Paul Werner aka tairnean  buggered out of here in the middle of the night walking out on a lease and over $2,000. he owes Steve. He also STOLE an ax that Steve made. It's all black.  We placed a call to his father and will find him and make sure the landlord and cops deal with him. Stealing stock from steve is a jailable offence.  This is the thanks we get for trying to help someone out. I am gonna place such a hex on him that he'll never be able to break. Karma's a bitch MOTHER FUCKER! Don't
Fuck with a witch!!!!

In general, is it really so hard to say thank you? To be appriecitive of all the things someone does for them? To thank the one who has defended them, taken them from unhealthy situations and give them the chance to get on their feet, stuck up for them, stuck by them, done things for them......little things to show i cared. no.... never a thank you. Just take, take, take.... this is not towards anyone imparticular it's how I feel in gerneral. I put so much of myself out for those around me but yet i continually get shit on, pulled into the middle of personal shit and petty shit and then end up being the one to take the brunt of their fuck up. I get dumped on, ranted at, put in the middle, disrespected, ignored, used, yelled at, threatened and so on.

I'm done being the "Nice Guy" I have nothing left to give to anyone but my family...Steve, Hunter and John. They are the only ones I feel really do love me, apprieciate me, care for me, and don't like how my mental and physical health is going down the toilet due to the unbelievable amount of bullshit I have to deal with on an almost daily basis. I gave at the office, this well has run dry.....there's no more vacancies at the Inn......

Drugs Found in Watersheds of 28 Areas

Published: 3/10/08, 6:25 AM EDT

(AP) - At least one pharmaceutical or byproduct was detected in testing within the watersheds of 28 major metropolitan areas, according to an Associated Press survey of 62 major water providers and data obtained from independent researchers.

Test protocols varied widely. Some researchers tested for more drugs than others. Thirty-five areas said they tested. Four said tests were negative and three said they were awaiting results. Twenty-seven locations said they had not tested watershed supplies.

Here's the list of the 28 areas with pharmaceuticals detected, with the number found and some examples.

Arlington, Texas: 5 (unspecified drugs)

Atlanta: 10 (including caffeine, sulfamethoxazole, diltiazem, acetaminophen, trimethoprim, cotinine and paraxanthine)

Cincinnati: 4 (gemfibrozil, ibuprofen, sulfamethaxazole and ethinyl estradiol)

Columbus, Ohio: 15 (including azithromycin, erythromycin, roxithromycin, tylosin, ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin and caffeine)

Concord, Calif.: (unspecified drugs)

Denver: (unspecified antibiotics)

Detroit: (unspecified total; including carbamazepine, caffeine, cotinine)

Fairfax, Va.: 8 (erythromycin, lincomycin, trimethoprim, tylosin, ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin and sulfamethoxazole)

Indianapolis: 2 (caffeine and cotinine)

Las Vegas: 9 (including sulfamethoxazole, atenolol, trimethoprim, meprobamate, phenytoin, carbamazepine and gemfibrozil)

Long Beach, Calif.: 9 (unspecified drugs)

Los Angeles: 9 (unspecified drugs)

Louisville, Ky.: 2 (ibuprofen and naproxen)

Milwaukee: 1 (cotinine)

Minneapolis: 3 (acetaminophen, caffeine and cotinine)

New York City: 16 (including atenolol, trimethoprim, carbamazepine, ibuprofen, estrogen, acetaminophen and diazepam)

Northern New Jersey: 13 (including acetaminophen, carbamazepine, codeine, dehydronifedipine, erythromycin, lincomycin and sulfadimethoxine)

Oklahoma City: 12 (including acetaminophen, fluoxetine, gemfibrozil, ibuprofen, iopromide, sulfamethoxazole and iopromide)

Omaha, Neb.: 2 (caffeine and sulfamethoxazole)

Philadelphia: 63 (including amoxicillin, aspirin, atorvastatin, bacitracin, diclofenac, phenytoin and fluoxetine)

