My heart is pounding so fast as I read this article. And until know, 3 minutes after reading the article, I can still feel my heart beat. I feel hate....A set of twins at 24 weeks gestation was brought to us in a pan. They were both alive. The doctor came back and said, `Got you some good specimens, twins.' I looked at him and said, `There's something wrong here. They are moving. I don't do this
In an effort to coax more users to take advantage of the many extensions for its Firefox browser, Mozilla has just launched FashionYourFirefox.com. The site is divided up into categories, which cater to individual interests and "online lifestyles," according to Mozilla's announcement. The site looks like a good idea for extension novices, but I don't see some of my favorite extensions, and some of
I have reached my goals for October.I am working on my new goals for 2009.So far:Travel with family Internationally (Mexico, Cayman Island cruise)Max out retirementContinue to save 30% of my incomeIncrease my salary by 5%Increase my business sales by 10%photo credit[youngmoney.com]
October 31, 2008 - The Family Research Council introduced a new advertisement today drawing attention to what Senator Barack Obama said would be his first act as President. In a July speech Senator Obama said, "The first thing I'd do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act," which would overturn the ban on partial-birth abortion, remove the right for parents to know if their minor is having
Armed with a $250 billion blank check to invest in U.S. banks, the federal government is poised to play financial God in a way that's not been done before. So will its impact help pick winners from losers or prop up weaker banks that would otherwise fail? From an LA Times story:By flooding the U.S. banking system with hundreds of billions of dollars in cheap capital, the government could find it
Ah, I love the smell of socialism in the morning, it smells like -- Europe. But is that necessarily a bad thing in order to save the banking system? From an L.A. Times story:Bush administration officials today unveiled a dramatic partial nationalization of the U.S. financial system, a series of "unprecedented and aggressive steps" to pour at least $250 billion into the banking system and expand
Through cooperation with several investor-based groups, we have contrived a great system for finding bargains for investor buyers. We all know that we are smack dab in the middle of a strong buyer's market, but the buyers don't seem to have figured that out yet! This is making for some great opportunity for investors wanting to purchase at discount for cash or financing. 
Although this is a blog about computer and internet stuff, my social responsibility dictates me to post this article. - CBI was able to watch the evening news over TV Patrol World where I got the information that the Philippine Bureau of Food and Drugs (BFAD) posted on its website www.bfad.gov.ph a partial list of milk and other milk products they collected for testing for the presence of Melamine
DeidaraBirthday: May 5, Age 19, TaurusHeight: 166cmWeight: 50.8kgBlood Type: ABPersonality: self-respecting (be proud?), militantFavorite food: Bakudan (boiled egg wrapped in surimi)Dislike food: Maze-gohan (Japanese food)Wants to fight: ItachiFavorite word: Art is a BangHobbies: Creating art = BlowupMission completedD: 4C: 27B: 35A: 13S: 3Deidara's using forbidden jutsu for detonating his clay.De
It seems that some people, when they start learning the truth about the risks of amalgam fillings, will instantly ascribe all of their symptoms to the presence of mercury in their mouths. They want to get it out immediately and often expect to feel instantly better once it’s removed.
But a conscientious practitioner will never just [...]
I won’t be able to weigh myself today because my scale stopped working. Actually, it’s partially working because when my girlfriend uses it, it’s ok but when I step on it, the scale shows 0.0.
Thanks “weight watchers” for the wonderful scale that worked for less than a year. Since I don’t [...]
If you do not want to convert the total planned order quantity into a purchase requisition either because the requirements situation has changed or you want to produce a part of the quantity in-house, you have the option of partially converting the planned order.If you opt for a partial conversion, only a part of the amount quoted in the planned order is recorded in the purchase requisiti
Today is the last eclipse of the year and it occurs in Aquarius - the sign of brotherhood - so this is a time when the power and purpose of the group is pitted against that of the individual, in the hopes of resolution.
This Lunar Eclipse will last 3 hours 8 minutes and will be visible over most of Asia, Australasia, Europe, Africa and South America, and the seismic risks, storms and other unusu
This HDRI was createt manual of an exposure bracketing of 7 images. I used an "older" Leica objectives + converter from my dad, witch a focal-lenght of about 360mm. This image displays a partial lunar eclipse which reached its maximum of 80% at 11:00pm.
