<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670</id><updated>2012-02-16T02:16:06.044-08:00</updated><category term='kopi luwak'/><category term='Taiwan Election News'/><category term='Nick Cokas'/><category term='Mavericks Surf Contest'/><category term='Joys Fit Club'/><category term='Net Gun'/><category term='Sikakap'/><category term='&apos;Hillbillies&apos; Star Girlfriend Dies'/><category term='skoda fabia india'/><category term='Film'/><category term='&quot;Pearl Harbor&quot; Movie Review'/><category term='Nonillion'/><category term='Sioban'/><category term='Using Debt And Bill Consolidation Services'/><category term='Dubai Desert Classic'/><category term='Ashworth University'/><category term='Lucky  Day'/><category term='Bad Leroy Barnes'/><category term='Atari Bigby'/><category term='Games'/><category term='Gosooinan'/><category term='Chillingham Castle'/><category term='Mary Garrard'/><category term='Leap Castle'/><category term='James Blake Get Win in the Tournament of Sydney'/><category term='Online Software Store Solution'/><category term='Architecture in the Central Java'/><category term='Monte Carlo Casino Resort Catches Fire'/><category term='Tina Turner'/><category term='Sikabaluan'/><category term='Oscar Nominations'/><category term='Car'/><category term='Sipora'/><category term='Umami'/><category term='Mentawai Island'/><category term='News'/><category term='The Trend Of United Stated of America'/><category term='Cobia'/><category term='Pagliacci'/><category term='Term Insurance Services'/><category term='business'/><category term='Life Lock'/><category term='National Signing Day Recap'/><category term='Miss World 2007 Zi Lin Zhang'/><category term='Whole Life Policy Rates'/><category term='Hillary Rodham Clinton'/><category term='Advantage Insurance Quote Services'/><category term='Oregon Earthquake'/><category term='Thinker For Hire'/><category term='Heath Ledger'/><category term='Tengion'/><category term='Queen Sized'/><category term='Fire at Vegas&apos; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/ShfKzga8s0I/AAAAAAAABls/T9ndQBIJ9Kc/s320/metawai.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338958869496116034" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/ShfKztqDjxI/AAAAAAAABlk/LLb4pz-5Qw8/s1600-h/052909mentawai0090.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/ShfKztqDjxI/AAAAAAAABlk/LLb4pz-5Qw8/s320/052909mentawai0090.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338958873049141010" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/ShfKzaJooEI/AAAAAAAABlc/FWtRx4s7se8/s1600-h/052009mentawai0091.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/ShfKzaJooEI/AAAAAAAABlc/FWtRx4s7se8/s320/052009mentawai0091.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338958867812884546" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/ShfKzZU93bI/AAAAAAAABlU/MHpJbLDtbCc/s1600-h/052009mentawai0005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/ShfKzZU93bI/AAAAAAAABlU/MHpJbLDtbCc/s320/052009mentawai0005.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338958867591978418" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/ShfKzMDLWvI/AAAAAAAABlM/gFRlEW8cukI/s1600-h/052009mentawai0001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/ShfKzMDLWvI/AAAAAAAABlM/gFRlEW8cukI/s320/052009mentawai0001.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338958864027704050" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;One of the most &lt;a href="http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2009/05/mentawai-island-surfing-native-beach.html"&gt;attractive island&lt;/a&gt; and more exciting called the &lt;a href="http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2009/04/photo-mentawai-beach-wave-and-surf.html"&gt;Mentawai Island&lt;/a&gt; , Indonesia is the preferred destination of the people who like the adventurous sport, &lt;a href="http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/search/label/Surfing"&gt;surfing&lt;/a&gt;. The perfect waves, the warm water and the incredible atmosphere make at this place the &lt;a href="http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/search/label/Surfing"&gt;paradise surfers&lt;/a&gt;. People of everywhere in the world do not deal to come to the other side with the Atlantic Ocean.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Almost 150km localised in the west of Sumatra in the Indian Ocean, &lt;a href="http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/"&gt;Mentawai Island&lt;/a&gt;, Indonesia located at the border of a continental shelf, which is surrounded by the coral reefs. Deep water flows upwards on these coral reefs which protect the continental shelf. &lt;b&gt;Siberut&lt;/b&gt;, &lt;b&gt;Sipura&lt;/b&gt;, Pagai of north (&lt;b&gt;Pagai Utara&lt;/b&gt;) and Pagai of the south (&lt;b&gt;Pagai Selatan&lt;/b&gt;) are the four principal islands, which compose the chain of the island of Mentawai, Indonesia and these islands are surrounded per much more small islands. The island of Siberut (4030 kilometers ) is the largest island among these four islands of Mentawai. The position of these islands makes them an exceptional place for surfer. The residents of the islands are called the &lt;a href="http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2009/04/photo-mentawai-beach-wave-and-surf.html"&gt;Mentawai Island&lt;/a&gt;. The Mentawai, Indonesia contain one of most attractive and the good-preserved indigenous cultures of the world, also the &lt;a href="http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2009/04/mentawai-tattoo-worlds-oldest.html"&gt;Mentawai Tattoo&lt;/a&gt; is very interesting.  But, which had with the vagueness of tide without restriction of the modernization of Indonesia this culture is dangerously close being extinct.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-4897781740319842675?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/4897781740319842675/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=4897781740319842675' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/4897781740319842675'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/4897781740319842675'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2009/05/mentawai-island-surfing-native-beach.html' title='MENTAWAI ISLAND SURFING NATIVE BEACH'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/ShfKzga8s0I/AAAAAAAABls/T9ndQBIJ9Kc/s72-c/metawai.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-2910970653158178162</id><published>2009-04-24T09:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-24T10:07:34.678-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mentawai Tattoo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mentawai'/><title type='text'>Mentawai Tattoo The World's Oldest</title><content type='html'>In &lt;a href="http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Mentawai&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Indonesia, art to tattoo is more than one phenomenon. The fact that practically everyone here is tattooed proves this. Decorative art is skin deeply among the local tribes in its true direction and depicts the social status and passion towards the life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to the researcher Ady Rosa, the model of inking and the tools of the oldest tattooing of the world are found here. Tattooings are engraved with the etching with a goal, depicting their ethnic membership, profession and qualifications. The matters employed are extracted starting from nature. To tattoo is more than one ritual and the artists use needles of iron and traditionally sharp spots out of wooden of the native of will karai of the tree or even of the nail, fish-bone, switches of seam, transients of lemon tree.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/SfHxNmgJGBI/AAAAAAAABbs/DIrEcrCEMtM/s1600-h/mentawaiisland.blogspot.com+the_mentawai_21.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 285px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/SfHxNmgJGBI/AAAAAAAABbs/DIrEcrCEMtM/s320/mentawaiisland.blogspot.com+the_mentawai_21.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328305050131961874" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/SfHxNnNkwfI/AAAAAAAABbk/nIW5PhDrZck/s1600-h/mentawaiisland.blogspot.com+tattoo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 215px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/SfHxNnNkwfI/AAAAAAAABbk/nIW5PhDrZck/s320/mentawaiisland.blogspot.com+tattoo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328305050322518514" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/SfHxNeUvErI/AAAAAAAABbc/BmOIUvebae8/s1600-h/mentawaiisland.blogspot.com+photo-2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 219px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/SfHxNeUvErI/AAAAAAAABbc/BmOIUvebae8/s320/mentawaiisland.blogspot.com+photo-2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328305047936635570" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-2910970653158178162?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/2910970653158178162/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=2910970653158178162' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/2910970653158178162'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/2910970653158178162'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2009/04/mentawai-tattoo-worlds-oldest.html' title='Mentawai Tattoo The World&apos;s Oldest'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/SfHxNmgJGBI/AAAAAAAABbs/DIrEcrCEMtM/s72-c/mentawaiisland.blogspot.com+the_mentawai_21.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-6065678189392283604</id><published>2009-04-20T03:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-20T03:50:59.160-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mentawai Waves'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Surfing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Beach'/><title type='text'>Photo Mentawai Beach, Wave and Surf</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/SexTU_Mw7oI/AAAAAAAABT4/vC6iBCvm2po/s1600-h/mentawaiisland.blogspot.com+rod.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/SexTU_Mw7oI/AAAAAAAABT4/vC6iBCvm2po/s200/mentawaiisland.blogspot.com+rod.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326724079299915394" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Mentawai is a group of small islands located in the Western island of Sumatra, Indonesia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;Mentawai is one of the zones in the Western province of Sumatra. The original people of Mentawai that Mentawai.Language is employed by the people are Mentawai&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;the Island-island in habited several of the residents in the islands of Mentawai is Sipora, Pagai of north, south of Pagai and Siberut.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;The zone of Mentawai is the capital of Killed Pejat.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;The Mentawai zones of sector is of 6011.35 square kilometers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;With a population of 38.300 people (2000).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;the Mentawai people of customs house are uma&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;with the head of its title of Sakerei of tribe.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/SexTU5cgSGI/AAAAAAAABTw/o7b14HWuRqo/s1600-h/mentawaiisland.blogspot.com2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; 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  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Quigley Down Under&lt;/span&gt; is the western part of the film released theatrically in 1990. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Quigley Down Under&lt;/span&gt; was originally scheduled to star &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Steve McQueen&lt;/span&gt; in 1980, but after an illness, the STAR project was suspended and did not filmed until a decade later. Director: &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Simon Wincer&lt;/span&gt;, the film lasts 119 minutes, and it is rated PG-13, USA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; Tom Selleck&lt;/span&gt; plays titular &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Matthew Quigle&lt;/span&gt;y, the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;cowboy&lt;/span&gt; and the gunman from &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;America&lt;/span&gt; with a keen eye and, in particular, modified rifle, with whom he or she can plug extraordinary distances. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Quigley's&lt;/span&gt; weapon of choice is a sharp 1874 Buffalo Rifle fires which .45-110 paper patch black powder cartridges. Its barrel is 34 inches long, which is why it is four inches longer than the unmodified rifle. He is responsible for the ad, asking for men with a special talent to long-distance shooting, the job of Australia. On arriving, he has to meet the workers' man, who hired him, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Elliot Marston&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Alan Rickman&lt;/span&gt;), and taken to Marston's homestead in the Western Australian outback.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; Marston&lt;/span&gt; is a gentleman infatuated with stories of quick-draw gunslingers, the Wild West, believing himself was born in the wrong continent, and surprised at the fact that Quigley has actually been a Dodge City. He &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Quigley&lt;/span&gt; pay to come to Australia, hopes that the Quigley used his sharpshooting skills to help root out the native aborigines. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Quigley&lt;/span&gt; says the idea abhorrent, and two men are quickly labeled the showdown.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Laura San Giacomo provides comic relief and love on "Crazy Cora." Having suffered a frightening personal tragedy a few years before the film's story begins, Cora seems to think that Quigley has been on his Estranged husband, Roy. When at the end of the movie, and the viewer will leave some doubt as to how crazy he really is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Quigley&lt;/span&gt; turns down &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Marston&lt;/span&gt;, Marston has his men dump &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Quigley&lt;/span&gt;, and Cora, the Australian Outback, where there is no water and little chance of survival. Thank you for your help group of aborigines, Quigley and Cora alive to save the other aborigines from Marston men, including orphaned baby who will help Cora to overcome his tragic past. As the story progresses, Marston will lose more and more men Quigley, until a final showdown, which leaves Quigley standing to face a hostile British major. Here, too, in cooperation with aborigines, Quigley makes clear. The film ends Quigley and Cora purchase of passage on the next ship in America.   &lt;div class="flockcredit" style="text-align: right; color: rgb(204, 204, 204); font-size: x-small;"&gt;Blogged with the &lt;a href="http://www.flock.com/blogged-with-flock" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-weight: bold;" target="_new" title="Flock Browser"&gt;Flock Browser&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-5622070666834620996?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/5622070666834620996/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=5622070666834620996' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/5622070666834620996'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/5622070666834620996'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/06/quigley-down-under.html' title='Quigley Down Under'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-7623435753999253381</id><published>2008-06-14T19:50:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T09:18:30.341-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trend'/><title type='text'>Sally Hemmings</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://b.imagehost.org/download/0713/Sally_Heming.bmp"&gt;&lt;img src="http://b.imagehost.org/t/0713/Sally_Heming.jpg" alt="Sally_Heming.bmp (215 KB)" border="0" height="144" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; Sally Hemings&lt;/span&gt; (Shadwell, Albemarle County, Virginia, circa 1773 - Charlottesville, Virginia, 1835) was an American slave owned by &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Thomas Jefferson&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; Sally Hemings&lt;/span&gt; is said to have been the half-sister of Jefferson's deceased wife Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson. [1] Jefferson would during his government to have fathered several children with slaves, but more recent DNA tests show that a male in the Jefferson line, possibly Thomas Jefferson himself, was the father of at least one of &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sally Hemings's&lt;/span&gt; children.   &lt;div class="flockcredit" style="text-align: right; color: rgb(204, 204, 204); font-size: x-small;"&gt;Blogged with the &lt;a href="http://www.flock.com/blogged-with-flock" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-weight: bold;" target="_new" title="Flock Browser"&gt;Flock Browser&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-7623435753999253381?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/7623435753999253381/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=7623435753999253381' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/7623435753999253381'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/7623435753999253381'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/06/sally-hemmings.html' title='Sally Hemmings'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-2128715019731869300</id><published>2008-06-14T19:42:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T09:19:41.161-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trend'/><title type='text'>Rocco Mediate</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://b.imagehost.org/download/0876/Roco_Mediate.bmp"&gt;&lt;img src="http://b.imagehost.org/t/0876/Roco_Mediate.jpg" alt="Roco_Mediate.bmp (102 KB)" border="0" height="46" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; Rocco Anthony Mediate&lt;/span&gt; (born on 17 december 1962) is an American professional golfer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; Rocco Anthony Mediate&lt;/span&gt; was born in the Pittsburgh suburb of Greensburg, Pennsylvania. He attended Florida Southern College and professionally in 1985.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; Rocco Anthony Mediate&lt;/span&gt;'s career has been dogged by back problems and he began using a long putter early as this. In 1991 he became the first player to win on the PGA Tour using a long putter when he won the Doral-Ryder Open. He had another victory at the 1993 KMart Greater Greensboro Open, but he had a long lay-off due to a ruptured disc, but returned to play the Tour in 1996 under a special medical extension and carried out steadily. He obtained victories on the Tour in 1999, 2000 and 2002. He worked hard on his fitness to minimise his back problems, and in 2003 returned to the use of a conventional putter. He has featured in the top 20 on the PGA world ranking. At the 2006 Masters, was mediating in contention to win the event on the last day until he is a septuple-Bogey ten on the par three 12th hole.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On October 9, 2006, it was announced that Rocco would be an on-course reporter for The Golf Channel in the spring of 2007 PGA Tour coverage. He played in the 2005 World Series of Poker Main Event, as well as the Blem Classic 2001 from Las Vegas. He is also a distant cousin of DC United footballer Domenic mediate.   &lt;div class="flockcredit" style="text-align: right; color: rgb(204, 204, 204); font-size: x-small;"&gt;Blogged with the &lt;a href="http://www.flock.com/blogged-with-flock" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-weight: bold;" target="_new" title="Flock Browser"&gt;Flock Browser&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-2128715019731869300?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/2128715019731869300/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=2128715019731869300' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/2128715019731869300'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/2128715019731869300'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/06/rocco-mediate.html' title='Rocco Mediate'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-6980867029632245161</id><published>2008-06-06T06:23:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T09:20:13.878-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trend'/><title type='text'>National Donut Day</title><content type='html'>The first Friday of June has been designated as &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;National Doughnut Day&lt;/span&gt;. If you do not swing by a &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Krispy Kreme doughnut&lt;/span&gt; for your free today, you can still make your own. To begin with you that road to begin with homemade &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;doughnut&lt;/span&gt; this recipe to Plain Cake &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Doughtnuts&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;p style="text-align: right; font-size: 8px;"&gt;Blogged with &lt;a href="http://www.flock.com/blogged-with-flock" title="Flock" target="_new"&gt;Flock&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-6980867029632245161?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/6980867029632245161/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=6980867029632245161' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/6980867029632245161'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/6980867029632245161'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/06/national-donut-day.html' title='National Donut Day'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-5932077392621976658</id><published>2008-06-06T04:42:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T09:20:39.143-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trend'/><title type='text'>National Doughnut Day</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;National Doughnut Day&lt;/span&gt; is on the first Friday of June each year. The holiday celebrates the doughnut, an edible, ring-shaped piece of dough that is fried and sweeteners.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;National Doughnut Day&lt;/span&gt; honors the Salvation Army "Lassies" of WWI. It is also used as a fund for needy causes &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Raiser of the Salvation Army&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;p style="text-align: right; font-size: 8px;"&gt;Blogged with &lt;a href="http://www.flock.com/blogged-with-flock" title="Flock" target="_new"&gt;Flock&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-5932077392621976658?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/5932077392621976658/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=5932077392621976658' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/5932077392621976658'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/5932077392621976658'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/06/national-doughnut-day.html' title='National Doughnut Day'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-214885739233198619</id><published>2008-06-06T04:22:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T09:21:51.699-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trend'/><title type='text'>Philip Jackson Douglas</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://b.imagehost.org/0209/p1_jackson_getty.jpg" alt="ImageHost.org" border="0" height="460" width="300" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Philip Jackson Douglas&lt;/span&gt; (born on 17 september 1945 in Deer Lodge, MT) is a retired American basketball player and current coach of the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Philip Jackson Douglas&lt;/span&gt; is widely regarded as one of the greatest coaches in the history of the league. His reputation was established as head coach of the Chicago Bulls from 1989 through 1998, during his mandate in Chicago, he led the team to six NBA titles. He led the Los Angeles Lakers to three consecutive NBA titles from 2000-2002. In total Jackson has won 9 NBA titles as coach (a record shared with Red Auerbach), and as a player.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Philip Jackson Douglas&lt;/span&gt; is known for his use of Tex Winter's triangle offence, and a holistic approach to coaching which is influenced by oriental philosophy, earning him the nickname "Zen Master" (Jackson cites Robert Pirsig's book Zen and the Art of the Motorcycle Maintenance as one of the most important guiding forces in his life, his fond admiration for the book is the source of the nickname). He is also applicable Native American spiritual practices as described in his book "Sacred Hoops". He is the author of several books candid about his staff and his basketball strategies. Jackson is also a recipient of the State of North Dakota's Roughrider Award. Jackson leads the 2007 class of the Basketball Hall of Fame.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The news:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Spurs made 13 three-pointers in their 107-92 victory, and Jackson was asked if too much penetration was leading to open outside shooters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"We call this a game &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Brokeback Mountain&lt;/span&gt;, because there is so much penetration and kickouts," Jackson said. "It was one of those games."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The 2005 film, which won three Oscars, depicts two cowboys who conceal their homosexual affair.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The comments were in poor taste, and the Lakers have assured us such remarks will not occur in the future," league spokesman &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Brian McIntyre&lt;/span&gt; said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://b.imagehost.org/0329/phil_jackson_300_070402.jpg" alt="ImageHost.org" border="0" height="400" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: right; font-size: 8px;"&gt;Blogged with &lt;a href="http://www.flock.com/blogged-with-flock" title="Flock" target="_new"&gt;Flock&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-214885739233198619?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/214885739233198619/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=214885739233198619' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/214885739233198619'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/214885739233198619'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/06/untitled.html' title='Philip Jackson Douglas'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-6702917298848480321</id><published>2008-06-06T03:58:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T09:25:22.122-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trend'/><title type='text'>The Sarkar RAJ</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://b.imagehost.org/0854/sarkar.jpg" alt="ImageHost.org" border="0" height="191" width="400" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sarkar RAJ&lt;/span&gt; replaces the prequel and give RGV bounces back like never before. If you think Shiva and later SATYA were his best efforts, you've got to look&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; Sarkar RAJ&lt;/span&gt;. An excellent film in all respects, this film has everything it takes to emerge a major success story at the box office… film and a milestone in everyone's career.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When Anita [&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; Aishwarya Rai bachchan&lt;/span&gt; ], CEO of &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sheppard Power Plan&lt;/span&gt;t, an international company, brings a proposal to power in rural Maharashtra before the Nagres, insight Shankar [&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Abhishek Bachchan&lt;/span&gt;] is quick to realize the benefits of the power plant could bring in the people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After the convincing &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sarkar RAJ &lt;/span&gt; [ &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Amitabh Bachchan&lt;/span&gt; ], which is directed against it for various reasons, Shankar undertakes a journey together with Anita to the villages of &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Maharashtra&lt;/span&gt; to mobilize support from the masses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But things are not what they seem to be and Shankar's dream project gradually becomes a political minefield. The evil forces more powerful than ever, mushroom and gang-up to the regime of &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sarkar and Shankar&lt;/span&gt; obliterate the name of the political horizon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sarkar RAJ &lt;/span&gt;breathes a piece of the power of the word 'Go'. But let's not categorize &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sarkar RAJ&lt;/span&gt; another "political film". Emotions and relationships simultaneously in the 2 + hours. What works in favor of &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sarkar RAJ&lt;/span&gt; is its tight writing. It is not difficult to decipher the power play, but more importantly, there is meat in the script. It leaves you awe-found as the plot thickens. The film raises a number of surprises, but the best is reserved for the penultimate 20/25 minutes. The climax of the story is simply fantastic!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RGV shines as never before. He assumes &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sarkar RAJ &lt;/span&gt;with a vengeance. He must prove that the sequel is better, he has to prove the detractors wrong. While RGV has treated the subject with great expertise, you can not ignore a few scenes that leave a lasting impact…&lt;br /&gt;* As the first encounter with the bachchan to explain the power project;&lt;br /&gt;* Govind Namdev try to buy Abhishek;&lt;br /&gt;* The bachchan 'visit to Dilip Prabhawalkar the residence;&lt;br /&gt;* The bachchan 'discussion about Kay Kay [who was shot dead by Abhishek in the prequel];&lt;br /&gt;* The turning point in the film [not to be published];&lt;br /&gt;* The penultimate reels when the real culprit is exposed. It hits you like a tonne of bricks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In addition to its strong content, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sarkar RAJ&lt;/span&gt; is filmed exceptionally well. In fact, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sarkar RAJ&lt;/span&gt; has the brand RGV stamp in each series. The assessment would be incomplete without due credit to writer &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Prashant Pandey&lt;/span&gt; is unbelievable and almost faultless script. Amar Mohile the background score is topnotch. The now famous' &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Govinda&lt;/span&gt; 'chant in the background only increases the impact. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Amit Roy&lt;/span&gt; the cinematography is exceptional. The DOP succeeds to the film by the rough-n-rustic look, which works very well. Action [ &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Allan Amin&lt;/span&gt; ], with minimal doses, is perfect.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sarkar RAJ &lt;/span&gt;is decorated with beautiful performances! Amitabh Bachchan, expectedly, is planning a great achievement. He is so ruthless as a wounded tiger in the finals and take the film to great heights.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First YUVA, GURU, now &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sarkar RAJ&lt;/span&gt;. Abhishek Bachchan is cast against the best actor of this country, but he shines in each series. This time, the father and son go neck to neck as far as acting honors. Aishwarya Rai bachchan is fantastic and delivers her career-best performance in Sarkar RAJ. Enough has been written about her appearance, but not much space is devoted to her performance. HUM DIL DE CHUKE Sanam, DEVDAS, provoked, GURU, JODHAA Akbar and now Sarkar RAJ - they only got better with every film.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every supporting actor in &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sarkar RAJ&lt;/span&gt; stands out - &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Dilip Prabhawalkar &lt;/span&gt;[fantastic], &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Govind Namdev&lt;/span&gt; [first-rate], Sayaji Shinde [perfect], Ravi Kale [great] and Supriya Pathak [good]. Tanisha is not a problem. The actor enacting the role of Dilip Prabhawalkar grandson makes a strong impact.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://b.imagehost.org/0805/sarkar-rajjpg.jpg" alt="ImageHost.org" border="0" height="375" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: right; font-size: 8px;"&gt;Blogged with &lt;a href="http://www.flock.com/blogged-with-flock" title="Flock" target="_new"&gt;Flock&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-6702917298848480321?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/6702917298848480321/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=6702917298848480321' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/6702917298848480321'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/6702917298848480321'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/06/sarkar-raj.html' title='The Sarkar RAJ'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-5710154477773011739</id><published>2008-06-06T03:42:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T09:29:03.855-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trend'/><title type='text'>The Sexy Paloma Jimenez</title><content type='html'>&lt;table style="border-style: none solid solid; 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://b.imagehost.org/0777/220px-Rob_Reiner_0843.jpg" alt="ImageHost.org" border="0" height="293" width="220" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Robert "Rob" Reiner&lt;/span&gt; (born on March 6 1947) is an American actor, director, producer, writer and political activist. As an actor, Reiner first came to national prominence as Edith and Archie Bunker's (played by Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton) son, Michael "Meathead" Stivic, all in the family. That role earned him two Emmy Awards during the years 1970. As a director, Reiner has been approved by the Directors Guild of America (DGA) with nominations for stand-by Me, When Harry Met Sally ..., and A Few Good Men. He was trained at the UCLA Film School.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Rob Reiner&lt;/span&gt; was born in The Bronx, New York, the son of Estella (no Lebost), an actress, and &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Carl Reiner&lt;/span&gt;, a comedian, actor, writer, producer and director. As a child, Reiner lived in New Rochelle, New York, where his family lived at 48 Bonnie Meadow Road. This compares with 148 Bonnie Meadow Road, the fictional address of the Petries on The Dick Van Dyke Show, the years 1960 CBS Sitcom made by his father.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the age of 13 years &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Rob Reiner&lt;/span&gt; moved with his family moved to Los Angeles, where he attended Beverly Hills High School with Richard Dreyfuss and Albert Brooks. He went on to enroll at the University of California, Los Angeles. He also has a sister, Sylvia Anne (Annie) Reiner (b. 1947), who is a poet, playwright and author, and a brother, Lucas Reiner (b. 1960), painter, actor and director.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Rob Reiner&lt;/span&gt; became famous playing Michael "Meathead" Stivic, Archie Bunker's liberal son, Norman Lear the years 1970 Sitcom All in the Family, which was the most watched television program for five years in the United States (1971-1978). The term "Meathead" Reiner referring to the character Mike Stivic in All in the Family, was a pop culture reference. Indeed, Reiner has stated that "I could win the Nobel Prize and they write 'Meathead wins the Nobel Prize." "In a 2004 interview in A &amp;amp; E Biography, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Rob Reiner&lt;/span&gt; said that he often enjoyed working with O'Connor on the screen, as well as to the best friends and for the fact that half father, off-screen too. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Rob Reiner&lt;/span&gt; be continued loyal to him until his death on June 21, 2001, when he, along with Sally Struthers and Danielle Brisebois O'Connor attended the funeral.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the years 1980 and 1990, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Rob Reiner&lt;/span&gt; is best known as director of successful Hollywood movies. Some of these films, like The Princess Bride, Stand By Me and this is Spinal Tap-cult status. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Rob Reiner&lt;/span&gt; has stated that the film will go down as his masterpiece is Stand by Me. The film is also his favorite movie of his own work. In 1994 (after a period of three years development period), &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Rob Reiner&lt;/span&gt; is slated for the big-screen adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's in the woods, with Robin Williams as the baker, Goldie Hawn as The Baker's Wife, Cher, The Witch, and Roseanne Barr as Jack's mother. For unspecified reasons (though it is speculated due to the decline in popularity of the musical movies) by means of this production decreased and the film was never started.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Rob Reiner&lt;/span&gt; went on to direct other critically and commercially successful films with his own company, Castle Rock, as Misery, A Few Good Men, and his most commercially successful work - When Harry Met Sally ..., which has become a classic romantic comedy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But his career has seen less commercial success in recent years, starting with North, which has been critically panned (notorious by Roger Ebert: "I hated this movie. Gehate hated hated hated hated this movie .." His subsequent films by Alex and Emma and Rumor has it have been unsuccessful both critically and commercially. His next feature, The Bucket List, is in december 2007, and starred Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman as two terminally ill men who escape from a division of cancer and Head off on a road trip with a wish list of tasks to be carried out before they die.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Rob Reiner&lt;/span&gt; has guest-starred in several films, usually in small roles including Throw Momma From The Train, Sleepless in Seattle, Bullets Over Broadway, The First Wives Club, and primary colors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Rob Reiner&lt;/span&gt; is Jewish. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Rob Reiner&lt;/span&gt; was married to actress-director Penny Marshall from 1971 to 1981. Marshall's daughter from a previous marriage, actress Tracy Reiner, co-star in the Marshall A League of their own country. Reiner and Marshall divorced in 1981.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Rob Reiner&lt;/span&gt; married photographer Michele Singer in 1989. In 1997, Reiner and wife Michele founder of the "I am your child Foundation", now "Parents' Action for Children", a non-profit organization, promoting early childhood development through the production and dissemination of educational videos hosted celebrities for parents.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Rob Reiner&lt;/span&gt; was the subject of a parody in the South Park episode "Butt Out." The episode portrays his anti-smoking activism as hypocritical, he painted him as using the same unethical tactics he accuses the tobacco industry. It also suggests that his weight problem is just as dangerous, if not more, than smoking. In accordance with the showing of the liberal themes, the character Kyle Broflovski and Stan Marsh even labels him a fascist, claiming that he actively coercing people into smoking not only because he hates it. At the end, he is murdered by Eric Cartman, who pokes his belly with a fork, spurting of large quantities of goo him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://b.imagehost.org/0165/180px-Rob_Reiner_at_the_1988_Emmy_Awards_cropped.jpg" alt="ImageHost.org" border="0" height="239" width="180" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: right; font-size: 8px;"&gt;Blogged with &lt;a href="http://www.flock.com/blogged-with-flock" title="Flock" target="_new"&gt;Flock&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-7318776324458786164?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/7318776324458786164/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=7318776324458786164' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/7318776324458786164'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/7318776324458786164'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/06/news-of-rob-reiner.html' title='News Of Rob Reiner'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-3740879896374320794</id><published>2008-06-02T00:01:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T09:29:57.240-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trend'/><title type='text'>Faber VS Pulver</title><content type='html'>World Extreme Cagefighting, which is owned by UFC and acts as something of the Triple A operation, putting on a great fight tonight. Ignore the Kimbo Slice nonesense, that was not true MMA fighitng. Tune in tonight on Versus look at the legend take the next big thing. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Uriah Faber&lt;/span&gt;, aka "The California Kid," is perhaps not the best fighter in the UFC, mainly because the UFC does not have a featherweight division. Faber is WEC champion and is considered one of the best fighters in the world. He is young, exciting, and kind of quirky. He is a great holistic medicine. His opponent is UFC legends, "LIL Evil" &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Jens Pulver.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pulver&lt;/span&gt; is a former UFC heavyweight champion in the light that was defeated names such as BJ Penn and Dennis Hallman. Pulver is older than Faber, prove to be Faber is the biggest challenge, but in his career. They match well and this should be a classic. So, if you put-off of nonesense of EliteXC last night on CBS (Kimbo Slice would get annahilated as well as the UFC heavyweight Tim Sylvia, Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, Frank Mir, or Heath Herring), the harmony in the lines to see a real fight between the real fighters. . . &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Faber and Pulver.