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So am I able to just build my characters without looking at a guide and do ok? Im not much of a min/maxer or anything like that, so since I am about to finally crack my copy open, im worried ill be stuck in a perpetual trying to rebuild (via rest) to make it sort of thing. Just curious.
Have I mentioned how glad I am to have an American 3DS recently?
The battle theme was also awesome.
Quote from: Darilon on August 17, 2013, 03:20:13 PM The battle theme was also awesome.You'll be very disappointed when they change the main battle theme on you.It won't last though, since it's just as good
I'm eating some Lucky Charms right now, can that be enough?
Sounds Irish and pagan to me.
Braveheart is a historically accurate movie?


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Holy Toledo July 31, 2006Posted by peterong in Christ and Culture, Politics.
I was referred by Rage about this New Yorker Article…Ohio Gozai it maitz!!
Ohio's gubernatorial race tests the power of the Christian right.
Pastor Rod Parsley stood on a flag-bedecked dais on the steps of Ohio's Statehouse last October and, amid cheers from the crowd below, proclaimed the launch of "the largest evangelical campaign ever attempted in any state in America." A nationally known televangelist and the leader of a twelve-thousand-member church on the outskirts of Columbus, Parsley had gathered a thousand people for the event, and attracted bystanders with a multimedia performance involving a video on a Jumbotron and music by Christian singers and rappers broadcast so loud that it reverberated off the tall buildings south of the Statehouse. TV crews from Parsley's ministry taped the event. "Sound an alarm!" he boomed. "A Holy Ghost invasion is taking place. Man your battle stations, ready your weapons, lock and load!" In the course of the performance, Parsley promised that during the next four years his campaign, Reformation Ohio, would bring a hundred thousand Ohioans to Christ, register four hundred thousand new voters, serve the disadvantaged, and guide the state through "a culture-shaking revolutionary revival."
Among those who spoke at the rally were Senator Sam Brownback, of Kansas, and Representative Walter B. Jones, of North Carolina, both Christian conservatives, and J. Kenneth Blackwell, Ohio's secretary of state, who is now the Republican nominee for governor. All talked about the need to bring God and morality back into government. "We refuse to give up or back up or shut up until we've made a better world for all," Blackwell said.
For the past two years, the religious right in Ohio has been on a victory march. In 2004, a coalition of conservative Christian organizations campaigned statewide for a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, enlisting hundreds of pastors and collecting half a million signatures. The ballot initiative, known as Issue One, passed with sixty-three per cent of the vote, and many concluded that this effort to bring out "values voters" won the state for President Bush, and returned him to the White House. Parsley and another megachurch pastor, Russell Johnson, of the Fairfield Christian Church, campaigned hard for the initiative, as did Ken Blackwell, whose role in overseeing the election procedures caused a controversy of its own, and who was the only Republican leader in the state to join them. Subsequently, the two pastors formed organizations—Reformation Ohio and Johnson's Ohio Restoration Project—to get out the vote in 2006 and beyond. This year, there is nothing like Issue One on the ballot, but Blackwell, who carries the standard of the religious right, could become governor of Ohio.
Blackwell, a six-foot-four African-American former college football star, is a thoroughgoing conservative. He's a supply-sider who for years has advocated a flat tax and a constitutional limit on state spending. His views on abortion, gay marriage, school vouchers, and stem-cell research coincide with those of the religious right, and his position on concealed weapons with that of the N.R.A. He is also a media-savvy politician who has held statewide offices for the past twelve years, and he is well connected in George Bush's Washington. (His backers include Grover Norquist, Newt Gingrich, Governor Jeb Bush, and Senator John McCain.) With rimless glasses and a small mustache, Blackwell, at the age of fifty-eight, has an air of authority, and he is at ease with all kinds of audiences. At a breakfast for young executives in Columbus, in April, he began, as he often does, with a humorous story about his days as a football player, then told them what he had learned from a peanut seller he had worked for as a kid about the importance of "asset building" as a way out of poverty. (Blackwell is, in fact, a rich man, thanks to an investment he made in a broadcasting company in the nineteen-nineties.) Turning to the economic problems facing the state, he spoke about confiscatory taxes inhibiting capital flows and the need for a new budgeting process. No one challenged him—though some certainly held doubts. In debates, he is aggressive and given to cutting one-liners. He said of one opponent, "He has a difficult time holding a consistent position for six months without fainting from exhaustion."
But Blackwell can be a mesmerizing speaker. At an Ohio Restoration Project rally in a church outside Columbus, in March, he gave what amounted to a sermon about the obligation of Christians to "serve and engage." There are, he said, "social, cultural, and political forces that have tried to run God, faith, and religion out of the public square. The issue is, will you take a stand?" His big, deep voice filled the sanctuary, and, speaking without notes, he cited chapter and verse of the Bible. His delivery had members of the audience, which was almost entirely white, shouting out "Amen!" and interrupting his performance with bursts of applause. Before such audiences, he often quotes Martin Luther King, Jr., on the social responsibility of the church, but he is, as National Review has called him, a "post-racial, post-civil-rights campaigner." Many people like him in spite of his politics, or because they can't believe that he's really a doctrinaire right-winger. He still has friends from the early days of his political career, when he was far less conservative, and some of them remember his saying that he would be the first black President of the United States.
In the primary, in May, Blackwell beat Ohio's attorney general, Jim Petro, with fifty-six per cent of the vote. His victory has shaken the traditionally moderate Ohio Republican establishment, and Parsley's and Johnson's efforts to get out the vote have driven liberal members of the clergy to launch organizing efforts of their own. The election in November will determine whether the religious right will take command of the Ohio Republican Party. It will also make a difference, perhaps the crucial difference, in the next Presidential election.
"The road to the White House in '08 runs through Ohio in '06," Ohio political scientists are fond of saying. Since 1900, Ohio has voted for the winner in twenty-five of the twenty-seven Presidential elections. In 2004, both the Bush and the Kerry campaigns viewed Ohio as the key swing state, and they made the race the most expensive in Ohio's history, as well as one of the most effective in getting out the vote. In a state with a population of eleven and a half million, nearly three-quarters of a million new voters were added to the rolls, and seventy-two per cent of all registered Ohioans voted. Bush won by a hundred and eighteen thousand votes—two percentage points. However much Issue One contributed to the outcome, the President had a clear advantage in that the Republicans had built a strong state Party organization: they had held the governorship for fourteen years, and in 2004 they controlled all statewide offices and large majorities in the legislature. By contrast, the Ohio Democratic Party was a shambles. Since then, however, the state's economy has suffered—its unemployment rate is among the nation's highest—and a wave of scandals has broken over the Republican Party, bringing Governor Bob Taft's approval rating down to sixteen per cent. The Democrats have an opportunity that they have not had in years to win the governorship and rebuild their Party organization. Blackwell's opponent, Ted Strickland, is a five-term congressman, from a district that includes a swath of Appalachia, and a United Methodist minister, and he has consistently led in the polls. Still, Blackwell is a formidable campaigner, and he can claim to represent change.
"Ohio has for decades been a balanced state and one that has rewarded moderates," Mike Curtin, the associate publisher of the Columbus Dispatch, told me. "Look at Mike DeWine"—one of Ohio's two Republican senators. "He began as a prosecutor in a rural county. As he moved up, he progressed from conservatism to moderate conservatism. It's a path trod by many." Party discipline has been equally consistent. For more than a decade, the state Party chairman, Robert Bennett, with the assistance of other Party leaders and wealthy donors, has determined who would run for statewide offices. Bennett has headed off primary races for the top jobs, and he has enforced the "eleventh commandment," espoused by Ronald Reagan, that no Republican should speak ill of another. This year, however, Bennett failed to avert a gubernatorial primary, and Blackwell, the only successful right-wing politician in the state, repeatedly attacked Taft and other Party leaders. "Ken's a lone ranger," Bennett remarked a couple of years ago.
Blackwell first declared his candidacy for governor in 1998, four years after winning his first statewide office, as treasurer. Bennett, who thought that Taft had a better chance of succeeding George Voinovich as governor, persuaded Blackwell to run for secretary of state instead. It was not a job that he wanted—his interest lay in economic policy. But he won, and four years later Bennett pressed him to stay on for a second term. Once reëlected, he announced that he would run for governor when Taft stepped down, in 2006. His candidacy was not taken seriously until 2004, when the job that he didn't want put him in charge of voting procedures and made him the most important official in the state.