More photos of the moon are published on my Webpage!!!
Fifteen years ago, Jose Medellin participated in the murder and rape of Jennifer Lee Ertman, 14, and Elizabeth Pena, 16.
A story in the Dallas News describes the carnage as follows:
"It was the start of a savage hourlong attack by Medellin, then 18, and five fellow gang members, who raped the girls and forced them to perform sex acts before beating then strangling them with a belt and shoelaces
Today, India will witness a partial solar eclipse. This solar eclipse will be visible in most parts of world and some parts of world will even get chance to witness total solar eclipse. This solar eclipse will first start in North east part of India first. In India this solar eclipse will last for around two hours.This eclipse will start at 4:02 PM in Delhi and end at 6:02 PM. This solar eclipse w
CNews KARACHI: Institute of Space and Planetary Astrophysics, Karachi University said that only partial eclipse shall be seen in the north western part of Pakistan on August 1. The people of Peshawar shall have first glimpse of partial eclipse at around 16:18 Pakistan Summer Time and the partial eclipse shall be longest (2 hours) in Peshawar and its vicinity.The partial eclipse shall begin at 16:2
General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) is announcing the spin off of lighting and appliances and is exploring alternatives for its consumer and industrial units. This...
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Barack Obama has recently decided that a woman should not qualify for a late-term (partial-birth) abortion if the only qualifier for the procedure is “mental distress”. There is absolutely no medical reason for a partial-birth abortion, with the exception of “mental distress”. (Physicians for Life) In cases of “Mental Stress” reasons include the development of certain defects in the
“I was embarrassed, but also, it's like, every career thing that I do can't be perfect, and sometimes my decisions are wrong" - Miley Cyrus giving her reaction to the scandal sparked by a series of risque pictures she took with Vanity Fair.A pretty good time to use this quote:When you are acting genius and Jeopardy all-star Sean Connery after you realize that you've lost hundreds of millions of
Good evening, my name is Admiral Zeld. I am a vampire hunter. I know what you're thinking, what if Jeff Goldblum and Van Helsing had a baby? (waits for laugh) No? How many vampire hunters are here tonight? Canes up. None? Maybe it's because there's a one-night-only sale on garlic at Shaw's. (waits for laugh) Actually, it's a full moon tonight, everyone's out and about. Totally poor planning on my
This filly is super cute. She's halter broke. I'm not sure if she is partial or full arabian as I know little about the breed. I raise quarter horses and rescued this one as a weanling from a run down place that couldn't provide for her. She has had a loving home for the past 6 months. I hope she goes to another. She's got a great temperament. She's a very sweet horse and is very pretty. She
May is an 18 year old Thoroughbred mare that was never raced and has an extensive hunter/jumper background. She is well trained with a dressage foundation and loves to jump. May requires an intermediate rider, but is a very fun ride and a great lesson horse. May is available for an on-farm half (3 days per week) or single day per week lease. We are located minutes from Gainesville and the Un
Pavones is a 7 year old Thoroughbred mare. She is well trained with a solid dressage base. Pavones does best with an intermediate rider, but a confident beginner would also do well with her. Pavones is available for an on-farm half (3 days per week) or single day per week lease. We are located minutes from Gainesville and the University of Florida. E-mail for more information regarding Pavon
Jewel is a 7 year old Palomino mare that was born and raised on our farm. She is well trained english and western and is the kind of horse that anyone can ride. She really takes care of her riders and has taught many beginners. Jewel is available for an on-farm half (3 days per week) or single day per week lease. We are located minutes from Gainesville and the University of Florida. E-mail f
.Net 2.0 provided us with new feature called partial classes. Using partial classes we can use multiple files to keep the code of same class. Yes - we can put some methods to one file and the others to another file. Although partial classes may be extremely useful they can be also used to ruin system's technical design if developers don't know what happens behind the compiler. Visual Studio uses
I was always under the impression that we had succeeded in ending the practice of Partial Birth Abortion in the last Congress, but I guess the legislation passed was too vague and has resulted in states needing to close the loopholes created by the federal law. That’s what’s happening in Michigan where the state [...]
Today I had my first success with Digg.
I managed to get a story into the “Hot in World News” section. This is the furthest I have ever had an article in Digg and was quite a surpise to me.
The article in question is about pagerank and has so far managed 36 diggs. I do find [...]
