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The latest comics from the mind of Warren Ellis.Jack Cross #1Artist: Gary Erskine Writer: Warren EllisColorist: Brian ReberLetterer: Rob LeighAssistant Editor: Rachel GlucksternEditor: Joey CavalieriJack Cross created by Warren EllisSummary – Introducing Jack Cross. Hopefully Warren Ellis’ upcoming ENGINE Forum, which is dedicated to discussion of the non-super hero genres, will help this title among others get more exposure.The Money Shot –Recommendation: Buy ItJLA: Classified #10Artist: Butch Guice Writer: Warren EllisColorist: David BaronLetterer: Phil BalsmanAssistant Editor: Michael SiglainEditor: Mike CarlinCover Art: Michael StriblingSummary – A string of suicides at Lex Corp peaks the curiosity of Clark Kent and Lois Lane. This is my first experience with his work and I’ll be looking for his name in the future.Michael Stribling pitches in with one of the coolest Batman covers I’ve seen in recent years.The Bad –As an issue that stands on its own this book falls just short of being an excellent issue overall. This issue was all about setting the major players up and introducing the elements of the story, so naturally we will have less action than the rest of the issues.The Money Shot –Recommendation: Buy ItJLA Classified #11Artist: Butch Guice Writer: Warren EllisColorist: David BaronLetterer: Phil BalsmanAssistant Editor: Michael SiglainEditor: Mike CarlinCover Art: Michael StriblingSummary – Explosions rock Themyscira, Central City, Gotham City, New York City and the Space Station is coming down!
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If there’s one thing a man should often challenge his woman with its to be ready in 10 minutes.I can remember one night I was with a friend who had just been given exclusive tickets to an event. I knew my woman at the time longed to attend this event but I wasn’t quite sure whether giving her such late notice was enough to get her to the event.Stuff it, I thought.If she can’t get ready in 10 minutes then there’s something wrong with all those makeup commercials that guarantee beautiful this and that in 10 seconds flat. We haven’t got long!!HER: Is this joke?ME: Woman, I’m telling you we’re in the car driving towards your house as we speak and we have three tickets in our hot little hand.MY FRIEND: (yelling) HURRY!!ME: You’d better hurry you’ve just wasted 30 seconds…HER: I’m not going to be able to get ready in 10 minutes!ME: Woman, you’ve got no choice.
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07 September Orcalab reports:10:25 PDT Orcas near mics.Earlier this morning the A30s came out of the east and went west to the entrance of Blackney Pass. Stand by!13:33 PDT Orcas near mics.The overall picture is a bit clearer thanks to two reports;Robson Bight Charters reported that the A12s were off Camp Point in the lower Johnstone Strait earlier this morning and Troy Bright reported hearing both Gs and As pass Black Bluff around 4:30am headed to the west.
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Imagine having such a passion for your job that even when you are dying, you feel compelled to come back to work. I work 50 hours a week for a Fortune 500 Company, earn a good salary for my position, roam the streets of perhaps the most beautiful city in the world and am on the inside track to promotions. I want to wake up energized to go to work and leave every day feeling that something important, something that would make life easier was accomplished because of me. I don’t care to work at some big shot law firm in Manhattan and spend double as much time on even more useless legalese. Public policy touches everything in our lives and it’s too important to wait for the next generation to fix the problems that persist in our society today.Well at least that’s what I tell myself as I look forward to another evening spent filling out online applications, honing essays and resumes and forking over donations to schools willing to spend a few minutes perusing my application.Currently listening to: Garden State SoundtrackCurrently reading: Ishmael by Daniel Quinn (my nightstand book)

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All the MCs are dressed up as old men, and they are at a salsa night in what looks like a community hall, with the actual Roll Deepers up on the stage doing the tune, like they were at a Sidewinder or something. The tunes got a nice base line with a slow paced beat thats lets the MC really get in your face and use their flowing lyrics to keep the tune moving, you can’t help but get into it especially with the eerie chorus.
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Array The principle is:Employees who feel recognized, rewarded, respected, empowered, educated and armed with the tools that they will need to succeed, will out perform unrecognized, unrewarded, disrespected, un-empowered, and under educated employees with poor tools every day of the week.In fact, I would argue that if you recognize, reward, respect, empower, educate and provide the best tools for each of your employees you will create a team of top performers that can set your company apart from the competition. The Magic Meetings are separate weekly meetings held on a consistent schedule with a main purpose of motivating their staff.Your Magic Meetings can be of any topic that interests your staff, and that relates to your business. Magic Meetings worked wonders for the success of my cleaning business, and I know that they can work for yours too.Now it’s time for a little plug. If you like this idea, but are a little short on time to plan out a year’s worth of Magic Meetings for your staff, then you may be interested in my Employee Motivation Kit - Inspiring Employees to be Top Performers. The kit includes Magic Meetings designed specifically for service businesses, including presentations, group discussions, team functions, a contest, games, work parties, and trainings.
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-ne Here’s the same image as used to create the static versions above, but now zoomable.
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Got the perfect job (the first one I applied for). The only thing missing were the 5 perfect mormon babies. I was going to live for ever in the Cestial Kingdom (mormon for heaven) with my perfect family.
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So I used to be a mormon. Now I am more of an atheist. Right now I am fighting all the things the mormons told me were true. I am defining my own truth. I love existential philosophy. My favorite author is Neitszche. I suspect I will quote him alot in this blog as he is the basis for my search for truth and my creating of myself. So here is a little NeitszcheFree, do you call yourself? Then I would hear your ruling thought, and not merely that you have escaped from a yoke.Are you one of those who had the right to escape from a yoke? Many a one has cast away his last worth when he has cast away his servitude.Free from what? What does that matter to Zarathustra! But your fiery eyes should tell me: free for what?You will be a heretic to yourself, and a sorcerer and a soothsayer, and a fool, and a doubter, and a reprobate, and a villain.You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame

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And most importantly I work in mysterious ways!!God (I mean ME) it is liberating to be god. I don’t like this idea as much….for one it makes me less special and for two…ew I just blew my nose on god!
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Array Just call Jamie Sentz (413-2537) if you are bringing it so I dont’ end up with 10 of each things.-pink and blue pair of flip-flops from Old Navy (2 for ) for the shower (size 8)-shampoo and conditioner (Aussie brand) Walmart has big bottles for a good price-Chapstick (blistex medicated…comes in a litte blue tub) I lost mine one a walk yesterday.here are my thanks so far for the day. (Marmie, Lisa, Yoders, Moores, Matt and Viv…thanks for the pictures Eden and Nicholas, Kathy Booker) Bill and cynthia for bring lunch AGAIN and dinner last night was great thanks james and Pauline.continued thanks to jamie for being my organizer.