The Ohio election was marred by numerous irregularities, and whether Blackwell discharged his duties impartially and in accordance with the law remains a matter of dispute. Republicans defend his conduct, but Democrats and voting-rights advocates maintain that he deliberately suppressed the vote of Democrats and minorities. Dozens of lawsuits and official complaints were filed, and Representative John Conyers, Jr., of Michigan, and the Democratic staff of the House Judiciary Committee launched an investigation, fielding more than fifty thousand complaints from Ohioans. Blackwell's rulings have thus far stood up in court, but Democrats, who point out that Blackwell simultaneously served as the honorary co-chair of the Bush-Cheney campaign in Ohio, see a pattern of partisanship in his actions. A month before the registration deadline, Blackwell directed the County Boards of Elections to reject all voter-registration forms not printed on eighty-pound-stock paper. He rescinded the order three weeks later—even his own office didn't have paper that heavy—but in the meantime many voters who tried to register could not. Blackwell also ruled that provisional ballots (those given to voters not found on the rolls) had to be cast in the right precinct, as opposed to simply the right county. Thousands of provisional ballots were invalidated as a result, and Democrats argued that the order discriminated against low-income voters, who tend to move frequently, and therefore were more likely to show up at the wrong precinct. Blackwell called the contention prejudiced. "The assumption that minorities and low-income people should be treated as mentally challenged siblings is just insulting," he said.
On Election Day, voters in traditionally Democratic areas encountered a variety of obstacles, among them Republican challengers at the precincts, the improper purging of names from voter rolls, and, the most serious, a scarcity of voting machines. In suburban and rural areas, there were plenty of machines, but in urban precincts, where many African-Americans voted, and in other Democratic-leaning precincts, such as those around college campuses, people had to stand in line for as long as ten hours, and many of them just gave up.
After the election, more irregularities were discovered, among them spoiled ballots, voting-machine errors, provisional ballots mistakenly invalidated, and biased sample recounts. Blackwell dismissed most of the complaints as "partisan jibber-jabber" and asserted that none of the Election Day "glitches" were "of a conspiratorial nature, and none of them would have overturned or changed the election results." Blackwell has, however, reignited the controversy by interpreting a new election law with rules on voter registration so restrictive they could halt most registration drives in Ohio. A coalition of six civic groups is suing on the ground that the law will disenfranchise poor and minority voters, and Democrats are protesting that Blackwell should not be overseeing his own election.
Blackwell took advantage of the media attention that fall to launch his campaign for the governorship. He spoke out on issues from the sales tax to the Ohio Turnpike Commission, and he led the campaign for Issue One. Taft, Voinovich, and DeWine opposed the amendment, because it seemed to bar domestic-partnership benefits, but Blackwell travelled the state denouncing gay marriage. "The notion that a same-sex marriage can carry out the function of procreation or replenishing the human race defies not only human logic but barnyard logic," he said in a church outside Toledo. Often he toured in the company of Rod Parsley or Russell Johnson.
Ohio has long had chapters of national religious-right organizations, such as the Christian Coalition, as well as homegrown right-to-life and family-values groups. As in other states, these groups have mobilized voters and gained considerable influence in Republican county organizations. In recent years, the state legislature has passed a series of bills on the religious-right agenda, among them an experimental school-voucher program, a ban on late-term abortions, and a Defense of Marriage Act. Meanwhile, the state school board has been fighting over a proposed science standard that calls for "a critical analysis of evolution." But Parsley's and Johnson's leadership in the Issue One campaign brought religious-right activism to a new level.
The tabernacle, or sanctuary, in Parsley's World Harvest Church has upholstered pews arrayed in a semicircle around a stage lit for television. On the Sunday morning that I attended, almost all of the fifty-two hundred seats were filled, and the worshippers, many of them African-Americans, were swaying to the beat of a band heavy on brass and percussion. Huge video screens magnified images of the singers on the stage and a choir in purple robes standing on a balcony above it. Eventually, Parsley, a tall man with a graying brush cut, bounded onto the stage. He introduced his wife, Joni, spoke of voter registration, brought his congregants to their feet in waves, and had them shout a countdown to his call "It's showtime!" When he preached, he used his whole body and the full range of his husky baritone. Parsley is white, but, as black ministers say, he preaches black—he has the phrasing, the sighing intakes of breath, and the dramatic arc of the sermon.
A Pentecostal, Parsley preaches latter-day miracles, the healing of physical, spiritual, and financial ills, and the promise that those who give to the church will be rewarded in abundance. That Sunday, invoking Martin Luther, he called for a spiritual army to "track down our adversary, defeat him valiantly, then stand upon his carcass." Conservative Pentecostal pastors often use military metaphors, but Parsley's sermons are notable for their graphic detail. At the service that I attended, he spoke of the moment when "God broke into the world through the bloody flanks of a fourteen-year-old virgin." This puzzled me, until I understood that he was picturing Mary as a teen-ager who chose not to have an abortion.
A Bible-school dropout, Parsley began preaching in his parents' back yard, in the city of Pickerington, just east of Columbus. Today, World Harvest has two campuses, with a school, a Bible college, nine outreach programs, and a state-of-the-art television studio. His program, "Breakthrough," appears on fourteen hundred stations and cable affiliates. The church has a staff of three hundred and an annual budget of forty million dollars. Parsley frequently presents himself as a political centrist. However, in his book, "Silent No More," published last spring, his solution to poverty is for the government to "get out of the way," remove all constraints on the free-enterprise system, and let the churches assume their traditional role in helping the poor. He fulminates about homosexuality, and writes of Islam, "I do not believe that our country can truly fulfill its divine purpose until we understand America was founded, in part, with the intention of seeing this false religion destroyed." On the book's jacket is a blurb from Ken Blackwell, whom Parsley has known for years, though they were only slightly acquainted before 2004. "This book should inspire men and women of faith," Blackwell wrote, "and make 'values voters' a force that politicians can no longer ignore."
In a conference room after the service, Parsley told me that his call to activism had come when he attended the signing of the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act, at the White House, in 2003. Parsley had spoken on occasion about social issues in his television ministry, but, standing in the room with other Christian leaders and President Bush, he felt "the need to use the platform I was given." The following summer, he formed the Center for Moral Clarity, to educate citizens nationwide about legislation in statehouses and Congress. That fall, he travelled around Ohio, advocating the passage of Issue One. "I believe we had an impact," he said. "We have a multicultural church—and our urban ministries are largely black and Hispanic. The President won eleven per cent of the African-American vote nationally; he won sixteen per cent of it in Ohio." Parsley said that he hoped to open Reformation Ohio offices in Columbus, Cincinnati, and Cleveland, and to hold two hundred citywide outreaches, adding, "We set a time frame of four years, because we didn't want to be perceived as following the election cycle, but we are going to ramp up before the primary."
Russell Johnson's Fairfield Christian Church is in Lancaster, some fifteen miles south of World Harvest. It has a large sanctuary and a K-through-12 school for seven hundred students. Evangelical and nondenominational, the church attracts people from different doctrinal backgrounds, but its congregation of thirty-five hundred is almost entirely white. Johnson, who attended Kentucky Christian University, is a man of medium height, trimly built, with sandy hair and pink cheeks. He doesn't have Parsley's imposing presence, but he is shrewd, energetic, and highly articulate. On a tour of the church, he talked all the way. In a coffee shop above the sanctuary, an aquarium of exotic fish started him off on intelligent design. That led him to what he called "the secular school system," and principals who resist school-voucher programs—"They teach survival of the fittest, they just don't want to practice it." He also said that Roe v. Wade had led to the crisis in Social Security: "Abortion is also an economic issue. It has killed millions of American consumers."
Johnson has been involved in local politics for twenty years. Church members have been elected to county and municipal offices, and one, a volunteer pastor, serves as vice-chair of the Fairfield Republican Party. The church has invited local Republican politicians to speak, and, over the years, Johnson has got to know many social-issue activists and politicians around the state. But it was Issue One that propelled him into state politics and into an alliance with Parsley and Blackwell.
In 2004, there were similar amendments on the ballot in eleven states, and many Democrats suspected that Karl Rove had helped orchestrate them. In Ohio, the initiative came from Phil Burress, the president of Citizens for Community Values, a Cincinnati-based organization associated with James Dobson's Focus on the Family. The Ohio legislature passed its Defense of Marriage Act in January, 2004, but that May, when the Massachusetts Supreme Court's ruling on same-sex marriage took effect, Burress decided to try to put a constitutional amendment on the ballot. At a Johnson rally, Burress said that he had hired a polling firm and learned that the amendment would give the President three to five percentage points in the state. He asked Johnson, among others, to help circulate petitions. The coalition needed a spokesman, and Burress asked Blackwell, who accepted enthusiastically.
Johnson created the Ohio Restoration Project with the goal of enlisting two thousand pastors to commit themselves to registering three hundred new voters each by the end of 2006. He planned to raise a million dollars and to hold meetings across the state to find these "Patriot Pastors." On his church's Web site he wrote, "This is a battle between the forces of righteousness and the hordes of hell." To me, he said, "This is to elect values candidates."
