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Dunkleosteus was a genus of armored fish called placoderms that lived during the Devonian Period, from about 370 to 360 million years ago. Well-preserved specimens have been discovered in Morocco, Belgium, Poland, and North America.

Dunkleosteus was probably the top predator in the Devonian seas, reaching lengths of over twenty feet and weighing several tons. Due to its weight, it is unlikely that it was a very fast or maneuverable swimmer, but was capable of taking down even the largest prey items. It boasted an extremely powerful jaw with two pointed plates at the front of the mandibles that worked like a giant chopping block in the absence of teeth. It might have actually been one of the first jawed fish, demonstrating the success that particular evolutionary adaptation had on marine ecosystems. Studies made by the University of Chicago concluded that dunkleosteus had the most powerful bite of any known fish, capable of exerting several thousand pounds per square inch of force. This study took into account the size and shape of the skull and jaws and the musculature that would be needed to move them. This places it on par with other animals with an extremely powerful bite, such as dinosaur therapods, crocodiles, and hyenas. A more recent study conducted by U.S. researchers in 2006 concluded that a lower figure of 1100 pounds per square inch in the jaw was more likely. This still pales the bite strength of hyenas which exert 500 pounds per square inch while crushing bones in their mouth. However, figures for the pressure capability at the tip of the jaw, at the flat slicing plates are as high as 22,000 pounds per square inch!

Due to its size and metabolic requirements, the Dunkleosteus would need to consume copious amounts of feed. Evidence for its large appetite exist in the fossil record, where bones of fish and sharks have been found in the digestive cavity of the gigantic armored fish. Also, it seems possible that dunkleosteus would regurgitate semi-digested remains of its food in order to avoid digesting bone and other tough matter. These fragmentary remains have been found near preserved skeletons of the placoderm. The dunkleosteus and other placoderms are also unique in that they may have been the animals that physically mated as male and female. This technique is used primarily by sharks today in marine environments, while traditional fish fertilize eggs by moving over them and depositing sperm.

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FAIRFIELD —- Repairs to two broken water mains in the Bronson and Sturges roads neighborhood took more than eight hours Tuesday before service was fully restored.

“Show Boat” has carried with it enormous demands for any theater company. Its multilayered story depicts the life of entertainers onboard a Mississippi riverboat from 1887 to 1927. In addition to replicating a riverboat, “Show Boat” usually requires a cast of about 50 and an orchestra of about 28. As a result only about a half-dozen theater companies tackled the show in 2008 in the United States.

The Signature’s “Show Boat” is more indicative of 2009 economic frugality than Jazz Age excess.

Eric Schaeffer, the Signature’s artistic director and the director of this “Show Boat,” petitioned the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization and the heirs of Edna Ferber (author of the 1926 novel) to allow the Signature to reconceive the show for a more intimate space and to have Jonathan Tunick reorchestrate the score for 15 musicians.

“I thought it was something that was ready to be explored,” Mr. Schaeffer said. “There are great characters, and we wanted to bring them to the forefront. I proposed a breakdown of how to do it with 24 people and showed them how parts could double.”

This chamber version of the musical by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II is only the latest experiment onstage and on film since it landed on Broadway in 1927. “Show Boat” is often regarded as the first dramatic Broadway musical, escalating the art form to more than just light operetta or a frivolous depiction of hokey Americana. Its themes of racial injustice and interracial marriage influenced musicals to come, particularly those on which Hammerstein collaborated with Richard Rodgers years later, including “South Pacific” and “Carousel.”

The Signature production combines elements from three versions of the show: the original, the 1946 Broadway revival (which the Signature’s most resembles) and a 2005 version performed by the Bern Opera in Switzerland that included “everything that had ever been written for ‘Show Boat,’ ” Mr. Schaeffer said. The Signature re-established the songs “Queenie’s Ballyhoo” and the entire “Mis’ry Comin’ Aroun’,” which had been cut from the original. Dialogue between the black couple Queenie and Joe (who sings “Ol’ Man River”) was returned, as were two scenes of dialogue between Cap’n Andy and Parthy (the proprietors of the Cotton Blossom riverboat).