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I bought an 8 week subscription to the Star, not because I want to stay better informed, need to recycle more stuff, or can’t find news online, but because two junior high boys came to my door during poker and gave me that look, the one I’m a sucker for at school, the look that says, “Would it cause you internal bleeding to help me out?” So yeah. Read some more poetry!Sonnet 98William ShakespeareFrom you have I been absent in the spring,When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim,Hath put a spirit of youth in everything,That heavy Saturn laughed and leaped with him,Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smellOf different flowers in odor and in hue,Could make me any summer’s story tell,Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew.Nor did I wonder at the lily’s white,Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose;They were but sweet, but figures of delight,Drawn after you, you pattern of all those.
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Had a strange time actually swimming and studying in a school trying to experiment with itself and us of course.Sometime in the middle of all that i had to begin to choose an identity for myself at least to the effect that i side with either of the two major communities at school maru’s as the marwari’s are perhaps not so lovingly called and the bangali, that i was supposed to be and accept as my true identity. So there i was slowly becoming a ‘rockabaaj’ a term normally used to refer to young unemployed youth who would sit on a comfartable ‘rock’(normally an old fashioned smail staircase to usher people into the house and talk about anything to everything under the sun, form gossip to hardcore arguments in national politics.My freedom to move about the city too grew with time and it was the puja’s that really made me feel that one need not be an ethnic ‘bengali’ to be a calcuttan.But Puja’s always overwhelmed me with it sheer liberal nature and all embracing-ness that the bengali could do with for the rest of the year too, the sheer economics of seven days Puja in kolkata makes up for more than half of its annual economic transaction( or so i think !)High school and college were however devoted to fests, quizzes, plays, romance and of course loads and loads of dope.
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The latest controversy related to govt is related to education sector reservation. There are different possible reasons for it.Government policy is not reaching to people who are bright and unable to provide for the education expenses as majority people stay in villages and small towns where general standards of education are really questionable and disgusting at best.Because of these reservations the general mindset in community is they get job even if they are not very good academics. More over it reduces competitive instinct from these students that are in danger of lacking for ever.So what is solution?Best way is reservation of Economically Backward classes (EBC) rather than caste based reservations.This will ensure needy gets the support and politicians can not play vote bank politics.Second most important thing is improve the quality and availability of education at grass root level and rather than creating mark getting machines create citizens with different abilities.
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Someone said they’d rather be rich and miserable rather than poor and miserable. I think that miserable is miserable and your bank account and/or toys don’t make much difference. Married couples will tell stories of their first homes and how inadequate the places were.We feel a sense of pride in how we existed in the midst of squalor, of near-poverty, of make-do. We look back with some warm feelings on how we hung in there until better times came along. I think she ought to get a job in a garage, changing people’s oil and filters, doing inspections and getting dirty.
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Less than 24 hours after Ricky Ponting issued a statement doing a damage control of his previous statement, which resulted in Cricket Australia issuing a statement in support of Bangladesh playing Test cricket, Bangladesh proved they really did improve a lot and deserve to be a part of Test Cricket. The statement he made to London’s Daily Telegraph in February ‘What I would not have is the minnow nations in the World Cup and the Champions Trophy, and I would not have Bangladesh and Zimbabwe playing Tests at present were somewhat taken back by Ponting on Thrusday.link

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Array It was too dark in there for Darlene’s camera to get a good image, but there it is.[Note: Moments after I made the above post, a series of terrorist attacks brought all London to a standstill at the height of the morning rush hour. At 8:51 AM, A bomb rocked a London Underground train just leaving Liverpool Street station toward Aldgate. (In a remarkable twist of irony, former New York Mayor Rudolph Guiliani was in London, having breakfast very close to Liverpool Street when the attacks began.) Five minutes later, a second bomb halted an Underground train between the Russell Square and King's Cross stations. As the day wore on and news leaked out, I made the following posts:]1:00 PM—EMERGENCY UPDATEThe coordinated terrorist attack (news reports are reporting seven major explosions) hit central London just minutes after Darlene and I left Adrian Warnock at the train station this morning. Authorities have also closed Central London so that the Underground trains and buses cannot go in or out. Believe it or not, the London bombings barely disrupted the conference. (I briefly considered doing a special message in the final hour on the goodness of divine providence even in disaster, but on second thought decided to go ahead with my message on as planned, on justification by faith from Philippians 3:9.)I’d love to give a summary of every message from the conference, but that would take too long, and I couldn’t do justice to any of the messages in such a short space. Here are just a few highlights:On Wednesday morning, Pastor Chris Buss gave a brilliant message from 2 Corinthians 5:20 on the need to persuade unbelievers with the gospel. He’s a delightful person, and always interesting to hear.Today, in the earliest afternoon session, Dr. Peter Masters gave a message on evangelistic preaching that made a perfect complement to Chris Buss’s Wednesday morning message. Dr. Masters said that John Murray, by contrast, seems to regard conversion as so much the work of God that the believer’s mind is, in effect, totally passive and may even remain unconscious of the change that has occurred.Dr. Masters at one point said of Redemption: Accomplished and Applied that in his assessment, about 25 percent of it is hyper-Calvinistic. At least one of London’s morning newspapers already has an early edition that reports 53 dead. Our doctor friend, who works in a hospital in central London but not in the immediate neighborhoods of any of the bombings, reports that multiple victims with amputated limbs have been admitted to that hospital.
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Friends of Chrysalis and other quality Psychedelica (don’t miss the new and long awaited u.k cd reissue of Chrysalis classic anthem Definition, by the way), will most certainly appreciate Wit’s End. Hangnail plays almost all of the instruments, all of them with that special authentic warm fuzzy sound from the sixties, that so many bands of today are trying hard to imitate. Hangnail knows what he’s doing with his palette of lively bright colours.
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It’s Erev Rosh Hashana, the sun almost completely hidden below the horizon and I find myself in a dialysis center in the middle of nowhere with Max.We had been invited to spend Rosh Hashana with friends in a bungalow colony in the Catskill Mountains. Each of us is convinced that the other’s failure to prepare directions represents a serious defect in the other’s personality.With sunset quickly approaching, I decide that we have no choice but to park the car and continue by foot. After around five minutes of walking, we spot a squat, rectangular one-story building with a sign at the top that reads “Sullivan County Dialysis Center.”The inside of the dialysis center is the most depressing site I have witnessed in my life. Max and I do not discuss the incident at all over the holiday and I don’t think we discuss ever again.Years later, Max would spend months and months in beds in a series of sterile, depressing medical institutions just like the Sullivan County Dialysis Center.
