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For the first time in several months, Debra and Heather (Robert's current girlfriend) were away for the weekend at a convention. Ray and Robert hadn't had sex in few days and were horny as jackrabbits. Ray had invited Robert over to spend the night since he had found a porno Debra was hiding in the bathroom closet. Neither man got to see x-rated movies very much, and were salivating at the thought of watching a juicy cunt get plowed.
In due time, Robert arrived, and Raymond answered the door eagerly.
"You made it!" Raymond glowered at his brother. "Thought you would never get here."
"Heather had some last minute things to do...so where's the porno?"
"Right here!" Ray showed Robert a box he had hidden in his hands.
"SWITCH HITTERS!!" Robert's eyes bugged out. "Do you know what this is?"
"Yeah, two women make it." Ray said in a deadpan voice.
"Yeah, but two men can make it, too!" Robert was furious.
"Look Robert, a porno is a porno. We can fast forward the parts with just the men."
"All right, but this better be good!"
Robert led the way upstairs to Ray's bedroom. There was a television in there so Ray had figured they could lay on the bed and watch the video in comfort. As he put the tape in the VCR, Robert started taking off his shirt.
"What are you doing??" Ray couldn't believe his eyes.
"When I watch pornos alone, I always strip to my underwear....you don't mind, do you?"
"Uh....sure...whatever you want." Ray hadn't seen Robert in his underwear since they shared a bedroom in High School. He wondered if he still wore boxer shorts and sleeveless undershirts. Ray was embarrassed standing there fully clothed as his brother stripped. He decided to peel down to his underwear as well. The two men tried not to stare at each other as they disrobed, but when they were both down to their underwear they turned around and stared. Raymond wore a plain white t-shirt and green plaid full cut boxers, while Robert wore a snow white sleeveless undershirt and blue and white striped boxers.
"Nothing like getting down to the underwear." Robert grinned as he lay down on Debra's side of the bed.
"Yeah, I try to hang out in my boxers as much as I can, but Debra doesn't like it." Ray lay next to Robert, holding the remote. Their legs touched right above the knee, but neither man attempted to pull away.
Ray started the video, which began promisingly. Two big titted women picked up three male co-workers and drove them to a motel. Once inside the motel room, the cute girls stripped down to their bras and panties. They got on the bed and rubbed each others breasts while darting their tongues in and out of each others' mouths. Ray and Robert fingered their developing erections through their boxers slowly. Ray's dick was trapped in the left leg, while Robert's was cramped in the right. As the women were exploring lesbian sex, the three men came in the room. They had shed their business suits and were clad in nothing but patterned boxer shorts. As Ray and Roberts' jaws dropped, one man got on his knees, pulled his buddies' cocks out of their boxers, and began vigorously sucking them both off.
"OH MY GOD!!" Robert yelled. "I never saw anything like this before!"
"Do you want to fast forward it?" Raymond was sweating with embarrassment.
"No, leave it on, we'll wait for the camera to get back to the women."
Ray and Robert continued to watch in shock yet definite interest as the camera panned closer to the hot scene. Both men's cocks were huge, easily topping 9 inches. The cocksucker got about 6 inches of their dicks in his mouth before he pulled out. From the looks on the faces of the men that were being blown, they were obviously in extreme ecstasy.
"Christ, those guys are hung like bulls!" Robert commented. "Does Debra ever blow you in your boxers like that?"
"I can't get her to blow me any way," Ray answered in disgust. She licks my dickhead a little, but that's it."
"Yeah, I can't get Heather to do that either," Robert nodded in sympathy. "She hasn't even seen me in my underwear yet!"
Both men chuckled. They were starting to relax, despite the very taboo scene unfolding in front of them.
"Ray, you know that money you owe me?" Robert turned to face his brother with a pained expression on his face.
"I'll pay it as soon as I can." Ray turned beet red.
"No, it's not that....I'll forget about it if you'll....." Robert couldn't get out any more words.
Ray broke out in a cold sweat. "You mean, you want me to...?" he couldn't speak any further either.
"Tell you what, if you do mine a little, I'll do yours." Robert tried to sweeten the pot.
"U-h-h-h- e-r-r-r-r, OK, but you have to go first." Ray tried to bluff his brother.
Robert eyes fluttered, but he soon composed himself. "Ok, it's a deal."
On the screen, the cocksucker had taken his two buddies large balls out of their boxers and was eagerly licking them. Robert curled his hand around Ray's boxer covered prick and slowly worked it toward the center fly slit. With one quick shove the massive organ bounced out of Ray's shorts. It was a good eight inches long with a nice clean mushroom head. Robert then reached into Ray's boxers and hauled out his ample sized ball sacs. He leaned over and stuck out his tongue. Ray let out a loud moan when Robert's tongue made contact with his aching testicles. Robert then started licking his brothers' balls like their was no tomorrow.
Ray was in heaven as Robert's tongue explored every nook and cranny of his meatballs. Then, he let out a loud grunt as Robert swallowed the head and part of his shaft in one gulp.
Ray writhed and thrashed the bed as Robert deep throated him. After two minutes of extreme bliss for both men, Robert let Ray's eight incher slip from his lips. Breathing heavily, it was some time before he spoke.
"Your turn!"
Ray looked at the huge bulge in Robert's boxers. He tenderly pushed the gargantuan dick toward the center fly slit. In a matter of seconds, the huge nine inch prong stood out of Robert's boxers like a spear. Ray leaned over and tongued his brother's cockhead gently. Robert let out a deeply satisfying groan as Ray slowly but surely sucked the cockhead for all it was worth. Then he opened his mouth and took inch after sweet inch of Robert's dork down his throat. His brother thrashed the sheets with lust.
Robert tried to hold back, but the sight of his own brother playing skin flute on him was simply too much.
Ray got his mouth off Robert's prick just in time to witness the orgasm of orgasms. His brother let out loud screams as his prick blasted a good eight spurts of cum. Seeing his brother explode easily brought Ray over the edge.
Ray howled as his dick spurted ten healthy loads of sperm. The two brothers collapsed on top of one another, completely spent.
"That was fuckin' unbelievable!" Robert was the first to speak.
"I didn't think it would be that good." Ray smiled at his brother.
Robert leaned over and tenderly kissed Ray on the lips. "I love you, Ray.".
"I love you too, Robert."
"Let's take a nap together and have more fun when we wake up." Robert stroked Ray's thighs lightly.
"Sure, that sounds great!" Ray and Robert spooned and couldn't believe how good it felt to cuddle each other. Both men fantasized what erotic things were going to happen when they woke up in the morning!
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We've got two copies to give away of Social Psychology - Revisiting the Classic Studies, kindly provided to us by Sage. Here's what they say about the new book:
"The field of social psychology is defined by a number of 'classic studies' that all students need to understand and engage with. These include ground-breaking experiments by researchers such as Asch, Festinger, Milgram, Sherif, Tajfel and Zimbardo. With the help of international experts who are renowned for work that has extended upon these researchers' insights, this book re-examines these classic studies through careful reflection on their findings and a lively discussion of the subsequent work that they have inspired."
For your chance to win a copy, simply post a comment to this blog post, telling us which is your favourite classic social psychology experiment and why. We'll pick two winners at random on Friday. Please make sure you include an email address for us to contact you. Good luck!
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Version #1:
This version of the semi was only briefly seen at the very end of the Pilot. The correct GMC General cab is used, and we believe this is the same Dorsey drop trailer used throughout the series, but with a very unique, mostly gold paint job.
Version #2:
Version #3:
Now the semi is starting to look closer to what we all remember. When the new Executive Producer, Robert Foster, came in at episode 13, "Hearts of Stone", one of his first mandates was to paint the semi black. This is the only episode to feature this unique paint scheme, where the triple gold pinstripes don't angle back up near the back of the trailer, and the gold chess piece insignia is much smaller. Footage of this semi, despite it only truly appearing in this episode, will appear throughout the rest of the series.
Version #4:
This is a blink-and-you'll-miss-it version of the semi. During the opening credits of "Give Me Liberty...or Give Me Death", K.I.T.T. is pulling into the semi at night. Notice the trailer's pinstripes are the same as Version #3, but the chess piece logo has been crudely painted over, no doubt in preparation for the paint job it's about to receive.
Version #5:
Finally, the semi receives the paint job that it will keep throughout the remainder of the series. The stripes now angle up toward the back of the trailer, and the chess piece insignia is much more prominent. This trailer is first featured in "Give Me Liberty...or Give Me Death".
Version #6:
Beginning with the third season premiere, "Knight of the Drones", the semi receives an upgraded cab, with a black sleeper added. This is actually a completely new cab. Note how the fuel tank is now situated below the door, where the original version, it is set back on the frame. This is the final version of the semi, used until the end of the series.
And while we are at it, the semi did appear in a few non-Knight Rider productions:
January 22, 1985: Street Hawk - "Vegas Run"
October 12, 1985: Airwolf - "And a Child Shall Lead"