This is considerably different from the one mounted on Broadway in 1994. That hugely popular and expensive production, which began in Toronto in 1993 and toured the United States and abroad, is the version with which most contemporary theatergoers are familiar (in addition to the 1951 Technicolor film, which also took many liberties with the original). The Broadway revival tightened the book, added plenty of choreography by Susan Stroman, a song (“I Have the Room Above Her”) from the 1936 film, and gave the song “Why Do I Love You” to Parthy (originally a love duet for Gaylord and Magnolia, the romantic leads).

For Julie Gilbert, grandniece of Ms. Ferber and trustee of the Edna Ferber estate (and named for a pivotal character, Julie, in “Show Boat”), the Signature Theater version is a return to the show’s roots — and to her great-aunt’s story.

“With other productions there are always so many bales of hay and extras coming to greet the boat,” Ms. Gilbert said. “There’s plenty to dazzle the eye in those productions, but the Signature is taking another look at what makes it great instead of letting the dressing be the satisfaction. It’s a more disturbing piece.”

This approach “Show Boat” is potentially ideal for the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization, which is the licensing agent for the musical.

“ ‘Show Boat’ has been called the most brilliant four-and-a-half-hour musical ever written,” said Ted Chapin, president of the organization. “The trouble is when you try to make it three hours or less. The idea of having a more manageable ‘Show Boat’ is attractive. But there are emotions in ‘Show Boat’ that must be attended to. One of the things you have to be careful of in small spaces is that the music is being honored. But we know the music is being taken care of with Jonathan Tunick reorchestrating.”

The Signature’s “Show Boat” has received mixed reviews, with some critics faulting the pared-down presentation and somewhat placid staging, given its lack of big musical numbers. This idea of minimizing shows, made almost trendy by the 2005 Broadway revival of “Sweeney Todd,” has its naysayers.

“We keep hearing that down-sized productions reveal a musical’s core content, as if theatergoing were an anatomy lesson,” said Ethan Mordden, author of several books on musical theater, including the 2008 biography “Ziegfeld: The Man Who Invented Show Business.” “In fact these works were conceived to be big and busy, to fill the eye and ear. Without casting, design, choreography and orchestration on the grand scale, the shows aren’t tightened but diminished.”

Ms. Gilbert feels that “Show Boat” must be embraced in its newest incarnation.

“We don’t want ‘Show Boat’ to be extinct. We don’t want it to be a big old boat that floats out there in history,” she said. “It would be a shame if it were to die. The object of the exercise is how to find a supple way to present this and have theater companies and audiences be able to afford it.”

This sense of scale — and of tweaking what was originally there — has always been part of the “Show Boat” mystique, beginning with its unlikely first producer.

“You have to realize that Florenz Ziegfeld produced the original ‘Show Boat,’ and Hammerstein feared that Ziegfeld would cut out all of the substance and leave in only the showgirls,” Mr. Schaeffer said. “The opening night curtain fell and nobody applauded. Ziegfeld thought he was doomed until the next day when the critics raved.”

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Hinduism personifies Gaṅgā as a mother goddess and the Hindus worship the river Ganges or Gaṅgā as Mā Gaṅgā. Bathing is considered especially auspicious and is believed to cleanse all sins and impart all-round happiness. Immersion of the ashes of near and dear ones in Gaṅgā is also highly meritorious, as it is believed that the ashes go to heaven. Hindus perform aartis with lighted lamps on the banks of the Gaṅgā. Puja is done with a small clay lamp, lighted and placed on a leaf that is left to float on the waters of Gaṅgā. Hindus and other devotees, with reverence and faith, always take refuge in Gaṅgā.

With the blessings of Mā Gaṅgā, Hindus attain the four Purusharthas (aims) of life, namely, Dharma (righteousness), Artha (wealth), Kama (pleasure), and Moksha (liberation) during the four stages of life, namely, Brahmacharaya (celibate), Grihasta (householder), Vanaprastha (forest dweller), and Sanyasa (ascetic).

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“I didn't realise that what I was gonna say was gonna create so much heat!” Wonder quipped as he resumed his speech.