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24 1994 #7 Colorado 26-27 (lost to lower ranked team)Oct. 15 1994 #3 Penn St. 24-31Oct. 29 1994 Wisconsin 19-31 (lost to unranked team)Nov. 19 1994 @#22 Ohio St. 6-22 (lost to lower ranked team)Oct. 7 1995 #25 Northwestern 13-19 (lost to lower ranked team)Nov. 4 1995 @Michigan St. 25-28 (lost to unranked team)Nov. 18 1995 19 Penn St. 17-27 (lost to lower ranked team)Dec. 28 1995 #19 Texas A&M 20-22 (Alamo Bowl) (lost to lower ranked team)Oct. 5 1996 @#22 Northwestern 16-17 (lost to lower ranked team)Nov. 9 1996 @ Purdue 3-9 (lost to unranked team)Nov. 16 1996 #11 Penn St. 17-29Jan. 1 1997 #16 Alabama 14-17 (Outback Bowl) 3 (lost to lower ranked team)Sept. 12 1998 #19 Syracuse 28-38 (lost to lower ranked team)Nov. 21 1998 #7 @ Ohio St. 16-31Oct. 9 1999 @ #11 Michigan St. 31-34 (lost to lower ranked team)Oct. 23 1999 Illinois 29-35 (lost to unranked team)Sept. 11 2004 @ Notre Dame 20-28 (lost to unranked team)Nov. 20 2004 @ Ohio St. 21-37 (lost to unranked team)Jan. 1 2005 Texas 37-38 (Rose Bowl)Here are just some of the ways Michigan managed to lose those games:-1988 Miami comes back from a 17 point deficit with eight minutes left which included a two point conversion and an onside kick recovery.-1988 Notre Dame scores 0 offensive touchdowns. USC scores on next possession for the win.-1990 Michigan St. beats Michigan as one of the most mind-boggling calls (or non-calls) in sports history negates a last second Michigan score.-1994 Michigan controls Colorado for the entire game sans one miracle Hail Mary.-2000 Michigan appeared to be headed for victory as Travis Dorsch missed a fg with 2:11 seconds left. Michigan appeared to have won the game after stopping Michigan St. on 4th and 16 but Jeremy LeSueur was called for a personal foul giving Michigan St. a fresh set of downs. Michigan’s conservative play calling prevented Michigan from scoring again as Texas stole the game with Vince Young running all over the M defense.There seems to be a blueprint for a Michigan heartbreaking loss. Since 1988, these are the games where Michigan grasped defeat away from the hands of victory (or at least was close enough in the 4th qtr to flirt with victory):Texas 2005, Iowa 2003, Oregon 2003, Notre Dame 2002, Michigan St. 2001, Washington 2001, Northwestern 2000, Purdue 2000, UCLA 2000, Illinois 1999, Alabama 1997, Northwestern in 1996, Texas A&M in 1995, Michigan St. in 1995, Colorado in 1994, Wisconsin 1993, Illinois 1993, Notre Dame 1993, Notre Dame 1990, Michigan St. 1990, Iowa 1990, USC 1990, Notre Dame 1989, Notre Dame 1988, Miami 1988That’s 25 heartbreaking losses out of 46 total losses. 33 times (or about two games per year) the Michigan fan base has had a reasonable expectation of victory only to see the Wolverines lose.Even worse than losing 33 times to a lesser ranked team is the fact that Michigan has lost 12 times (or 26%) to teams that were unranked! Here is the breakdown of losses to each team:7 to Notre Dame 15 % of losses since 19885 to Ohio St. 11% of losses since 19885 to Michigan St. 11% of losses since 19883 to Northwestern 7% of losses since 19883 to Iowa 7% of losses since 19883 to Penn St. 7% of losses since 19882 to USC2 to Washington2 to Purdue2 to Illinois2 to Wisconsin1 to Miami, Texas, Tennessee, Oregon, UCLA, Syracuse, Alabama, Florida St., Colorado, Texas A&M,The seven losses to Notre Dame probably explains why so many Michigan fans despise the Fighting Irish. 58% of the losses came to Notre Dame, Ohio St., Michigan St., Northwestern, Iowa, and Penn St. Considering that Notre Dame, Ohio St., and Michigan St. are the three primary rivals, it certainly hurts that they’ve accounted for more than a third of the losses. Each team has beaten Michigan at least twice.Six of the losses have come to Pac-10 teams.From the data above, it can be said that Michigan loses to a select group of teams. Bowl Games:14 of 46 (31%) of the losses have come in non-conference regular season games.7 of 46 (15%) of the losses have come in bowl games.25 of 46 (54%) of loss have come in the Big TenSo, 46% of Michigan losses have come to non-big ten teams despite Michigan playing twice as many games against the big ten as all other teams.
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Here is only some of what the Convention requires of medical personnel: Excerpts From the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (1949) Article 129: Deaths of internees shall be certified in every case by a doctor, and a death certificate shall be made out, showing the causes of death and the conditions under which it occurred. At that time death certificates were produced:The May 2004 death certificates appear to have been finalized for the press conference rather than completed during the routine work of the pathologists. Most bear preliminary signatures dated within a week of the death, but 17 of 22 certificates for deaths occurring between 2002 and 2004 were finalized within 9 days of the press conference. It appears that he used 1 pen and signature mark to simultaneously put a preliminary signature on certificates dated August 22, 23, and 25, 2003 and on October 23 and December 2, 2003, and then finalized those same certificates on May 12, 2004 with the same pen and hand stroke. James Caruso used the same signatures on his 3 death certificates and signed one for Jerry Hodge on May 13, 2004.Vital forensic evidence that could have resulted in criminal proceedings against military personnel who murdered prisoners was mishandled by the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology’s Office of Medical Examiners that made prosecution difficult or impossible:The Office of Medical Examiners did not develop adequate procedures for preserving evidence for trial.
