Input: That is what is about to happen with Judge Samuel Alito, in my opinion, because he has one tragic flaw-a very serious blind spot in his thinking-which makes him completely unacceptable for the position of Supreme Court Justice: He does not really agree with the system of " Checks and Balances " built into the Constitution, and he is ready to start tearing it down in order to follow the " Unitary Executive Theory, " which calls for vastly-increased Presidential Power at the expense of Congress and the Supreme Court.

Samuel Alito

Supreme Court

Congress

Supreme Court


Input: And because of this tragic flaw...


Input: " He Would Tear Down Our System Of Checks And Balances, Giving Far Too Much Power To The President. "


Input: In our Constitutional system, we have three branches of the Federal Government: the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches.


Input: And the basic idea behind the Checks and Balances we have is that if one branch of the Government goes crazy, the other two can hold it down.


Input: But Samuel Alito believes in a little-known Constitutional theory-called the " Unitary Executive Theory "-which says that the President should have complete control over the Executive Branch, and that the Executive Branch should be in charge of almost everything that the Government actually does, including the functions of the Independent Agencies which were designed to be free of Presidential control, and the Military, which exists, which is regulated, and which is funded by specific authority given by the Constitution to Congress, not to the President.

Samuel Alito

Congress


Input: The Military is not part of the Executive Branch: it is a separate entity.


Input: " Commander In Chief " doesn't mean that he is the boss of the Military, merely that he is the Administrator, just as he is the Administrator of the Executive Branch, charged with " executing faithfully " all the laws passed by Congress and all the Decisions rendered by the Supreme Court.

Congress

Supreme Court


Input: Under the Unitary Executive Theory, the Laws of Congress and Decisions of the Supreme Court have no actual authority unless the President agrees with them.

Congress

Supreme Court


Input: And so Congress and the Supreme Court become mere advisors to the President, with no real authority over him.

Congress

Supreme Court


Input: And the President becomes a Dictator, unrestrained by anything in the Constitution, backed up by the Armed Forces, which would be entirely under his personal control.


Input: And thus the United States of America-The Land Of The Free And The Home Of The Brave-becomes just another Military Dictatorship, no better than Nazi Germany or Fascist Italy during World War II.

United States of America

Germany

Italy


Input: AND THAT IS WHY ALL AMERICANS SHOULD OPPOSE THE NOMINATION OF SAMUEL ALITO.

SAMUEL ALITO


Input: For details and further proof, please see these websites:


Input: Testimony at http://judiciary.senate.gov/testimony.cfm?id=1725&wit_id=4905


Input: Descriptions and Links at http://www.UnitaryExecutive.net


Input: Blessings to you.


Input: May God help us all.


Input: And may God bless America!


Input: Rev. Bill McGinnis, Director http://www.LoveAllPeople.org and http://www.InternetchurchOfChrist.org

Bill McGinnis


Input: Copies of this message are located below.


Input: If you want to help, please send them to everyone you know who needs to read them.


Input: http://www.loveallpeople.org/theonereasonwhy.html and http://www.loveallpeople.org/theonereasonwhy.txt


Input: CONTACT William McGinnis (Rev. Bill McGinnis) 1908 Mt Vernon Ave #2543 Alexandria, VA 22301 7037686710 bmc...@patriot.net

William McGinnis

Bill McGinnis

Alexandria

VA


Input: Reply


Input: Please take a moment to read this.


Input: I realize that it may sound strange, but we are desparate in our efforts and are willing to try anything to help our dear sick friend.


Input: This costs absolutely nothing, and will take about one minute of your time.


Input: This is not a hoax, as so many of these emails actully are.


Input: In quick summary, Beyond Control, a local band in our area, is sponoring a benefit for a cancer victim whose benefits have run out.


Input: That band is involved in a local competition which promises a $5000 first prize, which they would like to win in order to donate it to the benefit fund which they have started.


Input: Below are some emails to friends explaining a little more about this effort.


Input: What we are trying to do is solicit votes for the band, in order to put them in first place.


Input: They are currently in third place, and need your help so that the prize money can be used for a humanatarian cause.


Input: You can vote at the following link, it will only take a few seconds.


Input: Please take a moment to click on the link below and cast your vote for Beyond Control.


Input: Thank you in advance for your contribution to this effort.


Input: Also, please pass this along to everyone you know, and all of your email contacts.


Input: We need the power of the internet to pull this off.


Input: The web site is


Input: You can check the validity of all of this at the Beyond Control website.


Input: That address is.


Input: The home page for Rockin on the River is, and it lists all the acts scheduled for the season.


Input: You can check that out as well, to confirm that this is all real, and for a worthy cause.


Input: Abby is our beloved friend, and we are trying to raise money for her any way we can, so this prize money is important to help her continue to receive her life-saving treatments.

Abby


Input: Many thanks, and may God bless you all and keep you healthy.

God


Input: Here are some emails we have sent, along with the flyer for the Benefit fund raiser we are holding in June, just for your information.


Input: Roy,

Roy


Input: I am sending you some info that I have passed along regarding the effort to win the cash for the fund raising benefit.


Input: If you can pass this info along, and ask everyone you know to forward it to their contacts, etc, we may have a shot at pulling this off.


Input: Thanks,


Input: Fred

Fred


Input: John,

John


Input: I will attach the letter explaining the benefit we are sponsoring.


Input: There is a link to the contest page.


Input: Any help in distributing this will be greatly appreciated.


Input: It is certainly for a good cause.


Input: Abby needs to fly to New York twice a month for these treatments, and her time on the Federal Grant program has expired.

Abby

New York


Input: She doesn't have the funds to continue without the grant, and without these treatments, her prognosis is grim.


Input: I hope you have a huge network.


Input: Also encourage your recipients to forward this along to their contacts, and so on, so that the movement to help her grows exponentially.


Input: We must finish in first place in order to contribute the $5000 to the benefit fund.


Input: Thank you so much for caring enough to offer your help.


Input: Fred

Fred


Input: BENEFIT AUCTION & RAFFLE FOR ABBY FREEMAN

ABBY FREEMAN


Input: WHEN: JUNE 12, 2005, 2:00 P.M. TO 2:00 A.M.


Input: WHERE: MAIN STREET SALOON

MAIN STREET SALOON


Input: ADMISSION: DONATIONS AT THE DOOR


Input: Abby Freeman is our good friend who has non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and she needs your help!

Abby Freeman


Input: Her grant for the life saving treatments she needs has run out, and we need to help her to continue to receive these treatments.


Input: Abby has three wonderful young children, and friends who love her and need her.

Abby


Input: Please help us to help her win this fight.


Input: With your help, we know she can do it !!


Input: We'll have four bands, and Big D is cookin' ..... lots of fun and great prizes.


Input: This is an event you don't want to miss !!


Input: Bands, food, and prizes are sponsored by Beyond Control, who will be competing in the Band of the Year Contest at the River Front Festival in Cuyahoga Falls on July 1.

Cuyahoga Falls


Input: The winner of this competition will receive $5000, which Beyond Control hopes to win in order to donate it to the Abby Freeman fund.

Abby Freeman


Input: Please help us by logging onto the Rockin on the River website at.


Input: Cast a vote for Beyond Control, and help us provide Abby with her life saving treatments again.

Abby


Input: Donations can also be made through Charter One Bank.

Charter One Bank


Input: Make checks payable to Kendel Bunnell c/o Benefit for Abby Freeman

Kendel Bunnell

Abby Freeman


Input: One Simple Idea.


Input: One Huge Opportunity.


Input: What are you searching for?


Input: More personal freedom?


Input: More time with your family?


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Input: Freedom from the fear of corporate downsizing?


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Agel


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Agel


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Input: Agel introduces an entirely new category of products called Gelceuticals.

Agel


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Input: Agel has created a new compensation structure that is truly revolutionary.

Agel


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Agel


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Agel


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Glen Jensen


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Agel


Input: Here are the numbers to call:


Input: 620-294-4000 or 620-294-3000


Input: The Passcode to participate is: 5107


Input: DATE: Tuesday, November 22, 2005


Input: TIME: 8:00 PM Eastern Standard Time


Input: LOCATION: Conference Call


Input: 5:00 PT ** 6:00 MT ** 7:00 CT ** 8:00 ET


Input: I'll see you there!


Input: Steve Fillmore 612-205-9814 620-294-1909

Steve Fillmore


Input: Important information of big companies


Input: Apple Computers

Apple Computers


Input: It was the favorite fruit of founder Steve Jobs.

Steve Jobs


Input: He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn't suggest a better name by 5 O'clock.

Apple Computers


Input: CISCO

CISCO


Input: It is not an acronym as popularly believed.


Input: It is short for San Francisco.

San Francisco


Input: Compaq

Compaq


Input: This name was formed by using COMp, for computer, and PAQ to denote a small integral object.


Input: Corel

Corel


Input: The name was derived from the founder's name Dr. Michael Cowpland.

Michael Cowpland


Input: It stands for COwpland REsearch Laboratory.

COwpland REsearch Laboratory


Input: Google

Google


Input: The name started as a joke boasting about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search.


Input: It was originally named' Googol', a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros.


Input: After founders-Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to' Google'

Stanford

Google

Sergey Brin

Larry Page


Input: Hotmail

Hotmail


Input: Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer anywhere in the world.

Jack Smith


Input: When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in' mail' and finally settled for hotmail as it included the letters " html "-the programming language used to write web pages.

Sabeer Bhatia

hotmail


Input: It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective uppercasing.

HoTMaiL


Input: Hewlett Packard

Hewlett Packard


Input: Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.

Bill Hewlett

Dave Packard

Hewlett-Packard

Packard-Hewlett


Input: Intel

Intel


Input: Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company' Moore Noyce' but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.

Bob Noyce

Gordon Moore

Moore Noyce


Input: Lotus (Notes)

Lotus (Notes)


Input: Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from' The Lotus Position' or' Padmasana'.

Mitch Kapor


Input: Kapor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

Kapor


Input: Microsoft

Microsoft


Input: Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware.

Bill Gates


Input: Originally christened Micro-Soft, the'-' was removed later on.

Micro-Soft


Input: Motorola

Motorola


Input: Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started manufacturing radios for cars.

Paul Galvin


Input: The popular radio company at the time was called Victrola.

Victrola


Input: ORACLE

ORACLE


Input: Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency).

Larry Ellison

Bob Oats

CIA

Central Intelligence Agency


Input: The code name for the project was called Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to all questions or something such).

