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Yooooo! wow its been so long@ yea i have such a heavy schedule its not even funny. i miss talking to you! oh and good news! ok so i know i told you how my parents forced me to play football right? well baseball season is coming up and guess who chose to be part of the baseball team? mmeeeee!m y mom doesnt want me to do tryouts for it but she can go fall in a ditch :)
im glad im trying out for it. lets hope i make the team. wish me luck!

Much Love
-Mike

Dog droppings are one of the leading sources of E. coli (fecal coliforms) bacterial pollution: One gram of dog feces contains over 20,000,000 E. coli cells.² While an individual animal’s deposit of feces will not measurably affect the environment, the cumulative effect of thousands of dogs and cats in a metropolitan area can create serious problems due to contamination of soil and water supplies. The runoff from neglected pet waste contaminates water, creating health hazards for people, fish, ducks, etc.³
The situation is particularly dire[citation needed] in Germany, where an estimated 1400 tonnes of feces are deposited daily on public property. A citizen commission (2005) overwhelmingly recommended a plan that would break even at about seven months. DNA samples would be required when pet licenses come up for renewal. Within a year, a database of some 12,500 registration-required canine residents would be available to sanitation workers with sample-test kits. Evidence would be submitted to a forensics laboratory where technicians could readily match the waste to its dog. The prospect of a prompt fine equivalent to $600 US (at 2005 exchange rate) would help assure preventive compliance, as well as cover costs.⁴

Ward Cunningham and co-author Bo Leuf, in their book The Wiki Way: Quick Collaboration on the Web, described the essence of the Wiki concept as follows:
A wiki invites all users to edit any page or to create new pages within the wiki Web site, using only a plain-vanilla Web browser without any extra add-ons.
Wiki promotes meaningful topic associations between different pages by making page link creation almost intuitively easy and showing whether an intended target page exists or not.
A wiki is not a carefully crafted site for casual visitors. Instead, it seeks to involve the visitor in an ongoing process of creation and collaboration that constantly changes the Web site landscape.
A wiki enables communities to write documents collaboratively, using a simple markup language and a web browser. A single page in a wiki website is referred to as a “wiki page”, while the entire collection of pages, which are usually well interconnected by hyperlinks, is “the wiki”. A wiki is essentially a database for creating, browsing, and searching through information. A wiki allows for non-linear, evolving, complex and networked text, argument and interaction.¹²
A defining characteristic of wiki technology is the ease with which pages can be created and updated. Generally, there is no review before modifications are accepted. Many wikis are open to alteration by the general public without requiring them to register user accounts. Many edits can be made in real-time and appear almost instantly online. This can facilitate abuse of the system. Private wiki servers require user authentication to edit pages, and sometimes even to read them.
Maged N. Kamel Boulos, Cito Maramba and Steve Wheeler write that it is the “openness of wikis that gives rise to the concept of ‘Darwikinism’, which is a concept that describes the ‘socially Darwinian process’ that wiki pages are subject to. Basically, because of the openness of wikis and the rapidity with which wiki pages can be edited, the pages undergo a natural selection process like that which nature subjects to living organisms. ‘Unfit’ sentences and sections are ruthlessly culled, edited and replaced if they are not considered ‘fit’, which hopefully results in the evolution of a higher quality and more relevant page. Whilst such openness may invite ‘vandalism’ and the posting of untrue information, this same openness also makes it possible to rapidly correct or restore a ‘quality’ wiki page.”¹³
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Disestablishmentarianism today relates to the Church of England in the United Kingdom and related views on its establishment as an established church.
It was primarily a movement in the United Kingdom in the 19th century, when all four Home nations had established churches, even though the established churches in Wales and Ireland could not count on even nominal adherence by a majority of the population of those countries.
In Ireland, the predominantly Catholic population campaigned against the position of the established Anglican Church of Ireland – eventually disestablished in 1869.
In England there was a campaign by Liberals, dissenters and nonconformists to disestablish the Church of England in the late 19th century. The campaigners were called “Liberationists” (the “Liberation Society” was founded by Edward Miall in 1853). This campaign failed, but nearly all of the legal disabilities of nonconformists were gradually dismantled. The campaign for disestablishment was revived in the 20th century when Parliament rejected the 1929 revision of the Book of Common Prayer, leading to calls for separation of Church and State to prevent political interference in matters of worship. In the late 20th century, reform of the House of Lords also brought into question the position of the Lords Spiritual.
The Church of England was disestablished in Wales in 1920, becoming the Church in Wales. It continues to be the established church in England.
The Church of Ireland was disestablished in 1869.
The Church of Scotland was disestablished in 1929 but remains the national church of Scotland.