Prince George's-Montgomery counties, Md.: 3 (caffeine, carbamazepine and cotinine)

Riverside County, Calif.: 9 (unspecified drugs)

San Diego: 12 (clofibrate, clofibric acid, ibuprofen and nine unspecified)

San Francisco: 1 (estrone)

Santa Clara, Calif.: (unspecified drugs)

Southern California: 9 (including atenolol, phenytoin, fluoxetine, gemfibrozil, meprobamate, naproxen and trimethoprim)

Virginia Beach, Va.: 4 (fluoxetine, estradiol, acetaminophen and ibuprofen)

Washington, D.C.: 5 (monensin, ibuprofen, caffeine, carbamazepine and sulfamethoxazole)

 

Saudi Arabia to execute woman for 'witchcraft'

Human rights group appeals to Saudi king to stop execution

The New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a statement that the kingdom's religious police who arrested and interrogated Fawza Falih, and the judges who tried her in the northern town of Quraiyat never gave her the opportunity to prove her innocence in the face of "absurd charges that have no basis in law."

Falih's case underscores shortcomings in Saudi Arabia's Islamic legal system in which rules of evidence are shaky, lawyers are not always present and sentences often depend on the whim of judges.

The most frequent victims are women, who already suffer severe restrictions on daily life in Saudi Arabia: They cannot drive, appear before a judge without a male representative, or travel abroad without a male guardian's permission.

What's the crime?
Witchcraft is considered an offense against Islam in the conservative kingdom.

In Falih's case, the judges who convicted her in April 2006 relied on a coerced confession and on the statements of witnesses who said she had "bewitched" them, according to the group.

Falih retracted her confession in court, claiming it was extracted under duress, and said that as an illiterate woman, she did not understand the document she was forced to fingerprint.

"The fact that Saudi judges still conduct trials for unprovable crimes like 'witchcraft' underscores their inability to carry out objective criminal investigations," said Joe Stork, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch.

There was no immediate comment on the statement from Saudi Arabia, where government offices are closed on Thursdays, the start of the Muslim weekend.

"Fawza Falih's case is an example of how the authorities failed to comply even with existing safeguards in the Saudi justice system," he added.

The Saudi court cited an instance in which a man allegedly became impotent after being bewitched by Falih, the rights group said.

An appeals court ruled in September 2006 that Falih could not be sentenced to death for witchcraft because she had retracted her confession. But a lower court subsequently reissued the death sentence for the benefit of "public interest" and to "protect the creed, souls and property of this country," the group's statement said.

Forced divorce
Human Rights Watch's statement came a day after Yakin Erturk, the U.N. special investigator for violence against women, wrapped up a 10-day visit to Saudi Arabia during which she highlighted another controversial case that has attracted international criticism.

Ertuk met with Fatima and Mansour al-Timani, who were forcibly divorced by the wife's family on grounds she had married someone from a lesser tribe.

The couple learned of the divorce on Feb. 25, 2006, when police knocked on their door to serve Mansour the divorce papers.

At a news conference on Wednesday, Erturk said she met the wife and husband who were in a "terrible state of mind" and that Saudi officials had promised her arrangements would be made for the couple's reunion, according to Saudi newspaper Arab News.

I want to sell everything i own and leave...leave everyone. just take hunter and go live in Hawaii or Fiji. Somewhere where no one would be using me as their personal emotional and mental shit dumpster. Just somewhere where i can be happy with hunter. Somewhere where there are no nasty people who claim to be friends. where I won't be used anymore. Just me and Hunter...far..far..away....

