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SPREAD THE WORD! ... Senator DeMint is trying to bring citizens together for a national strategy call to discuss concrete steps to take back our country!!

been watching you guys on beck show, not bad but soon your group will be called up 2 the big time, so start refining answers and mission statements. beck put you ladies at ease and gave you a relaxing and comtabule setting but if your group gets more press they, other news organizations not sympathic 2 your cause will try 2 confuse and misdirect your group into looking bad or bias or just plan loons, so pratice on each other questions and answers and make it short and direct.

At this point, it may be useful to some if I document my prayer and meditation routine. It also helps me set down the path I took to reach the stage that I'm at so I may return to the routine if I become lost or go astray. Besides my study of Swedenborg's Heavenly Secrets (I'm now up to Genesis 41), my morning prayer routine consists of centering prayer where I set my intention on God. If I find my mind preoccupied with replaying the tapes and memories of the past, I close my eyes and begin contemplative prayer. It's...

Microsoft has been granted a stay of a landmark injunction in a patent infringement case that would have required the software giant to stop selling its popular Word in its current form by next month. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Thursday granted Microsoft's motion for a stay, pending appeal, of an injunction issued in August by a federal judge that bars sales of Word that include a custom XML code found to infringe on patents held by i4i--the plaintiff. "We are happy with the result and look forward to presenting our arguments on the main...

Microsoft late Tuesday warned of "massive disruptions" to sales of Office, as well as to partners such as Best Buy, Dell, and Hewlett-Packard, if the injunction that prevents it from selling Word 2003 and Word 2007 in the U.S. after Oct. 10 is not set aside. In an emergency motion filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals, Microsoft asked that the injunction imposed last week by U.S. District Court Judge Leonard Davis be stayed, or temporarily put on hold, while its appeal is heard.Artwork: Chip TaylorMicrosoft's move was expected, as it had previously said it would appeal the verdict and...

A judge on Tuesday ordered Microsoft to stop selling Word, one of its premier products, in its current form due to patent infringement. Judge Leonard Davis of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a permanent injunction that "prohibits Microsoft from selling or importing to the United States any Microsoft Word products that have the capability of opening .XML, .DOCX or DOCM files (XML files) containing custom XML", according to a statement released by attorneys for the plantiff, i4i. Microsoft did not immediately reply to request for comment but said in a statement that it planned...

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow my obedient ones yet undoing and harrasment shall be the spoils of the rebellious and defiant , therefore be my Watchmen of unity and delight in my ways .Become Peacekeepers and the Pavilions of my love canopied in my ways for I AM The Stalwart , bridge and guide to all you find in me " For I AM The Kingdom and The Glory forever " and a day in My courts is eternal as you find your way to Zion . Therefore be of Me and walk in My fullness you shall find...

The average American spends 66 minutes a day eating and drinking, 170 minutes a day watching TV/Movies 456 minutes a day sleeping, 522 minutes a day working and work related activities and 66 minutes a day in household activities. Just as our bodies need food to keep it going, we need to spend quality time with God to feed our souls. Jesus often quoted from God's Word in His quiet times. Quiet time with God is also a time to read Gods Word. It is through daily prayer and reading Gods Word that we will grow in our walk with...

he $300 billion (£206bn) jet is being developed by Lockheed Martin and will be bought by eight other countries, including the UK. However, the Wall Street Journal reported that hackers had broken into the project and siphoned off "several terabytes of data related to design and electronics systems".

The family is tieing up the main PC in the house so I want to get a laptop with limited usage: wireless access to network, Outlook (express) and Word, Excel, PPT. A dvd RW drive would be ok too. Primarily, it's main use is for email. Can anyone recommend a manufacture for this? Been looking at Dell's but they are OVER loaded for my needs. I shouldn't need to spend $ 1k for something like this!

The Democrats “missing” Word” Why Reid, Pelosi, Obama, and many other Democrats do not want America to recover its own sources of energy is a puzzle. The puzzle remained a puzzle but became a bit clearer when I realized that Democrat have a different agenda for America than the Republicans. To examine how the agendas differs let’s state the problem the people want the government to solve. The problem is that America’s economy is dependent on foreign oil. The solution is then for America to become less dependent on foreign oil The goal sought by Republicans is for America to...