Nintendo has been characteristically secretive about its second half 2008 game lineup, but a few titles managed to sneak out today via the NeoGAF forums. Japan only? Tight-lipped Nintendo is notorious these days for keeping its release schedules close to the vest, but that didn't stop an enterprising poster at the NeoGAF gaming forums from leaking the company's first party summer lineup.It's Japa
I now have a partial bike, after some jerk took my front wheel some time in the last few days. The other two thirds of my bike (my quick-release seat I’d taken indoors thankfully) were U-locked to a bike stand, and remain (last time I checked). So now after riding just twice this year, I [...]
I love those Myspace Layouts where you can see the background through all the tables! I’m going to show you how to do this and make the perfect layout! If you are not sure what I mean here are two great examples of how to do this the right way:
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Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE: BMY) came out with earnings at $0.35 EPS and reaffirmed 2008 guidance of $1.36 to $1.46 GAAP EPS and $1.60 to $1.70...
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River Plate have been punished with a partial closure of their stadium after violence between their own supporters ahead of their match with Arsenal 1 Vote(s)
Partial fee waiver scholarships available to International students to undertake a Development related Masters in one of the following postgraduate taught programmes within the Institute for...
Gale-force winds blowing in the area had been hampering firefighting efforts since the fire broke out on Monday, but no inhabited areas were in immediate danger.Skopelos Mayor Christos Vasiloudis said that the fire was brought under partial control, and that he hoped it would be fully under control in a few hours' time.It was not clear how the blaze began. It continued to burn through the night despite overnight rainfall.Greece often suffers from extensive forest fires, but they usually occur during the summer months.Last August, devastating fires raged out of control across the country for a week, killing more than 60 people.
Okay, now that you’ve found a good stock option trading System you are ready to rumble. You’re ready to start ‘cleaning house’ and making huge returns sending you and yours into a rapid luxurious retirement in little under a year.
Your excitement is understood. And guess what? It’s actually possible because it has [...]
MIT researchers are working on a new development which if goes successful can restore partial sight of people who have partially intact optic nerves. The Bio-electronic device which is of the size of pencil eraser would be implanted behind the...
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Veronica, Nathan and Miss Amy have settled in very nicely at their new home. Amy has been sleeping quite well in her new bedroom. So I am crossing my fingers that it keeps up.
The new house is on tank water, which means that all the water into the house comes from an above-ground rain water tank. To get the water into the house you need an electric pump. (this is a picture of ours)These pumps
Seasoned Internet users are certainly aware of the “cheque partial refund scam”, that has long plagued sites like eBay.
Just to run by the basics:
Someone “buys something”
They “accidently send a cheque for too much”
The ask for a refund for the difference
Lo and behold, the original scam has now migrated to property, according to US Marketing Blog, MarketersStudio.
In the Property version of the scam, a potential tenant is being posted into the country, and is arranging furniture as well as rental. Sure enough, a cheque for the first month’s rent, the deposit, and, bizarrely the furniture turns up, with a request that the letting agency / landlord “pay for the furniture.”
By the time they realise the funds haven’t cleared, and investigate the furniture company, the “furniture company” turns out to have been a front for the scammer.
To date, the scams have been supposedly about British Doctors wanting to rent f
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Partial Abdominoplasty Dallas: Partial abdominoplasty may take an hour or two.A partial abdominoplasty, also known as a mini tummy tuck, is useful if you only have excess skin and fat below the belly button, while a full abdominoplasty will also correct loose muscle tone and skin above the belly button. After you are anesthetized, the abdominoplasty surgery itself will take from two to five hours, depending on the type of tummy tuck you are having done. In Dallas partial abdominoplasty is worth taking especially you want a quick fix to ur problem of "fatty" belly.Thousands of abdominoplasties are performed successfully each year. When done by a qualified plastic surgeon who is trained in body contouring, the results are generally quite positive. Nevertheless, there are always risks associa
This post is going to be about that little "Read More..." link that we see on many websites.
I found this tutorial on Etienneteo.com and thought it would benefit the readers here. This code that can be found will show you how to hide a post so that a "Introduction" or "Teaser" heading of this post. The following link for the tutorial is... Available here and by following that tutorial, it
This post is going to be about that little "Read More..." link that we see on many websites.
