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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/01/health/0...html?ref=health CAIRO — Egypt has begun forcibly slaughtering the country’s pig herds as a precaution against swine flu, a move that the United Nations described as “a real mistake” and one that is prompting anger among the country’s pig farmers. The decision, announced Wednesday, is already adding new strains to the tense relations between Egypt’s majority Muslims and its Coptic Christians. Most of Egypt’s pig farmers are Christians, and some accuse the government of using swine flu fears to punish them economically. According to World Health Organization officials, the decision to kill pigs has no scientific basis. “We don’t see any evidence that anyone is getting infected from pigs,” said Dr. Keiji Fukuda, the World Health Organization’s assistant director general. “This appears to be a virus which is moving from person to person.” The outbreak has been dubbed swine flu — now officially called influenza A(H1N1) — because scientists believe it started in pigs, but they do not know if that was recently or years ago. The name change was designed to allay fears about pigs and eating pork. Egypt has not reported any cases of the new virus that has hit 11 other nations, but the country has been hard hit by avian flu. The great majority of Egyptians are Muslim and do not eat pork because of religious restrictions, but about 10 percent of the population is Coptic Christian. As a result, Egyptian pig farmers are overwhelmingly Christian. And although some of the country’s Christians are middle class or wealthy, the Christian farmers are generally poor. On Thursday, several urban pig farmers in Cairo said they see the government’s decision as just another expression of Egyptian Muslims’ resentment against Christians. Last year, there were several violent incidents that some believed were aimed at Christians, including the kidnapping and beating of monks. The Egyptian government denied the incidents had sectarian overtones, saying they were each part of other disputes, including a fight over land. Barsoum Girgis, a 26-year-old pig farmer, lives in a poor neighborhood, Manshiet Nasser, built along the Mukatam cliffs on the eastern end of the city where most of the ramshackle, red-brick buildings were built illegally. Mr. Girgis makes his living through a combination of raising pigs and collecting garbage — two professions that are often tied together in a city where garbage collection can be an informal affair and where poor farmers rely on food scraps to feed their livestock. He wakes up every morning around 4 a.m. to collect garbage around the city. When he gets back to Manshiet Nasser, at around 9 a.m., he sorts the trash, putting aside what can be sold at the city’s booming scrap markets and what he can use as pig feed. “The government here is going after our livelihood,” he said, nervously playing with a wooden cross he wears around his neck. “These pigs are perfectly healthy. How am I going to feed my children and send them to school without my livestock?” Mr. Girgis lives with his extended family, about 30 people, in the first two floors of a building that leans against a cliff. His 60 small pigs live on the ground floor. They have dark, furry skin, and their squeals can be heard a block away from Mr. Girgis’ home. Many of Cairo’s pig farmers live in similar conditions, sharing their small spaces in the teeming city with their animals. After international health officials criticized Egypt’s decision to kill about 300,000 pigs, the Agriculture Ministry’s head of infectious diseases, Saber Abdel Aziz Galal, explained that the cull was “a general health measure,” according to Agence France-Presse. "It is good to restructure this kind of breeding in good farms, not on rubbish," the agency quoted him as saying. “We will build new farms in special areas, like in Europe,” he said. “Within two years the pigs will return, but we need first to build new farms." It remains unclear if the government will compensate the farmers for their losses. The Health Ministry originally said the farmers would be paid, but after many in Parliament disagreed, the ministry appeared to back down. Some in Cairo, anxious over the reports of swine flu agree, with the government’s move. “Now we know there is a reason God bans pigs: they spread sickness” said Mohsen Hamady, a 50-year-old accountant who was sipping tea after work in a Cairo tea house. But many pig farmers say they do a valuable service for the rest of Cairo that will be recognized only if they stop picking up the trash. “If they take away our pigs, why would we go collect their garbage every morning?” said Marcos Shalab, a 40-year-old pig farmer in Manshiet Nasser. Mr. Girgis echoed this feeling. “We are Christian, and we are the underclass, so it’s very easy to go after us. But this city relies on us to process its waste. It relies on the pigs.”