Oracle

CIA


Input: The project was designed to help use the newly written SQL code by IBM.

IBM


Input: The project eventually was terminated but Larry and Bob decided to finish what they started and bring it to the world.

Larry

Bob


Input: They kept the name Oracle and created the RDBMS engine.

Oracle


Input: Later they kept the same name for the company.


Input: Sony

Sony


Input: It originated from the Latin word' sonus' meaning sound, and' sonny' a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.


Input: SUN

SUN


Input: Founded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym for Stanford University Network.

Stanford

SUN

Stanford University Network


Input: Andreas Bechtolsheim built a microcomputer; Vinod Khosla recruited him and Scott McNealy to manufacture computers based on it, and Bill Joy to develop a UNIX-based OS for the computer.

Andreas Bechtolsheim

Vinod Khosla

Scott McNealy

Bill Joy


Input: Yahoo!

Yahoo!


Input: The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book' Gulliver's Travels'.

Jonathan Swift

Gulliver


Input: It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human.


Input: Yahoo! Founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos ...

Yahoo!

Jerry Yang

David Filo


Input: I am on Yahoo!

Yahoo!


Input: Email: mayur...@yahoo.com SMS: + 919819602175 Web:


Input: Healing the Collective Body


Input: In George Orwell's influential novel " 1984 " doublethink is a device promoted by the totalitarian state government to make people accept two irreconcilable ideas at the same time such as " war is peace ".

George Orwell


Input: I see the merit in flowing with duality.


Input: One of my most cherished dualities is the understanding that we are both autonomous individuals with the power to shape our personal destinies and at the same time we are all one, that there is no separation between you and I, we are all together in this thing called life, we human beings, the birds and the tress, the rocks and the sky, all of it.


Input: I have written a lot recently about healing the self so today here are a few words on healing our collective body, mind and soul.


Input: Think of all life, if you will, as one great choir or one grand congregation.


Input: Our strength is in our unity and harmony.


Input: Any major dischord and we all suffer.


Input: Any insult to the collective good brings us all down.


Input: Living out of synch with nature is the great disease, from that flows all the tributaries we have come to think of as sickness.


Input: We are only as strong as our weakest, we are only as healthy as the sickest amongst us-playing sports and being in the army taught me that lesson before I was finished being a teenager.


Input: When the healthy treat the sick with scorn and intolerance it brings us all down.


Input: When those lucky enough not to have Herpes create a climate of shame and indignity for those of us who do, not only are they hurting us, but they are hurting themselves.


Input: There is no escape from the collective ocean we all swim in.


Input: What you project will always come back to either reward or haunt you.


Input: We are now suffering from the consequences of our rape of the environment, our rejection of the natural for the industrial, and our embrace of violence over peace.


Input: Jesus said that what you do the least of the people you do to him.

Jesus


Input: What are you doing to the least of the people?


Input: If we are all in this thing together, let's play nice.


Input: Remember that what you do to yourself affects me and everybody else, remember that what you do to me and anyone else shapes your destiny.


Input: No matter what progress we make as individuals in becoming healthier, we will never achieve real health until we collectively decide to create a healthier reality.


Input: Fortunately circumstances will force our hand soon since our collective bad behaviour can not continue indefinitely.


Input: In the near future collective choices will need to be made.


Input: Will we choose to live in harmony with this planet or crash and burn in a conflagration of arrogance and disregard?


Input: Will we choose to rise about prejudice and intolerance or go down kicking and screaming with holding on to fear and anger?


Input: There is no health without peace and no peace without health.


Input: November 2005


Input: Sunshine Coast, British Columbia, Canada

Sunshine Coast

British Columbia

Canada


Input: Christopher Scipio Homeopath/Herbalist Holistic Viral Specialist

Christopher Scipio


Input: (Newsday.com)


Input: It looks like NASA is ready to sour again after it's devastating loss from the Columbia accident which occurred nearly two years ago.

NASA


Input: Now, NASA engineers and astronauts are almost giddy with " go " fever as the tentative date for the first launch since the Columbia disaster approaches.

NASA


Input: The most important question isn't whether Discovery is technically ready to fly with new safety features and emergency procedures, but whether the agency itself has learned from the crucial errors most common to Challenger and Columbia, errors that grew out of a management culture that discouraged criticism and sacrificed safety for image-puffing and budget-cutting.


Input: I hope so.


Input: Seeing another " Columbia " incident can be quite frightening (I woke up to it early in the morning when I was in Texas).


Input: We don't need another incident as exploring the cosmos is something that keeps our imagination going as a species.


Input: Maybe one day they will allow space tourism, (hopefully that will be in the near future) although I would recommend that NASA build new shuttles instead of trying to preserve the older ones.

NASA


Input: You do have to give NASA credit on some things as they have eliminated the " fear of reporting failure " culture that probably led to the lack of reporting defects on the Columbia shuttle.

NASA


Input: Instead they are encouraging everyone to come forward if they see any potential problems (as it is clear that overlooked problems could result in unnecessary losses).


Input: But supporters are pointing a few good things out:


Input: Clearly, the agency has worked hard at tackling the technical challenges posed by a superb and surprisingly independent-minded investigative panel.


Input: A few weeks ago, shuttle workers at the Kennedy Space Center received a rocket-like boost in morale with two important deliveries for the next shuttle to carry.

Kennedy Space Center


Input: One is a special tool to detect damage to the thermal-protective tile while in orbit-something the Columbia crew would have welcomed.


Input: The other is a new fuel tank " guaranteed " by NASA not to shed potentially fatal hunks of insulation.

NASA


Input: NASA has some PR hurdles to overcome in the future.

NASA


Input: But let s hope for their sake (and the sake of all space lovers out there) that they can redefine their image and rekindle the hope of space colonization again.


Input: Selah.


Input: Posted by Hidden Nook to Hidden Nook at 2/7/2005 01:09:32 AM


Input: The mysterious RAPHAEL Holinshed was named for the mysterious Neoplatonic Italian painter RAPHAEL Sanzio who painted _ St. George Fighting the Dragon _ (1504-06)

RAPHAEL Holinshed

RAPHAEL Sanzio

St. George


Input: Like William Shakspere RAPHAEL (the painter) died on his April birthday Laura & Bridget's day:

William Shakspere

RAPHAEL

Laura

Bridget


Input: ARCHILOCHUS solar eclipse: April 6, 648 BC Friday


Input: Koran descends to Earth: April 6, 610 AD Monday


Input: CLEMENT's St. Methodius dies: April 6, 884 Monday

CLEMENT

St. Methodius


Input: Petrarch meets LAURA: April 6, 1327 Monday

Petrarch

LAURA


Input: DURER dies: April 6, 1528 Monday

DURER


Input: BRIDGET Vere's birth: April 6, 1584 Monday

BRIDGET Vere


Input: Sir Francis Walsingham dies: April 6, 1590 Monday

Francis Walsingham


Input: " native of Crete " EL GRECO dies: April 7, 1614 Monday

EL GRECO


Input: {LUCIO: Does BRIDGET PAINT still, Pompey, ha?

LUCIO

BRIDGET

Pompey


Input: [MfM Act 3, Sc. 2]}


Input: LAURA dies of plague: April 6, 1348 Sunday

LAURA


Input: RAPHAEL born: April 6, 1483 Sunday

RAPHAEL


Input: RAPHAEL dies: April 6, 1520 Good Friday

RAPHAEL


Input: Thomas Hobbes' birth: April 5, 1588 Good Friday

Thomas Hobbes


Input: Start of _ The SOUND & the FURY _: April 6, 1928 Good Friday


Input: Kent EARTHQUAKE: April 6, 1580 Wednesday

Kent


Input: Historian John Stow dies: April 6, 1605 Sat/Wed.

John Stow


Input: << Upon the sixth of April, Alexander the Great was born.

Alexander the Great


Input: Upon the same day he conquered Darius, won a great victory at sea, & died the same day.

Darius


Input: Neither was this day less fortunate to his father Philip; for on the same day he took Potidea; >>-JOHN AUBREY, F.R.S.

Philip

Potidea

JOHN AUBREY


Input: ANTONIO PEREZ 1535-1611 [Philip II's renegade Secretary of State]

ANTONIO PEREZ

Philip II


Input: << In " Love's Labour's Lost " we find a character Don Adriana de Armatho, full of affection and bombast.

Don Adriana de Armatho


Input: A Spanish refugee, ANTONIO PEREZ, visited England in 1593 and became acquainted with Francis & ANTHONY Bacon, with whom for a time he seems to have been on terms of intimacy, which did not last very long, for the Spaniard developed so much affectation & bombast that he became unpopular in Court circles.

ANTONIO PEREZ

Francis & ANTHONY Bacon

England


Input: In 1594 PEREZ wrote & published a book under the assumed name of " RAPHAEL PEREGRINO. "

PEREZ

RAPHAEL PEREGRINO


Input: In the play Holofernes is ridiculing Don Adriana " the traveler from Spain " and says of him: " He is too picked, too spruce, too affected, Too odd, as it were, too PEREGRINate, as I may call it. "

Holofernes

Don Adriana

Spain


Input: -Act 5, Scene 1.


Input: To make the reference more pointed and unmistakable, Sir Nathaniel replies " a most singular & choice epithet, " and at once enters it in his note book.

Nathaniel


Input: This parody on PEREZ' sobriquet clearly identifies PEREZ with Armatho. >>

PEREZ

PEREZ

Armatho


Input: Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 6, No. 0832. Monday, 23 October 1995.


Input: From: Martin Green < MGr...@usa.pipeline.com >

Martin Green


Input: Date: Sunday, 22 Oct 1995 10:57:32-0400


Input: Subject: Re: Facts, Purpose of List, Italy, Jews

Italy


Input: << There were no Jews in England to speak of in the 1590's.

England


Input: True, but two in England that we know of were a part of the Essex entourage: Dr. Lopez, who had been physician to Essex' step-father, the Earl of Leicester, had apparently treated the young Essex for some socially unacceptable ailment, and Antonio Perez, who was a guest at Essex House in the early 1590's.

England

Essex

Essex

Leicester

Essex

Essex

Lopez

Antonio Perez


Input: To be sure, both Lopez & Perez were conversos -- but they were thought of in England as being, as they undoubtedly were, at least ethnically, Jews. >>

Lopez

Perez

England


Input: << Doctor RODERIGO LOPEZ (1525-1594) was the Portugese Jewish doctor accused by Essex of trying to poison Queen Elizabeth.

