there's a nasty man hiding in this cemetery. help us find him! click the link then click on each tombstone.
Firefox 2 has been released!====The Mozilla Corporation has officially released Mozilla Firefox 2 for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Coming just days after the launch of Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2 offers a refreshed user interface, anti-phishing protection, improvements to the built-in search feature, tabbed browsing changes, the ability to restore an interrupted session, better support for Web feeds, inline spell-checking, support for microsummaries and a number of other enhancements.
Upon starting Firefox 2 for the first time, most users will notice the updated default theme. This refines the design and usability of the theme used since Firefox 1.0 without making any jarring or radical alterations. Design proposals were solicited from three agencies: MetaDesign, Radiant Core and Raizlabs. Radiant Core's proposal was picked and developed for the finished product.
In addition to refining the look of the buttons and other visual elements, the new design tethers the Go button to the Location Bar and adds an equivalent action button to the Search Bar. Several clickable buttons (for example, the feed icon in the Location Bar and the search engine icon in the Search Bar) have been refined to make it more obvious that they are interactive.
Firefox 2's Phishing Protection feature was developed from the Google Safe Browsing feature of the Google Toolbar for Firefox using code donated by the search giant. By default, the Phishing Protection feature checks every page you visit against a local blacklist of known phishing sites and displays a warning if the site is fraudulent. This list is periodically updated by Firefox while the feature is enabled.
For more real-time protection, users can choose (from the Security panel of the Options/Preferences window) to send details of every site they visit to a remote service for checking (currently Google is the only service provider, though other phishing data providers can be supported). With this feature enabled, the URL of every page visited is sent to Google for checking over a secure connection. In addition, details of how users respond to phishing warnings are also sent. While real-time checking can offer greater protection, there are obvious privacy implications, which is why only the local list is enabled by default.
**updated** friday 22 december 2006 -- apparantly this blog has been deleted.
I’m a snoop. I admit it. As someone who has spent over 10 years in the law enforcement field, snooping is second nature for me. In addition to investigating crime, I enjoy traveling (long and short trips), reading inspirational romance books and true crime novels, and writing. To date I’ve had two non-fiction books published.so click on over and check it out. dont forget to look in shesnoops cold cases section for several interesting write-ups including one on wst fave amanda gutweiler hypes.
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this explains a lot.Viruses that cause a range of ills from the common cold to polio may be able to infect the brain and cause steady damage, a team at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota reports.[...]The viruses are called picornaviruses and infect more than 1 billion people worldwide each year. They include the virus that causes polio, as well as colds and diarrhoea. People contract an average of two or three such infections a year. [...] "Our findings suggest that picornavirus infections throughout the lifetime of an individual may chip away at the cognitive reserve, increasing the likelihood of detectable cognitive impairment as the individual ages," the researchers write. "We hypothesise that mild memory and cognitive impairments of unknown aetiology may, in fact, be due to accumulative loss of hippocampus function caused by repeated infection with common and widespread neurovirulent picornaviruses." Other viruses kill brain cells, including the herpes virus and HIV.click the link to read more
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anyway a snip from mydd.com matt stoller in a piece called 'breaking down' via www.thedeadpelican.comyoutube
U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., gestures as she speaks for a smiling incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman, left, during a campaign visit by Lieberman and Landrieu to the "Rajun Cajun" diner in Hartford, Conn., Thursday, Oct. 26, 2006. In center is Thomas Armstrong, the owner of the restaurant who told Sen. Landrieu that he is from New Orleans' Ninth Ward. (AP Photo/Bob Child)"Joe's bringing the stars into town, now isn't he? Yesterday it was the creepy ex-pol Bob Kerrey, and today Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu is in Hartford. Landrieu is probably the worst Democratic Senator in the caucus, with the possible exception of Max Baucus. She's an utter Bush sycophant, even going above and beyond the reddish tinge of Louisiana. If you're looking for a reason that New Orleans is still devastated today, you have to look to her utter failure of leadership in forcing Bush to do anything to deal with the situation. She's a moral ghost, someone who won't fight for her city or her state because she wants to be loved by insiders. Just watch her being destroyed by Anderson Cooper in the clip above. I suppose it's fitting she's in town stumping for Joe."
chief smith writes:"i was just forwarded your piece regarding ms brewers news conference by a friend. let me admonish you like jacques roy did john sams on the issuse of "corruption associated with alexandria city hall." if you purport to represent the truth to your readers or if one aspires to represent the citizens of this community or for that matter if anyone considers himself to be a responsible neighbor and are/is aware of the "fact that sweetheart deals, nepotism, invoice padding, consultant family members, all slosh around in the cesspool that city hall has become" then you have an absolute moral obligation to share the details of that corruption with your readers and fellow citizens. what do you know? how long have you known it? what steps have you taken to bring these facts to the attention of authorities to rid our community of corruption. if you are willing to know these facts and take no action then perhaps you would at least share the details with your neighbors so that someone might bring them to the attention of appropriate authorities. to "know it and not name it" in the words of jacques roy is (in my words) to perpetuate it. it is the moral equivalent of seeing your neighbors house on fire and not calling the fire department."
