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Leather slings will cost between $350 - $500 to get a quality product. The portable Sling Stands also run about the same in price.

I bought mine (sling and stand) on sale and spent $800 ish.

You can watch Ebay and Overstock.com for sales on leather products. For a start you might consider a canvas sling as an option to leather. They are usually about 1/3rd the cost of leather.

(Aug. 21) – Saudi Arabia was urged by a human rights group not to deliberately paralyze a man as punishment for injuries he inflicted during a fight.

Saudi media reports indicate that authorities have contacted several hospitals to ask if they would be able to sever the man's spinal cord. One of the hospitals has indicated it is able to perform the operation.

The authorities are seeking the punishment at the request of the man's victim in the fight. The victim, Abdul-Aziz al-Mutairi, is able to make a request under sharia law, since he himself was left paralyzed by the fight.

Such cases of qisas (retribution) are not unusual in Saudi Arabia. Other sentences that have been passed include gouging a convict's eyes, extracting their teeth and even death sentences as punishment for murder.

To sever the man's spine "amounts to nothing less than torture," Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, Amnesty International's acting director of the Middle East and North Africa Program, said in a statement. "Intentionally paralyzing a man in this way would constitute torture, and be a breach of its international human rights obligations."

The man, whose name has not been public, reportedly stabbed his victim in the back with a large knife in a fight more than two years ago. The injuries he inflicted paralyzed his victim, who later lost a foot as well, BBC News reported.

The retribution punishment proposed would violate the UN Convention against Torture, to which Saudi Arabia is a party, as well as the UN's Principles of Medical Ethics, Amnesty said.

"Under international human rights law, the use of this sentence would constitute a violation of the absolute prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment," the human rights group said.

Though few details of the case are known publicly, it appears that the court has not decided if it will seek to paralyze the man. Instead, it may impose a sentence of flogging, financial compensation or imprisonment.

Still, the victim's family is pushing for a harsher sentence.

"We are asking for our legal right under Islamic law," his brother Khaled said, according to Sky News. "There is no better word than God's word -- an eye for an eye."

Oxford dictionary says no to ‘faboosh’ words like ‘cankle’
Other words denied include ‘tanorexia,’ ‘clickjacking’ and ‘twetiquette’

LONDON — Are you a tanorexic partial to a bit of flashpacking, but hate your cankles?

If you're not lost for words already then you are either ahead of the linguistic curve or privy to the secrets of a little-known vault at the Oxford University Press.

There, filed away and stored alphabetically on small white cards are the words submitted to but deemed unsuitable for inclusion in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED).

The thousands of words denied a place in the dictionary, which describes itself as the definitive record of the English language, are consigned to the vault because they are either too odd or have not gained enough currency in common usage.

"They are simply words that we have not included in our dictionary up until this point because we have not yet seen sufficient evidence of their usage," Fiona Mooring, senior assistant editor of the OED's new words group told Reuters in an e-mail.

"Tanorexia", an obsession with getting a tan, "flashpacking", glamorous backpacking, and "cankles", thick ankles are just three of the quirky words on record in the non-word vault.

A new word is not included in the OED unless it has "caught on". To make the cut, there must be several independent examples of the word in writing over a "reasonable" length of time.

"The exact time-span and number of examples may vary: for instance, one word may be included on the evidence of only a few examples, spread out over a long period of time, while another may gather momentum very quickly", said Mooring.

Until they win over the dictionary's editorial team, "ham", a non-Spam e-mail, and "prehab", preventive rehab, must stay in linguistic limbo.

Some of the dormant words date back to before 1918, when "Lord of The Rings" author J.R.R. Tolkien was editor of the OED.

Once a word has earned its place in the dictionary, it is not removed, even if it drops out of use.

The following are a sample of unused words from the vault:

Burqini: a swimsuit intended to comply with Islamic standards of modesty in dress

Cankle: thick ankle

Chimping: the action or practice of immediately reviewing each shot taken using a digital camera

Chin-strap: a type of beard, shaped in a narrow strip along the jawline

Clickjacking: the use of hidden buttons on a website to trick users into performing actions they do not intend, such as revealing personal information or switching on webcams

Faboosh: fabulous

Flashpacking: luxurious backpacking

Glamping: glamorous camping

Tanorexia: an obsession with getting a tan

Twetiquette: Twitter etiquette


:jaj: Looking forward to some new "Open Buttholes" from you :jaj:

Vuvuzela: Now in the dictionary

by Mike Krumboltz

The English language is always evolving. There was a time when words like email, x-ray, and d'oh were nowhere to be found in the dictionary. Today, we add a few more new words to the tome.