By March, some of the pastors' goals had proved too ambitious. Johnson had to cancel a planned Ohio for Jesus rally for lack of funds, and Parsley has held only three Reformation Ohio events this year. The pastors had, in any case, no hope of registering hundreds of thousands of new voters: after the 2004 campaign, there weren't that many unregistered Ohioans left. They could, however, mobilize values voters for an off-year election, and effectively that's what they have done. Since the fall of 2004, Parsley, through his Center for Moral Clarity, has hosted breakfast meetings every three months, for a thousand to two thousand Ohio pastors, to discuss legislation, and at one of them former Senator Zell Miller, the maverick Georgia Democrat, endorsed Blackwell for governor. Johnson has held eight O.R.P. meetings and rallies across the state—seven of them featuring Blackwell—and he plans four more before November. He told me he had four hundred thousand people on his e-mail lists, organized by county and congressional district, and hundreds of prospective volunteers. He was preparing to distribute half a million copies of Citizen USA, the conservative Christian newspaper, with voter guides on the positions of candidates. When I spoke to him in late March, he told me that Senator DeWine, who is facing a difficult race this year, had just called him to say that he would be co-sponsoring the federal Marriage Protection Act, and to consult him about the immigration issue.
Many mainstream Ohio clergy members have long worried about the growing political influence of the Christian right, and Parsley's and Johnson's campaigns finally moved them to action. On January 15th, twenty-eight Protestant ministers and three rabbis in the Columbus area filed a complaint with the I.R.S. charging Parsley's and Johnson's churches and their tax-exempt affiliates with engaging in "a continuing pattern of political campaign activity" and promoting "one particular political party and one specific candidate." Parsley, Johnson, and Blackwell called the allegations false, and an attempt to deny freedom of speech to Americans who stood for Biblical morality. Eric Williams, a United Church of Christ minister and the group's spokesman, responded that he had no objection to pastors speaking out about religious values or political issues, but he did object to their endorsing a candidate. He told me, "What I'm afraid of is that they'll legislate their values, and make my brand of faith and the people in my congregation illegitimate." A month after the complaint was filed, the I.R.S. commissioner, Mark W. Everson, gave a speech in Cleveland in which he said that the enormous increase in campaign funding during the 2004 election cycle had led the I.R.S. to investigate complaints against eighty-two churches and charities, and that it had found merit in more than half of those cases. He concluded, "We can't afford to have our charitable and religious institutions undermined by politics." In April, the clergy members, who now numbered fifty-six, filed a second complaint, based on new information, and a third was lodged on Williams's behalf. Parsley and Johnson have not said whether the I.R.S. has contacted them, but Everson's speech might be interpreted as a warning to organizations like theirs.
Other clergy members who shared Williams's alarm decided to create their own activist organization. Tim Ahrens, the senior minister of the First Congregational Church, United Church of Christ, in Columbus, told me that when he read about Parsley's rally at the Statehouse he thought, This is Tiananmen Square. It's time to stand in front of the tanks. The next day, he sent out an e-mail to colleagues, asking, "Is anyone alive out there?" Ahrens has since put together We Believe Ohio, a coalition of three hundred pastors, priests, rabbis, and imams in the Columbus and Cleveland areas. "We're not all liberals, theologically or otherwise," Ahrens said, "but we have a similar understanding of the relationship between faith and politics, and we can all stand up for justice for the poor." The members are putting on public events, doing advocacy work on issues such as housing and health care, and aiming to get eighty per cent of their congregations out to vote. "We're a bit late on this," Ahrens told me, "and we haven't much money, but just by saying 'We're people of faith, too,' we've emboldened others."
Ken Blackwell might once have sympathized with much of what We Believe Ohio stands for. The son of a meatpacker, he and his parents and younger brother lived in a housing project on the west side of Cincinnati until he was six. His parents believed in education, and in 1966 he went to Xavier University, a small Jesuit school in Cincinnati, on a football scholarship, becoming one of its few black students. In his sophomore year, he married his childhood sweetheart, and they moved into an apartment building that he helped manage. (Rosa Blackwell is now the superintendent of schools in Cincinnati.) The events of 1968, including a riot in an adjacent neighborhood, had a profound impact on many students at Xavier, and after Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated Blackwell persuaded the university to send him and a few other students to the funeral. That year, he became president of the nascent black-student association, grew an Afro, wore dashikis, and embraced the Black Power rhetoric of non-negotiable "demands." However, according to classmates and to John Henderson, the assistant dean of men and the first black administrator at Xavier, he played an entirely constructive role in persuading the university to recruit more black students and teachers, to treat its cafeteria workers better, and to invite civil-rights leaders to campus.
After graduating, Blackwell was called for a tryout with the Dallas Cowboys; when he didn't make the cut, he taught school for a few months, then returned to Xavier to work with Henderson, who had been chosen to direct a new office of university and urban affairs. When Henderson left for another university, Blackwell succeeded him in the job of recruiting and advising black students and of involving the university in the low-income communities surrounding it. In 1986, he became Xavier's vice-president for community relations.
While working for Xavier, Blackwell launched his political career. In 1975, he ran for the Cincinnati board of education, and, though unsuccessful, he gained the backing of the Charter Committee, a traditional, local reform organization, in a run for the City Council two years later. He won, and two years after that he became mayor. At the time, the post was largely ceremonial, with a one-year term, but the nine-member City Council had power, and Blackwell was reëlected to it five times. Colleagues and city-beat reporters found him friendly, hardworking, ambitious, and brilliant at attracting press coverage, but without much of a policy agenda. Initially a Democrat (as well as a Charterite), he worked for Jimmy Carter's reëlection, but after the Reagan landslide in 1980 he became a Republican.
In recent years, Blackwell has told reporters that he was never really a Democrat, and that he worked for Carter only because his wife was running as an alternate delegate to the 1980 Democratic National Convention. He has also said that he left the Charter Committee because it became "an advocate for bigger government and more taxes" and "a leading advocate for abortion rights." In fact, the Charterite positions did not change substantially. A more plausible explanation for his defection has to do with his friendship with Jack Kemp, whom he had met in 1977. A former Buffalo Bills star and then a prominent member of Congress, Kemp felt strongly that the Republican Party should reach out to black Americans. By December, 1980, Blackwell was quoting Kemp on economics. In his campaign biography, Blackwell says that he "was recruited to leadership in the Republican Party by President Ronald Reagan and many of his advisers, including Jack Kemp, Lyn Nofziger, Jeane Kirkpatrick, and Ed Rollins." He actually remained on the Cincinnati City Council through Reagan's Presidency, but in 1989, when George H. W. Bush appointed Kemp Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Kemp hired Blackwell as a deputy. The following year, Blackwell had an opportunity to run for Congress, and Kemp urged him to take it.
Blackwell and his Democratic opponent in the race, Charlie Luken, had served on the Cincinnati City Council together for ten years. They had been friends, and occasionally allies, but the race was hard fought. Luken told me, "The Republicans didn't have an African-American in Congress back then, so they made a big effort. Jack Kemp came, Barbara Bush, President Bush came twice, and Ollie North was campaigning door to door." In the end, Blackwell lost by twenty-three hundred votes—in Luken's view, because he came out against the 1990 extension of the Civil Rights Act. The race nonetheless established Blackwell within the Republican Party. In 1991, Bush made him ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Commission; in 1994, Governor Voinovich appointed him state treasurer, to fill a vacancy, and in the Republican sweep of that year Blackwell was elected to the office.
At the time, Blackwell seemed to be a moderate Republican. However, as the national Republican Party moved to the right Blackwell did the same. In 2000, he served as the national chair of Steve Forbes's Presidential campaign, then moved to the Bush campaign, and, later that year, worked on the Florida recount. In December, 2003, he broke with the Ohio Republican leaders over an increase in the sales tax that Taft had instituted to balance the budget. In fund-raising letters, he charged that the Party was selling out Republican principles and positions "to the highest bidder." Robert Bennett, the state Party chairman, was furious. "He's willing to knife his own party in the back just to advance his own political career," he said. But Blackwell, it turned out, did exactly the right thing in putting distance between himself and the rest of the leadership.
Last April, the Toledo Blade published the first in a series of stories about Tom Noe, a rare-coin dealer who had contributed to the campaigns of almost every prominent Republican politician in the state and had raised a hundred thousand dollars for George Bush in 2004. The Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation, the Blade disclosed, had invested fifty million dollars in Noe's coin funds, and two of the most valuable coins had disappeared. Federal and county investigators eventually learned that thirteen million dollars had gone missing from the funds, and that the bureau had lost more than two hundred million dollars in two other investments that were just as difficult to explain. They also found that Noe had laundered almost half the money that he had raised for Bush and had given several state officials small gifts, which they had not reported. Governor Taft was one of them. In August, after investigators had gone through his accounts, he admitted that he had broken state ethics laws by failing to report fifty-two gifts, including golf outings, hockey tickets, and meals. He was convicted of four misdemeanors and had to apologize to the citizens of Ohio.
