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The water commissioner says we CAN’T water any more than every three days, and only on designated days depending on our street address. Therefore we can’t water any less than every three days to save even more water (and money, since they’re raising water prices this year).But enough about the grass. I again was reading my humor book and laughing, or at least quietly chuckling, out loud.Well, we didn’t get out until about 5:00 and, knowing my wife for more than a couple of years, I knew she wasn’t going to be able to find anything to cook at that late date, so we went out to eat on the way home. Some of you kind folks on this mailing list don’t have the complete story of how I found about my disease and exactly what I have. I know that one of our long time friends didn’t know anything about my disease until my Adventure e-mail showed up in her in-box (sorry, Kathy).I have chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). Eventually folks with the disease die of anemia and infection.My dad had this disease as well and he died of it in 1981. CLL is not really hereditary, though folks with a close relative with the disease have a three times as great a chance of getting it than the general population. The disease is more common in men than women, more common in whites than blacks or Hispanics. The general background incidence is only 3/100,000 people (or about 1/30,000) so even with a relative with the disease, a person’s chances of getting it are pretty small. I also sent then a bunch of tubes of blood which they are using in some sort of esoteric studies of genes, etc.I actually found out about the disease quite by accident, like most folks do. Actually, I wasn’t getting a routine blood test, but had been feeling very ill for a couple of weeks after getting an immunization for hepatitis A, since Kathy and I go to Mexico a couple of times a year. A few days after getting the shot I started feeling sick and I got progressively weaker over the next two weeks with a mild hepatitis (caused by the shot?). There are lots of treatments out there for this disease, but no cure yet.As I mentioned before, we debated a bone marrow transplant procedure but couldn’t find a match among my sibs (hey, maybe I need to look up the milkman’s offspring [just a joke, Mom]). CLL is considered to be aggressive if your white count doubles in a year’s time.
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(I feel I must explain some of these side issues in some detail, because, though my Colorado friends know what this is all about, the messages are also going to Georgia, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Montana, Texas, South Carolina, California and to friends in Germany, too)So after I finished the lawn work I took a bath and wrote a letter to you guys. I joked with my doc that I must be in the placebo control arm of the study since I continue to feel so normal. These studies have shown some pretty good response rates (partial or complete remission), much better than many standard drugs which often have less than a 20% response rate or so.The best response was in a study from M. There the response rate was 90 percent, an astounding rate (but this is still in a small study of about 130 patients). Of these, about 66% had a complete response, or a normalization of the blood counts, and of the 66% complete responders, about half had no genetic evidence of disease at the end of the short, 18 month study. There were only two early deaths reported in this study, as opposed to the 25% mortality rate from bone marrow transplant, much better odds I think, at least in the short run.So, that’s where we’re headed. The next thing I have to do is get a blood count in about 7-10 days, and see where my Ralph (low point, or nadir)* count is, the we get ready for round two, starting August 20th and going through the 23rd, our which will be our Thirty-Third wedding anniversary!
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Even though the entire place was small and did not change much year to year to year it was always magical.!!!! The big kids ate at one table the little kids at another. How about all those 28 de Julio celebrations and the kids from the town came parading with lanterns. And one more memory, what about when Gabriel was hooked on Cat Stevens Tea for a Tillerman and played my tape player over and over again.
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Time: 3:58 in the P.M.I’m Wearing: Red Planet Hollywood Nashville shirt and shorts w/ flip flops.My Hair Is: Down and scrunchedI Last Ate: Oatmeal for breakfast.Holly’s Song Pick of the Day: Naked–Avril Lavigne________________________________________________________So, the other day I went to Clarkston during a huge storm, and we had to take an alternate route so that we didn’t get in a large traffic jam on I-75. When I was about ten years old, I decided that I liked to eat starchie foods like mashed potatoes, stuffing and corn. But I ate them constantly, and I ate very much at one time. I might be a Seventh Day Adventice or whatever they’re called, since I don’t believe that God wants us to eat meat.2. I think (or hope) everyone lives their lives based on a certain set of morals, and we’ll all be rewarded for living by those morals someday. Sure, we can do things to influence our lives and the way we live them, but I think God has the major say in what’s gonna go down. I believe that God strategically places them right where people (and animals) need them, when they need them.5 totally random things about me1. This morning, I burned the roof of my mouth by eating scorching oatmeal.
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Array Add in the fact that I don’t know where the nearest hospital is and that it took me four calls to get a friend on the phone who could help me and I fully admit to being terrified.A trip to the hospital and a short stay later I found out that Japanese hospital charges are lower than ours and I should be fine.
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God’s true servants become fruitful, multiply, and sprout like grass on the prairie, like willows alongside creeks (Isaiah 44:4).I like Berger’s art because it marvelously gets at the archetypal, mythopoetic ideals to which Scriptures such as Isaiah 44:5 and Genesis 17:2, 6 are directing our gaze.For an interactive art exhibit on the book of Psalms with a painting by this insightful artist of each poem in the Psalter (each with a meditative annotation), click here.
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Radio Show Today1-3pm on 1450 KNSI in St. Cloud.Listen onlinehttp://www.1450knsi.com/home.phpClick on the icon on the right side of the new webpage.
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Look for a funny part where the boys capsize the water sled and Uncle Chuck heroically dives to the rescue.The video is about 11 minutes long.