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[NEWS HEADLINE BELOW]Yes, Virginia, there is a Bubbie and Zadie!Internet News AgencyDecember 13, 2006Norfolk, VirginiaTwenty years ago, when Susan Anderson was given a cassette tape of a children’s Hanukkah story titled Bubbie and Zadie Come to My House, her first child Ryan was about a year old and the family, including Anderson’s husband, Jim, began listening to the tape every Hanukkah at their home in Virginia Beach, Virginia.In the story written by children’s author Daniel Halevi Bloom, Bubbie and Zadie — Yiddish words for grandma and grandpa — embody the spirit of all grandparents. Still, Jillian always waited for Bubbie and Zadie to visit.Then in 2005, when her children had grown to be 21, 17 and 8 years old, Anderson saw an article in a newspaper and read that Bubbie and Zadie were the main characters in a children’s book written by Bloom and originally published in 1985.Anderson searched all over forthe book, and finally, like so many children who have written to Bubbie and Zadie over the years at the author’s invitation, Anderson wrote directly to the elderly couple — their address was in the newspaper article — on New Year’s Day 2006.We still hide the presents under the bed each night, so she does know about them, Anderson wrote, referring to her daughter, Jillian, and then her two boys. And they would get a letter in return, for free.The letter idea took off, The New York Times wrote about Bloom in 1983 in a feature story by Nadine Brozan, he wrote a book about Bubbie and Zadie in 1985 and then came the audio tape in 1987 — the same tape that Anderson first listened to 18 years ago.Bloom understood Anderson’s passion for the story. The fiftysomething Boston native is the author of seven other children’s books and has worked in several countries as a cartoonist, a newspaper editor, a public relations consultant and freelance journalist.Anderson’s letter, he told the Virginian-Pilot, gave him a kick in the tuches [behind], and that he tried hard to find a new publisher to bring Bubbie and Zadie back into print again.Bloom had taken the story to 30 new publishers over the previous five years, and they all said no thank you.One day, by email, Bloom got in touch by email with Rudy Shur, head of Square One Publishers in New York. Who knew?bubbie.zadie@gmail.com You can read a short excerpt from the book, online and free, here:http://bubbieandzadiefiles.blogspot.com* SNAIL MAIL ….FOR HANDWRITTEN LETTERS TO BUBBIE AND ZADIE: please write before December 15:Bubbie and Zadie’s Mail Box115 Herricks RoadGarden Park City, New York 11040Nationwide 2006 Reuters NEWS STORY about BUBBIE AND ZADIE:http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=2006-11-22T153541Z_01_N20492238_RTRUKOC_0_US-LIFE-LETTERWRITING.xml&WTmodLoc=EntNewsHome_C2_entertainmentNews-7………………………………………………………..ANNOUNCEMENT…. to all children and all adults:SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS about Bubbie and Zadie in your life:This website will give you a chance to write a letter to Bubbie and Zadie, by snail mail or email, about anything you want to write to them about.
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Episode 43: I speak with Kevin Leitch the creator and webmaster for The Autism Hub.
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This event actually happened a few weeks ago, but I have been lagging so I need to post more.Oh, the tomatoes were good.On an unrelated note, I have been posting the downloadable files in .wmv now.
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The putative class plaintiff has now appealed, arguing that prudential standing tests are only appropriate when considering whether to expand Lanham Act standing beyond direct competitors; Among the interesting points raised, plaintiff argues that the existence of potential consumer plaintiffs ought not be part of the prudential standing inquiry, since consumers lack Lanham Act standing even if they can sue for other torts. I like this argument, and it fits well with another point in the brief, which is that the harm to the consumer (the difference in value between what a consumer paid for and what s/he received, or perhaps what s/he would otherwise have bought) is different from the harm to the competitor, who loses the full value of a sale.
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A YNet - Smith Institute poll finds that 43% of the Israeli population believes in the coming of Mashiah.I’d be interested to know (if anyone has more info) if this is an increasing or decreasing trend or if they think that the results are not an accurate representation of the total population.Everyone should have a joyous Sukkot, and may Hashem establish for us the fallen Sukkah of David speedily in our days.
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We took the two hour drive down to Pullman to catch the Washington State University Cougar football team take on the #14 ranked Ducks of the University of Oregon. Can’t think of a better time I have ever had at a sporting event.Technorati Tags: Fiction, Online Book, Chapter, Rebeleyeball, Paul GavinIceRocket Tags: Fiction, Blook, Chapter, rebeleyeball

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Array-ne San Francisco Becomes First City in the Country to AdoptGreen Building Standards City wins 00,000 in grants from Green Communities to begin implementation of new standards to integrate green principles into design and construction of all new affordable housing developments. By signing up to be the country’s first citywide Green Community, we’ll prove that it is possible to build affordable housing and to build it green.” The Mayor continued, “I’m proud to be the first Mayor to announce this smart partnership between builders, environmentalists, the affordable housing community and our City’s low-income residents.” Matt Petersen, President and CEO of Global Green USA that will provide technical assistance to San Francisco ’s participating affordable housing developers said, “Global Green USA is pleased to join the City of San Francisco and the Enterprise Foundation to launch the nation’s first City Green Communities partnership. To date, five Bay Area nonprofit housing developers have been selected to participate in the green building initiative, including: * Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center Episcopal Community Services (135 units, homeless singles) * Bridge Housing (132 units, low-income seniors) * Mercy Housing (129 units, low-income families) * Mercy Housing Community Housing Partnership (84 units, homeless singles) * Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation Community Housing Partnership (81 units, homeless families & individuals) The Enterprise Foundation helps America ’s low-income families with their struggle out of poverty by providing decent homes, access to steady employment, quality child care and safer streets.
