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Man (sigh!), there was something going on with the previous template that was causing the backend to screw up big time. Buried in the coding was a script that was overloading my database and frankly I do not feel like spending the hours to look for it. It is going to take me about a week of monitoring to see if this template works. If so, you are looking at ...More

"But everybody gets access." Record numbers go abroad for health treatment with 70,000 escaping NHS dailymail.co.uk Record numbers of Britons are travelling abroad for medical treatment to escape the NHS - with 70,000 patients expected to fly out this year. And by the end of the decade 200,000 "health tourists" will fly as far as Malaysa and South Africa for major surgery to avoid long waiting lists and the rising threat of superbugs, according ...More

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Connecticut School District Wants Report Cards for Parents By Catherine Donaldson-Evans Foxnews.com Parents in Connecticut might be the ones getting the report cards if a proposed plan makes the grade at a Manchester public school district. Steve Edwards, a Republican member of the Manchester Board of Education who’s up for re-election Nov. 6, wants parents to be evaluated on a handful of what he says are objective measures — including if their child does ...More

Black voters torn: Obama or Clinton? [Link] Well suh, I jus don knows what I'm 'pposed to do. Do I's vote for a colored man, or do I's votes for Mister's wife? I don't know about you, but I have had my fill of articles talking about how Blacks are "torn" between two candidates. Last I checked, all of America is "torn" between Republican and Democratic candidates. Just an observation. More

'Ex-Gay' Controversy Mars Gospel Concert Tour for Obama By Randy Hall CNSNews.com Staff Writer/Editor [Excerpted] [...] However, Regina Griggs, executive director of Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays (PFOX), told Cybercast News Service on Friday that such activities by homosexual activists "demonstrates a disregard for diversity and a refusal to respect a basic human right to dignity and self-determination." "Ex-gays have the same right to participate in the political process as other Americans and should ...More

This is by far the #1 whine I hear and see all the time online being directed towards individuals who are simply stating what they see within certain segments of the Black community. I have met more than my fair share of Black folks who are oftentimes very hesitant to state the obvious when there is the remote possibility that Whites are within earshot. This is why I find it ...More

Kenya: Report Shows 600 Women Raped Daily East African Standard (Nairobi) 29 October 2007 Edith Fortunate Nairobi More than 600 females are raped daily, a new report shows. The report, compiled by Gender Violence Recovery Centre (GVRC), indicates that the youngest rape survivor is five-months-old while the oldest is 86. The statistics, which have been compiled in hospitals and community-based organisations where the victims go for treatment and counselling, approximate that there are at least 16,482 rape ...More

Dancing is all the rage again as hip-hop lightens up By MALCOLM VENABLE, The Virginian-Pilot Rapper Soulja Boy might be just a kid doing a simple, extremely popular dance, but he also represents a sea change. Back in the glory days of hip-hop - the late 1980s and early '90s - every real fan could perform a catalog of moves - The Roger Rabbit, The Running Man (the MC Hammer), The Wop, The ...More