Less than a minute later, however, UN security officials interrupted and ordered Wonder, Ban Ki-moon, the UN Secretary-General and more than 100 others in the conference room to leave.

Since only the three basement levels were affected, the two VIPs were taken upstairs to a previously scheduled press conference on Wonder's new UN role. The rest of the audience was taken outside the building, but they returned about 15 minutes later when the all-clear was given.

Marie Okabe, a UN spokesman, said the alarm was triggered by smoke from construction work in the second basement level. “There was no damage reported and no fire,” she said.

Mr Ban chose the International Day of Persons with Disabilities to introduce Wonder, who has won 25 Grammy Awards, as the 11th UN Messenger of Peace.

He joins a list of notable figures - including Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel, actor Michael Douglas, primate expert Jane Goodall and conductor Daniel Barenboim - who use their prominent positions to promote the UN and help the less fortunate.

The secretary-general said he selected Wonder to be a peace envoy focusing on the disabled not just because he is a global musical star but because “he is a great humanitarian and activist.”

Ban cited Wonder's campaigns against apartheid in South Africa and hunger in Ethiopia, his benefit concerts for children and families in need, and his long years of work on behalf of the disabled.

CHICAGO, Dec. 10 /PRNewswire/ —

WHAT: As part of the second-annual Subaru “Share the Love Event”, which runs from November 21, 2009 - January 4, 2010, Subaru will host the ASPCA and National Wildlife Federation at Navy Pier during Winter WonderFest. ASPCA will be on location with an expert behaviorist on Friday, December 11, who will answer any questions visitors may have regarding their pet's behavior. Also, on Saturday, December 12, guests to Navy Pier will be able to check out a Screech Owl presented by the National Wildlife Federation. The 2010 Subaru Outback, Legacy and Forester will also be on display during the duration of 'Winter WonderFest'.

The Subaru Share the Love Event “”is a way for the company to give back to charities in need. Subaru will donate $250 for every new Subaru vehicle sold or leased to the customer's choice of one of the following five charities: The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), Meals On Wheels Association of America, Habitat for Humanity, National Wildlife Federation (NWF) and Boys & Girls Clubs of America.

(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080325/SUBARULOGO )

WHO: Subaru of America, Inc., ASPCA, and National Wildlife Federation

WHEN: ASPCA: Friday, December 11, 2009
11:00 AM - 6:00 PM

NWF: Saturday, December 12, 2009 Sunday, December 13, 2009
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

WHERE: Navy Pier
600 E. Grand Ave
Chicago, Ill.
(312) 595-7437

About Subaru of America, Inc.

Subaru of America, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. of Japan. Headquartered in Cherry Hill, N.J., the company markets and distributes Subaru Symmetrical All-Wheel Drive vehicles, parts and accessories through a network of approximately 600 dealers across the United States. In addition, Subaru boasts the most fuel efficient line-up of all-wheel drive products sold in the market today based on Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) fuel economy standards. All Subaru products are manufactured in zero- landfill production plants and Subaru of Indiana Automotive Inc. is the only U.S. automobile production plant to be designated a backyard wildlife habitat by the National Wildlife Federation. For additional information visit www.subaru.com.

About ASPCA

Founded in 1866, the ASPCA® (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®) is the first humane organization established in the Americas and serves as the nation's leading voice for animal welfare. One million supporters strong, the ASPCA's mission is to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the United States. As a 501 not-for-profit corporation, the ASPCA is a national leader in the areas of anti-cruelty, community outreach and animal health services. The ASPCA, which is headquartered in New York City, offers a wide range of programs, including a mobile clinic outreach initiative, its own humane law enforcement team, and a groundbreaking veterinary forensics team and mobile animal CSI unit. For more information, please visit www.aspca.org.

About National Wildlife Federation

National Wildlife Federation® (NWF) is America's conservation and education organization, inspiring Americans to protect wildlife for our children's future.

For more information contact: Heather Ward (856) 488-5093 or hward@subaru.com

Ryan Johnson (856) 488-3439 or rjoh@subaru.com

SOURCE Subaru of America, Inc.

