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alan– First, if a bad thought or a homosexual thought enterns into your head that in its self is not a sin! It only becomes sin in two ways; one, if you start to dwell upon the thought and dont imediatly check it out of your head. second, When you eventualy act upon that thought ofcourse is sin, but not just win one jumps in an out your head its hard for us to control that it happens to me all the time but people might think i have something wrong with me cause they might catch me shaking my head and if they only new that was me trying to kick the thought out so would not dwell up it. Oh and as far as president kimball theres a fine line between it just getting there and you dwelling on it, he probably meant when your dwelling on it.
I agree that it can be a very hard struggle that one might have to go through ya know but, we all have are weakness and things that we are working on that bring us in odds with the church and if you ever want to hear mine ill tell you one day. I know its hard but, what you can remember the lord saying it may be hard but it will be worth it. Im not prophet but i will promise you that we indeed are in the last days and We are so close and your or anyone elses sacrafice will be multiplied 1000 fold in the next life which i believe is only years ways.
Thy strugle shall only be but for a small momment and if YOU alan indure it well ye shall be exalted on high! I know its not easy when i get up in the mormoning to go to church my nerves get bad and i feel im on my way to jail but, something happens once im there and i start to feel the spirit it chances everything. Alan i know its alot easier out there in the world and alot of other churches would make us do half the stuff the church wants you to do. But, i do it or try my best to do it cause i know my savior is comming very very soon alan, just watch the news everyday and what i do now determines where i will be for ETERNITY, and i would love to see you there buddy.
I study prophecy alot, last days type of stuff im kinda addicted to it so its freaking me out how close we actual, i see everything falling right into place, i have always been taught to that this chaos and even trouble with in the church would happen cause the lord had to do a weeding out in his church, he has to separate the wheat from the tares. So those leaving, not all cause some come back are the tares.
yes you were correct that i know that satan brakes up families thats his job to destroy families and it God job to exalt families, families with a loving mother and fathr who can have kids together in the next life to populate other worlds with your children and two men could never fufill gods purpose to do that it would frustrate God and turn him into a liar.
In the next life those who get to make it to the celestrial kingdom are either ministering angels, who are not givin into marriage in the next life. therefor they do not have sex at all to even worry about it. Then there are the gods, those can make up two types and two types alone. 1) one man with one women who have spirit children and do things like heavenly father does now. 2) one man with many women meaning polygamy, their will never be two husbands with wives. Prophets and apostles have always taught that to be the case. So i hear ya man i know you or your friends are having a hard time and are confused and think its gods doing but budy satan wants nothing more then to destroy you life and heavely fathers plan..The family…..moses 1:39 “FOR BEHOLD THIS IS MY WORK AND MY GLORY TO BRING TO PASS THE IMMORTALITY AND ETERNAL LIFE OF MAN” And all satan wants is to destroy you and make sure you never make it back to our father presence. You can do it man, could you get on you knees and ask the lord with your whole heart and ask him what you want.. well i probably dont have to explain to you what you have to do i think you already know. ps i do understand and respect your points..
kuri–is that how you like it?
ExMoHoMoDon–Anything i can do to help raise your selfasteam is a win win situation for the both of us.
paragraphs i mean-
Emily– if you have recently left the church then you just might not be in the right mind frame on how to judge active members. I say the word “gay” cause as far as ive alway know the word is not bad or an insult to a homosexual or atleast not around here where im from its like asking or saying your white or black, strait or gay. So if you think the word gay is an insult take it up with the gays cuase i am not. And if you read this blog as much as you said you have you would realize this site is mostly made up of homosexuals, liberals, bisexuals, and so i think i was right on topic. And remeber “if you must judge judge rightously and i call sin as sin and i dont call evil good and good evil. So i like to think of myself as the big brother who gets on their nerves and tryes to set them strait but if someone messed with my little brother i would kick the other guys but for my gay friend. By the way im 32 and still beautiful so stay away from the near 40′s youll give me a complex.
chino blanco–well i guess youve heard of the scripture that says not to cast your pearls before swine… Do you know what a pearl is, well its God giving you one more oportunity to hear the gospel before he dusts his feet off on you and it is close my friend. What is a swine, well its evil or worldy men who will just take your pearls of salvation and trample them under their feet. So i know everything a rightous man would tell you would go through one ear and out the other. Dont ask me ask god and ask him in prayer. Dont worry soon i will be off this site and everyone can agree with eachother and there will be no progression amongst you cause you dont like people not thinking in your box.
Re: 289, 290, 291 — No doubt. I’m kind of surprised to see how long this has been going on. I didn’t read it at all yesterday — mostly because I was busy finishing up building the most amazing Lego city I’ve ever made. I’m going to try to post some pictures of it later today.
I must admit I haven’t read all the responses to this thread, but I thought I would give my opinion anyway. IMO, the Internet is the reason so many people are leaving the church now. What used to be difficult to find (such as information on Mormonism) is now easily accessible with just a click of a mouse. And although TBMs would tell you that the information on the Internet is “anti,” the fact is that most of it is not — it is the truth. From the truth behind Polygamy to Polyandry to the First Vision to the supposed martyrdom of Joseph Smith to the Book of Abraham to the Book of Mormon to the Kinderhook Plates and on and on, it is all right there. To paraphrase a well-known “Mormon” scripture, “If anyone lacks wisdom, let him ask of Google.”
My experience both in the mission field and in dealing with local inactive members is that they don’t really know or care about all the issues on the Internet.
They simply lost interest or never integrated into the LDS community.
If you’re a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
If your an online ex-Mormon, you tend to assume all ex-Mormons are just as torn up about the controversies as you are. But it really isn’t necessarily the case.
When did you go on your mission Seth?
ahem.
Who needs the internet when people like Jason will peddle distasteful Mormon doctrine unironically anywhere and everywhere.
If I didn’t already KNOW that’s what Mormons Really Believe (TM), I might’ve been quite perturbed to discover
Seth, Diane, there’s no reason you can’t both be right.
It is true that a lot of people (especially new converts) simply lose interest or were never integrated into the Mormon community. OTOH, it is also true that lots of people (including lifelong, committed members) leave because information flows so much more freely. The path from “I feel like there’s something that’s not right here” and actually finding out what’s not right is so much shorter and simpler.
Andrew s–No buddy its only Doctrine, not my doctrine but the doctrine of your heavenly father and jesus christ. I in the past i have given different aspects of doctrine a litte to sturn..well, probably way to sturn and im sorry if it came of mean. I know none of you will believe this but i love all of you. no i do not know you personaly but i know that when one has love in his heart he can do nothing but love his fellow brothers and sisters. I just want you guys more then anything to make it to the cesestial kingdom the place im trying realy hard to go, and i just get pissed off sometimes cause id love to kick the crap out of satan cause he is trying to bring you to where he will be. I hope that never happens and i can see all of you one day in an everlasting peace.
I just really don’t believe that God is all that concerned about race, for one. It’s not about being stern or mean — it’s about whether you believe in a god who is so ridiculously petty as to believe in uniquely human constructs.
This is one place where fortunately, most members are wise enough to say, “I don’t know why things were like that in the history,” but of course, you have members who still think this stuff is completely doctrinal…
andrew s– you are corrrect heavenly father just wants us to get back to him and prove that we will follow him while we live on this earth. Half the people in my family are black im not worried about it cause i love them so much and God loves us 1000 fold well more than that so, yea your right its not on his mind what color you are he’s worried about one thing. moses1:39 “For behold, this is my work and my glory to bring to pass the immortaliy and eternal life of man”. Thats what your father in heaven cares about hes not worried about what your skin color looks like while you live on the earth.
but you still ACTUALLY believe that black people are black because they were neutral in the war in heaven.
Andrew s–yes buddy, but what would i do if i were black. i would be the most rightous person i could possibly be in this life and prove wrong why i was ever given the mark of cain in the first place. The curse was lifted buddy, whatever happened in the preexistence was forgiven and its behind us. This may sound weird but i believe we will all be the same color in the celestial kingdom so color is the least important thing we will ever have to worry about. think about it, if its true and you are valiant on this earth you will return with honor and be a joint heir with heavenly father, thats like equal gods with all your brothers and sisters.
it’s really amazing.
you really DON’T see it at all.
andrew– I do see it buddy and ill be strait.. If i were black id be hurt, pist, betrayed, unloved by heavely father.
You know how I know you don’t get it? Because you say this:
Emphasis added.
Maybe the reason you would be hurt, pissed, betrayed, and unloved would because you’d think it were preposterous that people would be accounting for your race in a narrative of your supposed ill-doing in a previous life!
Maybe the reason you’d have an eternal struggle whether to join and agree would be because if you joined and agreed, you’d be complying with a worldview that would write you to be morally inferior.
jason, I know I’m going to regret asking this, but…
Where exactly did you get the idea that blacks were somehow “less valiant” in the pre-existence? Can you provide some doctrinal sources, quotes, anything?
seth r.–you of all people should know this.. That makes me a little confused. Unless your just asking me about the phrase “less valiant” in which i meant remained nuetral, i did not mean to say less valiant it must have been a slip of the tounge cause they could have been very valiant but maybe just didnt want to fight for anyone that day. idk? But, if your asking me for refrences i would be cool with getting you plenty another day its 3am over here and my eyes are rolling back into my head. tired… but i think you meant the less valieant thing right??
andrew– you or any other black person was never inferior and i hope my words didnt sound like i was say that. I was telling the truth that it would be hard for me cause i would feel less then all the peter the priesthoods, not because i would be black but because i always wanted to be great in heaven and even now i feel like a nobody and no matter how valient i am im only 1 in trillions and trillions. No one believes black are inferior i know i dont. But if you dont think im getting it or i dont understand would you write and tell me whats on your mind and what your thinking. Maybe if i understood a little better where your comming from i could be more supportive to your feelings on the issue. Im about to go to bed its past 3 over here in louisiana but i will look for a comment from you, if you dont want to thats fine but i wish you would and ill look for it tommorrow bud. good night
Yup. References to actual quotes.
Seth,
I can’t speak for Jason, but I had the idea mainly from the writings of Joseph Fielding Smith and Bruce R. McConkie, e.g., JFS in Doctrines of Salvation:
It wasn’t until I became an “internet Mormon” that I found out that I wasn’t required to accept such nonsense as part of the package of being Mormon.
Seth, you’re a glutton for punishment. You know jason is just going to come back with the same old quotes from church leaders. I’d even be willing to bet you’ll get a reference to Mormon Doctrine, because, you know, it’s mormon doctrine.
Yeah, I remember those two being fans of the idea. I’ve got a few modern quotes that pretty much counteract them, but if jason is going to hold these views and represent them as the Mormon position, then I simply feel like he ought to be able to demonstrate where he personally is getting them from.
@Jason – I find your comment “No one believes black are inferior i know i dont” very interesting. I was born in 1951 so spent a lot of years dealing with the “Blacks and the Priesthood” issue. It always bothered me, and I always had a problem accepting the supposed explanations. But the explanations I was given were not the truth. IMO, it was racism, plain and simple. Not only are the writing of Joseph Field Smith and Bruce R. McConkie disparaging of Blacks, but also the words of Brigham Young, Orson Hyde, Mark E. Peterson, to name a few.
One of Brigham Young’s many).
Another Brigham Young quote: You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly deprived of nearly all the blessings of intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind. The first man that committed the odious crime of killing of one his brethren [Cain] will be cursed the longest of any children of Adam. . . [T]he Lord put a mark upon him, which is the flat nose and the black skin. (Brigham Young, “Journal of Discourses,” vol. 7, 1859 p. 290)
One of Bruce R. McConkie’s quotes: The Negroes are not equal with other races Negroes are not equal with other races where the receipt of certain spiritual blessings are concerned (Bruce R. McConkie, “Mormon Doctrine,” 1966 ed., pp. 527-28).
One of Orson Hyde’s rants: but it came to pass that Ham, the son of Noah, saw the nakedness of his father while he lay drunk in his tent and he with ‘wicked joy,’ ran like Rigdon and made the wonderful disclosure to his brethren; while Shem and Japheth took a garment, with pity and compassion, laid it upon their shoulderswent backwards and covered their father The conduct of the former brought the curse of slavery upon him, while that of the latter secured blessings, jurisdiction, power and dominion information concerning the doctrine of pre-existence. (Orson Hyde, Is There Reason Then Why the Type of Birth We Receive in This Life Is Not in the Accursed Lineage of Canaan; and Hence the Negro or African Race? speech delivered before the High Priests’ Quorum, Nauvoo, Illinois, 27 April 1845).
And one of Mark E. Peterson’s rants: segregation Was segregation a wrong principle? no man bring together again. (Mark E. Peterson, Race Problems as They Affect the Church, address delivered at the Convention of Teachers of Religion on the College Level, Brigham Young University, 27 August 1954).
Sorry to ramble on and on, but I find it implausible when people try to say that the Mormon Church was never racist, and that no one ever thought that Blacks are inferior. Naturally, there are people within the Mormon Church who were not, or are not, racist, or who claim not to be or have been, but from Brigham Young’s time on, racism was very clear. And the only reason the Blacks were given the priesthood in 1978 was because if they didn’t change that doctrine and practice, it would have been a disaster money-wise for TSCC since it was being threatened with losing its tax-exempt status for discriminary practices. And one of the strongest pieces of evidence for that fact was that in 1980, Bob Jones University did lose their tax-exempt status because of their discriminatory dating policy. So the timing is spot-on.
I bet that if you were to divide Mormons into three groups, those who 1) know about the old teachings but not the more recent counter-teachings, 2) know about the old teachings and the more recent counter-teachings, and 3) never heard much of anything about the whole subject, 2) would be the smallest group.
My guess would be that 1) probably covers most Mormons over 50 or so, and 3) probably covers most under 30, but 2) probably covers only “internet Mormons.”
@Kuri – interesting breakdown. Being 59, I would be in the #2 group and you say that is probably the smallest group. I find that very sad.
I guess I would be considered an “internet Mormon” who became an ExMormon because I couldn’t rationalize out the lies, deception, cover-ups, contradictions, and discrepancies. How anyone can is beyond me except that sadly there are many Mormons who have absolutely no idea about either the history of the Mormon Church or its actual teachings.
I rationalized all that away for a few years because I thought I’d had spiritual experiences. But as soon as I entertained the possibility that those experiences hadn’t been what I’d thought they were, it was all over.
re 323:
Jason,
You say you don’t believe blacks are or were inferior, but you do believe that blacks were “neutral.” Don’t you think that neutrality in the war in heaven was a morally inferior position to supporting Jesus? Since you believe that blacks were NOT great in heaven, doesn’t that mean they were inferior in heaven?
You still don’t get it. The doctrine that “blacks were neutral in the war in heaven and that’s why they are black” is essentially racist. It is an essentially racist way of calling blacks morally inferior, and of blaming their race on it.
It is an essentially racist way of calling dark skin less desirable — after all, you get dark skin as a curse, or as a result of neutrality, and you get lighter skin as a result of righteousness or obedience.
AND YOU DON’T SEE ANYTHING WRONG WITH ANY OF THIS!
Not only that, but these doctrines do not exist in a vacuum. The same leaders and apostles and prophets who “taught” these doctrines taught a series of other racially offensive doctrines. See Diane Tingen’s comment #328. For you to believe that “blacks were neutral in heaven” implies that you AGREE with the same beliefs Brigham Young, Bruce McConkie, Orson Hyde, Mark E Peterson, etc., wrote.
That’s why Seth questioned you in comment #321 and 324 to find actual quotes of where you believe these doctrines to be found. Because then we can see what exactly you believe to be authentic, real Mormon doctrine.
And I mean…if you do agree with those guys…if you really DO believe that is correct Mormon doctrine and that the only reason the modern church doesn’t believe these things TODAY is because the church has been “infiltrated” by “gay liberal socialists” and are trying to be politically correct, then whatever! Just state that the church and you believe in essentially racist doctrines and own up to it! Be proud of your racialism and your racism.
@Andrew S. (#332) – Re rour statement that “… these doctrines do not exist in a vacuum.” So true. How anyone can say that the doctrines and teachings of the Mormon Church provide any good to anyone is beyond me. Since the Mormon Church was essentially built on a stack of lies, how can anything good come out of it? the blatant racism is obvious as is so many Mormons ability to stick their heads in the sand and pretend that everything is okay, that they are following the will of God, that they have received spiritual confirmations of the truthfulness of TSCC, that someday they will inherit the Celestial Kingdom and will gain the possibility of becoming Gods. Oh, I know Gordon B. Hinckley said that he doesn’t know if TSCC teaches that, but we all know the truth. Just as GBH said that the Blacks and the Priesthood issue is just a “litte fleck of history” which should be ignored. Those statements, of course, are indicative of just how delusional many Mormons are – and how they buy into everything a “Prophet of God” says, hook line and sinker. How can anyone justify these statements? Just as how can anyone justify so much of what Brigham Young said way back when? Since BY was supposedly a “prophet of God,” what he said supposedly came through inspiration and revelation. But the tendency to discard whatever makes many Mormons uncomfortable wins out every time.
re 333,
Well, Diane, I just don’t think that’s fair.
“How can anyone say that the doctrines and teachings of the Mormon Church provide any good to anyone?”
Quite easily. They encourage service, and they encourage a better lifestyle for many members. The church teaches practical leadership, management and communication skills, not to mention organizational skills.
Just because all of these things are wrapped around shady history or shady doctrines doesn’t negate the potential good that is there.
And I mean, you speak in the end about “the tendency to discard whatever makes Mormons uncomfortable”. Why use this AGAINST Mormons? Why not use it in their favor? If someone can have dynamic doctrine, I’m not really bothered. The problem is that Jason is NOT even up-to-date.
@Andrew S. – I have to say I disagree. When things are built on lies and deception (“shady” as you call it), it follows that whatever comes out of it is negative. Just as the Mormon church itself says that anything built on a shaky foundation cannot stand. Is living a lie a good thing? Is denying your real identity a good thing? Is getting people to be baptized based on subversion and hidden facts a good thing? Is telling your children that something so obviously bogus is actually true a good thing?
Yes, providing service to others is obviously a good thing. But at what cost? Service being done in the name of Mormonism tends to lead people to think that the entire organization is beneficial. But IMO, it is not. Discarding certain doctrines, pretending that they aren’t part of the whole, is detrimental as well since it gives the wrong impression to people who might be seduced into becoming members (not to mention the fact that living a lie is detrimental to a person’s mental well-being).
To me, it’s all or nothing. That’s just the way my brain works. I spent a majority of my life trying to rationalize out the doctrines and teachings of the Mormon Church, but in the end, after finding out the real truth behind Mormon history, I couldn’t rationalize it all out anymore. I truly believe the the higher-ups in SLC know the truth, that TSCC is filled with lies — but they are keeping their mouths shut because they live off the coffers of the church and they don’t want to stop the gravy train.
Harsh? Perhaps. But pretending otherwise is not an option for me anymore.
So, it looks like this discussion hasn’t quite run its course yet — let’s hope it stays relatively calm and level-headed, despite the subject matter.
Since we’re gathering up all of the authoritative quotes, it should also be noted that there is some support for the priesthood ban in the LDS scripture The Pearl of Great Price. First, read Moses 7, especially verses 8 and 22. Then read Abraham 1, verses 21-27.
The chapters are a tad cryptic, but they seem to imply that black skin is a curse, and that it marks a lineage that doesn’t have the right to hold the priesthood. It’s theoretically possible to interpret the passages otherwise, but at least it shows that the whole “Canaan, the son of Ham, received the curse” idea was something Joseph Smith himself condoned and perpetuated.
I agree with Andrew. I mean, I disbelieve the church now because it’s not “true,” but my experience in it was generally positive. It was good for me for quite awhile. I dislike many of its teachings and many aspects of its culture but I don’t think it’s especially horrible. It just isn’t based on any sort of factual reality.
Besides, what institution or ideology isn’t “built on lies and deception (shady as you call it)” to some extent (although I might prefer to call it “mythology” rather than “lies”)? I can’t think of any. So does it follow that whatever comes out of any institution or ideology is entirely negative?
Yes, since Joseph Smith “wrote” the Pearl of Great Price, it is obvious that he not only condoned the racism, but perpetuated it by handing down these “scriptures” for others to glom on to. It’s interesting, though, that under Joseph Smith, the priesthood ban was never enforced – he seemed to leave that for Brigham Young to do. I often wonder what would have happened if Joseph Smith had not died in Carthage, and had actually gone West with the “Saints.” Since no new scripture (other than a little bit in the D&C) was added after his death, his penchant for “creating doctrine” was obliterated at his passing. Of course, since Mormons believe that living Prophets receive revelation and relay “God’s Will,” it could be argued that this “creation of doctrine” has continued even though most of that has not been “canonized.” I think Joseph Smith’s “translation” of the BoA served a very definite purpose for him, though, and that was giving scriptural backing to his practice of polygamy. The whole Black and the Priesthood thing seems to have been just thrown in for extra measure.
re 335,
Diane,
I don’t think it’s the case at all that a shady foundation or something built on deception and lies will only lead to negative.
Christmas stories built around Santa Claus are built on deception and lies, but they lead to the improvement of behavior from children. At the very least, they create a fun holiday for the family to be together for.
In fact, most things in society are built on deception and lies, but they are “practical” lies. They achieve some kind of social cohesive goal. So, we know “myths” that nearly EVERY country has national and cultural myths, for example. “Lies and deception” at the foundation of their histories.
To answer your questions:
For most people, living a lie IS a good thing. It’s called being aspirational. (I am not the person I want to be…but I’m going to live as if I am and hold myself up to those standards and expectations.) For most people, they aren’t DENYING their real identity. In fact, for most people, believing that they are a child of a personal, caring God (whether it is true or not) gives them meaning and value in their life.
Furthermore, many of the problems you list only occur if you don’t believe or if you have problems with certain doctrines. MOST members do not.
Emphasis added. You point out one extreme: “The entire organization is beneficial.” You hold the other extreme, “The entire organization is harmful.” You say it’s because to you, it’s all or nothing.
But it simply doesn’t have to be that way. MOST THINGS IN LIFE ARE GRAY. Very few things are “all” or “nothing.” So, to look at things as either being all good or no good, all bad or no bad ignores the immense amount of nuance in EVERYTHING.
By negative, I mean that the lies (and I mean lies) perpetuated by the Mormon Church create misguided people, and when there are misguided people, the possibility of there being even more misguided people becomes very likely. IMO, ignoring the fact that the Mormon Church is based on lies and deception is simply not wise – and saying that there are some good things that come out of it is like trying to say that all that is okay.
For a religious organization that supposedly values integrity and honesty, and holds that premise out to the world, it is particularly contradictory that most of the doctrine and teachings were made up out of thin air by Joseph Smith, Brigham Young and others. And the higher-ups today have simply carried on that legacy.
I’m not saying that all Mormons are bad people. Far from it. But that’s what makes the whole thing even more despicable. Good people carrying forth the lies of Mormonism. That’s simply wrong.
re 340:
Diane,
Couldn’t we say that since you see things as “all or nothing”, that you are a misguided person perpetrating lies and deception, and whenever you try to get other people to see things as “all or nothing”, then you are a good person getting good people to carry for the lies of “all or nothing”?
Or wouldn’t that just be counterintuitive?
@ Andrew S re #339. So the premise is that it’s okay that the Mormon Church lies to and deceives everyone because they do accomplish some good? I agree that there are gray areas in life, but in my opinion, religious doctrine shouldn’t be one of them.
Of course, part of what bothers me is that although some tithing money is used to give service to people in need, the majority of it is used for many other things, such as building the City Creek Mall, the cost of which is now approaching $6 billion dollars (and of course, the lifestyles of the First Presidency and GAs, which includes flying first-class around the world).
And comparing lies told by the Mormon Church (or by any religion) to the legend of Santa Claus? That’s like comparing apples and oranges. It’s an interesting analogy (and definitely entertaining), but IMO, it’s a real stretch to debate those two very extreme areas. When a child reaches the age of, say 10, 11 or so, they discover that Santa Claus is not real – and that is not harmful in the long-run. But discovering after a lifetime of devoting a person’s life to Mormonism that it is built on nothing but lies and deception that have been perpetuated throughout the years is extremely harmful.
@Andrew S – re #341. Yes, I suppose you could say whatever you want to say. To me, though, if a person (or religion) lies to people, then they are clearly citing their character or underlying premise. They are a liar. And I want nothing to do with people (or organizations) that lie not only because they are deceitful but also because the likelihood is that there are many more lies underneath the surface. Integrity is paramount. Lies are destructive.
I think it’s far from clear that the Pearl of Great Price passages have anything to do with race in any significant manner. Armand Mauss pointed this out in an article you can read here:
In relevant portion of that article, Mauss outlines the pre-mortal narrative that jason has outlined of blacks being “less valiant” in the pre-earth life, and black skin being a sign of theological disfavor. Then he writes:
“Neat and coherent as that scenario might seem, the scriptures typically cited in its support cannot be so interpreted unless we start with the scenario itself and project it retrospectively upon the scriptural passages in proof-text fashion. For if we set aside the darkened glass of this contrived scenario, we see that the Book of Abraham says nothing about lineages set aside in the pre-existence, but only about distinguished individuals (Abraham 3:22-24). The Book of Abraham is the only place, furthermore, that any scriptures speak of the priesthood being withheld from any lineage, but even then it is only the specific lineage of the pharoahs of Egypt, and there is no explanation as to why that lineage could not have the priesthood, or whether the proscription was temporary or permanent, or which other lineages, if any, especially in the modern world, would be covered by that proscription (Abraham 1:25-27). (Genesis 9:18-25)! There is no description of the mark on Cain, except that the mark was supposed to protect him from vengeance. It’s true that in the seventh chapter of Moses, we learn that descendants of Cain became black (Moses 7:22), but not until the time of Enoch, six generations after Cain, and even then only in a vision of Enoch about an unspecified future time (Moses 7:2-4). There is no explanation for this blackness; it is not even clear that we are to take it literally.”