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A fun filled day is planned on June 23rd to celebrate our Nebraska and Iowa veterans. Will Ackerman is the spokesman for the VA Nebraska – Western Iowa Health Care System and says veterans and current military members will have an opportunity to receive information on community resources, veteran service offices, college and universities, employment assistance, medical benefits and much more.
Ackerman says along with providing valuable information veterans are encouraged to bring their families along for a fun filled day. The public is invited to enjoy the entertainment as well. There is festival seating so you will need to bring your own lawn chairs or blankets.
Nine bands will perform throughout the day. Ackerman says all of the bands donated their time. The Nebraska National Guard 43rd Army Band will also perform at the end of the day.
There will be children's activities and food available to purchase. This will take place on the historic VA clinic grounds at 600 S 70th Street in Lincoln. Parking at that location will be limited to those with handicap permits. Free parking is available at Lincoln East High School and a free shuttle will run between the school and the VA several times each hour. The festival again is June 23rd from 9:45 am to 8:30 pm.


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The Capital of Texas Conference had its beginnings in April 2012. A discussion had come up at the Board Meeting of the Hill Country Intergroup asking the question: "Why in the world does Austin not have its own AA Conference?" That has been asked many times over the years. Well, Intergroup decided to take it one step further and launched an informal investigation into the feasibility of starting a new conference. The result was: "it was possible, yet very difficult." Amongst many hurdles was the issue of seed money. The men and women of that board decided to have faith in a small number of dedicated AA members and faith that this community and the state of Texas would support such a conference. Hill Country Intergroup supplied the necessary seed money to put the dream into action! With much hard work by many individuals and home groups, The Capital of Texas Conference was able to satisfy its commitment to Hill Country Intergroup after the 1st Annual Conference and in the spirit of Tradition 7, is now a self-supporting entity. The Capital of Texas Conference was conceived, and still conducts itself according to AA's Traditions, Concepts, recommended guidelines, and singleness of purpose. The first annual Capital of Texas Conference was held August 15-17, 2014 after over two years of planning, organizing, and hard work. The conference was an overwhelming success confirming what many people had predicted: That the Central Texas Area was, indeed, in need of, and could support this conference.
One of the most astounding elements that have been produced in the first couple years of the conference is the spirit of unity and cooperation between several other entities. Of course, the event would not be here without the help of the Hill Country Intergroup. It was also discovered early in 2013 that the conference would fall on the 3rd Saturday of August, creating a possible conflict with a long standing monthly tradition of Austin Citywide. Instead of competition, the two entities showed what the spirit of AA is all about and The Capital of Texas Conference (CTC) played host to Citywide in August for 2014 and 2015. Both Citywide and CTC maintained their autonomy and brought an environment of recovery and fellowship to the community that was electric! [starting in 2016, CTC will be held on the 2nd Saturday of the month in August] CTC has also had the opportunity and fortune to share this same kind of cooperation with other groups such as TXCSYPAA 35 Host Committee and the 70th Annual Texas State Convention. Where these two regional rotating conferences have landed here in Austin within a few months of August, the community has demonstrated time and again that multiple conferences can be supported within a couple months of one another. And that committed members of AA, working on the committees, can share in the vision and primary purpose of "carrying the message to the alcoholic who still suffers."
At CTC, we are also fortunate enough to have the participation of Al-Anon Family Groups at the conference. We are continually amazed by the devotion of their members to the personal and community recovery effort. Al-Anon has been involved from the beginning in planning and organizing their own workshops, meetings, and family speakers at the conference every year. The Al-Anon participation has been an imperative aspect of the conference – reminding all of us that Alcoholism is a family disease and a real opportunity for family recovery.
There are so many others to thank for their participation and support: conference volunteers, musicians, entertainers, artists, workshop facilitators, speakers, fundraiser attendees, hospitality room host groups, and many more. This is conference has truly been built on the spirit of service – An event for the community, by the community. Most of all, none of this would be possible without the participation and support of the AA / Al-Anon community as a whole. We, at The Capital of Texas Conference, know that the success of the conference is a direct reflection of the fervor that this community has for recovery. The Capital of Texas Committee wishes to say "Thank You!!" to everyone that has supported this event and to those of you who are attending for the first time this year.
Thank you to everyone that has supported and attended the first 5 years of this conference. We look forward to seeing you in 2019 for the 6th Annual Capital of Texas Conference, August 9-11!


text: Castle Howard – Treasure Houses of England One of the world's grandest Baroque mansions... 'One of the World's Top Ten Greatest Mansions and Grand Houses' - Lonely Planet's '1000 Ultimate Sights' - this magnificent Grade I listed stately home is set within 1,000 acres of breathtaking landscape in the Howardian Hills, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, just 15 miles northeast of the cathedral city of York. In 1699, Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle, approached fellow Kit Cat Club member, dramatist Sir John Vanbrugh, to draw up designs for his new House. Working with Nicholas Hawksmoor, Vanbrugh designed two projecting wings and a dramatic masonry dome. The House, however, was to remain without a west wing for quite some time and, in the late 1700s, Carlisle's son-in-law, Sir Thomas Robinson, added a Palladian wing to Vanbrugh's flamboyant Baroque design, lending it a distinctly asymmetrical appearance. Following a fire in 1940, efforts to recover this damaged architectural masterpiece still continue today. Whilst coronets, ciphers, coats of arms, a frieze of sea horses and cherubs, and a carving of Diana adorn Castle Howard's facade, its lavish interiors are filled with world-famous collections of paintings, antiques, bronzes, furniture and tapestries gathered by successive generations of the Howard family. The 5th Earl's impressive collection of Italian Old Masters includes paintings by Leandro Bassano, Bedoli, Bellini, Annibale Carracci, Domenichino, Orazio Gentileschi and Titian. The China Landing displays over 300 pieces of porcelain, whilst antique busts, statues, marble columns and table-tops line the Antique Passage. Destroyed in the fire, the Garden Saloon was rebuilt for the filming of Miramax's Brideshead Revisited and features murals depicting fantasy views by 20th-century painter Felix Kelly.