RODERIGO LOPEZ

Elizabeth

Essex


Input: The 69 year old Dr. Lopez was found guilty and was summarily hung and quartered on June 7, 1594 at Tyburn.

Lopez


Input: Long before (September 1560) Dr. Lopez had been the personal house doctor of Robert Dudley and the good doctor was obligated to write the death certificate for Amy Robsart (stating that she had " accidentally " fallen down the stairs).

Lopez

Robert Dudley

Amy Robsart


Input: That same year (1560) a Spanish priest named RUY LOPEZ handily beat all comers at a chess tournament in Rome.

RUY LOPEZ

Rome


Input: Lopez's 1561 book " Libro de la invencion liberal y arte del Juego del Acedraz " became THE classic on Chess openings, including the one that bears his name.

Lopez


Input: Chess history 1530-1647


Input: 1530 LOPEZ, Ruy b. in Zafra, Spain.

LOPEZ

Zafra

Spain


Input: Spanish priest & leading player.


Input: 1533 Atahualpa, inca emperor of peru, imprisoned & learns chess.

Atahualpa

peru


Input: 1542 LEONARDO, Giovanni (a.k.a. Il Puttino/the Boy) born in Calaria.

LEONARDO, Giovanni

Calaria


Input: 1550 Valdiviesco, Don Antonio de, Bishop of Nicaragua, assassinated while playing chess in his palace at Leon.

Valdiviesco, Don Antonio de

Nicaragua

Leon


Input: 1551 Ivan IV of Russia bans chess.

Ivan IV

Russia


Input: 1555 Castling is introduced.


Input: 1560 Ruy Lopez visits Rome and defeats all the players.

Ruy Lopez

Rome


Input: 1561 Last time castling was 2 separate moves.


Input: 1561 Ruy Lopez proposes the 50-move rule to claim a draw.

Ruy Lopez


Input: 1561 Ruy Lopez writes his book on chess.

Ruy Lopez


Input: Introduces the word gambit.


Input: (Alcala, 1561)

Alcala


Input: 1562 St Teresa, a Spanish reformer, includes chess in her writings.

St Teresa


Input: 1570 Gianutto della Mantia, Horatio born in Italy.

Gianutto della Mantia

Horatio

Italy


Input: Author of Italian chess book.


Input: 1572 Ruy Lopez defeats several eminent players in Rome.

Ruy Lopez

Rome


Input: 1574 Boi and Leonardo beat Lopez & Ceron in presence of Phillip II.

Boi

Leonardo

Lopez

Ceron

Phillip II


Input: 1575 Leonardo beats Ruy Lopez in Madrid.

Leonardo

Ruy Lopez

Madrid


Input: 1575 After the Plague of Cremona, all games except chess were banned.

Cremona


Input: 1576 Boi taken prisoner, but wins his freedom playing chess.

Boi


Input: 1580 Catherine de Medici of France is a keen chess player.

Catherine de Medici

France


Input: 1580 Ruy lopez died.

Ruy lopez


Input: 1584 Ivan the Terrible dies while starting a game of chess.

Ivan the Terrible


Input: 1584 Lopez's book translated into Italian by Tarsia and published in Venice.

Lopez

Tarsia

Venice


Input: << " I have told you, friend, " said the curate, " that this is done to divert our idle thoughts; and as in well-ordered states games of CHESS, fives, and billiards are allowed for the diversion of those who do not care, or are not obliged, or are unable to work, so books of this kind are allowed to be printed, on the supposition that, what indeed is the truth, there can be nobody so ignorant as to take any of them for true stories; >>


Input: << " Well then, " said Don Quixote, " the same thing happens in the comedy and life of this world, where some play emperors, others popes, and, in short, all the characters that can be brought into a play; but when it is over, that is to say when life ends, death strips them all of the garments that distinguish one from the other, and all are equal in the grave. "

Don Quixote


Input: " A fine comparison! " said Sancho; " though not so new but that I have heard it many and many a time, as well as that other one of the game of CHESS; how, so long as the game lasts, each piece has its own particular office, and when the game is finished they are all mixed, jumbled up and shaken together, and stowed away in the bag, which is much like ending life in the grave. "

Sancho


Input: " Thou art growing less doltish and more shrewd every day, Sancho, " said Don Quixote.

Sancho

Don Quixote


Input: " Ay, " said Sancho; " it must be that some of your worship's shrewdness sticks to me; land that, of itself, is barren and dry, will come to yield good fruit if you dung it and till it >>

Sancho


Input: Of all Freemason sponsered revolutions: American, French, Bolivar, etc... Garibaldi's is the most blatantly Masonic:

Garibaldi


Input: Nostromo A Tale of the Seaboard


Input: << After having written so far, Don Martin Decoud, the exotic dandy of the Parisian boulevard, got up and walked across the sanded floor of the cafe at one end of the Albergo of United Italy, kept by Giorgio Viola, the old companion of Garibaldi.

Don Martin Decoud

Giorgio Viola

Garibaldi

Albergo

Italy


Input: The highly coloured lithograph of the Faithful Hero seemed to look dimly, in the light of one candle, at the man with no faith in anything except the truth of his own sensations.


Input: Looking out of the window, Decoud was met by a darkness so impenetrable that he could see neither the mountains nor the town, nor yet the buildings near the harbour; and there was not a sound, as if the tremendous obscurity of the Placid Gulf, spreading from the waters over the land, had made it dumb as well as blind....

Decoud

Placid Gulf


Input: He turned away.


Input: He could bear no longer that expressionless and motionless stare, which seemed to have a sort of impenetrable emptiness like the black depth of an abyss.


Input: ... and uneasy in its corporate expression, was overtopped by the big face of Don Juste Lopez, soft and white, with prominent eyelids and wreathed in impenetrable solemnity as if in a dense cloud. >>

Don Juste Lopez


Input: Wisteria Lodge


Input: << He could do little during the day, for Murillo took every precaution and never went out save with his satellite Lucas, or Lopez as he was known in the days of his greatness.

Murillo

Lucas

Lopez


Input: At night, however, he slept alone, and the avenger might find him.


Input: On a certain evening, which had been prearranged, I sent my friend final instructions, for the man was forever on the alert and continually changed his room.


Input: I was to see that the doors were open and the signal of a green or white light in a window which faced the drive was to give notice if all was safe or if the attempt had better be postponed.


Input: " But everything went wrong with us.


Input: In some way I had excited the suspicion of Lopez, the secretary.

Lopez


Input: He crept up behind me and sprang upon me just as I had finished the note.


Input: He and his master dragged me to my room and held judgment upon me as a convicted traitress.


Input: Then and there they would have plunged their knives into me could they have seen how to escape the consequences of the deed.


Input: Finally, after much debate, they concluded that my murder was too dangerous.


Input: But they determined to get rid forever of Garcia.

Garcia


Input: They had gagged me, and Murillo twisted my arm round until I gave him the address.

Murillo


Input: I swear that he might have twisted it off had I understood what it would mean to Garcia.

Garcia


Input: Lopez addressed the note which I had written, sealed it with his sleeve-link, and sent it by the hand of the servant, Jose.

Lopez


Input: How they murdered him I do not know, save that it was Murillo's hand who struck him down, for Lopez had remained to guard me.

Murillo

Lopez


Input: I believe he must have waited among the gorse bushes through which the path winds and struck him down as he passed.


Input: At first they were of a mind to let him enter the house and to kill him as a detected burglar; but they argued that if they were mixed up in an inquiry their own identity would at once be publicly disclosed and they would be open to further attacks.


Input: With the death of Garcia, the pursuit might cease, since such a death might frighten others from the task. >>

Garcia


Input: Art Neuendorffer

Art Neuendorffer


Input: Dear Judges, Lawyers, Policemen, Guards, Counselors, Taxpayers, et. al.,


Input: We are here.


Input: Like it or not, for good or bad, we are here.


Input: Who are we?


Input: We are the downtrodden and dispossesed, the self-torturing, the disenfranchised convicts, drug and alcohol addicts, the unemployed and unemployable.


Input: We are the children of poverty, financial and spiritual.


Input: We have and will have children of our own, grandchildren too.


Input: We are ex-cons, uninsured, homeless, of many colors and speaking many tongues.


Input: We are the enemy in what has become a domestic war against ourselves.


Input: And who are you?


Input: You who like the tough talk of Tough on Crime?


Input: You who watch as budgets are cut in education and health care while you militarize a police force?


Input: Bullet-proof vests, automatic weapons, helicopters, tanks, robots ... the testosterone is oozing through the streets, more prisons, longer sentences, tighten the belt, spartan conditions, task forces, gang units, gun courts.


Input: And what is there to show for it?


Input: Unemployent stays low because half the population oversees those " out of the workforce ", the dregs, the rabble, the enemy?


Input: Please tell me there is a deeper reason.


Input: Do you feel safer?


Input: More humane?


Input: More like a cohesive society with a shared sense of purpose, who can identify Us and Them?


Input: Do you live in a gated community or gentrified neighborhood?


Input: By the way, have you read the Declaration of Independence and US Constitution-or do you only know the first phrases?

US


Input: It's about time we got together.


Input: Please know that I have yet to meet a convict who wants their child to be a thief, an addict, a dealer, a prostitute, or a violent individual.


Input: Most of us still have hope for ourselves even when stuck in the darkest dilemmas, ruts and catch-22s.


Input: Most of us believe in crafting laws and instilling order.


Input: Many of us have burrowed beneath the surface to find a spiritual sense of being, an understanding force at least as powerful as those we succumbed to, and many of use wouldn't escape if you opened the front door.


Input: Did you know that approximately 10 million Americans are either incarcerated, on probation, on parole or once were in those categories?


Input: Each of those 10 million have families, friends, neighbors ... and so closer and closer does the We interface with the You.


Input: Don't you think it's time we talked?


Input: Are you ready?


Input: Can you accept that the road we are travelling points toward a grim and painful future?


Input: Do you have the heart to face monumental failures while bravely struggling beyond where we are now?


Input: I know that some of you are, and that some of us are, and this is what gives me hope.


Input: You need our insights just as we need your structure.


Input: It is never over, especially when a real solution, a real treatment for our sickness, is yet to begin.