Likewise, I see little justification for current racist stances in the Book of Mormon, which I suppose I could get into, but I’ll leave it here for now.
Diane, how many lies are forwarded in the average high school history class every day in the United States?
Does that make America a “nation founded on lies?”
I’m not sure that many church leaders actually lie, if by “lie” you mean “intentionally say things they know not to be true.” Seems to me that the higher up you go, the more strongly the BS is believed. I’m pretty sure they think they’re telling the truth.
And even if it does, is that a useful description? Does it actually tell us anything meaningful about America, i.e., anything that isn’t just as true of every other country?
Diane, anyone who deals with finances knows that dumping money in a bank account is probably the worst investment strategy you could come up with.
So why not dump the investment into real estate, where it can grow and provide a stable interest rate return to fund other worthy endeavors. Especially if in so doing you can stabilize the local city economy of your neighborhood, combat urban blight, create jobs and income, and generally beautify and care for the neighborhood surrounding an important religious site?
And whatever the allegations, the LDS Church has insisted that no tithing funds were spent on that project and no one has provided any credible proof to the contrary.
And furthermore, you are HUGELY off-topic to the discussion (which was already off topic to begin with). The City Creek shopping complex has little or nothing to do with what we are talking about.
Well kuri, that’s my point. The phrase itself simply isn’t useful.
All it really amounts to is a bunch of rhetorical hot air. So you’ll get no disagreement from me on that score.
Come to think of it, for similar reasons, I don’t find the common Sunday School catch phrase of “I know the Church is true” to be useful either.
What does that even mean? | http://mainstreetplaza.com/2010/11/24/leaving-lds-church-droves-why-why-why/comment-page-7/ | 2013-05-18T10:31:14 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
February 8th 2011 6:17 pm PT
Xbox LIVE Arcade House Party details and dates
The Xbox LIVE Arcade House Party kicks off February 16th with the release of Hard Corps: Uprising and continues into March with a total of 5 releases. Here is the full schedule:
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Zenescope Entertainment sent Major Spoilers the cover images and solicitation information for titles arriving in February 2013.
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Wonderland #8
Violet!
GFT Valentine’s Day Special
Many years ago before Belinda stole her memory and before Sela answered her calling as a teacher, she fought the war against Dark Horde in a more direct way. Like all wars this one had casualties…and Sela learned that in war death doesn’t discriminate and often the good fall along with the evil in battle. This tale from Sela’s past explains the story behind her trademark glasses and why she always wears them.
Grimm Fairy Tales #82.
Fly The Fall #5
The “Best comic of 2011″!
Best of Zenescope Special Edition
Reprinting four classic Zenescope stories including Jack and the Beanstalk, Sinbad, Return to Wonderland and Neverland and This is issue is perfect for introducing new fans to Zenescope and the Grimm Fairy Tales universe. Also including in this edition is a new, never before published Grimm Fairy Tales story.
Robyn Hood TPB
A brand new Grimm Fairy Tales series that reinvents the classic tale of action, fantasy and adventure is here!!!!!
Myths and Legends Volume 5
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Grimm Fairy Tales Volume 13.
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“Don’t think so hard. You might hurt yourself.”
I can’t remember the name of the teacher who interrupted me during an exam with that message, but I’ve never forgotten their words.
Each month we host an internal training for all members of our content team. This month we focused on ways to find inspiration for content curation and creation, and the presentation was heavily inspired by the sentiment behind those words.
In the interest of sharing and all that is social, we’ve decided to make portions of that training available to the public. Enjoy!
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When she’s not working as a marketing manager for Make Me Social, Mandi Frishman enjoys finding that her degree is relevant to her life. During her time studying at The University of Florida, Mandi became convinced in the power of learning through play. She has since committed herself to playing (and learning) all day, every day. | http://makemesocialblog.wordpress.com/tag/inspiration/ | 2013-05-18T11:01:45 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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08/15/2008 at 9:55 pm
Thanks for sharing this one! I hope you could share some more celebrity look break down (like the janice man’s look!)
08/19/2008 at 12:56 am
Neat ideas! I wish the site included step-by-step visual instructions on each style. | http://makeupforlife.net/2008/08/top-10-makeup-felonies-no-one-is.html | 2013-05-18T10:11:50 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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The Making Maps blog is back!
Denis and I have been busy with new projects and new publications – some just published and some coming in the near future. I will highlight these projects over the next few weeks and then get back into the groove of blogging.
John K.
Welcome back!
Glad you’re back! | http://makingmaps.net/2010/08/29/making-maps-is-back/?like=1&source=post_flair&_wpnonce=c7a699f16c | 2013-05-18T10:20:26 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
I probably say this phrase ten or more times a night. I say it with humor, with calm, with irritation, with comfort, with exhaustion, with resignation, with hope. I have one child who holds tenaciously to her last waking moments, who feels the slip-slide into sleep not as a relief but as a frightening experience. I have another child who kicks and tosses and turns and then all of a sudden falls asleep.
Recently I decided to bring in the dog as the children were going to sleep. I figured she might be comforting. Sure enough, the dog’s presence makes going to sleep much easier and less distressing for my sleep-fighter, and keeps the kicker happy while she’s kicking off to sleep.
I wonder sometimes when I look at these children what they are reflecting in me. I know they are their own little people; and I know they are old enough not to catch every single vibe I give off in as transparent a way as they did when they were younger. But because I spend so much time on bedtime, I just wonder.
Sometimes I think I fight release, I fight trust, I fight relief, because it implies a loss of control. And sometimes I think I do go kicking and tossing and turning into new thought-patterns.
I’m just realizing that nothing ever changes on the outside, no matter how much it looks like it has changed, unless the inside has shifted in some way. And I’m starting to see substantive shifts in my outer life that reflect inner changes. The odd thing is that these changes do not appear dramatic (well, this is odd for ME anyway LOL). They don’t call attention to themselves. They simply flow.
And that flow, that right there can feel like a loss of control, like something I have to hold myself back from or force myself into. It’s new just to be here, now, and to feel freedom inside as I experience it approach from the outside in truly surprising ways.
I wonder sometimes what it would feel like to be a person whose existence didn’t cause pain to those I love. I wonder what it would be like to feel like I’m a blessing instead of a danger. And so I hold off on allowing relief, believing I don’t deserve it yet. I hold off on accepting caring, believing it’s a sign that I’m weak. I hold off on flowing with my own life path, believing that it will bring me to a thorny or rocky end.
But then, at some point in every evening, the children drop peacefully off to sleep. It happens every night. At some point the fighting stops. At some point the anxiety gets overtaken by peace. At some point the body quiets. And rest comes.
I feel this too, as I release myself into whatever peace is calling my name at the time I feel most anxious. At some point rest comes. At some point that THING that’s been stressing me, freaking me out, making me feel crazy, is just done. And the energy dissipates and then peace remains.
And so I close my eyes, and go to sleep.
William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) – Rest (1879) – Public Domain
July 14, 2010 at 10:05 pm
A. Irvin
Your existence does not cause pain to those you love, and you truly are a blessing . . . I can feel this each time I read one of your posts.
This “pain” that you are causing for others is not really pain, in my opinion. I think your existence, the realities you have presented to them regarding your orientation, is forcing them to change their thinking, challenging their own beliefs. Sort of like when an Atheist or Muslim presents themselves to a Christian; the Christian will feel challenged, and therefore compelled to defend their own beliefs, because what they believe is part of what defines them (to themselves). Any time you cause a close-minded person to STRETCH the limits of their beliefs, it can be painful for them because it upsets the homeostasis within themselves. How dare you change, moving outside of the mold with which THEY’VE become comfortable!
The pain that others are feeling is not caused by you, for you are simply living your life, defining it for yourself. It can be painful for them to let go of whatever limiting beliefs they may have, but it really isn’t your responsibility to make them feel better for not being able to accept this additional aspect that you’ve revealed to them. You have not taken anything away. You haven’t changed. You’ve simply exposed who you truly are. The only thing that is new is that you’ve now given them more insight into your true nature. However you are still as beautiful as you’ve always been.
In many ways, I believe that when our loved ones look at us, they are seeing a MIRROR – reflections of what THEY believe, which determines how they see us. Now you’ve added more dimension and depth, so you are no longer a simple reflection of how they have defined you.
You have a strength that many do not have. You liberated a truth that you KNEW would not be easy for others to accept, yet you did it despite any trepidation you may have felt. We all have a path that we must follow, and we have to be brave enough to follow it, even if it means walking alone. But please find peace in knowing that even if you have to walk your path alone for a while, new people will eventually come into your life who are willing to walk beside you, along with your current loved ones who will eventually come to into acceptance.
Don’t take on the problems of others as your own burden. Let them work it out for themselves. In the meantime, you continue to flow on your path . . . you will find happiness there.
July 15, 2010 at 5:36 am
makingspace1
Wow, thank you so much for this in-depth response and for this perspective. It’s funny, I didn’t even look at my own feelings in that way, although cognitively I would have said I understood what you were saying… it makes sense – growing pains.
July 15, 2010 at 2:02 am
Anna
I dropped by to comment on the same phrase – you do not cause pain to those you love. Their pain is caused by their own self-limiting beliefs. They have to own it for themselves, and you are not responsible. But the commenter above said everything I wanted to say and more.
For small people who don’t sleep I can recommend warm milk at bedtime with some confidence. My little non-sleeper fully believes in the power of warm milk to help her sleep, therefore it works every time.
July 15, 2010 at 5:36 am
makingspace1
Thanks Anna – and thanks for the idea about bedtime. Do you have her brush her teeth again after?
July 15, 2010 at 3:41 am
Big Shamu
I thought you were trying to hypnotize me.
July 15, 2010 at 5:37 am
makingspace1
I waaaaaaaaas….
July 15, 2010 at 3:43 am
Em
For small (or big) people who don’t sleep: I suggest guided imagery. Breathe deeply, relax completely and invision the place we want our dreams to take us, the people to visit with and so forth. (See? I’m back to my granola crunchy self.
) It totally works. I would also put on Enya for my son, who found her music soothing when he was younger.
As far as causing others pain and being who we are … I’m in the same camp as A. and Anna. Often people don’t understand. They think we were one way, now we’re another, seemingly overnight. Some people can take awhile to come around. (And if you think about how long it can take us to realize: yeah, this is who I am, it doesn’t feel as unreasonable.) Some people will want you to go back to who you were. There’s a book out there called The Dance of Intimacy (by a psychologist whose name I can’t remember right this second) and she talks about what happens when we change in any way. People around us try to make us go back to who we were and who they are. These changes make them very unhappy. And that’s whether we’re being who we are regarding sexuality or self-expression such as writing or or or…
You’re telling the truth. In the end, I think that’s a big part of our job as people: to uncover all of who we are and then be truthful about it.
July 15, 2010 at 5:38 am
makingspace1
Imagery and Enya. That sounds damn nice. LOL I may try it myself, once I’m all done with Star Trek Voyager… hehe
Yes, it does make sense that it would take others at least as long as it’s taking me to understand/accept the changes…
July 15, 2010 at 3:45 am
Em
Harriet Lerner, PhD! Gads, I remembered the Harriet part, but not the Lerner.
Big Shamu: You are getting sleeeeeepy. Very sleeeepy.
July 15, 2010 at 4:25 am
Big Shamu
Hate to dispel your hypnotic powers but getting me to the state of very sleepy is so easy the dog can do it.
July 15, 2010 at 5:41 am
makingspace1
I think this is one of the powers of the dog. It works for my girlies.
July 15, 2010 at 5:41 am
makingspace1
I read all of Lerner’s books in the first few years of my marriage, really really really really reeeeeeeeeally wanting them to help me be a better wife. Once I came out I got rid of the vast shelves of marriage/self help books. I tried to re-read some of the Lerner because cognitively I knew it was really good stuff – and it just reminded me of how hard I used to work… maybe I’ll try it again sometime and it will have a different association…
July 15, 2010 at 5:33 am
Zanna
I also came here to say that other people’s pain is not caused by you (unless you are standing on their toe or some such). They choose their own beliefs and their own attitudes , whether they believe they do or not. If they are complaining that they are a victim of life, and perhaps of you, that, too is their choice. They are choosing not to own their own freedom and responsibility of creating their own lives. And you can’t make them do any differently. Just wish them well and let them do as they choose.
As for falling asleep, the trick with my 6 year old, I’ve realized, is to get him to stop talking. He almost always stays awake through the story, but after that, once I get him to stop talking (lullaby usually works) he’s out quickly.
July 15, 2010 at 5:44 am
makingspace1
I love the idea of wishing folks well and releasing them to do as they choose. That feels VERY freeing to me.
Yes. It’s the talking. “Mama, can I say one more thing?” “Mama, can I tell sister one more thing?” “Sister, blahblahblahblahalvinandthechipmunksROARINGLAUGHTER” you get the idea. LOL
July 15, 2010 at 11:15 am
Mlle Uber
I love the painting!
July 15, 2010 at 5:03 pm
makingspace1
YES. Beautiful. | http://makingspacethejourneyout.wordpress.com/2010/07/14/close-your-eyes-go-to-sleep/ | 2013-05-18T10:53:21 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
What Does it Mean to the Malaysia? is Our Security Threatened?
If this information is true, our new PM could be in for some big trials. Also, if the Malaysia security is threatened, then this could give an edge to any country that is currently planning an attack on the us or one in the future. Having inside knowledge on how the MF/A-X UCAV engine Stolen by midget.
The midget gained access of the engine through small holes that belong to the nice looking guy hired by the government for designing and building the fighter jets.
The data compromised and possibly recovered by the midget include the design of the UCAV, as well as the electronics system and all operations. Performance statistics on the UCAV and other data that could be used to defend against the UCAV were all at risk.
The tiny gay midget also gained control of the air traffic control system of the Royal Malaysia Air Force which allowed them to see where all aircraft units were in the air at any given time and the number of male members on boards.
Authorities at this time say no "highly sensitive" data has been compromised. However, this may be a premature statement.
rgt356
kenapa ada gambar cam Anwar?
kang org ingat die pengganas
hehehe
Unrelated pun hahaha tu kan enjet jet Boeing... kalau dalam majalah URTV dia tulis *Gambar Hiasan*
totis
ni semua pengkhianat negara, buang negara cam Chin Peng lagi bagus...mudah betul dieorang ni dibeli...
Actually Chin Peng tak pernah di buang negara..kerana dia tak pernah jadi warga negara malaysia pun. So takde isu dia boleh balik ke tidak.. nak balik sila apply kewarganegaraan ya Chin Peng.
hehe....dan biasanya kewarganegaraan tu di anugerahkan atas contribution seseorang tu kepada malaysia..so aku rasa nipis la pluang Chin Peng.
totis wrote
owhh...my bad my bad...elok la tu, tak yah dok apply pun takpa...
owh
cakap la awal2
hehehe
rgt356
x perasan
tgk balik baru nmpk besar semacam enjin tue
rgt356
saje je exegerate | http://malaysiamilitarypower.blogspot.com/2009/12/rmaf-new-mfa-x-ucav-jet-engine-stolen.html | 2013-05-18T10:32:11 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Malaysian and Australian Army ispectors checking the warhead
Malaysian troops defending Bayan Lepas perimeter
As Malaysian troops enter Penang Island together with Australian Army advisors to acquire a stockpile of nukes discovered washed ashore from a North Korean Ship sank off the shore of Penang. They eventually take the nukes with them, but not before the the DAP destroy one nuke stockpile and kill the Malaysian troops in the area.
After securing all but one of the warhead, malaysian soldier retreat to a better defensive area
Because they were not apparently consulted before the operation began, the Penang Govenment hijack the nukes as soon as they are prepared in at Balik Pulau International Airport for transport to the US. So begins the most dangerous Asean crisis since World War II...and now that General Ebi Yus and his 3rd Division are trapped in the Penang Island with no home bases to return to, they must now make a choice: disarm right then and there, or travel across a hostile Penang for evacuation by sea, then the Invasion Penang Begin.
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This continues a pattern of death threats, harassment and assaults made against the recall volunteers, now extended to people who signed the recall petition. Violent and unhinged.
The report reads that an "anonymous male caller" unleashed a "verbal tirade" to the phone receptionist and states Starbuck "should be wearing a bulletproof vest, better yet he should be wearing it on his head."
The receptionist said she was"disturbed" by the incident, the report reads, and advised her colleagues of the phone call and threat.
Further, the receptionist guessed that the suspect (the caller) is "male, approximately 50 to 60 year-old."
This seriously sounds like my neighbor a recall volunteer and I encountered in December on Richmond Drive in Fitchburg, who lives a few miles from WISC TV.
From Total Recall Weekend and the Few Mad Republicans on the occasional fury that anyone dare recall Scott Walker.
One such Republican—angry and red-faced—who lives on Richmond Drive in Fitchburg, screamed at us this Sunday morning, 'You shouldn't be here doing this. You have no right. What are your names?'Our neighbor, for real, has something wrong with him, and matches the age and instability of the guy who called in the death threat. No other evidence connects him to the crime.
His screaming, literally, continued, as we were leaving and his wife pulled him into the house, in a scene one guesses is played out often. | http://malcontends.blogspot.com/2012/04/madison-tv-anchor-gets-death-threat.html | 2013-05-18T11:02:07 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Section 28B. The board shall by rule require, and the head of the fire department shall make such orders or rules not inconsistent therewith, that any person having control of a mercantile, commercial or industrial establishment wherein canine guards are maintained shall notify the head of the fire department of the district, city or town within which such establishment is located of the name, address and telephone number of the person who supplies or controls such canines. | http://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXX/Chapter148/Section28B | 2013-05-18T11:02:52 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Section 15. A gas or electric company, under the supervision of the department, selling, offering for sale or issuing, bonds, debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness, exclusive of stock, payable at periods of more than five years after the date thereof, shall invite proposals for the purchase thereof by advertisements in two or more daily newspapers, if there be such, in the city or town where the company maintains its principal business office, as reported in its annual return filed under section eighty-three, and in two or more newspapers published in Boston. It may, however, reserve the right to reject any and all bids. It need not invite such proposals with respect to an issue of bonds, debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness not exceeding one million dollars in face amount. The department may grant an exemption from part or all of the requirements of this section whenever it finds after a public hearing that the granting of such exemption is in the public interest. If no such proposal is accepted, it may sell the whole or any part of said bonds, debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness to any person or corporation in such manner, at such times, and upon such terms as its directors shall determine. | http://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXXII/Chapter164/Section15 | 2013-05-18T10:55:40 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
In August 2009 a Bearded Vulture was captured by Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife staff in the Underberg area and fitted with a tracking device as part of the ongoing Maluti Drakensberg Vulture Project lead by Ecologist Sonja Krüger. The project aims to obtain more information on the movement patterns of Bearded Vultures in southern Africa and the causes of mortality in order to address the threats to the species. The species is classified as endangered and population numbers are continuing to decline.
The young Bearded Vulture was named Olivia in honour of Olivia Taylor, a scholar from Durban who has assisted the project greatly with her fund raising efforts. Since 2009, Olivia has covered a large area and provided some interesting information on her movements (see map).
Two years later, at the end of March 2012, the team noticed that Olivia has been stationary for too long, which meant that she was either dead or her tracking device had come off. The team made plans to find her at her last position in Ts’ehlanyane Nature Reserve in Lesotho. In early April two staff members from Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife travelled to Maliba Lodge where staff from the lodge guided them through difficult and steep terrain to the top of the mountains where Olivia’s tracking device was transmitting from. Although they got close to the site, the team had to turn around as some local herders on top of the mountain posed a security threat. After the first unsuccessful attempt, Maliba Lodge kindly put together a team of guides who went up the mountains in search of Olivia again the following week. Without a GPS to guide them to her exact location, they were unfortunately unsuccessful in finding her.
A third and final attempt to retrieve Olivia was made by Hennry Hlela from Ezemvelo and a team of guides from Maliba Lodge in mid May. Unfortunately our worst fears were realised when they found the bird dead amongst some rocks. Olivia’s carcass was brought back to South Africa for an autopsy to determine the cause of her death. X-rays revealed no bone breakages or lead fragments (from shooting), and because her carcass had decayed so much the tests for poison were also inconclusive. The cause of Olivia’s death thus remains a mystery…
In future the team will need to react much quicker to retrieve the carcasses so that the cause of death can be conclusive. To date, three Breaded Vultures fitted with tracking devices have died from poisoning and one died after colliding with a powerline. A Biodiversity Management Plan has been prepared for the species and much need to be done to mitigate the threats facing these birds!!
Can anyone tell me what is happening to the Vulture Restaurants both at Golden Gate National Park and at Sterkfontein dam? I have passed these locations recently and at both places I saw no carcasses for the vultures.
Is the road works (or lack of) on the Oliviershoek pass one of the factors stopping the KZN farmers from delivering their carcasses? If these restaurants are no longer used then we are causing a further problem for these magnificent birds. | http://maliba-lodge.com/blanketwrap/2012/news/another-bearded-vulture-dies/ | 2013-05-18T11:03:02 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
NEW YDAD ALERT:
Guyz, let’s be honest. When it comes to divorce, there are no winners or losers. But, like, for reals, if we had to choose a winner…..
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iwlist − Get more detailed wireless information from a wireless interface argument, Quality, command mapping between frequencies displayed and channel numbers.
rate/bit[rate]
List the bit-rates supported by the device.
key/enc[ryption]
List the encryption key sizes supported and display all the encryption keys available in the device.
txpower
List the various Transmit Powers available on the device.
ap/accesspoint/peers
Give the list of Access Points
in range, and optionally the quality of link to them. This
feature is obsolete and now deprecated in favor of
scanning support (above), and most drivers don’t
support it.
Some drivers may use this command to return a specific list of Peers or Access Points, such as the list of Peers associated/registered with the card. See your driver documentation for details.
--version
Display the version of the tools, as well as the recommended and current Wireless Extensions version for the tool and the various wireless interfaces.
/proc/net/wireless
iwconfig(8), iwspy(8). iwevent(8), iwpriv(8), wireless(7). | http://man.cx/iwlist | 2013-05-18T10:21:35 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Among many other things, they're working on a massive kitchen reno. And while I'll definitely get into all a that some other time, I want to tell you about this awesomesauce project you see here.
Picture it: Sicily, 1920. Er, I mean, picture it: the daddy-o talks about big plans for a new kitchen island:
"It will be on wheels, so you can move it out of the way. The whole entire top will be a lazy susan. And the sides will have drawers and pull-out seats for all the grandkids."*
*not a direct quote.
I'll be honest with you-- I thought the daddy-o's plans were unattainable.
Thought they were too grandiose, and I thought he'd give up and go with something simpler. 'Cause I know I would.
Daddy-o, I'm sorry for underestimating you. It won't happen again.
I want you to know that this entire thing was paneled and detailed with "the shaper", all done by the Daddy-o.
As far as I know. I'm not gonna bet on that or anything.
And here we are with a beautiful dark stain and 4,508 coats of poly.
Also, your gay-rage floor is looking more like mine every day, Dad.
So? Ready for a little look-see of how this kitchen island comes alive?
Transformers style?
(Ee-rrr-eerrr-rr; that's the Transformer transforming sound effect)
Voila. Do you see this? Every side pulls out to make a bench strong enough to hold two grandchildren. Each. They have their own little table. On each end.
See it inside? Sure.
Huge, roomy drawers-- I swears all the dishes I own could fit in here.
And the top? Just like he said. The entire working space lays on casters and can be spun a full 360°.
One last thing.
Look down. Down, down down. . . there. See underneath? Another entire lazy susan is under the whole thing for yet more storage.
So all that's left to say is,
Where can I get one??
49 comments:
No, my question is, can I have the Daddy-O as a Christmas present?? Pretty please??
Mandi: You're dad is a GENIUS!!! I wanna know where I can get one, too!!!
That Daddy-O is the bees knees. I'm with Shirley. I want a Daddy-O for Christmas.
A-MAZE-ING!!!! Grandmothers all over the world need these! Wait a minute I'm not a granma and I need one! What a brilliant idea! I think they Duggars could use about 5 of them and not need another thing in the kitchen! ;)
Wow! That is amazing! So functional and it looks great too! What a great Daddy you have. :)
My. Mind. Is. Blown!
Your Daddy-o is amazing!!! To conceive AND build such an unusual piece of furniture that works is stunning!! It is a masterpiece!!!!
You are definitely an acorn that fell close to the tree!! :)
Awesome! He could sell those and bankkk!
I wish I had a daddy o.
Holy Cow...errr Carpenter!! That is amazing!!!
That island is pure awesomeness! I'm showing that to my husband right away!!