Since the mid-nineteen-seventies, Ohio has had laws on its books designed to prevent pay-for-play arrangements between elected officials and companies that do business with the state. But these laws are easily circumvented. After the Noe scandal broke, journalists and other investigators turned up case after case in which officials had, quite legally, received hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign funds from employees or associates of state contractors, some of it channelled through Republican Party committees. The scale of the donations and the amount of business that their firms received—plus a few allegations of extortion—suggested that campaign contributions had become the price of doing business with the state. "Ohio is more corrupt than New Jersey," Herb Asher, a professor of political science at Ohio State University, told me. "Pay-for-play has become systemic, and no wonder. With the Republicans holding all the statewide offices and sizable majorities in both houses of the legislature, there's been no oversight except from the inept Democrats and the newspapers."
Whether or not pay-for-play was involved, the Ohio G.O.P. has raised millions of dollars each year from state contractors. This was certainly a consequence of one-party rule; it was also in some measure a cause of it—and, indirectly, part of the reason for the growing influence of the religious right. In the past four election cycles, the Republicans outspent the Democrats six to one, and in 2001 they redistricted and reapportioned the state with extraordinary precision. Ohio voters divide almost evenly in Presidential elections, yet the Republicans have a lock on twelve out of the eighteen congressional districts as well as on the state legislature. The result has been a rightward swing in the Party. "Most Republican candidates haven't had to worry about the Democrats," one Democratic analyst explained. "The only challenge they've had is from conservatives and religious conservatives in the primaries. So even moderates start moving to the right."
During the gubernatorial primary, Blackwell savaged Jim Petro, his establishment opponent, and made no concession to moderate Republicans. He came out for a law banning all abortions, without exception for the life of the woman. He also put considerable resources into getting onto the ballot a constitutional amendment to limit government spending. Spending cuts appealed to conservative primary voters, but the amendment was so restrictive that most of those who had actually read it thought that it would cripple the ability of state and local governments to budget for essential services. By late April, there was so much opposition among local officials that many predicted the amendment would destroy Blackwell's chances in the general election. Two weeks after the primary, the leaders of the Ohio legislature offered to pass a law limiting spending if Blackwell would get the amendment taken off the ballot. He immediately accepted the deal.
Blackwell refused to debate Petro, and in the last two weeks of the campaign he avoided newspaper reporters and spoke only to small-town conservative audiences. By that time, there was evidence that Parsley's and Johnson's efforts were succeeding. Blackwell, who raised more than six million dollars from January, 2005, through the end of the last reporting period, in June, had received more individual donations in amounts of two hundred dollars or less than all the other gubernatorial candidates in Ohio combined. In a Columbus Dispatch survey taken in April, forty-five per cent of prospective Republican voters identified themselves as born-again or evangelical Christians, and most of them supported Blackwell.
In the general election, Blackwell faces a strong opponent in Ted Strickland. As a minister, Strickland is comfortable talking about values and the role of religion in politics. He grew up in circumstances no better than Blackwell's: he is the eighth of nine children, his father was a steelworker, and his family lived in a chicken coop and a smokehouse for a period after their house burned down. He votes as a liberal on economic and social-welfare issues but favors restrictions on abortion and opposes gun control. According to an experienced Cincinnati reporter, he's the most underrated politician in the state: he lost a race in 1994, came back in 1996, and survived the redistricting of 2001. He isn't an orator, but, a tall man with an open face, he looks like the quintessential Midwesterner, and he speaks with a sincerity that may appeal to Ohio voters. In the past few months, he has introduced "Turnaround Ohio," a series of proposals on matters such as the development of alternative-energy sources, early-childhood care, job training, and higher education, all with the goal of bringing Ohio into the post-industrial economy. Never having run for statewide office, he is not as well known as Blackwell, but, for an Ohio Democrat, he has raised an unprecedented amount of money—slightly more than Blackwell in the same period—some of it from Republican businessmen.
By all measures, this should be a year for Democratic gains in Ohio. Bush is as unpopular there as he is nationally, and, according to a University of Akron poll, most prospective Ohio voters think that the state is on the wrong track. According to another poll, only a third of Ohio voters think that the Republicans should continue in office. Increasing numbers of liberal clergy are joining up to contest the right on social issues. But Blackwell is preparing to run another aggressive campaign and is hoping to draw African-Americans and conservative Catholics away from the Democratic Party. The night of the primary, he said, "Message to Brother Strickland: You can run but you can't hide. We're coming right atcha. We represent change, we represent the future, and there is no retreat in our bones."
- 1. andrea - August 4, 2006
I thought you might like to know about a new blog we started called http://www.happyagenda.com. It follows the extremist fundamentalist influence in Ohio politics – especially with a hotly contested governor's race the entire nation is watching.
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Allsop, D and Ikeda, S and Bruce, M and Glenner, G G (1988) Cerebrovascular amyloid in scrapie-affected sheep reacts with antibodies to prion protein. Neuroscience Letters, 92 (2). pp. 234-239. ISSN 0304-3940
Allsop, D and Wong, C W and Ikeda, S and Landon, M and Kidd, M and Glenner, G G (1988) Immunohistochemical evidence for the derivation of a peptide ligand from the amyloid β-protein precursor of Alzheimer disease. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 85 (8). pp. 2790-2794. ISSN 0027-8424
BOARDER, M R and MARRIOTT, D B and OWEN, P J and PLEVIN, R (1988) PROSTAGLANDIN STIMULATION OF NORADRENALINE RELEASE FROM BOVINE ADRENAL CHROMAFFIN CELLS. British Journal of Pharmacology, 95 (Supp 1). P523-P523. ISSN 0007-1188
Bates, P A and Gottlieb, M and Dwyer, D M (1988) Leishmania donovani:identification of glycoproteins released by promastigotes during growth in vitro. Experimental Parasitology, 67 (2). pp. 199-209. ISSN 0014-4894
Dillon, R. J. and Charnley, A. K. (1988) Inhibition of Metarhizium anisopliae by the gut bacterial flora of the desert locust: characterisation of antifungal toxins. Canadian Journal of Microbiology, 34 (9). pp. 1075-1082. ISSN 0008-4166
Gardner, M J and Bates, P A and Ling, I T and Moore, D J and McCready, S and Gunasekera, M B and Wilson, R J and Williamson, D H (1988) Mitochondrial DNA of the human malarial parasite Plasmodium falciparum. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, 31 (1). pp. 11-17. ISSN 0166-6851
OWEN, P J and BOARDER, M R (1988) BRADYKININ STIMULATION OF CATECHOL RELEASE FROM CHROMAFFIN CELLS IS SENSITIVE TO DIHYDROPYRIDINE AGONISTS BUT NOT ANTAGONISTS. British Journal of Pharmacology, 95 (Supp 1). P524-P524. ISSN 0007-1188
PLEVIN, R and OWEN, P J (1988) MULTIPLE B-2 KININ RECEPTORS IN MAMMALIAN-TISSUES. Trends in Pharmacological Sciences, 9 (11). pp. 387-389. ISSN 0165-6147
Pritchard, David Idris and McKean, Paul G. and Rogan, Michael Thomas (1988) Cuticle preparations from Necator americanus and their immunogenicity in the infected host. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, 28 (3). pp. 275-283. ISSN 0166-6851
Pritchard, David Idris and McKean, Paul G. and Rogan, Michael Thomas (1988) Cuticular collagens – a concealed target for immune attack in hookworms. Parasitology Today, 4 (9). pp. 239-241. ISSN 0169-4758
Roberts, G W and Lofthouse, R and Allsop, D and Landon, M and Kidd, M and Prusiner, S B and Crow, T J (1988) CNS amyloid proteins in neurodegenerative diseases. Neurology, 38 (10). pp. 1534-40. ISSN 0028-3878


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This procedure is used to install a configured lx branded zone. Once the zone is installed, all software configuration and management has to be done by the zone administrator using Linux tools from inside the zone.
See Example 35–1, Example 35–2, and Example 35–3 for examples of zone installation command lines using the different distribution paths. If you install from discs or from an ISO image, you must specify Sun package cluster categories. See lx Branded Zone Installation Methods for information on package cluster categories.
Note that you can verify a zone prior to installing it. If you skip this procedure, the verification is performed automatically when you install the zone. The procedure is documented in (Optional) How to Verify a Configured Zone Before It Is Installed.
You must be the global administrator in the global zone to perform this procedure.
In Step 3, if the zonepath is on ZFS, the zoneadm install command automatically creates a ZFS file system (dataset) for the zonepath when the zone is installed. You can block this action by including the -x nodataset parameter.
Become superuser, or assume the Primary Administrator role.
To create the role and assign the role to a user, see Using the Solaris Management Tools With RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration.
(Optional) If you intend to install from DVD or CD, enable volfs on your system and verify that it is running.
global# svcadm enable svc:/system/filesystem/volfs:default
global# svcs | grep volfs
You will see a display similar to the following:
online 17:30 svc:/system/filesystem/volfs:default
Install the configured zone lx-zone by using the zoneadm command with the install option and the path to the archive.
