and worrying development that could also deter younger doctors from opting to perform abortions. Falconer said colleagues were very anxious and worried about the provision of the service. "It doesn't help to have a sort of clamour [against] individual people who are trying to provide a difficult service for women in a period of their lives when they are in great difficulty."
While there is no evidence that doctors carrying out abortions have been threatened in Britain, some abortion doctors in the US were murdered, he said.
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Voice your opinions freely, vote, write letters, etc., but if the law is the will of the majority (and it is) to allow abortions, stand aside and only support people with love and understanding.
You can't know the reasons a person may decide this or that, so the best you can do is offer help and support no matter what choices are made.
I saw one comment state anti-abortionists were just as concerned with health and wellness of babies (and I'm sure they'd say children, teens, and adults also), but I've seen what concern is and what is merely voiced.
What is voiced (regardless of the words) is not necessarily concern. It's what you do and never what you say.
I've seen (and I've been) those who are sick, hungry, homeless, and without hope. Never mistake speaking (or protesting) for caring.
You can't force people to do what you think they should do, but you can love them, help meet their physical needs, and perhaps give them better options (although often better with your mouth closed).
I wish the U.S. would only export goods and democratic ideas. It seems our fundies have had influence across the big water. Sorry, Britain.
In the UK there has been no violence against abortion practioners, and no intimidation (unless you call just being outside an abortion clinic "intimidation"). So why the alarmist reporting?
"I find it amazing that they're ONLY "pro-fetus". NEVER "pro-baby". Once the kid is born, their interest is GONE.." (Leslea)
Leslea, this is simply not correct. There are charities in the UK which support women with finance, housing, advice on matters like budgeting and cooking, mother-and-toddler groups, both during the woman's pregnancy and for months and if necessary years after the birth. Women, that is, who are facing a problem pregnancy, have been advised to abort, feel it may be their only option but would prefer to consider the option of carrying to term.
Make the anti-abortionists adopt all the fetuses brought to term through their meddling.
Especially the ones that survive birth with deformities or crippling illness.
Make the RTLs pay full child support if the woman decides to keep the child.
That would put a quick halt to the "right to life" rabble.
Seems like the anti-choice taliban is spreading every where. You folks in the UK have my sympathy.
this is BS
Save the fetuses, kill the adults?
Be it in the US, the UK or wherever, the ultimate goal of the hard-core element in the anti-choice movement, beyond banning all abortions even to save the life of the mother, has always been to ban all forms of birth control. These fanatics are being allowed to weld power far out of proportion to their numbers. They must be opposed and stopped at all costs.
Elaine, where are you???? This is the perfect post for your anti-abortion dribble. Where are you??? Anybody seen Elaine?
Life is precious and too often we hear of women having multiple abortions and I often wonder why adults cannot be more responsible when they know what the consequences are. I believe all women should be able to make an informed choice with regards to their body and abortion but how many women really know the full procedure and details of abortion before they make the decision to terminate.
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Well, if you watch the movie: "The Day After Tomorrow," maybe mother nature will fight back by causing…
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