That second quote is definitely from the original series. I need to let the details surface in my brain. Ok, they surfaced. Kirk was on trial for killing a crewman. But the crewman faked his own death, and faked the footage of Kirk pushing the button. They moved the trial to the Enterprise, and McCoy used a common microphone/delicate medical instrument to delete the sounds of their heartbeats, leaving the sound of one heartbeat on the ship- the "dead guy".

http://xkcd.com/574/

There are more than 2 different events. As I understand them-and I can lay it out verse by verse when I have time- the order of events goes as follows: 1) right now 2) the Blessed Hope, aka the Rapture, aka our Gathering Together unto him (which leaves everyone on Earth who is living but not born again) 3) the Tribulation (7 years, includes many events, outlined in Revelation, including the Great Tribulation, and the Day of God's Wrath of Revelation 6) 4) the Glorious Appearing (Revelation 19)- the first VISIBLE appearance of Jesus to Earth since the Ascension, accompanies by those of the Blessed Hope/Rapture & various angels 5) A big fight immediately follows. 6) The Resurrection of the Just, aka the First Resurrection, aka the better Resurrection, aka the Resurrection of Life. That's when all those "righteous" not Born Again are selected out. (Like the saints of the Tribulation, and John the Baptist, and the Old Testament saints, and so on.) (Early Revelation 20.) 7) The imprisonment of the devil for 1000 years. 8) 1000 years later, the devil is released, and the last battle occurs, ending with the Lake of Fire. 9) After the battle comes the Second Resurrection, aka, the Resurrection of the Unjustified, aka the Resurrection of Judgement. At that time, the last of those selected by God are gathered, and those NOT selected by God are gathered, and the unrighteous get destroyed in the Lake of Fire, while the righteous are NOT. 10) The new Heaven and New Earth of Revelation 21 and so on. In none of those events do I see us remaining permanently in Heaven. We stop there during the Tribulation and Day of Wrath, but otherwise accompany Jesus. He seems to relocate to the new Earth. If that's where he is, then that's where we are. This all became a lot clearer to me when I made two realizations: A) One verse in the Gospels that calls one Resurrection the Resurrection of LIFE, and the other the Resurrection of DAMNATION. HOWEVER, the Greek word is the same Greek word translated JUDGEMENT in other verses. Some translator decided to render "judgement" as "condemnation" in some places, and "damnation" in other places, deciding by himself what those judgements would render. Once I saw that, I made the second realization. B) The Gathering Together/Blessed Hope/Rapture is very different from either Resurrection. The First Resurrection is very different from the Second Resurrection. In the GT/BH/R, there is "judgement", but no one's life is hazarded-their reward is at stake. In the First Resurrection, the "judgement" is similar (the other circumstances differ greatly.) In the Second Resurrection, the "judgement" is a full "judgement", with examination of the deeds of most of humanity, and actual decisions as to their dispositions are made. (Read the 2nd half of Revelation 20 for a pretty straightforward description.) Those who are judged unworthy are destroyed in the Lake of Fire. Those who are judged worthy (remember, they weren't born again and weren't saints of the Tribulation or the OT) are called righteous and enter into a kingdom.... DESPITE NOT BEING BELIEVERS IN CHRIST OR YHWH. Preposterous, you say. Matthew 25:31-46. 31When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: 32And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: 33And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. 34Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: 35For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: 36Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. 37Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? 38When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? 39Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? 40And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. 41Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: 42For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: 43I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. 44Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? 45Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. 46And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal. ============= That's NOT the GT/BH/R. THIS is the GT/BH/R judgement: I Corinthians 3:10-15. 10According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. 11For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; 13Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. 14If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. 15If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire. It's not the First Resurrection, because Revelation 20:4-6 shows no DIVISION, and all the First Resurrection members are exempted from the Lake of Fire ("the second death.") 4And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. 5But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. 6Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years. The only Resurrection with ANY split is the Second Resurrection, which is why it's the Resurrection of JUDGEMENT. Revelation 20:11-15. 11And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. 12And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. 13And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. 14And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. 15And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. If they "pass" it's because of "their works". That's EXACTLY what Matthew 25 said, and it elaborated on that. Revelation 21:1-4. 1And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. 2And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. 4And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

Let's see. Male doctor eliminates ST:TNG. The year eliminates that prequel show we never watched. IIRC, TOS is also eliminated with that year reference. That leaves DS9 or Voyager with male doctors (Bashir or the EMH.) I'm dubious about it being Voyager- not because we didn't watch it much, but references to Romulans in the Delta Quadrant are rare. So, I think it's DS9, but that's all I have so far.

Can your brute out-brute my brute, on My Brute? http://bamboo-monkey.mybrute.com/

Satire IS protected under fair use. twi, as usual, rattled their sabers and bluffed. YouTube rolled over.

"Bonanza"?