I found this tutorial on Etienneteo.com and thought it would benefit the readers here. This code that can be found will show you how to hide a post so that a "Introduction" or "Teaser" heading of this post. The following link for the tutorial is... Available here and by following that tutorial, it
Thanks to a nifty little Wordpress plugin by Stephen Cronin, the full vs. partial feed debate is officially OVER. With this kick-ass widget, you can now offer *both* full and partial feeds, allowing your readers to make the choice which version they want. Check out my upper right corner to see what I mean. The plugin comes as a button or text, I chose text and edited out the comments feed since I find them rather useless.
Suburban Oblivion is now like Burger King- have it your way!
Partial Abdominoplasty Fort Worth, Partial abdominoplasty is a very easy and quite a dramatic option to hard working professional who want to get a slimmer body to be agile enough to meet the demanding needs of the hardcore professional life. Partial abdominoplasty brings with it nearly all the benefits that full fledged abdominoplasty and much lesser cost and much lesser time-to-work. Even in Fort Worth, Texas partial abdominoplasty is fam from being an unknown entity. People there are going forward for the option and embracing the benefits that are brought by it. The only factor is that some people are still a bit apprehensive about the option of abdominoplasty and that is because of lask of adequate information on this. However for more obese people this has come as a ray of hope and
Partial Abdominoplasty Texas, Normally abdominoplasty is an extensive operation which requires 4-5 hrs depending on the case at hand, however you may also go in for a partial abdominoplasty. In Texas partial abdominoplasty is a reality and help is available at hand. The plastic surgery operation known as partial or mini-abdominoplasty (tummy tuck), can be performed under local or general anesthesia and may last 1-2 hours. As the name mini-tummy tuck suggests, it is a less extensive operation than complete abdominoplasty, with fewer risks, smaller incision-scars and shorter recovery time, although the results on loose skin and abdominal muscle-tightening are less dramatic. However by the growing number of people opting for partial abdominoplasty, it is certain it is more viable option than
Google and Yahoo both support wildcards (*) and end of string ($) characters in robots.txt files.
MSN’s Live Search is a little more confusing because they only have very limited support for wildcards in robots.txt files. Based on their docs, it looks like wildcards are supported. These are valid robots.txt rules for MSN’s Live.com:
User-agent: msnbot
Disallow: /*.PDF$
Disallow: /*.jpeg$
Disallow: /*.exe$
However, “MSNdude” recently stated on WebmasterWorld that “Live Search does not support wildcards in robots.txt today; we are thinking about it.”
An asterisk that substitutes for another set of characters is a wildcard, so this statement is confusing.
I think that wildcards should be added to the robots.txt standard. Wildcards in robots.txt files are essential for the ability to block certain kinds of dynamic URLs. The original robots.txt standard should be updated and MSN should fully jump on board.
A little over a year ago I posted about how I felt that partial feeds are like foreplay without sex. Damn frustrating!
Sara from Suburban Oblivion has reopened that can of worms again and is getting some great feedback in her comments with the vast majority of folks preferring full feeds.
I’ve gone back and forth on this, and am finally going back to full feed. I almost hate to do it, because I know I’ll have to keep a sharp eye on where my feed is being fed(partial feeds protect from others running your RSS through their blog) and I suspect my comments will go down. BUT, I also know a lot of people get really annoyed by partial feeds, so back to full feed I go.
What makes the feedback Sara is getting really interesting to me is that it’s not coming from the tech bloggers. Sara is a "Mommy blogger" and most of the feedback she’s getting is from other bloggers like her.
Heck, I appear to be the only guy who’s commented on her post so that, in it
A little over a year ago I posted about how I felt that partial feeds are like foreplay without sex. Damn frustrating!
Sara from Suburban Oblivion has reopened that can of worms again and is getting some great feedback in her comments with the vast majority of folks preferring full feeds.
I’ve gone back and forth on this, and am finally going back to full feed. I almost hate to do it, because I know I’ll have to keep a sharp eye on where my feed is being fed(partial feeds protect from others running your RSS through their blog) and I suspect my comments will go down. BUT, I also know a lot of people get really annoyed by partial feeds, so back to full feed I go.
What makes the feedback Sara is getting really interesting to me is that it’s not coming from the tech bloggers. Sara is a "Mommy blogger" and most of the feedback she’s getting is from other bloggers like her.