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Carolina Kluft - Number 1 Star for Children of AfricaHumanity’s Review of Every Year 2005(half time in mankind’s final examination in collaboration)Breaking News - Spring 2006, American Idol SeasonUOS offers any top 10 idol who doesn’t win a free connections course on one humanitarian mission of their choice. 2005-The position of University of Stars is that another world will only be possible if emerging superstars are mentored in one deep humanitarian issue of their choice. Through links with the deepest voices for humanity and their alumni networks, we offer to mentor people will be famous: to help them choose an issue for life, as well as provide them with the coaching in any city they happen to have some spare time in.Imagine a world where the Princess Di’s and Ayrton Senna’s had been the norm in celebrity involvement with deep issues they cared about. This institution needs to be completed devolved from national political power before it can ever cover stories of world service humanity in the way that the vast majority of Britons, or citizens and communal villagers of the world, wish public media would take a lead on. How out of touch this biggest influence of commercial media is with what people want public media to open space for in ways that commercial media dumbs down. the only star who has taken it upon herself to study up deep humanitarian causes with such confidence that when the media calls she turns the story round to a humanitarian issue instead of her next achievement.
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Para la UNESCO La alfabetización funcional: se refiere a aquellas personas que pueden realizar todas las actividades necesarias para el funcionamiento eficaz de su grupo y comunidad y además les permite continuar usando la lectura, la escritura, y el cálculo para su propio desarrollo y el de su comunidad.La alfabetización múltiple será aquella que capacite a las personas para utilizar los procedimientos adecuados al enfrentarse críticamente a distintos tipos de texto (diferentes en cuanto a su función y su sistema de representación simbólica) y para valorar lo que sucede en el mundo y mejorarlo en la medida de sus posibilidades.
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É comemorado com o intuito de consciencializar e alertar o público em geral para questões relacionadas com nutrição e alimentação desenvolvendo todos os anos um tema sobre a actualidade.Neste dia importante, consciencializa-se a comunidade para a importância de uma alimentação equilibrada e saudável, enquanto factor essencial para a saúde e integração do individuo.
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Historias que compartimosMomentos que vivimosConocimientos que adquirimosEn el curso de Cocina I, de la Prof Silvia Esquinazi, tuvimos este año un acontecimiento especial: Se casó Noelia y entre todos le hicimos la torda de bodas.Aquí están los momentos previos ¿Los Compartimos?
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Por ese motivo, no me gusta este post.El caso es que el hecho en sí se merecía una entrada.Y es que cuando 1 Gbyte se queda pequeño, cuando blu-ray y hd-dvd entran ya en nuestras casas, entonces llega Canon y me regala, junto con la Powhershot 720IS, una tarjeta de memoria SD de 16MB.
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Yay!:) Les mer om Eo-fondet i tidliger innlegg eller på elev.no Fint hvis dere kan snakke litt med folk og høre hva de kan tenke seg.-Hvis vi rekker det kan vi også se litt på en dato vi kan få tatt et bilde av elevrådet.Jeg har ikke fått inn noen saker fra dere denne siste uken, hverken på bloggen eller kontoret.
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E a sua volta Paulson condivise con qualcun altro ciò che aveva discusso con Bernanke?Ancora dall’articolo del Post: The lunch in question took place between noon and 1 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 16, according to documents received from Bernanke by Wharton School lecturer Ken Thomas.That’s the day stock prices were sharply lower because banks and mortgage companies were starting to give the bad news about the amount of subprime loan defaults on their books.But in the final hour of trading on Wall Street stocks suddenly reversed course, turning what had been a 344-point rout in the Dow Jones industrial index into just a 16-point loss.The stock market rally took place within two hours of Bernanke and Paulson breaking bread.Il famoso reversal che portò la perdita di 344 punti del Dow Jones per quel giorno, ad una discesa di soli 16 punti ebbe inizio entro due ore dalla fine del pranzo tra Bernanke e Paulson.Direi che può bastare, nel caso ci fossero stati altri dubbi consiglio di rivedere il grafico intraday dell’S&P 500 di quel famoso 16 Agosto.
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Array And, although the influence of artists like Jan Svenkmajer and David Lynch are clear, this is a remarkably idiosyncratic work – a micro-budget stop-motion animation film shot on 16mm in a world of computer animated megaplex hits.The dialogue free film tells the tale of the struggle between the aristocratic White Mice and the rustic Creatures Who Dwell Under the Oak over the doll of their heart’s desire. A disturbing and wondrous adventure.“BLOOD TEA AND RED STRING is wondrously obsolete, a scruffy rebuttal to the digital suavity and celebrity shenanigans of the Pixar era… Old-fashioned as it is, this dark fairy tale is perfectly au courant…” – Nathan Lee, The New York Times“A Lynchean fever dream on Beatrix Potter terrain…as lovingly crafted as it is unsettlingly sour-sweet” – Dennis Harvey, VarietySpecial Live Performance!CLAW JOB presents SPACE CRACKERS Saturday, October 21 at 10:00pmTickets | The show will feature futuristic costumes (with real white pants!), an eye-charring light show, and more live rock music than you can possibly handle.Opening for Clawjob will be about an hour’s worth of science fiction short films, selected by the Brattle Theatre in conjunction with the Boston Fantastic Film Festival.This unprecedented pairing of space film and space rock, presented jointly by The Brattle Theatre and NEST2006, is not to be missed!On The Web: Claw Job | This is also a time of dedicated role playing gamers beating the spaghettios out of each other with foam covered weapons.” – Eric Campos, Film ThreatThis highly entertaining documentary chronicles the lives of a group of regular guys and gals in Baltimore who periodically get together as inhabitants of the world of Darkon, a fantasy realm where knights and wizards clash with ogres and dark elves and, frequently, each other. Winner of the audience award for Best Documentary at the SXSW Film Festival 2006, this is a must see for both the fantasy initiated and role-playing illiterate.