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“Where is Chuck Norris,” you ask? He's probably off someplace enjoying some Chuck Norris jokes. “But where is he geographically,” you ask? Here's my best guess: He's at home, at the Chuck Norris Ranch.

Where Does Chuck Norris Live?

Chuck Norris lives at the appropriately named “Norris Ranch” near Navasota, in Grimes County, Texas. It is officially called “Lone Wolf Ranch,” after the action hero Lone Wolf McQuade. Source: Jason George, 'Huck and Chuck' star in fundraiser for the ages, Chicago Tribune, January 21, 2008, available at http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2008/jan/21/news/chi-mxa0121_norrisjan21.

You can see the exact location here, on wikimapia. Navasota is about 74 miles to the northwest of Houston. It is kind of in the middle of nowhere, but that's how Chuck Norris likes it.

During the 2008 Presidential election, Chuck Norris held a rally for Republican candidate Mike Huckabee at the Norris Ranch. At that time, it was reported that, “The Norrises also own homes in Dallas and Northern California but plan to make Grimes County more of a permanent residence…” Source: Craig Kapitan, Norris a Huckabee Fan, theeagle.com, January 21, 2008, available at http://www.theeagle.com/local/Norris_a_Huckabee_fan.

What is the Norris Ranch (aka Lone Wolf Ranch) Like?

The ranch Chuck Norris lives in is a lot like Chuck himself. It is rugged, unique, and a massive demonstration of martial arts and action hero paraphernalia.

The Chicago Tribune reported the following interesting facts about Lone Wolf Ranch:

1. A warning sign outside the house says, “We don't dial 911.”

2. The ranch includes a 2,000-square-foot gym.

3. When questioned, Gina Norris, Chuck's wife, was not sure how many buildings are on the property.

Source: Jason George, 'Huck and Chuck' star in fundraiser for the ages, Chicago Tribune, January 21, 2008, available at http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2008/jan/21/news/chi-mxa0121_norrisjan21.

Can I visit Lone Wolf Ranch?

You probably cannot drop by for a quick tour of Norris Ranch. During the 2008 Presidential election, however, donors who gave $15 or more to the Huckabee campaign were allowed to take a virtual on-line tour of Lone Wolf Ranch. Source: Norris Opens Ranch for Huckabee, Virtual Viewers, KBTX News, January 20, 2008, available at http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2008/jan/21/news/chi-mxa0121_norrisjan21.http://www.kbtx.com/news/headlines/13938242.html

I'm going to recommend that you not sneak onto the Chuck Norris property. If you do, be prepared for a roundhouse kick to the head.

Sources:

Craig Kapitan, Norris a Huckabee Fan, theeagle.com, January 21, 2008, available at http://www.theeagle.com/local/Norris_a_Huckabee_fan.

Jason George, 'Huck and Chuck' star in fundraiser for the ages, Chicago Tribune, January 21, 2008, available at

Norris Opens Ranch for Huckabee, Virtual Viewers, KBTX News, January 20, 2008, available at http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2008/jan/21/news/chi-mxa0121_norrisjan21.http://www.kbtx.com/news/headlines/13938242.html

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This soft-toned drama about three aging friends in Southern California stars Ray Romano (“Everybody Loves Raymond”), who also helped create it. It has the feel of a bittersweet French film of the 1970s and 1980s, the kind in which members of the Left Bank bourgeoisie grapple with midlife disappointment. (A classic of the genre was “Vincent, François, Paul … et les Autres,” from 1974, starring Yves Montand, Michel Piccoli and Serge Reggiani.)

“Men of a Certain Age” is not violent, exciting or fast paced, but the series has a quiet charm of its own: it is a believable, sharply observed portrait of ordinary men who, through all-too-common bad breaks and missteps, feel that they are backsliding.

The three lead actors, on the other hand, are on top of their games playing losers.

Mr. Romano is Joe, the owner of a party-supply store, with two kids and a gambling addiction that helped end his marriage to Sonia (Penelope Ann Miller). Andre Braugher (“Homicide: Life on the Street,” “Gideon’s Trumpet”) is Owen, happily married with three children but frustrated to be working as a salesman in his disapproving father’s car dealership. Scott Bakula (”Quantum Leap”) is Terry, an aging playboy and failed actor who works as a temp.