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The iPad Mini might have a high pixel density display after all, purported chassis photos leak
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1. wendygarett (unregistered)
Looks fake :(
I wont hype 1st
5. fbbwang (Posts: 17; Member since: 07 Dec 2011)
I used to be a tech news writer for a taiwanese/singaporean website myself, with all due respect, I really do have to let every viewer know about some fact.
this chinese(from china) source website MyDrivers happens to be ALWAYS STEALING articles from others without permissions, and they never give credit or show the original links to the real source, though for this particular news I don't know for sure if they got it themselves, or if it's even a fake one.
numerous articles of ours have been stolen by them, simply by copying & pasting everything.
only change they made was converting the text from "traditional chinese" (used mainly in taiwan, partially in hong kong) into "simplified chinese" (used in most chinese-speaking countries, mainly china itself), and then claimed that the articles were written by themselves.
some of our writers spent literally days writing some benchmark testing articles, shooting high quality photos, or flew all the way to major events to write firsthand news. And this thief just COPIED everything, word by word.
this action is simply disgraceful
and I hope that a great site such as PhoneArena itself will avoid using sources like this, for we don't know whether they really got the news themselves or if the news are fake or not.
quite a number of chinese websites are like this actually, but this one is specially pointed out because it's stolen a lot of our articles.
and writers from the English language based websites wouldn't know about this because of the language/cultural differences.
and we hope to avoid helping these thieves making money from the viewers and the ads.
Thank you
2. PhoneArenaUser (Posts: 5498; Member since: 05 Aug 2011)
Off-topic but almost all comments are :
"This comment is hidden because of its low rating. "
Even if comments are not rated...
www.phoneArena.com problems ? It is only for me or anybody else see that to?
4. adi4u4882 (Posts: 137; Member since: 10 Jan 2012)
Or the moderators are maniacs?
8. Aeires (unregistered)
Not having that problem while using Chrome.
3. zhypher_23 (Posts: 195; Member since: 04 Jun 2012)
Hmmm, Wonder why the case is not complete at the top, probably it's gonna be similar to the design of the future iPhone 5?


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Movie: Koyla (1997)
Song: Tanhai Tanhai
Music Director: Rajesh Roshan
Lyrics: No clue!
Singers: Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik
Actors (in the song): Shahrukh Khan, Madhuri Dixit.
Koyla belongs to that generation of movies where 'izzat lootna' of the mother/sister of every character was common place. Even by those standards, Koyla was a movie that bordered on barbaric and almost ridiculous.
Take for example the innovation with which the songs in this movie present themselves. SRK is mute (for those who didn't know) but that's a rather small thing to hamper his songs! SO with some creative usage such as – dream sequences, mouthing the words when someone else sings, more dream sequences, singing songs 'from the heart' which the actress understands- our hero manages the lowly hurdle that is singing when you cannot even speak.
Moving on though, the highlight of this song is the picturesque locale it has been shot in (seriously, some places are really breath-taking), do notice certain features of the song, such as SRK styling Madhuri's hair, the silly signing between them and other miscellaneous actions after which promptly Amrish Puri's men shoot at Madhuri to break the happy couple up.
I heard this song on radio the other day and hit a realisation- a part of the interlude (3.19-3.37) is the same tune as the base tune of Hum Toh Dil Se Haare from Josh. The funny part is, the music of Josh is by Anu Malik, and Koyla is Rajesh Roshan. So obviously, there had to be a more popular original song from where these two were copied. Sure enough, itwofs to the rescue! The tune is from Conquest of Paradise (start at .15) composed by Vangelis for the Oscar winner Chariots of Fire.
Interestingly, the itwofs post also mentions another song by Rajesh Roshan that inspired the main tune of Tanhai Tanhai. It's his own song Frenny O Frenny from Khatta Meetha. That's nice, copying from yourself, Roshan ji! 🙂
Talking on a tangent here, but Khatta Meetha is a movie you should watch. It's a sweet film about a Parsi widower and widow who decide to marry and bring their families together. Yes, Golmaal 3 came from here. It's one of those nice movies that just make you smile. Khatta Meetha is also famous for the song Thoda Hain Thode Ki Zaroorat Hain – a name that later inspired a TV drama show (remember that one?!).
Coming back to Tanhai Tanhai, it's not a song that stands for much. Nothing I liked. It's just "showing off" on my part on how I catch song tunes out and relate them to others! 😉
You can watch the video here:


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Fallout 3: Trench Warfare Trailer
It'd be fair to say that Fallout 3 is my… *counts on fingers*… fifth most anticipated game of the year, and I've actually largely been avoiding the coverage so that I can hit it fresh. Anyway, I couldn't help but to have a look at this most recent trailer. I didn't want to be disappointed: I know it's the world and the RPGishness that will make it for me, but I am rather disappointed by the gunplay shown here. It's the way the enemies do an "oh I've run out of hit-points" and fall over dead, that kills it for me. They need to be getting visibly battered by a torrent of lead, I need physics! Anyway, the environments look suitably derelict, and that missile-launcher is spectacular. Hopefully there will be enough awesome for this game to still be pleasing when we could to do that obligatory "games of 2008" round-up in December.