“*****!” – Film ThreatBoston Premiere! This film was so popular on its initial release that the cast collectively became known as “The Venoms” and went on to star in 10 films together in different combinations. As their fellow employees turn up missing, the group realizes that they had better quickly change their tactics from sniping at each other to trying to figure out what the heck is going on.From the director of Creep – the subway horror film that premiered at BFFF last year – SEVERANCE is a laugh-out-loud funny survival horror film with genuine characters and a sharp as nails script. When Jeliza-Rose agrees to join Dickens’ quest to destroy the land-shark that roams the area, it becomes clear that things are not entirely what they seem.Gilliam’s most singular vision in quite some time, TIDELAND is alternately grotesque, darkly funny, phantasmogoric, and tragic – what else could be said of a film that features a pre-pubescent girl playing dress-up with the bloated and rotting corpse of her father. Full Schedule(2006) dir Johnnie To w/Louis Koo, Simon Yam, Nick Cheung, Cheung Siu-fai, Lam Ka-tung [92 min]Only one director debuted three separate films at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, and that director was Hong Kong’s Johnnie To. Yes, we are only screening the second half but, don’t worry, these two films stand alone (and besides in true Hong Kong fashion there’s a prologue to TRIAD ELECTION that explains it all).TRIAD ELECTION takes place among the Wo Sing, the most venerable Triad clan of Hong Kong. Intense negotiations and action scenes are staged with a slow-burn menace and sudden jolts of violence - and when they happen they’re riveting – but actual visceral action is not what the ELECTION films are about. Anchored with fresh and spontaneous performances, the films are demure dramas, hitting themes of the conflicted modern Hong Kong identity, obscured under the shade of the ambiguous giant known as ‘China.’” – Colin Geddes, Toronto Int’l Film Festival
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-ne Can anyone tell me the point of today’s Page One story in the New York Times about a woman trying to determine if her father may have been involved in the death of a New York man in 1942?The article recounts at length the fruitless search by a 71-year-old woman for the truth surrounding long-forgotten events in which her late father was among several city contractors charged with graft.
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Audubon’s enormous (10 wingspan) Bird of Washington (Washington eagle) was a classic case of misidentification. it is here archivists find Audubon’s (and others’) detailed descriptions of a possible third American eagle species surviving into the modern era: the “great eagle”—the Bird of Washington.Over many decades, this bird was given several consubstantial names: Washington’s eagle, Washington’s sea-eagle, Washington eagle, and the great sea-eagle. Today, it is universally believed that the few Washington eagles Audubon and others saw and expounded upon were not members of a previously unidentified eagle species, but were rather a common bird known long to naturalists: the northern subspecies of the bald eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus alascanus in its immature state of development. In early days, the immature bald eagle was sometimes referred to as a separate species: the brown or sea eagle, Falco ossifragus, but the best early naturalists, Wilson and Audubon among them, soon recognized the true relationship. To make a case for the existence of the Washington eagle and prove that the Washington eagles were not immature bald eagles, it is necessary to rebut historical and contemporary skeptics by demonstrating that the bird’s distribution, morphology, and ethology lay outside the accepted range of variation for the bald eagle, especially those of its juvenal stages. If indeed the Washington eagles were simply immature northern bald eagles, they should have been seen and noted quite frequently in Audubon’s winter travels along the Mississippi, Ohio, and Missouri rivers. Audubon recorded numerous encounters with the abundant bald/brown eagles in his lifetime, but only five sightings of the Washington eagle. tail uniform dark brown (Audubon 1840:1:56).Audubon’s description, and the painting that corresponds to it, concern two significant anatomical features that differentiate the specimen from the bald eagle.1) The Washington eagle’s cere is conformed in a manner unlike any known variation in bald eagles.2) The uniform scaling found on the Washington eagle’s tarsus is unknown at any stage of bald eagle development (Mengel 1953:145-7, Allen 1970:526).Regarding the unusual uniform tarsal scutellation, Allen hypothesized that as theWashington eagle was one of the first figures Audubon published, that this characteristic had not been accurately drawn and that his written description, published years later, was made from his flawed rendering rather from the specimen itself (Allen 1870:526). Though both Allen and Mengel assert that Audubon did not preserve his type specimen, this supposition is dubious as, in an 1838 letter to Edwin Harris, Audubon indicated that he did indeed still possess a Washington eagle specimen (Rhoads 1903:382). Audubon biographer William Souder provides the following quantitative analysis of Audubon’s paintings of the adult bald eagle, the immature bald eagle, and the Washington eagle made on an original double-elephant folio:With the postulation that the inner wings are proportionally larger, the Washington eagle’s wingspan, as painted, would exceed the Audubon’s bald eagle by over 55 cm, making Audubon’s measurement of ten feet two inches legitimately possible. There are two more or less brown eagles known in America today: the golden eagle and the immature bald eagle. Therefore, some have hypothesized that the birds Audubon identified as Washington eagles were actually oversized golden eagles. That speculation, though, is undermined by the fact that Audubon was quite familiar with the distinguishing extended leg feathers of the golden eagle, which clearly reveal it to be of a different genus from that of the sea eagle. Immediately following are four distinctive molts in as many consecutive years, culminating in the well-known adult plumage (Gerrard 1978, Harmata 1984).The only bald eagle developmental stages that demonstrate any degree of superficial affinity to the Washington