To say lawyers and technology mix like oil and water might be an overstatement. Still, from time to time we come across a tale in which a smallish technological problem leads to big headaches for lawyers. It always makes is wonder if life in the law weren’t a little less thorny back before the days of email and electronic discovery, back-up tapes and terabytes of data....one could download several documents through PACER’s federal court filing system, copy the black bars that cover the text on the screen and paste them into a Word document. And, like magic, there would appear...

Can the Genesis Record of Creation be Valuable to Academia?: From the View of Astronomy, Biology, Physics, and Social Sciences     Christian Student Fellowship will host a symposium on the development of an integrative science consistent with the Genesis account on April 5th, 2008, at Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky.   Entitled A Scientific Theory of Genesis, the lecture will demonstrate how the Scientific Method can be used in connection with the Genesis account of creation to establish a Unified Creation Theory. By using experimental results from the most respected laboratories in the U.S., this lecture will...

Pronunciation: \-ləs\ Function:adjective Date:1612 1: of, relating to, or affected with scrofula2 a: having a diseased run-down appearanceb: morally contaminated Usage: Bill Clinton was perhaps our most scrofulous President.

In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day". Sinecure - SY-nih-kyurNoun, An office or position that requires or involves little or no responsibility, work, or active service. Sinecure is from Medieval Latin sine cura, "without care (of souls)," from Latin sine, "without" + cura, "care." Originally the term signified an ecclesiastical benefice without the care of souls. Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence. The sentence must, in some way, relate to the...

“Confessing the Word Made Flesh” (John 1:1-18; 1 John 4:1-16)And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. (John 1:14) Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not...

HONOLULU: The top U.S. military commander in the Pacific said Thursday he is "perplexed and concerned" by China's last-minute decision to deny a U.S. aircraft carrier entry to Hong Kong for a previously scheduled port visit. The USS Kitty Hawk and its escort ships were due to dock in Hong Kong for a four-day visit Wednesday until they were refused access. Hundreds of family members who had flown to Hong Kong to spend Thanksgiving with their sailors were stranded by the move. "It's hard to put any kind of positive spin on this," Adm. Timothy Keating told The Associated Press...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9, 2007 – As thousands of people filled the Pentagon parking lot at the end of the third America Supports You Freedom Walk today, they were greeted by groups individually working toward the collective goal of supporting troops and their families. Karina Rollins (right), talks with Lisa Dixon of Soldiers' Angels after participating in the third America Supports You Freedom Walk on Sept. 9, 2007, in Washington. The troop-support group, one of 21 participating in the event following the walk, offers a variety of support to servicemembers including letters and care packages. Photo by Samantha L. Quigley  (Click...

Before a jury was even seated, a judge declared a mistrial Thursday in a sex-assault case where he had barred the words "rape" and "victim," among others. Judge Jeffre Cheuvront of Lancaster County District Court said protests and other publicity surrounding the rape case against Pamir Safi, 33, would have made it too difficult for jurors to ignore everything they heard before the trial, which had been expected to begin next week. A jury was in the process of being selected when Cheuvront declared a mistrial. Safi is accused of raping Tory Bowen in 2004. He said they had consensual...

In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day". alopecia • \al-uh-PEE-shuh\ • noun loss of hair, wool, or feathers; baldness Example sentence: My cousin Amelia recently donated ten inches of her hair to an organization that makes wigs for children who suffer from alopecia. Did you know? Doctors use "alopecia" to refer to various forms of hair loss, including "alopecia areata," a sudden loss of hair in patches that involves little or no inflammation. It may surprise you to learn that...

The 800-pound gorilla is back, and as usual folks are pretending the critter ain't in the room. We'll call this particular 800-pound gorilla Joey, in tribute to that 1940s film about the giant ape called Mighty Joe Young. I think it's time Joey got his props. I think it's time we acknowledge Joey. Joey, meet the guys. Guys, shake hands with Joey. "The guys" in this case are those Baltimoreans who, for the past week, have expressed angst and dismay about the appalling way some young black men in this city, addicted to the thug life, dispatch each other with...