Install the zone, automatically creating a ZFS file system if the zonepath is on ZFS.
global# zoneadm -z lx-zone install -d archive_path
The system will display:
A ZFS file system has been created for this zone.
Install the zone that has a zonepath on ZFS, but do not automatically create the ZFS file system.
global# zoneadm -z lx-zone install -x nodataset -d archive_path
You will see various messages as the files and directories needed for the zone's root file system, as well as the package files, are installed under the zone's root path.
If you do not specify archive_path, the default is CD.
(Optional) If an error message is displayed and the zone fails to install, type the following to get the zone state:
global# zoneadm -z lx-zone list -iv
If the state is listed as configured, make the corrections specified in the message and try the zoneadm install command again.
If the state is listed as incomplete, first execute this command:
global# zoneadm -z lx-zone uninstall
Then make the corrections specified in the message, and try the zoneadm install command again.
When the installation completes, use the list subcommand with the -i and -v options to list the installed zones and verify the status.
global# zoneadm list -iv
You will see a display that is similar to the following:
ID NAME STATUS PATH BRAND IP 0 global running / native shared - lx-zone installed /export/home/lx-zone lx shared
global# zoneadm -z lx-zone install -d /export/centos_fs_image.tar.bz2
For CD or DVD installation, volfs must be enabled on your system. You must specify a software cluster package. For example, use development to install a full environment, or type the names of particular clusters. If you do not specify a cluster package, desktop is installed by default. The CD device is /cdrom/cdrom0.
global# zoneadm -z lx-zone install -d /cdrom/cdrom0 development
You must specify a software cluster package. Use development to install a full environment, or specify particular clusters. If you do not specify a cluster package, desktop is installed by default. The CentOS ISO images reside in the directory /export/centos_3.7.
global# zoneadm -z lx-zone install -d /export/centos_3.7 development
For more information on datasets, see Oracle Solaris ZFS Administration Guide
If a zone installation is interrupted or fails, the zone is left in the incomplete state. Use uninstall -F to reset the zone to the configured state.


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*912* Trapped in the Closet
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Check my Fanarts!
Death will take us so don't fight it. Become it and lean to win.
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Despite a couple little inaccuracies about Scientology, it makes some really great jokes at the Co$'s expense, as well as making some great points about why people join cults in the first place.
The John/Jane Smith seems to have confused people a little, but I think the point of the joke is quite obvious. The very last thing Stan says, clearly speaking for the show's creators is, "Go ahead, sue me!" The John/Jane Smith substituted for everyone's names is then a little nod to the notorious reputation the Co$ has for doing just that. Get it?
Well done, Matt, Trey, and everyone!
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superiorsavior wrote:Wikipedia didn't forget the jhon smith and jane smith part... they say it's because they're common names, because they don't want scientology knowing their name so then no one could sue them :p
Pretty funny.
R.I.P Chef for realz this time
( chef joined the sith so why don't you?)
R.I.P Billy Bonka
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Now, I have to tell you I HATE R. Kelly: I helped him once at a store I worked at in Chicago, when he was first hitting it big, and he was an utter assh*le. But "Trapped in the Closet" (the video series) is really f*cking funny, in its own ridiculous way. I still think he's a dickhead, but hey, funny is funny...
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Nice line, bad episode
love the "Smiths" at the end, tom C will not come out of the closet...but in all it was a mediocre episode
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X172 wrote:Did anyone else notice the "John Smith" and "Jane Smith" on the credits? I thought that was weird.
The reason they did that was because Scientology is a hate-mongering litigious organization. If they didn't do that then the crew members that just did their job like they always do would have been harassed by Scientologists. That is a regular practice of Scientology...they make lists of enemies and they try to make things miserable for them. Putting John and Jane Smith in the credits was a genius idea.
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oh and i LOVED this episode. this is what Scientologists actually believe.
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Kenny Lenny wrote:And why the credits have John/Jane Smith all over it?
I could tell you, but then Tom Cruise would sue your ovaries off.
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Hey, folks, Joomla! 3.4 has front-end module editing and "I am not a Robot" recaptcha!
These are two things among many that I know my customers will enjoy.
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1. We need just one of the following documents to verify your child's age:
a. A birth certificate or other approved certification of date of birth;
b. A statement by the local registrar or a county recorder certifying the child's date of birth;
c. An attested baptismal certificate;
d. A passport;
e. An affidavit of the date and place of birth by the child's parent or guardian;
f. Previous school records; or
g. United States military identification.
2. We also need an identification number for the student (Social Security number or you may request that the school assign an identification number).
3. We also need proof of your address within the district boundaries, which may be verified with one of the following sets of documents:
a. A current real-estate property tax receipt and a current utility bill showing the name and address of the student's parent or legal guardian.
b. A rental or lease agreement and a current utility bill showing the name and address of the student's parent or legal guardian.
c. Copies of a current utility bill from two different utility companies showing the name and address of the parent or legal guardian.
If you do not have all of the necessary documents, you will be asked to bring any documents you do have to the district administration office and sign an affidavit.
4. Your child will need proof of age-appropriate immunization, as required by the Arkansas Department of Health, against poliomyelitis, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), red (rubeola) measles, rubella, mumps, hepatitis B, and varicella (chicken pox), or an approved waiver from this requirement. *Note: Kindergartners are required to have two doses of varicella. Seventh-graders are now required to have a Tdap immunization.
The district may temporarily admit a student if the child becomes appropriately immunized, is in the process of receiving the needed doses of a vaccine, or shows proof that he or she has applied for an exemption for those vaccines he or she has not received within 30 school days after being originally admitted.
5. Enrolling kindergartners will need current proof of a physical examination (within the past 24 months).
6. We will also need to ask you if your child has been expelled from a previous school or is a party to any expulsion proceeding at a previous school. (If a student is under expulsion from any other school, the student will not be admitted to school until the Board of Education has conducted a hearing to determine the student's suitability for admission. The Board may prohibit a student from enrolling until the expulsion from the other school has expired.)
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RALEIGH, N.C. — A state elections official says voter turnout in North Carolina's election won't reach 2008 record levels, but it'll get pretty close.
Elections numbers Wednesday afternoon showed 4.5 million ballots had been cast for a voter turnout so far of 67.7 percent based on more than 6.6 million registered voters in the state.
State Board of Elections Executive Director Gary Bartlett said he still expected turnout to edge toward 69 percent after mail-in absentee ballots are collected through Friday and provisional ballots are reviewed.
Turnout for the 2008 general election reached more than 69.5 percent _ the highest in recent North Carolina political history.


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Mrs. Cheryl Couch has been named as the Associate Vice President of Distance Learning at Barclay College. She spent her earlier years in Mustang, OK, but later moved to Attica, KS, where she met her husband, Mike, of 28 years. She has taught Elementary Education at a variety of schools, including the Derby Public schools and Roundtree Christian Academy, on the campus of Maude Carpenter Children's Home.
For the past three years, Cheryl has been the Early Childhood Coordinator and Instructor at Barton Community College. She earned a master degree at Wichita State University in Early Childhood Special Education. Cheryl said, "Early Childhood Special Education is my passion and has meant the world to help families." Through answered prayers and Cheryl's knowledge of education, her youngest daughter, Amanda, had special needs, but is now in several honor programs at Pitt State University.
Cheryl's Husband, Mike, is the Superintendent of schools for the Haviland school district. Cheryl's middle daughter and son-in-law, Melanie and Dan Bloom, have recently relocated here from Minnesota. He is the construction manager of the Shooting Star Wind Farm south of Mullinville. They have a three month old daughter, Evey, whom Mike & Cheryl are delighted is now in Kansas with them, and Melanie stays home with her. Her oldest daughter and son-in-law, Chanda & Jared Bollman, reside in Wakita, OK where she is the Farmer's Grain elevator manager and he is a farmer and rancher.
Barclay College is proud to introduce you to its newest faculty member and looks forward to strengthening the teacher education degree program with state accreditation in the near future.


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Ubuntu fans may recall Ubuntu Gnome Remix, the unofficial flavor of the Linux distribution that was launched last fall for users not fond of the software's default Unity desktop environment.
Following hard on the heels of the release of Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal," the new Gnome Remix version was created "to bring the best of Gnome to Ubuntu users," in the words of its developers.
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Well, this week the new flavor was made an official part of the Ubuntu Linux family, giving it full access to infrastructure support, publicity, and other benefits from Canonical and the Ubuntu community.
'There was strong demand'
"We are pleased to announce that Ubuntu Gnome is now an official Ubuntu flavor," read the announcement on the Ubuntu mailing lists on Monday. "Our first release for 12.10 showed that there was a strong demand for a great Gnome experience on Ubuntu, and we are now working towards our second release based on Ubuntu 13.04," the developers added.