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Breaking: Police Officer Darren Wilson ID'd as Officer in Michael Brown Shooting
Michael Brown was shot dead last Saturday in Ferguson, Missouri.
Ferguson Missouri Police Chief Thomas Jackson identified the officer involved in the shooting of 18 year-old Michael Brown. Officer Darren Wilson shot Michael Brown during the confrontation. Wilson has six years on the force and was injured in the incident.
Wilson was reporting to a report of a convenience store robbery when he confronted Michael Brown.
The crowd started cursing at Chief Jackson after the brief press conference.
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Naver recently posted an article about Yunho, and spoke of his past charity work, including the Ghana visit for Road for Hope, as well as how dedicated his fans are to him that they also contribute to charitable causes. Below is a quote:
'While carrying out his military service, TVXQ's U-Know Yunho (Jung Yunho) is closely meeting with God. A related person conveyed that "U-Know Yunho attends (church) service every week with me in the choir.", "He is sincerely meeting with God more than ever."'
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Late-term abortions are abortions which are performed during a later stage of pregnancy. Late-term abortion is more controversial than abortion in general because the fetus is more developed and sometimes viable.
A late-term abortion often refers to an induced abortion procedure that occurs after the 20th week of gestation. However, the exact point when a pregnancy becomes late-term is not clearly defined. Some sources define an abortion after 12 completed weeks' gestation as "late".[1][2] Some sources define an abortion after 16 weeks as "late".[3][4] Three articles published in 1998 in the same issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association could not agree on the definition. Two of the JAMA articles chose the 20th week of gestation to be the point where an abortion procedure would be considered late-term.[5] The third JAMA article chose the third trimester, or 27th week of gestation.[6]
The point at which an abortion becomes late-term is often related to the "viability" (ability to survive outside the uterus) of the fetus. Sometimes late-term abortions are referred to as post-viability abortions. However, viability varies greatly among pregnancies. Nearly all pregnancies are viable after the 27th week, and no pregnancies are viable before the 21st week. Everything in between is a "grey area".[6]
In 1987, the Alan Guttmacher Institute collected questionnaires from 1,900 women in the United States who came to clinics to have abortions. Of the 1,900 questioned, 420 had been pregnant for 16 or more weeks. These 420 women were asked to choose among a list of reasons they had not obtained the abortions earlier in their pregnancies. The results were as follows:[3]
|71% Woman didn't recognize she was pregnant or misjudged
48% Woman found it hard to make arrangements for abortion
As of 1998, among the 152 most populous countries, 54 either banned abortion entirely or permitted it only to save the life of the pregnant woman.[15] In addition, another 44 of the 152 most populous countries generally banned late-term abortions after a particular gestational age: 12 weeks (Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Rep., Denmark, Estonia, France, Georgia, Greece, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Rep., Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Norway, Russian Fed., Slovak Rep., Slovenia, South Africa, Ukraine, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Yugoslavia), 13 weeks (Italy), 14 weeks (Austria, Belgium, Cambodia, Germany, Hungary, and Romania), 18 weeks (Sweden), viability (Netherlands and to some extent the United States), and 24 weeks (Singapore and Britain) [15]
The United States Supreme Court decisions on abortion, including Roe v. Wade, allow states to impose more restrictions on post-viability abortions than during the earlier stages of pregnancy.
As of April 2007, 36 states had bans on late-term abortions that were not facially unconstitutional (i.e. banning all abortions) or enjoined by court order.[16] In addition, the Supreme Court in the case of Gonzales v. Carhart ruled that Congress may ban certain late-term abortion techniques, "both previability and postviability".
All[17] of the 36 state bans are believed by pro-choice organizations to be unconstitutional.[18][19] The Supreme Court has held that bans must include exceptions for threats to the woman's life, physical health, and mental health, but four states allow late-term abortions only when the woman's life is at risk; four allow them when the woman's life or physical health is at risk, but use a definition of health that pro-choice organizations believe is impermissibly narrow.[16] Assuming that one of these state bans is constitutionally flawed, then that does not necessarily mean that the entire ban would be struck down: "invalidating the statute entirely is not always necessary or justified, for lower courts may be able to render narrower declaratory and injunctive relief."[20]
Also, 13 states prohibit abortion after a certain number of weeks' gestation (usually 24 weeks).[16] The U.S. Supreme Court held in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services that a statute may create "a presumption of viability" after a certain number of weeks, in which case the physician must be given an opportunity to rebut the presumption by performing tests.[21] Therefore, those 13 states must provide that opportunity. Because this provision is not explicitly written into these 13 laws, as it was in the Missouri law examined in Webster, pro-choice organizations believe that such a state law is unconstitutional, but only "to the extent that it prohibits pre-viability abortions".[18]
Ten states require a second physician to approve.[16] The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a requirement of "confirmation by two other physicians" (rather than one other physician) because "acquiescence by co-practitioners has no rational connection with a patient's needs and unduly infringes on the physician's right to practice".[22] Pro-choice organizations such as the Guttmacher Institute therefore interpret some of these state laws to be unconstitutional, based on these and other Supreme Court rulings, at least to the extent that these state laws require approval of a second or third physician.[16]
Nine states have laws that require a second physician to be present during late-term abortion procedures in order to treat a fetus if born alive.[16] The Court has held that a doctor's right to practice is not infringed by requiring a second physician to be present at abortions performed after viability in order to assist in saving the life of the fetus.[23]
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Manchester United, mediocre, wasteful and 'childish,' punished by Leicester
For an entire month now, Manchester United's mediocrity has been an open Premier League secret.
It's been obscured by results, some of them very impressive, and excuses, some of them very legitimate. But it was apparent if you were paying close attention. It just needed somebody to expose it.
Enter, stage right, at the back post, Harry Maguire and Leicester City.
Juan Mata looked to have been the latest to drag the Red Devils to three points despite another lackluster performance, but the Foxes, down to 10 men, snatched a 94th-minute equalizer, and a 2-2 draw.
They punished United for its remarkable inability to put the game away, despite three or four golden opportunities to do so. In the waning minutes of the match, Leicester was as open as could be. United galloped end to end, outnumbering the seemingly defeated hosts. But its execution was incredibly poor.