I predicted this months ago, BEFORE it began escalating and became obvious beyond denial or cover-up: www.louisianaway.com/forums/index.php?topic=491.0
July 26, 2006, 01:36:36 PM
Do not look for your state to ever be the same again.
I will predict Louisiana will become (further) similar in nature to a central or south American narco-terroristic state.
Our leaders just cannot effectively nor competently deal with this problem, and it IS their responsibility which they are not fulfilling their DUTY to protect the public from these miserable events, and it is the responsibility of THE PEOPLE to ensure that the parties in positions of public trust whom are responsible for preventing these sad incidents are NOT allowed to remain in office unless they effect substantive change in these statistics.
and rapides parish
so heres an update of a post from last year ...reminding ourselves of another place we came across that we can go to, to read and post about cenla.
"In the fall of 2007, the major candidates running for Governor include Incumbent Gov Kathleen Blanco, Rep. Bobby Jindal, and State Treasurer John Kennedy. Many Democratic voters support Kennedy over Kathleen Blanco and Rep. Bobby Jindal in the open primary, but Kennedy loses. These "Kennedy Dems" represent a crucial swing vote, and have an important decision to make between Blanco and Jindal.."
"Well.
With all due respect to Jindal and Vitter (do either of them believe in evolution, btw?) don't underestimate the smarts of YRHT favorite, State Treasurer John Kennedy. Even though he has a Ross Perot twang, the dude reads Kierkegaard. And is proud to say so."
rodney alexander series:All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
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====All three members of the medical review panel agreed that if one believed Ms.Lester’s version of what happened in Dr. Levy’s office on the morning of October 20, 2003, then the actions by Dr. Levy fell below the standard of care. If, on the other hand, one believed the testimony of Dr. Levy and of Ms. Heidner, then, there was no breach of the standard of care. The members of the panel described the standard of care for an oral surgeon to extract a tooth (or teeth) as follows: first, having an x-ray of the patient’s mouth which was less than one year old—Dr. Levy had an x-ray of Ms. Lester’s mouth which was six months old. Next, examining the patient—which both Dr. Levy and Ms. Heidner stated he did. The plaintiff argued that upon examing a patient, the oral surgeon had a duty to inform the patient if, in his opinion, he thought a tooth, which was to be extracted ,was salvageable.ms. lester isnt a dentist she didnt know which teeth were to be pulled. its silly to use the excuse that since ms. lester pointed to the teeth to be pulled that it was ok. why didnt dr. levy simply fone dr. gauthier and have him fax over the referral slip so that dr. levy would know exactly which teeth to pull? good grief ms. lester was supposed to have teeth numbered: 5, 12 and 13 pulled and dr. levy was batting zero because he pulled teeth numbered 3, 15 and 16. this is why we avoid dentists. lawyers too for that matter.
The panel agreed that such was the standard of care if the patient was a “walk-in” off the street, but stated that such was NOT the case with a referred patient, such as Ms. Lester. In the case of a referred patient, the question of whether a tooth was salvageable was between the patient and his/her general dentist. Oral surgeons were not to “second-guess” a patient’s general dentist. The last duty the oral surgeon had, to meet the standard of care, was to know which tooth/teeth to extract. Ms. Lester claims that Dr. Levy could not have known which teeth to extract because she forgot her referral slip, and he did not call Dr. Gauthier to obtain this information.
Dr. Levy and Ms. Heidner testified that Ms. Lester was offered a later appointment so she could return with her referral slip, but that Ms. Lester declined, stating that she knew which teeth had to be extracted. Also, Dr. Levy and Ms. Heidner both testified that Ms. Lester pointed at the teeth she wanted extracted and confirmed her choices to Dr. Levy when he pointed to the corresponding teeth on her x-ray. Ms. Lester denies pointing to any specific tooth(teeth), claiming it would have impossible for her to do so.
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the state of louisiana as symbolized by the pelican is swallowing us suckers err pigeons whole.No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.I'd prefer not to get sued, but if he wants to test Section 230 in court, I think it's a principle worth fighting for. The blogging medium thrives on its receptivity to reader feedback. I've taken 13,000 comments on Workbench and more than 300,000 on my other sites. If a blogger was treated as the author of every statement made by a reader, there would be no way to accept comments without reviewing each one prior to publication, turning a medium for boisterous public discussion into something as controversy-averse and excessively careful as a newspaper's letters to the editor section.
nola.com captioned cenlamar's post as: La. politician likens opponent to rapist, expects people to vote for her and wesawthat...as: 3rd Circuit doesn't fret over election irregularities, La. gains status as "Banana Republic" 
in this opinion released yesterday (19 october 2006) we find typical louisiana lawyer-judges in justices oswald a. decuir, jimmie c. peters and elizabeth a. pickett who wrote in part:"Franklin alleged that multiple voting irregularities altered the results of the election, resulting in his loss to the winner by four votes. The trial court held that substantial irregularities were not established and dismissed the election suit. We do not reach the merits of this appeal. We dismiss the appeal, recognizing that this court has not gained jurisdiction to hear this matter due to the failure of the plaintiff-appellant to file an appeal bond..."
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