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I’ve also calculated rate stats that I’ll look at next week along with aging patterns and other interesting (to me anyway) topics.For those not familiar:EqGAR - runs contributed for advancement on ground outsEqAAR - runs contrbuted for advancement on air outsEqSBR - runs contributed for stolen base attempts and pick offsEqHAR - runs contributed for advancement on hits Opps EqGAR Opps EGAAR Opps EQSBR Opps EqHAR TotalCarlos Beltran 126 0.66 169 1.80 204 11.75 253 11.23 25.44Derek Jeter 218 -0.51 252 6.93 149 10.59 317 8.09 25.09Johnny Damon 258 1.78 265 3.15 217 9.03 322 9.40 23.36Rafael Furcal 224 3.17 192 2.58 246 2.76 272 12.09 20.60Tom Goodwin 90 2.59 83 3.74 147 5.15 97 7.43 18.91Juan Pierre 279 9.37 204 2.91 378 -8.85 315 15.22 18.64Tony Womack 201 4.26 178 3.18 219 2.68 224 7.65 17.77Jimmy Rollins 212 3.49 180 3.28 223 1.69 243 8.62 17.08Scott Podsednik 126 2.43 103 1.95 227 4.52 132 7.03 15.94Darin Erstad 176 1.04 195 -2.23 136 4.10 288 11.43 14.35Chone Figgins 107 4.94 86 2.85 153 -0.59 126 5.72 12.93Mike Cameron 158 -0.97 166 1.16 179 0.70 188 11.59 12.48Ichiro Suzuki 246 5.31 229 1.61 248 1.41 309 3.86 12.20Orlando Cabrera 181 1.25 154 -0.35 135 2.72 207 8.58 12.19Alex Rodriguez 142 1.94 191 2.06 126 2.35 257 5.52 11.87Pokey Reese 110 4.22 86 0.63 95 1.88 86 4.99 11.72Carl Crawford 131 -0.31 116 -2.15 213 8.53 147 5.39 11.46Ray Durham 196 5.10 230 4.49 147 -10.24 249 11.87 11.22Craig Biggio 260 0.95 223 2.76 77 3.40 280 2.90 10.02Jose Reyes 81 1.98 59 2.14 120 1.52 91 4.21 9.86Roberto Alomar 132 0.36 127 0.15 112 3.30 188 5.69 9.49David Eckstein 233 3.90 207 -0.86 125 -4.98 280 10.98 9.04Damian Jackson 106 -0.32 96 0.66 125 1.05 141 7.30 8.70Dave Roberts 173 2.82 124 -2.05 194 1.74 136 6.07 8.57Luis Castillo 279 2.47 267 -0.48 278 -8.21 331 14.64 8.41Cliff Floyd 110 -1.45 141 2.52 102 3.20 196 3.68 7.95Luis Rivas 113 2.37 93 1.71 104 -0.73 151 4.57 7.92Eric Hinske 103 -1.52 85 2.63 61 0.79 141 5.84 7.74Brian Hunter 50 1.69 34 1.41 46 3.29 58 1.33 7.73Alfonso Soriano 150 -1.08 167 0.50 220 2.54 174 5.76 7.72Tony Graffanino 87 1.03 97 3.09 48 0.34 127 3.10 7.57Kenny Lofton 210 2.43 208 0.74 180 -3.06 241 7.35 7.45Chris Singleton 108 1.21 85 1.42 86 -1.25 112 5.90 7.27Ryan Freel 80 1.82 73 1.01 113 0.29 78 3.99 7.11Aaron Rowand 71 0.65 80 0.98 50 1.12 121 4.32 7.07Delino DeShields 61 -0.33 72 -0.13 84 1.95 62 4.95 6.44Doug Glanville 120 -0.57 114 1.12 105 5.00 127 0.86 6.40Michael Young 135 0.21 166 3.12 56 -3.35 226 6.36 6.34Adam Everett 87 1.24 52 -0.23 55 2.94 118 2.27 6.22Eric Byrnes 71 0.46 88 0.76 48 2.42 131 2.49 6.13Aaron Miles 67 2.19 54 -0.08 25 -1.76 79 5.71 6.07Rey Sanchez 114 0.66 113 2.57 29 -0.62 151 3.37 5.99Albert Pujols 96 0.16 151 3.56 46 -3.60 226 5.83 5.95Jason Tyner 67 0.56 32 0.36 58 3.18 74 1.64 5.74Brian Roberts 138 1.96 144 1.28 136 -2.47 209 4.90 5.66Marvin Benard 70 2.12 77 1.97 52 -0.37 77 1.86 5.59Brian Jordan 104 0.00 93 1.94 29 -3.07 126 6.68 5.56Chuck Knoblauch 88 -0.27 82 0.32 91 0.24 104 5.21 5.51Torii Hunter 140 0.87 120 0.36 124 -1.73 203 5.95 5.44Vernon Wells 96 -1.29 92 1.18 44 0.22 148 5.16 5.26David Wright 48 0.78 40 -0.15 27 0.46 62 4.08 5.17Jose Valentin 110 0.31 104 3.25 73 -4.87 149 6.31 4.99Carlos Febles 79 2.39 67 0.47 61 -0.13 97 2.19 4.91Cristian Guzman 194 1.52 162 2.94 149 -9.96 226 10.36 4.86Adam Kennedy 206 9.05 147 -1.41 152 -3.67 224 0.82 4.79Larry Bigbie 56 1.62 71 0.05 34 -1.45 102 4.47 4.68Eli Marrero 101 2.79 52 -0.24 36 0.48 68 1.60 4.63Scott Rolen 113 -1.01 168 0.55 63 -2.03 228 7.07 4.58Willy Taveras 44 1.28 37 1.22 48 -0.66 50 2.68 4.52Adrian Brown 44 1.78 32 -0.35 30 1.20 39 1.89 4.52Marcus Giles 103 -0.97 114 2.29 64 -0.60 142 3.79 4.50Shea Hillenbrand 111 -0.69 138 2.24 21 -0.61 197 3.51 4.44Willie Bloomquist 40 -0.01 47 -0.17 41 3.15 73 1.41 4.38Eric Chavez 156 -1.46 159 -0.32 44 -0.78 232 6.91 4.36Calvin Murray 41 1.21 46 1.05 33 -2.47 51 4.36 4.15Jeff Bagwell 95 -0.55 147 0.58 62 -0.26 214 4.32 4.09Barry Larkin 75 1.67 84 0.91 46 -2.34 114 3.80 4.05So Taguchi 42 1.49 29 0.67 20 0.18 37 1.67 4.01David Newhan 34 0.64 29 1.27 22 0.58 55 1.51 3.99Reggie Sanders 114 1.61 88 1.14 136 -1.04 104 2.27 3.98Reed Johnson 73 -0.46 88 3.65 31 -3.85 144 4.62 3.97Ramon Vazquez 62 2.13 67 0.11 25 -1.22 88 2.92 3.94Gary Matthews 138 1.67 93 0.73 75 -3.18 150 4.67 3.89Gary Matthews Jr.
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There is in the Eucharist, as distinct from the other sacraments, a specific earthly real presence of the Christ who is nonetheless heavenly and remains heavenly in the sacrament.(page 84-85)
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-ne From Foreign Policy Magazine:Is the United States winning the war on terror? In the face of persisting threats, including a growing number of terrorist attacks around the world, numerous reports show that Americans are losing faith in their government’s ability to wage the war successfully and to protect them from the terrorists’ next volley. Barely half of Americans today approve of the way in which the war on terror is being handled, and more than one third believe the United States is less safe today than it was before 9/11.These pessimistic public perceptions could easily be attributed to the high cost, in both treasure and lives, of counterterrorism efforts. The FOREIGN POLICY/Center for American Progress Terrorism Index is the first comprehensive effort to mine the highest echelons of America’s foreign-policy establishment for their assessment of how the United States is fighting the Global War on Terror.