Mata, the Spanish playmaker who has been in and out of Jose Mourinho's team at irregular intervals, had led United's comeback from 1-0 down to 2-1 up. He buried a clever equalizer in the first half, then a looping free kick in the second.
When Leicester substitute Daniel Amartey was sent off with 17 minutes remaining, United appeared to be home and dry.
And the Red Devils should have been. Anthony Martial, Marcus Rashford and Jesse Lingard all had one-on-ones with Kasper Schmeichel. Martial skied a shot over the bar. Lingard rounded Schmeichel, but fired off the post. Rashford tried to round the Leicester keeper, but lacked conviction, and the chance fizzled out and over the end line. The young winger appealed for a penalty, but didn't deserve one.
In stoppage time alone, United had 2-v-1s and 3-v-2s. It had endless space to drive home a dagger. It somehow couldn't. It was "childish," according to Mourinho, who rued his players' lack of maturity. "Childish in our box, and childish in their box," he said. We were punished by our mistakes and what more can I say?"
And then Marc Albrighton sent a curling 50-yard cross to the back post. Chris Smalling – who had been down on the pitch, and then off it getting treatment, just minutes earlier – froze as Albrighton's ball sailed over his head. Maguire slid in, and snatched a point.
"We were punished by our mistakes," Mourinho lamented.
Questions will be asked about whether Smalling should have still been on the field; whether 10 vs. 10 would have been preferable to 10-and-a-half vs. 10. Questions will be asked about Ashley Young distancing himself from the scene of the crime, and David De Gea's decision to stay rooted to his goal line.
But questions should be asked about United as a whole. Mourinho's team wasn't good enough to put the game out of sight. At one point, it was probably fortunate to have a lead in the first place. Its defenders were drowsy in the first half as Riyad Mahrez and Jamie Vardy broke for an opening goal:
Mata's equalizer had the game where it deserved to be at halftime, level at 1-1. Leicester had the first glorious second-half chance to make it 2-1. Mahrez mesmerized Young on the right wing, and his cross trickled through to Christian Fuchs. Fuchs' shot was blocked on the goal line.
United has held onto several one-goal leads over the past month without supplementing them. It beat Brighton and Bournemouth 1-0 at home. It beat CSKA Moscow and struggling West Brom 2-1. It hadn't looked like the second-best team in the league on any of the four occasions, and hasn't in a while.
It was therefore only a matter of time before the Red Devils were found out. They've now been exposed twice in a week, first by Bristol City in the League Cup, and now at the King Power. They fell 13 points behind Manchester City, and failed to distance themselves from the rest of the Big Six.
But it's not just this result that's worrying. It's a pattern of wastefulness, perhaps even arrogance, and susceptibility. It's only one loss. But if performances don't improve, Mourinho's men could find themselves in a real battle to even claim one of three available places in the top four.
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On your final page the congratulations page, you will need to add abutton that will reutrn you to the first page so you can play again. Create a new button and call it back on this button add the following code
On (Release) Go to and Play (1) End OnThis will return you to the first page, however if you try to play again you will find that it will automatically take you to the final `Congratulations` page as the Timer is still less than 1, you therefore have to set the timer back to 200. On the first keyframe on the button you are using to begin the game, you have to add the following code.
On (Release) Set Variable: "total" = 0 Set Variable: "miss_total" = 0 Set Variable: "Timer" = 200 End OnThis code sets the Timer back to 200 so you can play over and over again. And sets the total back to 0, and the miss_total to 0 so you can play again and you will refresh the whole page.
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(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders condemns the government's hounding of the Almaty-based online television station Stan TV, which is Kazakhstan's leading independent news website and a regular provider of video material to the Central Asian satellite station K+.
Harassment of Stan TV and Namystan, an independent news agency with which it cooperates, intensified after they covered an unprecedented strike by oil workers in the western province of Mangystau that was violently suppressed by the authorities.
"The Kazakh security services are clearly ready to use the most absurd and insidious ploys to gag independent media," Reporters Without Borders said. "Inspections, attempted bribery, threats, attacks and now court orders – every kind of weapon has been used against Stan TV and its partners."
In the latest move, an Almaty court issued an order on 27 September for the closure of Stan TV's production studio and the dismantling of its receiver-transmitter satellite dish until it complies with the public health inspection agency's standards.
Four days before that, the same court ordered Namystan to close its offices for failure to respect fire safety standards. The wave of inspections that began nearly two months ago are clearly beginning to have an effect.
Stan TV was notified on 8 September that the health inspection agency had filed a complaint against it before Almaty's Bostandyk district court. According to the agency (whose deputy director attacked a Stan TV cameraman the day before the notification's arrival), the electromagnetic radiation from the satellite dish on Stan TV's roof posed a threat to the health of residents in the area. The owner of the dish, the telecom company ASTEL, nonetheless insisted that it complied with the standards and was less powerful than other dishes in the neighbourhood.
The agency's offensive was stepped up after a new inspection on 15 September. The agency also accused Stan TV of letting its "studio employees work without regular prior health checks" (required by the prevailing legislation for this category of employees) and of "not providing lab analysis results for noise, light intensity and temperature" in its offices.
The agency claimed that it had measured a temperature of 27°C in its offices, instead of the regulatory 25°C. All of Stan TV's requests for copies of the reports were rejected, while the results of the independent tests commissioned by Stan TV were ignored by the court.
Two of Stan TV's journalists, Sherniyaz Shagatay and Azamat Esbergen, reported on 20 September that members of the National Security Committee (KNB) – the KGB's successor – had repeatedly tried to get them to cooperate with the agency and, when they refused, began to threaten them openly and repeatedly.
Stan TV producer Danesh Baibolov said the website's accountant and members of the Russian-language staff had also been repeatedly threatened. Five Stan TV employees have already resigned because of harassment.
"The authorities must put an immediate stop to this harassment of Stan TV and its media partners," Reporters Without Borders said. "This sham justice is hurting Kazakhstan's image and its aspirations to be a regional leader."
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(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders condemns the government's hounding of the Almaty-based online television station Stan TV, which is Kazakhstan's leading independent news website and a regular provider of video material to the Central Asian satellite station K+.