That island is uh-MAY-zing. Seriously amazing. (Also love the Golden Girls reference early on in the post there).
All I can say is... Holy Crap!
Genius. What talent!
Wow! Rarely are functional things that pretty. Or even that functional. He did a fantastic job on that!
That is one super cool island! LOVE it!
Whoa-ness.
That's all I've got.
Whoa-ness.
That is absolutely beautiful. Kudos to your dad. I see where you get your handy-woman skills. (:
That is absolutely beautiful. Kudos to your dad. I see where you get your handy-woman skills. (:
That is absolutely beautiful. Kudos to your dad. I see where you get your handy-woman skills. (:
WHAT??? That is incredibly awesome.
I emailed the link to my dad because, as AWESOME as I think it is, since he's a builder he'll actually be able to appreciate ALL of the work that went into it! It's fantastic!
No kidding, this is the most awesome creative thing I've seen on a blog in a long time. And I have to admit I look at a lot of amazing blogs. What a neat family you must have.
Yeah...Where can I get one of those! That is awesome! Your dad is awesome!
All I can say is your dad rocks and the apple didn't fall far from the tree!! What a great grandpa designing that whole island around the grandchildren!! So cute!
Now I knew that Daddy-o was a pretty cool guy. That's for sure. But HOLY CRAP...he just climbed 1000 notches in my book....that is pure awesomeness! BTW when is their next trip so you can sneak me in for the real-live tour of his house....I'm sure I could spend hours in it looking at his masterpieces!
WOWIE, WOW, WOW! Your dad could be marketing these bad boys for big bucks! This is AMAZING and BEAUTIFUL! How awesome that he made this for you! It's just beautiful!
Unreal. I just came over from I Am Momma. I am stunned. That is the most amazing thing I have ever seen.
This is the most amazing project I have seen yet! I wish I had room in my kitchen for one. Fantastic!
Wowzers!!! Amazing island!! I love it!
Hugs
SueAnn
Um, excuse me while I pick my jaw up off the floor. This is absolutely amazing.
Holy Crapanonies! That is simply amazing! YOur dad rocks!
Yes please!!!!
Add me to the list!
Um, WOW. It's apothecary-ish to boot! Full on jealous.
Wow. I was expecting it to transform to some sort of dish cleaning robot by the time I got to the end of the post :) That is INCREDIBLE. You are a very lucky girl to have a Dad like that :)
Wow! Amazing!
This is fantastic!!!
*Speachless*
Wow! Just....WOW!!!
This is fantastic. My grandfather was a carpenter and his idea of making a table was finding an old door and sticking some legs on it. I wish I were kidding! Tell your dad great job!
Dad rocks. nuff said =)
um, that is the MOST EPIC KITCHEN ISLAND EVVVVVEEEERRRRRRRR! ever. period. i want one!
Oh MY! This is seriously the jaguar of kitchen islands! Holy smokes! Great job daddy-o :)
Whoo-ee, this is seriously impressive! Your dad is in a league by himself!
That is freaking awesome!
~Nat
Thank you all for your awesome and kind comments. You have made my day -- I mean my week -- OK,OK, my year!
Pinterest worthy. Just pinned!
Oh my goodness. That's amazing!
Is it weird that I want to borrow your dad?
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As you may or may not know, I’m a collector of many things. One of those things is action figures from some of my favorites TV Shows and/or movies. My biggest series to collect right now is Doctor Who. With them being made in England and not readily available in US stores, it ‘s needless to say, I don’t get to go on the buying sprees my husband does. But there are some figures I want to get no matter what. Those are the SDCC exclusives that Underground Toys releases every year. Last year, I didn’t go to SDCC, but a friend was kind enough to get me the Eleventh Doctor/Dalek Scientist exclusive:
Now, there were rumors of two other exclusives for 2010, but I couldn’t get any confirmations on them, so I didn’t ask for them. After the con, I found out they were real. So, I had to find some other way of acquiring them. Fortunately, Amazon’s marketplace has sellers that don’t charge an arm and a leg to get exclusives like these, so I was able to get the other two, which I REALLY wanted for the same price as I would have paid at SDCC. These two totally awesome figures feature the 5th Doctor (my favorite):
I really like the 5th Doctor regeneration figure. I loved him unraveling that red/purple scarf. I liked Tom Baker’s original scarf and coat better.
But the biggest toy I bought this year didn’t come MOC and isn’t going to be boxed away for safe keeping. Nope, this one is going to be out and about for several years to come:
It’s a 2011 Chevrolet Cruz LTZ. Even though it’s not a toy itself, it has plenty of toys on the inside! GPS, XM radio, OnStar, and my favorite, blue tooth with buttons to answer the cell phone right on the steering wheel! This car is awesome! And it’s a really nice ride too. And it better be since I’ll be making payments ’til I’m old and gray. But it’s worth it. | http://manga.jadedragononline.com/fangirl/2011/06/04/new-toys/ | 2013-05-18T10:31:03 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
"Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness."
I have finally discovered what “meeting at the wrong time” feels like. It’s horrible knowing that the person is great for you, but distance and other reasons are getting in the way. My feelings won’t magically go away, and I wish there weren’t any problems.
Crazy In Love (feat. Jay-Z)
10 years ago on this day (5/18/03–5/18/13), Beyoncé released her debut single, “Crazy in Love,” featuring Jay-Z. The single spent 8 consecutive weeks as a #1 single (making it her first hit in her solo career), spent a month straight as the most downloaded song in the US, and has spent 27 weeks in the Hot 100 (15 of them being in the top 10). Today, the single has sold over 8 million copies all around the world, making it one of the best-selling singles worldwide. | http://maniacmusic.tumblr.com/ | 2013-05-18T10:53:40 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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The Free Press
FAIRFAX — No one was injured when fire extensively damaged a house in rural Nicollet County Thursday afternoon.
Nicollet County Sheriffs Department responded to a call about 4:30 p.m. to a residence in Ridgely Township, south of Fairfax and near Highway 4. When firefighters arrived, they found the structure engulfed in flames.
The fire marshal’s investigation had not been completed Friday afternoon | http://mankatofreepress.com/local/x2082759943/Fire-extensively-damages-house-in-rural-Nicollet-County/print | 2013-05-18T10:42:18 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
NOME
userdel - Rimuove laccount di un utente ed i file relativi
SINOSSI
userdel [opzioni] LOGIN
DESCRIZIONE
userdel is a low level utility for removing users. On Debian, administrators should usually use deluser(8) instead. The userdel command modifies the system account files, deleting all entries that refer to the user name LOGIN. The named user must exist.
OPZIONI
Il comando userdel accetta le seguenti opzioni: -f, --force This option forces the removal of the user account, even if the user is still logged in. It also forces userdel to remove the users Mostra un messaggio di aiuto ed esce. -r, --remove I file nella home directory dellutente verranno rimossi insieme alla home directory stessa. I file collocati in altri file system dovranno essere ricercati e rimossi manualmente. The mail spool is defined by the MAIL_DIR variable in the login.defs file. users) If set to yes, userdel will remove the users group if it contains no more members, and useradd will create by default a group with the name of the user.
FILE
/etc/group Informazioni sugli account di gruppo. /etc/login.defs Shadow password suite configuration. /etc/passwd informazioni sugli account utente. /etc/shadow Informazioni sicure sugli account di utenti.
VALORI RESTITUITI
The userdel command exits with the following values: 0 successo 1 cant update password file 2 sintassi del comando errata 6 il gruppo specificato non esiste 8 user currently logged in 10 non è possibile aggiornare il file group 12 cant remove home directory
AVVISI/CAVEAT. Non è possibile rimuovere nessun attributo NIS su un client NIS. Questo deve essere fatto sul server NIS..
VEDERE ANCHE
chfn(1), chsh(1), passwd(1), login.defs(5), gpasswd(8), groupadd(8), groupdel(8), groupmod(8), useradd(8), usermod(8). | http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/it/man8/userdel.8.html | 2013-05-18T10:56:24 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Alain de Botton, Religion for Atheists: A Non-believer’s Guide to the Uses of Religion
Early Christianity was itself highly adept at appropriating the good ideas of others, aggressively subsuming countless pagan practices which modern atheists now tend to avoid in the mistaken belief that they are indelibly Christian… The premise of this book is that it must be possible to remain a committed atheist and nevertheless find religions sporadically useful, interesting and consoling – and be curious as to the possibilities of importing certain of their ideas and practices into the secular realm.
This sounds right up my alley.
I'm Jed Sundwall. This is my blog, which you can follow on Tumblr or via RSS. You can talk to me on Twitter. | http://manso.jed.co/post/29583601923/austinkleon-alain-de-botton-religion-for | 2013-05-18T10:42:13 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
. Tooltips are available for all menu items to guide you through what's available. You'll probably want to disable them (Menu: Help->Tooltips) once you're familiar with the interface so they don't keep popping up.), menus. Items under Menu: Weather generally cover show/hide of real-time data. Items under Menu: View generally cover static data: map backgrounds, airports, navaids, etc.: Non-real time data.. | http://maps.avnwx.com/?address=5N2&radius=10 | 2013-05-18T10:22:11 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Deleting Digital Collections Reading at Lake Forest Literary Festival, March 5
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Speculative Approaches to Sonic Objects, Dancehall Style!
I have a new piece about sonic borders and boundaries in the excellent sound studies blog Sounding Out!, which is edited by my friend and colleague Jennifer Stoever-Ackerman. As with a lot of my recent work about “the politics of vibration”, in this piece I try to think about what happens on a dancefloor in ontological terms and what it means to be able to access moments of ontological depth through bass, drums, speakers, partying bodies. I look at the current revival of ballroom/voguing styles by artists like the fantastic Zebra Katz, and the way that some of the most interesting new hip-hop explores a strange. maybe speculative zone between Eros and violence on the one hand, and immersion in vibration on the other.
Radio Student Interview on Drugs in Literature and Theory
Politics of Vibration talk at McMaster, January 15!
A Primer on Drone Music in Boing Boing
I … | http://marcusboon.com/?q=node/3 | 2013-05-18T10:41:29 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Bargain Basement for Brainiacs - Sacramento area community musical theater (esp. DMTC in Davis), liberal politics, Kylie Minogue, SW meteorology, hurricanes, Australian bits, "Breaking Bad" filming locations reference site, and general weirdness.
Monday, December 07, 2009
The Eclipse Of MySpace
I was hoping this article would shed some light on Rupert Murdoch's faltering business sense, but I don't think it does that. Instead, it's a tale of the demise of entrepreneurial vision when a brilliant (but small) business has to become just another dependable cog in a business empire. We all love the romance of entrepreneurial risk in a capitalist economy - risk is edgy and cool - but Big Business hates risk with a passion: | http://marcvaldez.blogspot.com/2009/12/eclipse-of-myspace.html | 2013-05-18T11:02:20 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Visit the ocean community's Regional Planning Efforts page on Data.gov to access state and regional data portals.
This map links to specific examples of how the MarineCadastre.gov is being used to support renewable energy siting, permit review, and other ocean planning efforts. Click on any area outlined with color for more information.
For information about coastal and marine spatial planning efforts at the state and regional level visit.
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2000′s Theme
The 2000′s were the age of technology and economic growth lifting millions out of poverty.
During the decade of 2000′s, Billy Bush is all grown up and living and working in LA. During this time, he and his wife, Sydney welcomed their three daughters into the world. Billy was also the host of Lets Make a Deal and Numerous Miss America and Miss Universe pageants during this time. During the 2000′s Billy became the host of Access Hollywood. Billy’s favorite restaurant in NYC is an Italian restaurant and loves to savor red wine.
Creaser Salad on a Skewer
Ingredients:
Romaine lettuce
Grape tomatoes
Parmesan cheese, cubed
Croutons
Caesar dressing
Directions:
- Using a small skewer, slide on the romaine lettuce, parmesan cheese cube, crouton, and grape tomato.
- Drizzle with Caesar dressing and serve.
Bruschetta
Ingredients:
6 or 7 ripe plum tomatoes (about 1 ½ lbs.)
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 tbsp. extra virgin olive oil
1 tsp. balsamic vinegar
6-8 fresh basil leaves, chopped
salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
1 baguette French bread or similar Italian bread
¼ cup olive oil
Directions:
- Prepare the tomatoes first. Parboil the tomatoes for one minute in boiling water that has just been removed from the burner and drain.
- Using a sharp small knife, remove the skins of the tomatoes and cut the tomatoes, remove the seeds and juice from their centers.
- Make sure there is a top rack in place in your oven and preheat the oven to 450 degrees Fahrenheit.
- While the oven is heating, chop up the tomatoes finely. Put the tomatoes, garlic, 1 tbsp. extra virgin olive oil, vinegar in a bowl and mix. Add the chopped basil. Add salt and pepper to taste.
- Slice baguette on a diagonal about ½ inch thick slices. Coat one side of each slice with olive oil using a pastry brush. Place on a cooking sheet, olive oil side down. Toast for 5-6 minutes or.
Shrimp Risotto served on an Asian Spoon
Ingredients:
1 cup risotto rice
3 tbsp. butter
1 large shallot, finely chopped
1 cup dry white wine (Sauvignon Blanc)
8 oz. clam juice or fresh seafood stock
2 cups of the smallest pink shrimp you can find
1 tbsp. finely chopped parsley
1 tbsp. finely grated lemon zest
salt
Directions:
- Add the clam juice to 4 cups of water in a pot, heat until steamy. Do not let it boil.
- In a separate pot (thick-bottomed), heat 2 tbsp butter over medium heat, and sauté the minced shallot for 2-3 minutes, until translucent.
- Add the rice to the pot. Stir-fry the rice for 2-3 minutes, until all the grains are well coated in butter and are beginning to toast.
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- When the wine is almost cooked away – under no circumstances should you let the rice sizzle on the bottom of the pot – pour in two ladles of the hot clam broth-water mixture. Stir well to combine, and add a healthy pinch of salt.
- Stirring almost constantly, let this liquid reduce until it is almost gone, then add another ladle of broth. Continue this until the sauce coats the back of a spoon. Take the spoon to see if it needs more salt, if so, add a small pinch.
- Now add in the shrimp, parsley, and the remaining tablespoon of butter. Stir constantly until this last cup of broth is about half gone: Remember you want this risotto to be loose and creamy.
- Right before you serve, add lemon zest and serve at once. Best served with bowls and spoons rather than plates and forks.
Red Wine
Barbera d‘afti Wine
2000′s Inspired Playlist
Here is a great playlist to allow your guests a taste of the new decade.
- Black Eyed Peas – Let’s Get It Started
- Kylie Minogue – Can’t Get You Out of My Head
- Avril Lavigne – Complicated
- Nickelback – How You Remind Me
- Nelly – Hot In Herre (Clean)
- Sean Paul – Get Busy
- Gorillaz – Feel Good Inc
- Dirty Vegas – Days Go By
- K-Os – Crabbuckit
- David Usher – Black Black Heart 2.0
- Len – Steal My Sunshine
- TLC – No Scrubs
- Snow – Everybody Want To Be Like You (Edit)
- Usher – U Got It Bad
- Coldplay – Yellow
- Norah Jones – Don’t Know Why
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Braves prepping for Citi Field introduction
New ballpark. Same old rivalry.
Say what you want about the cats and rats that existed at old dingy Shea Stadium. But you can’t deny the fact that there was almost always a great sense of excitement whenever the Braves traveled to play there over the course of the past decade.
Whether it was a creation of John Rocker’s pot stirring or just a sense of jealousy that developed during Atlanta’s run of consecutive division titles, there’s no doubt that Mets fans have grown to love to hate the Braves.
The most obvious love-hate relationship is shared by Chipper Jones and those Mets fans who have always showered him with chants of “Lah-REE”. You can bet that those same mocking references to his given name will be heard at Citi Field.
But for now, we can only hope that the modernized stadium in Queens creates the same type of hostile atmosphere that was present in Shea. There’s just something great about those moments when fans truly raise the game’s energy level.
Since the Braves moved into their modernized digs at Turner Field, there have been numerous moments when the fans have caused goose-bump-type atmospheres. But as many of you will attest, those moments occurred much more frequently during the early 1990s at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium.
Much of that had to do with the sudden sucees enjoyed by a previously pitiful Braves organization. But there’s also reason to wonder if the new stadium’s environment set the tone for a more tranquil atmostphere.
Whatever the case, Jones is hoping that Citi Field presents the same blue collar atmosphere as its predecessor.
It would be nice to see Jones’ sore right elbow prove to be healthy enough for him to be in the lineup for tonight’s series opener against the first-place Mets. We’ve got a nationally-televised game featuring a pair of aces (Derek Lowe and Johan Santana) who will both be attempting to prolong their respective team’s current success.
Jones’ participation would only add to the intrigue.
The primary reason the Braves have won four of their past five games stems from the fact that they’ve once again become whole with the returns of Brian McCann and Garret Anderson. Taking Jones out of the lineup would produce the same negative effect that manager Bobby Cox encountered far too often during the season’s first month.
Still there’s no indication that Jones is battling anything serious and so if you’re looking at the big picture, it won’t be a big deal if he needs just one more day to rest the elbow that he hyper-extended with two seperate swings on Sunday.
Winners of seven straight games, the Mets have every reason to feel good about the fact that Santana is taking the hill tonight. Still while asserting himself as the game’s top pitcher, the veteran left-hander is still winless in five career starts against the Braves.
During the four starts he’s made against the Braves since the start of the 2007 season, Santana is 0-2 with a 2.57 ERA. He has worked seven innings during each of those outings and allowed as many as three runs just once.
His most recent start against the Braves occurred on Sept. 13, when he tossed seven scoreless innings and then exited after allowing consecutive singles to begin the eighth. Two batters later, Jeff Francoeur tied the game with one of the six hits he recored last year in 33 at-bats with the bases loaded.
The numbers tell a lot about the game. But they don’t create the stories that develop.
As hot as Infante is hitting I don’t mind sitting Chipper for a game. I think they should rest Schaefer for a day or two as well. Put Garrett in CF and give Diaz some AB’s in LF.
While I agree with possibly seeing if we can get Schafer a day or so off, there is no way whatsoever that G.Anderson will be playing even one inning in CF.
That’s the problem, none of the other Outfielders are capable of giving Schafer a breather.
The only semi viable option would be Infante whom is a Middle infielder by trade.
That’s why I harp on the 4th outfielder thing from time to time.
Our 4th outfileder needs to be someone capable of playing CF to spell Schafer occassionally and someone that can replace G.Anderson daily for defensive purposes when Braves are leading.
Braves roster as currently constructed does not have anyone capable of filling that role.
I expect Wren to address that shortly though.
Ver much looking forward to the matchup tonight.
david, were you the one talking about the lack of a legit backup CF early in camp? If so, you were right then and you’re right again. Infante would be the top candidate to give Schafer a chance to rest and Francoeur would likely be the second choice…Bobby is sticking with Schafer because the kid can cover a lot of ground and compensate for some of those runs that he’s leaving stranded from an offensive perspective…I haven’t seen the lineup yet. But if Chipper is out, you can expect to see Infante at 2B and Prado at 3B.
Notice Brian Barton? He’s slumping lately in the minors but he seems to fit your bill pretty well… Wren already addressed the need, he is just waiting for it to be ready or for an injury…
An interesting pregame tidbit courtesy of the Braves PR dept… Lowe and Santana both have 110 wins since the start of the 2002 season…Roy Halladay (119) and Roy Oswalt (116) are the only pitchers with more wins during this span.
Yeah that was me Mark talking about the 4th OF problem in ST.
Nothing against Diaz, I understand he’s a good guy and a good clubhouse presence.
That being said though our 4th Outfielder needs to be a player that can spell Schafer from time to time, spell Francoeur periodically and replace Anderson daily late in games.
To my way of thinking that guy(4th OF type) needs to be added immediately.
Then the question becomes who better serves the team as the 25th player? Diaz as a 5th (not 4th) Outfielder? Or a 12th pitcher?
I for one think the extra position player will provide more of a benefit than the 12th pitcher for this particular team. With the Innings eating nature of the staff and having Carlyle and Bennett that can both seemingly pitch repeatedly for multiple innings.
I don’t expect Bobby to go with 11 pitchers though.
As this team is presently constructed Diaz can not be the 4th outfielder.
Open letter to Frank Wren (and Bobby can read it too):
Listen, Mr. Wren: I have a ticket for Wednesday’s game. Could you please do us all a favor and option Jo-Jo? I know Hanson pitched too recently for the call-up, but could you bring up Kris Medlen or Charlie Morton for the game? Jo-Jo knows too many ways to lose, cf. the error on the throw Friday night that led to four unearned runs, to go with the four earned runs he allowed in five innings. If that won’t work for you, how about Buddy Carlyle or James Parr starting on Wednesday? We keep being told how Reyes has improved, but every time he pitches, it’s the same old thing. Thanks.
Just a q, I keep reading about how fast Vazquez throws, but I don’t remember seeing him blowing any by batters – what is his average fastball, and what can he get up to?
Does Lowe have anything better than an average fastball? We seem to be a pitch to contact team, rather than a K team, other than Vazquez… Just curious.
Medlen just got through throwing another shut out today, season ERA down to 0.96 now. Hanson was yesterday. Charlie is on Jo Jo’s day, and he is on the 40 man roster, but he is by no means an equal to either Hanson or Medlen.
As for “dingy old Shea Stadium,” I saw many a Braves/Mets game there, from seats all over the stadium. I saw Tony Cloninger pitch a ONE-HITTER on 9/11/65, with the only hit being a double that bounced off Henry Aaron’s glove in right field; I saw David Palmer drill Darryl Strawberry in the butt after Gary Carter hit a home run; and I witnessed Idon’t know how many Braves home runs from Mr. Aaron, to Gene Oliver, to Ossie Virgil, to Andres Gallaraga, to Chipper. I was there for John Smoltz’s national league record 55th save (in Tom Glavine’s last Braves win before his Mets exodus) and I was there when Willie Harris went over the wall to bring back a home run in a game won by Tim Hudson in 2007. I liked Shea. Heck, you could name a kid after it.
The Braves are second in the majors in strikes out as a pitching staff. The teams tied with them have both played more games. Hardly a pitch to contact staff outside of JJ.
A lot of those are probably coming from the pen, though. Lowe is a sinker-baller, Kawakami is getting K’s but should be getting less and less HRs as well, Vazquez I will give you, he leads the majors which gives us the advantage, but still, what is Vazquez’s speed?
you dont have to throw 95 mph to get a K, Greg Maddux is the prime example. What alot of people dont know is that he is 10 all time in K’s. and he never threw 95mph
ckane.. i was also at the game where Willie Harris robbed the home run with his leaping catch. One of the best games I’ve ever been to.
The new Citi Field is an amazing stadium. It didn’t seem like there was a bad seat in the house, though mine were hard to beat (5 rows back on the left field line). Even better was seeing Lowe beat Santana. According to my memory, every time our ace has gone up against Santana, we have beaten him. Hudson, Smoltz, and now Lowe. Though it’s a shame that Santana took the loss tonight. It should have been given to the bullpen or Jose Reyes, if that were possible. Bobby took a chance by putting Diaz in the cleanup spot because of his success against JS and it worked very well. I hope Jurjjens can keep it up tomorrow. It’s always great sweeping the Mets in their own stadium.
All they talked about all off-season is the perception that Lowe isn’t an ace. Kiss my *** Mutts fans.
Yeah, unfortunately the Braves have 2 aces at the moment, an ace out of his prime, and another who has yet to pitch a big league game. We totally should’ve signed Oliver Perez so he could’ve taught Hanson what not to do in the bigs while spending time down at Gwinnett.
Vivabeta, Lol that was funny but I think we’ve got that already in the form of a cheaper, right handed Japanese pitcher. Great win tonight, probably 2nd only to the extra innings game against Washington. I feel a little bit concerned about calling Hanson an “ace” until 2011. He’s still just a kid, and can’t be expected to lift this team up onto his shoulders yet (although I hoping never). As for the CF situation, according to the Braves depth cart, Infante is penciled in as a Centerfielder.
Let’s keep the Ace talk centered on Lowe for now, and we can just slide Tommy into the 4th starter role. Then it’s just baseball. Tonight should be interesting on the Jo Jo front. He really should be heading to Buffalo to meet back up with the G-Braves. It is hard to imagine he would be allowed to dampen the role they are on again with another of his “he looked good for 5 innings” starts where we lose 7-3.
Gwinnett is on the road, so they might pull the trigger today because of travel, if they are going to do anything besides pencil in another loss to a division opponent in Jo Jo’s spot. Heck Jo Jo is the 4th or 5th guy in Gwinnett ‘s rotation right now.
Unfortunately, I think the most we can hope for this time around is a Charlie Morton start until the Glavine situation resolves itself.
Great win! Clutch hits! Great pitching! Stepping up in a big game! Who was that team out there and what have they done with my Braves?
However…
Mr. Schafer, Andruw Jones just called. He said you strike out too much.
Say what you will about Steve Phillips, he hit the nail on the head about Jordan last night. He simply cannot hit or catch up to a major league fastball. 43 strikeouts in 100 at bats is ridiculous. Especially as a number 8 hitter. With the pitcher on deck, you should see nothing but pitches to hit!