Heck, I appear to be the only guy who’s commented on her post so that, in it
(Updating to add poll to the sidebar, take a second to vote please!)
I hate being on the fence, it’s a real pain, and that’s just the splinters.
Full RSS feed, or partial?
What do you guys do? Do partial feeds annoy you?
I’ve gone back and forth on this, and am finally going back to full feed. I almost hate to do it, because I know I’ll have to keep a sharp eye on where my feed is being fed(partial feeds protect from others running your RSS through their blog) and I suspect my comments will go down. BUT, I also know a lot of people get really annoyed by partial feeds, so back to full feed I go. Prove me wrong and continue to comment, will ya?
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Jeffery Alan Teague, a/k/a ”Jeffrey Allen Bryant,” 49, Atlanta, Georgia, formerly of Montgomery and Prince Georges County, Maryland, was sentenced on charges relating to two builder-based mortgage fraud schemes involving $15 million in fraudulent loans. Teague was sentenced to 15 years, 8 months in prison, followed by 3 years supervised release, and ordered to pay restitution of $7.8 million. Teague was indicted in August 2006 on two counts of wire fraud. …Read More...
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Almost on a daily basis we hear about large organizations losing laptops or computer media with confidential customer or employee data. The companies are then forced to determine their risk and liability by confirming whether or not the data was encrypted.
The legal position is that encrypted data translates to no data loss¸ and the company is legally protected from the potential ramifications of losing a laptop or mobile media where the data could be easily extracted. What’s the first question the company’s lawyers will ask?Was it encrypted????
This SHOULD be an easy question to answer, but most of the disk encryption solutions out there provide little to no reporting functionality. Such information should be readily available to the right people in management positions at a company. Comprehensive reporting would also make it much easier to enforce encryption compliance within a company so there will be little to worry about when a laptop or usb drive is
1. sharebuilder is offering a 50 dollar promotion to open an account and buy a stock. The thing about sharebuilder is that you can buy fractions of stock so you don’t have to have 600 dollars to buy google. It costs 4 dollars to make a purchase which is fine because you [...]
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Partial Feed may not be the best option.First of all, it may discourage readers to subscribe. On the other hand, I will get more traffic from other readers as they need to visit my blog to read the full article. Heck, I confessed, I love visitors as I get to interact with them when they comment. Secondly, partial feeds discourage content stealing. I know plagiarism will still happen with or without partial feeds but at least it makes it harder for these people to do so (as compared to using full feeds).There's a lot of debate on the net about whether to go for partial or full feeds but for the time being, I think I am more inclined towards partial. Let's hear what some of you prefer. Full feed or Partial Feed?
During our Tuesday morning commute I read this article from TechDirt speaking about RSS feeds. A lot of sites offer partial feeds and usually just the headline to try and persuade you to read the article on the site exposing you to their advertising. Sites like CNET do this and it pisses me off and seeming I read these articles in a RSS Reader on my mobile phone while I am on the train I can not just click through. So only the BEST of the BEST articles get read by me - You know just the ones that stick out in me head later in the day.TechDirt as well as AtA use full RSS feeds because one we don't have ADs on our site as we are not about making $$$ and Two We are here to help our readers. These quotes from the above mentioned articles made us go YEAH! You go get em!...Techdirt, of course, offers full feeds and always has. This means that plenty of people who read this site absolutely never visit the site. We're fine with that for a variety of reasons (one of which being that our busin
I normally dont get too involved in the abortion debate. I think it is another of those decisions that the federal government should have nothing to do with and left to the individual states to decide. But in the case of partial birth abortions I have to chime in with those against it. This paragraph says it all as far as I am concerned: Anti-abortion activists call the procedure "partial-birth abortion;" surgeons and abortion rights activists call it "dilation and extraction." It involves partially removing the fetus intact from a woman's uterus, then crushing or cutting its skull to complete the abortion.Thats just barbaric. The Chinese use that method to enforce their population control laws. So the Democrats are following the example set by the communist Chinese? They must be very proud of themselves. ~RJHFox News story link Louisiana Becomes First State to Ban Late-Term AbortionsFriday, July 13, 2007BATON ROUGE, Louisiana Louisiana became the first
Another language feature added in C# 2.0 is partial classes. Partial classes are portions of a class that the compiler can combine to form a complete class. Although you could define two or more partial classes within the same file, the general purpose of a partial class is to allow the splitting of a class definition across multiple files. Primarily this is useful for tools that are generating or modifying code. With partial classes, the tools can work on a file separate from the one the developer is manually coding. C# 2.0 declares a partial class by appending the contextual keyword, partial, to the definition,. Defining a Partial Class// File: Program1.cspartial class Program{}// File: Program2.cspartial class Program{}In this case, each portion of Program is placed into a separate file, as identified by the comment. Besides their use with code generators, another common use of partial classes is to place any nested classes into their own files. This is in accordance with the codin
This lesson does not have tons of practical application, but I thought it was important to clear up some confusion on the chromatic scale just for the sake of increasing your understanding of how the chromatic scale differs from the partial chromatic scale.