Hip hop music fans have more sex: study Wed Sep 13, 2006 9:31 PM ET LONDON (Reuters) - Fans of hip hop music are likely to have had more sexual partners in the last five years while many of those who prefer classical strains will have tried cannabis, according to a study released on Thursday. Psychologist Adrian North from the University of Leicester surveyed 2,500 Britons to find out how their musical tastes related to their lifestyles and interests. He said the results showed said it was possible to discover clues about what people were like simply from the music...

stingray barb through the chest - was a victim of 'voyeuristic wildlife TV', fellow experts said today. As tributes poured in for the quirky 44-year-old, survival expert Ray Mears said his death was a "sobering lesson". Mears said the Australian's death was a tragedy and his heart went out to his family. But he added that it proved "some things in nature should be left alone". He said: "He clearly took a lot of risks and television encouraged him to do that. "It's a shame that television audiences need that to be attracted to wildlife. "Dangerous animals, you leave them...

My wife is using Word for Mac. She brings up a document. However, it's narrow (i.e. it doesn't fill the entire width of the screen. Therefore, the words are "small." If we try to zoom e.g. to 300%, the ends of the lines are cut off. In Windows XP, the document has the "maximize" icon at the top right of the document, and that icon lets me plaster the document across the entire screen. Does Word for Mac have similar function, and if so, how do I access it? Thanks.

(AP) Mel Gibson's apology for making drunken anti-Semitic remarks isn't enough to redeem him, actor-producer Rob Reiner said. The actor also must acknowledge that "his work reflects anti-Semitism," particularly the 2004 hit movie "The Passion of the Christ," Reiner told Associated Press Radio.

The Arab world's silence has left the last word to those we call extremists While Israel receives unanimous western support, this crisis is dragging the region ever faster into the abyss Alain Gresh Tuesday August 22, 2006 The Guardian (UK) Killers slaughter dozens of civilians in Iraq every day just because they are Sunni Muslims. Suicide attacks are increasingly common in Afghanistan, where they used to be unknown. On the Gaza Strip, 1.5 million Palestinians are caught in a trap, hemmed in by the Israeli offensive and the decision by the US and the EU to freeze all direct aid....

'Fascistic' is the right word for Islamic fundamentalism By Janet Daley (Filed: 14/08/2006) The anti-war-on-terror lobby has had a bad week. Not that it hasn't kept its end up. Oh no. Faced with a threat so devastating that it seemed more like a world-domination plot from a Superman comic than a hard-headed act of war, there was nothing for it but to fall back on semantics. George W. Bush was pilloried for referring to "Islamic fascists" by, among others, the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu. Using that kind of language "on the ranch in Texas" did not help, he...

I am not certain what the legal ramifications would be in changing Free Republic from donations to a subscription service. It seems to me the switch may be detrimental to legal issues such as copyrights. If that is true I'd appreciate if someone could briefly explain that to me. However if that is not the case here is my suggestion: I have been wondering about this for some time now and have not seen any discussions about it. So I would like to ask: Is it time for Free Republic to become an online subscription service? Currently, the site is...

Protest marches. Lobbying for legislation. Alliances with pro-immigration groups. A Good Friday Mass in which an immigrant stood before a cross to symbolize Jesus. The Catholic Church has become a force for change, with the weight of millions of Catholics behind it, in the politically charged battle that is immigration reform. Some see the position as one grounded in moral principles, in which the dignity of people is more important than their legal status. Others question the propriety of a faith-based organization, whose main mission is evangelization and the spiritual welfare of its flock, planting itself so squarely in the...

WESTWOOD ONE LAUNCHES THE MONICA CROWLEY SHOW --New Program to Air Saturdays, Noon - 3 p.m. ET-- Beginning Saturday, April 1, 2006 New York, NY Monday, Mar 20, 2006 - Westwood One (NYSE: WON) is proud to announce the national launch of The Monica Crowley Show, the three-hour talk program hosted by author and news personality Monica Crowley. The show begins Saturday, April 1, 2006, and will air from noon to 3 p.m. ET. The Monica Crowley Show will debut on major market stations across the country including: WABC-AM New York, WTKK-FM Boston and WTNT-AM Washington DC. The show will...