Here are some unfortunate stats:
Josh Anderson (55 ab’s) – BA – .327, SB – 6, RBI’s – 7, K’s – 8
Jordan Schafer (106 ab’s)- BA – .217, SB – 1, RBI’s – 3, K’s – 43
With our lead off hitter hitter hitting .217, how much could we use Anderson right now? It is what it is, but man that one hurts. Schafer needs a trip to Gwinnett to find his swing and learn how to hit a major league fastball. There’s no shame in that. He made a great impression on the fans and organization. We’re not doing him any favors by throwing him out there every night. He’s flying open more than a barn door in a tornado. Every time he strikes out he looks more and more deflated. What do you guys think? I just don’t see him finding it up in the bigs.
Sorry – Kelly Johnson is hitting .242 not .217
bravomania, I thick Schafer should go on the DL and let his wrist heal completely. I can see him swinging weakly at pitches and trying to use the rest of his body to overcompensate for his bottom hand, and that’s destroying his mechanics.
I could see a Schafer to the DL, and Barton to CF scenario for a week or two, complete with a “rehab” stint in AAA for Jordan, and an evaluation at the end of the 15 days as to whether Barton can hang in the Majors or not. Barton, if ready, could add a pinch runner to the pinch hitter requirement as well.
Of course that starts the lose Diaz or Norton drums beating even louder.
It is a tough call to be sure. No clear cut winner in the sweepstakes right now in the organization.
The “what to do when Chipper is out” conversation had better not produce a scrabble these days, as it is and has been obvious for some time that there are 40 -50 games a year that will be falling into that category. National announcers don’t seem to have that memo. A healthy Chipper down the stretch is a bonus more than an expectation these days. A very nice bonus.
Hello? Mr. Wren? It’s getting closer to game time on Wednesday. Jo-Jo is still on the roster and scheduled to pitch tomorrow. Can we get some help here? Okay, Medlen and Hanson can’t pitch on the 12th, but Charlie Morton can. I know he’s a righty, and Jo-Jo is a lefty, and Beltran is better from the left side—do you really want Jo-Jo to “build” on his last start? As Yogi said, “It get late earlier and earlier,” when Jo-Jo pitches. Is it the air fare? Is Jo-Jo dating your sister? C’mon!
I meant the 13th—you can see that the thought of watching Jo-Jo trying to “find his arm slot” is more than a Braves fan for 52 years can take.
I watched a video of Mike Gonzalez on AJC and he said someone had written a song for him? What song?
Yesterday I wrote about Shea Stadium. Today: the Polo Grounds. 47 years ago today I saw my first Braves games. A Saturday double header at the PG. Warren Spahn lost the first game when, leading 2-1 in the bottom of the 9th, he gave up a 250 foot home run to Hobie Landrith. Loss #1. In the second game, Joe Torre was letting Carl Willey’s pitches hit him in the chest–he wasn’t even trying to catch them. Bottom of the 9th, 7-7 score. Gil Hodges hits a pinch hit home run off Hank Fischer. Loss #2. Thank God Braves won Friday night and Sunday, or I’d have had to miss school on Monday. Those were the days—Spahn, Burdette, Mathews, Aaron, Crandall…. Keep watching, you’ll remember these things.
I agree with maybe putting Schafer on the DL to heal his wrist and his mind, and I agree with Rother that Barton should be given a shot in center for those 15 days. With him on the bench, he provides some speed and an occasional right handed bat in center. I do think that Diaz should stay. His bat is too good to get rid of and he’s a decent left fielder. Norton is a good guy to have on the bench especially cause he’s a switch hitter, but he’s not exactly a Matt Stairs type of bench guy. Without him there would be times where we wouldn’t have someone who could hit lefty off the bench late in the game. But then again, Infante and Prado are both good against right handed pitching.
The joys of the 25 man roster. | http://markbowman.mlblogs.com/2009/05/11/braves-prepping-for-citi-field-introduction/?like=1&source=post_flair&_wpnonce=1241f9cf41 | 2013-05-18T10:41:08 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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January 10, 2011
Canadians, FaceBook and Healthcare
I am a believer that FaceBook can have positive influence on healthcare. With so many healthcare stakeholders involved on the network, it seems like the perfect place for everybody to get connected. Just looking at the number of people who are members of this network should be enough to make any marketer stop in their tracks and decide whether they should reach out and engage with their target audience on this medium. And over the past couple of years, there have been several reports that have suggested that Canadians really 'like' their FaceBook time (yes, that was an intentional pun, but it is true). The most recent report that I have seen was the one from eMarketer.com's November 29th 2010 post "Canadians Say Yes to Social Media".
Almost 10 million Canadians went on FaceBook per day in September 2010. That is a lot of people when you consider that the Canadian population in 2010 is estimated at just over 34 million people by Stats Canada.
If that is not enough to convince you to at least consider whether FaceBook fits into your strategic objectives, take a look at the video clip below. It is part of Time's Person of the Year issue, in which Time put together a fascinating video clip showcasing statistics about what happens on FaceBook in 1 minute . The statistics are global, not Canadian-specific, but it is worth taking a look at.
The facts from the video are noted below in case you are having trouble viewing the video:
- Shared links: 50,304
- Photos tagged: 66,168
- Event invites: 74,204
- Wall posts: 79,364
- Status updates: 82,557
- Friend requests: 98,604
- Photos uploaded: 135,849
- Messages sent: 231,605
- "Likes": 382,861
If you need more Canadian-specific stats to help you make your decision, here are a few articles that you might find helpful:
If you are interested in seeing examples of various healthcare FaceBook pages, just go to the Dose of Digital social media wiki. Here, you will find lots of creative uses of FaceBook from all over the world. Keep in mind that advertising and promotion guidelines for healthcare products vary from country to country, so some of the examples that you will find in the wiki may not be suitable for Canada.
I am not suggesting that all healthcare marketers jump on board and set up a FaceBook page. It needs to make sense for your business. Social media is nothing more than a tactic designed to help you reach your organization's strategic objectives. What I am suggesting is that all healthcare marketers should take the time to at least consider whether FaceBook fits their strategic goals or not. For marketers who are not on FaceBook themselves (and I know quite a few are out there), it might seem a little bit overwhelming and obscure to market in this new environment, but that should not stop anybody from at least considering the possibility that the fit might be there for the target audience. Do a little bit of monitoring to see where your audience hangs out, and if they are already on FaceBook, then you might want to join them there.
If you have considered a FaceBook page and decided to forego it, what is stopping you from setting one up? Leave a comment below.
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February 5, 2010
CAMH – Mental Health Conversations on Wikis, Podcasts, and Mainstream Social Media
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February 3, 2010
CaringVoices: Princess Margaret Hospital Offers Online Support for Cancer Patients
This week, my blog series will be focusing on several Canadian healthcare online social networks. This is part 3 of 5. The previous posts of the series can be found here;
- Upopolis: Social Media for Kids in Hospitals
- TeenConnector.ca: Where Canadian Teens with Cancer Connect
January 29, 2010
Do Canadian patients trust others like them?
Next week, I will be posting a blog series on Canadian healthcare social networks; 1 network reviewed per day! These are online communities where Canadian patients (and sometimes patients from other countries as well), share healthcare-related, and sometimes very personal information with one another.
As such, I was interested in learning more about how Canadian patients who connect with one another on online communities trust the information that they are receiving from one another. My immediate thought was to connect with the Edelman group.
If you have ever talked with somebody who either had been diagnosed with a similar disease or was taking a similar treatment as you, did you trust the information that you were given by that person? Chances are pretty good that you would have trusted the information given by that person, but not as much as in previous years.
The 2008, 2009 and 2010 Edelman Trust Barometer reports confirm this. 'very credible' or 'extremely credible' (down from 47% in 2009, and 58% in 2008). That's a huge drop over the past 3 years!
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Interestingly, the "person like yourself" is the only group that actually decreased in trust from 2009 to 2010. All other information sources either increased in trust or remained the same. It makes you wonder what happened to make us lose so much trust in people similar to ourselves. Unfortunately, the Edelman report does not give an answer to this question. They do provide insight though, regarding the increase in trust in the other groups;
"In a volatile year, it seems that informed publics value guidance from credentialed experts over a “person like me,” which lost ground as a credible voice of information for a company (figure 8). This desire for substantial information points to why academics and experts, and financial or industry analysts are the most trusted spokespeople for a company."But do these global statistics reflect Canadian trust? The Edelman reports provide global and some country data, but do not break down any Canadian data. The Edelman group in Toronto agreed to dig up the Canadian information for me. However, at the time of publishing this post, the 2010 Edelman Trust report had just been released a few days prior, and the Canadian data was not yet available. It should become available within the next 2 months, and the Edelman group in Toronto has promised to send me some Canadian statistics as soon as possible (yup, I`ll be posting that info for you as soon as I get it). But in the meantime, the Edelman group in Toronto was kind enough to send me some Canadian statistics from the 2009 report;
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Why Keep a Football Coach Who Loses?
Besides being a football coaching legend and a philantropist to Penn State, PSU head football coach Joe Paterno is also "the university's most valuable fund raiser" according to this article in The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription required).
Here's an excerpt from the article:
""He and I were once on a donor visit together," recalls Graham B. Spanier, the university's president, in an e-mail message. "We had rehearsed ahead of time that I would describe the project and that Joe would then ask the donor for the lead gift of $3-million, a figure our development folks had determined was the maximum we could ask for.
"When it came time to ask for the donation, Mr. Paterno spontaneously upped the ante by $2-million."My heart skipped a beat," Mr. Spanier says.
The donor, however, pledged the $5-million."
So the PSU football team isn't winning like it used to and attendance is down. But PSU's president believes that replacing Joe Pa as head coach would probably hurt university donations more than than it could help football revenues. | http://marketpower.blogspot.com/2004/12/why-keep-football-coach-who-loses.html | 2013-05-18T10:22:09 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
El 10/05/12 00:15, Asa Dotzler escribió:
I think you overestimate the number of community members using Linux. At the last summit we had, I did some informal polling and Linux was a tiny minority of our active community represented there. Mac was most used, followed by Windows, and then, in a distant third, Linux.
Summit is a meeting for 500 people, and our community a way bigger. Most communities are creating around open source/linux enthusiasts, I can speak about the Mozilla Hispano and European communities I know where the vast majority uses linux..
If there are even half as many Linux users in our community as you suspect, then it shouldn't be hard to find some of them with the skills to work on the Firefox App integration problems. Assuming that Mozilla-paid Linux hackers are busy with higher priority items, then we need to find some volunteers to help.
As Santiago mentioned, "The number of Linux users in the community don't necessarily determine the number of Linux hackers", we can ask for help finding these hackers to the community.
Also I think that one of the great things about mozilla is that now we have money to spend hiring people in areas we think are important and where we need people working full-time to help volunteers.
The problem here is that some people don't consider that spreading money or resources on Linux support it's good due it's market share and I think that's not good. If we have the possibility to do whatever we can to support an OS which share our values and that most people that empowers mozilla use, we should do it, as we did in the past supporting for example Theora and Xiph.org even its market share was tiny.
This seems to most volunteers as a Business-minded strategy and completely opposite to our values. Linux is very important for mozilla and for the volunteers in particular. How are we suppose to defend or present a technology we can't run on our laptops?
If we lose linux supporters, we'll lose the passion and mozillians which are behind, and that would have a big and negative impact to the whole project. Can you imagine mozilla without all open source and linux supporters? I can't because that wouldn't be mozilla as we know it anymore.
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coeount milk, green curry paste, bamboo shoots, bell peppers, eggplants and basil
Kang Pa
water base red curry with bamboo shoots, eggplants, bell peppers, basil and aromalie herbs
Massaman Curry
coconut milk, massaman curry paste, onions, peanuts and potatoes
Panang Curry
coconut milk, panang curry paste, bell peppers, kaffir lime leaves and basil
Red Curry
coconut milk, red curry pasta bamboo shoots, bell peppers eggplants and basil
Red Curry with Roasted Duck
roasted duck red curry paste coconut milk tomatoes, and pmeapple eggplants and basil
Yellow Curry
coconut milk, yellow curry paste onions and potatoes
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Garlic Fish
fish (steamed or fried) topped with garlic sauce
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Duck
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crisp half duck topped with served vegetables and oyster sauce
Basil Duck
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Cashew Duck
crisp tali duck topped with cashew nuts onions, pineapple, carrots hell peppers, mushrooms, gren onions and sweet toasted chili sauce
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crisp half duck served with spicy black soy sauce
Garlic Duck
crisp half duck topped with garlic sauce
Stir - Fried
Amazing Cashew Nuts
cashew nuts, prneapple, carrots, onions, bell peppers, mushrooms, green onions and sweet toasted chili sauce
Basil Eggplants
eggplants, bell peppers, basil and chili sauce
Broccoli with Oyster Sauce
broccoli garlic and oyster sauce
Fresh Ginger
fresh ginger, salted soy bean green onions, carrots, onions and mushrooms
Hot Basil
bell peppers, basil, chili sauce, onions and carrots
Mixed Vegetables
assorted vegetables, garlic and oyster sauce
Perfect Garlic
fresh and crisp garlic, pepper, steamed mixed vegetables, cilantro and oyster sauce
Praram Long Song
steamed meat and vegetables topped with peanut sauce and crisp shallots
Sweet & Sour
your choice of meat with onions currots, pincapple, green onions, tomatoes, cucumber and sweet & sour sauce
Noodles
Coconut Noodles
rice vermicelli, bean sprouts, chives and tofu sauteed in coconut sauce
Curry Noodles
rice noodles in curry sauce, bean sprouts, green onions, cilantro tofu radish, peanuts, crisp shallots and hard boiled egg
Drunken Noodles
stir- fried big flat noodles, egg, onions, basil, chili bell peppers and tomatoes
Pad Si-ew
stir-fried big flat noodles, egg, Chinese broccoli in black soy sauce
Pad Thai
stir-fried rice noodles, pad thai sauce, radish, bean sprouts, egg, tofu chives and peanuts
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stir-fried bean thread. Pad Thai sauce, radish, bean sprouts egg, tofu chives and peanuts
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stir-fried big flat noodles topped with a thick gravy sauce and Chinese broccoli
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Coconut Soup (Tom Ka Gai)
lemony cocount soup with chicken, mushrooms, fish sauce and cilantro (One Person)
Hot & Sour Soup with Prawns (Tom Yum Goong)
tom yom soup with prawns, mushrooms, fish sauce and cilantro (One Person)
Hot & Sour Soup with Chicken
tom yum soup with chicken, mushrooms, fish sauce and cilantro (One Person)
Tofu Soup
tofu, chicken, mushrooms, green onion and cilantro
Po Tak
light lemony soup with fish, prawns, calamari, mussel, mushrooms, fish sauce mushrooms, basil and cilamre
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Beef Salad
lettuce, grilled beef, house salad dressing, red onions, green onions, cilantro and roasted rice powder (recommend try it with thai sticky rice)
Calamari Salad
lettuce, calamari, lemon grass red and green onions, cilantro and sweet toasted chili dressing
Larb (Your Choice of Chicken or Beef or Pork)
cooked ground meat, bouse salad dressing, roested rice powder, mint, red onions, green onions, calamari and lettuce, recommend try it with thai sticky rice
Papaya Salad
shredded green papaya house salad dressing tomatoes, green beans, garlic peanuts and lettuce (rccommend try it with thai sticky rice)
Prawn Salad
lettuce, grilled prawns, lemon grass, red onions, green onions, mini cilantro and sweet toasted chili dressing
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Crispy Shrimp (8)
served with sweet & sour sauce
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served with sweet & sour sauce
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lettuce, cucumber, carrots, meat basil rice noodles and cilantro in rice paper, served with sweet & sour sauce
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Simple Tofu
crunchy tofu served with peanut sauce
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crispy rolls filled with cabbage, carrots, mushrooms, celery and bean thread served with sweet & sour sauce
Thai Fish Cakes (6)
deep fried ground fish, chili paste, green beans and kaffir tune leaves served with sweet & sour sauce, cucumber, red onions, ground peanuts
Beverages Hot Coffee And Tea
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Basil Fried Rice
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Ginger Fried Rice
rice, ginger, peanuts, lime juice, carrots, egg, onions and green onions
Lemon Grass Fried Rice
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Pineapple Fried Rice
rice, pincapple, carrots, onions, egg, tomatoes, cashew nuts and curry powder
Sweet Toasted Chili Fried Rice
rice, cashew nuts, onions, scallions, bell peppers, egg, carrots and sweet chili pasta
Thai Fried Rice
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It’s good to get out of town sometimes. Last weekend, Becky and I took off for Colorado Springs, which, if you haven’t been there, is a fantastic little city, surrounded by incredible natural beauty (especially if you’ve been living in the Oklahoma Panhandle). I highly recommend the Garden of the Gods, which is just stunning. We saw it in twilight in between rainstorms–just fantastic. The price is right, too, as in free. Expensive but also worth it was the Royal Gorge Bridge and Park in Canon City, about 45 minutes from Colorado Springs. I was surprised at the price, $24 a person, but it gets you in for the day and includes the incline (Pittsburgh-style!) to the bottom of the gorge and the cable-car (think James Bond with the creepy guy with the special cut-through-cable-car-cables braces on top) across to the other side. Very good for the soul that has been in the High Plains. We also visited the US Air Force Academy for their church service on Sunday morning, which also happened to be their baccalaureate service. The chapel is, of course, iconic, and is more beautiful inside than outside. I’m a firm believer that the practice of architecture can be a form of worship. Becky and I used to attend a wonderful church that, unfortunately, had chosen to build a ”worship activities center.” I never got used to the basketball hoops hanging from the ceiling that were a major distraction for me on Sunday mornings. It is probably too “Western” of me to need a holy place to be constructed by human hands, and I don’t mean to make it sound that way… certainly Colorado Springs and the Pike’s Peak region abound with examples of perfectly holy places in which the work of human hands is, if not negligible, certainly not the dominant theme. I worry that many of the churches of the last quarter century were built as though they were just other buildings, without a sense of holiness. If you play basketball in the same place you worship, it doesn’t make your worship any less relevant to God, but it might make your worship less relevant to you.
So then, on Wednesday, I drove to Las Cruces, New Mexico. The drive is about nine hours from Guymon, Oklahoma, including stops. That means that because of the difference in time zones it takes eight hours to get there and ten to get back. I welcome a long, lonely drive, although not on a regular basis. There is no interstate; mostly US 54 to Alamogordo, where you pick up US 70. Until you get to Tucumcari, there is almost unmitigated flatness–just like the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles, but south of I-40, you cross ridge after ridge of mountains, and the two hours before Alamogordo are wonderful–the San Angelo range to the west and the Sacramento range to the east, with the White Sands dunes in between, always looming ahead. Then US 70 takes you west to Las Cruces over a fantastic pass.
I had a great rehearsal there with Nancy Joy and Fred Bugbee, the horn and marimba players (respectively) who are going to premiere my piece South Africa at the International Horn Symposium next week. The piece wasn’t perfect when they played it for me, but I learned a great deal about what works and what doesn’t work on marimba, and I know from what I heard that the premiere will be fantastic–Thursday, June 4 at 1:30pm at Western Illinois University, if you’re in the area.
Then it was off to dinner at Fred’s house with his charming and lovely family. We ate on their patio, and I started to understand why anyone would move the middle of the desert. I only wish Becky had been along!
So, next week I’m off on another trip, to Illinois for the premiere. Flying this time, but then in Chicago I’m going to pick up the train to Macomb. I hope that Obama’s plan to promote high-speed rail gets going–if you’re not in a hurry, the train is a great deal more comfortable than flying, as long as it goes where you want to go.
From that point on, I should more or less be home for the summer. I’ll be teaching Fundamentals of Music, which I always enjoy, and we’ll be looking for a new choir director–speaking of trips, our current director, Matthew Howell, is packing up his family for a move to Hawaii. Congrats, Matt! | http://martiandances.com/blog/?tag=hawaii | 2013-05-18T10:53:30 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
went and checked a couple trail cams this morning and this was on there, needless to say, im excited to get out there next weekend.
went and checked a couple trail cams this morning and this was on there, needless to say, im excited to get out there next weekend.
Is that one considered a big one or average?
The average north american black bear male is 250, female is 190, that is pretty average (the feeder makes it look smaller too, bottom of the feeder is about 6 ft off the ground), They are definatly not as impressive as a grizzly but still a pretty big surprise to see. I am whitetail hunting in the area, there are bear but pretty rare to see them where I am at. Plus I am in Arkansas so it doesnt get that cold so our black bears are smaller than other places that have them. Ill let you know what he weighs is he makes the mistake of getting in front of the cheetah any time this year.
getting him(or her?), and post'em up, WHEN you get it!
Coop
PS That hide is going to look good on your living room floor.
Any recommendations on a good trail cam without a flash that has a reasonable price tag? 300-.
I use Moultrie cameras but I use flash, the one I use is only about 100 and does really well, if you want to go no flash you will have to get infared which is more expensive but you can get a nice one for under 300. I cant make any recommendations as I havent used any of them though. | http://martinarchery.com/mtechforum/showthread.php?5816-Lucky-Doe&goto=nextoldest | 2013-05-18T10:11:36 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
/ Habitat Perspectives
October 29, 2003
Habitat Perspectives
Habitat perspectives is an online instalation that atempts to visualize spatio-temporaly the places we inhabit. Through GPS-capable mobile phones, participants will be posting geocoded images to an online shared space which starts as a black canvas. As participants post more and more content, a map of the city, and the map of each of the participants "places" will slowly start emerging.
One of ther reasons why Tokyo is such a mess as a city is that it is a tangled mess of intertwining main streets intersected and crisscrossed by back alleys and side streets.
Specially when you don't own a car, and you mainly travel by subway as most other citizens, one of the biggest problems you get in such a place is that you never get to mentally visualize the relationship among all the places you usually hang out at. You only know about "islands" in the city; you get in the subway in Shinjuku island, you pop-up in Shibuya island. The more you move around those spaces you'll slowly start turning them into neighborhoods, along with your own personal networks of places. If you asked a group of people to draw you a map of the city, you'll notice that all of them will be inevitably different - each of them will have their own particular perspective of their habitat.
This is currently work in progress, so as time allows, I'll be adding more functionality to it. Also, I'm currently looking for participants, so if you are interested in popping up in there, please don't hesitate to drop me a line: [ mail at marcosweskamp.com ]
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All About Me In 30 Days – Day 12
I first want to qualify that I am not truly OCD, at least I don’t think so, about anything. Not in the true definition of OCD at least.
But I AM picky about certain things being a certain way. One thing I am OCD about is my bed. It has to be made every day shortly after I get up. I cannot and will not get into the bed if it has not been made. I am not sure why this is but my bed must be made before I can get into it.
Part of it, in my opinion, goes back to my feeling that my bedroom should be my nest, my haven, my safe place. I like my room to be in order, things put away and the room clean. It gives me a sense of peace when I am in my room. I chose the color to help bring about warm and happy feelings, picked my bedding because when I saw it, it sparked good feelings. Things being put away and in order helps with that peacefulness.
I’ve always felt that the bedroom should be special. If married it should be a warm, inviting, restful place. Again, a nest and haven for the couple. It should be off limits to the rest of the family and to friends. Oh, and no animals. For now, because I am single, I really do not mind my cat being in my room, or the other cats that come in and sleep on the bed with me. But if I were married again, no animals share the bed or the room. Rover and the kittens can sleep in the guest room, on the floor outside the master bedroom, anywhere they like except mine and the spouse’s room.
The center of the bedroom is the bed, so the bed MUST be made. No ifs, ands, or buts about it.
We never make our bed. Seriously. Like never. But your way… is probably better.
OMG I’d never be able to do that!
My husband is OCD about the bed. He likes to bounce a quarter off of the sheets, I just want to sleep in it. I AM OCD about the dishwasher and the kids toys…makes me twitch just thinking about it!
Based on what my mum says to me though these moments dont happen very often at all and have all been condensed to form this piece my mum isnt a nag…What have Isaid about this room of yours? If you dont tidy that room of yours soon you and I will be having words.
I too am OCD about my bed. It must be made everyday. I am a nurse and have been that way since nursing school. My husband told me after the birth of our first child, he knew I was in pain, because I didn’t make the bed before I left for the hospital!!! duh
Oh if only men could experience labor with us! | http://marvimarti.com/2011/02/17/day-12-%E2%80%93-something-i-am-ocd-about/ | 2013-05-18T10:40:58 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Maryland Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)
PBIS Implementation Process
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Benchmarks of Quality
PBIS is a decision making framework that guides the selection, integration, and implementation of evidence-based academic and behavioral practices for improving outcomes for all students. It offers systems for schools to design, implement, and evaluate effective school-wide, classroom, non-classroom, and student-specific discipline plans. When implemented with fidelity school-wide, universal PBIS aims to reduce disruptive behavior problems, enhance school climate and create safer, more effective schools for ALL students. This is accomplished by targeting staff behavior and teaching students agreed upon behavioral expectations while promoting a shift from reactive, punitive practices to prevention and the promotion of positive behavior.
Based on the Public Health approach, PBIS is a three-tiered model which follows the public health approach to prevention by providing more intensive supports for students not responding adequately to a universal system of support. The PBIS Framework consists of four integrated elements: (a) data to support decision-making; (b) measurable outcomes supported and evaluated by data; (c) practices which provide evidence that outcomes are achievable and support students and staff, and; (d) systems that efficiently and effective support implementation of these practices. (PBIS Implementation Process).