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Deputy dean in the Faculty of Medical Sciences at The University of the West Indies Professor Trevor McCartney wants Type B trauma units in public hospitals to deal with the overwhelming flow of trauma cases predominantly caused by violence, road accidents, etc.
He says trauma units would free up intensive care units to deal with other pressing health issues such as cancers, tumours, and vascular diseases.
Prof McCartney's call came against the background of the Violence Prevention Alliance 2014 Cost of Care Study, which shows Government spent $12.6 billion that year to deliver health care to people admitted to hospitals across the country.
Injuries were sustained from 25,000 violence-related cases, 13,000 road crashes, and 500 cases of attempted suicide.
Available evidence suggests the situation is not improving. It is getting much worse.
Prof McCartney spoke of the stress and strain on the public health system, not least health care staff.
Type B trauma units would ease pressure and allow those with ongoing medical conditions to have easier access to treatment, he said.
Predictably, the call was also made for prevention.
Says Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton, "We have to realign our resources and efforts to try and get Jamaicans to lead lives, whether on the road or in communication with your neighbours [in the event] of a dispute, in a manner that minimises [violence] and the need to treat injuries, and having to bear the associated cost."
In this newspaper's view, both approaches are crucial. Whenever the resources are available, trauma units should be established. But also, a way has to be found to drastically minimise crime and violence, especially.
What is the society to do? Obviously, increased police presence in communities and social interventions are all important. But as this newspaper has repeatedly argued over many years, there has to be concerted efforts by stakeholders at every level — from the prime minister down; across political party lines; and with the full support of the Church, business organisations, State agencies, so-called civil society, etc — to mobilise communities to curb crime and violence.
As part of this strategy there must be a focused approach to how children are brought up. A child brought up badly today could haunt the society tomorrow. Jamaicans don't need to study rocket science to know that.
Too many of our children are falling through the cracks, often because their parents — some children themselves — are incapable, socially and economically.
Many of those children will do badly in school. Those are often the ones with the poorest grades in the Grade Six Achievement Test high school entrance exams. Those who do well get support from churches, community groups, political representatives, businesses, and/or past student associations. They are also placed in the 'best' high schools.
Those children with the poorest grades are largely shunned. Instead of getting specialist help, they are placed in under-resourced high schools many miles away, requiring large sums for bus and taxi fares.
Since they are considered 'dunce', and elders find themselves unable to even buy food for the home, many of those children drop out of school. Confused, angry, resentful, easily manipulated by evildoers, many of those badly brought-up children become a scourge.
Also, they too will start having children while still children themselves. And the cycle continues.
In 2018, Jamaica needs to take a hard, critical look at how it treats its children.
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You could say we have a pizza obsession. Read just a few pages into our new guide, Meet the Nexus, How Food, Water and Energy are Connected, and there it is, a full-page photo of a plain slice from one of our favorite local pizza joints. In our defense, we're fixated less on deliciousness and more on all the resources it took to get that slice into our hands. Industrial agriculture, fossil fuels and water (42 gallons per slice, for those counting) all had a big role in making our pizza a reality. The point is that ordinary, everyday decisions (plain or pepperoni?) each have profound effects on how food, water and energy resources interact with each other.
Need more examples? How about the fact that 25 percent of freshwater consumed each year is lost to wasted food? Or that 18 percent of home energy use goes toward water heating? Or that the typical US diet drinks up 1,444 gallons of water per day?
The food, water and energy nexus is simply the intersection of these three systems:
- It takes water and energy to produce the food you eat.
- Energy is used to move water to your home, to heat that water and then to clean up the water that flows down the drain.
- Water is required to run power plants safely and to produce oil, gas and coal.
- Some food crops are turned into fuel for vehicles.
"Meet the Nexus" is the first report written to help the rest of us understand what many corporations, think tanks and governments already know: that the often unseen connections between our food, water and energy systems mean that pressure in one area can have huge implications for the other two. The more we all take these connections into consideration — call it "nexus thinking" — the better our chances will be of achieving a sustainable future.
The guide breaks down the nexus concept into easy-to-digest parts by revealing the hidden connections between food, water and energy in grocery store aisles, at home and in the kitchen. It also provides nine simple tips that illustrate how making even one good decision about food, water or energy resources can have a positive impact on the others. Consider it more bang for the sustainable-behavior buck.
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I started attending the University of Pittsburgh in the fall of 1973. While there I became quite active in the Pitt (the shorter name for University of Pittsburgh) YMCA. The Y didn't promote the C part much, the central effort of the organization was to place student volunteers in social service and community-based organizations. The YMCA paid for a director, a wonderful man, who patiently organized students and taught them to organize; such that with the exception of some pesky paperwork required by the downtown YMCA the organization was effectively student-run.
Next door to the YMCA office in the William Pitt Union building was The Office of Veteran's Affairs. There were many veterans from the Vietnam War attending school then.
I wasn't allowed coffee at home, and the Y director was smart to keep a pot of hot water in the office for coffee. I discovered that coffee nd sugar staved off the the inconvenience of actually eating. And people smoked a lot then. I used to loiter in the hall with the director of the Vets office. PTSD hadn't been named back then, but we all knew there was trouble. Exacerbating the situations was that returning Vietnam era Veterans were not welcome at many American Legion and VFW Posts. The general hostility towards Vietnam Veterans weighed heavily on the Veteran's Affairs Office director.
What's in common parlance now, especially as we in the American public are constantly being exhorted to "stay the course" in Iraq, is that veterans returned home from Vietnam to the ridicule and hostility from their dirty, smelly, hippie peers. Things were a little more complicated. Not the least of the complications is that so many of the veterans were pissed-off, generally so, and the government of the good ole USA was an easy target.
I know veterans of the Vietnam War, hardly a number sufficient a scientific sample, still it surprised me that in the run up to the Iraq War when one of my acquaintances and Vietnam Vet was so much in favor. Oh it wasn't so much that, as his outrage towards Americans in opposition to the invasion and occupation that stood out. War wounds often never heal. He apparently held the American public responsible for the failure in Vietnam and would broke no discent this time around.
One way or another the majority of American public opinion has come around to thinking things aren't going well in Iraq. I'm afraid we're still skirting the issue; most of us really haven't come to grips with the damage done.
Woldoog's diary at Daily Kos on Sunday moved me and I've been trying ever since to think of posting something about it.
Like some of you, I am an adult child of a combat veteran. My combat-veteran father has severe, debilitating PTSD. His war devastated him, and subsequently, our family. His experience in Vietnam nearly forty years ago, when I was nary a twinkle in his eye, helped shape the person I am today, and for a long time, I have wanted to know and feel the things that did this to him, and to me. I had gathered bits of puzzling information here and there over the years, but as I got older and achieved a truer understanding of the impact of his war on him and our family, I realized that I needed to hear his story in its entirety, that I needed to hear the unmentioned details that would meld the story into a complete whole.Especially if you're an American baby-boomer like I am, read go and read the whole thing.
"What happened to you?" He seemed startled by my inquisitiveness, and I told him that if it made him feel bad to tell me, he didn't have to. He then said something that surprised me - he told me that I had caught him off guard, that he was pleased that I wanted to know, that he thought I should know, and that no one in the family had ever asked him like that before.No one had ever asked! Woldoog cannot heal her father's wounds, and perhaps it's our sense of helplessness rather than a lack of inquisitiveness that leads us to never ask.
A year or so ago I was with a friend and a cousin of hers she hadn't seen for a very long time and the subject of her cousin's service during the Vietnam War came up. The fellow told of his hardships suffering under a psychotic commanding officer. Both me and my friend's jaw dropped as he proceeded to tell his story, but all of this was Stateside. Being shipped off to Vietnam came as a relief to him. His duty in Vietnam was confined to Saigon. It was hot and his bureaucratic job was deadly boring, and not much to remark about. My friend said, "All these years I've carried the image of you in a foxhole with jungle rot."
AfterDowningStreet.org has pictures of the Iraq War, uncensored. My friends know that I hide my eyes at movie violence. It even seems out of character for me to suggest a visit there and to look, but I do. SBS Television, New Zealand released photographs in February of this year from Abu Garib. The photographs and videos are put in context in an excellent report available to watch online.
Election campaigns here in the USA are long. Our State primary elections were held earlier this month. The race in a near by Congressional district pits Jack Murtha and Diana Irey. Murtha is a retired US Marine Corps colonel and is the highest ranking Democrat on the House committee that make military appropriations. He's also been a somewhat unlikely opponent of the war. Irey is a well-known Republican politician in local politics.
Murtha on the basis of discussions with high-ranking sources within the military disclosed last week that a probe into the events leading to the deaths of 15 un-armed Iraqi civilians, will show that U.S. Marines "killed innocent civilians in cold blood."
Irey took the stage at the Press Club on Wednesday and said:
John Murtha was a patriot. ...But many years have passed and I say again my opponent has lost his way because the comments and actions of late are not that of a patriot. Rather they serve to aid and comfort our enemies.The "aid and comfort" bit is a direct accusation of treason.
The war weighs on me. In another smart diary at Daily Kos elendil discusses reactions to seeing the movieThe Road to Guantanamo. Worth a read in it's entirety, but this comment about how torture impacts far beyond those tortured resonated:
The spectator cannot simultaneously conceive of themselves as a mere spectators and maintain trust in the world. For our own self-preservation, we begin the process of distancing, rationalizing, and justifying the torture. In extreme cases, to maintain our own innocence, we denied that any crime had taken place.I'm an American, and we've gone nuts. I'm perplexed as to how to proceed. Murtha isn't in my Congressional District, so I won't get to vote for him. I hardly think he's lying about what military people have told him about the probe into the incident in Haditha. But tonight I looked over pages of links to blogs amplifying Irey's remarks. Many people are convinced that Murtha is lying and are eager to convince others.
For almost two weeks I've been mulling over MMK's post about the Addis Abba bombings in particular and terrorism in general.
Terrorism's great evil is in considering a stranger's life expendable in a cause that is at most indirectly connected to that person. Whether you are bombing a 'target' from thousands of feet in the air knowing that you will kill a stranger or swinging a machete at them or blowing yourself up with him, the evil is in not knowing what you have brought to an end. What gross ego to consider that single life with its incalculable threads of obligation and love and hope to be irrelevant to the ideas and feelings swimming around inside you.Initially what came to mind wasn't politics at all but feelings surrounding my brother's murder years ago: "the evil is in not knowing what you have brought to an end."
I'm not a particularly good person. I mean, being good has always seems an effort, and I'm so lazy. As a boy in church confessing "things we have done and things we've left undone" it was the latter that burned in my stomach. In almost every discussion of politics here nowadays someone always makes the accusation: "Bush hater." I don't know, hatred is too much work for a lazy man like me. Anger, fury wells up in me, sometimes over the stupid little things, I never seem to be able to sustain that long enough to hate. Ah, but the sin of indifference, closing my eyes, turning away so as not to hear, oh dear. But I see clearly how wrong that is.
I'm not religious, but want to join with religious people in mending the world. I want to join with non-religious people in mending the world. And in that my first step is to try to listen more and to look harder.
Finally, and off topic, in my morning newspaper was an editorial in re and ongoing cholera epidemic in Angola. On first reading I slapped the pages down in anger at the Post-Gazette. I was thinking: Angola's a rich country you say, except for the greedy rich. Oh yeah: What about Lee Raymond's golden parachute! It was a silly reaction, but my advice to myself: listen and look is easier said than done. Koranteng Ofusu-Amaah's writing is the best and his April installment of Things Fall Apart series was Angola. If you haven't yet discovered his Koranteng's Toli go there when you have some time to read. His post, Angola and his series Things Fall Apart gets to how complicated everything is.
It's the time of year for commencement addresses. The Aga Khan's address at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University is very wise.