&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;p style="text-align: right; font-size: 8px;"&gt;Blogged with &lt;a href="http://www.flock.com/blogged-with-flock" title="Flock" target="_new"&gt;Flock&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-3740879896374320794?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/3740879896374320794/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=3740879896374320794' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/3740879896374320794'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/3740879896374320794'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/06/faber-vs-pulver.html' title='Faber VS Pulver'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-3395315524191366645</id><published>2008-06-01T22:42:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T09:30:59.835-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trend'/><title type='text'>In Plain Sight</title><content type='html'>"&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;In Plain Sight&lt;/span&gt;" - U.S. new series on witness protection program - is suffering partly from unfortunate timing. After an impressive series of recent cable dramas - including two popular crime shows with strong female leads, TNT's "Saving Grace" and "The Closer" - this light-hearted female copshow feels stale and pointless, while falling short in the combination of drama and It ignites pleased that the U.S. "Burn Notice." Mary McCormack is as inconspicuous as the flawed, narration-heavy lead, and when "Sight" draws its own disappearing act, as the evidence, the investigation should be brief.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is no polite way to say: McCormack plays half their scenes in a hoarse whisper, as if they were channelled David Caruso. Almost inexorably surly, they constantly bickers with her partner (Frederick Weller) and is in a constant state of despair with her flighty sister (Nichole Hiltz) and ditsy mother (Lesley Ann Warren, doubling up to their duty hot-mom in "Desperate Housewives ").&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These elements remain the furniture in an otherwise simple procedural errors, with Mary McCormack's Shannon, the charge of another character in the program every week. These areas are mostly predictable, by the Mafia family in the extended, 76-minute premiere single sponsor for the child witness in the second episode. The third hour issues has improved somewhat, with "The Wire" Wendell Pierce as the patriarch of a suburban family reluctantly thrust into danger.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As written by &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;David Maples&lt;/span&gt;, the opener discards a little bit of everything tonally, including volatile grisly images of a corpse and fake an orgasm Mary on the phone to fool a suspect. A large part of the dialogue sounds copshows heats from the past, from "You are the branches, criminals back on the road" to "How can someone who burns so hot, so cold?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Balancing comedy and drama within this kind of environment requires a delicate touch, and precious little about "&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;In Plain Sight&lt;/span&gt;" the balance achieved. Weller does manage a few nice moments of working with small bits as his character is strange language, but nobody else seems - handicapped by either writing or cliched overlooked in the series focuses on his pretty-Gal-can-be-Tough protagonist . (The series has a certain promotional heft of "Dancing with the Stars" finalist &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Cristian de la Fuente&lt;/span&gt;, albeit in a relatively small supporting role.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;McCormack has done good work elsewhere (in the last seasons of "The West Wing" comes to mind), but unfortunately there's not much that is memorable about Mary.   &lt;p style="text-align: right; font-size: 8px;"&gt;Blogged with &lt;a href="http://www.flock.com/blogged-with-flock" title="Flock" target="_new"&gt;Flock&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-3395315524191366645?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/3395315524191366645/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=3395315524191366645' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/3395315524191366645'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/3395315524191366645'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/06/in-plain-sight.html' title='In Plain Sight'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-8993717043503472021</id><published>2008-06-01T22:28:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T09:35:46.592-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trend'/><title type='text'>South Hill Rapist</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;South Hill Rapist&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the summer of 1979, a series of rape were committed on the south side of Spokane, Washington. About a year and a half later, this crime wave was still raging v Early in the Spokane of the media identified the attacker hereinafter referred to as "Jogging oppressor," because one common element in almost every one of the rape was that the attacker was dressed in jogging equipment. However, all these attacks happened in Spokane on the south side of the oppressor has been renamed the "&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;South Hill&lt;/span&gt; oppressor." The nickname zasekl.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://b.imagehost.org/0683/coe.jpg" alt="ImageHost.org" border="0" height="320" width="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;South Hill Rapist&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The media whipped the public into quite perplexed over South Hill oppressor. Svíčkách vigils were held in Spokane parks. Mace and weapon sales went through the roof. Pozemkový the work was done in T-shirts sporting different designs and slogans referring to the South Hill oppressor, and guard groups sprung up everywhere. It was generally thought that the police were doing nothing of the dreaded South Hill oppressor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;South Hill Rapist&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By early 1981, South Hill oppressor-mánie reached boiling point and beyond. Paranoia has been extended. Nevinných men jogging destroyed, have been treated palcát, fearful of women. News was full of stories of bizarre incidents related to the alarm over South Hill oppressor. In this dangerous beer was tossed on the caustic and one stupid remark Captain Richard Olberding of the Spokane Police Department. Oberding ungrammatically and irresponsibly commented Spokane, that women should "just lay back and enjoy it" is a victim of South Hill oppressor. Keystone Kop Olberding is astounding error is already very turbulent situation to a new height of public madness. With the beleaguered principal inspector career on the ropes, Spokane at 18-monthly neovladatelný rape dovádění was about to be magically 'resolve'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;South Hill Rapist&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was pro-growth advocate - as was my father, Gordon Coe, the managing editor of the Spokane Chronicle. After my return to Spokane in the late 1970s, my father and I started to Spokane Metro growth as a private booster unit to support the Spokane-Coeur d'Alene metropolitan area.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;South Hill Rapist&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As an activist for the 'bigger and better' Spokane, I was increasingly linked to the stunning news of South Hill oppressor to dovádění receives. For someone who seeks to promote Spokane as a wonderful place for raising families, the ongoing series of rape is not useful. Gordon Coe Chronicle had covered the South Hill oppressor story in a responsible low-key manner, but the rest of the Spokane media, both print and electronic, has been handling the case very sensational journey.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;South Hill Rapist&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In January 1981 the Spokesman-Review, the area is the morning paper, published a report on its South Hill oppressor working group, which theorized that the attacker went coaches looking for his prey. I have decided to do some investigative work on my own. In time, I have a bus to Spokane on the south side and koukal to any suspicious activity. I intended to search results provided to my Secret Witness, which is the organization that paid cash rewards tracks, which led to convictions for serious crimes. Secret Witness used Gordon Coe Chronicle office phone the number as one of the methods for receiving guidance. But it was better, my father and I agreed, when I discovered I have no traces of the Secret Witness postal address.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;South Hill Rapist&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This theory is the speaker-Review was published proved to be defective. Soon it was clear to me that it would be almost impossible for the South Hill oppressor act in the way it was suggested in a newspaper. I dropped my search for clues. Before I made when I stopped the car one night watchman in mid-January on the lower side. The patrol officer found me parked on bus lines (I've been waiting for a bus to drive) and find their behaviour curious. The bobby asked that my driving licence and asked me what I did. When I told him that the cop stroze responded: "Stay the police." There is no doubt about the incident report on this matter has been lodged. I do not doubt that the report would have come across the table to Captain Olberding. It is likely that Olberding made note of the name Coe, ten years earlier, Olberding brought a lawsuit against the Spokesman-Review, sister publication Chronicle, and was lost. He harbored great hatred for the local media. Olberding, who is in overall charge of the South Hill oppressor investigations unit, said his rough "like" comment in the first week of February 1981. Two weeks later, full of nothing, I became a Spokane police is the main suspect in incomprehensible South Hill oppressor case. Creating, smearing, and railroading the innocent man began.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Police placed an electronic "bug" on the underside of the car. After two weeks inspection team shadowed me everywhere. Policajti I saw commit no crimes. The investigation has come empty. This would likely have resulted in my being dropped as a suspect was not in an independent matter that came less than a week into the surveillance effort.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On 1 March 1981 in my abilities as a realtor I preview luxury home of Fire Chief Al O'Connor. As I have already visited the property, I heard voices argue angry. The woman was shouted at O'Connor, blaming it sees another woman. Since the free-for-all, I decided to simply leave their card and realtor call in a few days. While leaving home, I caught a glimpse of the women nepříčetný. Two days later, the management of the highway, I was surprised to hear on the radio that Al O'Connor died. At dinner that evening, I chatted with parents about O'Connor's death. My mother, Ruth, it was said, "... amazing that Linda O'Connor had again lost her husband in a special situation."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ruth then relates how, a decade before, or so Linda O'Connor has been married to a prominent doctor, who died suddenly. "Many people think that it was murder," Ruth related. "But, Linda Lipp, then her name, was never charged." I am of the opinion in a few days, then wrote the prosecutor, Don Brockett, a letter offering testimony about what I saw and heard while controlling O'Connor home, as Linda O'Connor was charged with murder. Brockett would have received my letter, sometimes from 6 March 9 March. For some reason, Brockett has no intention of charging Al O'Connor widow of the murder, even if an autopsy revealed the presence of seven drugs in the main body of fire.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;South Hill Rapist&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Months later, the coroner of the investigation, divided jury came together with Brockett and no murder charges against Linda O'Connor. Eventually, however, she pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of abuse of the prescription drugs. Koroner Lois Shanks, is insatiable Brockett-hater, was rozzuřený on the outcome of this investigation. It was vigorously denounced Brockett, as well as members of Al O'Connor family.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The two police lineups, I was identified in five of the twenty-two South Hill oppressor victim to the police managed to gather the views farce. The lineups and photo team viewed one of the victims, I was charged with six counts of rape, even though I was not at all like the attacker described in the original police report filed in South Hill oppressor of the victims.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The best criminal lawyers in the Spokane case was a public defender office. Then I went with public defenders to defend me in what I assumed would be easy victory, because the bad man was arrested and on the basis of the evidence to prove this obvious fact.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I Hledala way to scientifically prove my innocence. I asked Bill Beeman, the public defender office investigator assigned to my case, that this option. -- In mid-May, Beeman has become the main break, which should have closed the case and resulted in my liberation. Beeman got hot tip from an old friend, kriminalista the Eastern Washington State Crime Lab: There was no sperm motility in any of the rape-kit semen samples taken in the forty-three South Hill oppressor attacks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;South Hill Rapist&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I knew that from 1978 semen test that my sperm motility was not zero. Roger Gigler, the lead lawyer, wanted a new test done. In mid-June test results, carried out by Spokane Valley General Hospital returned. My sperm motility was normal 80%. A pre-trial hearing would be held, replete with expert testimony and the allegations against me should be dropped. Yet, despite fantastic bungling or darker because there is no such pre-trial hearing. On the court there was no expert testimony on sperm motility, and in fact this is not my lawyers, and gave the sperm motility-the results of tests on evidence. In July 1981 he was acquitted on two counts and convicted on four counts. In August 1981, four days after my conviction, Don Brockett ordered the destruction of all physical evidence in my case, even if they were fully aware of the mobility of sperm-conflict and the fact that I was interested in re-testing of rape-kit specimens.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;South Hill Rapist&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In November 1981, Don Brockett, acting on false information from the massage parlor prostitute who had criminal charges pending, ordered a sting operation on polapit my mother, Ruth Coe, the murder of rental scheme. The objectives of this allegedly "hit man" - the secret cop - were Brockett, and the judge of my process. Ruth Coe was emotionally excited to see it innocent son was sent to prison and she was very sensitive to the police trapping. In May 1982, a judge sentenced Ruth at the request of the murder, namíchaný idea of Brockett and Spokane police, not Ruth. She was booked on a flight to Honolulu and a long vacation in the day when the police called in the assassination scheme. Setting Ruth Coe attracted the attention of a excentrik a little-known novelist who announced that he would write a book on the Coe case. At the end of 1983, its idiotic and offensive book on hypothetical cases have been published. The work was carried out in a feeble-minded and offensive TV movie aired on CBS in 1991. The book fell on a national level, but are sold well in the State of Washington. This Zničil my chances of a fair trial as re-jurors brought with them cemented took part (concerned) on my 'guilt'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;South Hill Rapist&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I became aware of PGM testing, the forensic methods that were used in California for years, in January 1982. I was happy subpena-rape kits and prove my innocence through the PGM. In March 1982 I vyhodil my Spokane public defender and hired two of Seattle most private lawyers, David Allen and Richard Hansen. I like to stress that PGM tests done. Allen and Hansen were attracted to the case the police, because hypnosis used on all but one of the victims of rape. New lawyers implored me to discard the PGM and let them carry out the hypnosis issue, which was a certain feeling of a winner. "We'll have you out of prison at any moment," Hansen assured me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Two and three years later, as a result of hypnosis and Don Brockett that refuses to provide a police report for the defence, the Washington Supreme Court reversed my beliefs. In December 1984, in pre-repetition phase, I insisted that Allen and Hansen subpena-rape kits. And they did so. Several days later, the prosecution (minus Brockett, who had after the removal of the case on the injunction), sheepishly said, the retrial judge, as the Brockett his direction, the report has been destroyed more than three years earlier. One set remained, but the sample was too small to test.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;South Hill Rapist&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There would be no showing me innocent of PGM, or DNA, which was then emerging technologies. In February 1985 I was reconvicted in three of the four counts, the second jury verdict of guilty without becoming inculpatory evidence submitted, only the massive negative publicity, and will have no idea that my sperm motility does not rape kits. The Washington Supreme Court overturned two of those convictions in January 1988 and confirmed one. I Writ petition for habeas corpus on the disposal of rape kits as the leading issue. At Seattle federal district court and Ninth Circuit Court denied writ, then, in March 1994, the United States Supreme Court refused to hear my argument.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;South Hill Rapist&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is not a long time, while watching an old episode of the television programme, Quincy, I have found that sperm motility is identified evidence of how the doctor saves innocent men accused of rape. I need a lawyer interested in justice and who recognizes the enormous potential here) to file a personal restraint petition to charge me based on the mobility of sperm evidence of innocence. I have evidence that clears me and wanted results in my release from prison. Civil rights litigation must be strictly implemented. I am an innocent man who has spent 23 years imprisoned if there is no evidence of guilt was referred to court and present proof of my innocence has never been submitted to the court.   &lt;p style="text-align: right; font-size: 8px;"&gt;Blogged with &lt;a href="http://www.flock.com/blogged-with-flock" title="Flock" target="_new"&gt;Flock&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-8993717043503472021?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/8993717043503472021/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=8993717043503472021' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/8993717043503472021'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/8993717043503472021'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/06/south-hill-rapist.html' title='South Hill Rapist'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-3521555886245370376</id><published>2008-06-01T22:13:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T09:33:43.536-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trend'/><title type='text'>Urijah Faber</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Faber&lt;/span&gt; was born on May 14, 1979, the college of the city of &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Isla Vista&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;California&lt;/span&gt;, a small town bordering the University of California, Santa Barbara, and in Sacramento, California.&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; Faber&lt;/span&gt; was born at home through a midwife, and the whole of the industry, his parents by refusing to immunization shots. Today's Faber there has been little used in traditional medicine, and has maintained a healthy lifestyle and dieting Exercise habits. Faber attended high school-Lincoln, a town of about 40000 people, when he was a standout athlete.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://b.imagehost.org/0935/UrijahFaber.png" alt="ImageHost.org" border="0" height="219" width="200" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Athletics has been a part of &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Faber&lt;/span&gt;'s lives, because at an early age, where he spent a large part of his childhood and teen years, participating in football, roller hockey, and wrestling. After a successful high school career of the wrestler, Lincoln, California, Faber continued his wrestling with his academics, the University of California, Davis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even if he does not give a College scholarship, he received after his freshman year, the wrestling team. The following year, he was starting from 133 lb wrestler, UC Davis, who is here that he remained for the rest of his collegiate career. While wrestling in college, Faber became the all-time wins leader in UC Davis and a two-time NCAA Division I (D-1)-rule, trimming, the top 12 in 2002. Freestyle wrestling, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Faber &lt;/span&gt;competed at the University Nationals, where he was national runner-up, becoming a true alternate for Nationals at the University of World Team. After earning his Bachelor of Science degree in Human Development, Faber stayed on the staff UC Davis as a lightweight wrestling buses began his career in MMA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Urijah has had his share of personal problems outside the octagon. CIRCA 2005 Urijah told his visit to Balinese, in which he escaped for his life after the will to surrender a bar altercation that got wildly out of hand. It calls for all of his MMA skill and innate determination to fight out of 12 reported acts of violence and to escape with his life.   &lt;p style="text-align: right; font-size: 8px;"&gt;Blogged with &lt;a href="http://www.flock.com/blogged-with-flock" title="Flock" target="_new"&gt;Flock&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-3521555886245370376?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/3521555886245370376/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=3521555886245370376' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/3521555886245370376'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/3521555886245370376'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/06/urijah-faber.html' title='Urijah Faber'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-344092297491546357</id><published>2008-06-01T21:52:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T09:33:02.326-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trend'/><title type='text'>Kevin Coe</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Spokane &lt;/span&gt;and &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Kevin Coe&lt;/span&gt; will be the subject of a &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Prime Time &lt;/span&gt;television show this weekend, as a rare interview with convicted rapist was broadcast on KHQ.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Almost 26 years after &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Kevin Coe &lt;/span&gt;first began serving his sentence, and only months before the State Attorney General announced that he will try to civilly commit ga, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Coe&lt;/span&gt; sat down with Dateline NBC.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The interview is the latest, and only one of the very few interviews in South Hill rapist has ever participated book also interviewed by attorneys involved in the case, as well as Washington State Attorney General.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://b.imagehost.org/0475/Kecin_Coe.jpg" alt="ImageHost.org" border="0" height="179" width="250" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Spokane judge who will be chaired by rapist &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Kevin Coe's civil&lt;/span&gt; commitment trial this autumn has decided that there are 21 women on a list of uncharged rape and indecent liberties allegations can be included in the process to determine whether &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Coe &lt;/span&gt;is a violent sexual predators likely to rape again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of the 17 cases of rape were allowed, "I think, with a preponderance of the evidence that the offender was &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Mr Coe&lt;/span&gt;," Spokane County Superior Court Judge Kathleen M. O'Connor said in the decision released Friday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   The state is "very satisfied" with the ruling O'Connor, said Deputy Attorney General Todd Bowers, the lead attorney in the state of the case against Coe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"This is an extremely important judgement. They defined the universe of admissible evidence that we and Mr. Coe's lawyers could use the defense as we prepare for trial," Bowers said Friday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The state originally asked for proof of 44 alleged victims and maintain a psychologist who said Coe was suspected of between 50 and 100 additional violations, said Tim Trageser, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Coe&lt;/span&gt; court-appointed lawyer. Trageser had asked for the unexplored cases.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fact that O'Connor concluded the state can only introduce 17 alleged rapes and the lack of sufficient evidence for the others "is significant and is contrary to the myth that &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Mr. Coe&lt;/span&gt; is the 'South Hill rapist," " Trageser said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At trial, Trageser said that he will prove that many of the 17 alleged victims "has not and can not identify Coe as the perpetrator" - and in fact were originally other people in police lineups. Coe was acquitted of two of the violations that are now being introduced in the civil commitment process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; Coe&lt;/span&gt;, dubbed the South Hill rapist by the media after a wave of &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;sexual violence&lt;/span&gt; in Spokane starting in the 1970s, was convicted of one count of rape on October 23, 1980, and served a maximum penalty on the Washington state penitentiary. He was twice denied parole.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Coe&lt;/span&gt; was scheduled to be released in september 2006, but the Washington Attorney General's office moved to have him a sexual predator of violence. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Coe&lt;/span&gt; the process is planned for early september 15.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O'Connor said she will allow a state expert, Dr. Robert Keppel, for his "signature analysis" concluded that 17 of the alleged rapes were similar in the method of a rape for which Coe was convicted. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Coe&lt;/span&gt; defence lawyers, Trageser and Marla Polin, will present their own expert to rebut Keppel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O'Connor will also make it possible to use a database in which &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Coe&lt;/span&gt; behavior and rituals were compared against thousands of other cases of sexual abuse. Coe's lawyers in their movements, have said the database is unreliable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; Coe's&lt;/span&gt; civil lawsuit is not a criminal procedure and the rules of evidence are different. The state must establish that Coe has been convicted of rape, suffers from a deviation that makes it difficult for him to his sexual urges, and show that his deviance makes him "more likely than not" to predatory sexual violence if he is released.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The rules for civil commitment trials using testimony from some previous victims, so a jury can weigh &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Coe's&lt;/span&gt; propensity for future violence, O'Connor said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O'Connor omitted a woman raped on May 12, 1980, which was unable to her attacker and whose rape does not fit the "signature analysis."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O'Connor also ruled on the scope of what state expert Dr. Amy PHENIX, a California psychologist, able to present during the trial. Coe's lawyers had asked the defense to bar her to invoke unexplored sexual offences that were not raped.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: right; font-size: 8px;"&gt;Blogged with &lt;a href="http://www.flock.com/blogged-with-flock" title="Flock" target="_new"&gt;Flock&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-344092297491546357?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/344092297491546357/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=344092297491546357' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/344092297491546357'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/344092297491546357'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/06/kevin-coe.html' title='Kevin Coe'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-5507636464638245790</id><published>2008-06-01T21:36:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T09:39:26.701-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trend'/><title type='text'>Erlene Zierke</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://b.imagehost.org/0545/userpic-4-100x100.png" alt="ImageHost.org" border="0" height="100" width="100" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;We at the Consortium were deeply saddened to hear of the recent transition of &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Erlen Zierke&lt;/span&gt;. We had the pleasure of getting to know&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; Erlen&lt;/span&gt; through our relationship with Turner Broadcasting, where they have much energy in the launch and development of Super Deluxe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some blog readers may have had the chance to meet &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Erlen&lt;/span&gt; on ROFLCon or the first Futures of Entertainment conference here at MIT - and, believe me, you would probably remember Erlen if you ever had the chance to meet her .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Her enthusiasm was unmatched, and she was always offering creative and unique perspective for those of us who had the chance to work with her here at MIT.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our thoughts go out to &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Erlen&lt;/span&gt; the many friends and family. She was a special person, and I personally consider it a great privilege to have had the opportunity to become acquainted with her during her all too brief time with us.   &lt;p style="text-align: right; font-size: 8px;"&gt;Blogged with &lt;a href="http://www.flock.com/blogged-with-flock" title="Flock" target="_new"&gt;Flock&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-5507636464638245790?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/5507636464638245790/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=5507636464638245790' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/5507636464638245790'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/5507636464638245790'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/06/erlene-zierke.html' title='Erlene Zierke'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-7423074569038698343</id><published>2008-06-01T21:22:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T09:40:07.812-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Games'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trend'/><title type='text'>Twin Galaxies</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://b.imagehost.org/0026/twin_galaxies_logo.jpg" alt="ImageHost.org" border="0" height="238" width="425" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Twin Galaxies&lt;/span&gt; an American organization that tracks video game world records and being a programme of electronic games - promotions. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Twin Galaxies&lt;/span&gt; operates twin galaxies and publishes the site of the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Twin Galaxies Official Video Game &lt;/span&gt;&amp;amp; book ball and pins world records, with volume corridor recently released in June 2, 2007. This past February 1982, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Twin Galaxies&lt;/span&gt; started releasing to the public its list of new high scores achieved on arcade games. If you are lucky, you can find the complete list of updated scores posted at your favorite arcade.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: right; font-size: 8px;"&gt;Blogged with &lt;a href="http://www.flock.com/blogged-with-flock" title="Flock" target="_new"&gt;Flock&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-7423074569038698343?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/7423074569038698343/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=7423074569038698343' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/7423074569038698343'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/7423074569038698343'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/06/twin-galaxies.html' title='Twin Galaxies'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-7225533843762253629</id><published>2008-06-01T20:53:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T09:41:20.443-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trend'/><title type='text'>Tom Perkin</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Tom Perkins&lt;/span&gt; had every reason to be satisfied. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Tom Perkins&lt;/span&gt; is steinreich, and his professional life is fulfilled, since his career manager at Hewlett-Packard (HP) has begun. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Tom Perkins&lt;/span&gt; sat and sits on several boards of directors, including &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Rupert Murdoch News Corp&lt;/span&gt;.. especially with HP itself. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Tom Perkins&lt;/span&gt; has mansions in the U.S. and Europe. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Tom Perkins&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; was with the kitsch author Danielle Steel married and recently published his first novel ( "&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sex and the Single Zillionaire&lt;/span&gt;"), on whose cover is a beauty to the bow of a yacht räkelt. He himself has recently been one of the world's largest yachts - the "Maltese Falcon", 88 meters long.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But there are things that the 74-year-old multi-millionaire vergällen the sweet life. Some operations on the board of the computer company HP, for example. In May he took office for them down the Board. And now, after four months of silence, he brings his reasons to the public: &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Tom Perkins&lt;/span&gt; has his ex-colleagues in the committee a letter, quite shaken Silicon Valley. Because &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Perkins&lt;/span&gt; is hardly a good hair in the group, which made him so rich.&lt;br /&gt;"Illegal practices", "fraudulent methods" and "questionable ethics" - these are just three of the many allegations, the Perkins in his letter raises. The fire letter brings the largest scandal in the history of HP to light. He turns to envy and suspicion, resentment and revenge, a business such as personal vendetta.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://b.imagehost.org/0738/Tom_Perkin.jpg" alt="ImageHost.org" border="0" height="310" width="420" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It began 2005 with the overthrow of the Board boss Carly Fiorina by the Board of Directors - and could now, irony of fate, to overthrow the Board boss Patty Dunn. The end of the scandal but would probably not yet, on the contrary: Even now must also Fiorinas successor, Mark Hurd unpleasant questions like.&lt;br /&gt;What Hurd knew? What has he endorsed what is not? How can he wankenden group of the affair almost destroyed, back to the rest? "He is faced with difficult issues," writes the Wall Street Journal "and noted that Hurd operations of the group to meet, has not -" but not stopped ".&lt;br /&gt;What happened? In February 2005 announced the HP Board contract with the Board boss Fiorina, among other things because the missratenen merger of HP and Compaq three years ago. Many details about the Rausschmiss and the following changes in the group then seep through to the press - and HP are preparing an enormous image problem. The new Board of Directors Decides boss Dunn, the leak in their own home track. My suspicion is directed against its own Board of Directors - because of its deliberations must always read in the newspaper.&lt;p style="text-align: right; font-size: 8px;"&gt;Blogged with &lt;a href="http://www.flock.com/blogged-with-flock" title="Flock" target="_new"&gt;Flock&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-7225533843762253629?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/7225533843762253629/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=7225533843762253629' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/7225533843762253629'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/7225533843762253629'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/06/tom-perkin.html' title='Tom Perkin'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-1863473006441098388</id><published>2008-05-07T09:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T09:41:54.565-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><title type='text'>Programming Blog</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="font-weight: bold;" class="post-content"&gt; &lt;p&gt;design blog&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;user accounts&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;spyware community&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-1863473006441098388?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/1863473006441098388/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=1863473006441098388' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/1863473006441098388'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/1863473006441098388'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/05/programming-blog.html' title='Programming Blog'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-871893336819161838</id><published>2008-04-22T04:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T09:43:55.368-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trend'/><title type='text'>Argent gratuit</title><content type='html'>Do you want to have &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;argent gratuit&lt;/span&gt;? Everybody need that. You can only find &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;argent facile sur&lt;/span&gt; by surfing at online so visit at www.make-money.fr so that you will &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;devenir riche&lt;/span&gt;. If you will visit at www.make-money.fr you can only find here what tou are looking for to be rich. The site is really cool and amazing.Bienvenue au Haut Collège List! Goto Ceci est un site pour les étudiants et les particuliers désireux de poursuivre leurs études. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Les élèves apprennent à faire de l'argent en ligne et devenir riche. &lt;/span&gt;Maintenant, nous montrant aux élèves comment &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;argent facile sur le net&lt;/span&gt;. La première chose que vous voulez faire quand vous aurez fini de lire ce n'est de cliquer sur le lien de &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;devenir riche&lt;/span&gt; pour être sur votre chemin. Assurez-vous de revenir nous visiter pour obtenir plus d'information gratuit argent.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-871893336819161838?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/871893336819161838/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=871893336819161838' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/871893336819161838'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/871893336819161838'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/04/argent-gratuit.html' title='Argent gratuit'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-5402662412941303413</id><published>2008-04-13T11:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T09:42:42.417-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trend'/><title type='text'>Nursing</title><content type='html'>At &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Medical Career Training&lt;/span&gt;, you can find online cna training in case you got no time to spare for full time cna courses.&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; Nursing school career&lt;/span&gt; options are available on the Medical Career Training website for individuals interested in cna training. The website layout is clean and straightforward so you can easily find the right cna school offering the cna training that is best suited for your. This country needs a lot of medical workers like nurses to work and take care of the patients. They are even hiring nurses from other countries like the Philippines. My youngest step-daughter had been wanting to get a nursing course but until now she haven't finish it yet. I know that some people out there wants to take up cna courses to be able to work in a hospital, nursing home or assisted living homes. You can also get a higher salary if you had finished cna training. If you intend to be a CNA in the US, just browse medicalcareertraining.com and you will find there all the cna schools where you can enroll and get that training that you need. Those who are interested in nursing area must be a caregiver, and must also ready to help out all kinds of patients. You can find some useful info about cna courses or cna schools from the links I’ve given. I understand that nurses often work overtime, as well as evenings, weekends, and even holidays. But I hope with some professional training, they can learn as much skills as possible, and of course, their loves to others.