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12/05/2006. 764. A lady friend and I went to a home improvement store to shop for some utility cabinets to supplement the cabinets in the kitchen of my new apartment. She also has a vehicle with enough room to transport a large box. We picked out an assemble-yourself free-standing cabinet. I went to get a cart, and she flagged down a couple employees to load it on our cart. One of them spoke with an accent, so I asked where he was from. He said Senegal, and his co-worker was from Senegal too.I asked Parlez vous francais?, and he said oui. I then asked Parlez vous Wolof? and he said oui. He then asked, in French, if I spoke Wolof, and I said Tuuti Wolof rek laa degg which means I only speak a little Wolof.I offered them the Book of Mormon in French, and our Sunday School manual in Wolof, and they agreed to see them. I said we’d pay for the cabinet, take it out, and come back with the books. I gave them my calling card and a home-made pass-along card in case we couldn’t find them later.Oh, and it might have helped that my lady friend is from Africa too. She’s one of the stalwards of the local LDS community. She and her family have been members for over 27 years.We got the cabinet out to her vehicle, and I retrieved the books from my car. I got them French and English Books of Mormon, Wolof and English copies of the Joseph Smith testimony pamphlet, and Wolof copies of Gospel Fundamentals. My car inventory was out of English Gospel Fundamentals, and I’ve lost track of them in the move. The local info-flyer with the chapels and meeting times was in all the books.We went back in and found them again, and presented the books to them. They were very very pleased. One of them said jere jeff to me which is Wolof for thank-you. And when I replied amul solo, which is Wolof for youre welcome”, they seemed even more happy.Ill have to find my English Gospel Fundamentals and go back, and invite them to visit church.Labels: French, Wolof
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1) I got really busy at work, 2) I was planning a wedding, which takes of loads of time and loads of personal financial decisions (in which I should have been blogging about), 3) I lost focus of why I was blogging. New items surrounding FPF consist of a new job coming 12/18, new education search - part time MBA or MS in Accounting upcoming in the near future, and back to studying for the CPA exam, which I got away from for the past 3 years.
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Apparently the edict will be implemented as soon as possible (in three days’ time.) Shops, tea houses and other public places in Bulo Burto, 124 miles north-east of the capital, Mogadishu, should be closed during prayer time and no-one should be on the streets, said Sheik Hussein Barre Rage, the chairman of the town’s Islamic court.  Technorati tags: shariah law, islamic court, somalia, muslim, islam, mogadishu, sheik hussein barre rage, islamic prayer, Sunnis, Five Pillars of Islam, Shi’a, Jihad

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American change was found in two states, Texas and New Jersey and in one foreign country (Ireland).Monthly Total: 2.02Change Cycle Days: 3Dollar Days: 3Monthly High: .20 (November 3rd)Monthly Low: 1 cent (November 22st & 26th)Daily Average: 40 ish centsEurope Report:Total Foreign Coins Found: 53Total US Coins Found: 2Countries Where Finds Were Made: 6 (Ireland, Italy, Czech Republic, Hungary, Austria, & Great Britain)Approximate Value of Foreign Finds (in US Dollars): .95Most Finds (by coin): 16 (November 26th)Fewest Finds (by coin): 2 (Multiple times)Largest Coin Found (by value in USD): 1 Euro (approximately .31)Smallest Coin Found (by value in USD): 10 H Hungarian (approximately 1/2000th of a dollar)Totals for the day: 58 centsRace Totals: 61.63

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Detroit has continued to keep the Hornets at arm’s length, now up seven at 5:40 of the period.
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The daredevil extraordinaire underwent a liver transplant in 1999 after a long battle with hepatitis C, rumored to be contracted during a blood transfusion after one of his spectacular crashes in his early years.
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See highlighted map.The Texas Department of Transportation in cooperation with the Federal Highway Administration released its Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the proposed Trans-Texas Corridor project, last week saying it will make transportation safer, faster, more reliable and provide for faster hurricane evacuation.In announcing the release of the DEIS TXxDOT says existing highways will be considered first, yet in the case of Grimes County the proposed route splits the county, east and west.The 1,072 page report, representing nearly three years of work with local officials and input from citizens through hundreds of public meetings goes into great detail explaining, among other things, the need for the highway which will stretch 650 across Texas from far south Texas to extreme northeast Texas.The report recommends additional detailed examination and public comment on a narrow study area to see where I-69/TTC can be located while minimizing environmental impacts.
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Sex offender Joseph Duncan pleads guilty to killing three in deal with prosecutors!! Thank God Shasta gets spared from trial! The Groene Family thanks U all For your prayers! =^.^=

PLEADS GUILTY ON ALL 10 CHARGES!!!!!!