Not to be confused with the also-new "classic mode" that aims to bring back the look and feel of the old, beloved Gnome 2, Ubuntu Gnome Remix aims instead to make the most of Gnome 3.6, which is part of the new, mobile-inspired branch of the desktop family.
Both Unity and Gnome 3 have been controversial additions to the Linux desktop world, inspiring the launch not just of the new Gnome classic mode but also brand-new contenders including the Mate and Cinnamon desktops and distributions including SolusOS and Fuduntu.
Daily builds are coming
In any case, the newly official and freshly renamed Ubuntu Gnome project will not participate in the expected release this week of the first beta version of Ubuntu 13.04, but it does plan to release images for the final beta at the end of the month, according to the announcement.
Meanwhile, daily image builds should be available within a few weeks, the developers said. Ubuntu Gnome 13.04 will also include Gnome 3.6, but Gnome 3.8 will be available from the Gnome3-team Personal Package Archive (PPA) repository.
The project is now included among the official flavors on the Ubuntu wiki, and a dedicated mailing list has been established for it.
To get a taste of this latest Ubuntu flavor for yourself, download Ubuntu Gnome Remix 12.10 from the project site. A page on the Ubuntu Wiki details the other "Recognized Flavors" of the free and open source operating system.
This story, "Ubuntu Linux gets a new official flavor" was originally published by PCWorld.


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Mario11779 had een nieuw flash-animatie ontwerp nodig en lanceerde daarom een wedstrijd op 99designs.
Een winnaar werd gekozen uit8 ontwerpen ingezonden door6 freelance designers.
We need a new header banner for our website smartservsolutions.com. As you can see, there is a flash banner which is somewhat dated. The banner should be in flash, but we also need an animated gif replacement for those people who don't have flash. Both banners should be the same as far as content and look, but only difference is flash and non-flash.
SmartServ Solutions
Taxes ? Credit Repair ? Mortgages
Desired Color Scheme:
SmartServ Blue, SmartServ Light Blue
Desired Style:
My descriptions are a general idea of what I want and should be no means interpreted as how I want the "art". Use your creativity and feel free to re-work if necessary. I like color accents (not necessarily alot of different colors). I like a little pizz
Accepted File Formats:
flash & animated gif optimized for the web
775 width by 100 height
It needs to have links to 4 pages on the website. Please note, that I am going to change the 4 pages to:
Home - About Us - Help - Contact
Home - Company Info - FAQ's - Contact
I am attaching some artwork and examples of other ads that you can use for the design. Although the ad I am using has a yellow background, please do not use yellow on the banner. You can get the designs at http://www.theproblemsolver.com/contest
Please cut and splice the ai logo to remove the phone number. I prefer the look of the Taxes ● Credit Repair ● Mortgages section of the banner you are making to come from the newspaper ad that is available at the above file directory. I don't necessarily like the red box on that for this use.
One idea for the banner would be to use a blue background (on the sides or throughout) that matches the blue of the site so that it looks like it blends in to the rest of the site (and not like a banner)
I want somewhere on the banner to be:
SmartServ Solutions
Taxes ● Credit Repair ● Mortgages
preferably in the same format as the ad shown.
Do not use my likeness or the problem solver in the the banner.
I like a little movement in the design, but not alot. No sounds. What would be tremendous would be the SSS spinning on the way in and then stabilizing.
I don't think I like having pictures of stock art (like we have currently) as part of the design. I also don't like the fact that the current banner is too busy with the streaks and stuff. A more reserved look is fine.
I am open to all designs, but keep in mind the desired style requested below. I will be giving frequent feedback to help you fine tune your design.
Also a REQUIREMENT to this contest will be a short amount of code to place on the website that will check if the visitor has flash or not and will present the correct graphic depending on whether or not the visitor has flash.


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christianrock wrote:That's the whole point of this thread though.
A Moog Model D with Behringer price :smart:
ElectricPuppy wrote:The one thing the MM can do that I happened to hear in a video last night is that overdrive "feature" you can do with it by feeding it back on itself (I think that's the way it's accomplished?) It makes bass go GROWL and I liiiiike it. The Behringer clone had better be able to get that right, or there's going to be seriously disappointed peeps!
I wonder how well you can do that overdrive with just a pedal instead.
ClavAnother wrote:No. The knobs are for decoration. It's actually just fixed resistors.
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Perry Patel D.D.S. offers full service dentistry for adults and children in his Pismo Beach office. Perry has become a very well known dentist for children throughout the area over the past years. Being a child only dentist for years, his appointment list has seen substantial growth, thanks to word of mouth from happy clients, he has expanded his dental practice to include adults as well. His patients now range from a few months old to adults in there 60's. First and foremost, Dr. Perry Patel wants you to feel as though you are member of his extended family each and every time you visit to his office.
About Perry Patel
Dr. Perry Patel has been a resident of San Luis Obispo since 1984. Earning his bachelors degree in biochemistry from UCLA, he concluded he had a passion for dentistry. He continued his education at the UCLA School of Dentistry, receiving his doctorate degree in 1998. He then returned to the Central Coast working for different dental offices. Then the time came to start his own office and practice. He opened his doors at his Grover Beach location and found he was quickly out growing the location and moved his office to the Pismo Beach Medical Campus.
*Emergency dental service available, even if your not our current patient.
Services Offered: Cosmetic dentist, Children dentist, Adult dentist, Dentures, Partial and full dentures, Zoom whitening, Veneers, Minimal pain anesthesiology, Nitroous oxide seditions
License Number: 45400
Payment Accepted: Cash, Check, Visa, MasterCard, Discover, American Express
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Cédric NICOLAS necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 36 diseños de 15 diseñadores freelance.
We would like to have a basic but nice home page design for our company site.
Ville Fluide
Ville Fluide is a B2B2E (employes) service. Ville Fluide provides to big companies or administrations, consulting and technology solutions to optimize trips of their employees from home to work and back. Objectives of the Ville Fluide service are : increase buying power of the employees, save trip costs for the companies, reduce pollution and greenhouse gases emissions, and reduce vehicles congestion on roads. After initial auditing phases, we deploy innovative mobile technologies associated with carpool, carsharing, and public transport services.
The Web design we require is to present the company and its offer, in order to give an image of sustainable mobility experts. It is very important to understand that the web site is not mainly at that time to develop our business by attracting new customers (because our technical solution will not be ready for several months, even if we already sell consulting services), but to start to build a good institutional image and brand. The web site is then targeted to potential investors, partners, journalists, analysts, experts and future customers. It is not targeted to end users or mass market consumers, the look and feel should be then serious and efficient.
The design must start from colors and fonts of the Ville fluide logo, that you can find on http://www.villefluide.com. This page is a copy of our business cards, so it is here only as an example. Please feel free to propose any kind of design using same colors, the only thing which is mandatory to reuse is the logo.The contest is only for the home page of the site, with the following items (no submenus) :* Home
* Offer
* Company Team
* News
* Contact
* Customer restricted access
Home page will have some content that will describe facts about actual trip figures and costs, explaining why occidental civilization will have to radically change the way we move and use private cars. For different reasons the web site will not give all the details of what we provide, so the design must incitate the visitor to contact us to know more.
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Whats in your Purse is an instant download bridal shower game with black and white stripes, pink poke-a-Dots, and items you would find in a purse. Matching gift tracker included.
- Each game card is size 5" x 8" and 8.5" x 11."
- This item is for a digital file. No physical product will be mailed to you.
You will be able to access your purchased files from your purchase account, link below:
We make every attempt to make sure our designs will print exactly the way you see them in the listing pictures. However, monitors differ when looking at colors while printers print shades of colors differently. Because of this, colors may vary slightly from what you see on your computer screen.
The graphics and designs are property of ShowersPartiesandMore© and they cannot be reproduced or copied for any reason.
Your files will be available to download once payment is confirmed.
Just contact me within: 14 days of delivery
Ship items back to me within: 30 days of delivery
But please contact me if you have any problems with your order.
Because of the nature of these items, unless they arrive damaged or defective, I can't accept returns for:
Buyers are responsible for return shipping costs. If the item is not returned in its original condition, the buyer is responsible for any loss in value.
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The OMR Festival is the flagship product of the Online Marketing Rockstars (OMR). First held in 2011 with some 200 attendees, OMR Festival 2018 will be a 2-day celebration of the digital marketing industry with an Expo, Conference, Masterclasses, Side Events and parties. It's a must for established industry pros and aspiring players alike. On March 22 & 23, OMR18 will open its doors to some 40,000 attendees. #OMR18
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If you would like to hold a Side Event during OMR18, get in touch with Ove at +49 40 209 310 855 he'll work with you to find the right event for you to meet your needs. You can also use this form to drop him a line.
If you wish to hold your own Masterclass at OMR18, drop us a line using our contact form.