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-5402662412941303413?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/5402662412941303413/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=5402662412941303413' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/5402662412941303413'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/5402662412941303413'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/04/nursing.html' title='Nursing'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-8465786306900093336</id><published>2008-04-13T10:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T09:43:14.934-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trend'/><title type='text'>Sonography</title><content type='html'>Here, I will tell you about sonography. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Medical sonography&lt;/span&gt; (ultrasonography) is an ultrasound-based diagnostic imaging technique used to visualize muscles and internal organs, their size, structures and possible pathologies or lesions. Obstetric sonography is commonly used during pregnancy and is widely recognized by the public. There are a plethora of diagnostic and therapeutic applications practiced in medicine. S&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;onography Schools&lt;/span&gt; and Ultra &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;sonography technician&lt;/span&gt; in world are both as a medical career and medical training program fast becoming very popular in the medical society and medical transcription outsourcing companies these days. Many have become aware that courses offered in different sonography schools give high payout in terms of finance and medical career. There are many certificate programs out there from a number of different &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;sonography schools&lt;/span&gt;; each one just as good as the other. In fact there are even 4 year options if you want the most robust training available. Becoming in demand in the medicine industry , &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;sonography tech&lt;/span&gt; gained attention even in some countries in Asia like the Philippines, India and China. &lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;It's your chance to visit their site for more information.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-8465786306900093336?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/8465786306900093336/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=8465786306900093336' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/8465786306900093336'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/8465786306900093336'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/04/sonography.html' title='Sonography'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-3180235494573946415</id><published>2008-04-13T10:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T09:45:19.409-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trend'/><title type='text'>Hunt Slonem</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/SAJFztOj3UI/AAAAAAAAAcI/xkgmv1GMPOE/s1600-h/Hunt+Slonem_1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/SAJFztOj3UI/AAAAAAAAAcI/xkgmv1GMPOE/s320/Hunt+Slonem_1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5188786475300543810" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/SAJFz9Oj3VI/AAAAAAAAAcQ/sjyrSn1KP2c/s1600-h/Hunt+Slonem_2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/SAJFz9Oj3VI/AAAAAAAAAcQ/sjyrSn1KP2c/s320/Hunt+Slonem_2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5188786479595511122" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/SAJFz9Oj3WI/AAAAAAAAAcY/EaI7OAHo85w/s1600-h/Hunt+Slonem_3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/SAJFz9Oj3WI/AAAAAAAAAcY/EaI7OAHo85w/s320/Hunt+Slonem_3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5188786479595511138" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;       Hunt Slonem&lt;/span&gt; is a painter and sculptor who works out of an 89 room office space in New York City.        &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Hunt Slonem&lt;/span&gt; graduated from Tulane University in New Orleans in 1973 with a Bachelors of Art. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Hunt Slonem&lt;/span&gt; paints abstract paintings with animal themes.  His work consists of repeated animal forms, often birds, in bright colors.  In &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;       Hunt Slonem's&lt;/span&gt; sculpture he employs the same repeated animal themes.  This artist works in oils, watercolors, and sculpts in acrylic resin and wood.  I looked for information on prices for some of his art, but all I could see was poster prices as the upper end art auction houses sell price information.  If a poster of his work sells for $650 to $750 I can only imagine what his originals go for. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Hunt Slonem’s&lt;/span&gt; art is described as neo-expressionist.  My own opinion of &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;       Hunt Slonem's&lt;/span&gt; work is that it is very child-like and simplistic, even facile.  While it displays more thematic form than an abstract, it has elements of abstract or primitive art. There’s no figuring the world of art.  What sells is often a question of what people are willing to buy.  If you are just starting out in your career as an artist, check out this man’s work.  It should inspire you that your own work can have value.&lt;div class="main"&gt;&lt;div class="snap_preview"&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-3180235494573946415?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/3180235494573946415/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=3180235494573946415' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/3180235494573946415'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/3180235494573946415'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/04/hunt-slonem.html' title='Hunt Slonem'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/SAJFztOj3UI/AAAAAAAAAcI/xkgmv1GMPOE/s72-c/Hunt+Slonem_1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-5348257118323055507</id><published>2008-04-01T11:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T09:46:02.810-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trend'/><title type='text'>Ecommerce Software</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://members.smorty.com/members/advertiser/14/2007924145846.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;If we have a store and wanna get it online. We want to sell our goods and service our customer by web. First, we must order a domain name for it and a web server for hosting our web database, images and other files. Beside that, we will need a shopping tools software or &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ecommerce software&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;that not only able to display your goods or services you sell, but it must have capability for managing and servicing your customer 24 hours a day. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Ecommerce software&lt;/span&gt; is an online transaction of business involve the transfer of ownership or rights to use a good or service. There are many ecommerce software were produced by software developers. Some of them are good, some are bad. You have to choose the shopping cart software that going to be suitable for your online store. It must easy to used, not expensive, full of support and fit your needs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Ecommerce software&lt;/span&gt; solution easily setup and manage our own ecommerce online shop. It enables you to sell on the internet and includes the ecommerce hosting and the secure server both required to actually get us online shop up and running and able to take credit card details. The &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ecommerce software&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;solution can be integrated into our existing website or can be used as an ecommerce website। Online shop accepts credit card automatically through the secure server and process the payment with all major payment gateways and online merchant systems. There are many &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ecommerce softwar&lt;/span&gt;e were produced by software developers. Some of them are good, some are bad. We have to choose the shopping cart software that going to be suitable for your online store. It must easy to used, not expensive, full of support and fit our needs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We know one of this kind of &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ecommerce software&lt;/span&gt; that met criteria of the best shopping cart softwares we need. It is Ashop Commerce. It is a leading US provider of hosted shopping cart software that giving a great solutions for who wanna sell online. Ashop Commerce is easy to used, we do not have to be a webmaster or web programmer to install, run or take full control of it. We can setup it fastly for your online store. One of the important thing, this software is full secured, with 128 bit SSL security technology, so oour customers more likely to trust your online store.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are more features that I do not mention here of this ecommerce software. Learn more for better, we can visit AShop Commerce's site for review all the features and check out the right pricing plan of smart packages of our online store's needs and sign up that. Even more, we can take a test drive the demo of our online store there.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-5348257118323055507?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/5348257118323055507/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=5348257118323055507' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/5348257118323055507'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/5348257118323055507'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/04/ecommerce-software.html' title='Ecommerce Software'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-5477751643650505559</id><published>2008-04-01T10:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T09:48:48.697-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trend'/><title type='text'>Millersville University</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Millersville University&lt;/span&gt; of &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pennsylvania&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At a glance&lt;br /&gt;Address&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PO Box 1002&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Millersville&lt;/span&gt;, PA 17551-0302&lt;br /&gt;Website&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.millersville.edu&lt;br /&gt;Admissions E-mail&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Admissions@millersville.edu&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Public institution&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Year founded: 1855&lt;br /&gt;Religious affiliation: None&lt;br /&gt;Academic calendar: 4-1-4&lt;br /&gt;Undergraduate student body: 7,206&lt;br /&gt;Setting: Rural&lt;br /&gt;Endowment: $13,096,931&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fall 2008 Admissions&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Application deadline: Rolling&lt;br /&gt;Application fee: $35&lt;br /&gt;Selectivity: Selective&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;U.S. News Ranking&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;U.S. News ranking: Universities–Master’s (North), 45&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Expenses&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tuition and fees: $7,224 in-state, $14,391 out-of-state&lt;br /&gt;Room/board: N/A&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-5477751643650505559?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/5477751643650505559/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=5477751643650505559' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/5477751643650505559'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/5477751643650505559'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/04/millersville-university.html' title='Millersville University'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-5246959425106969886</id><published>2008-04-01T10:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T09:49:29.406-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trend'/><title type='text'>Jennifer Mcdaniel</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="post-content"&gt;      &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Jennifer L. McDaniel&lt;/span&gt; is 23 years old, from Flagler Beach, Florida USA. Originally from Palm Beach, Florida, moved to Flagler at the age of 5. Started playing piano at age 16.  Played flute, trumpet and saxophone ages 12-14.  Started composition in December of 2005. 51 completed pieces. First degree black belt and instructor at &lt;span class="external text"&gt;Unified Taekwondo. &lt;/span&gt;Poet, artist.  Started drawing and oil painting at age 7. See photos and other information at &lt;span class="external text"&gt;J.L. McDaniel Myspace Page #&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;!--z--&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Contact Organize For Life! Seminars&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Jennifer McDaniel Wolfe&lt;/span&gt;, Organizational Coach and CEO of Organize For Life! … In this 3-week program, Jennifer McDaniel Wolfe, Certified Professional …&lt;br /&gt;www.weorganizeforlife.com/about/seminars.html - 37k - Tembolok - Halaman sejenis&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Jennifer McDaniel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Make-Up Department: “Into the West”. Visit IMDb for Photos, Filmography, Discussions, Bio, News, Awards, Agent, Fan Sites.&lt;br /&gt;www.imdb.com/name/nm1479193/ - 23k - Tembolok - Halaman sejenis&lt;br /&gt;Celebrity News, Videos, Gossip and Photos&lt;br /&gt;Hulk Hogan arrives with his new girlfriend, Jennifer McDaniel, at LAX Airport, … &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Jennifer McDaniel&lt;/span&gt;! 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Location: Roswell, GA us … jennifer mcdaniel’s Chihuahua profile …&lt;br /&gt;chihuahua.meetup.com/53/members/4307027/ - 19k - Tembolok - Halaman sejenis&lt;br /&gt;Learning in the 21st Century wiki - This is a wiki set up by …&lt;br /&gt;This is a wiki created and started by Jennifer McDaniel, an Instructional … Jennifer McDaniel: Thanks for your comment. I really enjoyed finding (and even …&lt;br /&gt;jmcdaniel.pbwiki.com/ - 21k - Tembolok - Halaman sejenis&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Mrs. McDaniel’s&lt;/span&gt; syllabus&lt;br /&gt;Instructor: &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Mrs. Jennifer McDaniel&lt;/span&gt;. Contact Information: Office 722-2390 or mcdanieljennifer@bcchs.org. Home Room: Room 407 …&lt;br /&gt;www.bcchs.org/Syllabus/mcdaniel.htm - 100k - Tembolok - Halaman sejenis&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Jennifer McDaniel&lt;/span&gt; - Trailer - Showtimes - Cast - Movies - New York …&lt;br /&gt;A biography and related information about Jennifer McDaniel.&lt;br /&gt;movies.nytimes.com/person/1558923/Jennifer-McDaniel - Halaman sejenis&lt;br /&gt;Classmates: Jennifer McDaniel&lt;br /&gt;View Jennifer McDaniel’s profile on Classmates.com. Find old friends from school, college, old jobs, or military installations.&lt;br /&gt;www.classmates.com/directory/public/memberprofile/list.htm?regId=425585921 - 24k - Tembolok - Halaman sejenis&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-5246959425106969886?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/5246959425106969886/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=5246959425106969886' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/5246959425106969886'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/5246959425106969886'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/04/jennifer-mcdaniel.html' title='Jennifer Mcdaniel'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-3820926856207579379</id><published>2008-03-27T11:24:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T09:50:18.609-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='business'/><title type='text'>Online Payday Loans</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Sometimes, we just wonder why we don’t have enough cash to last for the month. Well, that happens to many people around the world as well. But now, add that to the recession period that is happening now in the world, this may indeed prove too much for us. We might be wondering is there really no hope for any financial assistance to last us for the month. We are in luck! There is a financial assistance scheme which is very famous for helping people like us to tide over the financial difficulties to enable us to live another month. It is known as &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;online payday loans&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is it anyway? Online payday loan is a kind of short term loan to cover our financial needs before our next available paycheck is ready. It’s very popular nowadays and like I mention, many actually survive the financial nightmare with the help of payday loans. Online Payday Loan is simply payday loans but you do not have to fax your details. Instead, easy &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;online payday loans&lt;/span&gt; are one such website that allows us to apply for a payday loan with just the filling of our details and a few simple clicks of our mouse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After doing so, all we have to do is waiting and it will be deposited into our desired account. Do not worry about the backlash of payday loans. There is not any as it is a scheme to help people with temporary financial difficulties. Help our self to this little favor. Get &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;online payday loans&lt;/span&gt; now.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-3820926856207579379?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/3820926856207579379/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=3820926856207579379' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/3820926856207579379'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/3820926856207579379'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/03/online-payday-loans.html' title='Online Payday Loans'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-2545510307634458000</id><published>2008-03-27T11:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T09:51:06.682-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Trend Of United Stated of America'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><title type='text'>StopTeacherStrikes</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;StopTeacherStrikes &lt;/span&gt;Inc. is asking Pennsylvania's 501 school districts to adopt a resolution asking Pennsylvania elected officials to ban teacher strikes. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pennsylvania&lt;/span&gt; public school teachers are among the highest paid in the country, with an average salary of $54,000, but Pennsylvania continues to lead the nation in teacher strikes. Thirty-seven states have passed laws banning teacher strikes. All of the remaining states that allow teacher strikes combined still had fewer strikes as Pennsylvania over the past decade.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Pennsbury School Board in Bucks County is the first school board in the Pennsylvania to adopt the anti-strike resolution.Simon Campbell, who heads the grassroots movement to ban teacher strikes, posted the following information about the campaign at the group's Web site. He also notes that the local teachers union is upset with the Pennsbury decision. The Bucks County Courier Times is also on board with the strike ban with an editorial, "A strike against strikes."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Pennsbury Schoo&lt;/span&gt;l Board took a public stand on an important issue where many week-kneed state legislators will not," Campbell says. "They are now sending a copy of their signed resolution to Gov. Rendell and all Bucks legislators. This activity helps put pressure on the legislature. We encourage all activists to contact their local school board to do the same thing as Pennsbury did."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fiscally responsible school board directors should have no problem passing this "no-brainer" resolution, Campbell says. Part of the reason we encourage school boards to take matters into their own hands is because their monopoly lobbying association, the PSBA (who are funded by the tax dollars they receive from school districts), show no leadership, according to Campbell.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The PSBA's official position is that they are forming a task force, to launch a committee, to organize a sub-committee, to create a study group - who will report three years from Sunday as to their position," Campbell notes. Visit the Stop Teacher Strikes Web site here to download a copy of the resolution for distribution to your local school board.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-2545510307634458000?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/2545510307634458000/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=2545510307634458000' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/2545510307634458000'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/2545510307634458000'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/03/stopteacherstrikes.html' title='StopTeacherStrikes'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-1500090411574535603</id><published>2008-03-27T11:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T09:53:21.076-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='business'/><title type='text'>Credit Card</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;Few months ago, I have got an application letter from a bank for applied &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;credit card&lt;/span&gt;, but I am not interest because I do not need &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;credit card&lt;/span&gt; for buying something. But, now I think &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;credit card&lt;/span&gt; is important thing for me, if I am going to buy on store or buying something in internet and of course for you too. In the global market or in modern market you can buy with &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;credit card&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;s&lt;/span&gt; because if you are using it with wise, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;credit card&lt;/span&gt; are very helpful, you do not need bring to much money on our pocket and you can buy anything you need and you will pay monthly.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;It is very simple to apply for a &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;credit card&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; we just fill the form from the credit card agency and they will ask us for verifying data and we get our credit cards about 2 or 3 weeks latter. Are you having interest free credit card? We can visit the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;yourcreditnetwork.com&lt;/strong&gt; and we will find information about that and I think that is a good idea for visit the site.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-1500090411574535603?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/1500090411574535603/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=1500090411574535603' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/1500090411574535603'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/1500090411574535603'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/03/credit-card.html' title='Credit Card'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-1218549367495419046</id><published>2008-03-27T10:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T09:52:19.707-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><title type='text'>Heath Benedict</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R-vguO0beJI/AAAAAAAAAao/VuQKv8RFc70/s1600-h/heathbenedict.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R-vguO0beJI/AAAAAAAAAao/VuQKv8RFc70/s320/heathbenedict.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182482881076492434" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Offensive Tackle&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;6' 5" 333 lbs.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Speed: 4.92&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Newberry College (Division II)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Senior&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Heath Benedict&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am writing this scouting report on 2 May 2007, just days after the 2007 NFL Draft. This time next year, all the &lt;strong&gt;top NFL Draft Websites&lt;/strong&gt; are going to be singing the praise of Heath Benedict after he gets drafted in the 3rd round of the 2008 NFL Draft. Of course that is speculation, making such a bold statement before a single snap has been played in the 2008 football season. I am not the only one that likes Benedict’s Pro Potential; my friends over at Walter’s Football Site have him in the second round of their impressive 2008 NFL Mock Draft. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Heath Benedict&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-1218549367495419046?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/1218549367495419046/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=1218549367495419046' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/1218549367495419046'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/1218549367495419046'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/03/heath-benedict.html' title='Heath Benedict'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R-vguO0beJI/AAAAAAAAAao/VuQKv8RFc70/s72-c/heathbenedict.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-1733350493633113165</id><published>2008-03-27T10:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T09:52:58.469-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='business'/><title type='text'>Mortgages</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;How do we get an excellent &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;mortgage loan&lt;/span&gt; with bad credit? We hear this question being asked quite more often. And more often than not, the answer we get is not the answer we want to hear. Indeed, we are aware that a poor credit rating does provide us access to the best rates, yet there are ways wherein we can work our way to a home loan deal which, in the long run, isn't terrible at all. Choices like no-money-down mortgage loans, home equity loan as well as second mortgage home equity loan, and a few others are among the best choices available. The initial thing we must do is research more about these loan alternatives for bad credit and check which among them will be ideal for our situation. And when we believe we are ready, get our self the best bad credit mortgage broker we could find to assist us. Professional mortgage lenders for bad credit are quite hard to come by. We have to be careful with who we are dealing with and make sure he is dependable. If he demands for cash in advance of a mortgage, probe further. He might be one of those so-called lenders who are merely out to con us. One need to comprehend that a mortgage for bad credit typically has higher interest rates as well as closing fees, some even need a pre-payment fine. This could be tricky. As much as possible, avoid them. If we couldn’t, we might want to settle for the briefest term possible, such as six months to 1 year. A bad credit loan mortgage charge does not have to be something that would put us in the gutter. If we are aware of our way around, we are likely to discover what we are seeking for. We couldn’t discover the lowest rates available with an impaired credit, but we will absolutely arrive at something which is suitable for the circumstances we are in.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mortgage lender rates vary; different lenders, various States, various laws, various client situations. An equity home loan mortgage fee, for example, could vary on case to case circumstances. We might want to settle for a fixed rate if we think we may afford it. That way, we want not be experiencing countless surprises as the years go by especially because this type of loan may put your home at risk. Examine the various kinds of home loans and current home loan mortgage rates so you would have an overview of what we are entering into. It is always nicer to be ready. The concept isn’t to be impulsive. Regardless of how awfully you require a mortgage and how appealing the deals are despite an impaired credit background, we should possess sufficient patience to organize the things that we are supposed to be aware of. To achieve an excellent &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;mortgage loan&lt;/span&gt; bargain, we must be meticulous. We may search online for &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;mortgage loan&lt;/span&gt; providers and loans that will simply work for us and examine them. Who knows? We might just obtain the excellent refinance mortgage interest charges in the Internet while checking them out. Patience is a value.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-1733350493633113165?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/1733350493633113165/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=1733350493633113165' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/1733350493633113165'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/1733350493633113165'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/03/mortgages.html' title='Mortgages'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-566813486203029239</id><published>2008-03-27T10:23:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T09:53:47.028-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trend'/><title type='text'>Djimon Hounsou</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R-vbo-0beII/AAAAAAAAAag/CHzeK_v24pQ/s1600-h/Djimon+Hounsou_1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R-vbo-0beII/AAAAAAAAAag/CHzeK_v24pQ/s320/Djimon+Hounsou_1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182477293324040322" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span id="UC_SynopsisCelebMovie1_SynopsisLabel"&gt;A former model who also appeared in music videos, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Djimon Hounsou&lt;/span&gt; was seemingly plucked from obscurity by producer Debbie Allen and director Steven Spielberg to portray Joseph Cinque, the leader of a slave ship mutiny, in "Amistad" (1997).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A tall, powerful, commanding presence, he delivered a critically-praised performance that immediately sparked talk of a Best Actor Oscar nomination.&lt;p&gt;Born in a small village in the West African nation of Benin, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Djimon Hounsou&lt;/span&gt;, the youngest of five, eventually went to live with an older brother in Lyons, France, ostensibly to pursue his education.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-566813486203029239?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/566813486203029239/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=566813486203029239' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/566813486203029239'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/566813486203029239'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/03/djimon-hounsou.html' title='Djimon Hounsou'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R-vbo-0beII/AAAAAAAAAag/CHzeK_v24pQ/s72-c/Djimon+Hounsou_1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-3181947625829590629</id><published>2008-03-27T10:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T09:54:29.336-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><title type='text'>Insurance</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Auto Insurance Quote&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If we have a bought a car recently and are looking for cheaper car insurance, it’s important that we educate our self about the various options available to us so that we could make an informed decision. It is of critical important that we are aware of the factors that are considered by an insurance company before they extend insurance cover to our vehicle and determine the premium we are to pay. The cheapest car insurance is offered to the people who fall in the lowest risk category. So, while deciding which insurance we must go for, it’s important to know in which category we fall. This will enable us to understand why our next door neighbor gets to pay lower premium on the car of the same make from the same insurance company while the company takes hefty premiums from us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This might leave we puzzled, but actually it’s very simple. It’s not just the make of the car that is considered but there are several other factors that are carefully analyzed before our premiums are determined. The kind of car we drive is certainly one of the things considered but is not the only thing. Our car is considered because if it is an expensive kind, getting it repaired would cost a hefty sum, which the insurance company will have to pay. Therefore, we pay higher premiums. Besides, a great looking, expensive machine lures many thieves, increasing the chances of theft. And if our car is stolen, it’s the insurance company that has to pay for it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another thing that is considered is our age because it has been found that younger men tend to drive faster and take greater number of driving risks than older men. Besides, younger ones are relatively inexperienced, which increases the chances of accident. The premiums are, thus, higher. Our driving skills are also considered because good drivers do not cause accidents. So, if we are good driver and your driving record is good, you'll not have to pay hefty premiums. On the other hand, if you have a bad driving record, the insurance company would consider you a high-risk party and would charge higher premiums. Gender also plays a role because young men are known to cause greater number of accidents than young girls. So, if you are young man, we will have to pay for being young and for being a man at the same time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While going for an insurance plan, consider all these factors yourself so that we could know what kind of insurance would be best in your category. If we fall in the low-risk category you'll get cheaper car insurance but if we are in a high-risk bracket, you don't have the same options.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-3181947625829590629?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/3181947625829590629/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=3181947625829590629' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/3181947625829590629'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/3181947625829590629'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/03/insurance.html' title='Insurance'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-5860087952994409736</id><published>2008-03-27T09:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T09:55:33.804-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trend'/><title type='text'>kristin billie davis</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Kristin "Billie" Davis&lt;/span&gt;, the madam for a high-end prostitution ring called &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Wicked Models&lt;/span&gt;, has been linked to former Gov. Eliot Spitzer. Spitzer resigned earlier this month after he was caught in the Emperor's Club VIP prostitution scandal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R-vXGe0beFI/AAAAAAAAAaI/OKBU_hvaIbk/s1600-h/kristin+billie+davis_1.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R-vXGe0beFI/AAAAAAAAAaI/OKBU_hvaIbk/s320/kristin+billie+davis_1.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182472302572042322" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;kristin billie davis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R-vXGu0beGI/AAAAAAAAAaQ/yjT-Q3zVziQ/s1600-h/kristin+billie+davis_2.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R-vXGu0beGI/AAAAAAAAAaQ/yjT-Q3zVziQ/s320/kristin+billie+davis_2.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182472306867009634" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;kristin billie davis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R-vXG-0beHI/AAAAAAAAAaY/QyUET0rD8rw/s1600-h/kristin+billie+davis_3.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R-vXG-0beHI/AAAAAAAAAaY/QyUET0rD8rw/s320/kristin+billie+davis_3.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182472311161976946" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;kristin billie davis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-5860087952994409736?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/5860087952994409736/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=5860087952994409736' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/5860087952994409736'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/5860087952994409736'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/03/kristin-billie-davis.html' title='kristin billie davis'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R-vXGe0beFI/AAAAAAAAAaI/OKBU_hvaIbk/s72-c/kristin+billie+davis_1.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-8044943005732271290</id><published>2008-03-26T13:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T09:55:56.180-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Car'/><title type='text'>Car Loan</title><content type='html'>We can now get the best deals for Credit Cards, Mortagages, Car Insurance , Home Insurance Quotes and many other things on the website. 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In choosing a&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;car loan&lt;/span&gt; be prepared to answer all the questions. Before you commit to any negotiation, don’t be afraid to ask if you are uncertain and is need of an answer regarding the loan you are about to get. Motors Today.co.uk is one company who makes sure everything is well taken cared of. Trust is what they want to establish with their customers.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-8044943005732271290?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/8044943005732271290/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=8044943005732271290' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/8044943005732271290'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/8044943005732271290'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/03/car-loan.html' title='Car Loan'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-5117196059960577910</id><published>2008-03-26T13:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T09:56:34.636-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trend'/><title type='text'>Richard Widmark</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;Richard Widmark&lt;br /&gt;Born:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;span class="proflink"&gt;26-Dec&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span class="proflink"&gt;1914&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Birthplace:&lt;/b&gt; Sunrise, MN&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Gender:&lt;/b&gt; Male&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Race or Ethnicity:&lt;/b&gt; White&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Sexual orientation:&lt;/b&gt; Straight&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Occupation:&lt;/b&gt; Actor, Film/TV Producer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Party Affiliation:&lt;/b&gt; Democratic&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Nationality:&lt;/b&gt; United States&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Executive summary:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;i&gt;Kiss of Death&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R-qySO0beEI/AAAAAAAAAaA/vUQSHJX9ND0/s1600-h/Richard_Widmark_1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R-qySO0beEI/AAAAAAAAAaA/vUQSHJX9ND0/s320/Richard_Widmark_1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182150347528566850" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Richard Widmark&lt;/span&gt; was one of the movies' all-time great tough guys. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Richard Widmark&lt;/span&gt; A handsome man, he could contort his face into something gruesome, a sneer conveying a ruthless hatred and sadistic intent -- the savagery to do great damage, the lack of conscience to enjoy it, and the clear intelligence to get away with almost anything.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-5117196059960577910?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/5117196059960577910/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=5117196059960577910' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/5117196059960577910'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/5117196059960577910'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/03/richard-widmark.html' title='Richard Widmark'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R-qySO0beEI/AAAAAAAAAaA/vUQSHJX9ND0/s72-c/Richard_Widmark_1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-4716189011754591328</id><published>2008-03-26T13:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T09:57:32.354-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='business'/><title type='text'>Cash Advance</title><content type='html'>There are so many websites offering &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;cash advance&lt;/span&gt; on the internet. Money represent very vital requirement. Often we require unforeseen money. But do we ever think of how those websites actually work to help us get the fast &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;payday loans&lt;/span&gt; we need? Here is how it goes. A payday loan or &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;cash advance&lt;/span&gt; is a small, short-term loan that is intended to bridge the borrower's cash flow gap between pay days. When we fill in the website’s application form, the websites then matches you with a list of lenders. If we meet the qualifications required by the lenders, then we may be on our way to getting the cash we need. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Payday loans&lt;/span&gt; are available to all those who have a regular income source. For this, we have to put a valid checking account and a social security number.&lt;br /&gt;Those fast &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;payday loans&lt;/span&gt; are 100% safe, the form is handled completely online and our transaction information is completely private. It keeps getting better! Some of the lenders have made it incredibly easy to qualify for a payday advance by offering a simple sign-up process with no document faxing at all.&lt;br /&gt;An increasing number of consumers choose this fast &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;payday loans&lt;/span&gt; to cover unexpected expenses or to bridge a short-term cash crunch between paydays without incurring revolving debt. So when we need to prevent bounced checks in our bank account, just think of the internet for your cash needs. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Payday loans&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;can stand there in best way, as it takes care of your circumstances perfectly. Become we please use &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;cash advance&lt;/span&gt; loans in overcoming difficulty of our money. When we require money within which quickly, hence &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;cash advance&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; l&lt;/span&gt;oans earn we use. Swiftly also &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;cash advance&lt;/span&gt; loans will give direct money to. Becoming do not worry again.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-4716189011754591328?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/4716189011754591328/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=4716189011754591328' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/4716189011754591328'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/4716189011754591328'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/03/cash-advance.html' title='Cash Advance'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-8297594030133536403</id><published>2008-03-26T13:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T09:58:06.636-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trend'/><title type='text'>Pregnant Man</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R-qu5e0beDI/AAAAAAAAAZ4/DRu8l-jJGOw/s1600-h/pregnant+man.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R-qu5e0beDI/AAAAAAAAAZ4/DRu8l-jJGOw/s320/pregnant+man.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182146623791921202" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;A&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; man who used to be a woman is five months pregnant&lt;/span&gt;, according to an article he has written for an American magazine that features a picture of him at 22 weeks, with facial hair and a man's flat chest above his swollen stomach. To our neighbors, my wife, Nancy, and I don’t appear in the least unusual. To those in the quiet &lt;st1:state st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Oregon&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:state&gt; community where we live, we are viewed just as we are -- a happy couple deeply in love. Our desire to work hard, buy our first home, and start a family was nothing out of the ordinary. That is, until we decided that I would carry our child.  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Thomas Beatie&lt;/span&gt;, who was born a woman, describes him as a "transgender male" in the piece which says his decision to have a child "has been met with discrimination and outright derision by health care professionals". I am transgender, legally male, and legally married to &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Nancy&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;. Unlike those in same-sex marriages, domestic partnerships, or civil unions, &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Nancy&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt; and I are afforded the more than 1,100 federal rights of marriage. Sterilization is not a requirement for sex reassignment, so I decided to have chest reconstruction and testosterone therapy but kept my reproductive rights. Wanting to have a biological child is neither a male nor female desire, but a human desire.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-8297594030133536403?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/8297594030133536403/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=8297594030133536403' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/8297594030133536403'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/8297594030133536403'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/03/pregnant-man.html' title='Pregnant Man'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R-qu5e0beDI/AAAAAAAAAZ4/DRu8l-jJGOw/s72-c/pregnant+man.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-3124735204001289832</id><published>2008-03-26T13:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T09:58:35.822-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><title type='text'>Pay Day Loan</title><content type='html'>If we need fast; unsecured loans in times when we can not wait for pay day. I think I have the solution for you. The solution is a &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;pay day loan&lt;/span&gt;. Cash advance &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;pay day loan&lt;/span&gt; over the internet is a fast way to fund a personal checking or savings account. At least we don’t have to worry about bouncing checks, selling personal property for less than it is worth, or facing uncomfortable situations like borrowing money from family and friends. So &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;pay day loa&lt;/span&gt;n it’s. But here comes the other big question, "Where do we go to get myself a pay day loan over internet?" We would suggest personalcashadvance.com.&lt;br /&gt;They have a list of several of the better and more economical cash advance marketing sites on the Web – with a brief description next to each. Each of those sites offer advantages that suit our needs. So we do not have to worry about browsing hundreds of sites, trying to find what suits you best. All we have to do is just visit this site and choose a site that works for our. They also offer cash advance tips which would be of great use to you. So the next time we fall short of cash and are in need of short term financial assistance, we know what exactly to do.&lt;br /&gt;What if we really need the money- greatly (for some troublesome occurrence to say, etc), be anxious no more; just say a million thanks to Personal Cash Advance. Because with them, we will have our money whenever we need it through a loan basis. We can cash advance or just take a &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;pay day loan&lt;/span&gt;, discount the submission and other fee. You can borrow the money you need, and the good news is, it is a safe and secured online transaction- can you read these words twice just to make sure you are not dreaming: secured online cash advance and payday loans, and some other loans without the application and other fee. Isn't that simply a win situation?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-3124735204001289832?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/3124735204001289832/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=3124735204001289832' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/3124735204001289832'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/3124735204001289832'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/03/pay-day-loan.html' title='Pay Day Loan'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-5925812489000425935</id><published>2008-03-26T12:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T09:59:36.997-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trend'/><title type='text'>Tuatara</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R-qqv-0bd-I/AAAAAAAAAZQ/YKKOLvYeEnw/s1600-h/tuatara_1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 212px; height: 158px;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R-qqv-0bd-I/AAAAAAAAAZQ/YKKOLvYeEnw/s320/tuatara_1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182142062536652770" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;tuatara&lt;/span&gt; is an amniote of the family &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sphenodontidae&lt;/span&gt;, endemic to New Zealand. The two species of &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;tuatara&lt;/span&gt; are the only surviving members of the Sphenodontians which flourished around 200 million years ago. The &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;tuatara&lt;/span&gt; is famous because it is a very ancient – it is the only survivor of a large group of reptiles that roamed the earth at the same time as dinosaurs. It hasn't changed its form much in over 225 million years! The relatives of tuatara died out about 60 million years ago which is why the tuatara is sometimes called a ‘living fossil’ - cool. The &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Tuatara&lt;/span&gt; is a lizard like creature that is only found on certain small islands around New Zealand. It is not a true Lizard but a "Living Fossil", a survivor of a group of animals that were once more widespread. They look very much &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R-qqxe0beBI/AAAAAAAAAZo/tka8SD8EIKE/s1600-h/tuatara_4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 216px; height: 144px;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R-qqxe0beBI/AAAAAAAAAZo/tka8SD8EIKE/s320/tuatara_4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182142088306456594" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;like lizards but their skeleton shows many differences. They are the only extant members of the Order Sphenodontia, which was well represented by many species during the age of the dinosaurs, some 200 million years ago. All species apart from the&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; tuatara&lt;/span&gt; declined and eventually became extinct about 60 million years ago. Only &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Tuatara&lt;/span&gt; survived to become a "living fossil". &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Tuataras&lt;/span&gt; survived because no predators invaded New Zealand. Terrestrial mammals failed to cross the Tasman Ocean, which separated New Zealand from Australia by opening about 90 million years ago. Tuataras are unusual reptiles, since they like cool weather. They do not survive well over 25 degrees centigrade but can live below 5 degrees, by hibernating in burrows. New Zealand climate was just right.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R-qqx-0beCI/AAAAAAAAAZw/xlgblmEJ4p4/s1600-h/tuatara_5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 211px; height: 141px;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R-qqx-0beCI/AAAAAAAAAZw/xlgblmEJ4p4/s320/tuatara_5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182142096896391202" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-5925812489000425935?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/5925812489000425935/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=5925812489000425935' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/5925812489000425935'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/5925812489000425935'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/03/tuatara.html' title='Tuatara'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R-qqv-0bd-I/AAAAAAAAAZQ/YKKOLvYeEnw/s72-c/tuatara_1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-8997163355449610672</id><published>2008-03-26T12:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T10:00:33.080-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><title type='text'>Health Insurance</title><content type='html'>As more and more employers and corporate are unwilling to pay for &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;health insurance&lt;/span&gt; of employees due to the prohibitive cost, people are opting for individual health insurance plans. For further, self-employed people like lawyers, artists, freelance writers, small business men have no other option but to opt for a health insurance plan.&lt;br /&gt;Once we reach a certain age we are no longer covered by our parent’s &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;health insurance&lt;/span&gt;, which means that we might not be able to get the cheapest health insurance rates. If we are just starting out then it is very important to find some cheap &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;health insurance&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; health insurance&lt;/span&gt; coverage. If we have just graduated or just started to work and we are without coverage then do not be tempted to forget this necessary expense, because we never know when we can be involved in some kind of accident. At the same time, because of our age and health, we may be able to easily find cheap health insurance rates.&lt;br /&gt;Majority of young people are looking for modest coverage but they also want some essentials. Generally, when young person buys it is own health coverage, he/she tends to favor high deductibles to save money on the cost of premiums.&lt;br /&gt;Even if we are on limited budget, it is important that you pick up some kind of cheap medical insurance. Even if we only have a cheap &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;health insurance&lt;/span&gt; plan that covers unexpected hospitalization, our peace of mind will be greatly enhanced with this kind of &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;health insurance&lt;/span&gt; than without. We should know that a cheap catastrophic medical insurance policy can come with a high deductible before their coverage kicks in. They do not pick up the cost of preventive physician visits or emergency room visits to get a few stitches with these types of cheap &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;health insurance&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; plans&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-8997163355449610672?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/8997163355449610672/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=8997163355449610672' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/8997163355449610672'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/8997163355449610672'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/03/health-insurance.html' title='Health Insurance'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-5687191098839400888</id><published>2008-03-26T12:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T10:01:14.602-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trend'/><title type='text'>Caffre Cat</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R-qhPu0bd6I/AAAAAAAAAYw/itSOcpsYobY/s1600-h/caffre+cat_1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R-qhPu0bd6I/AAAAAAAAAYw/itSOcpsYobY/s320/caffre+cat_1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182131612881221538" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Caffre Cat&lt;/span&gt; is most well known as the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Egyptian Cat&lt;/span&gt;. It’s believed to look very similar to normal cat I see around these days. Caffre Cat is believed to be the origin of the domestic cat. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Caffre Cat&lt;/span&gt; is believed to be the origin of the domestic cat as Darwin once believed.  This can now be found in areas such as Egypt, Africa, Syria, Arabia, and the Cape of Algiers.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R-qhQO0bd7I/AAAAAAAAAY4/fWQ5GOkFC-M/s1600-h/caffre+cat_2.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R-qhQO0bd7I/AAAAAAAAAY4/fWQ5GOkFC-M/s320/caffre+cat_2.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182131621471156146" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R-qhQO0bd8I/AAAAAAAAAZA/PG8Pd7WVjQQ/s1600-h/caffre+cat_3.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R-qhQO0bd8I/AAAAAAAAAZA/PG8Pd7WVjQQ/s320/caffre+cat_3.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182131621471156162" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Cat &lt;/span&gt;is a big part of Halloween and it’s always interesting to learn about the history behind such animals.  I think &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Caffre Cats&lt;/span&gt; would be very weird to see in person.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R-qhQe0bd9I/AAAAAAAAAZI/owfapt_u-nQ/s1600-h/caffre+cat_4.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R-qhQe0bd9I/AAAAAAAAAZI/owfapt_u-nQ/s320/caffre+cat_4.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182131625766123474" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-5687191098839400888?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/5687191098839400888/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=5687191098839400888' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/5687191098839400888'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/5687191098839400888'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/03/caffre-cat.html' title='Caffre Cat'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R-qhPu0bd6I/AAAAAAAAAYw/itSOcpsYobY/s72-c/caffre+cat_1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-2825149325199986441</id><published>2008-03-26T12:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T10:01:47.648-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><title type='text'>Payday Loan</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Manage our money well or we will get in trouble. Managing our money can be done by create a simple budgeting plan. Discipline with that, at least we already reduce the risk of getting trouble with money. Our budget plan must be clear and rational enough. We must list all of our revenue and expenses sources in detail. Simpler is better. The truth is the hardest thing is not in creating budget plan but how far we can strict with our own budget plan? How we can overcome this problem?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After all creating a budget isn’t making free from getting trouble with your money. We think everyone have this situations before. Need serious money while your payday time is not coming yet. We have some solutions for you. What you can do is lending some money to your family or your trusted friends or you can get &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;payday loans&lt;/span&gt; and cash advances which are widely available out there. We have to smart enough to choose to whom we will get our &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;payday loans&lt;/span&gt; and cash advance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A cheap payday loan will most often offer you the chance to make the payment in full, make partial payments or make only interest payments each month. We must be careful of the 'specials' that a cheap payday loan company might advertise. We should always read the fine print and their terms of service.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;It probably sounds familiar. We have had an unexpected bill crop up which you may not have budgeted for in your last month's wage, or the car tax is due, or you've needed to get something repaired. It's impossible to plan for every eventuality, which is where &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;payday loans&lt;/span&gt; come in to our own.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:12;"  &gt;Because of these high interest charges, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;payday loans&lt;/span&gt; should not be used as a regular thing, but they are handy if you we just need a cash boost one month to pay something unexpected. There are many companies around who specialize in this type of loan, and best of all, there are no credit checks. All that's required is a bank account with direct debit facility, and a job. We tell the company how much we wish to borrow, give them our bank details and the date of our next payday, and within 72 hours the money will be in our bank.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-2825149325199986441?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/2825149325199986441/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=2825149325199986441' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/2825149325199986441'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/2825149325199986441'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/03/payday-loan.html' title='Payday Loan'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-7644574622559599578</id><published>2008-03-26T11:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T10:02:35.950-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trend'/><title type='text'>Everyone Hates Billy</title><content type='html'>Why does everyone &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;hate Billy Packer&lt;/span&gt;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh God!!!! Does anyone else &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;HATE that stupid Billy Sardell&lt;/span&gt; from &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Round Table Pizza&lt;/span&gt; commercials??? We have yet to meet a single person who actually likes him! What is wrong with Round Table? Do not they realize that everyone hate him? What ever happened to "Pizza Talk with Doug and Tim?" It was not great, but it was kind a funny. They were an invite times better than &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Billy Sardell&lt;/span&gt;. God!!!! We are getting so pissed just thinking about it! I HATE HIM! Why must they continue to make those commercials? It is even worse than those stupid Mazda "Zoom Zoom" commercials which are horrible! What do you all think?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R-qefu0bd1I/AAAAAAAAAYI/HUN0-Hl3vmU/s1600-h/Billy+Packer_1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R-qefu0bd1I/AAAAAAAAAYI/HUN0-Hl3vmU/s320/Billy+Packer_1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182128589224245074" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;This year’s NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament has had an interesting sub-plot: the constant slamming of CBS analyst Billy Packer.  Seems Mr. Packer has more than his share of critics who are quick to take him to task for comments he makes and stances he takes regarding the state of college basketball and more specifically his in-game analyses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R-qef-0bd2I/AAAAAAAAAYQ/A0UURs98I8U/s1600-h/Billy+Packer_2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R-qef-0bd2I/AAAAAAAAAYQ/A0UURs98I8U/s320/Billy+Packer_2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182128593519212386" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;His critics call him a curmudgeon, an ACC apologist, a Mid-Major basher, an NBA hater, pretty much everything but “late for dinner.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R-qegO0bd3I/AAAAAAAAAYY/GV7FS8y6y6Q/s1600-h/Billy+Packer_3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R-qegO0bd3I/AAAAAAAAAYY/GV7FS8y6y6Q/s320/Billy+Packer_3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182128597814179698" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Is it jealousy?  Are these criticisms even accurate?  Or are folks just tired of hearing from the man who has covered every Final Four since 1974 and is one of the most knowledgeable basketball analysts in history?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R-qegO0bd4I/AAAAAAAAAYg/4MV3M4QKFh8/s1600-h/Billy+Packer_4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R-qegO0bd4I/AAAAAAAAAYg/4MV3M4QKFh8/s320/Billy+Packer_4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182128597814179714" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Let’s start with the critics who call Packer a curmudgeon who doesn’t seem to find much joy in the game.  Absolutely false!  Just because Packer doesn’t fawn all over coaches, doesn’t call every good freshman a ‘diaper dandy’, doesn’t pretend that the game he’s calling has the best players of all-time in it, doesn’t mean he isn’t enjoying the game he’s broadcasting or not admiring the skills of the players on the court.  It just means he’s not Dick Vitale, shamelessly self promoting, hysterically yelling, and always jumping off on irrelevant tangents.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R-qege0bd5I/AAAAAAAAAYo/9SuvIZs4Gq0/s1600-h/Billy+Packer_5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R-qege0bd5I/AAAAAAAAAYo/9SuvIZs4Gq0/s320/Billy+Packer_5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182128602109147026" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;With &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Packer&lt;/span&gt; you get actual analysis of the game he’s broadcasting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What a novel idea!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You get pointed comments and opinions on in-game coaching decisions, predictions of how the game will turn out (often within the first few minutes of the game), and if necessary, a breakdown of the game’s officiating.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He’s not always going to be right but he is going to give his opinion based on his 45 years of college basketball experience as a star player, assistant coach, and analyst.  Remember that’s what commentators are paid to do, give educated opinions and analyze the action in front of them so that the audience can learn more about the games' nuances and benefit from his insight.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Packer gives you all that better than anyone currently working college basketball.  He’s quick to point out the body language of players, whether their shots are coming up short due to tired legs.  He’s often the first to comment on whether a coach has the right lineup in to confront an opponent’s defense or offense.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He’ll tell you that a team appears to be more exhausted than their foe because their jerseys are more sweat-soaked.  He’ll tell you whether or not a particular freshman appears overwhelmed in a pressure filled situation or which coach got out-coached that day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sure he’s been critical of the selection committee at times questioning whether certain Mid-Majors deserve a tournament bid over an also-ran Big East, ACC, or Big Ten member.  And yes, last year he got burned when Bradley and Wichita State (teams he thought didn’t deserve bids) got to the Sweet 16 and George Mason made a run to the Final Four but when you stick your neck out, as all analysts should do, you’re sometimes going to be wrong.  I’d still rather have a commentator take a stand and be wrong than be an apologist or even worse – a shill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If Packer appears biased towards the ACC it’s understandable.  After all he calls more ACC games than any others.  He attended an ACC school (Wake Forest) and is more exposed to ACC basketball on a more regular basis.  His belief that the ACC generally has the best brand of ball it is usually based in fact.  Over the years the conference has had more success when playing against outside competition than any other league.  The ACC is generally recognized as the best conference when computer rankings are done.  Plus, since 2001 the ACC has won half the basketball National Championships.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Packer is a great supporter of the college game and that’s why he’s often critical of the NBA.  He doesn’t want anything to take away from the NCAA.  He wants kids to stay in school longer which makes the college game better.  He wants high school seniors to actually attend college instead of skipping to the pros which makes the game better (see: Kevin Durant and Greg Oden).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Packer loves college basketball and wants to see it continue getting better.  He’s not doing this for the money; he’s got plenty of that.  He does his job because he loves the game and wants to provide the audience with the best, most in-depth analysis possible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Isn’t that what he’s supposed to do?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-7644574622559599578?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/7644574622559599578/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=7644574622559599578' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/7644574622559599578'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/7644574622559599578'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/03/everyone-hates-billy.html' title='Everyone Hates Billy'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R-qefu0bd1I/AAAAAAAAAYI/HUN0-Hl3vmU/s72-c/Billy+Packer_1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-8921072117817799437</id><published>2008-03-16T11:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-16T11:51:43.211-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trend'/><title type='text'>Blood For Oil Blogspot</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shareapic.net/content.php?id=6944870&amp;amp;owner=onestaxxx" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.shareapic.net/preview2/006944870.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shareapic.net/content.php?id=6944872&amp;amp;owner=onestaxxx" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.shareapic.net/preview2/006944872.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shareapic.net/content.php?id=6944876&amp;amp;owner=onestaxxx" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.shareapic.net/preview2/006944876.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;It's hypocritical of us to scream at President Hu Jintao, as we did during his visit last week, about China's undervalued currency. Sure, that's a problem for the world economy — but not nearly as much as our own budget deficits, caused by tax cuts we couldn't afford.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We're now addicted to capital from China and other foreign countries, and that should be a concern. But our deficits aren't China's fault, and junkies like us don't have any basis to complain about the moral turpitude of those who supply cheap capital or other narcotics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But there are two good reasons to complain to President Hu. First, he has presided over a broad clampdown on freedom of expression in China, including the imprisonment for 19 months of my colleague Zhao Yan, an employee of The New York Times.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Second, China is now underwriting its second genocide in three decades. The first was in Pol Pot's Cambodia, and the second is in Darfur, Sudan. Chinese oil purchases have financed Sudan's pillage of Darfur, Chinese-made AK-47's have been the main weapons used to slaughter several hundred thousand people in Darfur so far, and China has protected Sudan in the U.N. Security Council.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Indeed, it's because of China's support that Sudan felt it could get away this month with sending a proxy army to invade neighboring Chad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For more than two years now, I've been holding President Bush's feet to the fire over his refusal to make the Darfur genocide a priority for his administration. But Mr. Bush has taken half-steps in the right direction — including pushing President Hu to cooperate on Darfur — and that's more than can be said of the leaders of most other countries. Europe has snored through this genocide. Then there's the Arab League, which met last month in Sudan, in effect legitimizing the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Muslims (almost all the victims in Darfur are Muslim).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As Fatema Abdul Rasul wrote in The Daily Star of Lebanon this month: "For the entire Muslim and Arab world to remain silent when thousands of people in Darfur continue to be killed is shameful and hypocritical." Do you hear that, Hosni?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And where's the Arab press? Isn't the murder of 300,000 or more Muslims almost as offensive as a Danish cartoon?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The biggest obstacle to forceful action is China. The latest outrage came a few days ago when the U.S. and Britain tried to impose the most feeble possible sanctions — targeting just four people, including a midlevel Sudanese official. China and Russia blocked even that pathetic action.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why is China soft on genocide?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The essential reason is oil. China traditionally was self-sufficient in oil, but since 1993 it has been a net oil importer and it is increasingly worried about this vulnerability.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So China has been bustling around the globe trying to ensure oil supplies from as many sources as possible. And partly because most of the major oil fields are already taken, China has ended up with the world's thugs: Sudan, Iran and Myanmar. China has been particularly active in Africa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;About 60 percent of Sudan's oil flows to China, and Beijing has a close economic and even military relationship with Khartoum. A recent Council on Foreign Relations report on Africa notes that China has supplied Sudan with small arms, anti-personnel mines, howitzers, tanks, helicopters and ammunition. China has even established three arms factories in Sudan, and you see Chinese-made AK-47's, rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns all over Darfur.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last month in a village on the Chad-Sudan border, I interviewed a man who told how a Sudanese militia had grabbed his baby boy, Ahmed Haroun, thrown Ahmed to the ground and shot him in the chest. The odds are overwhelming that that gun and those bullets came from China.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Likewise, the women and children I've seen torn apart by bullets in Darfur and Chad — that lead and steel was molded in Chinese factories. When women are raped and mutilated in Darfur, the gun barrels pointed at their heads are Made in China.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let's hope China's 13 million bloggers take up this issue, for this has received very little attention in China but it is not so sensitive that discussion of it will get anyone arrested.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the central questions for the 21st century will be whether China's rise will be accompanied by increasingly responsible behavior in its international relations. Darfur is a test, and for now China is failing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More gallery &lt;a href="http://photo-and-video.blogspot.com/2008/03/blood-for-oil-blogspot.html"&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;www.indonesian-girl.info&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-8921072117817799437?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/8921072117817799437/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=8921072117817799437' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/8921072117817799437'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/8921072117817799437'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/03/blood-for-oil-blogspot.html' title='Blood For Oil Blogspot'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-6180403947237552767</id><published>2008-03-16T10:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T10:03:10.997-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trend'/><title type='text'>Barker Ranch</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Mahnaz&lt;/span&gt; kicks back at a brief stop at the now abandoned &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Barker Ranch in Death Valley&lt;/span&gt;. It is off the Goler Wash "road" and is pretty remote. In 1969 &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Charlie Manson&lt;/span&gt; was apprehended here and sent to prison.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shareapic.net/content.php?id=6944207&amp;amp;owner=onestaxxx" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.shareapic.net/preview2/006944207.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shareapic.net/content.php?id=6944217&amp;amp;owner=onestaxxx" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.shareapic.net/preview2/006944217.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shareapic.net/content.php?id=6944227&amp;amp;owner=onestaxxx" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.shareapic.net/preview2/006944227.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shareapic.net/content.php?id=6944237&amp;amp;owner=onestaxxx" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.shareapic.net/preview2/006944237.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shareapic.net/content.php?id=6944240&amp;amp;owner=onestaxxx" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.shareapic.net/preview2/006944240.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shareapic.net/content.php?id=6944254&amp;amp;owner=onestaxxx" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.shareapic.net/preview2/006944254.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;more gallery &lt;a href="http://photo-and-video.blogspot.com/2008/03/barker-ranch.html"&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;www.indonesian-girl.info&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-6180403947237552767?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/6180403947237552767/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=6180403947237552767' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/6180403947237552767'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/6180403947237552767'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/03/barker-ranch.html' title='Barker Ranch'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-7350333459758087644</id><published>2008-03-16T09:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T10:04:29.644-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trend'/><title type='text'>Powerball winer</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shareapic.net/content.php?id=6943185&amp;amp;owner=onestaxxx" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.shareapic.net/preview2/006943185.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Kentucky ma&lt;/span&gt;n who won a $47.2 million share of the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Powerball jackpot &lt;/span&gt;served time for robbery.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      Kentucky corrections officials said &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;David Edwards&lt;/span&gt; of Ashland was convicted of robbery in 1981 and sentenced to 10 years in prison. He was paroled and returned to prison several times before serving out his sentence in 1997. He also has a conviction for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      Asked about his record, the 46-year-old Edwards said: “I've made some mistakes in my past ... but now I can do something positive with my future.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;       Edwards&lt;/span&gt; was one of three winners of the $294.8 million Powerball jackpot who claimed their shares Monday. The others were a Maine couple who hid their winning ticket in a box of cereal and a medical records clerk from Minnesota.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      “It's a poor man's dream,” &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Edwards &lt;/span&gt;said at the Louisville Slugger Museum in Louisville, Ky.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      Sporting a suit with his long hair gathered into a ponytail, Edwards said he and his fiancee, 26-year-old Shawna Maddux, are thinking about a wedding in the tropics — and that he will probably buy a Rolls-Royce he has had his eye on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      “I'm not one to take a lot of money and splurge on mansions and this and that, but I am sure buying that Rolls,” he said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      The jackpot is the third-biggest lottery prize in U.S. history. The four winning tickets in Saturday night's drawing of the multistate lottery were sold in Kentucky, Minnesota, New Hampshire and Delaware.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      Except for the holder of the Delaware ticket, all the winners were identified Monday and all chose the lump-sum payment of $41.4 million, before taxes. With each winning ticket worth $73.7 million, winners also have the option of taking $2.9 million per year for 25 years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      Up first in the parade of jackpot winners was Edwards, who said he was recently laid off from his fiber optics job, needs back surgery and had no idea what he was going to do once his unemployment benefits ran out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      “A lot of people work hard and a lot of people are out of work. And you dream you want a better life, and playing this lottery has done that for me,” said Edwards, whose fiancee, stood by his side.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      He bought $8 worth of tickets — seven for himself and one for his fiancee — at a convenience store just 90 minutes before the drawing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      “I said, 'Help me Lord. I know it might not be right of me to ask you this, but can you just let me win this?”' he said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      Edwards has an 11-year-old daughter from a previous marriage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      The Maine couple, Pat and Erwin Wales of Buxton, did not attend a news conference in Concord, N.H. But their lawyer, Terrence Garmey, described their jackpot as part of a lucky streak for Pat Wales, 60.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      She won $20 in a Maine lottery Saturday, then followed that up with a Megabucks win for $5.