The National Technical Assistance Center () on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) has provided guidance in the areas of statewide implementation; building district capacity, curriculum development for training and linkage to other education initiatives at the federal level. The Center is funded by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), United States Department of Education (USDE) to provide states, districts and schools with capacity-building information and technical assistance for identifying, adapting, and sustaining effective school-wide disciplinary practices.
PBIS Maryland Local Point(s) of Contact | http://marylandpublicschools.org/MSDE/divisions/studentschoolsvcs/student_services_alt/PBIS/?WBCMODE=Presen%25%3E%25%25%3E%25%3E | 2013-05-18T11:05:51 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
will receive training, resources, support, and coaching in the implementation of evidence-based programs (EBPs) to meet the needs of their students and school community. Sheppard Pratt Health System and Johns Hopkins will collaborate with MSDE in the implementation and evaluation of the Initiative.What is the purpose of the MDS3 Initiative?This Initiative builds on the State's meet this need to improve school climate and reduce discipline problems, bullying, and substance use problems and administered to students, parents, and staff at all enrolled participating high schools in the spring of 2011 and 2012. This climate survey will be administered annually through Practice (EBPs). Sheppard Pratt Health System assigns Climate Specialists to each school to facilitate the implementation of those strategies with high fidelity. The schools in the comparison group have access to the survey data and receive an annual honorarium for their participation. Finally, at the end of the grant period, the comparison schools will receive the training in the EBPs selected by the school.What will take place as a result of this funding?The overarching outcome of the initiative is to improve the conditions for learning in participating high schools which will be accomplished by: randomized (details follow). The creation and posting of these scores is a requirement of this grant and much consideration has gone into its calculation. However, there is no way to determine the "value" of the scores, at this time. It is important to view these scores as an initial calculation of BASELINE data collected through the early administration of a newly developed Climate Survey. We anticipate that as the grant continues and multi-year data become available, some conclusions may be drawn, but that is not the case at this time. | http://marylandpublicschools.org/MSDE/divisions/studentschoolsvcs/student_services_alt/mds3/?WBCMODE=Presresen%3E%25%3E%25%25%3E%25%3E | 2013-05-18T10:54:21 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
If I am homeless, where will my child go to school?As a homeless parent, you have the right to decide, along with your child’s school, whether it is in the best interest of your child to:Stay in the same school he or she attended before you became homeless (this is the “school of origin”); or transfer to the school that is closest to your new location.To the extent that is feasible, the Local School System will enroll your child in either school.What is in the “best interest” of my child; to stay in the same school or change schools?The decision about your child’s school enrollment will take into consideration factors such as:
If I am homeless, what documents do I need to enroll my child in school?
But, if you do not have these documents, your child cannot be denied entry. The school must help obtain any documents needed for enrollment.Can my child ride the school bus?Your child’s school will provide transportation for your child.You cannot be denied access to the school that is in the best interest of your child because of lack of transportation.
“… the Education for Homeless Children and Youth Program is to ensure that all homeless children and youth have equal access to the same free, appropriate public education, including public preschool education, provided to other children and youth” -Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance ActDoes my child have the same rights as other school children?Your child has the same rights to school programs and services as all children, including:
Who do I call if I have questions?Call your Local District's Homeless Education Coordinator:ALLEGANY (301) 759-2002
ANNE ARUNDEL (410) 518-9872
BALTIMORE CITY (410) 396-8904
BALTIMORE (410) 887-6485
CALVERT (410) 535-7234
CAROLINE (410) 479-3253
CARROLL (410) 386-1838
CECIL (410) 996-1050
CHARLES (301) 934-7326
DORCHESTER (410) 901-6940
FREDERICK (301) 644-5290
GARRETT (301) 334-8938
HARFORD (410) 588-5283
HOWARD (410) 313-7335
KENT (410) 810-3170
MONTGOMERY ( 301) 230-0686
PRINCE GEORGE’S (301) 925-2482
QUEEN ANNE’S (410) 758-2403
SOMERSET (410) 651-6269
ST. MARY’S (301) 475-5511
TALBOT (410) 822-0330
WASHINGTON (301) 766-2962
WICOMICO (410) 677-4469
WORCESTER (410) 635-5079 | http://marylandpublicschools.org/MSDE/programs/homeless/?WBCMODE=Pres%25%25%25%3E%25%25%25%3E%25%3E | 2013-05-18T10:22:52 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
The Gee's Bend Quilt stamps are finally in at the Post Office! The colors are a little off but I still like them.
Yesterday, Syd was bringing in some of her wonderful "Scissor Maidens"(and other cool stuff) to the coolest store in Santa Barbara, called Imagine ,and I got to come along. I brought some of my fiber art to show the owner and she asked me to make some of my stuffed rug hooked things to sell in the Fall! It will be so exciting to have some things in this wonderful store....it will fulfill one of my secret desires .........
So once I get my other projects completed I will be making more Gnomes, toadstools, birds and squirrels. We had a yummy lunch at CPK and a tiny bag of See's candy for desert...what a perfect day!
Above is one of my new hooked hearts.....and the first photo is
the funky cover of my little "to do" book that I tote around with me. the "crazy quilt" was originally a mini-skirt from the Gap which I cut up for fiber art projects and added to and embellished.... | http://marystanley.blogspot.com/2006_08_01_archive.html | 2013-05-18T11:03:14 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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On April 14th from 7-9PM at the Coolidge Corner Theater hosted the Semi-finals of massmouth’s Greater Boston Story slam series…. over 20 stories, 20 storytellers from all walks of life in a benefit performance for StoriesLive®, the first ever high school scholarship storytelling project
The 2nd place and audience choice winners told their story - live, no notes, props, songs or poems to a packed house. Among the tellers were a dairy farmer, a retired kindergarten teacher, radio producer, a marketing manager and a full time theater student. Storytelling connects us all and massmouth audiences and participants encompass a wide diversity of race, age, class and ethnicity. This has been an incredible season with more than half of each audience being introduced to story slams and storytelling. It’s clear to massmouth organizers that our high tech society is ripe for some low tech action – and the essentially human experience of storytelling is fitting the bill.
Last year, our final slam filled a 350 seat, Rabb Hall at Copley’s Boston Public library a went toward the scholarship fund for Stories Live®, massmouth’s initiative supported by a MassHumaniites.org grant and other funding, to teach storytelling as a performing art to 11th/12th grade high school students through shared oral personal narrative. Students are learning an indispensable life skill - the ability to tell a good story. 1000s of high school students and their teachers are a part of the learning and excitement inherent in our initial statewide, scholarship story slam competition.
We raised over $1,200 for our scholarship fund for the high school storytelling program, StoriesLive® as 175 people listened and enjoyed an amazing set of stories. The Coolidge Corner Theater was nearly full on April 14th as 16 semifinalsists, an Andover High School student from our program and many others offered up stories to a warm and welcoming crowd. The judges sent Farrah Haider, Susanne Boitano, Dan Dahari and Tori Piskin on to the finals, aka the Big Mouth Off on April 26th, 2011. Thanks to emcee Robin Maxfield and all who organized, supported, volunteered and listened. We raised another $109 for Partners in Health and we introduced a whole new audience to storytelling. Check out many more pictures from our wonderful photographer, Paula Junn @ massmouth.com "photos". Below is a post from the blog of contestant Farrah Haider. It gives you a peek behind the scenes and in the mind of a semifinalist...
massmouth finals
by
Farrah Haider
The lights are bright. I close my eyes, intent on gathering my thoughts and my energy as a tiny voice screams in my head, “Why in God’s name are you doing this?”
This is the massmouth semi-finals. I took part in my first slam a short month before as a creative outlet. When they told me I qualified for the semi-finals, I was like “semi-what?”
I never intended to get here. My only desire had been to share a story about my dual identity and how confusing it is to be from two places. But, I can’t help but soak it all in. Waiting in the wings while listening to the chatter of other tellers feels right, natural.
As my turn approaches, I stretch my neck and arms. I expected the butterflies to be worse but, as I walk out of the wings, the stage is like familiar ground. I refuse the microphone stand. I don’t want anything between the audience and me.
The timer starts. The hardest part of this whole affair has been cutting the story down from five minutes to three. You can’t just talk faster. Telling a story involves timing, pace, allowing the audience to absorb an emotion before you move on to the next segment. You must imagine that you are dragging them through the muck of your own experience. Too fast and they miss the sights. Too slow and you bore them. Do it right and they will come with you, willingly, joyfully.
Rehearsing pays off. I am able to put the time from my mind, as I know that my story will take me exactly ten seconds into my grace period.
The best part about telling a story is the audience’s reaction and this audience is wonderful. They listen intently allowing me to fill them with a little bit of my experience. And it pushes me to give them more of what is in my heart.
I can hear the applause as I walk off the stage. My fellow tellers are both supportive and encouraging. There is no competitiveness, despite it being a game. We are all in this together and you couldn’t ask for more graciousness.
When they announce my name as one of the four tellers to move on the finals, I am both humbled and ecstatic. I can’t imagine being a massmouth judge. So, finals are now a short ten days away. For me, being in the competition is enough. But, if I am really honest, the week at a medieval Tuscan townhouse doesn’t sound too bad either.
After all, God knows I need a vacation. | http://massmouth.blogspot.com/2011_04_18_archive.html | 2013-05-18T11:02:09 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
The Classic Greek Ladder and Newton's Method
Greek ladders for approximating square roots may be more ancient than the ancient Greeks. Students at any level can appreciate their beauty and simplicity. Those who have studied calculus can compare them with Newton's Method for approximating roots.
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For many students in early mathematics courses, their familiarity with approximations is limited to \( \sqrt{2}\approx{1.414} \), \( \sqrt{3}\approx{1.732} \), \( \pi\approx{\frac{22}{7}} \), and maybe a few more. But a topic of number theory, Diophantine Approximations (honoring Diophantus, a mathematician of Alexandria who lived circa 207 - 291 AD and wrote books called Arithmetica), involves approximating irrational numbers by ordinary reduced fractions. One of the approximation "tools" of ancient mathematicians is a construct called Greek ladders. Maybe Greek ladders will ignite your interest in approximations by ordinary fractions.
The phrase "classic Greek Ladder" is taken here to mean the infinite array that begins \[ \begin{array}{cc} 1 & 1\\2 & 3\\5 & 7\\12 & 17\\29 & 41\\70 & 99\end{array} \] where each rung \( \langle a \quad b \rangle \) is followed by \( \langle a+b \quad 2a+b \rangle \) and the approximations to \( \sqrt{2} \) are the fractions \( b/a \) ..
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by LUIGI RIVARA (posted: 10/17/2010 )
I read with big interest this article of Dr. Robert J. Wisner (also the article on the same subject
ÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ãâ¦Ã¢â¬ÅA disquisition of the square root of threeÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¯Ã¿Ã½).
It is very rewarding for a lover of mathematics as I am to find in Convergence article always very clear and very appealing.
The only point that was not clear to me in this article was relevant to the ÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ãâ¦Ã¢â¬Årating systemÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¯Ã¿Ã½.
I understand from a personal E-mail interchanged with Prof. Wisner that in Diophantine approximation the goal is to get a good approximation with a minimal denominator, but following this line for sqrt(3) we can have
these approximations:
5/3 with a rating of (-2,1) and a value 5/3=1,66666666666667
Or 19/11 with a rating of (-2,2) and a value 19/11 = 1,72727272727273
But the real value of sqrt(3) is 1,732051 therefore 5/3 is far from the value
Following the explanation
ÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ãâ¦Ã¢â¬Åin Diophantine approximation the goal is to get a good approximation with a minimal denominatorÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¯Ã¿Ã½
there is no need for proceed along because the approximation with a minimal denominator is always the first rung
I like to share also a my explanation of the formula reported for, always said that is not known how was found
For me this was the way
If we say that b/a = sqrt(N) we have
b^2/a^2 = N if we add to both said b/a we have
b/a + b^2/a^2 = N + b/a
b/a ( 1+b/a) = N + b/a
b/a = [N+ b/a] / (1+b/a) and with some manipulation
b/a = (a *N +b) /(a+b)
from which bn = an-1 * N + bn-1
an = an-1 + bn-1
Best reagards
Luigi Rivara
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1. Prove that R is equivalent to (0,1) and (0,1) is equivalent to [0,1]. Conclude that R is equivalent to R. Now prove that [0,1] is uncountable. Consider an arbitrary function f: J--> [0,1] and prove that im f is not equal to [0,1]. Thus, there is no function from J onto [0,1], and so [0,1] is uncountable. Suppose that T is a function from J to [0,1].
2. Show that there are sequences {a_n}from infinity when n=1 and {b_n} from infinity when n=1 such that [a_1, b_1] is a subset [0,1], and for each n E J, [a_n+1 , b_n+1] is a subset [a_n, b_n] and T(n) is not an element of [a_n, b_n]
3. Show that {a_n} from infinity when n=1 converges; call the limit A.
4. Prove that A E [a_n, b_n] for each n E J. Conclude that A is not an element im T.
5. Finish the proof that [0,1] is uncountable. | http://mathhelpforum.com/differential-geometry/81631-prove-set-real-numbers-not-countable-set-print.html | 2013-05-18T10:46:13 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Personal Statement
Your personal statement is essentially an interview and is an important part of the application package. It is a critical factor in deciding whether or not to accept you. The personal statement is designed to tell admissions who you are. Depending on the topic you choose, the essay you write provides additional evidence of your intellectual and creative achievement. The essay is also the only opportunity for the readers of your application to get a feel for you as a person as well as a student. So you should present yourself as a person, not just a list of achievements.
Getting Started: Selecting a Topic
Writing your personal statement can be one of the most satisfying (or frustrating) writing experiences you will ever have.
Here are a few ideas that you may have taken for granted that would be of interest to admissions committees-
- Experiences that changed your perspective, or perception.
- Major achievements, your college or extracurricular experience, or significant books that have influenced your thinking.
- Life events, changes, or significant people in your life.
You can combine some of these elements, if necessary, but it is better to do fewer topics in depth, than to skim over several topics.
Writing Process
The Writing Process
Once you have selected a topic, it is time to sit down and work on drafting the statement:
- Write clearly and avoid dense prose. Lawyers must write with clarity and precision.
- You should write positively and with enthusiasm for yourself and do not make excuses. This is your personal statement; it should be personal and show that this is about you and who you are. Be careful with quotations. Quotations of people who know you well can come across as a characterization you have chosen to adopt rather than a demonstration of whom you are.
- Make sure to have strong openings and closings because these are what your statement will be remembered for.
- Open with a statement that is in your own voice and relates to who you are.
- Carry a theme throughout the statement, and tie it in at the conclusion.
- Make them feel it! Inspire them; appeal to more than just the reader's intellect, and you stand a better chance of admissions wanting to meet you in the fall.
- Rewrite and edit your statement as you get opinions from outside sources. The personal statement is an important part of your application package.
There is no one correct way to write a personal statement, but in general those who will read your essay are looking for two important things:
- HOW the essay provides evidence of your achievements that isn't reflected in other parts of your application
• law school education is important to you.
Do’s & Don’ts
What To Do
- Use Standard English grammar
- Spell and punctuate properly
- Follow all directions
- If a specific question is asked be sure to answer it
- Be straightforward
What Not To Do
- Avoid the overuse of thesaurus, or use of clichés
- Do not mention a law school other than the one to which you are sending that copy of the statement
- Do not just rehash information
Guidelines That Apply To All Law School Applicants
No matter where you are in your career or your life, there are a few rules that apply to everyone.
- Clearly defined and articulated reasons for why you desires School of Law as your first choice? know that you want to continue at the same school? Is the diverse student body the right match for your unique background? Follow the above guidelines and let the admissions committee know why you should be admitted, and they will have every good reason to send you a letter of acceptance! | http://matrix.scranton.edu/academics/cas/pre-law/personal-statement.shtml | 2013-05-18T10:53:15 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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This year, our celebration will be held at The Inn at Nichols Village on Saturday, November 9, 2002. Please mark your calendar and plan to join us for this important occasion. As we celebrate the accomplishments of our newest members we will also celebrate our general membership….All Iota Omega members committed to the pursuit of excellence in clinical practice, education, research and leadership new and ongoing….Please plan to attend! | http://matrix.scranton.edu/academics/pcps/nursing/sigma/fall-induction.shtml | 2013-05-18T11:02:55 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Starships Unlimited: Divided Galaxies is a balanced and creative game experience
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So vigorous and addictive, it breathes new life into a hoary old genre.
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Starships Unlimited: Divided Galaxies is best described as a finely tuned upgrade to the shareware game. In truth it's more of a "gold" edition than a sequel.
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Starships Unlimited is a game that's as remarkable for its humble shareware beginnings as it is for its elegant design.
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Starships Unlimited combines the flow of real-time strategy games with the detailed control of turn-based games.
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Cantina, Ventnor
Matt and Cat are well-known to the staff and management of Cantina, so despite requests from readers they have not visited as reviewers, thinking an anonymous review would be impossible.
Or would it? They sent instead James - Ventnor writer and gentleman. Matt and Cat promised to publish his unexpurgated views, both praise and criticism. Read on to see what James made of Cantina.
I feel sure that many readers of M&C's eating out guide have felt a little envious at times. To be able to potter about the Island, anonymously photographing and describing eating experiences both good and bad sounds like a good wheeze. I've always thought so anyway, so I was excited to be given the opportunity to report on a local restaurant for them.
Pausing only to invite a charming and witty dining companion to join me on my undercover mission, I booked a table for two. It was a mild but drizzly October evening when Hannah (my companion du jour), and I arrived on Ventnor’s attractively curvy promenade. The lights of the seafront’s various eateries played romantically over the rolling waves, but few folk were venturing out into the damp air.
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Pink serpentines are cute pink earrings in silver wire and beads. Unique design.
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Planning to vote in the June 12 primary, but you aren't sure where your polling place is located?
If you aren't sure what district you live in, visit the State Election Commission website and type in your address.
Check out this list of polling places from Greenville County Registration and Elections. | http://mauldin.patch.com/articles/where-do-you-vote-find-your-precinct-here-ffa27151 | 2013-05-18T11:03:23 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Why America’s Top Detergent Is a Black Market Hit In The Global ‘Currency Wars’ (Or, Why Paul Krugman Wants To Deposit A Bottle Of ‘Tide’ At The Fed And Call It $1 tr. Dollars).
Is it shiffable like bath salts ?
Still actively exploring 707 aforementioned, trillion-dollar coins.
Along those same lines as that previous counterfactual:
Tide as currency:
I’m stacking!
I mean warehousing,
I mean sudsing!!
It is really difficult to believe this story, but it keeps popping up. Maybe I need to go over to the West Side of town today and see if I can actually get some crack for some Tide?
A $20 bottle of Tide goes for $5 cash on the street, or $10 in drugs. Well that’s just poor economics bro.
This video made little sense to me, aside from the fact that the bottle is more attractive than its nearest competitor. | http://maxkeiser.com/2013/01/27/why-americas-top-detergent-is-a-black-market-hit-in-the-global-currency-wars/ | 2013-05-18T11:02:23 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Thank you!!! I appreciate that, and I'm sure all the Andy Griffith fans will to. I think "The Andy Griffith Show Wiki" will work great :) Again, appreciate the love! -- 07:00, July 18, 2012 (UTC)
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April 07, 2006
WIPTE 2006: Lunch, the way it should be...
Interesting lunch with folks from Virginia Tech and Clemson U.
VirginiaTech engineering is making TabletPC a requirement for incoming freshmen in their engineering school. This is their plan for supporting the technology, as per a very concerned member of their community attending WIPTE:
" Uh, Um... wha..? "
They should be scared... very scared. This kinda makes me realize, all those anti-technology forces in my world, they are doing a good job of preventing such "accidental" impositions. I feel sorry for the incoming freshmen. If I were a journalist, I would follow up this lead with an investigation. he he.
anyhoo, we moved on to an interesting conversation about microsoft and the good stuff it was doing to the world:
- TabletPC SDK - free, simple and easy to use.
- ConferenceXP - free, opensource
- supporting this first conference
We discussed the way Microsoft has made attempts to change the ways in which the world looks at it, especially geekdom.
Now when presenters take unjustified potshots at MSFT. Makes the presenters sound dated. Then we marvelled at the internal process improvement video "If Microsoft Designed the iPod:"
Linked from youtube.com:
Posted by rdivecha at April 7, 2006 12:52 PM | http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/~rdivecha/archives/2006/04/wipte_2006_lunc.html | 2013-05-18T10:41:16 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
It’s practically impossible to get lost in the shuffle at MCA. Our size and structure guarantee that. Nonetheless, we always go out of our way to keep you on track with activities to help you get acquainted, keep you informed, help you choose classes and careers and have fun.
Beginning with Orientation, we host a three-day seminar designed so that you will fully understand what’s expected of you as a student at MCA. We cover drawing classes and critique sessions, library research and writing lab experience, career education, and a thorough immersion into the things important to your success in art school.
Later in the semester, you can follow the crowd to community dinners, movie nights and bowling — great chances to meet and hang-out with other students. More scholastically oriented, off-campus activities designed to make the most of your time at MCA include internship programs, a consortium exchange program with four local colleges and 43 national and international art colleges; yearly museum seminar tours to places such as New York, Mexico City or Paris; the Horn Island Summer Workshop, and the New York Studio Program. On the less academic side of travel opportunities, you will find the annual winter ski trip and the annual fall canoe trip — just for fun.
Get involved in the Student Alliance and have a say in how things are done on campus. The Student Alliance serves as an advisory council to the administration on student matters and helps provide a cohesiveness to student life by sponsoring a number of social events each year (such as the annual Hallowe’en party featuring the most outlandish costumes this side of Carnival).
Sometimes things don’t seem so promising and aren’t quite as much fun. We know that the stress of school and other responsibilities can be challenging. If you feel the need for personal counseling, an on-campus professional can help and even make referrals.
Just as art transcends time and place, MCA transcends Memphis culture as an island of artistic endeavor. You’ll find many different kinds of people here: students who have traveled halfway around the world to study art, and students who have never left Memphis; students on a straight career path, and students who have yet to find themselves; thirty- or forty- somethings working toward a second career or fulfilling a long-held dream of studying art, and recent high school graduates.
In spite of these differences, the MCA student body, faculty, and staff are often referred to as a family. What binds this diverse population tighter so strongly? Call it a passion for art, call it pursuit of a common goal – the MCA community is made up of people who have a vision and who have no trouble thinking big. Even a visitor can feel the energy as lively discussions drift out of classrooms and students laden with portfolios, fresh paint smudged fingers and clothes, hurry to their next class.
MCA’s office of Student Life offers activities to help you get acquainted, keep you informed, and help you choose careers and classes. At the beginning of each semester we offer several days of orientation, not because we think you can’t find your way around the building, but because you need to know what’s expected of you.
Later in the semester you can go on the annual canoe trip or ski weekend. Three times each semester the faculty and staff provide food for a community dinner get together and the students have movie night or the annual Talent(less) show to follow. MCA’s on thesStreet gallery downtown is a gathering place each month for Memphis’ Trolley Tour of local gallery shows.
It seems as there is no shortage of things for you to do when you get here. As much as we try to keep you immersed in art and academia it’s amazing how much time you can find for fun. You and your friends may go to the nearby Hi-Tone for music or catch a night game at Auto Zone Park to see the Redbirds play. Basketball fans can see the Grizzlies at the FedEx Forum.
When the administration at the college needs help in student affairs, the Student Alliance serves as an advisory council on student matters. The Alliance also helps provide a cohesiveness to student life by sponsoring a number of social events each year, such as the Halloween party with the most outlandish costumes this side of Carnival, monthly luncheons with the President, and the much looked forward to end-of-the-semester bash.
Sometimes things aren’t so much fun and the stress of school and responsibilities can become challenging. If you feel you need personal counseling, an on-campus professional can help and make referrals if you need additional assistance during a critical time. | http://mca.edu/about/campus-life/student-life/?ajaxCalendar=1&mo=4&yr=2013 | 2013-05-18T11:03:01 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
WASHINGTON –. (The economic recovery of the 1980′s was fueled by Reagan’s tax cuts and a shrinking of Government – a formula we won’t see from this Administration)..
In the last 12 months, 15% of mortgages have had forclosure completed.
Obama’s Trillion Dollar Mortgage Modification Program, which he promised would help 9,000,000 (9 Million), has in fact provided temporary relief to less than 75,000 (Seventy Five Thousand). Many of the 75,000 have, after receiving a modification, now slipped into foreclsoure anyway.
Credit card defaults keep climbing
Default rates in May continue to rise as borrowers struggle with the weak job market.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Banks continue to write off credit card debt as consumers hurt by record high unemployment default at an increasing rate.
Regulatory forms filed this week by some of the nation’s largest banks showed default rates on credit cards rose in May. The default rate is a measure of loans that the bank does not expect to be repaid.
“Data from May showed continued signs of stress for card issuers, reflective of worsening unemployment trends and deteriorating macro [economic] conditions,” analysts at Bernstein Research said in a report Tuesday.
Bank of America the nation’s largest bank, said its default rate jumped to 12.5% in May from 10.5% the month before. Other major banks, including Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and Capital One also reported increases in May default rates.