As the OMR Festival grows, so too does the range of events held in conjunction with the Festival. The Conference, Expo, Masterclasses, Guided Tours, Expo Party and Live Concerts are held in different Halls at the Hamburg Messe exhibition center. For our Side Events, we use various partner locations throughout the Hamburg city center. Friday night's OMR Clubbingincludes a wide range of Restaurants, Bars and Clubs in Sternschanze and St. Pauli.
The Hamburg Messe (Exhibition center) is centrally located and well connected to the local public transportation system. We recommend taking the S-Bahn or U-Bahn to the Sternschanze station, the S-Bahn and long-distance train station Dammtor, as well as the U-Bahn station Messehallen. You can also visit hvv.de to find the best connection. If you wish to come by car, feel free to use the Hamburg Messe carpark.
The two-day event is held every year in either February or March in Hamburg, Germany. OMR18 takes place March 22 & 23. The Expo is held on both days; the Conference is Friday only.
Online Marketing Rockstars – OMR for short – is a platform dedicated to all things Digital Marketing. On omr.com, you'll find articles, podcasts, videos, digital how-to guides we call Reports, a jobs portal, our industry directory Listed Companies and all sorts of events, seminars and much more. Our flagship product is the annual OMR Festival.
Other than the free OMR shirt you'll receive from us there are no outfit restrictions. In our experience it is best to wear warm, comfortable clothing.
Although, we do not have the resources to communicate directly with your respective embassy, we will gladly provide you with a document confirming that you have a job at OMR Festival. For all other information pertaining to your visa application, please contact the office responsible.
We have all sorts of OMR stocking hats, caps and shirts available for purchase at the OMR booth.
You can preregister for Masterclasses here beneath the big time table.
We have two ticket categories available. First there is the OMR18 Expo only ticket, which grants you access two-day access to the Expo area, Masterclasses as well as the Expo Party and OMR Clubbing on Friday. Then there is the OMR18 All-incl. ticket, which allows you to attend the same areas as the Expo-only ticke, while also granting you access to the Festival highlight—the Conference and Live Concerts Friday.
The OMR18 All-incl. ticket grants you access to the Expo, Masterclasses, Expo Party, the Conference, as well as Live Concerts and OMR City Night, which both take place after the Conference.
Your ticket is sent automatically via email when purchased. The sender of this ticket mail is our partner XING Events. Should you be unable to locate the email, please check your spam folder.
Tickets may be transferred to another person in extreme cases. In such cases, just send us the following information by no later than March 15, 2018: name and ticket number of the person unable to attend, plus the name, company, job title and email address of the new ticket owner. Please send the aforementioned information to firstname.lastname@example.com.
No, you do not. By purchasing an Expo-only ticket, you are eligible to attend a Masterclass.
No, only those in possession of an All-incl. tickets may attend the Live Concerts, which take place directly after the conclusion of the Conference.
You can find our press accreditation form here on our press page. Simply fill it out and we will be in touch.
Unfortunately no. All tickets to OMR18 are issued to individual persons and are non-transferable after said person has been registered.
To attend OMR, you must purchase a personalized ticket, which are available on our ticket page.
We recommend doing so, yes. This helps everyone quickly and clearly seeing who you are and what you do. If you leave the Hall and wish to reenter, you are required to wear your badge.
No. During the two-day Festival, you should keep your wristband on, because when removed it is no longer valid.
At the Festival entrance, you can receive a Festival band, which lets you to re-enter the Festival.
We can't make any promises there. So be sure to bring your own powerbank with you.
Of course, dear herbivore! There will be an excellent selection of both vegetarian and vegan food available at OMR.
For all attendees in possession of a Expo only-ticket, food and drink is available for purchase. The All incl.-Ticket includes free food and drink on Friday at the Conference in Hall A1.
At OMR18, we're staying cashless—but we there won't be any chip system like last year. This time around you can pay everywhere using your EC or credit cards.
If you have a speaker suggestion for OMR Festival, we'd love to hear from you. Simply drop us a line at email@example.com. But we ask for your understanding should we decline your suggestion.
If you have an Expo-only-Ticket, you may enter OMR18 on Thursday and Friday (March 22 & 23) at 9:00 AM. The program on the Expo Stages begins at 10:00 AM. If you have an All-incl. ticket, you may enter at the same times as above PLUS you may enter the Conference on Friday beginning at 7:30 AM. The Conference starts at 9AM sharp.
No, cigarettes will not be available for purchase at OMR18. However, our partners at IQOS will have tobacco-alternative products available on site.
There is a smoking area located between Hall A1 and A2 designated for the use of standard cigarettes. Inside the halls, attendees may use IQOS tobacco-alternative products, which are available on site.
If you are not 18 years old, you must be attended by a parent or guardian.
The OMR Festival 2019 is our absolute highlight of the year—Don't miss it. Get your ticket now! Find out all the details on available ticket categories and the benefits of purchasing an All-Incl ticket here. If you've attended in the past and know which category you want, we still have the same Expo and All-Incl ticket categories—but now they have much more to offer.Compare Tickets
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Busting the Myth that Web Sites 'Sell Your Data'
On TLF, Berin Szoka comes up just shy of ranting, but it's a good rant against the myth that Web sites like Facebook sell or give your data to advertisers.
In targeted online advertising, the business model is generally to sell advertisers access to people based on their demographics. It is not to sell individuals' personal and contact info. Doing the latter would undercut the advertising business model and the profitability of the web sites carrying the advertising.
I did some myth‐busting of my own last year when the Wall Street Journal published erroneous information about a health‐interest site called RealAge.com, which does not give or sell visitors' data to drug companies.
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I'm speaking about the BioShock Infinite picture here, which while making their faces look weird, really makes the fabric on those costumes pop, where we might otherwise have overlooked it!
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Those who believe that adopting Rise Up will just make Americans wealthier and retirement more secure are missing the bigger picture. It will reduce the size of government by half; generate the biggest tax cut in history; pay off all unfunded entitlement liabilities; economically emancipate women and minorities; infuse enormous sums directly into the capital markets thereby accelerating the growth of the economy; reduce crime, poverty and gangs; eliminate the need for government pensions and Medicare; eliminate the need for business to fund retirement needs; increase the net worth of America and Americans geometrically and promote "Domestic Tranquility" Read the "Mission Statement " above
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The Ownership Society Institute is dedicated to increasing the wealth and property of all citizens and the reduction of taxes imposed on them. It sponsors ideas and plans that reduce the size of the Federal and state governments while at the same time increasing the efficiency of their constitutionally mandated resposibilities. It sponsors the enactment of the Rise Up Theory of Economics and the elevation of the individual over the state. It opposes the weaknesses that the state imposes by making its citizens rely too heavily on government to solve their problems and fund their failures.
The Rise Up Theory of Economics does for the poor and middle class what the "Trickle Down" Theory did for the rich - it makes them wealthy. It is a simple concept, It redirects the 15.3% presently paid by individuals (and in the case of employees, their employers too) in the form of payroll taxes into a personally-owned investment account that will grow into millions over the citizen's working life. The funds are invested in safe indexed stock funds that have historically been growing at over a 10% rate for the last 25 years. See the schedules below for the millions an ordinary American can accumulate and the history of the rates of return on indexed stock.
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In January 1970 the average high temperature in Meridian, MS was 0.0°F, and this was 59.1°F cooler than the average of 59.1°F. The hottest day in January 1970 was 0 January when the temperature reached 0.0°F. Overnight the average temperature in January is 34.5°F and in 1970 the average overnight temperature was 34.5°F cooler at 0.0°F.


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A stroke, or brain attack, happens when blood flow to your brain is stopped. It is an emergency situation. Call 911 if you think you might be having a stroke or stroke symptoms.
The brain needs a constant supply of oxygen and nutrients in order to work well. If blood supply is stopped even for a short time, this can cause problems. Brain cells begin to die after just a few minutes without blood or oxygen.
When brain cells die, brain function is lost. You may not be able to do things that are controlled by that part of the brain. For example, a stroke may affect your ability to:
A stroke can happen to anyone at any time.
A stroke is caused when blood flow to your brain is stopped or disrupted.
There are 2 kinds of stroke: ischemic and hemorrhagic.
Anyone can have a stroke at any age. But your chance of having a stroke increases if you have certain risk factors. Some risk factors for stroke can be changed or managed, while others can't.
Risk factors for stroke that can be changed, treated, or medically managed:
Risk factors for stroke that can't be changed:
Other risk factors include:
A stroke is an emergency situation. It's important to know the signs of a stroke and get help quickly. Call 911 or your local emergency number right away. Treatment is most effective when started right away.
Stroke symptoms may happen suddenly. Each person's symptoms may vary. Symptoms may include:
Other less common symptoms of stroke may include:
A TIA can cause many of the same symptoms as a stroke. But TIA symptoms are passing. They can last for a few minutes or up to 24 hours. Call for medical help right away if you think someone is having a TIA. It may be a warning sign that a stroke is about to occur. But not all TIAs are followed by a stroke.