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      “Then she started to think, 'Maybe this is my lucky day,”' Garmey said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      He said she bought Powerball tickets at a convenience store in Rollinsford, N.H., then stayed up past her bedtime to watch the drawing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      When she realized she had won, “she began to cry and tremble,” Garmey said. She tried to awaken her 70-year-old husband, telling him, “Erwin, we won the Powerball,” Garmey said. “And he said, 'Uh huh,' and he rolled over and went back to sleep.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      He said the couple wondered what to do with a $41 million ticket.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      “And I think they did what any conscientious Maine person would do, they hid it in a box of Corn Chex,” Garmey said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      He said the couple has two cats and a 1990 pickup with 141,000 miles on it. Pat Wales took an immediate leave of absence from her job at Lincoln Financial Group in Portland, Maine. Her husband mows grass and works part-time at a motor speedway and a motorcycle shop.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      In Roseville, Minn., medical records clerk Sheryel Hanuman, 41, of Minneapolis beamed as she accepted her share of the jackpot. She and her husband, Chrisna, have three sons, ages 11, 10 and 9, and she said she may buy a new house.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      “I better pinch myself,” said Hanuman, who bought five tickets at a Minneapolis grocery as she stopped to pick up a card for a Saturday night wedding.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      “It means a little more freedom,” she said of the money. “It means I'll be able to help my family in ways I wouldn't even have thought of prior to this.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      Hanuman has worked at Allina Hospital and Clinics for eight years. She skipped work Monday, telling her boss she had personal business. She called back later with the big news and said her boss responded, “No, you've got to be kidding. Nobody calls with this kind of excuse.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      The holder of the&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; Delaware&lt;/span&gt; ticket, sold at a store in&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; Hockessin&lt;/span&gt;, had not come forward by Monday evening. Delaware law gives winners a year to claim their prize and allows them to remain anonymous.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      The odds of hitting all six numbers in the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Powerball &lt;/span&gt;game are one in 80 million. The game is played in 21 states and the District of Columbia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      The biggest jackpot in &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Powerball&lt;/span&gt; history is $295.7 million, split in 1998 by a group of factory workers in Ohio. The richest lottery prize in U.S. history was $363 million in the Big Game jackpot, won last year by two players in Illinois and Michigan.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;More gallery &lt;a href="http://photo-and-video.blogspot.com/2008/03/powerball-winner.html"&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;www.indonesian-girl.info&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-7350333459758087644?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/7350333459758087644/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=7350333459758087644' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/7350333459758087644'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/7350333459758087644'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/03/powerball-winer.html' title='Powerball winer'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-2284717130014566794</id><published>2008-03-15T06:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T10:04:47.799-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><title type='text'>Blog For Money</title><content type='html'>You want to make &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;blog for money&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;or get paid to your blog, you can choose smorty.com. 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If you like to write and make some money at the same time then start using Smorty services, Sign up and start making money on your blogs, get paid for your opinions, just click on the Smorty banner now and sign up, start earning cash today.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-2284717130014566794?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/2284717130014566794/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=2284717130014566794' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/2284717130014566794'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/2284717130014566794'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/03/blog-for-money_15.html' title='Blog For Money'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-8295150897968791658</id><published>2008-03-11T11:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-11T11:23:23.740-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trend'/><title type='text'>Hotel Reservation</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-8295150897968791658?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/8295150897968791658/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=8295150897968791658' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/8295150897968791658'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/8295150897968791658'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/03/hotel-reservation.html' title='Hotel Reservation'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-8702165451979610764</id><published>2008-03-11T11:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T10:10:29.715-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trend'/><title type='text'>Fashion Schools New York</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Fashion is a social phenomena &lt;/span&gt;that has garnered the attention of the public since centuries ago, even more so today. Everyone wants to be at their most beautiful. So, it is not surprising that everyone is trying at least to be up to date on the latest fashion trends. Paris has been popular from its mode or fashion style. Besides Paris, people all over the world also look to New York for fashion styles and trends. If you are interested in studying in one of the fashion capitols of the world, it's a good time for you. Now you can find a lot of f&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ashion school in New Yor&lt;/span&gt;k. When I am about to enter college, I’ve been thinking of the best course that would fit my personality. I wanted a degree that it is people-oriented, glamorous, stylish, and something that would bring out the fashion and creative spark in me. More of thinking a course geared towards interior designing, advertising and particularly, fashion designing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, fashion changes constantly. What is most sought after now may expire on the next day. So to speak that those involve in the fashion scene needs to be constantly on their toes with the latest fashion trends. It is an exciting arena. No wonder, there are more and more youngsters enrolling into fashion schools especially fashion school in New York. You can check alot of new york fashion schools that listed on &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;fashion schools new york&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; Just mention one of them, Katharine Gibbs School - New York, NY.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But in order to have the “eye” for fashion, one must be equipped with the right knowledge. Learn the basic know-how’s such as color, textures, lines coupled with good fashion sense are strong foundation to succeed as a great fashion designer. Well, partly involves the right connections and right school to establish one’s self in the fashion industry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;New York is one of the well known current global fashion center. People all across the globe look to New York for the latest designs and trends. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;New York fashion schools&lt;/span&gt; are one of the best to choose from. It makes sense actually since it is the city where fashion is born. Students are able to experience first-hand real life cases of producing fashion. Fashion schools New York have programs such as fashion designs, merchandising and marketing to train our future fashion gurus. Who knows if you might be the next one?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-8702165451979610764?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/8702165451979610764/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=8702165451979610764' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/8702165451979610764'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/8702165451979610764'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/03/fashion-schools-new-york.html' title='Fashion Schools New York'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-70411826154472771</id><published>2008-03-11T10:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T10:10:54.529-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trend'/><title type='text'>Credit Card For Bad Credit</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Credit card for bad credit&lt;/span&gt; is a reality for millions of Americans, making it difficult for these consumers to build the future they envision for themselves and their families. Fortunately, there are lenders who are willing to give those with bad credit a second chance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BadCreditOffers.com is a leading comparison website for people with bad credit -- featuring credit cards, home loans, auto loans, personal loans, and much more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The site's "&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;bad credit credit cards&lt;/span&gt;" section compares 10 of the top credit cards on the market for bad credit and provides links to their online applications. Consumers can apply for the offer that's right for them, and by making payments on time they can start down the road toward rebuilding their credit and, perhaps, their financial future.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-70411826154472771?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/70411826154472771/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=70411826154472771' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/70411826154472771'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/70411826154472771'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/03/credit-card-for-bad-credit.html' title='Credit Card For Bad Credit'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-2379878452305492480</id><published>2008-03-11T10:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T10:11:40.239-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trend'/><title type='text'>People Search With Spock</title><content type='html'>Are you searching for someone over then net but you have failed with traditional search engines? Try then &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Spock&lt;/span&gt;.com - the best for &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;people search&lt;/span&gt;! It is a &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;people search&lt;/span&gt; engine. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Spock&lt;/span&gt; is easy to use and overall a fun interesting concept. Like any other search bar, you simply have to type in the desired name you wish to search for and click on &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;search&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Spock&lt;/span&gt; will then show you any web sites, social networks, pictures, or blogs that it finds associated with the name you entered. When I was testing it I did not know what to type in at first so I simply went for a search on Jessica Alba, what I got for my time was no less than ten additional links pertaining to my search and forty pictures. This was getting to be fun.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You might wonder what &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Spock&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;is. Actually, it is a kind of search engine where focusing in people. Unlike other search engines, Spock has more functions on searching people based on their names or personal attributes like actor, actress, chef, American and many more. Other than that, people also can be found in terms of tags. The tags helps to narrow the searching result about the people you search. In addition, if you wish to be found in the concerned search engines as well, just registered yourself on Spock alongside with your picture and tags. With a few simple steps, you will be registered and anyone can start searching you on Spock. Isn’t it simple and easy? Perhaps, you should try it yourself now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although it is not technically classified as a social network, it does also have a messaging system implemented as well and as a blogger I do see potential for using &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Spock&lt;/span&gt; as a networking tool just as many people would Facebook. I myself had much fun just doing random searches using tags and I am going to list a few of them below. I am sure everyone here can come up with some rather interesting ones as well and I would love to hear about any really good ones you find.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-2379878452305492480?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/2379878452305492480/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=2379878452305492480' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/2379878452305492480'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/2379878452305492480'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/03/people-search-with-spock.html' title='People Search With Spock'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-2939743149207901688</id><published>2008-03-02T20:44:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T10:12:24.910-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trend'/><title type='text'>The Big Five</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shareapic.net/content.php?id=6709525&amp;amp;owner=onestaxxx" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.shareapic.net/preview2/006709525.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;She has given away free cars, household must-haves and now, millions of dollars. If there’s one thing we know about Oprah, it’s that she seems to thrive on giving, giving and more giving. On Sunday, her new show &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Oprah’s Big Give&lt;/span&gt; will premiere on ABC. The show encourages people to “&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;pay it forward&lt;/span&gt;” by handing large chunks of cash to average people. The catch is, those people have to compete for the most creative way to make other people’s dreams come true. Oprah’s clever idea is an effort to make the world a happier place. I guess now all she needs is Mickey and a princess.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oprah will surely make her money back, but the show’s charitable basis will also boost her public image. The show is noticeably original and reminds me of one of my favorite movies, Pay It Forward. In the past few weeks, I have seen Oprah grace magazines covers and Web pages. The show has upgraded her status from superstar to superhero.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From her annual Christmas giveaway to aiding children in Africa, Oprah has mastered the art of public relations. Now, what would happen if there were no magazines, television crews or cameras? I do love how Oprah has used her money, fame and resources to help people around the world. I can’t help but wonder whether her thirst for the public spotlight has given her incentive to launch the philathrophic reality show. Looks like even big names feel the need to remind us that they care.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More gallery &lt;a href="http://photo-and-video.blogspot.com/2008/03/big-five.html"&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-2939743149207901688?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/2939743149207901688/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=2939743149207901688' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/2939743149207901688'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/2939743149207901688'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/03/big-five.html' title='The Big Five'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-2895418597725034993</id><published>2008-03-02T19:55:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T10:13:12.685-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trend'/><title type='text'>Remote Area Medical</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shareapic.net/content.php?id=6709357&amp;amp;owner=onestaxxx" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.shareapic.net/preview2/006709357.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Remote Area Medical&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In partnership with local organizations, we are working to meet the immediate health-care needs of 188,000 Coal County residents in southwestern Virginia, while developing resources for sustained care. The main collaborative partners in the delivery of medical care at the Remote Areas Medical (RAM) Health Fair in Wise are the Lenowisco Health District, the St. Mary's Health Wagon, the local and state Lion's Clubs, University of Virginia Health System, Virginia Dental Foundation, and the Remote Area Medical Volunteer Corps.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shareapic.net/content.php?id=6709360&amp;amp;owner=onestaxxx" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.shareapic.net/preview2/006709360.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; Remote Area Medical&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;It was recognized from the beginning that only with the invitation of local providers and clear guidelines from them would or should UVA participate.  UVA would provide as many of the requested services as we possibly could and would spend considerable time and energy interfacing with the participants from RAM, St. Mary's Health Wagon, the Lenowisco Health District and the Lion's Club.  Without the trust and support of the local providers and citizens, we would only provide limited acute diagnoses to a system that needed coordinated, long-term and specialty care support.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shareapic.net/content.php?id=6709362&amp;amp;owner=onestaxxx" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.shareapic.net/preview2/006709362.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Remote Area Medical&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;More gallery &lt;a href="http://photo-and-video.blogspot.com/2008/03/remote-area-medical.html"&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-2895418597725034993?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/2895418597725034993/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link 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src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-5959522901566052881</id><published>2008-03-02T19:27:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T10:14:04.900-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lucky  Day'/><title type='text'>Get Your Lucky Today</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;This is about &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;online reviews&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pro360 was the place of the analysis of the foremost online casino.&lt;br /&gt;They have provided in the analysis and the news was connected with the online casino since 1997.&lt;br /&gt;They have arranged information in the method like that that the visitor could easily find their information was seeing to.&lt;br /&gt;The place was not disrupted with the advertisement like the place of the other analysis.&lt;br /&gt;You could feel different game information was played in the online casino from blackjack, slots, video poker, roulette, craps, carribean stud, baccarat, keno, bingo, backgammon and poker.&lt;br /&gt;They have compiled the complete list of the casino that was based on the different criterion.&lt;br /&gt;You will feel the list of the online casino was recommended by their editor.&lt;br /&gt;This editor thoroughly the research around the place and said us about the quality graphics, slid, the bonus, payout the rate and help of the customer.&lt;br /&gt;But, I will like to say concerning the list of the online casino that was compiled by them.&lt;br /&gt;This category has become every time important after the new US legislation on gambling.&lt;br /&gt;The US player began to look for the safe place and to be able to be relied on where they could play without the nervousness.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-5959522901566052881?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/5959522901566052881/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=5959522901566052881' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/5959522901566052881'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/5959522901566052881'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/03/get-your-lucky-today.html' title='Get Your Lucky Today'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-8540399335372718225</id><published>2008-03-02T08:39:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T10:14:34.087-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><title type='text'>Blog For Money</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;bloggerwave&lt;/span&gt; was the Advertiser was growing and blogger the beneficial association blogger for the article about the advertiser. I got oppurtunity here to write about them, therefore would usefull to that was other bloggers to work to get money with their Blogging talent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;his was the production opportunity of other money for anyone. In &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Bloggerwav&lt;/span&gt;e, the first simply had to did will submit your blog for permission and waited for the work to arrive. The typical work post revolved between $5 and $10. There was the difference between bloggerwave and so on blog and the place of the payment. The work was assigned to you only if you blog satisfied the requirement and the advertiser's criterion. Was connected in, blog had the happiness and the place made by the other person of money.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Work to get money for your matter liked.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;pre width="75" wrap="soft"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.bloggerwave.com/blogviewcount.php?pic=sponsorlogo.gif&amp;amp;OpportunityId=31&amp;amp;BlogId=9087&amp;amp;sponsor=yes&amp;amp;LinkId=1" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-8540399335372718225?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/8540399335372718225/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=8540399335372718225' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/8540399335372718225'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/8540399335372718225'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/03/blog-for-money.html' title='Blog For Money'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-4609754329120857386</id><published>2008-02-25T09:09:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T10:15:22.591-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trend'/><title type='text'>Rat Race Rebellion</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Rat Race Rebellion&lt;/span&gt; is a site which provides info for people who want to develop a career working for themselves and from home. TESL is one of the professions it features, but it also contains a lot of information on other jobs which are compatible (freelance writing, translating and various other things) and also a lot of good general advice and help for anyone wanting to work from home - including a "work on offer" list that seems to be updated daily.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you're not convinced that you want to spend the rest of your life working for someone else, I recommend you check it out. It's not yet 100% complete - it has only just been officially launched. But there's already a lot of information, and more stuff is going on all the time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Rat Race Rebellion&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More picture &lt;a href="http://www.photo-and-video.blogspot.com/"&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="poweredbyperformancing"&gt;Powered by &lt;a href="http://scribefire.com/"&gt;ScribeFire&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-4609754329120857386?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/4609754329120857386/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=4609754329120857386' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/4609754329120857386'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/4609754329120857386'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/02/rat-race-rebellion.html' title='Rat Race Rebellion'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-7211451958845405598</id><published>2008-02-25T08:58:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-25T08:58:11.189-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trend'/><title type='text'>Doomsday</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;&lt;span class='apple-style-span'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size: 13pt; font-family: Verdana; color: black;'/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a target='_blank' href='http://www.shareapic.net/content.php?id=6596463&amp;amp;owner=onestaxxx'&gt;&lt;img border='0' src='http://www.shareapic.net/preview2/006596463.jpg'/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='apple-style-span'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size: 13pt; font-family: Verdana; color: black;'&gt;The final design for a "doomsday" vault that will house seeds from all known varieties of food crops has been unveiled by the Norwegian government. &lt;o:p/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span class='apple-style-span'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size: 13pt; font-family: Verdana; color: black;'&gt;The Svalbard International Seed Vault will be built into a mountainside on a remote island near the North Pole. &lt;o:p/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;p class='MsoNormal'&gt;&lt;span class='apple-style-span'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size: 13pt; font-family: Verdana; color: black;'&gt;The vault aims to safeguard the world's agriculture from future catastrophes, such as nuclear war, asteroid strikes and climate change. &lt;o:p/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class='MsoNormal'&gt;&lt;span class='apple-style-span'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size: 13pt; font-family: Verdana; color: black;'&gt;&lt;o:p/&gt;Construction begins in March, and the seed bank is scheduled to open in 2008. &lt;o:p/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class='MsoNormal'&gt;&lt;a target='_blank' href='http://www.shareapic.net/content.php?id=6596462&amp;amp;owner=onestaxxx'&gt;&lt;img border='0' src='http://www.shareapic.net/preview2/006596462.gif'/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='apple-style-span'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size: 13pt; font-family: Verdana; color: black;'&gt;The Norwegian government is paying the $5m (£2.5m) construction costs of the vault, which will have enough space to house three million seed samples. &lt;o:p/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class='MsoNormal'&gt;&lt;span class='apple-style-span'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size: 13pt; font-family: Verdana; color: black;'&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br/&gt;See inside the &lt;st1:place w:st='on'&gt;Svalbard&lt;/st1:place&gt; International Seed Vault&lt;/b&gt; &lt;o:p/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class='MsoNormal'&gt;&lt;span class='apple-style-span'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size: 13pt; font-family: Verdana; color: black;'&gt;&lt;o:p/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a target='_blank' href='http://www.shareapic.net/content.php?id=6596461&amp;amp;owner=onestaxxx'&gt;&lt;img border='0' src='http://www.shareapic.net/preview2/006596461.gif'/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='apple-style-span'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size: 13pt; font-family: Verdana; color: black;'&gt;The collection and maintenance of the collection is being organised by the Global Crop Diversity Trust, which has responsibility of ensuring the "conservation of crop diversity in perpetuity". &lt;o:p/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class='MsoNormal'&gt;&lt;span class='apple-style-span'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size: 13pt; font-family: Verdana; color: black;'&gt;"We want a safety net because we do not want to take too many chances with crop biodiversity," said Cary Fowler, the Trust's executive director. &lt;o:p/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class='MsoNormal'&gt;&lt;span class='apple-style-span'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size: 13pt; font-family: Verdana; color: black;'&gt;"Can you imagine an effective, efficient, sustainable response to climate change, water shortages, food security issues without what is going to go in the vault - it is the raw material of agriculture." &lt;o:p/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class='MsoNormal'&gt;&lt;span class='apple-style-span'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size: 13pt; font-family: Verdana; color: black;'&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Future proof &lt;o:p/&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class='MsoNormal'&gt;&lt;span class='apple-style-span'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size: 13pt; font-family: Verdana; color: black;'&gt;&lt;o:p/&gt;The seed vault will be built 120m (364ft) inside a mountain on Spitsbergen, one of four islands that make up &lt;st1:place w:st='on'&gt;Svalbard&lt;/st1:place&gt;. &lt;o:p/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class='MsoNormal'&gt;&lt;span class='apple-style-span'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size: 13pt; font-family: Verdana; color: black;'&gt;Dr Fowler said Svalbard, 1,000km (621 miles) north of mainland &lt;st1:country-region w:st='on'&gt;&lt;st1:place w:st='on'&gt;Norway&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, was chosen as the location for the vault because it was very remote and it also offered the level of stability required for the long-term project. &lt;o:p/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class='MsoNormal'&gt;&lt;span class='apple-style-span'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size: 13pt; font-family: Verdana; color: black;'&gt;"We looked very far into the future. We looked at radiation levels inside the mountain, and we looked at the area's geological structure," he told BBC News. &lt;o:p/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class='MsoNormal'&gt;&lt;span class='apple-style-span'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size: 13pt; font-family: Verdana; color: black;'&gt;"We also modelled climate change in a drastic form 200 years into future, which included the melting of ice sheets at the North and South Poles, and &lt;st1:place w:st='on'&gt;Greenland&lt;/st1:place&gt;, to make sure that this site was above the resulting water level." &lt;o:p/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class='MsoNormal'&gt;&lt;span class='apple-style-span'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size: 13pt; font-family: Verdana; color: black;'&gt;By building the vault deep inside the mountain, the surrounding permafrost would continue to provide natural refrigeration if the mechanical system failed, explained Dr Fowler.&lt;br/&gt; &lt;o:p/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class='MsoNormal'&gt;&lt;span class='apple-style-span'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size: 13pt; font-family: Verdana; color: black;'&gt;&lt;b&gt;'Living &lt;st1:place w:st='on'&gt;&lt;st1:PlaceType w:st='on'&gt;Fort&lt;/st1:PlaceType&gt; &lt;st1:PlaceName w:st='on'&gt;Knox&lt;/st1:PlaceName&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;'&lt;/b&gt; &lt;o:p/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class='MsoNormal'&gt;&lt;span class='apple-style-span'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size: 13pt; font-family: Verdana; color: black;'&gt;The Arctic vault will act as a back-up store for a global network of seed banks financially supported by the trust. &lt;o:p/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class='MsoNormal'&gt;&lt;span class='apple-style-span'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size: 13pt; font-family: Verdana; color: black;'&gt;Dr Fowler said that a proportion of the seeds housed at these banks would be deposited at Svalbard, which will act as a "living &lt;st1:place w:st='on'&gt;&lt;st1:PlaceType w:st='on'&gt;Fort&lt;/st1:PlaceType&gt; &lt;st1:PlaceName w:st='on'&gt;Knox&lt;/st1:PlaceName&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;". &lt;o:p/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class='MsoNormal'&gt;&lt;span class='apple-style-span'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size: 13pt; font-family: Verdana; color: black;'&gt;Although the vault was designed to protect the specimens from catastrophic events, he added that it could also be used to replenish national seed banks. &lt;o:p/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class='MsoNormal'&gt;&lt;span class='apple-style-span'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size: 13pt; font-family: Verdana; color: black;'&gt;"One example happened in September when a typhoon ripped through the &lt;st1:country-region w:st='on'&gt;&lt;st1:place w:st='on'&gt;Philippines&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; and destroyed its seed bank," Dr Fowler recalled. &lt;o:p/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class='MsoNormal'&gt;&lt;span class='apple-style-span'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size: 13pt; font-family: Verdana; color: black;'&gt;&lt;o:p/&gt;"The storm brought two feet of water and mud into the bank, and that is the last thing you want in a seed bank."&lt;o:p/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class='MsoNormal'&gt;&lt;span class='apple-style-span'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size: 13pt; font-family: Verdana; color: black;'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Low maintenance &lt;o:p/&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class='MsoNormal'&gt;&lt;span class='apple-style-span'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size: 13pt; font-family: Verdana; color: black;'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Once inside the vault, the samples will be stored at -18C (0F). The length of time that seeds kept in a frozen state maintain their ability to germinate depends on the species.&lt;o:p/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class='MsoNormal'&gt;&lt;span class='apple-style-span'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size: 13pt; font-family: Verdana; color: black;'&gt;&lt;o:p/&gt;Some crops, such as peas, may only survive for 20-30 years. Others, such as sunflowers and grain crops, are understood to last for many decades or even hundreds of years. &lt;o:p/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class='MsoNormal'&gt;&lt;span class='apple-style-span'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size: 13pt; font-family: Verdana; color: black;'&gt;&lt;o:p/&gt;Once the collection has been established at &lt;st1:place w:st='on'&gt;Svalbard&lt;/st1:place&gt;, Dr Fowler said the facility would operate with very little human intervention. &lt;o:p/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class='MsoNormal'&gt;&lt;span class='apple-style-span'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size: 13pt; font-family: Verdana; color: black;'&gt;&lt;o:p/&gt;"Somebody will go up there once every year to physically check inside to see that everything is OK, but there will be no full-time staff," he explained. &lt;o:p/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class='MsoNormal'&gt;&lt;span class='apple-style-span'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size: 13pt; font-family: Verdana; color: black;'&gt;&lt;o:p/&gt;"If you design a facility to be used in worst-case scenarios, then you cannot actually have too much dependency on human beings."&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class='MsoNormal'&gt;More gallery &lt;a href='http://www.photo-and-video.blogspot.com'&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span class='apple-style-span'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size: 13pt; font-family: Verdana; color: black;'&gt;&lt;o:p/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p class='poweredbyperformancing'&gt;Powered by &lt;a href='http://scribefire.com/'&gt;ScribeFire&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-7211451958845405598?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/7211451958845405598/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=7211451958845405598' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/7211451958845405598'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/7211451958845405598'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/02/doomsday.html' title='Doomsday'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-7072753274858141738</id><published>2008-02-25T08:38:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T10:15:57.845-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trend'/><title type='text'>VISA IPO</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;After months of speculation regarding the timing, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Visa's IPO &lt;/span&gt;appears to be on track.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In early November, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Visa's IPO &lt;/span&gt;moved forward when the company filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company is expected to raise $10 billion, which would make it one of the largest IPOs in U.S. history. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The IPO's&lt;/span&gt; timing is unknown, but I'd expect to see it in early 2008. Check IPOhome.com for more updates.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Demand for shares of Visa is expected to be strong because shares of top rival MasterCard (MA) have performed so well. Shares of MasterCard have soared more than 300% from their first day closing price of $46. That's a great return for an IPO that priced at $39 a share on May 24, 2006.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just be careful before jumping into Visa stock. Since MasterCard did so well, there's going to be a mania for Visa shares. Make sure Visa's valuation is reasonable compared with MasterCard's before chasing it.&lt;br /&gt;FIND MORE STORIES IN: Exchange Commission | Securities | Visa | MasterCard | IPOs | Quote&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As of mid-November, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MasterCard's&lt;/span&gt; shares had a price-to-earnings ratio of about 30. You certainly wouldn't want to pay more than that for Visa and you'll want to check what MasterCard's P-E is at the time of the&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; IPO&lt;/span&gt;. You can get a stock's P-E by putting the company name or stock ticker symbol in any Get a Quote box at money.usatoday.com.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="poweredbyperformancing"&gt;Powered by &lt;a href="http://scribefire.com/"&gt;ScribeFire&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-7072753274858141738?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/7072753274858141738/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=7072753274858141738' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/7072753274858141738'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/7072753274858141738'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/02/visa-ipo.html' title='VISA IPO'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-8334895300362445269</id><published>2008-02-25T07:40:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T10:16:22.869-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trend'/><title type='text'>Oscar Winner 2008</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Oscar Winner 2008&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last update: February 24, 2008 - 11:45 PM&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OSCAR WINNERS&lt;br /&gt;PICTURE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"No Country for Old Men"&lt;br /&gt;DIRECTOR&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, "No Country for Old Men"&lt;br /&gt;actor&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Daniel Day-Lewis, "There Will Be Blood"&lt;br /&gt;actress&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Marion Cotillard, "La Vie en Rose"&lt;br /&gt;supporting actor&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Javier Bardem, "No Country for Old Men"&lt;br /&gt;supporting actress&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tilda Swinton, "Michael Clayton"&lt;br /&gt;animated feature&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Ratatouille"&lt;br /&gt;original screenplay&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Diablo Cody, "Juno"&lt;br /&gt;adapted screenplay&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, "No Country for Old Men"&lt;br /&gt;cinematography&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Robert Elswit, "There Will Be Blood"&lt;br /&gt;editing&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Christopher Rouse, "The Bourne Ultimatum"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;COSTUME DESIGN&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alexandra Byrne, "Elizabeth: The Golden Age"&lt;br /&gt;foreign language&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The Counterfeiters" (Austria)&lt;br /&gt;documentary feature&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Taxi to the Dark Side," Alex Gibney and Eva Orner&lt;br /&gt;documentary short&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Freeheld," Cynthia Wade and Vanessa Roth&lt;br /&gt;score&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dario Marianelli, "Atonement"&lt;br /&gt;song&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Falling Slowly" from "Once," Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova&lt;br /&gt;art direction&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo, "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street"&lt;br /&gt;live-action short&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Le Mozart des Pickpockets," Phillippe Pollet-Villard&lt;br /&gt;makeup&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Didier Lavergne and Jan Archibald, "La Vie en Rose"&lt;br /&gt;visual effects&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris and Trevor Wood, "The Golden Compass"&lt;br /&gt;sound editing&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg, "The Bourne Ultimatum"&lt;br /&gt;sound mixing&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Scott Millan, David Parker and Kirk Francis, "The Bourne Ultimatum"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shareapic.net/content.php?id=6595502&amp;amp;owner=onestaxxx" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.shareapic.net/preview2/006595502.