Flowers are red....Harry Chapin (for my son Hunter)

(Spoken)Your son marches to the beat of a different drummer, comma.
(Spoken)But don't worry,
(Spoken)We'll have him joining the parade by the end of the term

The little boy went first day of school
He got some crayons and started to draw
He put colors all over the paper
For colors was what he saw
And the teacher said.. What you doin' young man
I'm paintin' flowers he said
She said... It's not the time for art young man
And anyway flowers are green and red
There's a time for everything young man
And a way it should be done
You've got to show concern for everyone else
For you're not the only one

And she said...
Flowers are red young man
Green leaves are green
There's no need to see flowers any other way
Than they way they always have been seen

But the little boy said...
There are so many colors in the rainbow
So many colors in the morning sun
So many colors in the flower and I see every one

Well the teacher said.. You're sassy
There's ways that things should be
And you'll paint flowers the way they are
So repeat after me.....

And she said...
Flowers are red young man
Green leaves are green
There's no need to see flowers any other way
Than they way they always have been seen

But the little boy said...
There are so many colors in the rainbow
So many colors in the morning sun
So many colors in the flower and I see every one

The teacher put him in a corner
She said.. It's for your own good..
And you won't come out 'til you get it right
And are responding like you should
Well finally he got lonely
Frightened thoughts filled his head
And he went up to the teacher
And this is what he said.. and he said

Flowers are red, green leaves are green
There's no need to see flowers any other way
Than the way they always have been seen

Time went by like it always does
And they moved to another town
And the little boy went to another school
And this is what he found
The teacher there was smilin'
She said...Painting should be fun
And there are so many colors in a flower
So let's use every one

But that little boy painted flowers
In neat rows of green and red
And when the teacher asked him why
This is what he said.. and he said

Flowers are red, green leaves are green
There's no need to see flowers any other way
Than the way they always have been seen.

But there still must be a way to have our children say . . .

There are so many colors in the rainbow
So many colors in the morning sun
So many colors in the flower and I see every one

People With Blue Eyes May All Be Related

If you have blue eyes, you may be related to every other blue-eyed person in the world.

Researchers in Denmark have found that every person with blue eyes descends from just one "founder," an ancestor whose genes mutated 6,000 to 10,000 years ago. Before then, everyone had brown eyes.

Lead scientist Hans Eiberg, a geneticist at Copenhagen University, began in 1973 to study a Danish father with 17 children who carried the gene for both blue and brown eyes. Over time, researchers were able to trace the blue-eyed trait to one specific area near a gene called OCA2. The paper appears in the journal Human Genetics.

Eiberg's team then tested 155 blue-eyed people from Scandinavia, Turkey, Jordan and India, looking to see whether they, too, had similar DNA sequences on that gene. To their amazement, they found that each individual had identical DNA sequences in that region of that gene, an indication that the original mutation happened recently enough that it hasn't had time to change.

Everyone has two genes for eye color, one from their father and one from their mother. Brown eyes are dominant, so even if someone has one blue and one brown-eye gene, he'll still have brown eyes.

That means that the recessive genes for blue eyes can be invisible for generations, with blue-eyed children popping up only when both parents carry at least one blue-eye gene, Eiberg says.

Blue eyes are actually what happens when the human default - brown eyes - is turned off. Brown eyes are caused by the pigment melanin, which also gives color to hair and skin, building up in the eyes. It's why many light-skinned babies are born with blue eyes but gradually develop brown eyes as their body produces melanin in their irises. The blue-eye mutation turned off the gene that produces melanin in the eyes.

When the original mutation occurred, the person who carried it would still have had brown eyes, says Eiberg. But in the generations that followed, a man and a woman who each had one blue-eye gene mated, producing the world's first blue-eyed baby.

Imagine what a surprise that was, Eiberg notes. "If the child was the only one to have blue eye color and everyone else has brown, it could have been very interesting."

T'was the 25th day of Jan 08' , It were a cold snowy night when myself, Captain Mourn Fean Feuerdrachen and my Crew of the Gungeon, First mate Aghx, Earl Monsterrod Von Hugenstein, Lord Captain Darrel McGuinness, Master Gunner Despot, Akasha, and my Cabin boy/girl Liana, arrived at the port of Binghamton NY. We were invited to a Pirate Gathering at Captain Billy Bonecracks place of port. A night of drinking and games of chance with dice and coin. A great time was had by all.