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Array On page 41 of the August issue of Wired magazine: Wired: Morse code Tired: texting Expired: shorthand(Thanks, Steve, KI0KY)– From the Contester’s Rate Sheet (ARRL) of 10 August 2005, edited by Ward Silver N0AX.A quick googling (wired morse code) took me to the premonitive wired/tired title from larry borsato.
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wat are you doing?~ answering this and watching The Berenstain Bears.. wat were you doing before?~ sitting down watching TV and bloghoppingo3. wat time did you sleep last night?~ 10pm or sumthing like that.o6. wat did you do last night?~ lotz.. wat did you last say to a friend?~ cge! wat attracts u to the opposite sex?~ sense of humour, personality, how we are compatible, and smile! wat are you wearing right now?~ white T-shirt and white shorts11. wat will you do after answering this?~ i dunno.. wat do you want to tell ur crush but youhaven’t?~ uhm i dunno.. But it’s summer right now so i won’t talk about it that much.. any regrets?~ about wat? what makes u feel that?~ because i have nothing to do.47.
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-ne Wednesday, August 10, 2005Subject: Quiet of the soulTime: 1:41:00 AM EDTAuthor: redsneakz Yes, Delete EntrySpent the night with Chabad again, this time learning a little bit from the Tanya, which is the seminal work of the Lubavitch movement. Comment from jouell3935 - 8/10/05 1:40 PM Quiet is a beautiful reprieve sometimes……..
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Page A01MIAMI, Aug. 11 — Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff and a business partner were indicted by a federal grand jury in Fort Lauderdale on Thursday, charged with five counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy in their purchase of a fleet of Florida gambling boats from a businessman who was later killed in a gangland-style hit.Abramoff, 46, was arrested in Los Angeles in the late afternoon and was expected to be taken before a U.S. magistrate there on Friday.
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I took my friend, Gina’s (http://gina8724.blogspot.com/) challenge and this is what I came up with. 1. My name is Val2. I have one daughter.3. I’m married (to a wonderful man whom I adore)4. I’m a Navy wife.5. I don’t have a permanent address at the moment.6. I stubbed my toe a couple weeks ago and tore some skin off and it’s just now healing.7. I have freckles.8. I have brown hair.9. I go to church.10. I try to love people like Christ loved people, and probably fail far too often.11. I’m named after My Mom’s friend and my Dad’s sister.12. I named my daughter after my Mom and my husband’s grandmother.13. I like the beach.14. I enjoy watching the sun set.15. I’m scared to swim in the ocean because I’m paranoid about stinging creatures and other sea life16. I spend way too much time on the internet.17. I’ve spent a lot of time writing lately.18. I’m staying at a really cute furnished vacation rental right now.19. When I was in 3rd Grade, I had braces.20. I used to have a huge gap between my teeth.21. I still have a tiny gap between my teeth.22. I’m a romantic, but I try not to be cheesy.23. I’m a regular poster at 3 message boards.24. I’ve met ‘people I knew from the interenet’ several times (like Gina!)25. I like trees.26. My favorite verse from the Bible is Jeremiah 17:7-8 (about trees!)27. I still like to color in coloring books.28. I love porch swings.29. I’m going to a picnic today, but I’m not sure that I want to.30. I love ice cream.31. I frequently self-medicate with chocolate.32. I don’t think there’s anything more comforting that Peppermint Tea in a big black mug.33. I love the T.V. show Judging Amy34. I read 22 blogs somewhat regularly.35. I have trouble numbering things like this.36. I keep several journals.37. I hope to have a book published some day.38. I may or may not be working on said book right now.39. When I was in 3rd Grade I had to sing, My Country Tis of Thee every day.40. My anniversary is June 29th.41. I’m an INFP accorting to the Kiersey Temperment Sorter42. Input, Developer, Connectivity, Cognition, and something else that starts with a C are my strengths on the strength finder43. The primary stone on my engagement ring is a Sapphire44. I love Italian food45. I have a freckle on my middle right toe.46. I met my husband in college.47. I have a degree in Special Education.48. I taught at one point for about 6 months.49. Growing up, I never thought I’d move out of Illinois.50. I’ve lived in Florida, and Washington and have traveled at least 16,000 cross country miles in the last two years.51. I’m glad I moved out of Illinois even if it’s not a permanent thing.52. I have a cat named Chester.53. Growing up I had a dog named Sadie and I still miss her.54. When I was little I had an imaginary friend named ‘Conky.’55. It’s really annoying to me that so many of the items on this list start with the word I56. From now on I’m going to try not to start any more items with I.57. I failed.58. Growing up, I had a playhouse.59. One of the things I enjoyed most in High School was Scholastic Bowl.60. Band was also enjoyable to me.61. Mandy Patinkin is one of my favorite actors.62. Chicago Hope is still one of my favorite shows.63. West Wing Seasons 1, 2, and 3 are part of my DVD collection.64. Moline airport is my favorite airport from which to leave.65. Daisies were the primary flower in my wedding.66. My favorite scent is lavender.67. Irises are my favorite flower.68. My eyes are green.69. While I was teaching the Home Ec. Teacher taught me to knit.70. Currently I’m working on knitting a red blanket.71. My hair isn’t colored.72. Grey hairs have already made an appearance in my hair.73. My parents helped to make me who I am and I think I had two of the most wonderful parents in the entire universe.74. Questions are superior to Answers in my opinion.75. Zimbabwe is one of my favorite words.76. Fingernail sensations intrigue me.77. My daughter has been exclusively breast-fed up to this