It’s not too depressing, because it is funny, but it’s not really a comedy.

David E. Kelley also tried to explore the nuances of male discontent in a 2003 CBS drama, “The Brotherhood of Poland, N.H.,” but that experiment failed. This series about men exploring their feelings landed on TNT, a cable network that has become a platform for heroines who prefer to keep their feelings to themselves. And that too is oddly appropriate.

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It’s a show that would have no place on FX, which prefers to paint the masculine condition in macho extremes, where comedy is “The League,” a raunchy series about suburban men obsessed with fantasy football, and drama is “Sons of Anarchy,” about an outlaw motorcycle gang in Southern California. FX serves up portraits of men as they wish to be seen; TNT is showing men as they appear to the women who love them — but also leave them.

Mr. Romano is recognizable in this role. Joe is what would happen to sitcom Raymond if his wife left him, his parents died, and he started to hate his job.

Owen too is a sitcom dad without a laugh track. He’s a grumpy father to kids who don’t listen and a cranky husband to a calm, competent, good-looking wife who loves him, sleep apnea and all. Owen has reason to be disgruntled: he is humiliated at work by his father but can’t afford to seek another job, so he aggravates his diabetes by drinking and overeating.

Both Owen and Joe still envy Terry’s lithe good looks and charm with the ladies. Waiting in the car for Terry to emerge with his latest young conquest, Owen asks Joe, “Would you say you hate him more now or back when we were in college?”

But Terry’s life is hardly enviable. His hair is thinning and so is his résumé. He has to force himself to go to cattle-call auditions and is often the oldest one in the waiting room.

Joe, Owen and Terry see each other almost every day, over breakfast in a diner or — to Owen’s chagrin — for a healthy hike around the reservoir, and skirt the only subject Joe really wants to talk about: why Sonia left him. His pals assure Joe that he is happier as a single man, free to chase girls and stay out late; he pretends to agree, though he mostly stays in his undershirt in his hotel room, scanning the television and placing bets. Joe won’t disclose his deep loneliness and depression to his two oldest friends and forms a bond with an eccentric bookie instead.

Television loves women in threes and fours; the heroines of “The Golden Girls,” “Sex and the City” and “Grey’s Anatomy” are best friends who share every detail of their lives, and meddle without qualms or invitation. These are three best friends who don’t tell one another everything, pals who help one another out by staying out of one another’s business.

“Men of a Certain Age” is an intimate, womanly look at male bonding and better for its contradictions.

I took some ribbing from some female associates when I reviewed The Good Wife earlier this season and said the show turned out to be much, much better than I thought it would be. My low expectations were as much about the fact that it was a courtroom procedural as about its chick-centricity, but fair enough.

In the interest of equal time, then, let me also say that I had similarly low expectations for TNT's dramedy Men of a Certain Age. Partly that's because I usually find TV's efforts to build shows around male bonding and “what men talk about today” (Love Monkey, Big Shots, BBC's Manchild) to be heavyhanded or disappointing. (An exception is Entourage, which worked by keeping its thoughts on the cars-and-girls level.) And I wasn't sold on Ray Romano as a (semi-) serious actor either. But on both counts, the charming, low-key Men beat my admittedly low expectations.

Romano co-created the show as a buddy story about three guys pushing 50, comfortable enough but aware of creeping disappointments. Romano is Joe, a recently separated party-store owner with a gambling problem. Andre Braugher is Owen, a family man under heavy pressure at a car dealership owned by his ball-busting dad. And Scott Bakula is Terry, a once-mildly-successful actor who's coasted through life and is now what you would call a cougar, if anybody called men cougars.

The show couldn't have come along at a better time. While it doesn't do much to overtly tie in to current events, it comes during a recession in which job losses have been especially high among men in general, and its characters' demo, in their supposedly alpha years, are particularly beset. This plays out in the storylines involving Owen, chafing under his dad's unappreciative glare and feeling the mortgage weighing on his back. At one point he confides to his wife that he wants to quit his high-stress job, and she does what good TV spouses are supposed to do: says that he should do what makes him happy. Then she catches herself, realizes they have kids to put through school, mountains of bills and obligations that pretty much require a long slog of income-generation through retirement. Sorry, she tells him cheerfully, lovingly but no-nonsense: you just have to suck it up and work.

