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I found this interesting Words and phrases used too often: And also This is often redundant. And/or Most of the time this construction is used, it is neither necessary nor logical. Try using one word or the other. As to whether The single word whether will suffice. Basically, essentially, totally These words seldom add anything useful to a sentence. Try the sentence without them and, almost always, you will see the sentence improve. Considered to be Eliminate the to be and, unless it's important who's doing the considering, try to eliminate the entire phrase. Due to the fact that Using this phrase is a sure sign that your sentence is in trouble. Did you mean because? Etc. This word often suggests a kind of laziness. It might be better to provide one more example to suggest that you could've written more, but chose not to. He/she is a monstrous convention. Use he or she or pluralize (where appropriate) so you can avoid the problem of the gender-specific pronoun altogether. Firstly, secondly, thirdly, etc. Number things with first, second, third, etc. and not with these adverbial forms. Got Avoid this ugly word whenever possible. I have got to must begin studying right away. I have got two pairs of sneakers. In terms of See if you can eliminate this phrase. Irregardless No one word will get you in trouble with the boss faster than this one. Lots or lots of In academic prose, avoid these colloquialisms when you can use many or much. Remember, when you do use these words, that lots of something countable are plural. Remember, too, that a lot of requires three words: "He spent a lot of money" (not alot of). Just Use only when you need it, as in just the right amount. Necessitate It's hard to imagine a situation that would necessitate the use of this word. Of Don't write should of, could of when you mean should have, could have. On account of Use because instead. Only Look out for placement. Don't write "He only kicked that ball ten yards" when you mean "He kicked that ball only ten yards." Plus Don't use this word as a conjunction. Use and instead. Point in time Forget it! At this time or at this point or now will do the job. Previous as in "our previous discussion." Use earlier or nothing at all. So as to Usually, a simple to will do. Suppose to, use to. The hard "d" sound in supposed to and used to disappears in pronunciation, but it shouldn't disappear in spelling. "We used to do that" or "We were supposed to do it this way." The reason why is because. Deja vu all over again! Thru This nonstandard spelling of through should not be used in academic prose. Try and Don't try and do something. Try to do something. Thusly Use thus or therefore instead. Utilize Don't use this word where use would suffice. (Same goes for utilization.) Very, really, quite (and other intensifiers) Like basically, these words seldom add anything useful. Try the sentence without them and see if it improves. I'm guilty of the justs and the quites heres a neat lil guide http://library.thinkquest.org/10679/english/eng_main.html

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here ya go http://www.epa.gov/owow/wetlands/vital/toc.html

WASHINGTON - Saying they share a moral purpose, a group of evangelicals and scientists committed themselves Wednesday to work together to convince the nation’s leaders that global warming is real.The Rev. Rich Cizik, public policy director for the National Association of Evangelicals, and Nobel-laureate Eric Chivian, director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, were among 28 signers of a statement that demands urgent changes in values, lifestyles and public policies to avert disastrous changes in climate. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16677104/

SACRAMENTO, Aug. 30 — California’s political leaders announced an agreement on Wednesday that imposes the most sweeping controls on carbon dioxide emissions in the nation, putting the state at the forefront of a broad campaign to curb the man-made causes of climate change despite resistance in Washington. The deal between the Democratic-controlled Legislature and the Republican governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, calls for a 25 percent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions by 2020, and could establish controls on the largest industrial sectors, including utilities, oil refineries and cement plants. The state has already placed strict limits on automobile emissions, although that move is being challenged in federal court. The Bush administration has rejected the idea of similar national controls on carbon dioxide emissions, and efforts to get Congressional approval for such firm caps on emissions have repeatedly been defeated. Although the deal in California is strongly opposed by Republicans in the Legislature and many business leaders across the state, it assures that a bill on the restrictions will be passed before the legislative session ends Thursday and will be signed by Mr. Schwarzenegger, the leaders said Wednesday. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/31/washington/31warming.html?ex=1314676800&en=73ac6c1cd03cb13f&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

WASHINGTON - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sought to create a special committee Thursday in an effort to jump-start long-delayed government efforts to deal with global warming and produce a bill by Independence Day. Pelosi, D-Calif., said she would ask the House for a vote to set up the committee. She wants it to hold hearings and recommend legislation on how to reduce greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide generated by fossil fuels, that most scientists blame for a gradual warming of the earth’s climate. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16676437/