eagle are the juvenal plumages of the first twelve months of life (Fig. Even Audubon admitted that the juvenile stages of both the bald and Washington eagles resemble each other in outward appearance, but appends this by emphasizing that the size difference is great and that such likenesses cease in mature birds (Aud. Wilson included the Washington eagle in his early works, but Audubon remained certain that Wilson “had confounded [the Washington eagle] with the bald…one of the young of which he has given the figure of, to represent it…I am strongly inclined to believe that he never saw [a Washington eagle]…had he met with it, [he] could hardly have fallen into so great an error” After a statistical analysis, a frustrated Mengel conceded that the Washington eagle was too large to be considered a bald eagle of either sex of either the southern or northern race (Mengel 1953:148). The difference in size between Audubon’s male and the upper-extreme measurements of female northern bald eagles is significant enough to justify subspecies recognition by most taxonomists (Mengel 1953:147).Consider the following comparative measures (Washington eagle measurements offered are metric equivalents of those in Audubon’s Ornithological Biography):1. Ground nests are used by bald eagles only in treeless areas (Buehler 2000:15), which does not describe the lush lower Ohio River valley where Audubon observed breeding Washington eagles.It was also noted by Audubon that the Washington eagle’s flight was:…very different from that of the White-headed Eagle. (Audubon 1999:221)In addition, the Washington eagle did not share the bald eagle’s bullying and piratical behavior towards the osprey (Nuttall 1832). Audubon’s conviction about the Washington eagle was reinforced in 1820 as he procured, studied, and painted a bald eagle specimen for four straight days, often forsaking sleep. Upon completion of this marathon and the completion of his painting of a juvenile bald eagle (plate CXXVI), he recorded in his journal that he was—as perhaps we today should also be—convinced that the Washington eagle was, at the time, indeed an exceedingly rare and distinctive species (Aud. Modern revisionism has erased this bird from the annals of ornithological history, as exemplified by the replacement of Bowen’s original Washington eagle woodcut with one of a bald eagle in the popular Chamberlain edition (1929) of Nuttall’s Manual, or the Audubon Society’s Baby Elephant Folio edition of 1981, which has banished the name to a footnote. While morphometrical comparisons reveal that Audubon’s huge eagle was in all likelihood not an immature bald eagle, it is not feasible, without his specimen, to establish exactly what it was. It will only be through a methodical and open-minded examination of the catalogs of nineteenth-century museums and other collections, both here and abroad—one of which must it seems still contain a tagged Washington eagle specimen—and the use of modern DNA analysis that the answer to questions on the validity of Audubon’s enormous eagle will be finally established.
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Als ge die nie efkes in de gaten houdt zijn ze der met de tennisballen vandoor!
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Array I wish I could puff up my cheeks and blow that soft breeze all the way from here to Biloxi, from my house to her little room on the balcony of the church on Pass Road where she sleeps.If I had that much power, the breeze would reach her tonight, and sweep away any concerns she might have. It would caress her sleeping body, comforting her, wrapping her with the spirits of our ancestors, who watch us and keep us safe from danger.By now this post is probably sounding like recidivism. I wished it would travel on the jetstream all the way to southern Mississippi and land softly on a peppercorn-colored Mini parked in a church lot on Pass Road.Just land there and sit there quietly in the still of the southern night, and greet her in the morning, when another day beckons to her. I cannot do anything at all, except wish that the laws of physics would make the impossible happen, by reaching across from where, according to My Yahoo, it feels like 57 to where she dreams her unknown dreams and remembers what she wishes to remember and feels whatever she feels, all mysteries to me, but it feels like 92.This song still is for you, only for you, baby.
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It looks like longrun on Sunday, a ten mile run either later this evening or tomorrow morning and then the race on Saturday night. It sure is a lot of juggling around for a little 3.1 mile race. I slowly started rounding into shape and this was the first race that I ran on my comeback trail. Then last year, I came back and won the race again in 16:54, but it was a much tighter race.
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-ne AAA - Omaha: O-Royals 5, Oklahoma 4LF Huber 3-4, HR (11), RBI (25), K, OF assist at second — .278DH Allen 3-4, HR (11), RBI (61) — .3261B Bell 3-4 — .195RF Costa 1-4, HR (6), 3 RBI (15), K — .388CF K. Robinson 1-4, 2 K, RS — .3052B Gotay 1-4, 2 K, RS — .2643B Cortez 0-3, K — .203, novelty has worn offSS Blanco 0-3 — .242Hernandez 6 IP, 2 ER, 4 H, BB, 4 K — W, 5-6, 4.59 ERANunez 1 2/3 IP, 2 ER, 2 H, BB, K — 1.80 ERABraun 1 1/3 IP, 2 H, BB — SV, 1, 0.00 ERA*** Two innings of offense earned Omaha its third straight win over Oklahoma to take the series. Brown 2-5, HR (9), 2 RBI (36), 2 K, RS — .274SS Sanchez 3-5, 2B (18), 3 RS — .286LF Lubanski 1-3, 2 BB, 3B (6), 2 K, 3 RS — .270CF Maier 1-5 — .280* C Damaso Espino left game with an injured leg in 6th.Buckner 4 2/3 IP, 6 ER, 6 H, 5 BB, 6 K, HRA, 3 WP! Perez 0-4, BB, RBI (27), 2 K, RS — .274C Thibault 0-5, 2 K — .1113B Gaffney 1-4, BB, RBI (23), K, RS, E (4) — .280Cota 6 IP, 6 R (4 ER), 9 H, 2 BB, 7 K, WP, balk — ND, 7.32 ERARowe 2 1/3 IP, H, 2 K — 4.99 ERAHicklen 1 2/3 IP, 3 H, BB, 2 K — W, 2-6, 7.02 ERA*** The Mavs survived a 5-run inning from the Nuts and 103 degree heat to win in extra innings. Michael Penn makes his return to the mound for Burlington.Rookie - Idaho Falls: Great Falls 8, Chukars 11B Castillo 2-3, BB, HR (3), RBI (21), K — .397, having a great seasonCF Dickerson 1-3, K — .3152B Mertins 1-4, 2B (2) — .412LF Morel 0-4 — .301RF Bigler 0-3, K — .261Chambliss 3 IP, 5 ER, 8 H, BB, K — L, 0-1, 4.09 ERAMozingo 4 1/3 IP, 3 ER, 3 H, 2 BB, 4 K, HRA — 8.00 ERA*** Idaho Falls dropped its 3rd straight and will likely be glad to be rid of the White Sox after Sunday’s loss as Great Falls put up 29 runs in the last 3 games on what had been a decent pitching staff for the Chukars.