The kind of midlife-crisis material that Men deals with risks coming off maudlin, depressing or (see again Big Shots) creepy. But Men handles it, as in that scene with Owen, with deft, quirky humor and by upsetting dramatic clichés. Most of all, it keeps from getting bogged down in the big questions of life and mortality by keeping its focus small: the stories are about small moments, and the hours padded out by natural, well-written jawboning among the three men. (Though I did find myself wondering where they managed to get so much time to kill sitting around diner booths and cracking jokes. Maybe that happens when your kids are older.)

Romano is the biggest surprise of the group, bringing real credibility to Joe, who's kind of a separated, less successful and more realistic Ray Barone: genial but hangdog, trying to connect with his teen son and wade back into the dating pool. (One well-executed early episode consists almost entirely of his relating a disastrous date to his two buddies in flashback form.) But Braugher, known largely for heavy drama roles, is an almost equal surprise doing comedy as the grumpy, put-upon Owen. Meanwhile Bakula—who I will admit has never impressed me a lot in anything previously—brings a melancholy charm to Terry, who has gotten through life on his good looks and charm but is starting to question whether all that's enough.

None of it adds up to smashing new revelations or grand statements, but that's probably why Men works as well as it does. It's an insightful, easy-to-like, low-stakes character dramedy about men coming to terms with their limits. A story for an era of lower expectations, Men of a Certain Age meets its own diminished ones, and surpasses them.

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Now that the Joomla Developer Conference is over, I'm taking a bit of time to slow down and work on a few things and catch up on sleep. Curiously enough after shifting between time zones (from Brisbane to Seattle to New York ) I think I just switched back to Brisbane time even though I'm still in New York (yes, I slept all day!).

So in my last blog I covered a bit of my last week and a half of Joomla! conference travels. I was sitting in the middle of Microsoft's Web Developer Summit at the time which turned out on the whole to be an interesting event.

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Bogus offers such as "Easy Cash with Google" and "Use Google to Make 1000s of Dollars!" has led the company to take a number of measures.

Google has filed a lawsuit against Pacific WebWorks and several other unnamed defendants for using its name in questionable money schemes.

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I have no clue what I am doing writing this article. It's like an experiment I guess. It is 1.09am, way past mid-night and I have decided to write this random article- no research no nothing. Just putting down a few thoughts before I hit the bed.. Zzz…

I am not too sure why I can't sleep. One of those nights I guess.. I am sure you all have been there, done that. Times when you are exhausted, yet for some strange reason you cannot sleep. Perhaps something in our sub-conscious keeps us awake? Perhaps..

I was thinking about a few things today. I was reading about same sex marriage in a news article. It upsets me that people are so intolerant. I am pro same sex marriages.

I don't get it really. Religion gets dragged into everything. It's cool for everyone to have their own set of beliefs. Why does one person's belief system have to be better than another person's? Why is same sex marriage “not OK” to many? What is so “unethical” about same sex marriage?

Also, someone please help me understand this. Those who are religious, have faith in God. They believe that God created everything. So God created homos, bi, heteros, transvestites and so on, yeah? Then how can you be against the will of God?? I have never understood this part of it. So I think that people who are religious should be even more in favor of gay rights! They should be pro same sex marriage for sure. After all God made us all.

I am super duper straight and if I were homo, I would definitely not be ashamed of it in anyway. But I had to make this point and support same sex marriage. And right now since I am rambling on, I decided to go on and GO for it! LOL

I hope I don't offend anyone, but these are my thoughts. I am and shall always be in support of love and same sex marriage.

I have a tendency to analyze things a little too much and though this article did not impact me directly, a very dear friend of mine is Gay and I had to speak up.

Oh well, I am done for now. I would be surprised if this article got even 2 views. But I did what I had to. If you did get here and read all of this, thanks for hearing out this crazy sleepless girl and her same sex marriage views. *Wink*

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