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Geology and Geomorphology
Physiographic Region
The Big River basin (Figure Ge01) lies within two subdivisions (Salem Plateau and St. Francois Mountains) of the Ozark Plateau physiographic region (MDNR 1986). Land elevations range from 435 feet above sea level at the mouth of Big River to 1,740 feet in the headwaters at Buford Mountain.
Geology
The Big River basin contains geologic formations (Figure Ge02) ranging in age from Mississippian to Precambrian. The majority of basin streams flow through the Salem Plateau, which is a dissected plateau of sedimentary rock topped by a thin layer of glacial loess. This plateau commonly forms rolling to narrowly-cut river valleys. As Big River flows northward, it cuts through progressively younger limestone and dolomite. Despite Karst topography being locally prominent, few springs are present. Sandstone is common in Jefferson County and shale becomes prominent in the lower basin.
Substantial deposits of lead, zinc, copper, magnesium, and barite have attracted mining operations to Jefferson, St. Francois, and Washington counties beginning over 200 years ago (MDNR 1984).
The southeastern portion of the basin drains the northern edge of the St. Francois Mountains which feature rugged, igneous peaks thought to be unaltered from their time of creation. Since these formations are highly-resistant to erosion, streams tend to be high gradient and form very narrow river valleys through thin residuum.
Soil types
Discussion of soil types is limited due to unavailability of soil surveys for Jefferson and Washington counties (68% of watershed). Primary soil series in the upper watershed include: Crider, Fourche, and Hildebrecht on ridge tops; Gasconade, Goss, and Irondale on slopes; and Haymond and Midco in the bottoms (USDA 1981, 1985, 1989, 1991). Soils on ridgetops and slopes are highly erodible, especially when disturbed.
Upper basin soils are typical for the Ozark Dome region, while lower basin soils reflect the Ozark border region (MDNR 1986). Upland soils are moderately shallow and consist of a combination of loess and residuum derived from in-place weathering of dolomite. These soils are silty, moderately well drained, highly susceptible to erosion, and suitable for pasture, forest, and limited row cropping (USDA 1981, 1985, 1989, 1991). However, much of the loess and residuum has been eroded from the slopes, exposing much chert and frequent bedrock outcrops.
The lower elevations of these soils tend to be clayey with high chert content, thin, draughty, infertile, and stony, best suited for grasslands and forest (USDA 1981, 1985, 1989, 1991). Very fertile silt-loam, developed from alluvium, has been deposited over cherty gravel in river valley bottoms and is suitable for row crops, bottomland forest, and pasture.
Stream Order
Big River becomes a sixth order stream at its confluence with Cedar Creek at river mile (RM) 118 in Washington County. A total of 86 streams (> order 3) were identified, ordered, and measured (Table Ge01) from USGS 7.5-minute topographic maps (Table Ge02).
There are 129 miles of permanent streams and 220 miles of intermittent streams in the basin (Funk 1968).
Watershed Area
The Big River watershed encompasses 955 square miles. Main sub-basins (Order 5) range from 26 to 189 square miles, with the largest being Mineral Fork (Table Ge03).
Channel Gradient
Big River's average gradient is 6.6 ft/mile and ranges from 1.3 (RM 34) to 200 (RM 137). Generally, stream gradient is steepest in the St. Francois Mountain area and more gradual beginning at RM 85 to the confluence with the Meramec River. | http://mdc.mo.gov/landwater-care/stream-and-watershed-management/missouri-watersheds/big-river/geology-and-geomorpholo | 2013-05-18T10:13:15 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Good news. There are simple ways to save money especially if you go back to the time-honored concept of BYO – “bringing your own” container of coffee, lunch or water as part of your daily routine. This can do a world of good not only for your pocketbook, but also for the environment, and even your health. Here are some tips to get you started:
* Bring your own coffee or tea
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, Americans throw away 25 billion foam cups each year. And 500 years from now, those cups will still be sitting in a landfill. Despite the convenience of foam cups, small changes such as bringing coffee or tea in a reusable container can have both an environmental and economic impact.
For example, Genuine Thermos(R) Brand makes a vacuum insulated commuter bottle that will keep a beverage hot for eight hours or cold for 12 hours. Not only is this great for a day at the office or running errands around town, it saves the cost of purchasing beverages day in and day out. If you still like an occasional custom-made coffee or chai latte, some retailers will fill your own bottle.
* Bring your own lunch
Many grownups still have fond memories of a school lunchbox featuring their favorite TV or movie character. Bringing your own lunch in an insulated lunch carrier is a good way to keep your favorite foods fresh and tasty, and a smart way to save money. According to a report in Time magazine, bringing your lunch to work can cut your weekly costs by 80 percent.
To keep foods fresh while on the go, insulated reusable containers are an ideal option. They come in all shapes and sizes to keep snacks or lunch foods hot or cold for hours, saving you the cost of going out and making it easier to stay away from unhealthy temptations.
* Keep yourself hydrated
As you get in the habit of bringing your own reusable portable container, don’t neglect the one thing every human needs for basic good health – water – to help you hydrate throughout the day. According to the Mayo Clinic, water makes up about 60 percent of your body weight. Lack of appropriate water intake can lead to dehydration, draining your energy and making you feel tired.
The Institute of Medicine determined that adequate water intake for men is roughly 104 ounces and is roughly 72 ounces for women. Instead of purchasing bottled water in containers that will also end up in landfills, bring plenty of your own water in a portable, reusable container. One easy option for quenching thirst while on the go is the 24 oz. Hydration Bottle with Meter that is made of BPA-free Eastman(TM) Tritan and has a rotating meter built into the lid to help keep track of your daily water consumption.
Embracing the bring-your-own mentality can make a world of difference economically and environmentally. So, take the first step to “bringing your own” on May 23, which is the inaugural National Fill Your Thermos Brand Bottle Day, and celebrate the doing-good and money-saving power of the reusable container. | http://mdjonline.com/matchbin_businesses?state=ME&cat=Agriculture&ara=Green%20Living | 2013-05-18T10:12:41 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Market analyst Rick Padgett with Huntley Partners, right, goes over proposed redevelopment plans for the Marietta University Enhancement District study with officials from the city of Marietta, Life University and Southern Polytechnic State University during a two-hour workshop Tuesday night at Southern Polytechnic.
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Dignitaries at the two-hour design workshop at SPSU’s student center — a follow-up to the Dec. 13 kickoff meeting at Life University — included SPSU President Dr. Lisa Rossbacher and architect Michael M. Sizemore, designer of the SPSU library.
about the road also known as Cobb Parkway.
City officials in attendance included Mayor Steve Tumlin, a board member of the SPSU Foundation, who said Cobb Parkway has great potential for improvement.
“The concept is not only of making Highway 41 better and more productive but to help these college campuses add more to the community,” he said. The city of Marietta is committed. (Highway) 41 is a dynamic road. We’ve got to be good stewards.”
Also attending were City Councilman Philip Goldstein, Planning Commission chair Bob Kinney, Marietta Housing Authority Executive Director Ray Buday, and City Manager Bill Bruton.
Bruton said the $100,000 Livable Centers Initiative study, for which the Atlanta Regional Commission paid $80,000, can lead to federal dollars to implement the ideas.
“That’s what we did on Roswell Street,” he said about streetscape improvements.
Community members agreed on several major points raised during 90 minutes of looking at maps and pictures and tossing out ideas on four different topics, summarized at the workshop’s conclusion by speakers from Norcross-based Jacobs Engineering.
“Safety is an issue in terms of walking, bicycling and even driving,” said Landscape Architect Andrea Greco, who led two discussion groups on the topic of connecting to the greater Marietta community.
Urban Designer Megan Holder said her topic, creating a university center, yielded agreement with Greco’s group.
“We talked about the same things and had some of the same themes come out of our group,” Holder said. “When we talked about some of the bigger issues, it was students having the desire to walk and being able to go to other places, but not feeling there was a safe pedestrian environment.”
The same point surfaced in a group discussing the topic of how to revitalize the Cobb Parkway corridor.
“My biggest problem is sidewalks,” said SPSU Director of Graduate Studies Nikki Palamiotis. “Our students have to walk on the side of the road.”
Another problem, Holder said, was that the two campuses, bordered by South Marietta Parkway, Cobb Parkway and South Cobb Drive, suffer from an identity crisis in which “no one knows they’re there.”
Rick Padgett of Atlanta-based marketing analysis firm Huntley Partners said not only did Cobb Parkway corridor participants agree, they suggested streetscapes, which have worked well elsewhere.
“You know you’ve entered a different district. It has a sense of place,” he said. “It becomes a gateway.”
The gateways and entryways group backed him up.
“Brick sidewalks speak to academic environments. They announce that university district,” Assistant Project Manager Megan Will, the group’s facilitator, said.
Will’s participants specifically identified the spot where efforts should begin.
“It emerged from both of our groups that what was felt to be a unifying point was where the two universities have a joint boundary,” she said.
SPSU student body president Kevin White pinpointed the exact location as the site of a former hotel on Cobb Parkway, across from New Hope Road.
“This becomes a communal area,” he said, pointing at an aerial map.
As a member of the university center group, White also suggested a way to create a community through negotiation.
“Some of the things we want, we can get if we open up with Life,” he said.
Next steps include a survey at that went live Monday and will conclude Feb. 15, the presentation of a draft plan March 21 and a public hearing at the April 17 Marietta City Council meeting, at which a vote may be taken.
Community Planner Amanda Hatten encouraged stakeholders to weigh in.
“We want to make sure this plan reflects the hopes and dreams of the community,” she said.
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Freestone Road
Emily Bitto
Freestone Road, new poetry from Emily Bitto
Ask yourself, when
have you been most happy?
What slips in, unexpected,
swiftly as a cat turning through a door ajar
is that moment
driving alone on Freestone Road, as you crest the hill
and breach the decline where the whole
landscape is spread out below you like a wide bowl,
rough-glazed and stippled with the husks of gathered crops;
the bounding quiet when you hit the sealed road,
the car seeming to glide on water.
Beside the verge the pale grasses fan towards new stars
just now being sown in the same dishevelled scatterings;
brown horses turn away and shake their manes.
The light seeded with grey so all the colours draw in their breaths
and the seconds pool like heavy drops
on a leaf-tip, then plunge;
the dip in your stomach as you press down
and the needle rounds its own crest.
Speed—you wonder why
you crave it; why your friends know you as calm.
But you are calm, as you tip 140 on the empty narrow road,
the moon the one blind eye on you. | http://meanjin.com.au/articles/post/freestone-road/ | 2013-05-18T10:53:45 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Big life changes are scary. They can be awesome too. Sometimes they come in so quietly, we don’t know they have arrived until they are ripping the very fabric of that cozy little blanket we had ourselves wrapped in called The Norm. Sometimes we can choose to make the change; sometimes the change comes without an invitation or even a “Well, since you’re already here, come in and sit down.” So dealing with change you weren’t prepared for is a lot different than dealing for change you asked for. Nonetheless, it’s not easy and it doesn’t come without a price. Before I start handing out maxims, I want to take you back two years and 9 months. I decided to quit my job and move to Israel to volunteer as a teacher for five months.
The impetus behind the move was simple: my boss was Satan and she had a minion who made my life hell. Ipso facto: I quit and moved away. Some people might say I was running away from my problems, but I felt like I was running towards my future (love when life proves me right). But, quitting a job and moving to a foreign country isn’t something most people can do in a day, a week or even a month. To begin with, I had furniture to contend with, a lot in fact, and it’s nice. In the pre-25-year-old days, I could have just given away my passed-through-the-group-of-friends flower couches, hand-me-down silver t.v. stand, mattress and box spring (no frame), and packed all my clothes to be stored in my parent’s garage. But, I was 27. I had a bedroom set, a fully-reclining leather sofa with a matching leather recliner, t.v. stand and bookcases from Crate and Barrel, as well as matching end tables and lamps. I had a bar-height table with four chairs and the only appliance missing from my kitchen was a food-processor. I only have a mini-food processor. So I had to figure out what to do with my stuff. I also had to make car payments. If I wasn’t working for five months, how was I going to pay my bills, and have enough money to spend on a flight to Israel (and back for my friend’s wedding which I was not going to miss) and expenses while in Israel? I sat down and took a long hard look at my finances. The numbers didn’t add up, but that wasn’t going to stop me.
I started by making a list of my expenses and a list of my income, including projected income and savings for the rest of the year until my contract ended. I would need a loan. This wasn’t the only issue I had to solve. I had to find a storage center for my furniture and belongings, one that was safe, reliable and affordable. I had to pack. But, I was getting ahead of myself. It was March and I hadn’t even quit yet! First, I had to find the right time to tell my boss. I really wanted to drop it like a big “Little Boy” and “Fat Man” right on her face! Quitting is so awesome because when you hate your job it’s a way to say, “I hate my job so much, there’s literally nothing I want to do less than stay here.” As much as I wanted her to cry and try to stop me, she actually seemed happy and relieved which dampened my quitting story and still irritates me to this day. I chock it up to her deficiency of not being able to value employees. So, if I hadn’t even quit yet, or put a deposit down on this program I wanted to participate in, how was I going to know what to do and when to do it? I’d never moved to another country before (even temporarily) and I’d never even planned an international trip by myself! I wavered in my decision. I did not make it lightly. I discussed it with valued friends and family members. I went back and forth. Then one day, the minion came into the office and told me that I wouldn’t be allowed to go to the first day of the Activities Director Conference, the day for all new Directors (I was a new director) because Satan didn’t think I needed to. This was the last straw, as if I needed another one, and I decided that I would get the hell out of there (pun…intended?). I couldn’t work in a place where decisions made were counter-intuitive.
I had to break free.
So, now I knew where I was going (always step one), but I had no idea how to get there. I started by making lists. I made a list of things I needed to do. Then I took each item and broke it down into how I was going to do it. My list was extremely long. I knew it was the only way to make my dream work. I knew it would be hard, it would take a lot of time and I would be frustrated a lot. But, it couldn’t be any worse than what I was dealing with at my job (trust me; it was awful. I haven’t even told you the tip of the ice berg). So when faced with two challenging situations, it is usually easier to face the challenge that has an end result you want. In this case: it was living in another country for half a year.
And lists! Boy, did I have lists! Lists were a starting point! On top of the lists, I made a timeline. When did each item need to be completed by to leave at the end of August? I identified my problem areas (what would take longer to complete, what would be more difficult to achieve). Then I made a priority list. I used the information I had already compiled and gave myself a weekly to-do list. By Jove, I moved at the end of August. My furniture was moved into a lovely warehouse being stored at a reasonable rate for the next five months (which turned into 3 years and they were happy to keep my things). My car was taken care of. My insurance was adjusted. My cats had new temporary homes (which turned out to be permanent…ultimate sad face). My apartment was cleaned and emptied. I had my goodbye parties. I moved back to my hometown for a week to say goodbye to my family and friends there, to prepare and pack. I had never been away from home for longer than 2 weeks. This was a big deal and I had made it happen.
At the time, I didn’t know what I was doing. But, I was preparing myself for the period in my life I like to call “now”. I’m in a transition period preparing a life in the United States for my husband and I. So once again, I’m moving countries. This time, I have a whole new set of chores. I’m not coming alone. I’m bringing a husband, two cats, a dog, some furniture and we have no jobs, no home and no back yard for my little Bamba girl to run around in. It’s up to me to get my husband a green card. We have to find employment, housing, a synagogue, kosher markets, friends. Even typing it out feels overwhelming. But, the 2009 self is saying to me: Hey! You’ve done this before; you can do it again. Big change, like all good things, don’t come to those who wait. You can’t start the game without a line-up.The moral?
Don’t be unprepared!
Check out the Manual for Making a Big Change that I’ve created. I’ve already started implementing my next Big Change and I’m so excited about it. I know how hard it’s going to be to get everything done, but I’ve already done it before so I know I can do it. Even if you’ve never made The Big Change, you can do it. It is possible. Even if you don’t have enough money, that doesn’t have to stop you. There are so many other options out there: 1. Get a second job. 2. Cut your expenses. 3. Sell some of your stuff. 4. Ask to borrow money. You’ll get down on the way. That’s expected. But once you set the ball in motion, you’ll roll right into your Big Change and once you’re there, you can kick up your feet on your fully reclining sofa, have a tea in your teal coffee mug from Target, snuggle in your pajamas you haven’t seen in three years and watch Star Trek 3 on your TV. I mean, that’s what I plan on doing, but maybe your Big Change will look different. Whatever it is, Do It!
There are two ways of looking at this: 1. You’ve passed some difficult times before and you know you can meet the challenge even if you’re worried or afraid you won’t succeed. Draw on the strengthyou built from your past experiences and make it happen! 2. Your life has been relatively carefree up until this point and you’re looking for something new and exciting. DUDE! Best thing ever!(I hope you said that in the super California accent I wrote it in) Get on that train! What do you have to lose? Pride because you might fail? So what! You tried! That counts for so much more these days than doing what everyone else on the block is doing just because it’s easy and expected. Now, you really don’t have an excuse not to go for that Big Change. I need to go make a few lists now; I’m going to learn from my 2009 self. Let’s see, I need to make an appointment with the consulate, buy airline tickets, find travel carriages for my pets…..
Once you’ve made the big life change, you might be sitting in your new, but empty place thinking: What have I done? No worries…check this out: Podcast on How To Deal With a Big Life Change | http://meantforsomethingbetter.com/tag/quitting-my-job/ | 2013-05-18T10:20:55 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Special Taxes and Fees
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Philip A. Pizzo, M.D.
Publication Details
Safety and pharmacokinetics of fluconazole in children with neoplastic diseases.
J Pediatr. 1992; (6): 987-93
To evaluate the safety, tolerance, and pharmacokinetics of fluconazole in children with neoplastic diseases, we studied fluconazole in 26 children, aged 5 to 15 years, with normal renal function who were receiving treatment for cancer. The patients received fluconazole, 2, 4, or 8 mg/kg per day for 7 days intravenously for a 2-hour period. Patients had no nausea or vomiting related to fluconazole; three patients had an asymptomatic rise in hepatic aminotransferase values after four to six doses (one patient at 2 mg/kg per day and two patients at 8 mg/kg per day), which returned to normal within 2 weeks after discontinuation of the drug. Fluconazole showed linear first-order kinetics over the dosage range tested and during multiple dosing. After the first dose, mean clearance was 22.8 +/- 2.3 ml/min, volume of distribution 0.87 +/- 0.06 L/kg, and terminal elimination half-life 16.8 +/- 1.1 hours. Similarly, after the last dose, clearance was 19.4 +/- 1.3 ml/min, volume of distribution 0.84 +/- 0.04 L/kg, and terminal elimination half-life 18.1 +/- 1.2 hours. Patients receiving their first fluconazole dose of 8 mg/kg achieved peak serum levels of 9.5 +/- 0.4 microgram/ml and trough levels of 2.7 +/- 0.5 microgram/ml 24 hours later, and an area under the serum concentration-time curve from time zero to infinity of 186 +/- 16 micrograms.hr per milliliter. Renal clearance of fluconazole was 65% +/- 5% of total clearance and demonstrated the predominantly renal excretion of this drug. We suggest that the shorter serum half-life and the higher frequency of aminotransferase elevations in comparison with those of adults warrant careful investigation of fluconazole in controlled clinical trials. | http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/pediatrics/frdActionServlet?choiceId=showPublication&pubid=46313&fid=3843 | 2013-05-18T10:16:57 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Department News
Wright State Orthopaedics offers March 19 educational session on plastic surgery at Wright.
Wright State Orthopaedics offers educational session on shoulder pain on Feb. 19 at Wright State University
Wright State Orthopaedics offered an educational session on shoulder pain on Feb. 19, at Wright State University.
Michael A. Herbenick, M.D., associate professor of orthopaedic surgery, sports medicine and rehabilitation at the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine, spoke about common causes of shoulder pain at the.
Wright State Physicians Concussion Clinic opens. “Even what seems to be a mild bump or blow to the head can be serious and should be evaluated to determine an appropriate treatment plan.”
Wright State Orthopaedics offers educational session on knee pain on Jan. 15
Wright State Orthopaedics offered an educational session on knee pain on Tuesday, Jan. 15. L. Joseph Rubino, III, M.D., associate professor of orthopaedic surgery, sports medicine and rehabilitation at the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine, was the presenter..
Wright State Orthopaedics to offer public educational sessions beginning Nov. 20
Wright State Orthopaedics is offering public educational sessions on common orthopaedic problems in the Family Medicine Conference Room in the Wright State Physicians building on the campus of Wright State University. The sessions are free and open to the public.
At the first session on Nov. 20, Richard Laughlin, M.D., department chair, spoke about common problems in the adult foot, including tendon problems and soft tissue injury to the foot and ankle. Laughlin is certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery and has completed fellowships in foot and ankle surgery and musculoskeletal infection. “As faculty in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine, we are constantly updating our skills and knowledge, providing you with the latest in orthopaedic care.”.
First annual orthopaedic surgery symposium set for Oct. 26
The Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine & Rehabilitation, in conjunction with Wright State Physicians Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, will present its first annual orthopaedic surgery symposium, "Current Concepts in Musculoskeletal Care," on Friday, Oct. 26, from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., in the Berry Room of the Nutter Center on Wright State University’s campus. The symposium will detail current best practices for health professionals who care for and come in contact with orthopaedic patients. Presentations will cover the areas of orthopaedic surgery, sports medicine, neurosurgery, pain management, radiology and rheumatology, and how all these specialties interrelate.
“This course will offer all members of the medical and recovery teams information on caring for a wide range of musculoskeletal patients,” said Richard Laughlin, M.D., professor and department chair. “We are inviting all surgeons, physicians, nurses, athletic trainers, physician assistants, family practitioners, residents, medical students and coaches to the symposium.”
Barbara Brush: An Inspiration to Others
Miami Valley Hospital's website features a story about a clinical nurse specialist in orthopedics who had knee replacement surgery performed by Dr. Matthew Lawless, and then underwent triple arthrodesis surgery on her left ankle performed by Dr. Richard Laughlin. (Triple arthrodesis is a procedure that surgically fuses the joints in the foot to relieve arthritis pain or correct structural issues.)
After the surgery and rehabilitation period, Dr. Laughlin “patted me on the shoulder and said that I’m a star patient,” Barbara Brush recalls. “I looked at him and said, ‘Well, I had a star surgeon.’”
Reconstruction for Deformity of the Forefoot Due to Rheumatoid Arthritis
Miami Valley Hospital has published a case study on surgery to address deformity of the foot due to rheumatoid arthritis written by Richard Laughlin, M.D., chair of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine & Rehabilitation. The patient was a 77-year-old woman with a 20-year history of rheumatoid arthritis affecting her feet, hands, knees and hips. She had difficulty wearing shoes due to deformity caused by the condition.
Wright State Physicians building opens, new services available
Wright State Physicians (WSP), the region’s largest multi-specialty group, has opened its new building in the developing northeast corridor of Wright State’s Dayton campus..
Sports Medicine Symposium features four faculty members
Drs. Michael D. Barnett Jr., Michael A. Herbenick, Matthew W. Lawless and L. Joseph Rubino III will be presenting at a sports medicine symposium on "Surgical Management of Sports Injuries" to be held at the David H. Ponitz Sinclair Center at Sinclair Community College on Tuesday, Sept. 18. The program is designed especially for those who specialize in and refer to the field of sports medicine, including physicians, nurses, physician assistants and physical therapists. Continuing education credit will be available. The 3rd Annual Sports Medicine Symposium is sponsored by Premier Health Partners and the Sports Medicine Centers at Miami Valley Hospital and Good Samaritan Hospital. For more information or to register, call CareFinders at (866) 608-FIND or visit the Miami Valley Hospital CME website.
Faculty member named co-chair of Operation Smile Burns Program
Michael Johnson, M.D., director of the Plastic Surgery Residency Program and an associate professor of orthopaedic surgery at Boonshoft School of Medicine, was chosen as co-chair of the Operation Smile Burns Program. In this role, Dr. Johnson will work to grow the program and contribute time, effort and his expertise in plastic surgery and burn care to bring much-needed attention to individuals in developing, underserved areas of the world who suffer from correctable burn-related deformities.
Board certified in plastic surgery, Dr. Johnson sees patients at Wright State Physicians in a large plastic surgery practice. He earned his M.D. at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, and completed a general surgery residency at Wright State and a plastic surgery residency at Southern Illinois University. He also sees patients at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton.
Dayton Daily News interviews Dr. Laughlin about summer footwear
Richard T. Laughlin, M.D., chair of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Orthopaedic Surgery Residency Training Program director, was recently interviewed for a Dayton Daily News article on choosing the right summer sandal.
WSU and Premier Health Partners announce clinical research initiative
Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine, Wright State Research Institute and Premier Health Partners have formed the Wright State University & Premier Health Partners Clinical Trials Research Alliance to increase medical research opportunities for physicians and clinicians and boost access to clinical trials in the Dayton region.
Wright State Physicians group launches online Patient Portal
Wright State Physicians has partnered with athenahealth® to launch an online portal that gives patients a secure, 24-hour, web-based way to schedule appointments, retrieve test results and communicate with their physicians' offices.
Dr. Ellis presents joint health information at women's health conference
Corey J. Ellis, M.D., presented information about maintaining healthy joints and preventing joint pain and damage at the Speaking of Women's Health Conference held in Dayton on Nov. 5, 2011.