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But, just as they weren’t as good as they looked during the 12 game win streak, they’re not as bad as they looked this weekend.AL Pythagorean Projection Report - 7/17/2006 ProjectedActualR/G(rank)RA/G(rank)Pythagorean(rank)WLWLLuckDetroit5.25(6)3.8(1)0.643(1)593362303New York5.67(2)4.7(5)0.586(2)523753361Chicago5.85(1)4.85(8)0.585(3)533857344Boston5.57(3)4.9(9)0.558(4)504054364Toronto5.34(5)4.9(10)0.539(5)494251402Cleveland5.49(4)5.07(11)0.537(6)49424150-8Minnesota4.89(8)4.53(3)0.534(7)484250402Texas5.07(7)4.79(7)0.525(8)48444745-1Seattle4.78(10)4.73(6)0.505(9)46464448-2Los Angeles4.69(11)4.65(4)0.504(10)464546450Oakland4.43(13)4.45(2)0.499(11)464648442Baltimore4.79(9)5.52(13)0.435(12)415343512Tampa Bay4.24(14)5.18(12)0.409(13)385439531Kansas City4.59(12)6.11(14)0.372(14)34573259-2Top 5 projections (using current winning %)Detroit10953Chicago10161Boston9765New York9666Toronto9171Top 5 projections (starting with today’s record, using Pythagorean winning %)Detroit10755Chicago9963New York9666Boston9468Toronto8973Standings for the week ProjectedActualR/G(rank)RA/G(rank)Pythagorean(rank)WLWLLuckLos Angeles6.67(4)2.33(1)0.872(1)30300New York8.67(1)4(5)0.805(2)21301Oakland7(2)3.75(4)0.758(3)31310Minnesota4.5(8)3(2)0.677(4)31310Texas4.5(8)3.5(3)0.613(5)22220Detroit7(2)5.5(10)0.609(6)22311Toronto4.67(6)4.67(8)0.5(7)21210Seattle4.67(6)4.67(8)0.5(7)2112-1Kansas City5.5(5)7(12)0.391(9)2213-1Baltimore3.5(12)4.5(6)0.387(10)22220Cleveland3(13)4.5(6)0.323(11)13130Boston3.75(11)7(12)0.242(12)13130Chicago4(10)8.67(14)0.195(13)1203-1Tampa Bay2.33(14)6.67(11)0.128(14)03030
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I am making a new “100 things about me” list because I feel that I have arrived at a new stage of my life.2. I think there should be more sin taxes. I think that’s a great idea.19. Because I have IBS, I never put food in my mouth without thinking about it very carefully.20. One thing I’m really looking forward to about moving in with friends is being able to shop and cook together sometimes.23. I feel that I knit at normal speed – as in seconds per stitch – but I don’t spend as much time on it as I wish I did.33. They have the longest wingspan of any extant bird species (11 ft), spend 90% of their lives in the air, mate for life (but sometimes cheat), and can live 40 years or longer.47. If you count island possessions, I have visited or lived in fifteen countries: the U.S., Saint Lucia, Canada, Italy, Japan, England, Panama, Mexico, Australia, Spain, the Dutch West Indies, the French West Indies, Austria, Germany, and Jamaica, in roughly that order.48. Some other countries I would really like to visit include New Zealand, Ireland, Iceland, Ecuador, Tanzania, Bhutan, India, and Antarctica, which I know isn’t technically a country.50. I think I have been to all of the other 49 states, but it’s hard to keep track.53. I learned to ski at such a young age that I don’t remember not being able to ski. When I lived in Japan for a year, I thought a lot about what it must be like to be an illiterate adult.59. I think it’s because I’m half Asian. I am never afraid that people will think I’m a nerd.76. I think smart kids, like the ones I teach, need happy, sociable nerd role models.78. I think my gray hair is cool and I hope the streak gets more pronounced.92.
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There is a high school with a track just down the street, and I loaded up my iPod with new music and just took off to the track and ran lots of circles while taking the time to listen to the music.I did a workout on the track, not to be confused with a track workout.
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After 46 years, through nine American presidencies, a war in Vietnam and two in Iraq, a near-nuclear conflict with the Soviets (by way of Cuba) and the fall of the Soviets this island nation stands as an anachronistic paean to old-style communism. The roar of the waves lulled me to sleep, dreams of Cuba in my head.Suddenly, in my dreamlike state, I was aboard a Cubano Airlines Soviet era YAK-42 approaching Havana. After finding out the American dollar was no longer coveted in Cuba I cashed in the last of the 65 Euros I had purchased when I was in Egypt (Funny the things that come up in dreams). Below are some of the sights we dreamt about along the way:The next morning we were on a bus bound for Valle de Vinales, a UNESCO World Heritage site about three hours west of Havana.Parque Nacional Vinales (pronounced Vin Yal’ Ez) is a fertile plain of several valleys separated by pincushion or haystack hills called mogotes (Mo Go’ Tays). Jason found mention of a five mile trail just outside of town. After a shower back at the casa particulare we lazed around a bit and observed rural Cuban life.These two guys were wondering what the Hell they did in that last life to deserve this.It appeared, in my dreamlike state, that at least in rural Cuba life is much more social than in the US. We hadn’t eaten since breakfast back in Havana. Jason suggested we try the nearby Hotel Jasmine a couple kilomters outside town, an easy stroll. He dropped off at the first house we came to.Oh yeah, as we topped a small rise before Vinales Lazaro pointed out Hotel Jasmine to us. Walking down the Vinales main street that evening we noticed a sign in an office offering a taxi ride direct to our hotel in Havana for 15 pesos. This seemed a good deal, because the only bus from Vinales to Havana available to us didn’t leave until 2PM and would take close to three hours. This would cut into our planned Havana exploring time. The bus was 12 pesos each, plus a five peso taxi from the bus station to the hotel. Actually they were on their way to Trinidad, meaning they had to go through Havana. Take the 2PM bus to Havana to connect on to Trinidad. Wait in Vinales until 7:30PM to find out IFthere was room on the NEXTmorning’s 8 AM bus to Havana, THEN make the connection to Trinidad.3. Throw in with us, get to Havana in time for the 1 PM to Trinidad. Although the driver managed to fry his clutch, we made the Viazul bus station by 12:30 and our hotel by one.The girls were from the Netherlands and were pretty experienced world travelers. But, what do you expect from a country that can’t decide whether they are the Netherlands, Holland or Dutch?Back in Habana we spent the rest of the day piling on more miles exploring Viejo Habana.We walked the Malecon, visited the Plaza de Armas, Plaza de Catedral, Universidad de Habana and the Plaza de la Revolucion.We saw the Nacional Hotel, the one financed by the American Mafia.