Input: In Solidarity,


Input: Bruce Reilly (a.k.a Bruha) P.O. Box 8274 Cranston, RI 02920 USA

Bruce Reilly

Bruha

Cranston

RI

USA


Input: P.S.-I am trying to conceptualize an effective guerilla media campaign to promote this cause.


Input: Ideas are welcome.


Input: Collaboration is prayed.


Input: an annotated text of the bill, read the article by D. Singmaster in " The Mathematical Intelligencer " v 7 #2, pp 69-72.

D. Singmaster


Input: Subject: Where can I get the necessary software to get a " smart " mail system running on my machine that will take advantage of the postings in comp.mail.maps? (E.g., pathalias, smail, etc.)


Input: There are a couple of packages available through the supporters of the comp.sources.unix archives.


Input: If sites next to you don't have what you want, contact your nearest comp.sources.unix archive, or the moderator.


Input: Information on archive sites, and indices of comp.sources.unix back issues are posted regularly in comp.sources.unix and comp.sources.d.


Input: Subject: What is " food for the NSA line-eater "?

NSA


Input: This refers to the alleged scanning of all Usenet traffic by the National Security Agency (and possibly other intelligence organizations) for interesting keywords.

National Security Agency


Input: The " food " is believed to contain some of those


Input: For those who believe ....................


Input: Aries in 2005-Flexibility


Input: If you want a motto for 2005, the best one to adopt would be " go with the flow. "


Input: 2005 will be a year of ups and downs, and only the flexible will be able to keep from going crazy!


Input: All Aries natives may have to tighten their belts and curb their desire for constant expansion.


Input: You may need to play it cool and curb your spending.


Input: You'll be among the first to seize upon new societal trends to create new opportunities for yourself, as your creativity will be at an all-time high.


Input: You will be more eloquent and persuasive than usual, and others will identify enthusiastically with your vision.


Input: If you want to start a new creative project or business venture, your imagination will be working overtime.


Input: 2005 could find you doing well career-wise-and aspiring to climb even higher.


Input: Taurus in 2005-Tenacity


Input: " Diligence " is the key word for you, Taurus.


Input: With hard work and focus, you will attain at least one important aspiration that has been on your agenda for a long time.


Input: This is the year you'll want to take stock of your career and ask yourself if you're doing the work you want to do for the rest of your life.


Input: As the year progresses, the more impressive your ideas and works become.


Input: As a result, your finances improve-and your newfound confidence could attract new love into your life.


Input: By the end of the year, you will have a whole new network of friends and group activity, stimulating new ideas and taking up your social life a notch or two.


Input: Gemini in 2005-Success


Input: Your cycle of learning through the school of hard knocks has come to an end, Gemini, and now you're going to start reaping the rewards these " lessons " have left in their wake.


Input: As 2005 progresses, the road ahead will become clearer.


Input: You now have it in you to create the kind of life for yourself that you want.


Input: These leaps and bounds forward include love and creativity.


Input: Your learning of concepts of all kinds combines with extensive group activity, bringing your mind into a whole new space this year.


Input: By the end of 2005 you'll have a whole new start with regard to your career and your earning potential-and a possible new partnership to top it off!


Input: Cancer in 2005-Balance


Input: Finding a balance between your personal and professional lives may be one of the year's strongest challenges.


Input: For the most part, your outward life this year will go in fits and starts-alternating periods of intense activity with times of welcome rest.


Input: Enjoy the restful periods when you can.


Input: The active ones will be hectic!


Input: You'll be making radical changes in your work habits, but you'll be a lot happier for it, and in the end you'll know it was worth it.


Input: Your love life is full, and any dissatisfaction with career and money matters fades into the background.


Input: By the end of 2005, you'll feel more confident, more determined, and far more capable of making the mountains come to you!


Input: Leo in 2005-Abundance


Input: Pursuing a successful career, along with the usual social and financial advantages, will be easier this year than it has in a long time for you, Leo!


Input: The most difficult thing might be deciding which path means the most to you, and where to put your focus.


Input: You'll be able to create opportunities for advancement almost out of thin air.


Input: Romance in 2005 will make it a year to remember-and you'll be the envy of all your friends.


Input: Love comes willingly and easily.


Input: Money may suddenly become tight at a very inconvenient time.


Input: Yet, this is no comparison to the advancements you'll make overall, and by the end of 2005, you'll look back in sheer wonder and happiness.


Input: Virgo in 2005-Perseverance


Input: Your working life might not go so smoothly this year, Virgo.


Input: For much of 2005, you'll be putting your nose to the grindstone.


Input: On the bright side, your finances will be pretty stable.


Input: Just don't take it for granted-you still need to be cautious this year.


Input: Your love life will thrive for most of the year, and any relationship begun or reaffirmed in 2005 is very likely to be a lasting one.


Input: And, you're going to develop a hopeless romantic streak.


Input: In spite of a lot of worry over your career, by the year's end, you'll see that 2005 has filled your life with prosperity and accomplishments.


Input: Libra in 2005-Expansion


Input: Flex your muscles, friend Libra, and prepare for a relatively easy ride.


Input: With beneficent Jupiter in your sign, this is definitely your year, especially where your social life is concerned.


Input: Happiness and enjoyment lie ahead.


Input: If you're not presently married, and want to be, you just might wed by the end of the year.


Input: This is the year you're going to be doing a lot of travel and learning about your world, as expansion is the theme.


Input: The one department of life that may not quite be as hopeful as you'd like could be your career, where advancement may be slow and satisfaction rare.


Input: By year's end, you may find yourself seriously considering a major change-all for the best.


Input: Scorpio in 2005-Transmutation


Input: Scorpio, you can still expect changes-perhaps major ones-in your life this year, almost to the point of total transformation.


Input: While this is most apparent in the area of your career, you'll see it showing up in other important aspects of your life.


Input: Your life might take on an entirely new direction you've never dreamed of.


Input: You may also change your residence during the year.


Input: Whether you start the year as a single person looking for a partner, or you've been married for many years, happiness in love does lie ahead.


Input: Be prepared for new horizons.


Input: They may not be familiar, but they will be fascinating.


Input: Don't cling to the banks; instead, flow with the tide in 2005.


Input: Sagittarius in 2005-Empowerment


Input: Are you prepared to handle absolute power?


Input: If not, you will be soon!


Input: Your ruling planet, Jupiter, will be in a special relationship with Pluto-called " mutual reception "-in 2005.


Input: There's so much punch packed into this combination that it's almost scary.


Input: You'll find the ultimate power is the ability to choose your own destiny.


Input: You'll find practical ways of increasing your effectiveness in the world by gaining new skills that allow you to live more abundantly.


Input: By the second half of the year, you will finally feel welcome relief from the tight financial binds that have hindered you over the past two years.


Input: And, a relationship you begin now will last a very long time-like, for the rest of your life.


Input: Overall, 2005 is sure to be a year you won't forget.


Input: Capricorn in 2005-Resolution


Input: You've got plenty of lucky breaks headed your way in 2005, friend Capricorn.


Input: The long awaited relief you've needed in your love life is around the corner, and by the end of the year you will feel much clearer about your partnerships in general.


Input: Financially, it could be a lean year, although some advance planning can help you weather the storm.


Input: Your career opportunities will expand exponentially, and you're likely to change jobs or positions this year.


Input: At times, the pressure on your job and home life may seem unbearable, but rest assured you will come through this stronger-and wiser-than ever, as more is revealed and resolved in 2005.


Input: Aquarius in 2005-Magic


Input: 2005 sees you expanding your intuitive and psychic skills even more, Aquarius.


Input: The mysteries of the universe continue to attract and intrigue you, as you apply your mystical awareness to the important decisions upcoming in your life, especially concerning partnerships of all kinds.


Input: 2005 is bound to bring at least one major success in the love department, and your career will be brimming with new enthusiasm and innovation.


Input: Not only that, but travel, adventure, and personal expansion infuse fresh energy into all areas of your life.


Input: By year's end, your creative decision-making will have carried you to whole new peaks-and a whole new view from above.


Input: Pisces in 2005-Self-confidence


Input: It's a big year for you, friend Pisces.


Input: No doubt, in 2005 you'll find yourself pushed more and more out into the world.


Input: You'll experience a new sense of purpose and make plenty of new friends.


Input: Expect lots of surprises and lucky breaks this year, with Uranus bringing the unexpected in your career, your love life, and the world in general.


Input: At some point during the year, you could pick up a financial windfall, hear of a great career opportunity, or unexpectedly meet the love of your life.


Input: It's important that you take retreats and plenty of time for yourself to regenerate, as the rate of change in your personal and professional life will be fast and unpredictable.


Input: Remain calm and confident, and love is very likely to flourish in 2005.


Input: " Expect the unexpected, " and enjoy the ride!


Input: " Success comes before work " only in the dictionary


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Input: Subject: IMMEDIATE ATTENTION NEEDED:


Input: HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL URGENT ASSISTANCE-FROM USA

USA


Input: FROM: GEORGE WALKER BUSH 202.456.1414/202.456.1111 FAX: 202.456.2461

GEORGE WALKER BUSH


Input: Dear Sir/Madam,


Input: I am GEORGE WALKER BUSH, son of the former president of the United States of America George Herbert Walker Bush, and currently serving as President of the United States of America.

GEORGE WALKER BUSH

George Herbert Walker Bush

United States of America

United States of America


Input: This letter might surprise you because we have not met neither in person nor by correspondence.


Input: I came to know of you in my search for a reliable and reputable person to handle a very confidential business transaction, which involves the transfer of a huge sum of money to an account requiring maximum confidence.


Input: I am writing you in absolute confidence primarily to seek your assistance in acquiring oil funds that are presently trapped in the republic of Iraq.

republic of Iraq


Input: My partners and I solicit your assistance in completing a transaction begun by my father, who has long been actively engaged in the extraction of petroleum in the United States of America, and bravely served his country as director of the United States Central Intelligence Agency.

United States of America

United States Central Intelligence Agency


Input: In the decade of the nineteen-eighties, my father, then vice-president of the United States of America, sought to work with the good offices of the President of the Republic of Iraq to regain lost oil revenue sources in the neighboring Islamic republic of Iran.

United States of America

Republic of Iraq


Input: This unsuccessful venture was soon followed by a falling-out with his Iraqi partner, who sought to acquire additional oil revenue sources in the neighboring emirate of Kuwait, a wholly-owned U.S.-British subsidiary.

Kuwait

U.S.


Input: My father re-secured the petroleum assets of Kuwait in 1991 at a cost of sixty-one billion U.S. dollars ($61,000,000,000).