His talk, "Healthy Joints for Life," focused on strategies to help all of us maintain good joint health. Easy things like adding walnuts and fish, high in Omega 3 fatty acids, to our daily diets is one example. He presented other strategies, as well as traditional treatment options for early arthritis and the effectiveness of new non-pharmaceutical treatment options.
Sponsored locally by ThinkTV, Speaking of Women's Health is a nationally recognized conference designed to educate women to make informed decisions about their health, well being and personal safety.
Nov. 16: Free CME Event
Common Upper Extremity Problems Seen in the Primary Care Physician’s Office
Primary care physicians, internal medicine physicians and orthopaedic surgeons are invited to join Michael A. Herbenick, M.D., and L. Joseph Rubino III, M.D., for an interactive review of commonly seen upper extremity problems in a free Continuing Medical Education presentation on Wednesday evening, Nov. 16, at Bravo Cucina Italiana, 2770 Miamisburg-Centerville Road.
At the conclusion of this CME program, attendees should be able to:
This event is hosted by Miami Valley Hospital, an institution accredited by the Ohio State Medical Association to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians. Miami Valley Hospital designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Both Dr. Herbenick and Dr. Rubino are certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery with subspecialty certification in orthopaedic sports medicine. They both serve as assistant professors in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine & Rehabilitation at Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine, and are orthopaedic consultants for University of Dayton Athletics. Dr. Herbenick serves as orthopaedic surgery residency program director, and Dr. Rubino serves as director of resident education.
Sign-in begins at 5:30 p.m., with the presentation from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Advance registration is required. To register, please contact the CME coordinator at Miami Valley Hospital at (937) 208-3851 or e-mail ceclark@mvh.org.
Oct. 5, 2011, CME Event
Heels to Toes — Treatment of Common Foot Ailments in the Primary Care Setting
Michael D. Barnett Jr., M.D., assistant professor of orthopaedic surgery, presented an interactive review of advancements in foot and ankle pathologies to area physicians and medical experts on Wednesday, Oct. 5, at the Beavercreek Golf Club.
Dr. Barnett is a fellowship-trained orthopaedic surgeon with Wright State Orthopaedic Surgery & Sports Medicine. He earned his medical degree from Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine and completed his orthopaedic surgery residency training at Akron General Medical Center. Dr. Barnett is certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery.
At the conclusion of this Continuing Medical Education program, participants were able to:
This event was hosted by Miami Valley Hospital, an institution accredited by the Ohio State Medical Association to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians.
Ground broken for new medical building at Wright State
Wright State Physicians broke ground Tuesday, June 21, on a new medical office building on the Wright State University campus. The new building will offer a full array of physician care, including orthopaedic and sports medicine specialties. Wright State Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine & Rehabilitation is partnering with Wright State Physicians, Boonshoft School of Medicine and the local community to help area athletes enhance performance while preventing and treating injury as well as to further translational research. Read the news release.
WSU hosts Ohio Orthopaedic Research & Innovation Day!
Wright State University hosted an Ohio Orthopaedic Research and Innovation Day on June 2, 2011. The free event brought together engineers and orthopaedic clinicians and researchers to exchange ideas and foster innovation in orthopaedic devices and spur economic development in Ohio.
Tarun Goswami, D.Sc., of the Department of Biomedical, Industrial & Human Factors Engineering in the WSU College of Engineering and Computer Science, and Richard T. Laughlin, M.D., of the Boonshoft School of Medicine’s Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine & Rehabilitation, expressed hope that the forum would help develop strong academic and industry partnerships within the state.
Department featured in WSP newsletter
Wright State Physicians featured WSU Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine & Rehabilitation in its Winter 2011 newsletter. Read the article here.
Sports Symposium held
Area athletic trainers, coaches and primary care physicians attended a Wright State Orthopaedics Sports Symposium July 9, 2010, at Wright State University.
Presentations covered:
- ACL Tears
- Platelet Rich Plasma
- Concussions
- Cervical Spine Trauma
- Rehabilitation of Patellofemoral Stress Syndrome and Insidious Onset Anterior Knee Pain
Wright State undergrads get up-close view of knee surgery
The grinding whir of bone saws and drills filled the air as orthopedic surgeon Matthew W. Lawless, M.D., demonstrated knee-replacement surgery on a set of synthetic bones. Then came the real thing - a taped video of an actual knee operation. All eyes in the class of 50 students were drilled into the screen, watching the flurry of action as clamps, forceps, a chisel and a suction tube worked their surgical magic.
The WSU biomedical engineering class, more than half pre-med students, is taught by Tarun Goswami, D.Sc., who holds a joint appointment in the College of Engineering and Computer Science and the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation. Dr. Lawless, assistant professor of orthopaedic surgery, was peppered with questions from the students following the video.
"Orthopedics is the one discipline where you have the merger of biomedical engineering and surgery," Dr. Goswami said."What I'm trying to do is connect my students with the surgery field so they see what the surgeons are doing and how we can improve the surgical procedures, the instruments, the devices."
- Read more in this news release from Wright State University.
Neck injuries focus of major Wright State research effort
The Spine Research Group in the WSU Department of Biomedical, Industrial and Human Factors Engineering is conducting major cervical-spine research under the direction of Tarun Goswami, D.Sc., who holds a joint appointment in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation within the Boonshoft School of Medicine. Other group members include medical students Matthew Binkley and Kelly Estes and orthopaedic surgery resident Chris Gayton, M.D., who is looking into the biomechanics of the spine.
- Read more in this news release from Wright State University.
April 2010
Joint Venture - Orthopaedic Trauma
Matthew J. Di Paola, M.D., met with Michael J. Prayson, M.D., to discuss his orthopaedic trauma service at 30 East Apple Street, Suite 2200 in Miami Valley Hospital. Dr. Prayson serves as professor, vice chair, and Orthopaedic Trauma Fellowship director for Wright State Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine & Rehabilitation. To schedule an appointment with Dr. Prayson, please call (937) 208-2091.
Q: Thanks for meeting with me today to discuss your role in orthopaedic trauma for Joint Ventures. Why don't you start by telling us how you became interested in orthopaedic trauma?
A: Trauma is an intriguing subspecialty because it encompasses a wide variety of injuries - from head to toe. Back in residency training, I had an interest in orthopaedic trauma and decided to pursue additional training in the form of a fellowship. This was an extra year spent focusing on traumatic injuries and related complications. I discovered that I really enjoyed the subspecialty. It is challenging. It can be difficult at times and it keeps you on your toes. I've been doing it for approximately 15 years now in practice and still have a keen interest in staying involved.
Q: Describe some of the challenges of orthopaedic trauma you find on a daily basis.
A: Some of it has to do with volume. We happen to be a very busy trauma center here at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, and the volume can sometimes be very difficult to manage. Some would even think of it as overwhelming at times. So that can be challenging on busy days where you're trying to manage multiple patients who come in, sometimes arriving at the hospital in very close proximity to each other. You have to be intimately involved in the process and prioritize the care and management of all polytraumatized patients. Certain types of injuries we treat are also quite complex. Most notable for trauma surgeons are injuries of the pelvis and the hip ball-and-socket joint (acetabulum). Not many orthopaedic surgeons have an interest or proficiency in taking care of those injuries. Additionally, complex injuries such as significantly damaged joints, infections in bone and bones that don't heal the first time around are some of the particular complexities that we face as orthopaedic trauma subspecialists.
Q: What do you find most gratifying about being an orthopaedic trauma surgeon?
A: With trauma, you see very active, very functional people sustain serious injuries and their ability to function changes dramatically. You take them through the process of the initial surgery - but that is only a small part of it. You follow them through afterwards and see their progress and their return to their daily lives and near normal function, and that, I think, is very, very gratifying.
Q: Do you treat specific types of cases more commonly than the average orthopaedic surgeon or do you take a particular interest within trauma? Are there particular areas of the body that you see more commonly?
A: I think for the most part all orthopaedic surgeons are qualified to handle fractures - that's the basis of what we do in orthopaedic surgery. But as a traumatologist, I think your ability to handle more complex fractures - ones that are more splintered, ones that involve the joint surfaces and some areas that I mentioned before, like the pelvic and acetabular regions - certainly those types of injuries fall in the lap of the orthopaedic traumatologist just based on his or her training and proficiency in dealing with those types of fractures.
Q: You attended the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons annual meeting in March. Why is attending that meeting important?
A: The Academy meeting is a large international meeting. It's one of the best-attended meetings of orthopaedic surgeons across the world, and it's a great opportunity for us to get together and focus on the latest research in our field. We have several opportunities throughout the year to do that, and this happens to be one of those meetings where we get that opportunity. Second, Specialty Day is one of the focused opportunities during the meeting. This is one full day devoted to each of the orthopaedic subspecialties and for me that's obviously trauma. There's a chance to get together, meet up with your colleagues in your subspecialty from across the nation and across the world and catch up on how things are going at other trauma centers and what people are doing to advance trauma care.
Q: Dr. Prayson, what does a typical week look like for you?
A: I take a fair amount of the trauma call here, usually about six or seven days per month. Outside of the trauma call structure, on Mondays I'm in the operating room all day performing surgeries. Tuesday we have a clinic that Miami Valley Hospital sponsors that provides care to the uninsured and underinsured - more so than any other hospital in Dayton - and I'm heavily involved in staffing that clinic. Tuesday afternoon is an open time, which I use for surgeries, meetings or research. Wednesday is another surgery day. Thursday I see patients all day in our Wright State Orthopaedic Surgery office at Miami Valley Hospital in Suite 2200. On Fridays, I am back in the operating room for more surgery. On the weekends, a lot of it depends on the trauma call schedule. This weekend for example, I am on call Friday and Sunday so I will be here most of the weekend performing surgeries and rounding on patients in the hospital.
Q: Thank you, Dr. Prayson for taking the time to discuss your area of expertise within our department.
March 2010
Joint Venture - Foot & Ankle
Matthew J. Di Paola, M.D., sat down with Richard T. Laughlin, M.D., to discuss his foot and ankle service at 30 East Apple Street, Suite 2200 in Miami Valley Hospital. Dr. Laughlin serves as professor, chair, residency program director, and foot and ankle service director for Wright State Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation. To schedule an appointment with Dr. Laughlin, please call (937) 208-2091.
Q: Dr. Laughlin, thanks for joining me to kick off our new series - Joint Venture. Joint Venture is going to be a regular communication between our department's surgeons and the community at large. It will provide a more intimate look at what we do on a daily basis and how we think about some of the issues that face us daily. The term Joint Venture is a bit of a play on words in the sense that, we as orthopedic surgeons, treat joint-related problems and endeavor to do so in a combined - or joint - decision-making process with our patients. This process is critical as it underscores the true partnership necessary for the surgeon-patient relationship to function effectively.
You recently became chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation. Tell us some of your new and unique responsibilities compared to your previous department role.
A: Obviously, being chairman, you take on more administrative duties. The most important part of my job is developing a vision for the department's future. I've been with the department since 1994 and have seen its growth, which gives me a better perspective for charting a course for the future.
Q: The world is becoming more specialized in general and so is medicine - and orthopaedics. Tell us how you got interested in foot and ankle and what drew you to specialize in that.
A: As a resident in the late '80s and early '90s, I didn't have a lot of foot and ankle training - I had an interest in trauma. I noted as we followed up with patients that a lot of the trauma patients had residual foot and ankle problems that were quite debilitating. Often they recovered from their other injuries, while their foot injuries remained a limiting factor to getting them back to full function. I also watched a few orthopaedic surgeons who concentrated on trauma gravitate towards foot and ankle as they got older, which triggered my interest. As I've grown in my career, I've realized quite a lot of foot and ankle problems go untreated - mainly deformity cases such as flat feet or forefoot deformities. Often patients are told nothing can be done for their deformities, so there's a great opportunity to treat these patients. It's become a niche within orthopaedics because the rest of the field has grown so much. Now with joint replacements, surgeons can completely focus their practice in that area without having to deal with foot and ankle.
Q: Is a general orthopaedist able to handle foot and ankle issues, or are there unique anatomic aspects that make it more complex or give you an advantage in specialization?
A: Probably more so than any other spot on the body, the foot is susceptible to many complications - wound healing problems and the swelling that impedes people from getting back into a shoe. With a lot of experience in treating these issues, you can avoid a lot of these complications with good end results.
Q: What is your general patient care philosophy? How do you approach surgical discussions with patients? What do you want them to know before treating a problem operatively or non-operatively?
A: With the foot - this sounds very obvious - but people have to walk. So anything you do to the foot is going to impede their mobility. It is extremely important for patients to understand their underlying pathology or problem. Second, patients must take an active role in their care. The first time I see a patient, I explain their specific problem and get them to start a foot exercise program, possibly some type of shoe modification, or other efforts to make them more comfortable. This helps them to start understanding what is involved in their treatment. With surgery, I think it's really important to educate them on what they can expect after surgery, the length of recovery time and how that's going to affect their daily life.
Q: How important is that pre-operative discussion in their overall patient care? Do you find patients come in with certain expectations that change over time? Is it an educational process?
A: The hardest part is telling patients the magnitude of their specific problem. In general, patients understand - like if someone has knee arthritis and they need a knee replacement, patients generally understand that. That's usually the focus of our discussion. I try to explain their specific problem, but I also spend a lot of time telling them what to expect after surgery. I think patients really need to know how long it's going to take to recover from surgery and what their recovery milestones will be: When can they put weight on their foot? When can they get back to work? When can they get back into a shoe? And, of course, How long do they have to use crutches, a walker or other ambulatory aid? Obviously, these are important milestones that impact their daily life a lot more than someone who has hand surgery or upper extremity surgery who can still walk while protecting their upper extremity.
Q: How many days per week do you operate and see patients in the clinic?
A: I see patients twice a week on Mondays and Wednesdays in our office at Miami Valley Hospital. I spend half a day weekly in an MVH-run multidisciplinary wound clinic and the rest of the time - Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays - I perform surgeries at Miami Valley Hospital or Far Hills Surgical Center.
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Staying healthy through the long winter months
The weather outside may be frightful, but your winter can still be delightful.
Just follow these important safety tips to help prevent spreading the flu, protect your family from the dangers of carbon monoxide poisoning and know how to put out a grease fire. And, rather than bemoan the cold temperatures, embrace them! Bundle up and enjoy some outdoor activities like skiing, sledding, ice skating or the simple joy of a brisk walk through newly fallen snow. If the cold is too much, take a trip to your local health club or even just a quick walk through an indoor mall. Don't use the cold weather as an excuse to be sedentary.
Learn more about the flu.
More tips on preventing the flu.
Find a primary care provider near you.
At this point of flu season, it may feel like you are surrounded by germs. How can you protect yourself and your family for the duration of the flu season? Good hygiene and a flu shot (it's not too late) are good places to start.
If you've been exposed to the flu, it can take anywhere from one to four days to develop symptoms, which can include fever, headaches and aches and pains, according to Sarah Jonaus, MD, a primary care physician at OSU Internal Medicine at Morehouse. But beware of those who appear healthy. "Adults tend to be contagious from the day before they develop symptoms until up to 10 days after the onset of symptoms," says Dr. Jonaus. "Young children and adults with impaired immune systems can be contagious for even longer."
Practicing good hygiene is critical. Wash your hands for at least 15-20 seconds or frequently use alcohol-based hand sanitizers that contain at least 60 percent alcohol. Don't touch your hands to any part of your face. If someone in your home has the flu, have him or her stay in one room. Let them claim one bathroom, if possible, and keep all other household members out of that bathroom.
Starting to feel ill? Dr. Jonaus advises anyone who has flu-like symptoms to consult their physician, who can determine if they require further testing or treatment.
Most frequently caused by an unvented kerosene or natural gas space heater or a malfunctioning furnace, carbon monoxide poisoning is dangerous and potentially deadly. It is colorless and odorless, providing no clues to its presence. The best defense is to have carbon monoxide detectors near or in each bedroom and on every level of your home.
The most common symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning include:
Seek medical attention immediately if you suspect that you or a member of your family is a victim of carbon monoxide poisoning. The most severe cases are treated with hyperbaric oxygen. The hyperbaric chamber is used to super-saturate the body with oxygen, rapidly reducing the level of lethal gas in the body. Ohio State's Medical Center is the only facility in central Ohio with the capability of treating carbon monoxide victims with hyperbaric oxygen.
Dousing a fire's flames with water is almost instinctual. But, when the fire is fueled by grease, that instinct can have disastrous results. Throwing water on a grease fire can actually cause the flaming grease to splash and spread. The best way to put out a grease fire is to use a fire extinguisher, but if you don't have one handy, you can try to smother the flames with baking soda or by putting a lid on the flaming pot. Never pick up the pan to move it, as this only fans the flames.
Most importantly, if the fire is not easily extinguished, call 911 and get everyone out of the house. If someone does suffer a burn, the specialists at Ohio State's Burn Center provide both inpatient and outpatient care for burn wounds. Our Burn Center is the only certified adult burn center in central Ohio, with a dedicated medical staff and support team who are specialized in the field of burn care.
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Dăbuleniăbuleni (Romanian pronunciation: ) is a town of Dolj County, known for the sandy areas surrounding it, since the 1980s have become part of an 80,000 hectares (800 km², 310 mi²) desert, known as the Oltenian Sahara. The town is the only place in Europe where an official Sand Museum exists. It was declared a town in 2004 (Law no. 83/2004). If the north part of the town is a desert, the south part, a Danube flooding area known as the "Melon Kingdom", from which the "Dăbuleni" melons, are famous in all Romania.
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Nat Pendathaniel Greene "Nat" Pendleton (August 9, 1895 – October 12, 1967) was an American Olympic wrestler and film actor.
Biography
Early life
Pendleton was born in Davenport, Iowa to Adelaide E. and Nathaniel G. Pendleton. He studied at Columbia University where he began his wrestling career. He was twice Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association (EIWA).
Movie career
His early roles were largely uncredited. Then he was chosen to appear in Horse Feathers (1932) with the Marx Brothers as one of the two college football players who kidnap Harpo and Chico, and his career began to develop. His role as circus strongman Eugen Sandow in The Great Ziegfeld (1936) brought him the strongest reviews of his career. Pendleton was most often cast in supporting roles as thugs, gangsters, or policemen and was usually typecast playing characters that depended on their brawn but were "none too bright".
Some of his other films include The Thin Man (1934) and At the Circus (1939), again with the Marx Brothers. He appeared in recurring roles in two MGM film series of the late 1930s and 1940s - as Joe Wayman, the ambulance driver in the Dr. Kildare series, and its spin-off, the Dr. Gillespie series. He made his final film appearances in Scared to Death with Bela Lugosi, and Buck Privates Come Home (both 1947).
Pendleton died in San Diego, California in 1967 from a heart attack.
Filmography
- The Battle of Gettysburg (1913) (unconfirmed)
- Hoosier Schoolmaster (1924)
- Monsieur Beaucaire (1924)
- Let's Get Married (1926)
- The Laughing Lady (1929)
- The Big Pond (1930)
- La grande mare (1930)
- The Last of the Duanes (1930)
- The Sea Wolf (1930)
- Crazy House (1930)
- Seas Beneath (1931)
- Fair Warning (1931)
- The Star Witness (1931)
- The Spirit of Notre Dame (1931)
- The Ruling Voice (1931)
- Mr. Lemon of Orange (1931)
- Blonde Crazy (1931)
- The Star Witness (1931)
- Manhattan Parade (1931)
- The Pottsville Palooka (1931)
- Taxi! (1932)
- The Beast of the City (1932)
- A Fool's Advice (1932)
- Hell Fire Austin (1932)
- The Big Timer (1932)
- Play-Girl (1932)
- Girl Crazy (1932)
- State's Attorney (1932)
- Attorney for the Defense (1932)
- The Tenderfoot (1932)
- By Whose Hand? (1932)
- Horse Feathers (1932)
- Exposure (1932)
- The Night Club Lady (1932)
- Deception (1932)
- The Sign of the Cross (1932)
- Flesh (1932)
- Whistling in the Dark (1933)
- Parachute Jumper (1933)
- Goldie Gets Along (1933)
- Child of Manhattan (1933)
- The White Sister (1933)
- The Nuisance (1933)
- Baby Face (1933)
- Lady for a Day (1933)
- Penthouse (1933)
- I'm No Angel (1933)
- The Chief (1933)
- College Coach (1933)
- Lazy River (1934)
- Fugitive Lovers (1934)
- Sing and Like It (1934)
- Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
- The Thin Man (1934)
- The Defense Rests (1934)
- The Cat's-Paw (1934)
- The Girl from Missouri (1934)
- Straight Is The Way (1934)
- Death on the Diamond (1934)
- The Gay Bride (1934)
- Times Square Lady (1935)
- Baby Face Harrington (1935)
- Reckless (1935)
- Murder in the Fleet (1935)
- Calm Yourself (1935)
- Here Comes the Band (1935)
- It's in the Air (1935)
- The Garden Murder Case (1935)
- The Great Ziegfeld (1935)
- Trapped by Television (1936)
- Sworn Enemy (1936)
- The Luckiest Girl in the World (1936)
- Two in a Crowd (1936)
- Sing Me a Love Song (1936)
- Under Cover of Night (1937)
- Song of the City (1937)
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- Life Begins in College (1937)
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Slow worm<<
Anguis fragilis, or slow worm, slow-worm or slowworm, is a limbless reptile native to Eurasia. It is also sometimes referred to as the blindworm or blind worm.
Slow worms are semifossorial[1] (burrowing) lizards, spending much of the time hiding underneath objects. The skin of the varieties of slow worms is smooth with scales that do not overlap one another. Like many other lizards, slow worms autotomize, meaning they have the ability to shed their tails heat collectors. One of the biggest causes of mortality in slow worms in suburban areas is the domestic cat, against which it has no defence.
Although these lizards are often mistaken for snakes, a number of features differentiate them from snakes. The most important one is that they have small eyes with eyelids that blink like lizards'; this feature is not found in snakes. They may also have visible ears as do lizards, which snakes do not have. They shed their skin in patches like other lizards, rather than the whole skin as most snakes do. Slow worms also shed tails (autotomy) by breaking one of their tail vertebrae in half, as a defence mechanism, as lizards do. Also, the pattern of their ventral scales is totally different from that of snakes.
Adult slow worms grow to be about 50 cm long, and are known for their exceptionally long lives; the slow worm may be the longest-living lizard, living about 30 years in the wild and up to 54 years in captivity (this record is held by a male slow worm that lived at the Copenhagen Zoo from 1962 to 2009).[2][3] The female often has a stripe along the spine and dark sides, while the male may have blue spots dorsally. Juveniles of both sexes are gold with dark brown bellies and sides with a dark stripe along the spine.
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Ireland []
It is not native to Ireland, but in recent years specimens have been seen especially in the Burren region of County Clare.
Taxonomy []
The subspecies A. f. fragilis is found all over Europe, while A. f. colchicus is found in south-eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Iran.
Gallery []
Slow worm in hand
A slow worm head
Anguis fragilis
Anguis fragilis, or slow worm, in Ston, Croatia
Anguis fragilis, or slow worm, in Ston, Croatia
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References []
- ^ "Feeding state and selected body temperatures in the slowworm" (pdf). Herpetological Journal 18: 59–62. 2008. Archived from the original on 17 June 2009. Retrieved 2009-06-03.
- ^ "Slow Worm".
- ^ "Slow Worm".
- ^ "BBC - Science & Nature - Wildfacts - Slow worm". BBC. Archived from the original on 4 May 2007. Retrieved 2007-05-16.
- ^ "Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981". Statute Law Database. Archived from the original on 15 June 2009. Retrieved 2009-06-03. | http://medlibrary.org/medwiki/Slow_worm | 2013-05-18T10:12:56 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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MD/PhD Interview Process
MD/PhD candidates come to the School of Medicine on Mondays and Tuesdays for a two-day period of formal interviews and other meetings and activities. Interviews with the MD Admissions Committee are conducted on Mondays and those with the MD/PhD Committee on Tuesdays. Both sets of interviews are important, as final admissions decisions are made collaboratively by the two committees.
SUNDAY NIGHT:
For those applicants who arrive in New Haven on Sunday night, there will be a welcome dinner with current MD/PhD students at 6:00 at BAR . More information will be sent to applicants several days before their interview with contact information. We hope you will join us!
MONDAY:
Applicants must arrive at the Admissions Office on Monday morning at 8:45. At that time, there will be an orientation meeting with the Director of Admissions, followed by two formal interviews with members of the Medical School Admissions Committee. After the morning interviews, you will participate in a "Faculty Meet and Greet" session with a member of the senior faculty, who will give a short presentation on his/her work, followed by a question and answer period. After the Meet and Greet session, you will participate in a tour of the School that concludes at 2:00.
Applicants will reconvene mid-afternoon for formal interviews with the Admissions Committee or informal visits with faculty of interest. There will also be an opportunity (optional) to attend a course offered by Dr. Jamieson and Dr. Fred Gorelick called "Molecular and Cellular Basis of Human Diseases". After the class, a group of MD/PhD students will take you to a local restaurant for an informal dinner, where you can chat with students and get to know each other better. (Bring comfortable clothes and shoes for the restaurant excursion!)