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Array-ne Rob,To clarify my advocation of the arrest of Bush et al.From Blacks Law Dictionary:citizen’s arrest: an arrest made not by a law officer but by any citizen who derives the authority to arrest from the fact of being a citizenNote: Under common law, a citizen may make an arrest for any felony actually committed, or for a breach of the peace committed in his or her presence.
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-ne http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/3/13/8111/07946
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-ne Jon Carlson wrote: From: Jon Carlson To: <;>Subject: 9/11 Base: USS George WashingtonDate: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 22:22:26 -0600The 9/11 Base Of Operations:Aircraft Carrier USS George Washington
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-ne Enjoy: http://www.markfiore.com/animation/gonzo.html Love and Energy _Don
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-ne Editors comment: Depends on who you ask, Pervez Musharraf has disclosed that Omar Sheikh, who kidnapped and murdered American journalist Daniel Pearl and is now facing death penalty, was actually the British secret Agency MI6.
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Array-ne “How much should government agencies pay to ensure full accessibility to people with disabilities?”  Is a question with a financial nature that any governmental body must ask when working on budgets.  â€œWhat determines the value, in dollars, of providing people with disabilities a manner to vote independently, one of the most sacred rights in American culture?”  Is a question with a more qualitative nature as it asks just how much equality people like us deserve in the land of the free.  Finally, “Are county government officials too stupid to figure out if a bid for accessible voting machines includes so much padding as to be ridiculously expensive?” Or, “Do President Bush’s friends at Diebold and the other voting machine manufacturers realize that county officials around the US have fairly minimal intellectual capabilities and, therefore, should have the tax payer’s money taken as quickly as possible from them lest they spend it on something foolish like a homeless shelter or art for the local museum?”These questions came to mind when I read two articles that came to my inbox via Blind News in the past 24 hours.  One, an editorial, which I will include in its entirety below, came from the Illinois based Belleville News-Democrat a paper that includes the word “democrat” on its masthead but seems to question voting rights for people with disabilities and the other, a news report from an Illinois television program on WQAD TVTitled, “Henry County spends 60,000 for one voter.”  Both items jump directly to the issue of the financial burden of providing accessible voting machines to people who require them during the recent Illinois primary election.I cannot add much to the editorial so I will quote it entirely, verbatim, as it appeared in the Belleville News-Democrat:    Posted on Fri, Mar. 24, 2006Editorial    Too high a price at the polls    Liberals love to say that if a government program benefits even onePerson, it is worth the cost. That would have saved millions, or at least freed up money for programs that would benefit more people, and not just on a couple days a year.    The truth is, the government can’t afford to enact every good idea.But politicians continue to try, which is why our taxes are sky-high.End of EditorialI’m not sure how many precincts St. Clair County, Illinois has but 21,000 seems an incredible amount to pay to put a single accessible voting machine in each polling place.  Thus, I return to a rephrased version of a question I posed above, “Were the government officials aware, in any way shape or form, of the typical cost for a piece of assistive technology or did Diebold and other automated voting machine manufacturers, all close friends of the administration, bilk the tax payers for a windfall profit that they could claim necessary to meet the ADA?”The reactionary editorial blaming government spending on liberals and pointing out the population of people with disabilities as the culprit special interest in this case, obviously forgot that Bill Clinton left the Federal budget with a surplus but that’s all history.  Conservative Arizona Senator, John McCane, points to the Alaskan “bridge to nowhere” as the greatest boondoggle in history by demonstrating that it would cost less to purchase a private jet for everyone living on the island to which this bridge would go than it would be to build the bridge itself.  Conservative Alaska senators disagree and insist that this engineering wonder start construction in their state as soon as possible.  So much for conservatives keeping an eye on our money.The editorial doesn’t provide enough numbers to do any arithmetic but spending over 00,000 to install voting machines accessible to people with hearing and vision impairments seems to me, a former assistive technology executive, a huge handout to the provider of said machines.  The editorial doesn’t state anything about the vetting process, the cost analysis or even if any AT companies, expert in delivering such solutions were consulted.The WQAD television story, covered as an article on its web site which includes a link to a streaming video of the piece, about the cost of voting machines in Henry County, Illinois, does provide us with a few numbers with which we can play around.  â€œ    Like every county throughout the United States, Henry County had toInstall special voting machines to meet the federal Americans withDisabilities Act.
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What has been totally absent is an understanding that the flow of trade will change only when individuals change their trading habits. And that individual usually makes the decision based on a belief that the goods or services bargained for will be resold to yet other individuals.Trade balances are the net of all the purchasing information made by individuals (for themselves, their firms or their agencies) in the global marketplace. They should then see if they can construct a totally domestic basket of goods/services, and whether or not they can get the same items, for the same price.If the global market is working, chances are they will find that a totally domestic basket of goods will cost more than the international basket of goods.