What is the chromatic scale?
First, let’s...
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Lie on your back with your knees bent and your feet flat on the floor. Tighten your stomach muscles and flatten your back against the floor. Tuck your chin to your chest. With your hands stretched out in front of you, curl your upper body forward until your shoulders clear the floor. Breathe out as you come up. Hold this position for 3 seconds. Relax. Repeat 10 times. Build to 3 sets of 10. To challenge yourself, clasp your hands behind your head and keep your elbows out to the side.
Finite Difference Methods in Financial Engineering: A Partial Differential Equation Approach (The Wiley Finance Series) By Daniel J. Duffy Publisher: Wiley Number Of Pages: 440 Publication Date: 2006-05-23 Sales Rank: 293372 ISBN / ASIN: 0470858826 EAN: 9780470858820 Binding: Hardcover Manufacturer: Wiley Studio: Wiley Average Rating: 4 Total Reviews: 3 Book Description: The world of quantitative finance (QF) is one of the fastest growing areas of research and its practical applications to derivatives pricing problem. Since the discovery of the famous Black-Scholes equation in the 1970's we h
A Concise Course on Stochastic Partial Differential Equations(Lecture Notes in Mathematics) By Claudia Prévôt, Michael Röckner, Publisher: Springer Number Of Pages: 148 Publication Date: 2007-07 Sales Rank: 3606861 ISBN / ASIN: 3540707808 EAN: 9783540707806 Binding: Paperback Manufacturer: Springer Studio: Springer Average Rating: Total Reviews: Book Description: These lectures concentrate on (nonlinear) stochastic partial differential equations (SPDE) of evolutionary type. All kinds of dynamics with stochastic influence in nature or man-made complex systems can be modelled by
*It was another good day for Beyonce Wednesday. The entertainer picked up a leading six nominations for the 2007 BET Awards, including nods for top female R&B artist, video for "Irreplaceable" and duets with boyfriend Jay-Z on "Deja Vu" and "Upgrade U."
Receiving three nominations each were Jennifer Hudson, Ciara, Akon and the Cee-Lo/Danger Mouse outfit Gnarls Barkley.
The seventh annual presentation of the BET Awards will take place on June 26 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Mo’Nique will host the ceremony, which has the tag line “The Main Event” and will feature performances by 50 Cent and T.I.