LOS ANGELES (March 6) - Rock act Mute Math is so frustrated at being branded a Christian band by Warner Music Group's Christian outlet Word Records, it has taken matters into its own hands, self-releasing its debut album Feb. 1. And last September, Billboard has learned, Teleprompt Records -- a label co-founded by Mute Math keyboardist Paul Meany -- filed suit against Warner Bros. Records and Word. The suit is for breach of contract and negligent misrepresentation, and seeks punitive damages. Warner, however, might be somewhat pardoned for the marketing approach. Mute Math was formed by Meany, formerly of the...

NEW YORK For nearly three decades, hip-hop relics such as vinyl records, turntables, microphones and boom boxes have collected dust in boxes and attics. On Tuesday, owners of such items _ including pioneering hip-hop artists such as Afrika Bambaataa, DJ Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash and Fab 5 Freddy _ will blow that dust off and carry them to a Manhattan hotel to turn them over to National Museum of American History officials. The museum, part of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., is announcing its plans to embark on a collecting initiative, "Hip-Hop Won't Stop: the Beat, the Rhymes, the...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Groovy is over, hip is square, far out is long gone. Don't worry, though - it's cool. "Cool" remains the gold standard of slang in the 21st century, as reliable as a blue-chip stock, surviving like few expressions ever in our constantly evolving language. It has kept its cool through the centuries - even as its meaning changed drastically. How cool is that? Way cool, say experts who interpret slang for their messages about society. "Cool is certainly a charter member for the slang hall of fame," says Robert Thompson, a Syracuse University professor of popular...

Psalm 67: 1-4 God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause His face to shine upon us; Selah. That Thy way may be known upon earth, Thy saving health among all nations. Let the people praise Thee, O God; Let all the people praise Thee. O let the nations be glad and sing for joy; for Thou shalt judge the people righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Selah.

AL KHAFFAJIYAH, Iraq (Nov. 8, 2005) -- While many Marines use the cover of darkness to secretly infiltrate and secure cities and towns across Iraq, Lance Cpl. Pedro L. Rangel is doing his best to be seen and heard. The 21-year-old, Merrillville, Ind., native, with Regimental Combat Team 2, uses a mobile loud speaker to blare messages to local Iraqis once coalition forces have entered a city. “A lot of times we’ll sneak into a town late at night when everyone is sleeping so no one knows we’re there.” Rangel said. “But early the next morning, I’m usually out and...

MOSCOW — Who is that man in the neat black suit? Who is he really, when he just figures the heck with it, and says what he thinks? In those moments, President Vladimir V. Putin has been redefining the language of the Kremlin in a very personal way, and in the process offering a peek into his Russian soul. He doesn't spin off folk sayings or bang his shoe like Khrushchev. He doesn't mumble unintelligibly like Brezhnev. He doesn't talk village lingo like Gorbachev or overdo the vodka toasts like Yeltsin. "The first normal person to lead Russia," was...

In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day". nugatory \NOO-guh-tor-ee; NYOO-\, adjective 1. Trifling; insignificant; inconsequential.2. Having no force; inoperative; ineffectual. Jacoby's offense was no offense -- or an error so nugatory as to demand no more than a one-sentence explanation.Lance Morrow, "In Boston, a Foolish Consistency of Little Minds," Time, July 19, 2000 Socialism no longer restrains; trade unions do so much less than they did; moral inhibitions over the acquisition and display of wealth are nugatory.--John Lloyd, "If not...

Incorporating Ebonics into a new school policy that targets black students, the lowest-achieving group in the San Bernardino City Unified School District, may provide students a more well-rounded curriculum, said a local sociologist. The goal of the district's policy is to improve black students' academic performance by keeping them interested in school. Compared with other racial groups in the district, black students go to college the least and have the most dropouts and suspensions. Blacks make up the second largest racial group in the district, trailing Latinos. A pilot of the policy, known as the Students Accumulating New Knowledge Optimizing...

Several years ago, I wrote "Opening Up to OpenOffice.org: Finding an Alternative to Microsoft Word" -- my most quoted article. At that time OpenOffice.org (OOo) was barely known, so I confined myself to highlights. Now that OOo is starting to be used in business, a more detailed look seems overdue. Accordingly, I compared the beta of OOo Writer 2.0 with Microsoft Word 2003. Both are adequate for most users' purposes, so I focused on functions that power users are likely to want: Click here! * Styles * Templates * Outlining * Bulleted and numbered lists * Tables * Headers and...