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With Leo Nunez out, Steve Cishek sets Florida Marlins record while notching his first save
With a scoreless ninth inning tonight, Steve Cishek pulled off a big double play — he recorded his first major league save and set a Marlins record by starting his career with 12 2/3 scoreless innings.
"That's kind of a cool thing to hear when you come into a locker room," Cishek said after learning that he broke Matt Turner's 1993 record of 11 2/3 scoreless innings.
With Leo Nunez resting a sore back, Cishek earned the save in Florida's 6-4 win.
But the first two outs were loud ones.
Chris Young led off with a line drive that shortstop Emilio Bonifacio snared. Miguel Montero hit a dirve that Mike Stanton ran down for the second out.
Xavier Nady singled but Gerardo Parra bounced out for the final out.
"I left a fastball down the middle that was scorched, then a slider down the middle that was crushed," Cishek said.
"But luckily we have awesome defenders behind us. I think a third of the save should go to Bonifacio and Stanton for saving my butt."


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I do miss my vegan days sometimes. Being vegan opened up my world to a heap more variety and dare I say it, culinary creativity…yet closed the door to a whole lot more food than I care to give up (marinated goats feta for example). I much prefer being flexitarian, or ecotarian, or some other label that I haven't encountered, to describe someone who eats like a vegan, taking advantage of alternatives, and who also eats consciously, mindfully and wisely.
Which lead me to revisit an old favourite cookbook, Isa Chandra Moskowitz's Veganomnicon. Honest, you don't even have to be vegan to appreciate some well-crafted recipes. So, despite having parmesan in the fridge, I made something different, something more, with a bit more creativity, loads of taste, and some health benefits thrown in. I made Almesan.
Here's how:
1/2 c. slivered almonds
2 Tblsp toasted sesame seeds (I used black and white)
1/4 c. nutritional yeast flakes*
1/2 tsp salt
Juice from half a lemon, maybe a bit more
2 tsp olive oil
In a food processor, blend all dry ingredients until breadcrumb texture. Add wet ingredients until a kind of paste forms. Spread roughly on a lined tray and bake at 160C for approximately 20 minutes until crisp. Break up into chunks and use to top salads, vegaetables eat as crisps or wherever you need some savoury crunch. I used a mandolin to shave a zucchini into ribbons, very lightly dressed with oil and apple cider vinegar and tossed with the almesan shards. Pretty darn awesome!
*Nutritional yeast flakes – sometimes known as savoury yeast flakes can be found in health food stores. It is deactiveated yeast, so won't aggravate candida. Not only super tasty addition to spunk up any savoury dish, they're a source of Vitamin B12, so particularly beneficial for vegans and vegetarians since B12 is found mostly occurring naturally in meat products.


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By Louise White - San Diego, California
From the July 9, 2012 issue of the Christian Science Sentinel
My children and I used to spend a short time each morning reading together a section from the Christian Science Bible Lesson.
One week the children were deeply touched by the courage Jesus showed through his trial before Pilate. The Bible tells of the soldiers mocking Jesus: "When they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!" (Matthew 27:29).
"Why did they mock him?" the children asked with sadness. After some discussion we decided that mocking can happen when others are afraid of you, or when they don't understand you—or even when they want to hide their pride behind sarcasm, using their words to wound you.
It was a shock, then, to realize that our family frequently used mocking to make fun of each other. Sometimes what seemed like a joke or a clever way of correcting would stab and hurt a family member. With quiet sincerity, we each promised that we would not mock anymore.
It wasn't easy to stop our old ways of laughing at each other's mistakes and apparent weaknesses. The Bible gave us strength: "Charity . . . rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth" (I Corinthians 13:4, 6, American King James Version). This assured us that God's love corrects firmly and patiently, without humiliation. God shines His law through our hearts and minds, and there is a balance between His moral law and His unconditional mercy.
We were able to soften our words. We never lost the wonderful ability to laugh at problems (and occasionally poke gentle, harmless fun at each other), but a new poise and compassion replaced the mocking habit.
Political campaigns, news reports, and talk-show hosts are often harshly critical, publicly jumping on someone's mistakes. Verbal abuse and bullying are extreme examples of mocking, and this kind of dark thought can become a habit, which ends in a cynical attitude toward our world. Yet Mary Baker Eddy wrote: "You may condemn evil in the abstract without harming any one or your own moral sense, but condemn persons seldom, if ever. Improve every opportunity to correct sin through your own perfectness" (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 249).
Our purpose is clearly to be more Godlike—to express His wisdom and strength through every trial. Our words are not meant to tear down; they should instead be valuable messages to support and heal.


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Cindi Hagley, a Prudential real estate broker who sells homes in San Francisco, says she grew up in series of haunted houses.
The most frightening was a former funeral home in the small river town of Chesapeake, Ohio.
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An amorphous, dusty form would appear on the stairs, she said. She would see faucets turn on by themselves, as if by invisible hands. Her older brother claimed to have watched a wrench float across the basement as if wielded by some unseen handyman. And then there were the loud, pounding noises. One day, they shook the walls.
"We ran out of the home because we thought someone was in the basement wrecking the place," Ms. Hagley recalled. "We didn't go out the screen door. We went through the screen door."
Few of Ms. Hagley's colleagues at Prudential know that she is "sensitive," or even notice her website, pastlifehomes.com. But she has organized a team of ministers, priests, psychics and mediums to help sellers get the most value from their spook-infested homes.
"I don't find these homes," she said. "They find me."
In a survey of 1,910 people by Realtor.com, 32% of people said they would consider purchasing a home perceived to be haunted. Another 33% said maybe. Another 35% said no.
Many of those surveyed by the Campbell, Calif.-based website said they wouldn't be deterred by the following manifestations: warm or cold spots, 62%; strange noises, 48%; objects moving from where they were placed, 44%; flickering lights and appliances, 45%; strange sensations, 43%; ghost sightings, 41%; levitating objects, 36%; and strange voices, 35%.
What people want most from a haunted house is a fat discount. Only 15% said they would pay full market value, and a nutty 2% said they'd pay more. The rest wanted the price dropped as much as 51%. That's where Ms. Hagley comes in.
"It's not normal to have a Realtor have your home blessed, or call in a psychic or a medium, but if that's what's going to make the buyer feel better, or increase the value of the home, by all means we'll do that," she said.
Ms. Hagley said she was recently involved in filming a reality TV pilot about some of her strange experiences. The show, she said, is being shopped around. But it has plenty of cable TV competition from Biography's "Celebrity Ghost Stories" to SyFy's "Ghost Hunters."
She has collected plenty of material. Early in her career, she was alone at an open house. She could swear saw something in the corner of her eyes, coming down the stairs. She mentioned this experience to the owner.
"She said, 'Oh, yeah, it's haunted. My boyfriend sees apparitions all the time.'"
A neighbor told her the home's ghostly lore was known throughout the neighborhood. And when a home is openly haunted like this, the sellers probably should disclose it, Ms. Hagley said.
The last thing she wants is a deal falling apart at closing because the buyer suddenly learned about the spooks secondhand from the neighbors.
Ms. Hagley also deals with homes stigmatized by suicides and murders. She researches what portions of the house may have ended up in photos or videos in new reports and remodels them to completely change their look. This takes off some of the edge.
She offers serious buyers a "test drive." They can stay in the house for days, get a feel for the place, and see if they will be comfortable there, despite the sometimes gruesome past.
In California and many other states, sellers are required to disclose recent deaths in a home. When these circumstances aren't well-known, this disclosure can come later in the marketing process.
Ms. Hagley organizes a limited event to show the home to many people at once. She then waits for buyers to bid against each other. Only then do they learn things like, "Oh, and by the way, five people were shot in the home."
"Some people are absolutely dumbstruck," she said. "I've seen people actually run out of the home. That doesn't happen a lot. And some people don't care. They don't believe in any of that."
Ms. Hagley says at least a part of her doesn't believe in the supernatural, either. It's always a struggle between her rational and intuitive sides.
"Just for the record - I always think I'm crazy when I'm talking about this," she said. "I am a skeptic. I'm always trying to debunk whatever I see."
One thing she knows for certain is that some buyers and sellers see dead people: "When something like this happens, folks don't even know where to turn."
(Al's Emporium, written by Dow Jones Newswires columnist Al Lewis, offers commentary and analysis on a wide range of business subjects through an unconventional perspective. Contact Al at firstname.lastname@example.com or tellittoal.com)


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Soybeans with the LibertyLink trait moved closer to commercial launch in the United States. China, the largest importer of U.S. soybeans, has granted a safety certificate for LibertyLink soybeans.
To date, LibertyLink soybeans are fully approved for food, feed and cultivation in the United States and Canada and for import and cultivation in Argentina, Australia, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Russia, South Africa and Taiwan. Approval from the European Union is the final major approval needed.
"The EU approval is on track, and we expect to attain it by the end of 2008," says Andy Hurst, Bayer CropScience product manager for LibertyLink soybeans. "With that accomplished, we will have achieved import approval in nearly all the major soybean-exporting countries."
The company is working with more than 80 seed companies to launch LibertyLink soybeans in 2009. Bayer CropScience anticipates that one million acres will be planted to LibertyLink soybeans next spring, in maturity ranges from .5 to 4.9.