ANATOMY OF A PLEA DEAL
Defense’s Offer
Joseph Duncan’s lawyer offered in this letter to prosecutors that his client would admit to murder and molestation if the death penalty was taken off the table. The offer was rejected.
State’s Counter-Offer
Prosecutors came back with a list of demands Duncan was to meet if he wanted to avoid trial, including facing the death penalty and not calling Shasta Groene to testify.
Plea Deal Announcment
Prosecutors announced a plea deal with Joseph Edward Duncan III on Oct. 16, 2006, the same day jury selection was slated to begin in his murder trial.
Factual Basis
Prosecutors submitted this vivid list of facts in the case to serve as a factual basis for Duncan’s guilty plea.
SHASTA GROENE FAMILY TRAGEDY
•Oct. 16, 2006:
Plea deal announced
•Oct. 16, 2006:
Jury selection canceled
•Oct. 12, 2006:
Shasta Groene deemed competent to testify
•Oct. 6, 2006:
Victims’ father sues Joseph Duncan to prevent him from profiting off murders
•Oct. 3, 2006:
Prosecutors to seek death penalty

By Emanuella Grinberg
Court TV
A 9-year-old girl was spared the ordeal of reliving her family’s massacre after the man accused in the murders pleaded guilty Monday in a deal with Idaho prosecutors.

On the day jury selection was supposed to begin in convicted sex offender Joseph Duncan’s death penalty trial, Duncan instead pleaded guilty to three counts of first-degree murder and three counts of kidnapping for the deaths of Brenda Groene, 40, her son Slade, 13, and Brenda’s boyfriend Mark McKenzie, 37, in May 2005.

As the sole survivor of the attack, Shasta Groene was expected to testify as a key witness for the state. But the plea deal ensures that Shasta will not have to face the man she claims kidnapped and molested her and her 9-year-old brother, Dylan, after the murders.

Duncan was arrested in July 2005 at a Denny’s restaurant outside Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, where a waitress spotted him with Shasta. Dylan’s remains were discovered later at a campsite in Montana.

Because Duncans guilty pleas cannot be withdrawn, Shasta will never be required to relive the events of 2005 in a courtroom,” Kootenai County Prosecuting Attorney William Douglas said in a press release. “This case has left deep scars, and hopefully, this agreement will bring justice and closure to our community.”

In an agreement reached over the weekend, Duncan, 43, will receive three consecutive life sentences on the kidnapping charges, which stem from the manner in which Duncan detained the victims before their deaths. His sentencing on the murder charges has been delayed until the completion of his case in federal court for crimes that allegedly occurred against Shasta and Dylan Groene after they were kidnapped from the familys home.link

: 8 Men Claim Encounters With Craig
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Eight men say they either had sex with Sen. Larry Craig or were targets of sexual advances by the Idaho lawmaker at various times during his political career, a newspaper reported.
One of the men is the former escort whose allegations disgraced the Rev. Ted Haggard, former president of the National Association of Evangelicals, the Idaho Statesman reported Sunday.
The newspaper identified four men and reported details of the encounters they say involved Craig. It also reported the accounts of four other men who did not agree to be identified but who described sexual advances or encounters involving the conservative Republican, who opposes same-sex marriage and has a strong record against gay rights.
Craig pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct after being accused by an undercover officer of soliciting sex at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport and later called a news conference to deny that he is gay.
The newspaper acknowledged that its report was not based on definitive evidence but said it also found no evidence to disprove the accounts of the four identified men. It said it reviewed the senator’s travel records, which put him where the sex is alleged to have taken place, and did background checks on those making the allegations.
Craig and members of his staff declined to comment to the newspaper.
But in a statement e-mailed to The Associated Press on Sunday, the senator said the newspaper’s report was completely false and he accused the paper of careless journalism.
It is unfortunate that the Idaho Statesman has chosen to continue to lower itself to the standards of what can best be described as tabloid journalism, Craig said in the statement.
Despite the fact the Idaho Statesman has decided to pursue its own agenda and print these falsehoods without any facts to back them up, I wont let this papers attempt to malign my name stop me from continuing my work to serve the people of Idaho.
The report is the Statesman’s latest on allegations about Craig’s sexual background since his June arrest in an airport men’s room sex sting operation was reported in late August.
Statesman Editor Vicki Gowler said the newspaper spent several months checking the backgrounds and details of the men’s stories.
We believe its important for you to know what weve learned and to hear the mens own words,” Gowler said.
Two of the identified men and one of the unidentified men told the newspaper they had sex with Craig.
One of the men identified in the report, Mike Jones, 50, described as a former male escort, was the focus of the sex scandal involving Haggard, the disgraced leader of Colorados New Life Church.link