	The next morning on the 26th day of January 08', we set sail west from "Pirate Island"
 on our new rented ship the "Seaweed" towards a grand adventure of treasure and trickery. 
The game afoot was one of collecting port gems in order to win a grand prize of Gold! 
 Our ships would sail from Port to Port and trade or steal these gems.
		Captain Mathias the Red approached me right before we left port with a proposition. 
In exchange for one Gold piece and a meal we would let his ship fly under our command 
for protection. His ship the "Dragon Horde" was a merchant ship and was obviously 
going to be a target for other pirates.
	 Our first place to visit was the place of the "Sea Witch", which was   located in the 
Sawmps near "Kings Port" due west of "Pirate Island".  Travel through the "Triangle" 
was a bit treacherous but we made it threw in one piece. There my First mate 
Aghx Feuerdrachen and Earl Monsterrod Von Hugenstein met and struck a deal with
 her for a charm. This charm would work on any crew of an enemy ship to lose all urge to 
fight with us and just want to eat. Somehow they ended up eating our food instead of 
their own. But we were very well stocked. 
Cost total at "Swamp" port:
Seven Bullion and One barrel of good "red" Rum in trade for 2 port gems and Charm spell.

	
	After our business was finished we sailed back south east onto "Smugglers cove" 
which is the Pirate safe haven. There we replenished our water supply since it were free
 to begin with. While there we offered our service of protection in exchange for all bullion 
accept for one piece. We were also able to work a deal for port gems for all of the crew. 
We stayed and rested for a short while and traded many "Coins of Solomon" to passers by. 
Cost at "Smugglers Cove" port:
Given 30 pieces of Bullion for protection
Three "Coins of Solomon" and one good "Red" barrel of rum in trade for 3 port gems 
per crew member of the "Seaweed"


	We set sail due north back to "Pirate Island" to bank our port gems. 
We also had a hull full of bullion, food and coin. Had to purchase another 
chest to put all bullions in. From there we headed due west again but got 
caught in the "Triangle"  and were attacked  by another ship whose name 
escapes me at this moment. We received 15 points of damage in the fight 
but no crew members lost and  Earl Monsterrod was able to negotiate
 and end the battle with the gift of 3 " Coins of Solomons" to their Captain.
Cost of battle:
Six shot , One keg of Powder, and  3 "Coins of Solomon "
Damage, 15 points, 

	We limped back to the "Swamp" for repairs and received  3 "wild card "
gems in exchange for One "Coin od Solomon" and  One Keg of Rum. 
From there we moved  due southwest to "Kings Port"  and while in transit 
came across another ship in which one of our crew had a transgression with 
one of theirs. We learned that our crew member "Captain Kelp" had taken 
one of their crew members arms. Being fair pirates we promptly chopped off 
 one of Kelps arms and gave it to them  to avoid another battle at Sea. 
Arrived safely in "Kings Port". Did a bit of trading.
Cost at Kins Port: 
Traded  Two Bullion for 14 port gems
One "Coin of Solomon" for a Keg of "Red" Rum.

	Sailed due Southwest towards "Smugglers Port"  Where we once 
again replenished our water and food supply.  We also received our payment 
for protection.
Cost at "Smugglers Port":
Traded Eight Bullion for Five port gems.

	Sailed to "Pirate Island" to bank our gems the sailed back due South 
to "Kings Port" 
Cost at Kings Port":
Given 11 port gems.

	Sailed  back due west to to "Smugglers Island" and ended up getting
 caught in the "Triangle" once again. There we encountered Captain Mathias
 the Red and his ship the "Dragon Horde" It seemed he became trapped 
there. Also while in the "Triangle"  somehow we ended up trading ship with 
yet another crew who was also in snared in the "Triangles" trap.  It was quite 
confusing for a short while there until magickly we were back on our proper 
ship. No damage was taken. From there we continued on to "Smugglers
Island where we again replenished our supplies.
Cost at "Smugglers Point":
Given 11 port gems for 15 Bullion.