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At a time when the public display and discourse about matters of faith have been under attack, a new poll indicates most Americans – 63 percent – believe the Bible is literally true and the Word of God. The survey taken Thursday and Friday by Rasmussen Reports found just 24 percent thinking otherwise. When broken down into different demographics, the poll showed 77 percent of Republicans believe in the literal truth of the Bible as do 59 percent of Democrats and 50 percent of those not affiliated with either major party. Among Evangelical Christians, 89 percent believe the Bible is...

World economy 'is headed for slowdown’ By Malcolm Moore, Economics Correspondent (Filed: 07/04/2005) The global economy is at a “turning point” and will start to slow after growing at the fastest pace for four years, the World Bank warned yesterday. Last year, the world’s economy expanded at 3.8pc, led by the United States, China, India and Russia, according to the Global Development Finance report. Developing countries saw their economies grow by 6.6pc – the fastest rate in 30 years – but the World Bank said the good times would soon be over. “2004 was an exceptional year for developing countries....

StrategyPage's Military Photos Return to Military Photos IndexTwo JDAMs At Once on the Same Target In Iraq, a JDAM explodes as another, headed for the same aiming point, plunges into the dust and rubble. A common tactic with JDAMs GPS guided bombs is to drop two bombs on the same target, releasing the second as quickly as possible after the first. Sometimes this is done to make sure a vital target gets taken out, in case there is a malfunction ( about ten percent of the time there is a fuse or guidance system failure.) At other times, two...

One of the universe's great mysteries, how we came to exist, has been solved. Astronomers have long wondered why the infant universe did not simply spread out evenly after the Big Bang 14 billion years ago, creating a cosmos filled with nothing more than a uniform mist of matter. Instead, matter mysteriously clumped together, forming stars, galaxies, planets - and finally us. A team of 30 Australian and British astronomers has found the "missing link" between the early fog-like universe and the lumpy one we see today. Using the 3.9 metre Anglo-Australian Telescope at Siding Spring, near Coonabarabran, the team...

We read that "Prime Minister" Mahmoud Abbas is running in the elections on Sunday to succeed Yasser Arafat as "president" of "Palestine."Excuse me, but prime minister, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica, means the "head of the executive branch of government in states with a parliamentary system." Despite tens of thousands of references to Mr. Abbas as prime minister, he in not a single way fits this description.Oh, and there is also the matter of there being no country called Palestine. Arab maps show it in place of Israel. The U.N. recognizes its existence. So too do certain telephone companies –...

Come now, Macarius (worthy of that name), and true lover of Christ, let us follow up the faith of our religion, and set forth also what relates to the Word's becoming Man, and to His divine Appearing amongst us, which Jews traduce and Greeks laugh to scorn, but we worship; in order that, all the more for the seeming low estate of the Word, your piety toward Him may be increased and multiplied. For the more He is mocked among the unbelieving, the more witness does He give of His own Godhead; inasmuch as He not only Himself demonstrates as...

CHICAGO (Nov. 11) - It's a lesson children learn even before their ABCs - say you're sorry when you hurt someone. But it's now being taught in the grown-up world of medicine as a surprisingly powerful way to soothe patients and head off malpractice lawsuits. Some malpractice-reform advocates say an apology can help doctors avoid getting sued, especially when combined with an upfront settlement offer. The idea defies a long tradition in which doctors cultivated a Godlike image of infallibility and rarely owned up to their mistakes. The softer approach, now appearing in some medical school courses and hospital policies,...

If my life does not match up with what God's Word says about my life, the problem is not God's Word. The problem is me. For generations now the church has been systematically molding and shaping scripture to fit the experiences of man. We no longer look to God's Word as our absolute source of truth, but rather we look to our life experiences and put our faith in these, and then make God's Word fit these experiences. Let me give you an example. All through scripture we read of God as a healer of the physically infirmed. He is...

This came to me in prayer at a worship service tonight For those of you who believe God still speaks today, here's what I believe he said to me.

Luke 4:4 And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God. The NIV takes out "every word of God." There are many others complete passages missing. Lets examine. 1 John 5:7, Acts 8:37 and more.