The greatest gift a parent can give a child during all the ups and downs of life is love - Doc Childre

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He also contracted hepatitis C from a blood transfusion 15 years go, following a horrific spill.The news of Knievel’s death comes just days after the stuntman and Kanye West amicably settled a trademark-infringement lawsuit, filed by Knievel against West, during a recent meeting at Knievel’s home in Tampa, Florida.
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-ne The music scene in Arabia is having a fairly dire time of it. This could be blamed on the fact that most Arabic music is undeniably dire, but among people of dire taste, this should be no issue. It begins with black-and-white footage of a woman listening to the radio in the 1950s, leading into various music video clips of cheesy, straining, moustachioed crooners, followed by a few higher-energy examples of what appears to be the Arab world’s Bucks Fizz. The number of pale-face brats sitting down and discussing the Everly Brothers with Mummy and Daddy can be counted on the fingers of a fingerless hand.The radio people are honest about the lack of variety in Arabic music.
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-ne This was a response to a slashdot post on the subject of same-sex marriage, where the poster was claiming that the term marriage already has a well known definition The legal union of a man and woman as husband and wife (from the dictionary?) and I gather because the term legal was used that makes it a common-knowledge legal definition. I resurrected it here because it’s an ongoing news subject…——————————————————The point is not whether or not there is an existing definition of marriage, but that the existing definition is prejudicial in that it doesn’t apply equally to everyone.In fact, the above definition of marriage is inherently prejudicially exclusive in that it presumes that every human individual is either a man or a woman. Apparently, even that is too much intermediacy for marriage to apply, at least in some quarters– suggesting that the percentages of maleness or femaleness required on each side for marriage to be allowed are quite high.And finally, does love have anything at all to do with marriage given the kind of constraints some people would apparently apply?IMHO– How better could we undermine the institution of marriage then to withhold it from certain classes of persons?
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My mother-in-law just forwarded an article to me titled Are CDs forever?”.

Article: Are CDs Forever? Maybe Not

Defective CDs

The article basically states that experts are finding that CDs are not lasting as long as expected when they came on the market. They were supposed to last a lifetime, but now we are finding that some CDs will not last a this long. A CD could last 5 minutes if you drop it and it breaks or if it is sratched very badly. A CD could last 40 years if you keep it in its case and always handle the disc by the edges . . . here is my response to the article:

. . . If you keep your CD’s in their cases when not in use and keep them clean, that they will last a long time. CD’s last longer and work better than any other medium for music and sound.

Records, when they are new, sound fantastic, but nobody can ignore the fact that they deteriorate and the sound quality gets worse each time you play them. If dust gets on a record, when played it will crackle and pop. Records warp and become unplayable if they get too hot. Old records (pre 1960) become brittle and can break easily(i.e. shatter into many tiny pieces!).

Cassette tapes sound horrible. They sound worse and worse the more times they are played and the older they get. They can be totally destroyed if a cassette player randomly decides to eat them. Cassettes seem to last about 5-15 years, depending how often they are played and how well they are taken care of. After that they are almost worthless (in my opinion), because the sound quality is so poor. Cassettes (also VHS tapes and data tapes) are very sensitive to humidity. If they are not stored properly, they can become moldy and deteriorate in as little as 1 year (I have seen this happen!).

CD’s (and DVD’s), if well taken care of (stored in a case when not in use, not scratched or handled on the surface, and kept clean), should last AT LEAST 15 - 25 years (in my experience). They will always sound just as good as they did the first time you listened to them.

Consumer recordable CD’s (and DVD’s) have only been around for maybe 10 years now, so only time will tell how long these will last, but studies have shown that by burning CD’s at slower speeds of 2x - 4x, the music/data on the disc is likely to last much longer than burning at higher speeds.
How Permanent is CD-R Media?

When CD’s came out, they were supposed to last forever. Humans are always looking for something that will last forever but, as we know, nothing lasts forever. When you compare CD’s to cassette tapes and vinyl records, it is obvious that CD’s are the longest lasting medium we have now. CD’s last longer and sound infinitely better after a long period of time than do cassettes and vinyl. Until the next big thing comes along, CD’s and DVD’s are currently the best choice for storing music, video, pictures and data.
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