point.78. The house I’m living in at present has a water view.79. When in Washington, I attend a Methodist church.80. Last week, I visited Mt. Rushmore.81. In addition, I toured a really funky sculpture garden.82. Today, I haven’t had a shower.83. In fact, I’m still in my p.js at the time of my writing this.84. One of the things I’m known for is being a picky eater.85. In the last few years I’ve learned not to be such a picky eater.86. Vegetable consumption has become a more regular mealtime occurrence for me.87. Broccoli and Asparagus still smell bad to me.88. It is a rare occurrence for me to paint my fingernails.89. One of my favorite things in the world is going barefoot.90. This reminds me of my happy list which I have been keeping since High School.91. Surprisingly, I have only one credit card.92. Green is my favorite color93. There was a pond near my house when I was a little girl.94. Currently, I’m reading the book Blue Like Jazz95. When I was little I didn’t like Winnie the Pooh very much.96. Now I do.97. The motto of my husband’s and my life together is, Life is an Expotition. You
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Array Todos fuimos Pinocho.12/03/2004 El PaísETA mata y se suicidaCaracteres: 4,481 , Edicion: Barcelona , Nacional , Andalucía , Madrid , 1ª de Barcelona , País Vasco , , Seccion: NACIONAL EP (España), Autor: IGNACIO SÁNCHEZ-CUENCA12/03/2004 El PaísETA entra en campaña Caracteres: 1,689 , Edicion: Comunidad Valenciana , , Seccion: LOCAL V (Com. RODRÍGUEZ12/03/2004 El PaísAl estilo Al Qaeda Caracteres: 3,441 , Edicion: Barcelona , Madrid , , Seccion: NACIONAL EP (España), Autor: JOSEP RAMONEDA12/03/2004 El MundoLOS HECHOS El día de la infamia Casi 200 muertos y más de 1.400 heridos en el cuádruple atentado contra los viajeros de trenes de cercanías - El Gobierno halla una furgoneta con detonadores y versículos del Corán tras acusar «sin ninguna duda» Agencias12/03/2004 La RazónFox anuncia una lucha incansable contra ETACaracteres: 192 , Edicion: Madrid, Seccion: Opinion,11/03/2004 Europa PressCATALUNYA .- Atentados .- Entidades de inmigrantes de Catalunya piden a las personas inmigradas que acudan a los actos contra ETACaracteres: 969 , Edicion: AGT Recepción: 18:59 , Seccion: REGIONAL CATALUNYA,11/03/2004 Europa PressCATALUNYA .- Atentados .- EUiA advierte que el PP será el ‘único beneficiado’ si ETA influye en el resultado electoralCaracteres: 905 , Edicion: AGT Recepción: 16:59 , Seccion: REGIONAL CATALUNYA,12/03/2004 Europa PressAtentado-Acebes dice que el explosivo es Goma 2 eco fabricado en España y mantiene ETA como primera línea a investigarCaracteres: 930 , Edicion: AGT Recepción: 18:43 , Seccion: NACIONAL,12/03/2004 Europa PressCASTILLA LA MANCHA .- Atentados .- Bono señala que una organización criminal como Eta ‘no puede ser creída’Caracteres: 1011 , Edicion: AGT Recepción: 22:22 , Seccion: REGIONAL CASTILLA-LAMANCHA12/03/2004 Europa PressAtentados .- El PP critica que se hagan ‘distingos’ entre ETA o Al Qaeda porque los terrorismos ’son todos iguales’Caracteres: 955 , Edicion: AGT Recepción: 13:47 , Seccion: NACIONAL,12/03/2004 Europa PressANDALUCIA .- Málaga .- Atentados .- La Comunidad Islámica Suhail de la Costa del Sol muestra su condena y los achaca a ETACaracteres: 2128 , Edicion: AGT Recepción: 13:09 , Seccion: REGIONAL ANDALUCIA,12/03/2004 El PeriódicoLOS ATENTADOS EN CUATRO TRENES DEJAN 192 MUERTOS Y 1.430 HERIDOS Al Qaeda reivindica la matanza más sangrienta de la historia de España Caracteres: 3351 , Edicion: Nacional, Seccion: MISCELANEA tema del dia , Pág.
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.Se miran, se presienten, se desean,se acarician, se besan, se desnudan,se respiran, se acuestan, se olfatean,se penetran, se chupan, se demudan,se adormecen, se despiertan, se iluminan,se codician, se palpan, se fascinan,se mastican, se gustan, se babean,se confunden, se acoplan, se disgregan,se aletargan, fallecen, se reintegran,se distienden, se enarcan, se menean,se retuercen, se estiran, se caldean,se estrangulan, se aprietan se estremecen,se tantean, se juntan, desfallecen,se repelen, se enervan, se apetecen,se acometen, se enlazan, se entrechocan,se agazapan, se apresan, se dislocan,se perforan, se incrustan, se acribillan,se remachan, se injertan, se atornillan,se desmayan, reviven, resplandecen,se contemplan, se inflaman, se enloquecen,se derriten, se sueldan, se calcinan,se desgarran, se muerden, se asesinan,resucitan, se buscan, se refriegan,se rehuyen, se evaden, y se entregan.-Olivero Girondo-.
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Blog Apartment, 2006上線，我深知很多人已看過這網站，也有相當多人採用他們所提供的小外掛程式。雖是老梗，但真的要好好褒獎一下他們定期更新的互動小遊戲且無料的好服務。這些花俏的小遊戲的確讓Blog變得可愛許多，簡潔明瞭的使用教學也讓Blog新手快速上路，非常友善。只要複製貼上一小段程式碼就可讓版面多些互動小功能，相信愛用Youtube embed碼的網路使用者對此相當上手。此外，也讚揚Blogger對於Javascript的支援，在我試過Wretch, Wordpress,和vox後，深感Blogger的好用。(好啦，Blogger也有不好用之處，比如跟MS Word不太相容，以及其他Template上的問題，但在Javascript支援上真的不錯。)我從網站裡隨便找幾個可愛的範例，更多應用請看這裡。Sample of Interactive Blog Parts Sample of Game Blog Parts Sample of Utility Blog Parts

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Em casas de violência doméstica deveria ser obrigatório, à porta de entrada, um letreiro com uma moca. E o caloteiro deveria ter ao peito um zé-povinho e o lema: Queres fiado? Esse afixa nas suas frases o que é: mais excelência era impossível.Ferreira Fernandes, DN 3 de Novembro 2007

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199 հոդվածի պահանջները բացատրելու մասինՆաիրա Մարկոսյանի ցուցմունքըԽաչատուր Ավետիսյանի ցուցմունքըԱրձ. 199 հոդվածի պահանջները բացատրելու մասինԱշոտ Ասատրյանի ցուցմունքըԱրձ. 199 հոդվածի պահանջները բացատրելու մասինՎարդան Արիստակեսյանի ցուցմունքըԱրտակ Ղազարյանի ցուցմունքըԱրձ. 199 հոդվածի պահանջները բացատրելու մասինՆարինե Դիլբարյանի ցուցմունքըԼարիսա Երիջանյանի ցուցմունքըԱրձ. 199 հոդվածի պահանջները բացատրելու մասինԱշոտ Հովհաննիսյանի ցուցմունքըԱշոտ Կլեկչյանի ցուցմունքըԱրձ. 199 հոդվածի պահանջները բացատրելու մասինԼիլիթ Բլեյանի ցուցմունքըԱրարատ Կարապետյանի ցուցմունքըԱրձ. 199 հոդվածի պահանջները բացատրելու մասինԱրթուր Ղազարյանի ցուցմունքըԱրձ.