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MARCH 24, 2006 POLICE DESTROY PROTESTERS’ CAMP AT KASTRYCHNITSKAYA SQUARE The detained are kept at Akrestsina jail and in the buses which stand in the yards of police departments and courts. The detained will be tried by Frunzenski, Maskouski, Kastrychnitski, Zavodzki, Savetski and Centralny courts. For information about your friends and family members please contact officer on duty of Minsk City Police Department: 227-02-21, 227-02-21 Telephone number of Akrestsina jail : 270-91-42 The list of the detained during the night of March 23-24 (UPDATED at 3.45 p.m. on March 24): 1. Ruslan Matsveyeu under age, released 106. Artsiom Platonau under age, released 121. Peralyhin – 10 days of jail 163. Alaksandr Kazulin (NOT the candidate) – Partyzanski court, Judge Audzeichyk 172. Alaksandr Alyabyeu — – Partyzanski court, Judge Audzeichyk 173. Subach – Partyzanski court, Judge Barysionak 174. Eutsikhau – Partyzanski court, Judge Barysionak 176. Yakautsau – Partyzanski court, Judge Pykina 177. Abramenka – Partyzanski court, Judge Pykina 179. Tsikhanovich – Partyzanski court, Judge Pykina 180. Hran – Partyzanski court, Judge Trubnikau 181. Lysiuk – Partyzanski court, Judge Trubnikau, 10 days of jail 182. Rebeka – Partyzanski court, Judge Trubnikau 183. Leshchou – Partyzanski court, Judge Lebedz 184. Nadzeya Batura (zavodzki court) 5 days of jail 188.
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Here is an excerpt:TIME’s latest poll finds American voters heading into November’s election dissatisfied with the Republican-dominated status quo, but not necessarily convinced that the answer lies in voting Democratic. The poll, conducted March 22-23, finds Americans unhappy with the performance of the Republican-controlled Congress — 39% approve, versus 49% who disapprove — and gives Democrats a 9-point lead when voters are asked to state which party’s candidate they would choose for a House of Representatives seat (50% answered Democrat, 41% chose Republican).
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The dual Orleans Parish court and sheriff systems are another whole deal in itself.CURRENT ORLEANS PARISH ASSESSORS BY MUNICIPAL DISTRICT/YEAR TAKEN OFFICE (Source: The Times-Picayune)Municipal District 1 (11,000 parcels): Darren Mire, 2002-before 1985, a member of the Comiskey family held this position since 1935Municipal District 2 (15,800 parcels): Claude Mauberret, 1994-a member of the Mauberret family has held this seat since 1904Municipal District 3 (78,000 parcels): Erroll Williams, 1985-a member of the Hickey family held this position from 1952 until Williams got electedMunicipal District 4 (7,400 parcels): Betty Jefferson, 1998-a member of the Burke family held this position from 1941 until Jefferson got electedMunicipal District 5 (19,000 parcels): Tom Arnold, 1985-hand-picked by members of the Modenbach family who held this position from 1958Municipal District 6 (56,000 parcels): Janyce Degan, 1981-a member of the Degan family has held this seat since 1936Municipal District 7 (17,000 parcels): Henry Heaton, 1985-a member of the Heaton family has held this seat since 1936anybodybutbatt.com If you live in the New Orleans area you have no doubt heard the Anybody But Batt commercials in heavy, heavy rotation on WWL Radio the past few weeks.
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Array-ne 2007 Draft Order:1. Mariners (78-84) 21. Marlins (78-84) 22. Indians (78-84) 23. Reds (80-82) 25. Red Sox (86-76) 30.
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Repentance is simply a change of mind about Christ (Charles Ryrie, So Great Salvation, 96, 99). In the context of the gospel invitation, repentance is just a synonym for faith (SGS 97–99). The whole of salvation, including faith, is a gift of God (SGS 96). Faith is a human act, not a gift from God (AF 219). “Trusting Jesus” means believing the “saving facts” about Him (AF 39), and to believe those facts is to appropriate the gift of eternal life (AF 40). Heaven is guaranteed to believers (AF 112) but Christian victory is not (AF 118–19). If people are sure they believe, their faith must be genuine (AF 31). All who claim Christ by faith as Savior—even those involved in serious or prolonged sin—should be assured that they belong to God come what may (AF 32, 93–95). The New Testament writers never questioned the reality of their readers’ faith (AF 98).9. It is possible to experience a moment of faith that guarantees heaven for eternity (AF 107), then to turn away permanently and live a life that is utterly barren of any spiritual fruit (AF 118–19). All it has done is confuse the real issues.But, to be clear, the lordship controversy is not a dispute about whether salvation is by faith only or by faith plus works. Faith, as they describe it, is merely a personal appropriation of the promise of eternal life.But Scripture describes faith as more than that—it is a wholehearted trust in Christ personally (e.g., Gal. Real faith, saving faith, is all of me (mind, emotions, and will) embracing all of Him (Savior, Advocate, Provider, Sustainer, Counselor, and Lord God).Those who have such faith will love Christ (Rom.
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I’m addicted to Pride and Prejudice and own all versions on film and TV 54. I love photography, but spend so much time doing design I’m too tired to bother anymore 56. I’m so addicted to BBC news, I have the RSS feeds on my mobile and PC, desktop shortcuts, and watch BBC News 24 when I’m bored… If I’m out at night, I look for the constellation Cassiopeia, and it makes me feel less alone 77. I’m very lazy and will do the minimum that I need to get me through 81. However, conversely I’m hugely competitive with other people and will raise my game if I think they’ll “win” Most people think I’m incredibly outgoing, but in fact I’m petrified of new people 88. I listen to BBC Radio 1, but am considering moving to Radio 2, as the current affairs and news coverage aren’t good enough 92. I’m not scared of spiders 93.