Okay, so if you think that maintaining a sports car is a hassle, try owning your own private jet. First you need to buy the plane, find expensive hanger space to store your plane, procure a pilot every time you want to fly, hire the service crew to get the plane ready for flight, get flight attendants and all the while swiping your credit card to pay for it all. Okay, so now you are in the air flying, you reach your destination and once again you have to manage the airport admin, and fly back. Then, how often do you really fly?Partial ownership of a private Jet makes a lot of sense. And at the forefront of Jet consortiums is MarquisJet. Operating the fleet of NetJets, you get the choice of up to 10 different plane models, from 6 to 14 seaters, with brands like Gulfstream, Hawker, Cessna Citation and Falcon.All you have to do is get your Marquis Card, book a plane and arrive and fly away at a fraction of the operating cost of owning the Jet. Privacy is guaranteed and the hassle non-exis
A business associate of mine, Markus, and I had a very good meeting yesterday. He owns his own printing and distribution company and usually makes a good impression in front of potential clients, tailored in Hugo Boss suits, Ralph Lauren shoes and the Breitling watch. He walks into every room with an aura of success: He owns the room.But he usually does something in every meeting that makes it hard for me to fully concentrate: When he sits down, he takes his car keys out of his pocket and places it on the boardroom table in front of him. I cannot help to notice the keys... Yesterday it was Aston Martin keys. Strange thing is, at our first meeting back in January, the keys were those of a Ferrari and the time after that it was BMW. So obviously I started thinking the printing business must be doing reaaaaally good. Let's forget online, it pays to go offline!But yesterday I walked him to the car. Yes, there stood a beautiful 2006 Aston Martin DB9 Vantage, its silver body gleaming in the
I certainly hope Spinelli is right, because Logan is definitely a world-class NUT job. I know there are "Lugie" fans sprouting up (is that the proper moniker?), but I just felt all of the Logan/Lulu scenes were so contrived yesterday. It felt...WRONG. Not just because I'm a SpinLu fan, but because it just seemed like something inserted into the script last minute. A random shooting? The "let's look at how much chemistry we have" slap by Lulu? But I digress.The Three Stooges scenes yesterday were precious as always. What I found hysterical was the way Milo and Dillon appeared a bit "Spinellified" when they ran into the diner to apologize to Lulu. Instead of their usual attempt to try to appear cooler than Spinelli, it seemed they both decided a little "spazzing" might be just what cupid ordered to get a little closer to Lulu's heart. (Well, it's working for Spinelli, isn't it?) :) The ice cream scene was just perfection, played to the hilt by all the actors. For the f
- A partial eclipse of the sun is seen behind a dragon sculpture in Nanjing, in China?s eastern Jiangsu Province, Monday, Mar. 19, 2007. The partial eclipse began at 9.34am and was visible across China for almost two hours.
The opinion piece below appeared in the New Hampshire Union Leader.
When I read it I felt compelled by the emotion I felt to post it. I was disturbed by it, and at the same time it felt good to know this procedure will no longer be performed.
Warning: The article contains a graphic description of a partial birth abortion from a nurse who witnessed it.
This description was used by Justice Anthony Kennedy when writing for the majority in the supreme court’s verdict to uphold the ban on partial birth abortions.
Here is the piece:
THE U.S. Supreme Court yesterday approved the ban of a spectacularly horrifying procedure doctors use to kill perhaps tens of thousands of unwanted American babies each year. It is a tiny but significant legal victory for the voiceless victims of America’s thriving abortion industry.
The court ruled that the federal partial birth abortion ban of 2003 was constitutional because it eliminated only one procedure that could be used to kill and extract a
This is a topic already done to death by a host of others much better at it than I. My view on this is that the abortion proponents should have seen this coming. For decades the left has always had the upper hand in activism. And a tried and true method they use is what I think of as "baby steps". Think back to the early days of the anti smoking crusades by the left. They argued that all they wanted was a tiny small part of the workplace smoke free. Thats all, nothing more. But of course as soon as they won that small victory they pushed for more. And then more. Now you can't smoke (I am not a smoker although I was many years ago) in restaurants, office buildings, bars or even in outdoor stadiums and on a growing number of beaches. When on vacation to other states I was shocked to see people smoking inside restaurants or bars. On a recent cruise to Mexico I was more than a bit surprised when tablemates lit up Cuban cigars right at the table and then later in a bar on the s
Yesterday the Supreme Court brought some sanity back to the abortion debate by effectively upholding the federal ban on partial birth abortions. Though ALL abortions are heinous and abominations, partial birth abortions are particularly inhumane, gruesome, and horrific. The baby is within 20 centimeters of being delivered as a viable infant, and then the skull is either punctured or crushed. There is NO case which makes this procedure medically necessary and the barbarity involved completely blows me away - how could anyone in their right mind believe this is righteous and necessary? Kudos to the Supreme Court for bucking popular culture to roll back this crime against God and nature.
He took a little child and had him stand among them. Taking him in his arms, he said to them, "Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me does not welcome me but the one who sent me."