Kuwait

U.S.


Input: Out of that cost, thirty-six billion dollars ($36,000,000,000) were supplied by King Hussein, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf monarchies, and sixteen billion dollars ($16,000,000,000) by German and Japanese partners.

Hussein

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Persian Gulf


Input: But my father's former Iraqi business partner remained in control of the republic of Iraq and its petroleum reserves.

republic of Iraq


Input: My family is calling for your urgent assistance in funding the removal of the President of the Republic of Iraq and acquiring the petroleum assets of his country, as compensation for the costs of removing him from power.

Republic of Iraq


Input: Unfortunately, our partners from 1991 are not willing to shoulder the burden of this new venture, which in its upcoming phase may cost the sum of 100 billion to 200 billion dollars ($100,000,000,000-$200,000,000,000), both in the initial acquisition and in long-term management.


Input: Without the funds from our 1991 partners, we would not be able to acquire the oil revenue trapped within Iraq.

Iraq


Input: That is why my family and our colleagues are urgently seeking your gracious assistance.


Input: Our distinguished colleagues in this business transaction include the sitting vice-president of the United States of America, Richard Cheney, who is an original partner in the Iraq venture and former head of the Halliburton oil company, and Condoleeza Rice, whose professional dedication to the venture was demonstrated in the naming of a Chevron oil tanker after her.

United States of America

Iraq

Richard Cheney

Condoleeza Rice

Halliburton

Chevron


Input: I would beseech you to transfer a sum equaling ten to twenty-five percent (10-25%) of your yearly income to our account to aid in this important venture.


Input: The Internal Revenue Service of the United States of America will function as our trusted intermediary.

Internal Revenue Service

United States of America


Input: I propose that you make this transfer before the fifteenth (15th) of the month of April.


Input: I know that a transaction of this magnitude would make anyone apprehensive and worried.


Input: But I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day.


Input: A bold step taken shall not be regretted, I assure you.


Input: Please do be informed that this business transaction is 100% legal.


Input: If you do not wish to co-operate in this transaction, please contact our intermediary representatives to further discuss the matter.


Input: I pray that you understand our plight.


Input: My family and our colleagues will be forever grateful.


Input: Please reply in strict confidence to the contact numbers below.


Input: Sincerely with warm regards,


Input: George Walker Bush Switchboard: 202.456.1414 Comments: 202.456.1111 Fax: 202.456.2461 e-mail: presid...@whitehouse.gov

George Walker Bush


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Input: Attack on Iran: A Looming Folly

Iran


Input: By William Rivers Pitt

William Rivers Pitt


Input: t r u t h o u t | Perspective


Input: Monday 09 January 2006


Input: The wires have been humming since before the New Year with reports that the Bush administration is planning an attack on Iran.

Bush

Iran


Input: " The Bush administration is preparing its NATO allies for a possible military strike against suspected nuclear sites in Iran in the New Year, according to German media reports, reinforcing similar earlier suggestions in the Turkish media, " reported UPI on December 30th.

Bush

NATO

UPI

Iran


Input: " The Berlin daily Der Tagesspiegel this week, " continued UPI, " quoted' NATO intelligence sources' who claimed that the NATO allies had been informed that the United States is currently investigating all possibilities of bringing the mullah-led regime into line, including military options.

Berlin

United States

UPI

NATO

NATO


Input: This' all options are open' line has been President George W Bush's publicly stated policy throughout the past 18 months. "

George W Bush


Input: An examination of the ramifications of such an attack is desperately in order.


Input: 1. Blowback in Iraq

Iraq


Input: The recent elections in Iraq were dominated by an amalgam of religiously fundamentalist Shi'ite organizations, principally the Dawa Party and the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI).

Iraq

Dawa Party

Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq

SCIRI


Input: Both Dawa and SCIRI have umbilical connections to the fundamentalist Shi'ite leadership in Iran that go back decades.

Dawa

SCIRI

Iran


Input: In essence, Iran now owns a significant portion of the Iraqi government.

Iran


Input: Should the United States undertake military action against Iran, the ramifications in Iraq would be immediate and extreme.

United States

Iran

Iraq


Input: In the first eight days of January, eighteen US troops have been killed in Iraq, compounded by another twelve deaths from a Black Hawk helicopter crash on Saturday.

US

Iraq


Input: Much of the violence aimed at American forces is coming from disgruntled Sunni factions that have their own militias, believe the last elections were a sham, and hold little political power in the government.


Input: If the US attacks Iran, it is probable that American forces-already taxed by attacks from Sunni factions-will also face reprisal attacks in Iraq from Shi'ite factions loyal to Iran.

US

Iran

Iraq

Iran


Input: The result will be a dramatic escalation in US and civilian casualties, US forces will be required to bunker themselves further into their bases, and US forces will find themselves required to fight the very government they just finished helping into power.

US

US

US


Input: Iraq, already a seething cauldron, will sink further into chaos.

Iraq


Input: 2. Iran's Armaments

Iran


Input: Unlike Iraq, Iran has not spent the last fifteen years having its conventional forces worn down by grueling sanctions, repeated attacks, and two American-led wars.

Iraq

Iran


Input: While Iran's conventional army is not what it was during the heyday of the Iran-Iraq war-their armaments have deteriorated and the veterans of that last war have retired-the nation enjoys substantial military strength nonetheless.

Iran

Iran

Iraq


Input: According to a report issued by the Center for Strategic and International Studies in December of 2004, Iran " has some 540,000 men under arms and over 350,000 reserves.

Center for Strategic and International Studies

Iran


Input: They include 120,000 Iranian Revolutionary Guards trained for land and naval asymmetrical warfare.


Input: Iran's military also includes holdings of 1,613 main battle tanks, 21,600 other armored fighting vehicles, 3,200 artillery weapons, 306 combat aircraft, 60 attack helicopters, 3 submarines, 59 surface combatants, and 10 amphibious ships. "

Iran


Input: " Iran is now the only regional military power that poses a significant conventional military threat to Gulf stability, " continued the CSIS report.

Iran

Gulf

CSIS


Input: " Iran has significant capabilities for asymmetric warfare, and poses the additional threat of proliferation.

Iran


Input: There is considerable evidence that it is developing both a long-range missile force and a range of weapons of mass destruction.


Input: It has never properly declared its holdings of chemical weapons, and the status of its biological weapons programs is unknown. "


Input: A MILNET brief issued in February 2005 reports, " Due to its position astride the Persian Gulf, Iran has constantly been a threat to the Gulf.

Persian Gulf

Iran

Gulf


Input: The so called' Tanker' wars in the late 1980s put Iran squarely in the bullseye of all nations seeking to transport oil out of the region.

Iran


Input: Even the small navy that Iran puts to sea is capable enough to harass shipping, and several cases of small boat operations against oil well heads in the Gulf during that period made it clear small asymmetrical tactics of the Iranian Navy could be quite effective. "

Iran

Gulf


Input: " More concerning, " continued the MILNET brief, " is the priority placed on expanding and modernizing its Navy.


Input: The CSIS report cites numerous areas where Iran has funded modernization including the most troublesome aspect, anti-shipping cruise missiles:' Iran has obtained new anti-ship missiles and missile patrol craft from China, midget submarines from North Korea, submarines from Russia, and modern mines.' "

CSIS

Iran

Iran

China

North Korea

Russia


Input: It is Iran's missile armaments that pose the greatest concern for American forces in the Gulf, especially for the US Navy.

Iran

Gulf

US Navy


Input: Iran's coast facing the Persian Gulf is a looming wall of mountains that look down upon any naval forces arrayed in those waters.

Iran

Persian Gulf


Input: The Gulf itself only has one exit, the Strait of Hormuz, which is also dominated by the mountainous Iranian coastline.

Gulf

Strait of Hormuz


Input: In essence, Iran holds the high ground in the Gulf.

Iran

Gulf


Input: Missile batteries arrayed in those mountains could raise bloody havoc with any fleet deployed below.


Input: Of all the missiles in Iran's armament, the most dangerous is the Russian-made SS-N-22 Sunburn.

Iran


Input: These missiles are, simply, the fastest anti-ship weapons on the planet.


Input: The Sunburn can reach Mach 3 at high altitude.


Input: Its maximum low-altitude speed is Mach 2.2, some three times faster than the American-made Harpoon.


Input: The Sunburn takes two short minutes to cover its full range.


Input: The missile's manufacturers state that one or two missiles could cripple a destroyer, and five missiles could sink a 20,000 ton ship.


Input: The Sunburn is also superior to the Exocet missile.


Input: Recall that it was two Exocets that ripped the USS Stark to shreds in 1987, killing 37 sailors.


Input: The Stark could not see them to stop them.


Input: The US aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt is currently deployed in the Persian Gulf, with some 7,000 souls aboard.

US

Persian Gulf


Input: Sailing with the Roosevelt is the Tarawa Expeditionary Strike Force, which includes the USS Tarawa, the USS Austin, and the USS Pearl Harbor.


Input: The USS Austin is likewise deployed in the Gulf.

Gulf


Input: The Sunburn missile, with its incredible speed and ability to avoid radar detection, would do terrible damage these ships if Iran chooses to retaliate in the Gulf after an American attack within its borders.

Iran

Gulf


Input: Beyond the naval threat is the possibility of Iran throwing its military muscle into the ongoing struggle in Iraq.

Iran

Iraq


Input: Currently, the US is facing an asymmetrical attack from groups wielding small arms, shoulder-fired grenades and roadside bombs.

US


Input: The vaunted American military has suffered 2,210 deaths and tens of thousands of wounded from this form of warfare.


Input: The occupation of Iraq has become a guerrilla war, a siege that has lasted more than a thousand days.

Iraq


Input: If Iran decides to throw any or all of its 23,000 armored fighting vehicles, along with any or all of its nearly million-strong army, into the Iraq fray, the situation in the Middle East could become unspeakably dire.

Iran

Iraq

Middle East


Input: 3. The Syrian Connection


Input: In February of 2005, Iran and Syria agreed upon a mutual protection pact to combat " challenges and threats " in the region.

Iran

Syria


Input: This was a specific reaction to the American invasion of Iraq, and a reaction to America's condemnation of Syria after the death of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, which was widely seen as an assassination ordered from Damascus.

Iraq

Syria

Damascus

Rafik Hariri


Input: An attack on Iran would trigger this mutual defense pact, and could conceivably bring Syria into direct conflict with American forces.