Updated: 4:16 p.m. ET Jan 19, 2007 function UpdateTimeStamp(pdt) { var n = document.getElementById("udtD"); if(pdt != '' && n && window.DateTime) { var dt = new DateTime(); pdt = dt.T2D(pdt); if(dt.GetTZ(pdt)) {n.innerHTML = dt.D2S(pdt,((''.toLowerCase()=='false')?false:true));} } } UpdateTimeStamp('633048381986270000'); WASHINGTON - Major corporations and environmental groups on Friday announced what they called an "unprecedented alliance" to push for quicker action against global warming — urging lawmakers to pass mandatory curbs on carbon emissions, in contrast to President Bush's voluntary approach. In a statement, the 10 U.S.-based companies and four environmental groups called for mandatory reductions of greenhouse gas emissions, including those from power plants, transportation and buildings. Called the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, the group includes aluminum giant Alcoa, BP America, Caterpillar, DuPont, General Electric, Lehman Brothers and four utilities with a big stake in climate policy: Duke Energy, FPL Group, PG&E and PNM Resources. The environmental partners are Environmental Defense, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Pew Center on Global Climate Change and the World Resources Institute. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16708004/ more later

Federal wetlands regulators have dropped a bombshell on environmentalists with a little-publicized proposal to relax restrictions on filling in certain wetlands along the entire Mississippi Gulf Coast to speed recovery from Hurricane Katrina.“It’s unethical, illegal, immoral, unsustainable and they’re simply doing it to make the fat cats richer faster,” said Derrick Evans, executive director of a Gulfport, Miss., community group that plans to fight the proposal by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Corps’ proposal would allow property owners and developers to skirt the conventional "regional general permit" process for any projects that fill up to 5 acres of “low-quality” wetlands in the six southernmost Mississippi counties. Especially galling to environmentalists: The new process would also eliminate the requirement for public notice of such projects. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15305378/

Democrats: Buying Mideast oil gives cash to dictators POSTED: 12:08 p.m. EST, January 20, 2007 http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/20/Dems.radio.ap/index.html HELENA, Montana (AP) -- Montana's Democratic governor says President Bush is wrong on Iraq and has failed to recognize the importance of energy independence. Gov. Brian Schweitzer, who learned Arabic while building irrigation projects in the Middle East for six years, said political solutions are needed in the region. "Mr. President, there are animosities between Sunni and Shiite people in the Middle East that have developed over centuries," Schweitzer said Saturday in the Democrats' weekly radio address. "Outsiders cannot resolve this conflict unless the Iraqi people want security and freedom at least as much as us." The governor urged the Bush administration not to embed American troops with the Iraqi army, beside what he called "untested and potentially corrupt members of the Iraqi military." Schweitzer also argued that American energy independence is the only way to ensure the country doesn't have to continue fighting wars in the Middle East. Options: Biodiesel, wind power, liquid fuels, ethanol The governor touted his support for biodiesel and his efforts to increase wind power in Montana and develop new liquid fuels from coal. He also pointed to the efforts of others to develop more ethanol. "We have enough energy resources and green technology in the United States to enable us to stop relying on foreign dictators to supply us with fuel," Schweitzer said. "Along with a smart strategy in Iraq, our energy independence can make us stronger and safer." Schweitzer said the country uses 6.5 billion barrels of oil a year, while only producing 2.5 billion barrels. The rest comes from "some of the world's worst dictators." Instead, the nation should cut back on 1 billion barrels through conservation, produce another 1 billion barrels of biofuels, and 2 billion barrels from turning coal into liquid fuel. "We can achieve energy independence in 10 years, create a whole new industry with hundreds of thousands of high-paying jobs, and you'll never have to send children and grandchildren to war in the Middle East again," Schweitzer said. "Mr. President, let's create hundreds of thousands of jobs in America by producing our own clean fuels -- bring our men and women home -- and stop spending money in Iraq."

I'd love to be able to do that X'D

since one of em busted at Enies Lobby, Zoro needs a new sword. How about one made from seastone? It would make it possible for him to fight (and kill) DF users like Smoker

I havent found anything to review the cut scenes. I was doing sidequest crap but.... eh...lame and annoying I put the game on the shelf and went back to playing X for the twenty-something time. (but I found myself trying to move the camera ) 12 had great graphix for the enviroment but the charas were pretty dogass ugly. ><