FAST is an easy way to remember the signs of a stroke. When you see these signs, you will know that you need to call 911 fast. FAST stands for:
F - Face drooping. One side of the face is drooping or numb. When the person smiles, the smile is uneven.
A - Arm weakness. One arm is weak or numb. When the person lifts both arms at the same time, one arm may drift downward.
S - Speech difficulty. You may see slurred speech or difficulty speaking. The person can't repeat a simple sentence correctly when asked.
T - Time to call 911. If someone shows any of these symptoms, call 911 right away. Call even if the symptom goes away. Make note of the time the symptoms first appeared.
Your healthcare provider will take a complete health history and do a physical exam. You will need tests for stroke such as brain imaging and measuring the blood flow in the brain. Tests may include:
The following heart tests may also be used to help diagnose heart problems that may have led to a stroke:
Your healthcare provider will create a care plan for you based on:
There is no cure for stroke once it has occurred. But advanced medical and surgical treatments are available. These can help reduce your risk for another stroke.
Treatment is most effective when started right away. Emergency treatment after a stroke may include:
Recovery from stroke and the specific ability affected depends on the size and location of the stroke.
A small stroke may cause problems such as weakness in your arm or leg.
Larger strokes may cause parts of your body to not be able to move (be paralyzed). Larger strokes can also cause loss of speech or even death.
Know your risk for stroke. Many stroke risk factors can be changed, treated, or medically modified. Some things you can do to control your risk factors are listed below.
A healthy lifestyle can help reduce your risk for stroke. That includes the following:
Take your medicines as instructed by your healthcare provider. The following medicines can help prevent stroke:
Several types of surgery may be done to help treat a stroke, or help to prevent one. These include:
How a stroke affects you depends on where the stroke occurs in your brain. It also depends on how much your brain is damaged.
Many people who have a stroke are left with paralysis of one of their arms.
Other problems can include having trouble with:
Some people may need long-term physical rehabilitation. They may not be able to live in their home without help.
Support services are available to help with physical and emotional needs after a stroke.
Strokes can happen again. Call your healthcare provider if you have symptoms that seem like a stroke, even if they don't last long.
If you have repeated damage to your brain tissue, you may be at risk for life-long (permanent) disabilities.
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First on the agenda…I had to choose 2 new winners for the Fiber One Yogurt contest b/c 2 of the 3 winners did not contact me & left me no way to contact them. The new winners are:
Krysten H of Brunch at Tiffany's. Krysten said "My favorite snack is a toss up between Pamela's GF brownies (from the mix) and Tropical Source dark chocolate rice crisp bars. I cannot control myself with those bars & they break into triangles, not squares, so when I eat the chocolate I wind up getting it on my face since it's at an angle. Very attractive."
Carri of The Five of Us. Carri said "Cheese nachos. Particularly – the Blue Garden of Eaten (not baked) chips and Sargento Mexican Blend cheese…….now – don't you want to go and make some???"
Carri & Krysten, I am sending emails to you. Please get back to me with your addresses ASAP so I can get them to My Blog Spark to send out your prizes!!
Found some amazing deals at Meijer today on gluten-free goodies. Glutino pasta: $.72. We bought all 8 boxes. Glutino Pizza Breadsticks: $1.19. Bought the only one they had. Lundberg Brown Rice Cakes: $.72. Bought the last 2. Perky's Nutty Rice cereal: $72. Bought the only 1 they had. HUGE savings!!! We have no idea why they were marked that low. The other flavors of the same products were there and marked at normal prices ($4.79 for the Nutty Flax Cereal).
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Why and how the healthcare industry is changing so rapidly
The collective throw-weight of policy changes, technological advances and structural shifts has primed the healthcare industry for upheaval, disruption and incredible opportunity to advance the standard of care worldwide.
Strategic choices no life sciences company can avoid
To thrive in the emerging healthcare ecosystem, senior leaders will need to: clarify their company's market positioning regarding patient outcomes and value to the healthcare system; define the differentiating capabilities necessary to deliver on those goals; and create a high-performance enterprise of partners, collaborators and talent.
The question is: How can your company adapt to and help define this new healthcare era?
Four new business models are emerging in pharmaceuticals and medical devices; companies with roots in other industries are crossing into the healthcare market; and entrepreneurs are coming on scene, powered by digital technologies and motivated by the promise of growth, profit and bragging rights for expanding the definition of "care."
New Health Digitals
Watch this video to hear Anne O'Riordan and Jeff Elton describe the four business models presented in Healthcare Disrupted.
These new business models demand unprecedented collaboration in the field.
Regardless of business model choice, all new healthcare business and operating models must rapidly embrace new technologies that are fundamentally collaborative. Building ecosystems of value-enabling partnerships is a strategic and operating imperative. The catch is that the nature of collaboration in this context breaks new ground for many businesses in the sector.
Talent strategy in the New Healthcare Ecosystem
People will be the biggest advantage for (or the greatest impediment to) a company's ability to excel in a quickly evolving industry. But recruiting the right mix of new skills and mindsets—and managing performance—won't be easy in this context. The success of any company's journey to become value-centric rests on its ability to align employee mindsets, norms, behaviors and empathies to the patient, while compelling them to persistently drive value for the health system overall.
How will your company lead in the New Age of Healthcare?
We are at the confluence of enormous change and the emergence of new business models that will disrupt the legacy healthcare institutions, companies and leaders of the last decades. It will take courage to reshape responsibly. But we have a chance to shape the future, rather than be shaped by it. Some of this shaping is for policy makers and governments to create rules of engagement that allow alternative approaches to emerge and innovations to flourish.


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Unique technical course. Lots of wildlife. Deer, turkeys, coyotes, and even a wild boar have been spotted on the course. No guys on carts to spoil yer good times, and a house to warm up in and keep beer cold in. Shorts are easy and provide good mid-range/putter shots that provide good practice. The longs are technical and really hard. Only 3 rounds ever under par (so far). The course is pretty rough though, especially in the rough, especially in the summer. Wear long pants and bring bug spray!


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Taylor Swift Jokes About Miley Cyrus, Dances to Selena Gomez in Jimmy Fallon's 'Ew!' Skit [VIDEO]by Michelle McGahan | PopCrush
Taylor Swift finally unleashed her nerdy side on 'The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon' last night (Aug. 13), introducing the world to her character Natalie during Fallon's beloved 'Ew!' skit.
Emerging onstage in oversized glasses, a totally rockin' three-tailed ponytail (complete with a wealth of '90s-esque barrettes, of course), Swift looked exactly like someone who would be friends with Fallon's character Sara-without-an-h-because-h's-are-ew.
"My name's Natalie and I'm 13 and I like to eat apricots and I have a Band-Aid collection," T. Swift said by way of introduction, further admitting that her "mom hasn't let me watched television since Miley Cyrus twerked." Ha!
Taylor-as-Natalie continued to flaunt her geeky side, showing off her drawing of a "pegacorn" (a combination of a pegasus and unicorn), and hacking up some disgustingly hilarious combination of a lougie and a sneeze. ("Ew!" indeed!)
And even though the ladies of 'Ew!' were interrupted in the middle of dancing to Selena Gomez (thanks to an appearance by Sara's stepdad, who is basically the human equivalent of Ned Flanders from 'The Simpsons') they still managed to fit in a speed round of 'Ew!,' where Taylor/Natalie poked fun at 'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together.'
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Welcome to Reasoned Writing.
The overall goal of Reasoned Writing is to help content-focused curricula use scientific reasoning and communication for learning. The module is based on three general hypotheses:
1) Critical Understanding is central to scientific thinking and an important component of science education (Boyer et al., 1998).
2) Writing can help develop Critical Understanding skills (analysis, synthesis, and evaluation; Cavdar and Doe, 2012; Quitadamo and Kurtz, 2007).
3) Using consistent frameworks based on clear and specific elements facilitates both critical understanding and clear writing (National Academies of Science, 2000).
Reasoned Writing (RW) focuses on three specific objectives (the "Three Ss," if you will). The first (and most important) objective is STRUCTURE. Specifically, RW seeks to help writers create appropriate FRAMEWORKS to structure arguments (National Academies of Science, 2000). Straightforward, reasoned frameworks can help structure papers, paragraphs, and sentences. The second objective of RW is to encourage clear reasoning through SIMPLE presentation. Simple presentations limit the amount of information audiences must consider at any one time. The final objective of RW is to encourage scientific communicators to reason and communicate more SPECIFICALLY. Specific communication is self-contained, unambiguous, and truthful.
The companion module "A Framework for Scientific Papers" applies the general principle of using simple, specific frameworks to the particular case of writing more clearly reasoned hypothesis-based scientific papers.
To continue, follow the links to each area or use one of the suggested approaches for navigating the module.
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