Iran

Syria


Input: Like Iran, Syria's military is nothing to scoff at.

Iran

Syria


Input: Virtually every credible analysis has Syria standing as the strongest military force in the Middle East after Israel.

Syria

Middle East

Israel


Input: Damascus has been intent for years upon establishing significant military strength to serve as a counterweight to Israel's overwhelming capabilities.

Damascus

Israel


Input: As of 2002, Syria had some 215,000 soldiers under arms, 4,700 tanks, and a massive artillery capability.

Syria


Input: The Syrian Air Force is comprised of ten to eleven fighter/attack squadrons and sixteen fighter squadrons, totaling somewhere near 650 aircraft.

Syrian Air Force


Input: Syria also possesses one of the largest arsenals of ballistic missiles in the region, comprised primarily of SCUD-derived systems.

Syria


Input: Iran, North Korea and China have been willing providers of state-of-the-art technologies.

Iran

North Korea

China


Input: Compounding this is the well-based suspicion that Syria has perhaps the most advanced chemical weapons capability in the Persian Gulf.

Syria

Persian Gulf


Input: 4. China and the US Economy

China

US


Input: While the ominous possibilities of heightened Iraqi chaos, missiles in the Gulf, and Syrian involvement loom large if the US attacks Iran, all pale in comparison to the involvement of China in any US/Iran engagement.

Gulf

US

Iran

China

US

Iran


Input: China's economy is exploding, hampered only by their great thirst for petroleum and natural gas to fuel their industry.

China


Input: In the last several months, China has inked deals with Iran for $70 billion dollars worth of Iranian oil and natural gas.

China

Iran


Input: China will purchase 250 million tons of liquefied natural gas from Iran over the next 30 years, will develop the massive Yadavaran oil field in Iran, and will receive 150,000 barrels of oil per day from that field.

China

Iran

Yadavaran oil field

Iran


Input: China is seeking the construction of a pipeline from Iran to the Caspian Sea, where it would link with another planned pipeline running from Kazakhstan to China.

China

Iran

Caspian Sea

Kazakhstan

China


Input: Any US attack on Iran could be perceived by China as a direct threat to its economic health.

US

Iran

China


Input: Further, any fighting in the Persian Gulf would imperil the tankers running China's liquefied natural gas through the Strait of Hormuz.

Persian Gulf

China

Strait of Hormuz


Input: Should China decide to retaliate against the US to defend its oil and natural gas deal with Iran, the US would be faced with a significant threat.

China

US

Iran

US


Input: This threat exists not merely on a military level, though China could force a confrontation in the Pacific by way of Taiwan.

China

Pacific

Taiwan


Input: More significantly, China holds a large portion of the American economy in the palm of its hand.

China


Input: Paul Craig Roberts, writing for The American Conservative, said in July of 2005 that " As a result of many years of persistent trade surpluses with the United States, the Japanese government holds dollar reserves of approximately $1 trillion.

Paul Craig Roberts

The American Conservative

United States


Input: China's accumulation of dollars is approximately $600 billion.

China


Input: South Korea holds about $200 billion.

South Korea


Input: These sums give these countries enormous leverage over the United States.

United States


Input: By dumping some portion of their reserves, these countries could put the dollar under intense pressure and send U.S. interest rates skyrocketing.

U.S.


Input: Washington would really have to anger Japan and Korea to provoke such action, but in a showdown with China-over Taiwan, for example-China holds the cards.

Japan

Korea

China

Taiwan

China


Input: China and Japan, and the world at large, have more dollar reserves than they require.

China

Japan


Input: They would have no problem teaching a hegemonic superpower a lesson if the need arose. "


Input: " The hardest blow on Americans, " concluded Roberts, " will fall when China does revalue its currency.

Roberts

China


Input: When China's currency ceases to be undervalued, American shoppers in Wal-Mart, where 70 percent of the goods on the shelves are made in China, will think they are in Neiman Marcus.

China

Wal-Mart

China

Neiman Marcus


Input: Price increases will cause a dramatic reduction in American real incomes.


Input: If this coincides with rising interest rates and a setback in the housing market, American consumers will experience the hardest times since the Great Depression. "


Input: In short, China has the American economy by the throat.

China


Input: Should they decide to squeeze, we will all feel it.


Input: China's strong hand in this even extends to the diplomatic realm; China is a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, and could veto any actions against Iran proposed by the United States.

China

China

Iran

United States

United Nations Security Council


Input: 5. American Preparedness


Input: American citizens have for decades taken it as a given that our military can overwhelm and overcome any foe on the battlefield.


Input: The rapid victory during the first Gulf War cemented this perception.

Gulf


Input: The last three years of the Iraq occupation, however, have sapped this confidence.

Iraq


Input: Worse, the occupation has done great damage to the strength of the American military, justifying the decrease in confidence.


Input: Thanks to repeated deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, recruiting is at an all-time low.

Iraq

Afghanistan


Input: Soldiers with vital training and know-how are refusing to re-enlist.


Input: Across the board, the American military is stretched to the breaking point.


Input: Two vaunted economists-one a Nobel Prize winner and the other a nationally renowned budget expert-have analyzed the data at hand and put a price tag on the Iraq occupation.

Iraq


Input: According to Linda Bilmes of Harvard and Nobel Laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz of Columbia University, the final cost of the Iraq occupation will run between $1 trillion and $2 trillion, surpassing by orders of magnitude the estimates put forth by the Bush administration.

Linda Bilmes

Joseph E. Stiglitz

Bush

Harvard

Columbia University

Iraq


Input: If an engagement with Iran envelops our forces in Iraq, and comes to involve Syria, our economy will likely shatter under the strain of fighting so many countries simultaneously.

Iran

Iraq

Syria


Input: Add to this the economic threat posed by China, and the economic threat implicit in any substantial disruption of the distribution of Mideast petroleum to the globe.

China


Input: If Iran and Syria-with their significant armaments, missile technologies and suspected chemical weapons capabilities-decide to engage with the relatively undersized US force in Iraq, our troops there will be fish in a barrel.

Iran

Syria

US

Iraq


Input: Iran's position over the Gulf would make resupply by ship and air support from carriers a dangerous affair.

Iran

Gulf


Input: In the worst-case scenario, the newly-minted American order of battle requiring the use of nuclear weapons to rescue a surrounded and imperiled force could come into play, hurling the entire planet into military and diplomatic bedlam.


Input: Conclusion: Is Any of This Possible?


Input: The question must be put as directly as possible: what manner of maniac would undertake a path so fraught with peril and potential economic catastrophe?


Input: It is difficult to imagine a justification for any action that could envelop the United States in a military and economic conflict with Iraq, Iran, Syria and China simultaneously.

United States

Iraq

Iran

Syria

China


Input: Iran is suspected by many nations of working towards the development of nuclear weapons, but even this justification has been tossed into a cocked hat.

Iran


Input: Recently, Russian president Vladimir Putin bluntly stated that Iran is not developing its nuclear capability for any reasons beyond peaceful energy creation, and pledged to continue assisting Iran in this endeavor.

Vladimir Putin

Iran

Iran


Input: Therefore, any attack upon Iran's nuclear facilities will bring Russia into the mess.

Iran

Russia


Input: Iran also stands accused of aiding terrorism across the globe.

Iran


Input: The dangers implicit in any attack upon that nation, however, seem to significantly offset whatever gains could be made in the so-called " War on Terror. "


Input: Unfortunately, all the dangers in the world are no match for the self-assurance of a bubble-encased zealot.


Input: What manner of maniac would undertake such a dangerous course?


Input: Look no further than 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.


Input: George W. Bush and his administration have consistently undertaken incredibly dangerous courses of action in order to garner political power on the home front.

George W. Bush


Input: Recall the multiple terror threats lobbed out by the administration whenever damaging political news appeared in the media.


Input: More significantly, recall Iraq.

Iraq


Input: Karl Rove, Bush's most senior advisor, notoriously told Republicans on the ballot during the 2002 midterms to " run on the war. "

Karl Rove

Bush


Input: The invasion of Iraq provided marvelous political cover for the GOP not only during those midterms, but during the 2004 Presidential election.

Iraq


Input: What kind of political cover would be gained from an attack on Iran, and from the diversion of attention to that attack?

Iran


Input: The answer lies in one now-familiar name: Jack Abramoff.

Jack Abramoff


Input: The Abramoff scandal threatens to subsume all the hard-fought GOP gains in Congress, and the 2006 midterms are less than a year away.

Abramoff


Input: Is any of this a probability?


Input: Logic says no, but logic seldom plays any part in modern American politics.


Input: All arguments that the Bush administration would be insane to attack Iran and risk a global conflagration for the sake of political cover run into one unavoidable truth.

Bush

Iran


Input: They did it once already in Iraq.

Iraq


Input: Billing Issues ...


Input: I had a routine surgery for an ingrown toenail.


Input: My insurance company, Blue Cross/Blue Shield paid the fees and everything was fine.

Blue Cross/Blue Shield


Input: Then I got a bill for $483.00.


Input: The doctor's office said that payments had been " reversed ".


Input: Blue cross has no record of aa reversal.

Blue cross


Input: The office refused my requests to see what they got from BC/BS.

BC/BS


Input: They eventually turned it over to a collection agency and now will not even discuss the matter.


Input: I eventually decided to just pay the balance even though the doctor has already been paid, but now the collection agency is trying to say another reversal of $160.00 has come through.


Input: It was an ingrown toenail.


Input: How much could it possibly cost?


Input: Not only am I being bilked for money I do not owe, the office staff is rude to boot.


Input: I think this office has some serious billing practice issues!


Input: They really go above and beyond!


Input: For example, I actually forgot to feed my cat, and they went out of their way to take care of him.


Input: Additionally, when there was confusion (my fault), they left me flowers along with a personalized gift.


Input: They have been 100% reliable and professional.


Input: Definitely recommend!


Input: Over-rated ...


Input: This restaurant is over-rated.


Input: It is hard to find ... and the mexican food is bland, almost equivalent to eating out of a can.


Input: The service is poor ...


Input: I asked for a fried egg on my enchiladas ... and did not get it .!


Input: Secondly, the enchladas did not come with enchilada sauce .. but chili ... like Hormel's chili .. the cheese was American cheese!

Hormel


Input: The Chili Relleno .. had no batter on it.


Input: We have been blessed to find Elite Flyers online and would not use anyone else to handle our postcards, posters, etc.