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"Yes, why?"
"Well, last night before bed, I had the strongest prompting to pray for her."
My five-year-old granddaughter was with her siblings at their other grandma's house, and only later did we discover that she'd been bitten by fire ants and refused to let anyone treat her. Her hand had gotten badly swollen, and that's why I believe God prompted me to pray.
I'm not always sensitive to God's Spirit, but I imagine these promptings happen more than we realize. We may think we choose to pray for someone or something on our own when it's actually God's Spirit prompting us.
It's an aspect of "praying in the Holy Spirit" (Jude 20), and it's a good reason to pause and ask God to direct our prayers.
If you've had a similar prompting, why not share it in the comment section and let all of us be blessed.
This post is a bit different...it has a devotion followed by a brief Bible study, if you'd like to do it. This is a sample of the kind of study Gail offers on Bite Size Bible Study each Monday. If you'd like to sign up for a subscription to these Bible studies, you can do that HERE.
Bible Study
Prayer is such a rich subject, and this study is merely a bite-size look at one aspect of praying in the Spirit. Please read the passages below and ask the Spirit to show you new insights that will make your prayer time more effective.
Romans 8:26-27: In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. 27 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God's will.
Ephesians 6:18: pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints.
Jude 1:19-21: These are the people who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit. 20 But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, 21 keep yourselves in God's love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.
Copyright, Gail Burton Purath, 2013, BiteSizeBibleStudy.com
All Scripture NIV unless otherwise noted
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ITT Earnings: Profit Down
S&P 500 (NYSE:SPY) component ITT Corporation (NYSE:ITT) reported its results for the first quarter. ITT Corporation is a global multi-industry company that designs and manufactures engineered products and related services.
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ITT Earnings Cheat Sheet for the First Quarter
Results: Net income for ITT Corporation fell to $3 million (3 cents per share) vs. $121 million ($1.32 per share) a year earlier. This is a decline of 97.5% from the year-earlier quarter.
Revenue: Fell 79.1% to $577 million from the year-earlier quarter.
Actual vs. Wall St. Expectations: ITT Corporation reported adjusted net income of 39 cents per share. By that measure, the company beat the mean estimate of 32 cents per share. It beat the average revenue estimate of $554.3 million.
Quoting Management: "In the first quarter, ITT delivered strong revenue growth and made investments that will provide the foundation for additional future growth, including expanding our automotive facility in Wuxi, China, and investing to support our other key drivers of profitable growth, including premier customer experience, aftermarket expansion, and technical and operational excellence," said CEO and President Denise Ramos.
Key Stats:
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I have read with interest the reception that Sarah Palin has received in the media and particularly in the Christian media and blogs. I've seen a few bloggers frustrated because they believe her ambition may supercede her responsibility to her family. But interestingly, most of the backlash has come from liberal bloggers who seem frustrated that all conservatives aren't so easily pigeon-holed as "women should stay home and stay out of leadership" types.
It does present a dilemma. I definitely think a woman's first priority should be a family (if she has one) but I also know many women capable of running circles around me in managing both their homes and families and having outside interests and obligations. The Proverbs 31 woman had a whole lot going on and comes off sounding like quite an ambitious woman if you ask me.
Sarah's unique situation probably affords her a housekeeper and probably a nanny that can help with her youngest son Tryg. And before getting all judgmental about leaving a baby with Down's Syndrome, she probably was able to have him at arm's length in her work in the Governor's Office. I imagine it will get trickier in the Old Executive Office Building (the VPs offices), but my guess is her son will have more access to her than the majority of working moms who have to drop a child off at daycare for 9-10 hours a day.
As for her daughter Bristol, who can judge? I know many a child of two upstanding committed parents (and stay-at-home moms) who has become pregnant out of wedlock. Teenagers typically have minds of their own. Her parents can be commended for not shuffling her off to a confidential abortion (at least their second demonstration of a commitment to life) in order to protect her mother's career.
It will be hard for a 17-year old senior to raise a baby in Wasilla, Alaska with her mom clear across the country in Washington D.C. But many a young woman has had the same challenge, though for different reasons. Could it be that Sarah Palin has released her daughter to live with the adult consequences of the decision she has made? Or is she simply putting her ambition first? Or, like other great Americans male and female, is she putting her country first?


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The following post pertains to my Communicating Science Class, you can disregard it unless you want to read on how I think my blogging has been.
I think that my blog is doing very well. I have posted more than the required amount of posts, with some posts being quick posts and others being more in depth. I believe that my posts are well edited and concise with no grammar or spelling errors that distract from the topic.
I have been able to engage my readers consistently with interesting posts that provide the reader with the opportunity to comment on how they feel about the topic. My blog has good traffic with a total of nine followers two of them who are from outside our class.
I have been pretty good about commenting on others blogs, I lost count of the overall comment count but I comment on a wide range of blogs with thoughtful comments not always just praise. I also believe I am good at responding to comments on my own blog taking ideas from the commenters on what they want to see and writing posts about that.
I have also been trying to comment on other blogs that deal with Biometrics that I follow, however since most of those blogs are industry blogs that require comments to be reviewed I have only seen a few actually published. I have however been good at pointing people towards interesting blogs in this same subject.
Multimedia is used consistently on my blog; there is never just a scary block of text to have to read through, I add images or videos to help portray my message.
I believe my biggest weakness right now is the lack of interaction with other bloggers on this subject. While I have tried to gather traffic from their blogs by commenting there I have not been able to contact another author or have them comment on my blog. I will keep trying on this and try to find a blog not run by industry that I can engage the author.


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While it's not news that Khloe Kardashian shares plenty of photos on Instagram, her latest up-close and personal shot has fans very confused!
The photo in question shows the reality star posing for a pic with a cute little doggie, but it's not the dog that captured the attention of fans.
Rather, Khloe looked noticeably different in the Instagram photo.
So, what is different about her?
All signs point to a possible nose job, as her nose looks noticeably different in this photo compared to all of her other photos.
Others commenters chalked it up to a pregnancy glow.
Hmmm ...
How cute is this little tater tot? Puppy Love ????
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Slovenia: Evolving Loyalties
Routledge, 2005 - History - 215 pages
Over the past century Slovenia has rapidly developed from being a collection of provinces in the southern part of the Habsburg Empire, to a republic within Yugoslavia, to establishing itself as an independent state and becoming a member of the European Union.
This scholarly work provides a concise introduction to contemporary Slovenia, offering an overview of Slovenia's historical background and intellectual history, and detailed analyses the major political, economic and cultural developments since 1991. Portraying Slovenia as a distinctive state that paradoxically resist cultural homogenization, while moving beyond the national and towards Europe, John Coxexamines this unique Eastern European nation as an extremely successful example of post-communist transition and focuses on:
· The establishment of national sovereignty after splitting off from Yugoslavia and the country's recognition by the international community in 1992
· Politically democratization and the creation of a highly successful market economy in Slovenia
· Slovenia's accession to both NATO and the EU in 2004
· The gradual development of a national program and the development of a sense of national identity and self-confidence amongst the Slovene people
This up-to-date text will be of particular interest to students of East Central Europe, Modern European History and post-communist democratization.
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key words of the video:
planning sites;firstly consider content ;easy way to sum up and make the organization;sketching advantages.
If people want to make a site,firstly they should have a planning;consider sites content; architecture;user experiences……
and compare use Photoshop and coding to make a sample of the website draft,there are more benefits if the creator
choose the sketching.
Low cost, quickly, easy to see main structure and convenient to change ,and because there are not much design details,people can pay more attention on "one big idea."
And in order to make a good sketching, people would better have the good quality tools —–pencils,markers,notes,and sketch books.