Mark 9:36-37 (NIV)
Martina McBride was on Ameri
Ban On Infanticide Procedure UpheldTo hear the extremes of the abortion debate tell it, yesterday's Supreme Court ruling in Gonzales v. Carhart is the beginning of the end of abortion rights in America. The Christian Coalition declared that "it is just a matter of time" before Roe v. Wade "will also be struck down by the court," while Senator Hillary Clinton called it "a dramatic departure from four decades of Supreme Court rulings that upheld a woman's right to choose."Yesterday's 5-4 ruling is narrowly drawn and upholds a federal law that outlaws only a single, late-term procedure that Daniel Patrick Moynihan once described as "infanticide."The gruesome nature of the procedure explains why the partial-birth ban passed Congress with large bipartisan majorities. Sixteen Senate Democrats, including former Majority Leader Tom Daschle, voted for the ban, along with 63 House Democrats. Polls show that two-thirds of Americans support banning these abortions.Read Article...Addressing Doct
Abortion is one of those topics I normally don't delve into much here. I detest the idea of abortion being used as a form of birth control (and I am totally in favor of birth control) but I also hate the idea of the state insinuating itself into this most personal part of peoples lives. But...partial birth abortion is such an atrocious horror that dredges up visions of Chinese doctors forcing women into early deliveries so they can jam a needle of poison into the brain of an otherwise perfectly healthy baby. The article below is good for pointing out the hypocrisy of liberal members of the SCOTUS. ~RJHPro Life Blogs article link Justice Ginsberg Abandons Stare Decisis? Seems that precedence (stare decisis) of the court only matters when it serves liberal interests, especially abortion.Consider this comment by "Justice" Ginsberg on today's Supreme Court ruling upholding the partial birth abortion ban."and the Court's defense of it cannot be understood as anything othe
I don't often express my political views, but here is one I have no problem rejoicing over. Today the Supreme Court upheld the ban on partial birth abortion. Two days ago we lost 32 people to a cold blooded killer, a tragedy not soon forgotten. Yet every day hundreds if not thousands of innocent lives are taken through abortion procedures, with no fan fair. We've lost to may lives this week, this decision saved lives. Read the full article at the link below. "WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court's conservative majority handed anti-abortion forces a major victory Wednesday in a decision that bans a controversial abortion procedure and set the stage for further restrictions.""For the first time since the court established a woman's right to an abortion in 1973, the justices upheld a nationwide ban on a specific abortion method, labeled partial-birth abortion by its opponents." http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070418/D8OJ7CL00.html
As everybody has heard by now the supreme court has ruled in favor of the ban on partial birth abortions. While pro choice advocates are going to portray this as the start of the repeal or Roe vs. Wade, and the beginning of the end to a woman’s right to choose this isn’t quite the case.
According to the above article:
The law bans a method of ending a pregnancy, rather than limiting when an abortion can be performed.
So you can see from the excerpt above this ruling bans a specific method of abortion, nothing else.
This form of abortion, if you can even call it that, requires labor to be induced until the baby’s head is birthed and then crushing the skull. This is barbaric, and disgusting. It’s not a point of a woman’s right to choose in her third trimester. If a woman’s life is in jeopardy in the third trimester, why can’t they perform a c-section and save both the baby and the mother? She must have wanted the baby or she wouldn’t ha
The Supreme Court upheld the nationwide ban on a controversial abortion procedure Wednesday, handing abortion opponents the long-awaited victory they expected from a more conservative bench.The 5-4 ruling said the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act that Congress passed and President Bush signed into law in 2003 does not violate a woman's constitutional right to an abortion.Click here to read the full Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act.The opponents of the act "have not demonstrated that the Act would be unconstitutional in a large fraction of relevant cases," Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in the majority opinion.The decision pitted the court's conservatives against its liberals, with President Bush's two appointees, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito, siding with the majority.Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia also were in the majority.It was the first time the court banned a specific procedure in a case over how, not whether, to perform an abortion.Abortion rights
Dear America,I, Billy Crystal, do officially announce my probationary entry into the 2008 Presidential race. Long have I stood on the sidelines and watched others run this country into the ground. Well, not anymore. With the exception of Scott Bakula, I am the most qualified man (and I stress the word man) for the job. I urge you to vote for me, if indeed I do run, which is uncertain because I don't want to committ to running until I know I can win, even though nothing is ever certain and I am 100% determined to run, but it sounds better to say I'm exploring the options. While I don't have any "platform" or "campaign ideas" or more than a "fifth grade education," it shouldn't matter. What should matter is that I starred in When Harry Met Sally and saw Meg Ryan fake an orgasm in a restaurant. That is much more important than an Iraq policy or a stance on the genocide in Darfur. What's more, I can do voices really well, so instead of faking a Southern accent, I can do an outdated Ho
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