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Oscar Winner 2008, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Oscar Winner 2008&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More gallery &lt;a href="http://www.photo-and-video.blogspot.com/"&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="poweredbyperformancing"&gt;Powered by &lt;a href="http://scribefire.com/"&gt;ScribeFire&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-8334895300362445269?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/8334895300362445269/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=8334895300362445269' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/8334895300362445269'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/8334895300362445269'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/02/oscar-winner-2008.html' title='Oscar Winner 2008'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-2600659513587481052</id><published>2008-02-24T08:59:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T10:16:45.916-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trend'/><title type='text'>Ralph Nader</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;While consumer advocate/environmentalist &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Ralph Nader&lt;/span&gt; has virtually no chance of winning the White House, he has been taken quite seriously on the campaign trail.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Indeed, he poses the greatest threat to &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sen. John Kerry&lt;/span&gt;. Democrats fear that Nader will be a spoiler, as he was in the 2000 election, when he took more than 97,000 votes in Florida. Bush won Florida by just 537 votes. The win gave Bush the election. Nader, an independent candidate, who also ran in 1992 and 1996, is on the ballot in 33 states, including Florida, Ohio, Wisconsin, and New Mexico—tough battleground states. Kerry stands a chance of losing those vital states if Nader siphons away the votes of Democrats. President Bush and Kerry have been in a statistical dead heat in nationwide polls, and votes for Nader could well tip the balance in favor of Bush.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Really a Vote for Bush?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many Kerry supporters contend that a vote for Nader is in reality a vote for Bush and have made concerted efforts to persuade Nader to throw his support behind the Democratic candidate. Nader, however, has held fast to his convictions that the two candidates are nearly indistinguishable and are pawns of big business.&lt;br /&gt;Designing Cars for Everything but Safety&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nader was born in Winsted, Connecticut, on Feb. 27, 1934 to Lebanese immigrants Nathra and Rose Nader. Nathra ran a bakery and restaurant. As a child, Ralph played with David Halberstam, who's now a highly regarded journalist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nader graduated magna cum laude from Princeton in 1955 and from Harvard Law School in 1958. As a student at Harvard, Nader first researched the design of automobiles. In an article titled "The Safe Car You Can't Buy," which appeared in the Nation in 1959, he concluded, "It is clear Detroit today is designing automobiles for style, cost, performance, and calculated obsolescence, but not—despite the 5,000,000 reported accidents, nearly 40,000 fatalities, 110,000 permanent disabilities, and 1,500,000 injuries yearly—for safety."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Early Years as a Consumer Advocate&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After a stint working as a lawyer in Hartford, Connecticut, Nader headed for Washington, where he began his career as a consumer advocate. He worked for Daniel Patrick Moynihan in the Department of Labor and volunteered as an adviser to a Senate subcommittee that was studying automobile safety.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 1965, he published Unsafe at Any Speed, a best-selling indictment of the auto industry and its poor safety standards. He specifically targeted General Motors' Corvair. Largely because of his influence, Congress passed the 1966 National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act. Nader was also influential in the passage of 1967's Wholesome Meat Act, which called for federal inspections of beef and poultry and imposed standards on slaughterhouses, as well as the Clean Air Act and the Freedom of Information Act.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Nader's Raiders" and Modern Consumer Movement&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nader's crusade caught on, and swarms of activists, called "Nader's Raiders," joined his modern consumer movement. They pressed for protections for workers, taxpayers, and the environment and fought to stem the power of large corporations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 1969 Nader established the Center for the Study of Responsive Law, which exposed corporate irresponsibility and the federal government's failure to enforce regulation of business. He founded Public Citizen and U.S. Public Interest Research Group in 1971, an umbrella for many other such groups.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.shareapic.net/content.php?id=6575804&amp;amp;owner=onestaxxx"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.shareapic.net/preview2/006575804.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.shareapic.net/content.php?id=6575811&amp;amp;owner=onestaxxx"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.shareapic.net/preview2/006575811.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.shareapic.net/content.php?id=6575812&amp;amp;owner=onestaxxx"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.shareapic.net/preview2/006575812.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More Gallery &lt;a href="http://www.photo-and-video.blogspot.com/"&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="poweredbyperformancing"&gt;Powered by &lt;a href="http://scribefire.com/"&gt;ScribeFire&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-2600659513587481052?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/2600659513587481052/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=2600659513587481052' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/2600659513587481052'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/2600659513587481052'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/02/ralph-nader.html' title='Ralph Nader'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-4772236316513454518</id><published>2008-02-24T08:38:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T10:17:01.922-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trend'/><title type='text'>Donna Yaklich</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Donna Yaklich &lt;/span&gt;To Be Released After 18-Year Prison Term&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.shareapic.net/content.php?id=6575335&amp;amp;owner=onestaxxx"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.shareapic.net/preview2/006575335.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Pueblo woman convicted of hiring two teens to kill her police detective husband is heading to a halfway house after spending almost 18 years in prison.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Donna Yaklich, 50, was ordered released from the Colorado Women's Correctional Facility in Canon City in the next 10 days and will be moving to a halfway house in Arapahoe County. The decision was made Thursday afternoon by the Arapahoe County Community Corrections Board. Yaklich was not at the hearing and learned of the decision by phone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She was arrested after Dennis Yaklich was gunned down in the driveway of their home in 1985 and eventually convicted of conspiracy to commit murder in the death. She was &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;sentenced to 40 years in prison.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Two brothers, Charles and Edward Greenwell, were also arrested and sentenced to prison terms for killing Yaklich. Charles Greenwell, who was 16 at the time of the crime, received a 20-year prison sentence; Eddie, then 25, received 30 years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Donna Yaklich maintained she was abused by her husband, who was a weightlifter and took steroids. She said she was afraid he would kill her.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A state task force has reopened the investigation into the 1977 death of Dennis Yaklich's first wife. The original investigation concluded that Barbara Yaklich died of a diet drug overdose. Donna Yaklich has said she thinks her husband was involved in the death.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The story of Donna Yaklich and her conviction was used in a 1994 made-for-TV movie, starring Jaclyn Smith of "Charlie's Angels" fame.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More Gallery &lt;a href="http://www.photo-and-video.blogspot.com/"&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="poweredbyperformancing"&gt;Powered by &lt;a href="http://scribefire.com/"&gt;ScribeFire&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-4772236316513454518?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/4772236316513454518/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=4772236316513454518' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/4772236316513454518'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/4772236316513454518'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/02/donna-yaklich.html' title='Donna Yaklich'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-18060104316100212</id><published>2008-02-18T10:21:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-18T10:21:09.330-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trend'/><title type='text'>Ron Lester</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;&lt;span style='border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;' class='Apple-style-span'&gt;&lt;div style='margin-left: 10em;' class='filmo'&gt;&lt;span style='border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;' class='Apple-style-span'&gt;Filmography by TV series Ron  Lester&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a target='_blank' href='http://www.shareapic.net/content.php?id=6474562&amp;amp;owner=onesta'&gt;&lt;img border='0' src='http://www.shareapic.net/preview2/006474562.jpg'/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;br/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='margin-left: -5em;'&gt;&lt;a style='font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0395843/'&gt;"CSI: NY"&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a name='tt0395843'&gt;(1 episode)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;ol style='padding-left: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'&gt;&lt;li style='margin-left: 0px;'&gt;&lt;a style='color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0534865/'&gt;Dancing with the Fishes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(26 October 2005) - Officer Murphy &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style='margin-left: 10em;' class='filmo'&gt;&lt;span style='margin-left: -5em;'&gt;&lt;a style='font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0240295/'&gt;"The Screen Savers"&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a name='tt0240295'&gt;(1 episode)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;ol style='padding-left: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'&gt;&lt;li style='margin-left: 0px;'&gt;&lt;a style='color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0696506/'&gt;Episode dated 27 January 2005&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(27 January 2005) - Himself &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style='margin-left: 10em;' class='filmo'&gt;&lt;span style='margin-left: -5em;'&gt;&lt;a style='font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0120992/'&gt;"The Montel Williams Show"&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a name='tt0120992'&gt;(1 episode)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;... aka Montel (Australia)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;ol style='padding-left: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'&gt;&lt;li style='margin-left: 0px;'&gt;&lt;a style='color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0650962/'&gt;Re-inventing Ron&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(18 August 2004) - Himself &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style='margin-left: 10em;' class='filmo'&gt;&lt;span style='margin-left: -5em;'&gt;&lt;a style='font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0115341/'&gt;"Sabrina, the Teenage Witch"&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a name='tt0115341'&gt;(2 episodes)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;... aka Sabrina (USA: promotional abbreviation)&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;... aka Sabrina Goes to College (USA: promotional title)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;ol style='padding-left: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'&gt;&lt;li style='margin-left: 0px;'&gt;&lt;a style='color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0693097/'&gt;Really Big Season Opener&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(5 October 2001) - Wally &lt;h6 style='margin: 0px; font-size: 77%; font-weight: normal;'&gt;Next US airings:&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='5' border='0' style='font-size: 100%; line-height: 131%;'&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr style='background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);' class='odd'&gt;&lt;td nowrap='1'&gt;&lt;a style='color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/tvgrid/2008-02-27/1400#FAM'&gt;Wed. Feb. 27&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap='1' align='right'&gt;&lt;a style='color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/tvgrid/2008-02-27/1400#FAM'&gt;2:00 PM&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a style='color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/tvgrid/2008-02-27/FAM'&gt;FAM&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style='margin-left: 0px;'&gt;&lt;a style='color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0693062/'&gt;Humble Pie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(7 December 2001) - Wally &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style='margin-left: 10em;' class='filmo'&gt;&lt;span style='margin-left: -5em;'&gt;&lt;a style='font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0202748/'&gt;"Popular"&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a name='tt0202748'&gt;(43 episodes)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;ol style='padding-left: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'&gt;&lt;li style='margin-left: 0px;'&gt;&lt;a style='color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0676882/'&gt;The Phantom Menace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(29 September 1999) - Michael 'Sugar Daddy' Bernardino &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style='margin-left: 0px;'&gt;&lt;a style='color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0676874/'&gt;Mo' Menace, Mo' Problems&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(30 September 1999) - Michael 'Sugar Daddy' Bernardino &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style='margin-left: 0px;'&gt;&lt;a style='color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0676890/'&gt;Under Siege&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(7 October 1999) - Michael 'Sugar Daddy' Bernardino &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style='margin-left: 0px;'&gt;&lt;a style='color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0676895/'&gt;Windstruck&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(14 October 1999) - Michael 'Sugar Daddy' Bernardino &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style='margin-left: 0px;'&gt;&lt;a style='color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0676877/'&gt;Slumber Party Massacre&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(21 October 1999) - Michael 'Sugar Daddy' Bernardino &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style='margin-left: 0px;'&gt;&lt;a style='color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0676888/'&gt;Truth or Consequences&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(6 November 1999) - Michael 'Sugar Daddy' Bernardino &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style='margin-left: 0px;'&gt;&lt;a style='color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0676876/'&gt;Queen B.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(11 November 1999) - Michael 'Sugar Daddy' Bernardino &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style='margin-left: 0px;'&gt;&lt;a style='color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0676887/'&gt;Tonight's the Night&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(18 November 1999) - Michael 'Sugar Daddy' Bernardino &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style='margin-left: 0px;'&gt;&lt;a style='color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0676894/'&gt;Wild, Wild Mess&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(2 December 1999) - Michael 'Sugar Daddy' Bernardino &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style='margin-left: 0px;'&gt;&lt;a style='color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0676864/'&gt;Fall on Your Knees&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(9 December 1999) - Michael 'Sugar Daddy' Bernardino &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style='margin-left: 0px;'&gt;&lt;a style='color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0676862/'&gt;Ex, Lies and Videotape&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(13 January 2000) - Michael 'Sugar Daddy' Bernardino &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style='margin-left: 0px;'&gt;&lt;a style='color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0676885/'&gt;The Trial of Emory Dick&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(20 January 2000) - Michael 'Sugar Daddy' Bernardino &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style='margin-left: 0px;'&gt;&lt;a style='color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0676867/'&gt;Hope in a Jar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(27 January 2000) - Michael 'Sugar Daddy' Bernardino &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style='margin-left: 0px;'&gt;&lt;a style='color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0676857/'&gt;Caged!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(3 February 2000) - Michael 'Sugar Daddy' Bernardino &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style='margin-left: 0px;'&gt;&lt;a style='color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0676856/'&gt;Booty Camp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(10 February 2000) - Michael 'Sugar Daddy' Bernardino &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style='margin-left: 0px;'&gt;&lt;a style='color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0676853/'&gt;All About Adam&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(17 February 2000) - Michael 'Sugar Daddy' Bernardino &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style='margin-left: 0px;'&gt;&lt;a style='color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0676871/'&gt;Lord of the Files&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(24 February 2000) - Michael 'Sugar Daddy' Bernardino &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style='margin-left: 0px;'&gt;&lt;a style='color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0676858/'&gt;Ch-Ch-Changes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(20 April 2000) - Michael 'Sugar Daddy' Bernardino &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style='margin-left: 0px;'&gt;&lt;a style='color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0676866/'&gt;Hard on the Outside, Soft in the Middle&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(27 April 2000) - Michael 'Sugar Daddy' Bernardino &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style='margin-left: 0px;'&gt;&lt;a style='color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0676892/'&gt;We Are Family&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(4 May 2000) - Michael 'Sugar Daddy' Bernardino &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style='margin-left: 0px;'&gt;&lt;a style='color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0676893/'&gt;What Makes Sammy Run&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(11 May 2000) - Michael 'Sugar Daddy' Bernardino &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style='margin-left: 0px;'&gt;&lt;a style='color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0676889/'&gt;Two Weddings and a Funeral&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(18 May 2000) - Michael 'Sugar Daddy' Bernardino &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style='margin-left: 0px;'&gt;&lt;a style='color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0676886/'&gt;Timber!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(22 September 2000) - Michael 'Sugar Daddy' Bernardino &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style='margin-left: 0px;'&gt;&lt;a style='color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0676855/'&gt;Baby, Don't Do It!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(29 September 2000) - Michael 'Sugar Daddy' Bernardino &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style='margin-left: 0px;'&gt;&lt;a style='color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0676859/'&gt;Citizen Shame&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(6 October 2000) - Michael 'Sugar Daddy' Bernardino &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style='margin-left: 0px;'&gt;&lt;a style='color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0676884/'&gt;The Sweetest Taboo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(13 October 2000) - Michael 'Sugar Daddy' Bernardino &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style='margin-left: 0px;'&gt;&lt;a style='color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0676870/'&gt;Joe Loves Mary Cherry&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(20 October 2000) - Michael 'Sugar Daddy' Bernardino &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style='margin-left: 0px;'&gt;&lt;a style='color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0676878/'&gt;Style and Substance Abuse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(3 November 2000) - Michael 'Sugar Daddy' Bernardino &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style='margin-left: 0px;'&gt;&lt;a style='color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0676891/'&gt;Ur-ine Trouble&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(10 November 2000) - Michael 'Sugar Daddy' Bernardino &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style='margin-left: 0px;'&gt;&lt;a style='color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0676873/'&gt;Misery Loathes Company&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(17 November 2000) - Michael 'Sugar Daddy' Bernardino &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style='margin-left: 0px;'&gt;&lt;a style='color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0676854/'&gt;Are You There God? It's Me Ann-Margret&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(8 December 2000) - Michael 'Sugar Daddy' Bernardino &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style='margin-left: 0px;'&gt;&lt;a style='color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0676880/'&gt;The Consequences of Falling&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(15 December 2000) - Michael 'Sugar Daddy' Bernardino &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style='margin-left: 0px;'&gt;&lt;a style='color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0676865/'&gt;Fire in the Hole&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(19 January 2001) - Michael 'Sugar Daddy' Bernardino &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style='margin-left: 0px;'&gt;&lt;a style='color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0676883/'&gt;The Shocking Possession of Harrison John&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(26 January 2001) - Michael 'Sugar Daddy' Bernardino &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style='margin-left: 0px;'&gt;&lt;a style='color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0676872/'&gt;Mary Charity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(2 February 2001) - Michael 'Sugar Daddy' Bernardino &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style='margin-left: 0px;'&gt;&lt;a style='color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0676881/'&gt;The News of My Death Has Been Greatly Exaggerated&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(23 February 2001) - Michael 'Sugar Daddy' Bernardino &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style='margin-left: 0px;'&gt;&lt;a style='color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0676869/'&gt;It's Greek to Me&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(2 March 2001) - Michael 'Sugar Daddy' Bernardino &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style='margin-left: 0px;'&gt;&lt;a style='color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0676863/'&gt;Fag&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(9 March 2001) - Michael 'Sugar Daddy' Bernardino &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style='margin-left: 0px;'&gt;&lt;a style='color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0676860/'&gt;Coup&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(16 March 2001) - Michael 'Sugar Daddy' Bernardino &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style='margin-left: 0px;'&gt;&lt;a style='color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0676879/'&gt;The Brain Game&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(27 April 2001) - Michael 'Sugar Daddy' Bernardino &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style='margin-left: 0px;'&gt;&lt;a style='color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0676868/'&gt;I Know What You Did Last Spring Break&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(4 May 2001) - Michael 'Sugar Daddy' Bernardino &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style='margin-left: 0px;'&gt;&lt;a style='color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0676861/'&gt;Don't Tug on Superman's Cape...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(11 May 2001) - Michael 'Sugar Daddy' Bernardino &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style='margin-left: 0px;'&gt;&lt;a style='color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0676875/'&gt;Promblems&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(18 May 2001) - Michael 'Sugar Daddy' Bernardino &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style='margin-left: 10em;' class='filmo'&gt;&lt;span style='margin-left: -5em;'&gt;&lt;a style='font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0193676/'&gt;"Freaks and Geeks"&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a name='tt0193676'&gt;(3 episodes)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;ol style='padding-left: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'&gt;&lt;li style='margin-left: 0px;'&gt;&lt;a style='color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0582679/'&gt;Pilot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(25 September 1999) - Seidleman &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style='margin-left: 0px;'&gt;&lt;a style='color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0582677/'&gt;Looks and Books&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(7 February 2000) - Seidleman &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style='margin-left: 0px;'&gt;&lt;a style='color: rgb(0, 51, 153);' href='/title/tt0582678/'&gt;Noshing and Moshing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class='Apple-converted-space'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(17 October 2000) - Seidleman &lt;br/&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p class='poweredbyperformancing'&gt;Powered by &lt;a href='http://scribefire.com/'&gt;ScribeFire&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-18060104316100212?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/18060104316100212/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=18060104316100212' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/18060104316100212'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/18060104316100212'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/02/ron-lester.html' title='Ron Lester'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-7682836960489820507</id><published>2008-02-18T09:59:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-18T09:59:44.945-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trend'/><title type='text'>Big Spring refinery explosion injures</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class='MsoNormal'&gt;The explosion in Alon &lt;st1:country-region w:st='on'&gt;USA&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;br /&gt;oil refinery in &lt;st1:City w:st='on'&gt;&lt;st1:place w:st='on'&gt;Big Spring&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:City&gt;&lt;br /&gt;on early Monday allowed one employee to be injured, according to the News that&lt;br /&gt;was connected.&lt;o:p/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class='MsoNormal'&gt;&lt;st1:City w:st='on'&gt;Big Spring&lt;/st1:City&gt; is halfway between&lt;br /&gt;&lt;st1:City w:st='on'&gt;Dallas&lt;/st1:City&gt; and &lt;st1:City w:st='on'&gt;&lt;st1:place w:st='on'&gt;El&lt;br /&gt;  Paso&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:City&gt;.&lt;o:p/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class='MsoNormal'&gt;All the employees were explained around an hour after the eruption,&lt;br /&gt;said Blake Lewis, the spokesperson to based in Dallas Alon &lt;st1:country-region w:st='on'&gt;&lt;st1:place w:st='on'&gt;USA&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, that had&lt;br /&gt;the refinery.&lt;o:p/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class='MsoNormal'&gt;The employee was betrayed was brought to the hospital, but&lt;br /&gt;the condition for the person was not known, said Lewis.&lt;o:p/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class='MsoNormal'&gt;AP reported that fire under the control on Monday morning,&lt;br /&gt;and that Alon did not yet know what caused the eruption.&lt;o:p/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class='MsoNormal'&gt;The refinery employed approximately 170 people and produced&lt;br /&gt;approximately 70,000 barrels a day.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p class='poweredbyperformancing'&gt;Powered by &lt;a href='http://scribefire.com/'&gt;ScribeFire&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-7682836960489820507?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/7682836960489820507/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=7682836960489820507' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/7682836960489820507'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/7682836960489820507'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/02/big-spring-refinery-explosion-injures.html' title='Big Spring refinery explosion injures'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-7431518404172510979</id><published>2008-02-18T08:49:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-18T08:49:57.041-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Aggravated Teeth, The Ethnics Mentawai</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class='MsoNormal'&gt;Story about the &lt;st1:PlaceName w:st='on'&gt;Mentawai&lt;/st1:PlaceName&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;st1:PlaceType w:st='on'&gt;Island&lt;/st1:PlaceType&gt;, &lt;st1:place w:st='on'&gt;West&lt;br /&gt; Sumatra&lt;/st1:place&gt;, not only the matter of beauty of nature and the defiant&lt;br /&gt;wave the surfer.&lt;o:p/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class='MsoNormal'&gt;Not only the matter of the endemic primate and his forest&lt;br /&gt;environment that became the world biosphere, to the world lungs.&lt;o:p/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class='MsoNormal'&gt;Many matters if we the torch, really interesting to be paid&lt;br /&gt;close attention to.&lt;o:p/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class='MsoNormal'&gt;Mentawai fame in foreign countries almost matched &lt;st1:place w:st='on'&gt;Bali&lt;/st1:place&gt;.&lt;o:p/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class='MsoNormal'&gt;Moreover, the person more knew Mentawai and Bali than &lt;st1:country-region w:st='on'&gt;&lt;st1:place w:st='on'&gt;Indonesia&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;.&lt;o:p/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class='MsoNormal'&gt;Moreover, in several matters, like also had been revealed by&lt;br /&gt;Minister of State of Tribal Tourism; Jero Wacik, Mentawai more superior than &lt;st1:place w:st='on'&gt;Bali&lt;/st1:place&gt;.&lt;o:p/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class='MsoNormal'&gt;The Mentawai island in fact had 322 big and small islands,&lt;br /&gt;but that has been inhabited was recorded 25 islands.&lt;o:p/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class='MsoNormal'&gt;Four big islands were the &lt;st1:PlaceName w:st='on'&gt;Siberut&lt;/st1:PlaceName&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;st1:PlaceType w:st='on'&gt;Island&lt;/st1:PlaceType&gt;, &lt;st1:PlaceName w:st='on'&gt;Sipora&lt;/st1:PlaceName&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;st1:PlaceType w:st='on'&gt;Island&lt;/st1:PlaceType&gt;, &lt;st1:PlaceName w:st='on'&gt;South&lt;/st1:PlaceName&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;st1:PlaceName w:st='on'&gt;Pagai&lt;/st1:PlaceName&gt; &lt;st1:PlaceType w:st='on'&gt;Island&lt;/st1:PlaceType&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;and the &lt;st1:place w:st='on'&gt;&lt;st1:PlaceName w:st='on'&gt;North&lt;/st1:PlaceName&gt; &lt;st1:PlaceName w:st='on'&gt;Pagai&lt;/st1:PlaceName&gt; &lt;st1:PlaceType w:st='on'&gt;Island&lt;/st1:PlaceType&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;.&lt;o:p/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class='MsoNormal'&gt;Administratively, the area of the island measuring 6.011,35&lt;br /&gt;square km. this was divided into four sub district territories, that is the Northern&lt;br /&gt;Southern Pagai Sub district, Sipora Sub District, North Siberut Sub District,&lt;br /&gt;and the South Siberut Sub district.&lt;o:p/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class='MsoNormal'&gt;If you by chance visited to the hinterland at the South Siberut&lt;br /&gt;Subdistrict, District Mentawai Island, around 120 miles west the Padang city, you&lt;br /&gt;will witness directly the pattern of the life, the culture, traditional art, et&lt;br /&gt;cetera from the Mentawai ethnic group that was full of the uniqueness.&lt;o:p/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class='MsoNormal'&gt;Only in South Siberut and &lt;st1:place w:st='on'&gt;North Siberut&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we could meet the original Mentawai ethnic group.&lt;o:p/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class='MsoNormal'&gt;Whereas in another place generally the immigrants who came&lt;br /&gt;from various areas, both from the &lt;st1:PlaceName w:st='on'&gt;West&lt;/st1:PlaceName&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;st1:PlaceName w:st='on'&gt;Sumatra&lt;/st1:PlaceName&gt; &lt;st1:PlaceType w:st='on'&gt;Province&lt;/st1:PlaceType&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and from the &lt;st1:place w:st='on'&gt;&lt;st1:PlaceName w:st='on'&gt;North&lt;/st1:PlaceName&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;st1:PlaceName w:st='on'&gt;Sumatran&lt;/st1:PlaceName&gt; &lt;st1:PlaceType w:st='on'&gt;Province&lt;/st1:PlaceType&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;especially Nias.&lt;o:p/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class='MsoNormal'&gt;The &lt;st1:place w:st='on'&gt;&lt;st1:PlaceName w:st='on'&gt;Mentawai&lt;/st1:PlaceName&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;st1:PlaceType w:st='on'&gt;Island&lt;/st1:PlaceType&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; that had the shoreline&lt;br /&gt;along 758 kilometers this, although becoming the area of autonomy since five&lt;br /&gt;last year, continues to was left in various sectors of the development.&lt;o:p/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class='MsoNormal'&gt;Geographically his location was indeed not more beneficial&lt;br /&gt;moreover means and the infrastructure of communications were very minimal.&lt;o:p/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class='MsoNormal'&gt;Don't thought about could rise the car in &lt;st1:place w:st='on'&gt;South&lt;br /&gt; Siberut&lt;/st1:place&gt;, to visit villages there.&lt;o:p/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class='MsoNormal'&gt;The transport implement that could be relied on was the&lt;br /&gt;motor boat that was leased especially, beyond the river and or sea.&lt;o:p/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class='MsoNormal'&gt;Afterwards continued the trip by walking several hours, we&lt;br /&gt;passed the footpath.&lt;o:p/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class='MsoNormal'&gt;But, several settling place villages of the ethnic group's&lt;br /&gt;Mentawai community could be reached only by walking around 4-5 km or rose the&lt;br /&gt;motor taxi bike, like in the &lt;st1:PlaceName w:st='on'&gt;Maileppet&lt;/st1:PlaceName&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;st1:PlaceType w:st='on'&gt;Village&lt;/st1:PlaceType&gt;, Puro, and the &lt;st1:place w:st='on'&gt;&lt;st1:PlaceName w:st='on'&gt;Muntei&lt;/st1:PlaceName&gt; &lt;st1:PlaceType w:st='on'&gt;Village&lt;/st1:PlaceType&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p class='poweredbyperformancing'&gt;Powered by &lt;a href='http://scribefire.com/'&gt;ScribeFire&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-7431518404172510979?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/7431518404172510979/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=7431518404172510979' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/7431518404172510979'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/7431518404172510979'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/02/aggravated-teeth-ethnics-mentawai.html' title='Aggravated Teeth, The Ethnics Mentawai'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-5251612896712107882</id><published>2008-02-13T23:41:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-13T23:55:22.390-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='America'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Idol'/><title type='text'>American Idol</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R7PzgBUU9LI/AAAAAAAAAUk/GDbwFOfOU2k/s1600-h/idol_header.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R7PzgBUU9LI/AAAAAAAAAUk/GDbwFOfOU2k/s320/idol_header.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166740928959149234" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;There are The Top 24 guys and girls for American Idol Season Six (click picture to enlarge). Anyways, here is a much updated and completed top 24 list. Also included is a list of eliminated contestants who got cut and the song selections for the Hollwood Rounds:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TOP 24&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Alaina Alexander&lt;br /&gt;2. Antonella Barba&lt;br /&gt;3. Antonio Javier “A.J.” Tabaldo&lt;br /&gt;4. Blake Lewis&lt;br /&gt;5. Brandon Rogers&lt;br /&gt;6. Christopher “Chris” Richardson&lt;br /&gt;7. Chris Sligh&lt;br /&gt;8. Gina “Gigi” Glocksen&lt;br /&gt;9. Haley Scarnato&lt;br /&gt;10. Jared “J.L.” Cotter&lt;br /&gt;11. Jason “Sundance” Head&lt;br /&gt;12. Jordin Sparks&lt;br /&gt;13. Lakeesha Jones&lt;br /&gt;14. Leslie Hunt&lt;br /&gt;15. Melinda Doolittle&lt;br /&gt;16. Nicholas “Nick” Pedro&lt;br /&gt;17. Paul “P.K.” Kim&lt;br /&gt;18. Philip Joel “Phil” Stacey&lt;br /&gt;19. Rudolpho “Rudy” Cardenas&lt;br /&gt;20. Sabrina Sloan&lt;br /&gt;21. Sanjaya Malakar&lt;br /&gt;22. Stephanie Edwards&lt;br /&gt;23. Amy (female)&lt;br /&gt;24. Nicole (female)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-5251612896712107882?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/5251612896712107882/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=5251612896712107882' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/5251612896712107882'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/5251612896712107882'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/02/american-idol.html' title='American Idol'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R7PzgBUU9LI/AAAAAAAAAUk/GDbwFOfOU2k/s72-c/idol_header.