Elite Flyers


Input: We were looking for a company with decent rates as our company was just getting started.


Input: They have the best rates and GREAT customer service.


Input: On one order, we needed it rushed and shipped to a different state.


Input: They did that with no problem.


Input: I also appreciate their honesty.


Input: I sent a graphic that would have been distorted if printed as it was.


Input: They called and worked with me to fix it so that it would look perfect.


Input: They recently surprised me a larger order.


Input: I ordered 1000 postcards, we normally order 5000 or more.


Input: Because they had room to do 5000, they created the larger amount, and shipped them early.


Input: I recommend this company to ANYONE and everyone that needs great work done at a reasonable rate!


Input: They have a customer for life in us!


Input: I LOVE MY GYM!


Input: FITNESS UNLIMITED is a second home to a lot of us gym members who work out daily.

FITNESS UNLIMITED


Input: If you are serious about working out in a non-commercial like atmosphere then you have chosen the best place to be.


Input: This is the most humble gym you will every step into .... if you dare to work on your body don't be surprised when you see how addicting going to FITNESS UNLIMITED can be !!

FITNESS UNLIMITED


Input: Wife and I attempted to adopt a dog and was nothing but frustrating.


Input: We arrived Sunday at about 230 and found a do we really liked.


Input: We were told that we couldn't today because they were closing soon.


Input: I called the next morning to let then know my wife would be driving in.


Input: They gave me the run around and missing paperwork only to call back to tell me someone else wanted her and I would need to come in and put down a deposit.


Input: I work 2 hours away but offered my card over the phone.


Input: They refused.


Input: Terrible communication as well.


Input: At one point they told me the dog had been fixed, the next day it hadn't.


Input: Huge ammount of time wasted time and elevated blood pressure.


Input: My counseling practice


Input: Hello my name is Vera and I'm writing a review about my own counseling practice in Bellevue, WA. and in Renton WA.

Vera

Bellevue

WA.

Renton

WA


Input: I am a licensed mental health counselor and I work with variety of mental health problems.


Input: I offer compassionate, approachable and personalized counseling services.


Input: My style is compassionate, nonjudgmental, and caring.


Input: Please visit my website to learn more about my practice at www.veraakulov.com.


Input: I am a preferred provider with most insurance companies.


Input: Schedule your first appointment online!


Input: I would appreciate reviews from anyone who has worked with me before in the mental health setting.


Input: The best there is in service.


Input: I was recently traveling down I-24 from Nashville with my 3 young children and had a blowout on the southeast side of Murfreesboro.

Nashville

Murfreesboro


Input: It was 4:50 when a friend told me to call Bud, he would take care of me.

Bud


Input: Not only did they answer the phone at 4:50 on a Thursday, they hit the ground moving !.


Input: They tracked down the only tire that fit my BMW 330i in Murfreesboro within minutes and secured it, then they came out, took off my tire (it was a runflat-but runflats don't do you any good if they blow out), and brought it to their shop to change the tire.

Murfreesboro


Input: They were back quickly considering how far outside of Murfreesboro we were and had us on our way by 6:30 that evening.

Murfreesboro


Input: Thanks Bud for all of your help and taking time away from your family that evening.

Bud


Input: It's without a doubt, the best service experience I've ever had and just to be clear, the price he charged me was the same as my tire guy in Nashville's price for putting on the other rear tire.

Nashville


Input: I hope I can return the favor in the future!


Input: Alan Grissom

Alan Grissom


Input: awful awful awful


Input: This store is by far the worst Verizon store I've been in.

Verizon


Input: The salespeople are never available, the lines are always too long, and all the people want is a sale.


Input: Incredibly rude and I will not return to it.


Input: Is there no other Verizon to go to around Downtown/Dupont Circle 1?!?!?

Verizon

Downtown

Dupont Circle


Input: BEST CHINESE RESTAURANT EVER !!!


Input: It was the best Chinese food I have ever had.


Input: All the food tasted excellent, and with the new renovation of chairs and the bathroom, it is awesome.


Input: The people working their are also extremely polite and friendly.


Input: Every time I go, Kevin, the manager, will always remember my family and I.

Kevin


Input: Overall, it is very family oriented, and I recommend it to everyone !!!


Input: Poor Experience


Input: I did not have a good experience w/Dr. Ghassemlou.

Ghassemlou


Input: During the session, he demanded to have my physical address, which I've always kept private as I am enrolled in a witness protection program.


Input: I believe he is correct in that he needs my physical address for legal reasons, however, he did not adequately explain this during our session.


Input: I learned more about this doing my own research afterward.


Input: I think he could've done more to assuage my concerns by giving me concrete facts.


Input: Saying that I need to give him my address or else I have intimacy issues is not helpful.


Input: It's pretty combative actually.


Input: Auto Towing is one of the best towing services I have used.

Auto Towing


Input: The first time I used them they arrived on time and towed car for me to the destination I needed.


Input: The auto mechanics that work for Auto Towing are very friendly and informative and answered any question I had.

Auto Towing


Input: They have towed car for me a few times and I am always very satisfied with this services.


Input: If you are looking for towing services that can offer you a good towed car service, then Auto Towing is the company for you.

Auto Towing


Input: Food good, service poor


Input: No silverware, asked for a spoon for my son s mac and cheese ended up having to use my tea spoon.


Input: Asked for bar-b-que sauce never got it.


Input: Never checked back with us once we got our food.


Input: Had to go the the bus boy s station ourselves to get napkins.


Input: Only one server, too buys talking with others I guess.


Input: Food was good, but service means a lot to me.


Input: As a native southern Californian I can tell you that this is not authentic Mexican food.


Input: However, I still like this place a lot.


Input: Esp. the mole, tortilla soup, and guacamole.


Input: Margaritas are alright.


Input: My only complaint is the QUESO.


Input: It used to be fabulous, why did you guys change it ??


Input: Queso should not be watery :( .....


Input: *** update *** NEVER MIND!


Input: They fixed the queso!


Input: Thank you thank you


Input: The moving company is actualy based in Brooklyn, but advertised all over NY/NJ, including Fort Lee.

Brooklyn

NY

NJ

Fort Lee


Input: When the guys arrived (2 hours later than agreed) they told that you have to pay all the tolls they payed coming from Brooklyn and extra $100 for them to drive back from your destination.

Brooklyn


Input: That was not in agreement eather, but they realy demand it.


Input: And another $100 for wrapping the furniture.


Input: So totalling $212 just for start before any work started.


Input: Guess what, was not in the initial agreement as well.


Input: I was moving out from 2 bdr apartment and it took for 3 strong guys 6 hours to load a track (from 2 pm-8 pm).


Input: The only reason I'm giving 3 stars instead of 1 or 2, I should admit, nothing was broken.


Input: So I still can recomend them but prepare pay twice as much as they tell you initially.


Input: One more thing, they don't take any credit cards or checks.


Input: You have to pay CASH ONLY before they start unloading track on your destination.


Input: It was a Saturday and my spring was broken ...


Input: I googled Garage Door Repair in Woodinville and found NDI-Johnette answered the phone and was oh-so pleasant and helpful!

Woodinville

NDI

Johnette


Input: She sort of appologized for Dan taking the day off to go skiing-but he could do the repair on Sunday!

Dan


Input: I said great and Dan arrived on time at 10 am to make the repair.

Dan


Input: I enjoyed speaking with Dan, and learning more about how the springs are sized for these doors.

Dan


Input: The repair went quickly and the price was extremely fair.


Input: I would highly recommend NDI-and will spread the word to my neighbors.

NDI


Input: Thanks Dan and Johnette for your responsiveness and professional service.

Dan

Johnette


Input: Roger M., Woodinville

Roger M.

Woodinville


Input: This place has the best baby and children s clothes.


Input: Especially high end keep sake sort of clothing that you just ca nt find in a lot of stores.


Input: It is all very unique and you wo nt find any other baby wearing the same stuff.


Input: I spent quite a bit because I spoil my little princess.


Input: After all she will only be a baby for so long I figure why not enjoy it.


Input: Antique Lighting, Fixtures, Chicago

Chicago


Input: Great place for Antique Lighting!


Input: I visited their huge Chicago lighting showroom and all I have to say is WOW !!

Chicago


Input: Lots of collections, many antique light fixtures, Chandeliers, custom lighting etc.


Input: I think they have the largest collection for Chandeliers Chicago.

Chicago


Input: Antiques, Vintage, Contemporary & Modern Chandeliers.


Input: I would recommend them for any custom lighting or Lighting Repair and Restoration Chicago

Chicago


Input: UGH !!!


Input: Got some nice " freshly baked " fruit squares, a personal favorite of mine.


Input: Took a bite, it tasted odd.


Input: Flipped the square over and saw it riddled with green mold !!!!


Input: Ugh !!


Input: I called the store and the clerk giggled, and agreed that it was gross, but said it was not her problem.


Input: She also refused to get a manager.


Input: I left my number, or tried to anyway.


Input: Same clerk had considerable difficulty taking down a number.


Input: I'll never go back there again


Input: The Salon Experience from Hell


Input: I feel obligated to share this story.


Input: Right out of college I called the salon and explained my situation.


Input: Just graduated, just moved, not rich, and starting new job soon.


Input: I never got a price quote over the phone and they take your cc info just to make the appointment because if you don't show up, they'll charge you.


Input: I had this ridiculous celebrity stylist from LA named Derrick.

LA

Derrick


Input: After he already put product on my hair he said " I should warn you, I'm expensive. "


Input: What was I supposed to do, say I can't afford you and walk out with crap all over my hair.


Input: I wanted to be very blonde and instead he pulled my root color throughout my whole hair which is a gross mousey brown.


Input: The other stylists around me kept pressuring me saying he's so wonderful, you're going to love your hair.


Input: $400 later my jaw dropped when the receptionist told me the total.


Input: Derrick did a terrible job, was a complete jerk the entire time, and I had no warning as to the price.

Derrick


Input: I cried the entire way home.


Input: He then " fixed " it for free but it still looked like crap.


Input: I will never go back.


Input: It was the salon experience from absolutely Hell.


Input: He also told me that he worked on the cast of will and grace and that they were all jerks.


Input: That's my favorite show of all time.


Input: I'm pretty sure for the cast that it was the other way around.


Input: Maybe he didn't do a good job and they told him so.


Input: Absolute Nightmare!


Input: STAY AWAY!