The bookworms behind the Oxford Dictionary of English recently released a list of 2,000 or so new words that will be added to their next edition. Some of the new words include staycation, social media, and the groan-inducing chillax.

The list sparked massive interest on the Web and, we can safely assume, a lot of questions from folks who don't know a staycation from a vacation, or a bromance from a romance. (FYI: A staycation is like a vacation, but you stay at home and save money. And a bromance is a "close but non-sexual relationship between two men.")

Perhaps the most high-profile word to be added to the dictionary this year is vuvuzela. For those who slept through the World Cup, a vuvuzela is the one-note plastic horn that creates a horrendously annoying sound. That's our definition. The official one, via the Oxford Dictionary of English, is a bit more balanced: "A long plastic instrument, in the shape of a trumpet, which makes a very loud noise when you blow it and is popular with football fans in South Africa."

Some other popular additions include frenemy ("a person with whom one is friendly despite a fundamental dislike or rivalry"), cheeseball ("lacking taste, style or originality"), and wardrobe malfunction ("an instance of a person accidentally exposing an intimate part of their body as result of an article of clothing slipping out of position.")

Frankly, we're amazed it took so long for that last term to make it into the dictionary. Thanks to Janet Jackson, Paris Hilton, and other Hollywood stars, it's been part of the public discourse for years.


By Rachel Rose Hartman

Target and its corporate retail cousin Best Buy are continuing to suffer fallout from donations to a Minnesota group that backed a gay-marriage opponent for governor. On top of organized consumer boycotts and public pressure campaigns, some of the retail giant's investors are up in arms, according to the Associated Press.

The anti-Target effort among consumer activists, meanwhile, continues to draw a strong online following, with petitions and viral videos — even though one cable network has rejected a national ad buy from liberal group MoveOn.org urging a Target boycott. MoveOn's political action committee has, however, placed a video of an impromptu musical protest at one Target store on YouTube, where it has already garnered more than half a million views.

You can watch the video here:

Target Ain't People — MoveOn ad @ Yahoo! Video    hXXp://video.yahoo.com/watch/8113986/21506105

These high-profile pushbacks have caught the attention of a trio of institutional shareholders in Target and Best Buy — Walden Asset Management, Trillium Asset Management Corp., and Calvert Asset Management Co. — who each filed resolutions voicing concern.

"A good corporate political contribution policy should prevent the kind of debacle Target and Best Buy walked into," Trillium vice president Shelley Alpern told the AP. "We expect companies to evaluate candidates based upon the range of their positions — not simply one area — and assess whether they are in alignment with their core values. But these companies' policies are clearly lacking that."

The three shareholders together control less than 1 percent of outstanding shares for Target and Best Buy. But as the controversy continues to build, their recommendations will probably keep the pressure on Target executives to renounce the donations. Target is the principal focus of the protests because the store is a better-known retail brand — and because it has long adopted an image of social concern, with programs supporting local schools and environmental initiatives, and domestic-partner benefits for store employees. By developing a more hip and urban following, the Minnesota-based chain has ironically left itself more open to campaigns like the present one, which accuses Target of corporate hypocrisy.

MoveOn also produced a national ad promoting the Target boycott — but officials with the cable network MSNBC turned the spot down, claiming that it violated a network policy banning ads that target individual businesses. As the AP reports, MSNBC would likely face its own backlash from advertisers if it appeared to side with MoveOn in this fight — even though the network has a stable of prime-time liberal commentators who support gay-marriage rights.

:rotfl: You are off the charts Gay me thinks. :rotfl:

On the Kinsey Scale, 6 is considered uber Gay so you must be a 7 or more. I am proud of you for your off the chart Gayness.


Neil Patrick Harris and his longtime partner David Burtka will have their hands full later this year. The actor confirmed the pair are expecting twins.

"So, get this: David and I are expecting twins this fall. We're super excited/nervous/thrilled. Hoping the press can respect our privacy…" he wrote on Twitter.

According to E! Online, which was first to report the news, the couple are going to become parents with the help of a surrogate.

285diggsdigg This is not the first time there's been speculation about Harris' pending fatherhood. Star Magazine reported last year that Burtka and Harris had visited a surrogacy agency in L.A. to get the ball rolling on expanding their family.

They've been together for about six years.