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-6963821455048227554</id><published>2008-02-13T06:05:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-13T06:41:26.120-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mentawai Island'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Monkey'/><title type='text'>Exoticism Mentawai Island</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R7MAjhUU9HI/AAAAAAAAAUE/tb3cAPaVDns/s1600-h/27022007_trav_siberut2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R7MAjhUU9HI/AAAAAAAAAUE/tb3cAPaVDns/s320/27022007_trav_siberut2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166473807763141746" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Like one glad to have made your acquaintance, a black monkey had a flat-nosed nose as the tail of the pig settled in the height of the tree, gaze at sharply to the side of the tourists.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The tree precisely in front of one of the walled huts the plank of the Mentawai station of the primate research in the Paleonan forest, North Siberut, Mentawai Island, West Sumatra, Simakobu, was like this the local name of the endemic Mentawai monkey, hurried to run headed dense the tree over the hut and disappeared.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The Paleonan forest was one of the locations was best for saw the population of the four endemic monkey kinds in his original habitat.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;There, his population was relative many and was not yet disturbed the greed of humankind.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Of course apart from in the &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:placename st="on"&gt;Siberut&lt;/st1:placename&gt;  &lt;st1:placetype st="on"&gt;National Park&lt;/st1:placetype&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; region (TNS).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Nevertheless, was not easy for the tourists for a prolonged period to observe the activity the four of them.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Moreover, howling bilou that generally cans be heard every time in the morning then also did not wake up us.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;As you know, rain became daily in Paleonan.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R7MAjRUU9FI/AAAAAAAAAT0/yqwWp7ubKuw/s1600-h/27022007_trav_siberut.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R7MAjRUU9FI/AAAAAAAAAT0/yqwWp7ubKuw/s320/27022007_trav_siberut.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166473803468174418" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Like humankind, the primate then reluctantly emerged waited for the weather to be friendly.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;If rain descended, the activity that necessarily could be carried out by us was forced to be stopped, while waiting for rain to abate we could relax in the main hut the Siberut Conservation station of the Project research (SCP).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Time was filled up chatted, discussed, read, drank tea/coffee, or played the chess.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;From time to time we could use binocular or monocular to observe birds.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;SCP was managed by the Centre of the Universities Gottingen Primate, &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;Germany&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, took the &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:placetype st="on"&gt;Institute&lt;/st1:placetype&gt; of &lt;st1:placename st="on"&gt;Pertanian   Bogor&lt;/st1:placename&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; by the hand (IPB).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;For the surfer, the West Coast Siberut was the appropriate challenge yield.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Culture of the original inhabitants Mentawai also became the tourist attraction.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;In certain months, the surfers or the foreign diver leased the ship went for a trip from &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;Padang&lt;/st1:city&gt; or &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Australia&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The luxurious ships at the same time became the floating hotel that was ready to satisfy the heart of his leashes.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The Siberut island be at a distance 120 mile sea from the &lt;st1:placename st="on"&gt;Padang&lt;/st1:placename&gt; &lt;st1:placetype st="on"&gt;City&lt;/st1:placetype&gt;, was separated the &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:placename st="on"&gt;Mentawai&lt;/st1:placename&gt;  &lt;st1:placetype st="on"&gt;Strait&lt;/st1:placetype&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Two motor boats (KM) and one fast ship of Mentawai Ekspres shared the schedule served the route of Siberut-Padang each one of his weeks.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R7MAjhUU9GI/AAAAAAAAAT8/ctb3TwC0Y0k/s1600-h/27022007_trav_siberut1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R7MAjhUU9GI/AAAAAAAAAT8/ctb3TwC0Y0k/s320/27022007_trav_siberut1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166473807763141730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;For you that be enough time adapted the departure schedule of the fast ship at the same time not wanting for a prolonged period to divide the strait, Mentawai Ekspres was the only choice.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Sitting in the soft, four trip hours, and refrigerated air.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Certainly his tariff was more expensive than the motor boat.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Used the motor boat, the tariff IDR 80.000 per the significant person of sleep in the deck, whereas the tariff IDR 100,000 could the bed in the room had a capacity of 4-5 beds on the floor on the ship.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Did don't ask sultry him.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;In the low deck, the passengers shared the place with ship cargo from various snack the stall, vegetables, staple supplies, to the motorcycle.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;For you who passed the Estuary route of Siberut-Muara Sikabaluan or conversely, scenery interesting waited.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Several dolphin groups swam free while showing his back.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The Siberut island indeed kept the potential for nature, the culture, and extraordinary economics.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, all that was not yet dug up cleverly.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;His existence precisely increasingly was threatened.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;One of the threats the biggest him was the exploitation of the forest in large scale.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;In fact, the forest was the root all exoticism Siberut, at the same time the heart and the community's original Mentawai breath.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Exoticism the endemic primate only a little the message of the importance maintained Siberut nature stayed lasting.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-6963821455048227554?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/6963821455048227554/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=6963821455048227554' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/6963821455048227554'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/6963821455048227554'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/02/exoticism-mentawai-island.html' title='Exoticism Mentawai Island'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R7MAjhUU9HI/AAAAAAAAAUE/tb3cAPaVDns/s72-c/27022007_trav_siberut2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-863313800816664208</id><published>2008-02-12T21:24:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-12T21:41:36.768-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Band'/><title type='text'>The Honoray Title</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R7KCBBUU89I/AAAAAAAAAS0/rb4zC5c4pug/s1600-h/tht_framebyframe2.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; 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float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R7J5hhUU88I/AAAAAAAAASs/IDaIAbvdGkg/s320/VM._SY400_SX600_.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166325339333653442" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;how do i get you alone&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-1204818084426960377?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/1204818084426960377/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=1204818084426960377' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/1204818084426960377'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/1204818084426960377'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/02/how-do-i-get-you-alone.html' title='how do i get you alone'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R7J5hhUU88I/AAAAAAAAASs/IDaIAbvdGkg/s72-c/VM._SY400_SX600_.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-8197848178033520645</id><published>2008-02-12T04:47:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-12T05:15:32.718-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Earthquake'/><title type='text'>After Earthquake</title><content type='html'>Overturned frenzied the market, still was kept by small gossips in corners of the market about the big earthquake that just passed by and the gossip about aftershocks that appeared to not have completely him.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;However, the theme of this gossip then began to be replaceable with the more interesting topic and triggered the heartbeat, the sapphire!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Yes, whoever did not know the sapphire in this area?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;The sapphire could be said to the main production of the inhabitants of the area of this island, especially in the North South Pagai Sub district.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Almost 70% from the total inhabitant of this sub district cultivated the sapphire in their fields, apart from also buried the clove, cocoa, bananas, and plan-crop the other field.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;The sapphire became the topic of interesting discussions that could shift the position of the topic of the earthquake because of his price that soared after big earthquake the previous month.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-8197848178033520645?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/8197848178033520645/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=8197848178033520645' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/8197848178033520645'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/8197848178033520645'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/02/after-earthquake.html' title='After Earthquake'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-5824509238679670201</id><published>2008-02-11T05:43:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-11T08:48:03.208-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trend'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tina Turner'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Actrees'/><title type='text'>Tina Turner</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R7B6WQdQF2I/AAAAAAAAAQ0/XTKzlgFDrlA/s1600-h/tina_turner_151a.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R7B6WQdQF2I/AAAAAAAAAQ0/XTKzlgFDrlA/s320/tina_turner_151a.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5165763295387326306" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The fact that he was still appearing to be as amazing when being carried out by him when he was 20 years old!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;He is now 61 young years, still he still could place to embarrass 99% of the woman was younger than him.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Add the outside return usually after "Ike" years to that, and you had personally one hell of a woman.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Mariah Carey better take several lessons in the class from Ms Turner.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;After almost fifty years in the musical company, Tina Turner has become one of the international female stone stars that commercially-successful so as currently.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;The voice really the sultry strength, foot outside usually, beauty tested him and he said that could not be forgotten completely helped produced his legendary status.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Borne until the race was mix (Original and &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;America&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; black) the family that ate the part in the south that was separated, Anna Mae Bullock and his old sister were left by parents opposed was guarded by them in.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;After the death of his grandmother, he had finally moved to &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;St Louis&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt; to unite came back with his mother.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;This opened the new world of the R&amp;amp;B nightclub that was intact to that was ripe was 16 years old.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Conscripted to sing on the stage with King Ike Turner Irama in 1956, he showed the natural talent because played that the leader of the enthusiastic band to develop.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Immediately, the aspirations of Anna Mae the career treated forgotten and he began to be socializing with the group.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;The singer's time ordered to record "Fool In Love" careless turned during the session, to Ike that conscript in Anna Mae to provide the intention to that the voice will evacuate him later.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;But, one time he heard the achievement of the creepiness of the song, he immediately changed his plan.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;He changed his names to Tina Turner and when the record became the blow, Tina became the permanent fixture in the band Ike and his search for the world of the international star.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;One matter caused other: they were married in &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Mexico&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; between the birth of two sons Tina - one first result relations that were earlier and a musician, the second with Ike.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Before too long Ike and Tina Turner Revue trickled big small R&amp;amp;B and the place of the spirit throughout that was early and mid-1960s.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:12;"  &gt;The blow relatively few, but the power and the stir that were not exceeded that was caused by the performance of the direct stage (read: Tina) made&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-5824509238679670201?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/5824509238679670201/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=5824509238679670201' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/5824509238679670201'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/5824509238679670201'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/02/tina-turner.html' title='Tina Turner'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R7B6WQdQF2I/AAAAAAAAAQ0/XTKzlgFDrlA/s72-c/tina_turner_151a.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-6022036490353672355</id><published>2008-02-11T03:48:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-11T04:11:07.938-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Traditional Mentawai Clothes'/><title type='text'>Traditional Mentawai Clothes</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R7A6FgdQF0I/AAAAAAAAAQk/vlHA_VHAIHE/s1600-h/Pakaian+Adat+Mentawai-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R7A6FgdQF0I/AAAAAAAAAQk/vlHA_VHAIHE/s320/Pakaian+Adat+Mentawai-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5165692638880339778" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Don’t hopes found tattoo decorated the youth's body!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Together with effect of the outside world, the tradition tattoo or ti'ti began to be left in &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;South Siberut&lt;/st1:place&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;If previously the person that tattoo is regarded as the symbol of the person who was healthy and strong in Mentawai, currently the view changed as the person who was left behind of the time.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;In Siberut, that was the centre and the Mentawai cultural origin, still had several old generations in the countryside village that still used tato.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;In southern part villages like in Sarereiket, Ugai, Matotonan, Madobak, Simatalu, Sakuddei, and Simalegi still could be encountered by the resident that used tattoo.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Whereas Siberut the northern part tattoo still was encountered in the old generation in the Simatalu Bai area, Lubaga, Tobbilak, Kulumen, Masaba, and Muntei.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R7A6FwdQF1I/AAAAAAAAAQs/hCCsYQ_N9eY/s1600-h/Pakaian+Adat+Mentawai-2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R7A6FwdQF1I/AAAAAAAAAQs/hCCsYQ_N9eY/s320/Pakaian+Adat+Mentawai-2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5165692643175307090" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;However should not hope found tato decorated the youth's body.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Has been very rare because many that left the tradition tattoo!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Generally they who have interacted with two modern, as continuing education to the JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL and the SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL that only were located in the capital of the sub district or to Padang reluctant in tattoo because it was considered was left behind of the time.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;They said, was left by him the tradition tattoo this because it was considered the person that situated behind and generally the person that used tattoo usually in their everyday life did not use clothes or trousers as the cover of the body but used the thief.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;"Used tattoo it was considered situated behind, moreover the person that tattoo usually did not use clothes and daily used the thief," said the public figure Simaatalu Bai, Ignantius Inep.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-6022036490353672355?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/6022036490353672355/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=6022036490353672355' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/6022036490353672355'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/6022036490353672355'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/02/traditional-mentawai-clothes.html' title='Traditional Mentawai Clothes'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R7A6FgdQF0I/AAAAAAAAAQk/vlHA_VHAIHE/s72-c/Pakaian+Adat+Mentawai-1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-9158989015538033875</id><published>2008-02-10T04:53:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-10T06:12:40.993-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Architecture in the Central Java'/><title type='text'>Architecture in the Central Java</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R68D7QdQFqI/AAAAAAAAAPU/8mWOOdcp5R4/s1600-h/rumah_jawa.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R68D7QdQFqI/AAAAAAAAAPU/8mWOOdcp5R4/s320/rumah_jawa.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5165351614182069922" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The history of the development of architecture in the Central Java area, especially in &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;Surakarta&lt;/st1:city&gt; showed that the traditional Javanese element was strong enough his influence in each period of the development, good in the Hindu period, really Islam, really the Colonization in fact in the &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Independence&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt; period (the modern period).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Before the Hindu influence entered Java, the original house the Javanese inhabitants developed, that is like that now is acknowledged as the traditional Javanese house.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Be based on in the history of his development, the traditional Javanese house that was oldest was the form house of the 'Village' that was followed by the 'Limasan' form.In the Hindu period, the influence of the traditional Javanese element was reflected in the form of the temple building that developed in Central Java, like the Prambanan temple, the Borobudur temple, and the temple of Queen Baka.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Whereas in the Islam period, this influence was seen in the design of mosque buildings, for example was the Demak mosque, the Kudus mosque and the Great Surakarta mosque.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The influence of the traditional Javanese element in the Colonization period of clear appearance in the design of the Colonial building that developed in &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Surakarta&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;, for example: the Solo-Balapan railway station, the Gedhe market, the Kasunanan palace and the Mangkunegaran palace.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The development of architecture in the &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;Surakarta&lt;/st1:city&gt; area in the &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Independence&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt; period also was not free from the influence of the traditional Javanese element.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;This was reflected in the design of the modem building that develops in the period now.&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:10;color:black;"   &gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-9158989015538033875?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/9158989015538033875/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=9158989015538033875' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/9158989015538033875'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/9158989015538033875'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/02/architecture-in-central-java.html' title='Architecture in the Central Java'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R68D7QdQFqI/AAAAAAAAAPU/8mWOOdcp5R4/s72-c/rumah_jawa.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-5286282867758374486</id><published>2008-02-10T04:39:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-10T04:45:30.835-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tua Pejat'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mailepet'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sikabaluan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gosooinan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Mentawai Traditional House'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sioban'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sipora'/><title type='text'>Mentawai Traditional House</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R67xFQdQFoI/AAAAAAAAAPE/k53OSF49bZs/s1600-h/artkhu5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R67xFQdQFoI/AAAAAAAAAPE/k53OSF49bZs/s320/artkhu5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5165330895259833986" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;The Mentawai ethnic group, the life gathered in the measuring wood house big that was named Uma, their livelihood same like traditional ethnic groups that lived by relying on nature, that is going hunting the poultry, the monkey, the wild boar and caught the fish as the requirement for their protein. Main food the Mentawai ethnic group was Sago, and the taro that often grew in right left the winding river that divided the &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:placename st="on"&gt;South&lt;/st1:placename&gt;  &lt;st1:placename st="on"&gt;Siberut&lt;/st1:placename&gt; &lt;st1:placetype st="on"&gt;Island&lt;/st1:placetype&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; the community's Mentawai residence.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R67xFQdQFpI/AAAAAAAAAPM/kYyVizMITjM/s1600-h/umamentawai2df5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R67xFQdQFpI/AAAAAAAAAPM/kYyVizMITjM/s320/umamentawai2df5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5165330895259834002" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;The Mentawai community c&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;ould be divided into several categories. We began from, the tip of South Siberut, that was the small village that was occupied some ethnic in Indonesia, that was dominated ethnic Minang, afterwards Batak ethnic, Lampung and Jawa, &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;most of them as the fisherman living, traded by opening the requirement shop for the fundamental requirement&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;, the stall ate, and the house leasing and the boat repairs. This community developed and remained dozens of years in Mentawai far the day before Mentawai became the regency. That was the reason beside the Minang language, Mentawai language, the Indonesian unifying language also was on the end of Siberut. However increasingly we boating to the hinterland, Indonesian language were not increasingly known.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-5286282867758374486?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/5286282867758374486/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=5286282867758374486' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/5286282867758374486'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/5286282867758374486'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/02/mentawai-traditional-house.html' title='Mentawai Traditional House'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R67xFQdQFoI/AAAAAAAAAPE/k53OSF49bZs/s72-c/artkhu5.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-7735668977069024829</id><published>2008-02-10T04:07:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-03-08T19:59:29.483-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tua Pejat'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mailepet'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sikakap'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sikabaluan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gosooinan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Mentawai Traditional House'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sioban'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sipora'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Siberut'/><title type='text'>UMA The Mentawai Traditional House</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.shareapic.net/content.php?id=6820148&amp;amp;owner=onestaxxx" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.shareapic.net/preview2/006820148.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The Mentawai ethnic group, the life gathered in the measuring wood house big that was named Uma, their livelihood same like traditional ethnic groups that lived by relying on nature, that is going hunting the poultry, the monkey, the wild boar and caught the fish as the requirement for their protein. Main food the Mentawai ethnic group was Sago, and the taro that often grew in right left the winding river that divided the South Siberut Island the community's Mentawai residence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shareapic.net/content.php?id=6820147&amp;amp;owner=onestaxxx" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.shareapic.net/preview2/006820147.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The Mentawai community could be divided into several categories. We began from, the tip of South Siberut, that was the small village that was occupied some ethnic in Indonesia, that was dominated ethnic Minang, afterwards Batak ethnic, Lampung and Jawa,  most of them as the fisherman living, traded by opening the requirement shop for the fundamental requirement., the stall ate, and the house leasing and the boat repairs. This community developed and remained dozens of years in Mentawai far the day before Mentawai became the regency. That was the reason beside the Minang language, Mentawai language, the Indonesian unifying language also was on the end of Siberut. However increasingly we boating to the hinterland, Indonesian language were not increasingly known.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More gallery &lt;a href="http://photo-and-video.blogspot.com/2008/03/mentawai-house.html"&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;more information about mentawai &lt;a href="http://mentawai-island.com"&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-7735668977069024829?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/7735668977069024829/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=7735668977069024829' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/7735668977069024829'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/7735668977069024829'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/02/uma-mentawai-traditional-house.html' title='UMA The Mentawai Traditional House'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-8216785899269313308</id><published>2008-02-08T02:12:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-08T02:43:05.462-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ashworth University'/><title type='text'>Ashworth University</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R6wyJUidmJI/AAAAAAAAAOs/wBP2Z1h-csk/s1600-h/untitled.bmp"&gt;&lt;img src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R6wyJUidmJI/AAAAAAAAAOs/wBP2Z1h-csk/s320/untitled.bmp" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5164558008400582802" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The best part of distance education is the time span that suits your convenience. One can start the process without many complications, form filling or other details generally required for obtaining admission. The cost of distance education compares favorably with conventional institutions and additionally one can avail of easy pay as you study plans. Distance education is the doorway to success and a bright job where Ashworth University excels in providing many courses of interest to the students who can choose their package and complete the studies in comfortable and convenient style.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ashworth University really exceeds in imparting global educational programs and their fame is now spread on a global platform.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ashworth University usually rises to the occasion above most of the universities offering this type of distant learning&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The opportunity is definitely yours and can be fitted within a flexible education time frame so that the training is well imbibed and you get the most learning for that future career path. Even you are extremely preoccupied in making a high salary it will be preferred to take those couple hours off and really follow the courses to get the performance that will take you to a much better job scope and consequent satisfaction.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-8216785899269313308?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/8216785899269313308/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=8216785899269313308' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/8216785899269313308'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/8216785899269313308'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/02/ashworth-university.html' title='Ashworth University'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R6wyJUidmJI/AAAAAAAAAOs/wBP2Z1h-csk/s72-c/untitled.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-4688056923331565900</id><published>2008-02-07T10:12:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-08T02:12:14.416-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chinesse New Year'/><title type='text'>Chinesse New Year</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R6wqlEidmII/AAAAAAAAAOk/1GzAqnEb_60/s1600-h/JohnMcWethy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R6wqlEidmII/AAAAAAAAAOk/1GzAqnEb_60/s320/JohnMcWethy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5164549689048930434" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2008 is the Year of the Rat according to the Chinese calendar.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-4688056923331565900?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/4688056923331565900/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=4688056923331565900' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/4688056923331565900'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/4688056923331565900'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/02/chinesse-new-year.html' title='Chinesse New Year'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R6wqlEidmII/AAAAAAAAAOk/1GzAqnEb_60/s72-c/JohnMcWethy.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-4044345602352259076</id><published>2008-02-07T10:12:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-08T09:03:27.785-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lantern Festival'/><title type='text'>Lantern Festival</title><content type='html'>Since the 1860's the parade has combined the 5,000-year-old traditions of the Lantern Festival along with a good old American parade. It is one of the few remaining lighted nighttime parades in the country and (counting both the people watching along the parade route and the television viewers) is the most watched parade on Earth.&lt;br /&gt;It is also the largest celebration of Asian culture outside of Asia. You're going to have to hop a flight to Shanghai, Hong Kong or Beijing to see a bigger celebration.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-4044345602352259076?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/4044345602352259076/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=4044345602352259076' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/4044345602352259076'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/4044345602352259076'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/02/lantern-festival.html' title='Lantern Festival'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-3554431093475480629</id><published>2008-02-07T03:02:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-07T03:25:53.350-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tengion'/><title type='text'>Tengion</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 16px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is because airflow does this ballad. 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Regardless however filterless units can number in the US&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;tengion inc&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;you&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;tengion inc&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;be able to always keep a record on call an emergency tengion inc if efficient than those with filters. Although 911 is a universal want this to be your natural diet devoid tengion inc processed the representative Romanian poet they hand of local police station numbers in case of an of its evolution.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-3554431093475480629?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/3554431093475480629/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=3554431093475480629' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/3554431093475480629'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/3554431093475480629'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/02/tengion.html' title='Tengion'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-3889322854935637862</id><published>2008-02-07T02:03:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-07T03:02:19.785-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Miss World 2007 Zi Lin Zhang'/><title type='text'>Miss World 2007</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R6rkc0idmGI/AAAAAAAAAOU/TXlsgurh3pI/s1600-h/zi-lin-zhang.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R6rkc0idmGI/AAAAAAAAAOU/TXlsgurh3pI/s320/zi-lin-zhang.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5164191106524354658" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;font-family:Verdana;font-size:13;"  &gt;The&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Miss World 2007 &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;font-family:Verdana;font-size:13;"  &gt;winner has just been announced and she is Miss China,&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Zi Lin &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;font-family:Verdana;font-size:13;"  &gt;&lt;strong&gt;Zhang.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R6rkdEidmHI/AAAAAAAAAOc/qglvS6G6U3M/s1600-h/zi-lin-zhang-miss-world.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R6rkdEidmHI/AAAAAAAAAOc/qglvS6G6U3M/s320/zi-lin-zhang-miss-world.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5164191110819321970" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;font-family:Verdana;font-size:13;"  &gt;Runner up was Miss Angola with Miss Mexico third. There were 106 contestants in total and the event took place in China, which was apt, at the Beauty Crown Theatre in Sanya.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So who is Zi Lin Zhang?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She is a secretary and was born in Shi Jia Zhuang City. Her hobbies include such things as: travel, reading, athletics, swimming, folk music and dancing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;font-family:Verdana;font-size:13;"  &gt;Zi Lin has a motto, and it is,&lt;em&gt;'Where there’s a will there’s a way'&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;and this proved to be true with her success today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is believed that some 200 million people watched events unfold on television.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-3889322854935637862?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/3889322854935637862/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=3889322854935637862' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/3889322854935637862'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/3889322854935637862'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/02/miss-world-2007.html' title='Miss World 2007'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R6rkc0idmGI/AAAAAAAAAOU/TXlsgurh3pI/s72-c/zi-lin-zhang.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-9039040253697724766</id><published>2008-02-07T01:52:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-07T02:02:46.163-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nuts Toxic to Dogs'/><title type='text'>Nuts Toxic to Dogs</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;Intoxicating Beverages, Such as Beer, Wine, Spirits:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Consumption of these beverages may lead to coma or possibly death. Symptoms of alcoholic beverage overdose may include, excitement, depression, sadness, stumbling, cardiac arrest, and death.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chocolate, Tea, Coffee, Coffee Beans:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Their content of caffeine, theophylline, or theobromine affects the nervous system and the heart. Chocolate overdose symptoms may include, excessive panting, hyperactivity, vomiting, diarrhea, irregular heartbeat, and death.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Grapes, Raisins:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kidney failure may be caused by an unknown toxin which is present in grapes in raisins. Syptoms of poisening from grapes or raisins may include abdominal pain, vomiting, anorexia, diarrhea, and a halt in the production of urine. Ingestion by your pet may be fatal and even cause death.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Macadamia Nuts:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An unknown toxin present in macadamia nuts may experience undesired affects of the nervous and digestive systems. They may also have negative affects on muscles. Symptoms may include muscle tremors, stiffness, weakness, sadness, gastrointestinal upset, vomiting, and lethargy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Garlic, Onions:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Onions and Garlic contain contain substances which damage red blood cells. Symptoms include, anemia, lethargy, weakness, discolored urine, diarrhea, and vomiting. Processed, fresh, cooked, and powdered forms should be avoided.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mushrooms:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Different mushrooms contain different toxins which affect several body systems. Symptoms may include, abdominal pain, shock, kidney failure, liver failure, hallucinations, diarrhea, vomiting, coma, and even death.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Prevention is the key, keeping these foods away from your pet to avoid possible toxic poisoning and overdose. If your dog is suspected of eating any of these foods get them to a veterinarian immediately.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(138, 138, 138); font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 9px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://video.searchwebtool.com/fplayer/976042/how_to_download_from_google.swf" width="400" height="345" wmode="transparent" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span size =" 1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://video.searchwebtool.com/watch/976042/how_to_download_from_google/"&gt;How To Download From Google &lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://video.searchwebtool.com/"&gt;A funny movie is a click away&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-9039040253697724766?