Input: Mezza Luna FTW!


Input: their mezza luna's are deffly better than the pizza rolls.


Input: it s like a pizza roll, but they just toss ham and cheese inside.


Input: it seems like it s healthier too, but it s prolly not.


Input: also, you can call em ahead of time, and then go to pick up ur food, or have it delivered **.


Input: that cuts down on teh wait time, cus u can do other stuff while u r waiting.


Input: it usually takes 20 mins for a mezza luna, as they have to add pure delicious extract to the mix.


Input: their pizza was a little salty for me, but it s still good.


Input: they do that whole thing where you sandwich the pepperoni between layers of cheese for + 32 delicious.


Input: anyways, the mezza luna: you should try it.


Input: it runs you about 4 bucks and it deals crushing blows to hunger.


Input: ** Edit: Living on campus at Clarkson University, I have had food delivered before.

Clarkson University


Input: This was back between'05 and'09 and I don't remember how many times we've had it delivered.


Input: Perhaps they don't deliver anymore, but the deliciousness of a mezza luna certainly warrants a pickup.


Input: Great Job


Input: I want to say that Mike did a great job for our family in our time of need.

Mike


Input: Both my grandparents passed away 4 months apart and Mike was very understanding.

Mike


Input: It was a very trying time for my family and myself yet Mike took the time to greet each and every one one of us.

Mike


Input: He is very professional in his position as a director and yet he still made time to be compassionate for what we were all going through.


Input: I'm sure it s not every day that a funeral director sees the same family in such a short time.


Input: My grandfather passed away silently in his sleep, and my grandmother passed away after a short struggle with cancer.


Input: Both my grandparents looked as natural as could be expected.


Input: Thank you Mike for all your help professionally and personally.

Mike


Input: The Peterson Family

Peterson


Input: The Best Deals in Town


Input: Before you buy ANYTHING in NY, make sure you stop by Jack -s first.

NY

Jack -s


Input: Their selection is random, so what they have on a given week might never be available again at the store.


Input: I love it for discounted beauty items and household appliances.


Input: Trust me, you go there once and you -ll always go back!


Input: Don't Expect Sleep or Courtesy


Input: I was booked for 2 nights at this hotel in Oct 2007.


Input: At 3:15 am on night #2, the fire alarm and strobe light activated in my room.


Input: These are not household type alarms.


Input: When they sound off, it is a true audio/visual experience.


Input: I called the front desk and got no answer.


Input: After checking for signs of fire or smoke and seeing none, I decided to just pack up and leave.


Input: The desk agent actually argued with me, claiming that no such alarm had gone off (as if I would make that up?).


Input: He finally admitted that only the 4 ADA room alarms had sounded, so only 4 guests were effected (no big deal to him).


Input: This little drip offered no apologies whatsoever, and even refused to give me the name of the manager until I pressed him for it 3 times.


Input: This hotel is adequate enough, but there is an obvious problem with the staff and management.


Input: Do not go there if you expect to sleep through the night.


Input: The best in the area!


Input: I've been to quite a few tattoo shops around this area and Stainless Steel is by far the best.

Stainless Steel


Input: I am very pleased with the tattoos that I revived from them.


Input: The artwork is excellent and the prices are very reasonable.


Input: I would recommend this shop to anyone looking to get a tattoo.


Input: Rude service


Input: even though I have never tried hoa salon but I agree with other reviewers that they are rude.

hoa salon


Input: I called and asked about the price for hair updo and the receptionist or owner who aswered the phone refused to tell me, or even just give me an approximate price range.


Input: He told us to stop by the salon and then he will tell us the price.


Input: What kind of rude service is that?


Input: I don't want to waste my time with them.


Input: This is one of the worst places I have stayed, we cut out stay short and went to the Mulberry.

the Mulberry


Input: Even though they still charge you the days you booked but won't use, it is worth the get the hell out of this crap hole.


Input: The whole experience shows a hotel managed by what must be a 2 star hotel manager.


Input: Bad service starting from the front desk.


Input: The best person is the valet.


Input: Short of that, avoid this place, as a silver Marriott member, this is a disgrace.

Marriott


Input: Range Rover Sport Window Tints


Input: Mark at Tintman Nationwide tints Ltd, did a very Professional job very quick, no fuss, deliverd the car to me and I drove him back home, Great arrangement Great price !!

Mark

Tintman Nationwide tints Ltd


Input: Highly recommended !!


Input: Thanks Mark.

Mark


Input: Steve .... proud Range Rover Sport owner (with rear tints)


Input: Another great business bites the dust!


Input: The best cakes EVER!


Input: A bit pricey, so I didn't go very often, but it was always a treat when I did.


Input: The prices were worth what I got.


Input: I'm assuming they are completely out of business since I can't find any contact information.


Input: I'm hoping the bakers continue to do their baking out of another place, because it would be a shame not to have these cakes any longer.


Input: You've Got Maids did a fabulous job cleaning my home.

You've Got Maids


Input: I am hiring them to come once a week now that they got my house to where they can maintain it for only an hour and a half every two weeks!


Input: Satisfactory for sure with the sercvice!


Input: Beats having one " cleaning lady " who took twice as long and did not do a very through job like the " maids " did!


Input: Poor Service


Input: Run don't walk.


Input: My experience with Home Delivery Service has been one of disappointment and anger.

Home Delivery Service


Input: If I could give them a lower rating than poor I would.


Input: On August 21st, 2009 I ordered furniture from Hickory Furniture Mart and contracted for HDS to deliver it.

Hickory Furniture Mart

HDS


Input: After seventeen days the delivery van showed up at my home minus two pieces.


Input: I was later told they had been left at the warehouse and some future date they would be delivered.


Input: No one will give me a date.


Input: I spent $2300 on the bedroom suite, which was complete and excellent condition on the showroom floor.


Input: Upon delivery it was clear the entire set was damaged: a piece of wood was broke on the headboard; the chest of drawers was missing all four pieces necessary to attach the legs; the dresser back legs were pushed in causing the dresser to lean into the wall; and a nighstand was missing a drawer.


Input: How do you lose a drawer.


Input: After complaining on September 10th to National Home Furnishings, Boyles, the Hickory Furniture Mart and Home Delivery Service the latter finally called me back and said they would be up to pick the dresser and chest of drawers at some future point and at some later point it would be professional repaired and at some later point it would be returned.

National Home Furnishings

Hickory Furniture Mart

Home Delivery Service

Boyles


Input: The customer service at Home Delivery Service was terrible let alone their promise to proper set up furniture.

Home Delivery Service


Input: So I am in limbo regarding a bedroom suite.


Input: I hope the owners and employees of this store have broken bedroom suites in their homes and furniture sitting in someone's warehouse.


Input: Maybe then they will begin to understand poor customer service and terrible sit up service.


Input: Our Wedding 11/7/08


Input: We just had our wedding on 11/7/08 and was very impressed.


Input: Cj and company did all that we ask and 10 times more.

Cj


Input: The food was out standing.


Input: If you need a cater that is affordable and easy to work with they are the ones.


Input: Thanks again Saucey's.

Saucey's


Input: Mark

Mark


Input: Best Store In Boothbay Harbor

Boothbay Harbor


Input: What a fantastic store, I love this place.


Input: Not the same old stuff that all the other stores have.


Input: Their items are very unique, great quality, great prices.


Input: They also have the best tea I ever had, not at all like the junk you get at the grocery stores, I stock up when ever there because they are closed in the winter.


Input: I found Bright Star Tours and Travels and Best and Affordable Tour Operators and Tours Agents in Chennai, India offered me Student Tour India Package for very less price.

Bright Star Tours and Travels

Chennai

India

India


Input: I enjoyed my tour and i am looking for adventure tour and India heritage tours for valuable.

India


Input: Thanks for Bright Star Tours.

Bright Star Tours


Input: HORRIBLE


Input: This school is the worst one i've ever been to.


Input: I attended it for 2 years, and that was enough.


Input: There's holes everywhere in the ceiling, sewage constantly leaks through the ceiling, and the whole condition of the school is horrible.


Input: The staff and the Principal are rediculous, they don't listen to any input, and they make up rediculous rules (They banned backpacks, because a teacher TRIPPED OVER a student's).


Input: The education is horrible at best, do society a favor, and do NOT send your student here.


Input: I've only had good experiences at Adorn, I was greeted and offered a refreshment.

Adorn


Input: I highly recommend Debi, she does an amazing job, I " love " the way she cuts my hair, extremely thorough and cross checks her work to make sure my hair is perfect.

Debi


Input: I always leave loving my hair style.


Input: Good Pizza at a good price


Input: I just moved nearby and have tried several of the local places, this was the first one and I should have just stuck with it.


Input: The pizza is usually pretty good, the only bad one we got was on a Friday night and it just needed to be cooked a little more, but it was still good.


Input: Their BBQ chicken pizza is one of the better ones I have ever had.


Input: Best Stationery store in Bethesda

Bethesda


Input: Papeluna, a cute Mom/Pop custom printing and paper store, just opened a few days ago.

Papeluna


Input: It is right on the hustle and bustle of Wisconsin Ave but some might miss it as it is nestled in between Subway Sandwiches and Modell's.

Wisconsin Ave

Subway Sandwiches

Modell's


Input: I popped in after my afternoon pumpkin spice latte break at Starbucks.

Starbucks


Input: It's an adorable little store filled with lots of stationery goodness.


Input: Cards, wrapping paper, paper, and an area to sit down and talk with someone to design your own invitations or for whatever else your custom printing needs may be.


Input: I gave the woman I spoke with today a " You've been yelped! " card to let her know that Yelp may be a good tool for helping spreading the word about Papeluna.

Papeluna


Input: I ended up buying a birthday card and would probably come back for more.


Input: printing, printing, copies, printing, copies, printing,


Input: Baffled by the one-star reviews


Input: I don't get it.


Input: This place is awesome, with a great ambiance and cool décor, and the food is scrumptious (and especially their signature banana split).


Input: Sure, some items are a little pricey, but c'm on ... have you ever been out to eat in Seattle before?

Seattle


Input: The BEST


Input: Dr. Aster and her team have been a strong advocate in the health of both my daughters.

Aster


Input: Dr. Aster is very kind an gentle with the children, but also positive and to the point with the parents.

Aster


Input: She is and excellent doctor to have on one's team.


Input: Even though I live pretty far from her office I still make the trip so my daughters will have the BEST!


Input: Highly Recommended