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Good to see that Europe (including my homecountry Germany) are working this issue a lot smarter..Now poker: I played a little during the week and a little more during the 3 day weekend we had because of today’s Columbus Day. It was just one of those days where I couldn’t win a single race, my favorite hands got beat and so on..But hey, I kept on playing my game and managed to minimize my losses today. On Saturday is the big day when I turn 21 and can finally play poker legally in the big casinos over her.
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-ne Sandburg will be new Illinois Amtrak train Beginning October 30, Illinois’ partnership with Amtrak will include an additional train on the Quincy-St. Louis corridor. Survey shows Texas voters are okay with rail tax North Texas voters overwhelmingly support an additional half-percent sales tax to fund an expanded commuter rail network, according to a recent survey. In the survey of 4,077 registered voters in eight counties, 63 percent, when first asked, said they would support a sales tax increase to build multiple rail lines, The Dallas Morning News reported today. The Survey Research Center at the University of North Texas conducted the interviews, and Dr. Charles Leonard of the University of Texas at Dallas managed the project. That’s because the cities that already belong to DART were not included in the survey. Now, with public support as reflected in the survey, lawmakers can more comfortably back legislation that would allow local-option sales tax elections for mass transit. Laney to co-chair investment meet David Laney, a Dallas lawyer and current Amtrak board chairman, will co-chair the upcoming U.S. Infrastructure Investing Summit to be hosted by the International Quality and Productivity Center on October 18-19 in New York City. Amtrak, CSX trains detour around fire CSX and Amtrak trains detoured off the former Seaboard Air Line main line (“S Line”) southwest of Raleigh, N.C.
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-ne Food Issues…I hate to be the weirdo here, but since it’s my blog I suppose I’ll get the ball rolling on this one. In an effort to right our dietary wrongs, I decided to get back into salads, and again, planned to buy lettuce. Yes, I know I’m being a bit irrational, and not every piece of produce is a culprit, but that’s me.With small kids, I can’t be too careful.
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Array Wake up early and take bath. I never took bath. Raj’s father is a preacher for the cult which believes that one can prevent illness by just taking bath in cold water. The distant aunt formed that cult too.Now taking bath is an ordeal. DP never gives advice to any one.Consider Your workstation a temple. But if the boss who didnt give you the promotion you didnt deserve then calls you, we can pull pranks on him. When he calls tell that you dont need any personal loans and you are happy with the number of credit cards you have.If your boss is a good guy he will understand the implied sarcasm and give you the promotion you never deserved.Always Use the mail client to good effect.
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Big B comes out wearing a sweater and a cool funky cap which it seems he would have forgot to take off after shooting for Jhoom Barabar.It refreshing to see the normal Big B. What say you all ?Big B in classic KBC style : Good evening Ma’am How you doing ?The Reporter : Hello Sir Feels like i am sitting on the hot seat.Big B : Well i am not running the Show any more.The R : Oh yes i remember. I can you give you four choices if u want.Big B : Monsoon ?The R : What is the effect of this rain on your career specially when you are like the busiest person in your house ?Big B : Excuse me I have to go now, Aish beti is making kharabath for us.
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I like the part where he says about the three legs of a tripod. Yes for once the fourth leg is not broken.I am talking about my really close friends as well as classmates in college. PJs is all that i had.I will always remember the four legs of the tripod. Pray that the guy who moved in with her is her brother.But This is not about her.I am talking about my neighbour who lives opposite my home. For a four year old girl she is quite attention grabbing.I have befriended her, and successfully devised a method to talk to her. The genius she was, she never had any trouble.So I started waking up early to get a glimpse of my friend and talk our language.
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Team meeting are special occasions when all the team mates join together to take a statistical analysis ofa) What everyone is wearing.b) How many good looking freshers joined the teamc) And How many are wanting to leave.and theoretical discussions ona) The food you had last week when the manager got promotedb) How is Vat 69 better than D.Sp.c) And who should treat this week.Now these theoretical discussions and statistical analysis are duly documented on Microsoft office with font Verdana and size 10. But by the time that topic props up most of the team mates would be either sleeping or would be answering to consultants or agents or brokers or at times all of them rolled int one.By the time you i was back after the call from my girl friend. , but that female calls me more often that my girl friend would have if i had one.She(some consultant) : Hi Sir.Me(The despo kind I am, for a girl.
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Array You kinda have to watch the Chad Vader 8-part series to get a lot of the song references.
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I and my students have decided to hold a dinner party on me if the average of the class is over 90 percent.
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Dry (Prosecco di Conegliano)Here’s an easygoing Italian sparkler with a strong emphasis on floral aromas such as jasmine and honeysuckle as well as fruity tones of peach, apricot and melon.
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You can reach me by railway, you can reach me by trailwayYou can reach me on an airplane, you can reach me with your mindYou can reach me by caravan, cross the desert like an Arab manI don’t care how you get here, just- get here if you can You can reach me by sailboat, climb a tree and swing rope to ropeTake a sled and slide down the slope, into these arms of mineYou can jump on a speedy colt, cross the border in a blaze of hopeI don’t care how you get here, just- get here if you can There are hills and mountains between usAlways something to get overIf I had my way, then surely you would be closerI need you closer You can windsurf into my life, take me up on a carpet rideYou can make it in a big balloon, but you better make it soonYou can reach me by caravan, cross the desert like an Arab manI don’t care how you get here, just- get here if you can I don’t care, I dont care, I need you right here right nowI need you right here, right now, right by my sideI don’t care how you get here, just- get here if you can

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