It is indeed. ================ "Did you hear Wesley almost got kicked out of the academy? They caught him smoking pot!" "Pot? Ah. Marijuana - a narcotic obtained from the hemp plant. Cannabis. Weed. Mary Jane. Grass. Reefer. Panama red..." No, wait, that's not an episode quote. Your turn, George. :)

"Inquiry- the word 'snoop'?" "Data, how can you be programmed as a virtual encyclopedia of human information without knowing a simple word like 'snoop'?" "Possibility... a kind of human behavior I was not designed to emulate?" "It means 'to spy, to sneak' ... " "Ah! To seek covertly, to go stealthily, to slink, slither..." "Exactly, yes." "... to glide, creep, skulk, pussyfoot, gumshoe ..." "Actually, the issue at stake is patriotism. You must return to your world and put an end to the communists. All it takes is a few good men. " "He's using our shuttlecraft to transfer an admiral over to the Hood." "An admiral?" "He's been aboard all day, sir, checking over medical layout."

No, the DEAD LINK is still on the main page here at GreaseSpot. The thing that was here was always a hotlink to the YouTube page. When the YouTube video left, the hotlink just became cosmetic. (Click it and see. I just did to confirm this.)

Not the correct episode.

"Inquiry- the word 'snoop'?" "Data, how can you be programmed as a virtual encyclopedia of human information without knowing a simple word like 'snoop'?" "Possibility... a kind of human behavior I was not designed to emulate?" "It means 'to spy, to sneak' ... " "Ah! To seek covertly, to go stealthily, to slink, slither..." "Exactly, yes." "... to glide, creep, skulk, pussyfoot, gumshoe ..."

Then again, Paul Revere got a lot of credit for the rides of a lot of people.... William Dawes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Dawes Samuel Prescott http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Prescott the REAL long-range rider, Israel Bissell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Bissell http://boston1775.blogspot.com/2007/04/isr...-and-press.html and the Midnight Riders http://colonial-america.suite101.com/artic...s_april_19_1775 http://colonial-america.suite101.com/artic...midnight_riders

It certainly began to fill in the characters more-they had family, backgrounds, personalities, family with personalities. "I have all the specs and diagrams at home" "Dad" Rozhenko had all the layouts for the Galaxy-class ship, and visited while the Enterprise was in spacedock. "I always thought you needed a little humiliation-or was it humility" "they took everything I was--I couldn't stop them" Jean-Luc Picard, to his brother, about what the Borg did to him. " this is going to be with you a long time-live with it below the sea with Louis, or above the clouds with the Enterprise" Picard had an offer to stay and do oceanography work, and could do that or return to the Enterprise. "I still don't like you" I'm not positive about the other quotes.

It's the ST:TNG episode just after the Borg Massacre and the Federation stopping them. Worf deals with a visit from the Rozhenkos who raised him, Picard goes to LaBarre, France to visit his brother's family. Was the episode called "Family"?

The 2 best free antivirus programs (IMHO) are Avast! Home Edition and Avira Antivir. http://www.free-av.com/en/download/index.html http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html Which one is better right now keeps changing. Avast was consistently better, but last year, Avira was ranked higher by a neutral 3rd party. I've used both and have confidence in both of them. =============== You already have programs picked out for firewall, antispyware and so on?

I'm sure a lot of high-schoolers will be celebrating it, that's for sure.....

How old when joining, and how old when leaving, are both noteworthy. What year you joined, and what year you left, are both noteworthy.

*searches* Looks like, if you only go by what people are SAYING about twi, more people know it as a group that produces horrible, "so-bad-it's-funny" videos than "know it" as "the truth".

http://www.schoolhouserock.tv/Shot.html http://www-personal.umich.edu/~varnum/Stor...se.html#History "The British are coming! The British are coming!" Now, the ride of Paul Revere Set the nation on its ear, And the shot at Lexington heard 'round the world, When the British fired in the early dawn The War of Independence had begun, The die was cast, the rebel flag unfurled. And on to Concord marched the foe To seize the arsenal there you know, Waking folks searching all around Till our militia stopped them in their tracks, At the old North Bridge we turned them back And chased those Redcoats back to Boston town. And the shot heard 'round the world Was the start of the Revolution. The Minute Men were ready, on the move. Take your powder, and take your gun. Report to General Washington. Hurry men, there's not an hour to lose! http://video.barnesandnoble.com/search/pro...57826&itm=1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VQA5NDNkUM

If there's as many as 1,500 adults, I'd be shocked.

I agree- but not in the manner you meant. It was vpw's pride that poisoned twi from its earliest days- "I'm too important to farm" "I'm too important to work a full-time job" "I want everyone to listen to me" etc etc.

Oh, a few things here and there. And I've started "learning the ways of The Force", if I can use artistic license.