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estarán debatiendo sobre el derecho del autor en Venezuela y los cambios propuestos por la AN en la reforma de la Constitución .TE INVITAMOS A Escuchar este importante debate por lunes 12 de noviembre RADIO NACIONAL DE VENEZUELA 9 p.m. NOTAS PARA EL DEBATE II:Legislación sobre derechos del autor [Venezuela] amplie sus conocimientos:http://www.analitica.com/bitblio/home/derechos_del_autor.aspArticulo mas reciente publicado en Aporrea.orgSocialismo y Propiedad IntelectualPor: Alberto Monteagudo Fecha de publicación: 20/08/07 Últimamente han venido oyéndose opiniones en contra del Derecho de Autor en términos que contribuyen a fortalecer al enemigo ideológico y confundir a quienes dentro de nuestras filas no son versados en la materia.Lo grave es que a diferencia de lo que había venido ocurriendo , los argumentos provienen del campo revolucionario y no de las corporaciones del imperio que amasan inmensas fortunas apoderándose de los productos de la cultura y la creatividad individual, gracias a legislaciones sobre propiedad intelectual como la que heredamos de la cuarta república.Suponiendo buena fe en quienes han venido cuestionando la vigencia y validez de este derecho humano esencial- consagrado en la carta correspondiente signada por todos los Estado del planeta, incluído obviamente el Estado Venezolano - intentemos aclarar el panorama. Gracias a sus sicarios económicos y los cipayos criollos, desde los tiempos de Jaime Lusinchi tenemos una ley (hoy inconstitucional) de Derechos de Autor que en el artículo 59 dispone que : “salvo pacto expreso en contrario , los autores de las obras creadas en relación de trabajo o por encargo , han cedido al patrono o al comitente, según los casos, en forma ilimitada y por toda su duración , el derecho exclusivo de explotación ( de la obra)”Lo grave es que esta disposición permea toda la estratégica legislación cultural : Ley de Fomento al Desarrollo Artesanal, Ley de Defensa y Protección al Patrimonio, Nacional , Ley de Cinematografía Nacional , Ley de Ciencia , Tecnología e Innovación etc.Por fortuna , en nuestra Carta Magna ,y gracias a que en la Asamblea Constituyente estaban compatriotas como Earle Herrera , logramos introducir en su capítulo VI (De los Derechos Culturales y Educativos) una norma que incluso da una dimensión adicional a la jurisprudencia sobre el tema por cuanto habla de la “protección legal de los derechos del autor o de la autora”.De esta manera conseguimos que se le devolviera a “la persona humana que crea la obra”
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Array So we recognized each other right away and had some fun catching up on each others’ lives.The shop is nice and cozy and they have a Wednesday knit night which I may just have to attend occasionlly since I know a couple of other knitters who go there. she carries some really fun Knitwits and Stitch Diva patterns.The Kid Seta was calling my name, but since I have a quite a bit of Kidsilk Haze already stashed, I went with a book purchase instead.So The New Knitting Stitch Library is now mine.
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Jeez, George, your example to the contrary, literacy isn’t actually a disqualification for public office.And don’t think you’re safe just because you don’t know what the squiggly things on paper mean: according to George, “The terrorists have got a weapon: It’s called our TV screens.” Especially those big-screen jobbies, those can really hurt if they get dropped on your foot.Actually, George says you don’t need to be able to read, you just need to be able to dream: “One of the things about our country is it’s a place where you can start with zero,”
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I don’t care *what* your opinion is of the politics, you gotta feel something when you think about those guys out there doing what they’re doing…
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This wine is a big fully ripe number with 15.0% alcohol and plenty of power.Colour is inky impenetrable red.The nose shows rich ripe plummy fruit and berries with hints of chocolate and licorice.Palate is fleshy with that ripe plummy fruit and quite suptuous, with some noted acohol.
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Do you know why most Americans are fat?Because, America has a robust economy.So Americans are enjoying now more than ever before.If you disagree with me, go and argue with Michael Rosenwald of the Washington Post.Why America Has to Be FatA Side Effect of Economic Expansion Shows Up in FrontI am fat. Have you heard of fat sex?What is the thrill?The fatter the tighter!Are you fat and lonely?
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Flip cover by Lan Medina and Gilbert Monsanto:The rest of the Monday Comic Web Ring:ShellyJonas Gilbert Elbert

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Array-ne It look a disctint possibility that Charles Clarke could stand against Gordon Brown in the race for the Labour Party Leadership.
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David KuhnThe Out magazine cover seen above, features models donning Jodie Foster and Anderson Cooper masks, even though neither have officially come out of their glass closets. Are her hands tied by the powers that be?Out has done a really good article about the glass closet. the married, closeted gay who doesn’t talk about it; In other words, the no closet, the glass closet, the cast iron closet, and the closet you get buried in.Sources:Out Magazine - Glass ClosetNew York Magazine
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-ne You Are: 50% Dog, 50% CatYou are a nice blend of cat and dog.You’re playful but not too needy.
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I have always considered Duncan Kyle the poor man’s Desmond Bagley. Terror’s Cradle stars journalist John Sellers who gets caught up in a spy game when he goes after his missing co-worker and unrequited love.
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This last decade an amazing one.Some Highlights:- Fell deeper in love with email. I remember when my neighbors brought up the Highlands Chain idea, the concept of a local internet community with email, I said, what a stupid idea. A wild ride indeed.-Taking the plunge to direct and loving it. (Thank you Judy Stone.)- Spent years getting a local school referendum passed. Along the way some surprising, deeply satisfying friendships.The small town love and beauty of Garrison and Cold Spring, NY. (Thank you Healers: Mhairi, Karen Gorney, Linda Blaikie, Teresa Peppard, Karen Greathouse, Allison Anderson.)-A serious committment to yoga and now pilates. Coming from a place I loved to a place I love even more! Loving Austin with its great energy, wonderful people, and quality of life. Immersing fully into the Austin Film Society, proud to be part of its rich history and vital present.-My friends. But funny, and kind, and loving too.
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-ne The Unearthing: An Awakening Has ArrivedWith Truth Comes AwakeningBy Manuel Valenzuela ICH The suppression of truth has long been among the highest priorities for the upper echelons of power and authority. Those holding the levers of power and control understand, better than most, that the dissemination of truths to a blind majority could spell the end of their reign, for truth brings sight to the blind. Truth must never be allowed to gain momentum or be exposed, which is why truth seekers must be made examples.
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-ne Democrats now outnumber republicans 50 to 35 percent, says new Pew Poll…….Certain senior NCOs go on suicide watch.
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