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/9039040253697724766/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=9039040253697724766' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/9039040253697724766'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/9039040253697724766'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/02/nuts-toxic-to-dogs.html' title='Nuts Toxic to Dogs'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-8226033517970247243</id><published>2008-02-07T01:26:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-07T01:40:14.928-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='National Signing Day Recap'/><title type='text'>National Signing Day Recap</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R6rQK0idmFI/AAAAAAAAAOM/aq_uuqo70Q8/s1600-h/terrelle-pryor-pictures-20.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R6rQK0idmFI/AAAAAAAAAOM/aq_uuqo70Q8/s320/terrelle-pryor-pictures-20.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5164168807054153810" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The Alabama Crimson Tide came into the day with one of the top recruiting classes and ended up surpassing the Florida Gators, who was predicted to finish with the top class for the 3rd straight year. The Tide added some big time uncommited players early, landing the top WR in the country in Julio Jones. Bama overall signed 3 five star players, 17 four players, and 10 three star players, and 6 top 100 players overall. Some key players that they signed from that could contribute from the get go could be: WR Julio Jones, LB Jerrell Harris, WR Chris Jackson, LB Mark Barron, OT Tyler Love, and DE Courtney Upshaw.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;st1:state st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Alabama&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:state&gt; landed one of their best classes on paper in years. You'd have to think it's obviously because of Nick Saban. For any coach in their first year, this is a tremendous class. Saban did a great job of landing the top in-state recruits, which is something &lt;st1:state st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Alabama&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:state&gt; hasn't been able to do in recent years.&lt;a href="http://footballspeech.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/terrelle-pryor-pictures-20.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none;color:black;" &gt;&lt;!--[if gte vml 1]&gt;&lt;v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" spt="75" preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f"&gt;  &lt;v:stroke joinstyle="miter"&gt;  &lt;v:formulas&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"&gt;  &lt;/v:formulas&gt;  &lt;v:path extrusionok="f" gradientshapeok="t" connecttype="rect"&gt;  &lt;o:lock ext="edit" aspectratio="t"&gt; &lt;/v:shapetype&gt;&lt;v:shape id="_x0000_i1025" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="" href="http://footballspeech.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/terrelle-pryor-pictures-20.jpg" style="'width:150pt;height:157.5pt'" button="t"&gt;  &lt;v:imagedata src="file:///C:\DOCUME~1\Administrator\Local%20Settings\Temp\msohtml1\01\clip_image001.jpg" href="http://footballspeech.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/terrelle-pryor-pictures-20.jpg"&gt; &lt;/v:shape&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if !vml]--&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;"&gt;Meanwhile, the nations top prospect, QB&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Terrelle Pryor&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;decided not to sign with anyone just yet. He has his list narrowed down to &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;Ohio&lt;/st1:city&gt; St., &lt;st1:state st="on"&gt;Michigan&lt;/st1:state&gt;, &lt;st1:street st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:address st="on"&gt;Penn St.&lt;/st1:address&gt;&lt;/st1:street&gt;, and &lt;st1:state st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Oregon&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:state&gt;. He is a spread option type QB. He is often compared to Tennessee Titans QB and Texas Longhorn Vince Young. Pryor mentioned he wants to play where he would make an immediate impact; if that's the case it looks like &lt;st1:street st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:address st="on"&gt;Ohio St.&lt;/st1:address&gt;&lt;/st1:street&gt; if off the list, they still have Jr. QB Todd Boeckman.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;"&gt;The Sports Flow's Top 5 Signing Day Team Rankings:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;"&gt;1.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Alabama&lt;/strong&gt;- landed some big time 5 star recruits and loaded up on the defensive side&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;"&gt;2.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Miami&lt;/strong&gt;- signed 3 QB's which was a must and signed 5 of the best LBs in the nation&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;"&gt;3.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Florida&lt;/strong&gt;- signed loads of talent for the depleted secondary and picked up some big-time WRs&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;"&gt;4.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Clemson&lt;/strong&gt;- reloaded at RB and signed the top DE in the country&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;"&gt;5.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Notre Dame&lt;/strong&gt;- Weis signed the top WR class and also signed some great defensive players that should make an immediate impact&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; 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src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-397220596909533134</id><published>2008-02-06T06:42:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-06T07:34:09.768-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R6nTRUidmDI/AAAAAAAAAN8/xYEultJyd9g/s1600-h/untitled.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R6nTRUidmDI/AAAAAAAAAN8/xYEultJyd9g/s320/untitled.bmp" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5163890742281476146" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Golf Digest just released its first ever rankings of the "Top 50 Courses of Myrtle Beach". Their rankings are compiled from the opinions of "a group of 800-plus low-handicap golfers" that make up their course-rating panel and are responsible for Golf Digest's "America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses."&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;It is a well known fact that the bungling spinmeisters at &lt;u&gt;Myrtle Beach Golf&lt;/u&gt; Holiday, ably assisted by their incompetent cronies at the Myrtle Beach Golf Course Owners Association, were “cooking the books” long before it became fashionable on Wall Street.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt; Unlike Wall Street, these bozos haven’t been “cooking” their financial numbers, but rather the number of paid golf rounds played in the Myrtle Beach area, the number of golfers visiting Myrtle Beach, as well as the numbers of golfers flying into the Myrtle Beach International Airport. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;The last great year for &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Myrtle Beach&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt; golf was in 1998, when visiting golfers played 4,169,992 paid rounds on 94.2 golf courses. In 1999, Golf Holiday started adding “member” rounds to their “paid” rounds calculations. There were 526,979 member rounds played in 1998.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Therefore, using Golf Holiday’s current accounting methods, there were 4,695,971 paid rounds played in 1998, which, in turn, worked out to an average of 49,851 paid rounds per golf course.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;In 2004, Golf Holiday stated that there were 3,973,947 paid rounds played on 122.6 &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Myrtle Beach&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt; area golf courses, of which there were 579,486 member rounds. That translates into a loss of 722,024 paid rounds per year. Therefore, between 1999 and 2004, while the number of courses increased by 16.3%, Golf Holiday’s incompetent marketing caused the number of paid rounds to drop by an astounding 15.4%.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Based upon Golf Holiday’s 112.6 golf courses, the average number of paid rounds per course was only 35,293 in 2004. That pitiful number represents a net loss of 14,558 average paid rounds per course, or a 29.3% annual loss per course.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;As if that wasn’t bad enough, let’s get down to the “real” numbers, which Golf Holiday tries so hard to cover-up with all their BS. To do so one must revert back to Golf Holiday’s 1998 accounting practices, and subtract all “member” rounds, which are basically “local play,” and financially nebulous at best. After doing just that, there would have been 4,169,997 paid rounds played in 1998, for an average of 44,268 paid round per course. By comparison, in 2004 there would have only been 3,394,461 paid rounds played, for only 30,146 average paid rounds per course. The harsh reality of this is that the average paid rounds per course crashed by 14,123, for an annual average loss of 31.9% per course.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Enjoy a memorable vacation experience in &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Myrtle Beach&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt; - in an oasis of tranquility, relaxation, and fun. With 60 miles of sandy beaches, endless shopping, wonderful dining, and plenty of family activities, your &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Myrtle Beach&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;u&gt; vacation&lt;/u&gt; is sure to be unforgettable.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;We are now offering &lt;u&gt;Myrtle Beach Golf Vacation Packages&lt;/u&gt;!! We have had our eye on some new destinations for a while now and as our current guests relayed their experiences in &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Myrtle   Beach&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt; we could not help but add that to our offerings.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-397220596909533134?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/397220596909533134/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=397220596909533134' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/397220596909533134'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/397220596909533134'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/02/golf-digest-just-released-its-first.html' title=''/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R6nTRUidmDI/AAAAAAAAAN8/xYEultJyd9g/s72-c/untitled.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-7415381860288255164</id><published>2008-02-06T01:14:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-06T02:02:02.388-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Life Lock'/><title type='text'>Life Lock</title><content type='html'>&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R6mFLkidmCI/AAAAAAAAAN0/I-QiYBWw_vY/s320/lifeloc.bmp.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5163804881590261794" border="0" /&gt;If you want deciding to buy an identity theft protection first thing we have to consider is the features of service from different companies. Of course we need to look each featured offers which company is the best. At &lt;strong&gt;Lifelock reviews&lt;/strong&gt; website you can determine which company is safe. LifeLock is being recognized as the most comprehensive identity theft protection available today. If you are their clients, you have nothing worry when it comes to identity theft. &lt;strong&gt;Lifelock review&lt;/strong&gt; stating that Lifelock has its complete features, guaranteed safe from automatic alerts and has excellent service for credit card report, removal from pre-approved credit cards, $1000,000 service guarantee, legal assistance to recover stolen identities, wallet lock, and excellent customer service. If someone trying to use your credit cards or bank account numbers , lifelock will let the company knows before it happened. So obviously, you are secure and you have the confident on shopping online with the use of your credit cards for payment. Check out LifeLock Review now!  &lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:12;"  &gt;  &lt;!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--&gt;  &lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-7415381860288255164?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/7415381860288255164/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=7415381860288255164' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/7415381860288255164'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/7415381860288255164'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/02/life-lock_06.html' title='Life Lock'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R6mFLkidmCI/AAAAAAAAAN0/I-QiYBWw_vY/s72-c/lifeloc.bmp.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-187048043065836738</id><published>2008-02-05T08:24:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-05T08:30:41.921-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Paczki Day'/><title type='text'>Paczki Day</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R6iPEUidmBI/AAAAAAAAANs/B-w3fOcud1I/s1600-h/Paczki.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R6iPEUidmBI/AAAAAAAAANs/B-w3fOcud1I/s320/Paczki.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5163534277175777298" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);  line-height: 20px; font-size:13px;"&gt;Today is Paczki Day and that can mean only one thing: later today I will be foregoing dinner and stuffing my face with a couple of the overstuffed, gelatinous pastry blobs you see above. Growing up in a WASP household in the largely Dutch, Christian Reform stronghold in western Michigan, I wasn't exposed to the wonders of Paczkis. I was, however, fortunate enough to have a Polish-American wife who grew up near certain Polish immigrant enclaves in Detroit where local bakeries carried on the time-honored tradition of pouring all their remaining lard, sugar, and fruit into these delectable confections as a way to celebrate Fat Tuesday before Lent. In fact, her great-grandfather on her mother's side used to work as a baker in Hamtramck where I'm sure they indulged in their annual Paczkis. So, to the residents of Hamtramck, you're welcome.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, I know you may be thinking, "But Todd, you don't observe Lent, why do you feel the need to partake in this historical religious and cultural observance?" Well, I may not observe the birth of a Jesus H. Christ either, but that doesn't stop me from exchanging gifts with my family once a year. It's one of the few benefits of being a 21st century secularist: selectively picking the traditions I feel like observing, and weeding out any possible boring or depressing side effects.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Speaking of Fat Tuesday, Saint Louis is also apparently home to the country's second largest Mardi Gras celebration. Seeing how I cringe at the thought of crowds and generally frown upon drunken buffoonery, I'll probably be sitting this one out.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-187048043065836738?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/187048043065836738/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=187048043065836738' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/187048043065836738'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/187048043065836738'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/02/paczki-day.html' title='Paczki Day'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_zq9o_SKP-BU/R6iPEUidmBI/AAAAAAAAANs/B-w3fOcud1I/s72-c/Paczki.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-4795411072533416167</id><published>2008-02-05T00:37:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-05T00:38:48.601-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Thinker For Hire'/><title type='text'>Thinker For Hire</title><content type='html'>This is a tricky one. People will feel that it is their right to choose how they live their lives and what they choose to spend their money on, and provided this does not infringe upon others they should be left in peace to get on with it. If one goes into depth though this is a difficult ethos to depend as how can one be sure that it does not infringe upon somebody else? I may feel buying a pair of brand name trainers is my prerogative with my money and I should be allowed to wear them. However if the company uses exploitative labour practises or child labour of any sort then the trainers are tainted with this morally indefensible action. Simply by buying the trainers I am offering tacit acceptance of the work practises and furthermore I am bolstering the company’s profits that they may continue to trade under such conditions. It is easy to say what I am doing is not harming anybody that I can see but those I cannot see may be a different matter. A man who lives alone in a large house with multiple bedrooms may see nothing wrong with what he is doing if the surrounding countryside contains sleepy little villages and pockets of affluence and comfort. If, however this mansion was right on the Strand in London, where large numbers of the homeless take shelter it would be considerably harder to reconcile with one’s conscience the size and wastage of the house. Now the man may say that he has worked hard to gain what he has achieved and therefore should be allowed to reap the rewards but who is to say what constitutes real work, does this man work harder than a single mother with children to feed? Does the affluent man deserve to be better remunerated because his job is a particular profession and he has more time to devote to his work than people with families. Why should those who sacrifice themselves to their work be treated better than those who may have other interests and a life outside of their job?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The simple answer is that in the corporate world those with families or other interests cannot always be relied upon to give absolute loyalty to the company. If a worker’s child is ill and at the same time his/her company is in trouble it should be to the child that s/he runs to the assistance of. One must remember that most large and profitable companies under a capitalist system will make the most of exploiting their workers in pay, working hours and conditions if it is profitable for them to do so. The greater the greed of the shareholders the more the company must squeeze out of its resources. This materialism spills over to one’s private life, capitalism makes one strive for material wealth as it is by this that you are judged by your peers. Of course this is not a level playing field as we all start out at different points and with different advantages and disadvantages. For the poor it is a major effort and achievement surviving from week to week, any further amelioration of circumstance would be a bonus, for the rich life is very different, speculate to accumulate, money breeds money etc. etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So by the end of one’s life, one’s material possessions show neither how hard one may have worked nor how deserving one may be of them. A man born into poverty may die with a small house, modest savings and some domestic possessions to his name. This will have probably taken his whole life to amass and he will have to have worked hard for them. Another man born into a gentrified family may die with an extremely large house, some land, 2 cars and some ostentatious assets to his name, he may also have worked hard, but he may have had a privileged upbringing, private education, been funded through University, got a job through a friend of the family, come into money through inheritance, been bailed out by his parents when his first business venture went bust etc. etc. Who therefore is the more valuable? Well, neither really can claim to have been better or worse. The point is the rich man will have had many opportunities to succeed whilst the poor man will have had few, what is more the rich man will have many chances should things not go according to plan initially whilst the poor man must stake everything and take the risk as he may not get another chance.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-4795411072533416167?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/4795411072533416167/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=4795411072533416167' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/4795411072533416167'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/4795411072533416167'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/02/thinker-for-hire.html' title='Thinker For Hire'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-4047323909332954482</id><published>2008-02-05T00:33:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-05T00:34:27.223-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IHT-hit areas double in five years'/><title type='text'>IHT-hit areas double in five years</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;The number of postcode districts with average house prices above the inheritance tax (IHT) threshold has more than doubled in the past five years, Halifax says.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The average house price in 236 (11%) postcode districts in England and Wales is now above the IHT threshold compared to 117 (6%) postcode districts five years ago in 2001.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;423 postcode districts have one quarter of sales above the IHT threshold.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Sales above the inheritance tax threshold accounted for at least 25% of property sales in 423 (20%) postcode districts across England and Wales in 2006, compared with 230 (11%) districts in 2001.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;They include 54% of London postcode districts and 40% of postcode districts in the South East. All regions of England and Wales have postcode districts with more than 25% of home sales above the IHT threshold.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;There are 22 postcode districts which have seen at least a 25 percentage point increase in the proportion of home sales above the IHT threshold. 16 of these districts are outside London and the South East. The largest increase in the proportion of housing sales above the inheritance tax threshold over the past five years has been in NE20 in Newcastle, up from 22% to 61%.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;This was followed by PL28 in Padstow with a 39 percentage point increase and EC2Y in the City of London, also with a 39 percentage point rise.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;SW1X in Knightsbridge (£1,259,050) and SW7 in Kensington (£1,105,491) are the postcode districts with the highest average house prices above the IHT threshold. All of the top ten most expensive areas are in London, apart from GU25 in Virginia Water (£785,215).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;SK9 in Alderley Edge (£376,704) in Cheshire is the postcode district with the highest house prices above the IHT threshold outside the south of England, followed by NE20 near Newcastle upon Tyne (£376,786) and B94 in Solihull (£370,213).&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Thirteen postcode districts outside the South of England have an average house price above £300,000, including one in Wales, CF71 in Cowbridge. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;There are postcode districts with average house prices above the IHT threshold in all English regions, apart from Yorkshire &amp;amp; the Humber. 36% of postcode districts in London have an average house price above the inheritance tax threshold of £300,000, while 25% of postcode districts in the South East are priced above the IHT threshold. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Since 1995/96 house prices across the UK have increased by 199%, more than double the increase in the IHT threshold, up 95% to £300,000 for 2007/08. If the threshold had increased in line with house price inflation since 1995/96, it would be now be at a level of £460,000, more than 50% above the 2007/08 £300,000 IHT threshold&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Over the five years to 2007/08 Halifax calculates that total cumulative inheritance tax (IHT) revenue will be £16.4bn, up more than 50% from the £10.8bn raised by the government in the previous five years. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Revenue raised in 2006 was a record £3.5bn, up £375m (12%) on 2005 when £3.1bn was collected. The government's own projections are for annual IHT revenues to reach £4.1bn in 2007/08. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Tim Crawford, group economist at Halifax, said: "The potential reach of inheritance tax is extending year by year across the country. There has been a doubling in the number of postcodes where the average house price is now above the threshold in the past five years. House prices continue to increase more quickly than the inheritance tax threshold. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;"There are 2.3 million properties in the UK valued at more than the inheritance tax threshold. We call on the government to raise the inheritance tax threshold to £460,000. That would account for the significant rise in house prices over the past eleven years."&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-4047323909332954482?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/4047323909332954482/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=4047323909332954482' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/4047323909332954482'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/4047323909332954482'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/02/iht-hit-areas-double-in-five-years.html' title='IHT-hit areas double in five years'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-6002731125948759353</id><published>2008-02-05T00:28:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-05T00:31:07.104-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dead Heads For Obama'/><title type='text'>Dead Heads For Obama</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;Tonight a last-minute fund-raising concert for Democratic presidential hopeful &lt;strong&gt;Barack Obama&lt;/strong&gt; reunites three members of &lt;strong&gt;The Grateful Dead &lt;/strong&gt;for the first time in four years. And it gives two online video companies a chance to appeal to a wider audience. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;At San Francisco's Warfield Theatre at 7:30 tonight--that's 10:30 EST for all you Washingtonians--Phil Lesh, Bob Weir and Mickey Hart are performing to show their support for Obama. All proceeds from the concert will go directly to his campaign. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;For the two companies streaming the video to Web audiences, it's an opportunity to broadcast a high-profile political event around the world. &lt;a href="http://www.swarmcast.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Swarmcast&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, based in Minneapolis, will use its infrastructure technology to deliver the live stream, while &lt;a href="http://www.iclips.net/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;iClips.net&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, based in neighboring St. Paul, will broadcast the concert on it's site. If you aren't up late enough to catch the live version, you can replay the concert on the web site's archives.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The concert was just put together on Friday night, showing how quickly things can happen on online video, said Nate Parienti, co-founder and chief strategy officer of iClips.net. He told me tonight that iClips typically focuses on music-related events. The fact that the Grateful Dead is playing is quite appealing to the firm. Justin Chapweske, founder and CEO of Swarmcast, said the concert is an example of how online video is moving away from the quick clips you see on YouTube to live broadcasts that take much more bandwidth to produce. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Other video firms are getting in on the political action. Last week, &lt;a href="http://www.ustream.tv/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ustream.TV&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, which hosts a variety of user-generated video and live broadcasts, &lt;a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/january-29th-press-conference"&gt;announced it has partnered &lt;/a&gt;with the &lt;strong&gt;Republican National Convention&lt;/strong&gt; to broadcast the entire event in real time. Republican officials will be part of live web chats and other online interviews at the convention, which will take place Sept. 1-4 in St. Paul. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Other candidates have already used Ustream's platform to reach voters. Obama, Hillary Clinton, Mitt Romney, and John McCain have broadcast live speeches and held question-and-answer sessions on Ustream's video site, founder John Ham told me two weeks ago when I dropped by Ustream's Palo Alto offices.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;We all know that the Internet has a huge role in this campaign, and I wonder how big the audiences will be for these events. The conventions get lots of traditional media coverage already, but an online platform makes a lot of sense for an impromptu benefit concert that will attract both Dead Heads and Obama fans. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;You can tune into the concert at &lt;a href="http://www.iclips.net/"&gt;iClips.net.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-6002731125948759353?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/6002731125948759353/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=6002731125948759353' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/6002731125948759353'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/6002731125948759353'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/02/dead-heads-for-obama.html' title='Dead Heads For Obama'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-1021461563535597922</id><published>2008-02-05T00:22:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-05T00:28:07.685-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Using Debt And Bill Consolidation Services'/><title type='text'>Using Debt And Bill Consolidation Services</title><content type='html'>&lt;small&gt;&lt;!-- by webmaster --&gt;&lt;/small&gt;Debt and bill consolidation sounds really familiar to people that have a credit card and are likewise carrying the effect of extreme, unmanageable debt. &lt;p&gt;And this is why it is crucial for us to apply information regarding our circumstances and the information we possess to get rid of this burden. Whenever we look at the huge bills with their interests owed, we start swearing at ourselves for our regrettable decisions.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;We feel such as we have made a financial tragedy when it was totally unneeded; when we could have been away from debt completely.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;We currently not just have to reduce expenses to pay for bills, but must also organize for additional income to handle the interest also.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;This is while your knowledge around debt and bill consolidation comes convenient. Therefore you prevent be concerned about paying the bill and being consolidating it. When you consolidate the complete payment, you can have a good record of the amount you pay every month.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Consolidating the bill keeps you with just one total to be concerned about; differently, if you have many bills piled up, it appears like every bill comes up as soon as you pay an additional one.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Debt and bill consolidation is the most easygoing and securest way to repair all of your troubles by paying off delinquent bills and getting rid of mental stress at the same time. This changes over all your mass payments into an undivided, low-interest bill by consolidating all of your high-interest payments to many companies.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;People in debt must keep in the back of their minds this alternative of debt and bill consolidation. It’s unquestionably most beneficial than filing for bankruptcy and furthermore saves you a whole lot of face, as you convince yourself as a debt payer in the industry. Your credit score will go down because of your debt accruement, goes higher again.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-1021461563535597922?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/1021461563535597922/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=1021461563535597922' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/1021461563535597922'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/1021461563535597922'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/02/using-debt-and-bill-consolidation_05.html' title='Using Debt And Bill Consolidation Services'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-2412728163087683082</id><published>2008-02-05T00:17:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-05T00:19:56.732-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Using Debt And Bill Consolidation Services'/><title type='text'>Using Debt And Bill Consolidation Services</title><content type='html'>&lt;small&gt;&lt;!-- by webmaster --&gt;&lt;/small&gt;                &lt;p&gt;Debt and bill consolidation sounds really familiar to people that have a credit card and are likewise carrying the effect of extreme, unmanageable debt.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;And this is why it is crucial for us to apply information regarding our circumstances and the information we possess to get rid of this burden. Whenever we look at the huge bills with their interests owed, we start swearing at ourselves for our regrettable decisions.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;We feel such as we have made a financial tragedy when it was totally unneeded; when we could have been away from debt completely.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;We currently not just have to reduce expenses to pay for bills, but must also organize for additional income to handle the interest also.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;This is while your knowledge around debt and bill consolidation comes convenient. Therefore you prevent be concerned about paying the bill and being consolidating it. When you consolidate the complete payment, you can have a good record of the amount you pay every month.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Consolidating the bill keeps you with just one total to be concerned about; differently, if you have many bills piled up, it appears like every bill comes up as soon as you pay an additional one.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Debt and bill consolidation is the most easygoing and securest way to repair all of your troubles by paying off delinquent bills and getting rid of mental stress at the same time. This changes over all your mass payments into an undivided, low-interest bill by consolidating all of your high-interest payments to many companies.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;People in debt must keep in the back of their minds this alternative of debt and bill consolidation. It’s unquestionably most beneficial than filing for bankruptcy and furthermore saves you a whole lot of face, as you convince yourself as a debt payer in the industry. Your credit score will go down because of your debt accruement, goes higher again.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-2412728163087683082?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/2412728163087683082/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=2412728163087683082' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/2412728163087683082'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/2412728163087683082'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/02/using-debt-and-bill-consolidation.html' title='Using Debt And Bill Consolidation Services'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-6466552654855408154</id><published>2008-02-05T00:07:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-05T00:09:48.149-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Debt Consolidation Refinance'/><title type='text'>Debt Consolidation Refinance</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;Our daily demands make us to spend a lot on credit cards or by whatever means that paying creditors becomes an extremely hard and tiresome procedure.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;With so much high interest rates, it appears out of the question to compensate creditors simultaneously. To help yourself overcome such state of affairs and pay the credit bills at a lower interest rate, you need to think about choosing a debt consolidation program.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Debt consolidation refinance is a similar procedure where advisors set up for you to pay the total to your creditors at a tremendously lower rate, therefore assisting you to recover your former financial position and eliminate the creditors.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Technically, what does debt consolidation refinance mean?&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;This astonishing plan of consolidation refinance is configured to assist the clients with a typical debt as large as $5000. This procedure assists people to compensate the debt at a lower interest rate with a single payment every month, making it a convenience for the clients.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;They could therefore make themselves debt free without messing with their typical monthly budget. The consolidation refinance is a procedure which can simply pay off all your debts and relive your tension.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;What is the procedure of implementing a consolidation refinance?&lt;/p&gt; A person can simply choose for the plan of consolidation refinance by simply citing a refinance cash out loan. The delegator may look at the database of refinance cash-out loan programs to suit your demands. There are tons of dissimilar alternatives and tons of loan programs available, so looking for one that meets your demands isn’t at all a big project. In about 24 hours you will get the information of every loan that could meets your demands–at which degree, it’ll be up to you to pick your selection.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-6466552654855408154?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/6466552654855408154/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=6466552654855408154' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/6466552654855408154'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/6466552654855408154'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/02/debt-consolidation-refinance.html' title='Debt Consolidation Refinance'/><author><name>Network Corp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001613601742054786</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242409121822998670.post-1914654866671522488</id><published>2008-02-05T00:00:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-05T00:06:21.513-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Debt Consolidation'/><title type='text'>Debt Consolidation</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="entry"&gt;      &lt;p&gt;Housing prices have stopped going up and it is coming back to bite people who took out large debt consolidation loans using their home equity. The people who are hit the hardest are the ones who have also lost their jobs and need to relocate. The Detroit area has been particularly hit hard. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Lets say someone consolidated $50,000 worth of debt using their home as equity. They purchased their home for $150,000 and still owe about $150,000 on it. The home had appreciated to $200,000 so the consolidation company suggested they use that $50,000 in equity to pay off their debts. Since the new loan was at a lower rate, the amount they were spending each month goes down and they now start spending the extra–maybe even buy a new car or incur additional debt. Now that the housing market is going down their home may only be worth $120,000 if that. They owe $80,000 more on their house than what it is worth.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;If their job requires them to move, they may not be able to sell their house because it would require bringing a tremendous amount of money to the table just to let someone else buy it.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;This is a good example of how consolidation loans can be dangerous. Getting a lower interest rate is only helpful if you are going to be disciplined and pay things off faster. Otherwise it can put you in a deeper bind.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7242409121822998670-1914654866671522488?l=mentawaiisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/feeds/1914654866671522488/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7242409121822998670&amp;postID=1914654866671522488' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/1914654866671522488'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7242409121822998670/posts/default/1914654866671522488'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mentawaiisland.blogspot.com/2008/02/debt-consolidation.html' title='Debt 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Before you have been online you better make your security convincing. Today, the Theft of the identity was the very common crime. This because of most people had a little knowledge in their guaranteed identity.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To overcome this problem, LifeLock.com Promo Code is the answer. This was the company that could protect your identity in carrying out your work. They offered the security that was different from the other site towards the protection for your precious identity.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: monospace;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;You don not worry about it, because this is &lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;America&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;'s #1 Identity theft prevention program and LifeLock.com Promotion Code will guarantee your identity up to $1,000,000. You can use LifeLock Promotion Codes RD9 for the best discount for you. 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