LONDON, England (AP) -- The world has nudged closer to a nuclear apocalypse and environmental disaster, a trans-Atlantic group of prominent scientists warned Wednesday, pushing the hand of its symbolic Doomsday Clock two minutes closer to midnight. It was the fourth time since the end of the Cold War that the clock has ticked forward, this time from 11:53 to 11:55, amid fears over what the scientists are describing as "a second nuclear age" prompted largely by atomic standoffs with Iran and North Korea. But the organization added that the "dangers posed by climate change are nearly as dire as those posed by nuclear weapons." (Watch as the hands of time are moved closer to global disaster ) The Chicago-based Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, founded in 1945 as a newsletter distributed among nuclear physicists concerned by the possibility of nuclear war, has since grown into an organization focused more generally on manmade threats to the survival of human civilization. "As scientists, we understand the dangers of nuclear weapons and their devastating effects, and we are learning how human activities and technologies are affecting climate systems in ways that may forever change life on Earth," said Stephen Hawking, the renowned cosmologist and mathematician. "As citizens of the world, we have a duty to alert the public to the unnecessary risks that we live with every day, and to the perils we foresee if governments and societies do not take action now to render nuclear weapons obsolete and to prevent further climate change." The bulletin's clock, which for 60 years has followed the rise and fall of nuclear tensions, would now also measure climate change, the bulletin's editor Mark Strauss told The Associated Press. "There's a realization that we are changing our climate for the worse," he said, "That would have catastrophic effects. Although the threat is not as dire as that of nuclear weapons right now, in the long term we are looking at a serious threat." The threat of nuclear war, however, remains by far the organization's most pressing concern. "It's important to emphasize 50 of today's nuclear weapons could kill 200 million people," he said. The decisions to move the clock is made by the bulletin's board, which is composed of prominent scientists and policy experts, in coordination with the group's sponsors. (Watch growing chorus pushing Bush to act on global warming ) Since it was set to seven minutes to midnight in 1947, the hand has been moved 18 times, including Wednesday's move. It came closest to midnight -- just two minutes away -- in 1953, following the successful test of a hydrogen bomb by the United States. It has been as far away as 17 minutes, set there in 1991 following the demise of the Soviet Union. http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/01/17/doomsday.clock.ap/index.html and http://www.thebulletin.org/

so... of course I emailed my represenatives and the news The new ban on smoking with minors in your car is a total violation of privacy and a devious way for police to issue more tickets. I am absolutely outraged something so invasive could be made a law. People are responsible for their children until Child Protective (who will be busy investigating Suzy Soccer Mom for smoking in her SUV bringing the kids home from pratice) deems them unfit. How can you issue tickets involving endangering minors without a CPU follow up investigation?!? They think they're going to make even more off of smokers (as if the tax doesnt rape us enough) with these tickets. It will end up a nightmare of unnecessary investigations and very angry people. Put a stop to this violating law. grrrrrrrrrrrr:x

It just makes sense that if a person is ticketed and it involves a minor, Child Protective has to investigate the person. It would be an insane waste of money to be sending social workers out to antagonize 100 Suzie SUV's. the invistigations arent free, tax money pays for them and these mo fo's salery. Dont you think CPU has better things to do then harass smokers????

NY likes to consider itself a progressive state. Its more like a butt the fuck into my business and dick ppl (esp poor/minorities) around kind of place. First they banned smoking in eateries. That was fine ppl like to taste the food their eating not a ciggy when they eat; this applies to smokers too. That went well so it was onto all other public places. Mostly that was fine too but shit hit the fan when they banned smoking in bars. Sorry but thats just fuckin stupid. As if it wernt bad enough that the tax on ciggies (bringing them up to about 5 bucks a pack) was driving all of these little mom and pop corner groceries out of business (they survive mostly on beer and ciggy sales. now most ppl that can go to the res for their butts do) Bars did terrible with the new ban. Many applied for special permits to allow smoking in their places. Hooray now we have drunks hanging out outside the bars howling down the street when they come out to smoke. Oh yeah much better. Now its the 'ban smoking in cars w/ ppl under 18' movement, this piece of shit legislation has even passed in a few places here in CNY. Yo, can you say invasion of privacy? The same fuckin kids in the car are gonna breath in smoke at home uh duh. How many ppl do you know that smoke in a car w/ all the windows up? Lemme see, I know ZERO and just about everybody I know puffs. Suppose ya get pulled over for having a smoke while ushering the kids home from whatever. Is that cop who tickets you also going to call Child Protective? Smoking with the crumb snatchers in the car is illegal right? It involves minors right? Don't that mean CPU has to investigate? Uhh yeah Fucking bitch rediclious. I think there are better ways to spend the taxpayers money other then harassing moms like making sure the fucking kids in the car have a world left to live in that isn't total shit Build a fucking windmill and leave smokers the hell alone. Enough is enough.

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when and where? I've been weather watching for years. this here message board is a great way to keep track of stuff like that. ppl love to complaine about uncharacteristic weather for their area

as long as you can be in charge of the relationship fellow Leo it should be fine X'D

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dress in layers! sux for ya duder glad ya got yer heat back

old skool (catholic and cristian) churchies refuse to think of Jesus as a human being. they insist he was devine from conception following that line of 'logic' they vehemently insist he never lead a 'normal' life with a wife and kids etc. they think of portraying Christ as married/having an intimate relationship w Mary of Magdela as an insult. Stories of Mary being the holy grail weren't invented by Brown, just exploited for prophit by the author.