	While taking some much needed rest at "Smugglers Point" I got to 
thinking about my friend "Captain Mathias and a way to help him escape 
the clutches of the "Triangle"  We knew our ship had no chance of winning 
this quest, but Captain Mathias had a really good chance. And well, there 
was a Gold piece and a free meal in it for me if he won. So,our crew devised 
a plan to go once again to the "Sea Witch" in the Swamp and ask for her 
help.  First Mate Aghx once again worked the deal needed and our request
 from the "Sea Witch" was given.  He was the best crew member to have 
wheel and deal with the "Sea Witch" because he too was a mystic. There 
were two other ship who had banked much more than our fellow ship so a 
deal was made that a wicked Maelstrom would take out the ships in the lead 
who were near "Pirate Island".
Cost at "Swamp":
The soul of One crew member for the spell of "Maelstrom"

	The Two lead ships just happened to be engaged in a battle between 
hem for first place and great damage was taken on by both ships as they 
fought for the top prize. There were only Four minutes left before the
 deadline of our little adventure ending. We were told by the Witch to roll 
a dice to work the power of the Maelstrom. Suddenly the clouds began
 to turn above  turning the sky dark. The Sea herself began to churn and 
swirl as  First Mate Aghx rolled a 19 and the Sea opened and the Two ships
 battling plus one docked near "Pirate Island" began to get sucked into the 
whirlpool. They tried desperately to beat our roll but came up short. Again 
the roll the dice would determine the outcome of this natural (Magickal  )
 disaster and it was handed to me this time. I took a deep breath. Thought 
of my Friend and Crew and let the dice go. 18! The ships listed and groaned
 as they all fell victim to the Maelstrom and swallowed them down to 
Davy Jones   Locker. Captain Mathias was freed from the "Triangle" 
and was able to bank his gems and win the game!!

Heath Ledger found dead in NYC apartment

28-year-old actor was nominated for Oscar for 'Brokeback Mountain'

NEW YORK - Heath Ledger was found dead Tuesday at a downtown Manhattan residence in a possible drug-related death, police said. He was 28.

According to WNBC, Ledger was found with pills strewn all around him.

NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said Ledger had an appointment for a massage at the Manhattan apartment believed to be his home. The housekeeper, who went to let Ledger know the masseuse was there, found him unconscious at approximately 3:30 p.m. ET, according to the New York Times. After receiving no response from the actor after shaking him, they called authorities.

The Australian-born actor was nominated for an Oscar for "Brokeback Mountain," where he met his wife, actress Michelle Williams, in 2005. Ledger and Williams had lived in Brooklyn and had a daughter, Matilda, until they split up last year.

Ledger was to appear as the Joker this year in "The Dark Night," a sequel to 2005's "Batman Begins." He's had starring roles in "A Knight's Tale" and "The Patriot," and played the suicidal son of Billy Bob Thornton in "Monster's Ball."

Ledger grew up in Perth, and began doing amateur theater at age 10. At 16, he moved to Sydney to pursue an acting career, quickly landing TV movie roles and guest spots on Australian television.

After several independent films and a starring role in the short-lived Fox TV series "Roar," Ledger moved to Los Angeles and costarred in "10 Things I Hate About You," a teen comedy reworking of "The Taming of the Shrew."

Offers for other teen flicks came his way, but Ledger turned them down, preferring to remain idle than sign on for projects he didn't like.

"It wasn't a hard decision for me," Ledger told the Associated Press in 2001. "It was hard for everyone else around me to understand. Agents were like, 'You're crazy,' my parents were like, 'Come on, you have to eat."'

His latest role was in "I'm Not There," in which he played one of the many incarnations of Bob Dylan — as did Cate Blanchett, whose performance in that film earned an Oscar nomination Tuesday for best supporting actress.