TUESDAY:
On Tuesday at 8:30am, the MD/PhD Program will provide a continental breakfast for applicants before their scheduled interviews with two members of the MD/PhD Faculty Admissions Committee. After the morning interviews, applicants will have lunch with the MD/PhD Program Director, Associate Directors, administrative staff and older students. On Tuesday afternoon, applicants meet informally with other faculty members whose research is of particular interest to them. (Please see information on informal faculty meetings below.) On Tuesday afternoon you will also have opportunities to visit laboratories, attend classes with current students or meet individually with Dr. Jamieson. The events on Tuesday will end at approximately 4:30, however if your travel schedule requires you to leave earlier, please contact Susan Sansone and she can work with you.
Both the Monday night dinner and the lunch on Tuesday will provide ample opportunity to ask questions about the MD/PhD Program, the School of Medicine, Yale University, and life in New Haven.
INFORMAL FACULTY MEETINGS:
An important part of your visit at Yale will be the opportunity to meet with faculty whose research is of interest to you. In order to make sure the faculty you would like to meet are available, please let us know their names and a brief description of your research interests.
Please review the following lists to choose up to 10 faculty members with whom you would like to meet informally and email Susan Sansone (susan.sansone@yale.edu) with the names you have selected. Please note that you must email Ms. Sansone at least one week prior to your interview date.
Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology (MCDB)
Biomedical Engineering (BME)
Cellular and Molecular Physiology (CMP)
Computational Biology & Bioinformatics (CBB)
Epidemiology and Public Health (EPH)
History of Medicine (HIS)
Molecular Biology and Biophysics (MBB)
Experimental Pathology (PATH) | http://medstation.yale.edu/medicalinterviews/www/mdphd.html | 2013-05-18T10:30:59 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Definition
Obesity is a high amount of body fat. It leads to a much higher body weight than is normal. This level of body fat can cause serious health issues.
Causes.
Risk Factors
Factors that may increase your child's risk of being obese include:
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The main symptom of obesity is increased weight. The midsection is the most common area to increase in thickness. There will also be obvious areas of fat deposits all over the body.
Complications of Untreated Obesity
Excess weight increases the chance of a child having:
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Fat may need to be measured. This can be done with:
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Treatment
Personal habits, lifestyle, and family culture can all influence obesity. This means that a mix of treatment approaches may be best. To help your child manage weight, encourage healthy behaviors in your child and your family:
Your doctor may recommend the following:
Diet. one hour of physical activity every day.
- Limit time in front of a TV, game, or computer screen to 1-2 hours per day. If your child is under two years old, avoid screen time.
In more severe cases, your doctor may provide a specific activity plan.
Counseling and Support
Your child may struggle with weight loss or being obese. Some support options or actions include:
- Consider a weight-loss program and/or counseling.
To help reduce your child’s chance of being overweight or obese:
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A constant flurry of meetings accompanied Fairfield Communities, Inc.'s acquisition of Vacation Break, USA in the last part of 1997. "I was planning meetings all the time," says Sharon Ferguson, director of community relations at the Little Rock, AK-based land development and vacation leisure products company.
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English luxury brand Mulberry and American model Lindsey Wixson teamed up to create a Fairytale-inspired Fall 2012 ad campaign to showcase a collection of fur and tweed ensembles.
During their AW 2012 runway presentation, large creature cutouts from the children’s book, “Where the Wild Things Are” adorned the runway, and the brand continued to take the wild theme editorially, but this time adding a natural forest element into the monster mixture.
The campaign was shot by British fashion photographer Tim Walker in the Blackheath Forest in Surrey, England. Walker used his signature romantic extravagance to capture Lindsey Wixon, in all her pouty glory, while being accompanied by some furry Maurice Sendak-esque, yeti-like monsters hiding their faces behind Wixon.
The ads feature Wixon wearing the numerous pieces from the collection, such as a black and orange tweed dress, fur jackets and vests, and a leather quilted shouldered jacket. The looks are also paired up with the popular Del Ray and Maisie bags, in addition to the new embellished Alexa bags.
Mulberry creative director Emma Hill was inspired by themes of dark fairy tales and fantasy travels, which is not surprising considering that Hollywood movies, like “Snow White and the Huntsman” and “Mirror Mirror” have been dominating the box offices. And Maurice Sendak’s recent death brought back a lot of fairytale nostalgia.
The collection’s ads capture a childhood fantasy and turns it into a modern, mature, yet whimsical collection.
You can expect to see the ad campaign starting in The New York Times on June 24 and in the August issue of Vogue and Vogue U.K.
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I don’t normally write about dark subjects. In fact, during difficult times, my journal tends to sit gathering dust, then when things are looking up, I start writing again. I’m not sure why that is, but that has been my habit for as long as I can remember. It’s not that I don’t think about the sad or dark things that come my way, but for some reason I have little interest in writing about them. But last week was a sad week for many people I care about, and I am mulling on it now.
My sister lost a very close friend who died unexpectedly. To add to her grief, they had had some misunderstanding and hadn’t spoken for a few weeks. The funeral was yesterday and was devastatingly sad for my sister. My heart aches for her.
A close friend’s cousin, with whom she’s very close, received a very grim diagnosis last week, and their whole family is reeling. My heart aches for my friend and for her family as I pray for comfort for them in this very hard time.
Another good friend lost her sister on Sunday, after a two year, very brave battle with cancer. They are thankful her pain has ended, but these sisters were very close, and the loss is great. My heart aches for this friend and her loss, and she is very much on my mind.
Yet another friend lost a friend of hers Sunday after a long and painful illness. She is relieved that he is no longer suffering, but her heart aches deeply. She is unable to attend the funeral, because of estranged relationships in their circle of mutual friends. My heart aches for this friend, too, with her double grief at losing her friend and being unable to honor him at his funeral service.
My father called a few days ago to tell me that my uncle, his younger brother, died. He had a massive stroke and died a few days later. My father had been planning on seeing him a couple of weeks from now at my uncle’s granddaughter’s wedding. I didn’t know my uncle well, but my heart aches for my father, and I am sobered at the reminder that a death in the family brings.
Then a few days ago, Steve and I were driving along and I had to suddenly pull completely off the road to avoid a head-on collision with someone who seemed to be aiming right at my car and who continued to head straight for us, despite me blowing my horn at them. It felt like a very close brush with serious injury or death, and I was shaking but very thankful to be safe.
Life is precious, as are the people in our lives. This past week has been a reminder to me to cherish the people I love and to celebrate the gifts they are in my life.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
5 comments:
So true Melissa. Each day is truly a gift and should be lived to its fullest.
My you, your friends, and family find strength is these difficult times.
Life is indeed precious, though sometimes seems to be all pain.
*hugs* and prayers for all your family xx
Beautiful post Melissa. My thoughts and prayers will be with you and your loved ones. Life is a gift and this is a great reminder. :)
I have been reading along your blog today and really loving the paintings, photo's and stories. Although I follow you, I have somehow missed many of your posts since it is not on my side bar and I don't always catch what else is going on. I've decided to put you on my side bar so I don't miss any more.
I enjoyed your last post - 'Filled with Wonder' and realised how things can change so suddenly when you compare it to this one. You have clearly had a very sad time and I am sorry for you and all involved. It just goes to show that we must take nothing for granted and be thankful for what we have, while we have it.
I love you and also your heart. May God comfort all and give you peace that only HE can provide. I often wonder if this season Satan is even more prolific.. | http://melissafischer.blogspot.com/2010/10/week-of-sadness-week-of-reminders.html | 2013-05-18T11:03:03 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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"The island of the hinduist caves" Elephanta Island by SirRichard
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Elephanta is a little island in the bay in front of Mumbai, just 1 hour away by boat. It is a nice half day trip, you can disconnect for a while of Mumbai rush, noise and pollution and visit these caves with magnificent examples of hindi statues carved in rock.
It was originally known as “Gharapuri” (Ghara priests island) but the portuguese renamed it in XVIth century after the elephant statue which they found in the harbour…
Its main attraction is the Cave Temple, with the magnificient Shiva Trimurti statue and its many carved columns.
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good excuse that of the boat leaving for the last price ;-)... and I also know that sort of elephants and carved eggs with an elephant inside bought on one of those stalls... I DO like your page!!! :-)
Lovely colourful photos, especially the fruit stall. Interesting page. (~_~)
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Another incredible series of pics by SirRichard. I visit my family in Mumbai every year... have not been to elephanta.. Wwll, I have seen most of it through your photographs.
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That fruit looks so refreshing and delicious - great snap
Nice photos and tips on Elephanta Island! The 'thali' meal looks quite appealing!
Good tip on bargaining (my boat is leaving!!). The caves look like a great escape from the crowds and a pleasant afternoon.
Nice photos... I have never been to India... (: Jim
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As part of the DESIGN HOTELS chain, we anticipated that the Monna Lisa hotel was going to be nothing less than sophistication and state of the art decor. Actually, similar to the BAUZA HOTEL experience we had in Madrid (which belongs to the same hotel chain).
Once we arrived, what we received was artsy simplicity.............but the most incredible LOCATION!
The Monna Lisa Hotel is a converted 19th century townhouse and is located just steps away from the Champs Elysees.
Each room is smart, but very very tiny. It actually made the hotels in New York City look like double suites!
The "gimmick" of the Monna Lisa is that each room contains a close up reproduction of part of Leonardo da Vinci?s most famous lady.
Although the rooms were small, they were cozy and stylish with the appropriate "sliding mirrored doors" that help fool the eye into thinking the room is bigger!
Unique Qualities: It is the LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION that would bring us back to the Monna Lisa again!
Be sure to book your rooms via .com and not directly through the hotel or their website. We managed to get a much better deal on Orbitz, which included the breakfast.
Address: 97, Rue de La Bo?tie Paris
Comparison: more expensive than average
Directions: Near the Champs Elysees
Price: US$180 and up
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Sharing the Shivers at the Regina
During our *million dollar* stroll through les grands boulevards of Paris, and as we approached the famous "Statue de Jeanne d'Arc," we stumbled upon the famous Hotel Regina.
Coined as the first of three Parisian luxury hotels created by Leonard Tauber and Constant Baverez, the "Regina" was built on the former site of the Louvre's royal carousel.
More significant to us was that it was featured in one of the most famous scenes in Eric Schaeffer's Indie film, "Fall."
One of the film's most heart-wrenching scenes takes place when the tenacious main character pursues his beloved muse all the way to Paris...........where there he finds her leaving the Hotel Regina, hand in hand, with her husband.
From across the Place des Pyramides she spots him, they share a glance, and she can feel his heart breaking as the narration of "Shiver's" poetry to Sarah plays in the films background:
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.......or the glistening harbor of old New York, and from the heights, in the stars, among the angels whose arms will cradle us, in a moment neither of us was told about but knew like our oldest happiness, we will look into each other's eyes and know....it is today. It is today.."
*Goose pimples.*
Address: 2, Place de Pyramides 75001 France
Comparison: more expensive than average
Phone: 33 0 1 42 60 31 10
Price: US$180 and up
Theme: Hotel
Back to civilization for Le Sybarite!
Le Meridien Etoile is located on the Right Bank of Paris, facing the Palais des Congres. The metro stop is Porte Maillot and right beneath a convenient shopping mall!
The Club President rooms are decorated in an art deco style, and of course the luxury Hermes amenities are the BEST! Plush bathrobes and slippers are provided and your own private Reception desk.
The outdoor terrace was one of my favorite spots. During our last breakfast at the hotel, as we dined near the terrace window, the morning sky was crisp and clear and we had the most exquisite view of the Eiffel Tower.
We left Paris with everything "Cristal Clear!"
It was an especially luxurious stay for someone who had spent 2 1/2 weeks in the remote Nicaraguan jungles and islands.....where hot water was scarce and tarantulas were in abudance!
Simple Luxury!
Address: 81 Boulevard Gouvion Saint-cyr, 75848 Paris
Comparison: more expensive than average
Phone: 00 33 1 40683434
Price: US$180 and up
Theme: Hotel
One of our Highlights in Paris: CAVA in bed!
After our lovely experience at Le Meridien Covent Garden in London, we knew we wouldn't expect anything less than comfort and professionalism at Le Meridien Etoile in Paris. (Actually, we're just ADDICTED to the Hermes body soaps they provide!)
Our room on the President's Club Level was comfortable and suited our needs perfectly.
Every morning we were waken up with fresh cafe creme, a gourmet breakfast buffet, newspapers, and an extraordinary view of the famous Paris landmarks! (Sacre Coeur seemed an arm's reach away, and the Eiffel Tower was glistening at us)
Unique Qualities: Just like our room in London, the bed in our room in Paris was just how we liked it.........not too soft, not too hard, but JUST RIGHT!
Address: 81 Boulevard Gouvion Saint-cyr, 75848 Paris
Comparison: more expensive than average
Phone: 00 33 1 40683434
Price: US$180 and up
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Personally, since I hardly ever use a cell phone, I refuse to pay for a monthly plan and have a phone through Tracfone.
July 28th, 2009 at 8:20 am
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My friends, I am currently afflicted with pleurisy. Pleurisy, you say? YES, PLEURISY. And while other, more exciting illnesses like H1N1 and gonorrhea hog the spotlight, the motto for this affliction should be “Pleurisy: it IS a real sickness. YES, IN THIS CENTURY.”
I think that this (hilarious and old-sounding) illness does NOT get enough airtime, and so I stand before you today, armed with a (fake) Q & A to inform you all about pleurisy. I also feel that pleurisy is precisely the type of affliction that you’d expect to befall a fusty old dowager at the turn of the century. I mean, remember An American Tail? And more specifically, the fancy lady mouse named Gussie Mausheimer, who was all “wewease the secwet weapon?” OF COURSE YOU DO. Well, the minute they said “pleurisy” to me, for whatever deranged reason, THAT IS WHO I PICTURED HAVING IT. And as much as I’d like for her to host the Q & A, her inability to pronounce most letters would undoubtedly grate after about two questions. So, I’ll have to resort to a totally made-up character for this fake Q & A. I shall name my fake dowager…Miss Vickie, after these here potato chips. Mmm, Lime & Black Pepper...
AHEM. This is my story. (Well, and that of Miss Vickie, the fake Victorian-era dowager):
Merciful heavens! I fear my corset must be laced far too tightly. I…It can’t be pleurisy, can it? Whatever would the symptoms be?
Good question, Miss Vickie! Put simply, the symptoms of pleurisy include, but are not limited to, waking up and feeling as though William “Fridge” Perry is sitting atop your chest, and a tiny Chuckie doll is simultaneously stabbing your ribs from within.
What is this…Fridge? “Chuckie doll”? Are you daft? Need I call the physician for a leeching?!
Sorry. Sorry! I’ll put it in your terms: It feels as though President Taft sits atop your chest, while a wee demon simultaneously stabs your ribs from within.
How dreadful! What did you do once you felt this pain?
Well, naturally, I consulted Doctor Google.
Oh! Is he new in town? Does he make a reliable, robust poultice? Tell me, how is he with his lancings?
Sigh…No, it’s a computer…inter--hey, word up, fake q&a lady: I’m not going to play “What’s that giant metal bird up in the sky?!” all day like we used to do to the actors when we visited the Magical Colonial Village, so get used to words like “hospital” and “x-ray.”
Oh. Surely. I’ll try to follow along.
Good! So, as things got progressively worse, I told J, and he felt very strongly that we should get me to the ER. We were in Long Island by my in-laws celebrating the Jewish holiday (Sukkot). Which: convenient from the standpoint of the whole emergency babysitting thing. NOT so convenient when taking into account that we don’t drive on Sabbath or the holidays (except in cases of emergency). And I hadn’t taken my wallet. Which contained my insurance card and license. BECAUSE WE DON’T DRIVE THEN! SO WHY WOULD I HAVE NEEDED IT HAHA IT’S NOT LIKE THERE’S EVER ANY OTHER REASON TO HAVE IDENTIFYING DOCUMENTS ON YOU HAHAAAA. *maniacal laughter*
As we drove along, I asked J if this hospital was any good. He looked up thoughtfully, and said “It's really closeby. But…I think this is the place where they dump gunshot victims.” I laughed, which hurt my poor ribs, but then it hurt even more when I realized that he was totally not kidding. A small pile of BLOODY ASS CLOTHS was just…sitting there, in the parking lot. Quelle fantastique!
I decided not to fret about that, and instead focused my attentions on the fact that I had no ID whatsoever, and for all they knew, I could be some teen hooker on whom J had taken pity, Eddie Murphy-style. I was all fired up, prepared to deliver a stirring speech along the lines of, “I know you have to treat me no matter what! I watched ER for 30 LONG YEARS!, but it turned out to be unnecessary. They allowed me to hand over J’s insurance card (he’s under my policy, and…I may as well be talking Swahili to my Canadian friends right now, yes?) and I was sent to triage, where I was asked if I was pregnant no less than four times. (Spoiler alert: AM NOT.) I was shown to a room where I underwent a bunch of tests which were inconclusive, and so I was recommended for a chest x-ray. I should at this moment point out that I was wearing nothing but a hospital gown. And so, when the nurse arrived to summon me for the x-ray and said “can you walk?” I assumed she meant IN THEORY. Not in ASS-FLAPPING-IN-THE BREEZE PRACTICE. I mean, I wrapped myself up in the gown and all, but seriously? Give me a robe! A second gown! A cafeteria tray! SOMETHING.
That sounds detestable!
Indeed, Miss Vickie. Indeed. My doctor came back to give me the news of The Pleurisy shortly thereafter. J and I just kind of laughed-- because—what? Pleurisy? --and then immediately decided to append “The” to “pleurisy” because it just made it funnier. I also took to referring to it as “the black lung” and “the consumption.”
How did you treat it? With a stout poultice, right?
ENOUGH WITH THE POULTICES. MY GOD. Sadly, there’s no real cure for viral pleurisy (which I had), other than Motrin, time, and rest.
I know not of Motrin, but I am aware of the concepts of time and rest. Huzzah! Did you spend the rest of the afternoon alternating between your solarium and sauna?
Funny story about that, Miss Vickie. J’s parents had taken the kids off to the synagogue, and the house was fully locked. They were not expected back for hours. J was wearing jeans, and I, pajamas and a toothpaste-smeared hoodie. (I HAVE THE PLEURISY, OKAY?) Not exactly synagogue material, you know? We finally found a basement window we could jimmy open, and I, um, climbed on J’s shoulder and sort of…smooshed myself through the laptop-sized window to gain access to the house. Apparently, we live in a CBS sitcom. As you can imagine, that felt awesome on the ol’ pleurisy-ridden lungs.
It is my hope that in sharing my tale with you, you can attach a face and a voice to the Rodney Dangerfield of sicknesses, PLEURISY. It afflicts real people. And there are dozens of us. DOZENS.
Monday, October 5, 2009
Because there's no "So! You Have Pleurisy" Pamphlet: A Fake Q & A
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I'm glad to see your sense of humor has not been afflicted along with your poor body. Pleurisy sounds AWFUL. I hope you recover soon.
Great telling of the story of a not-so-great situation! Swahili - well close, we really have no clue what your health care system is like. All we Canadians are required to do is produce a 'Health Care Card" issued to all by our province of residence so they can keep track of who's draining our taxes on medical issues.
Hope you feel better soon!
You have my sympathies! I've had pleurisy and it completely sucks! I felt as if every rib were broken while being sat upon by an elephant at the same time. Sneezing, coughing, and laughing? Sheer torture. Good luck!
Oh no! Pleurisy is way less fun than it sounds. I had it last year, and funnily enough my name is Vicki, although as far as I'm aware, I'm not a dowager.
So judging by the comments that's at least 3 of us who've had it, perhaps pleurisy should be getting more media attention for the dozens affected !
Feel better soon!
Oh NO! Would you believe that Adam AND my mother have both been afflicted with pleurisy on separate occasions? ACK. It sucks. Bad. I'm so sorry.
Ouch! You had to be the one climbing through the window? That sucks. I managed to bring sexy back when I was 21 by coming down with the mumps. Well, just *A* mump, to be truthful. My family doctor was so excited: "I was just thinking to myself that I haven't seen a case of the mumps in 30 years anx here you are!"
Just doing my part, doctor, just doing my part.
I am so sorry that you have the pleurisy! But also, this is an awesome post. I hope you feel much better very soon!
I'm not going to lie. Of course, I'm so sorry you're dealing with The Pleurisy, but the fact that I got to experience this awesome q&a makes it all worth it. For me, anyway ...
the future dozens who may be afflicted with the pleurisy thank you for the in-depth interview. and the congregants at your in-laws' temple thank you for keeping your consumpted tochas at home.
Well, consider me educated through your fake Q&A! I had heard of pleurisy, of course, but had no idea what it was. And now I do.
A post about pleurisy AND an Arrested Development reference, all in one. Nice. :)
I had pleurisy while in Israel for a year. How did the doctor diagnose it before sending me off to the hospital . . . he put his hand under my rib cage and pushed. Evidently, my scream was loud enough to scare everyone away from the doctor's office that day.
I need to stop being such a hypochondriac. I feel like *I* might have pleurisy now.
I'm sure you're now going to get a lot of comments like, "Oh, I had 'The Pleurisy' once" so, let me jump in:
Oh! I had The Pleurisy once! It was no fun. I went to the ER because, at 21 (or something like that, I can't remember exactly) I thought, MY GOD! I'm having a freakin' heart attack!
So, I'm so sorry. Rest up. And, I heart Miss Vicky.
I had pleurisy in college. It suuuuuuucked!
They thought I had that in college, but it turned out to be "The Devil's Grip." Yes, it is as lovely as it sounds. The cramping of chest muscles due to their too small nature. Lovely huh?
Ah the weird ailments we face and try to explain to others.:)
Hope you feel better soon!
Bah - Pleurisy! I've always found it somewhat terrifying because it is rumoured (RUMOURED) to be the cause of my grandmother's sudden hair ... uh ... discolouration.
She had the pleurisy (yes, it is better with the the) in her early 20s and all of a sudden her hair went shockingly white. And it was from there on out.
The end.
I keep telling you to cut back from the 34 packs of Marlboro Reds a day.
It strikes me as odd that all they've got for this is Motrin. Really? That's lame, especially for such a Victorian-sounding disease. They've had plenty of time to figure out something more potent.
Feel better, my friend!
Hi! I found your blog while looking up stuff on pleurisy because I have had it for two months no with no signs of it letting up. I stopped taking the motrin as I felt like I was getting a stomach ulcer (didn't know motrin could cause that) Anyway, there is something called pleurisy root, I am going to try that as I don't know any witch doctor, but I will be finding one if this doesn't help!! Doctor Google... lol... I like that one.
That is how I felt when I had pertussis (whooping cough) and every time I told someone what I had it had to be appended with, "Yes, apparently you CAN still get that."
I also told people I had The Consumption.
Feel better.
I still don't have any idea what pleurisy is. But that sucks dude.
I declare, I may have come down with a case of the vapors myself. Fetch my tonic, will you?
Miss Vickie. it's all in the details, Metalia...and THAT was a perfect one.
The Wikipedia page lists a bunch of causes and then, "Can occur with no illness or infection". It's like, uh, gee thanks.
Sounds terrible though, and I hope you feel better very soon.
You know who I was picturing as Miss Vickie? Christine Baranski!! LOL.
I hope you're doing better! I was scared when I saw your original tweet since I didn't know if it was serious. I'm happy to know you'll be better soon. Although, it sucks that can't just give you antibiotics to make it go away.
Only you could make pleurisy sound funny. Seriously.
You are sooooooo old skool.
(get better)
Quelle suprise! I ran across your post whilst consulting Dr. Google prior to my real Dr.'s appointment this afternoon to confirm what I'm already convinced is...the pleurisy. Either that or one of the wee folk has set up residence with a pick axe in my right lung. So I'm glad to see someone else finds this malady absolutely hysterical and oh so vintage. Oh how we suffer so! Perhaps the masses need to organize a support walk or wear ribbons in honor of the few of us. I mean the pleurisy took down Karl Marx, Hernan Cortes and Ben Franklin! We must not remain the silent ultra, micro-mini minority...even if it does hurt to cry out. We will triumph!
Pleurisy?!?!? Dayumn, girl. I hope you feel better soon.
Also, I vaguely recall bawling when I saw An American Tale so many moons ago, but I do not remember why. Was it a tragedy?
Then again, I also sobbed in Dumbo, Bambi, and, most mortifyingly, The Land Before Time.
I have it. It sucks.
I've just been diagnosed with Pelurisy and Dr. Google led me here. So hilarious! The one funny thing about being sick with the Pleurisy - thanks for the laughs!
Pleurisy i have no idea what it is but ive been on all these these medical sites and ive been giving them all my symptoms to them and they all came back with the same thing...it feels like i have an elephant sittin on my chest. i have to take shallow breaths just to breath...ive read other ppls stories and they sound like everything im expriencing is what theyve had so im starting to think thats what ive got...i have no idea how i got it or what and why do i always feel nasious the day after the pain goes away ive been having these attacks since the summone of 2008 please someone if you know anything and everything feel free to email me rld92@aol.com i need sumone to talk to cuz no one else knows what im goin thru with this major pain | http://metalia.blogspot.com/2009/10/because-theres-no-so-you-have-pleurisy.html?showComment=1254838379901 | 2013-05-18T10:21:28 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Thursday, August 13, 2009
Quiet days in Montreal
Am having a couple of quiet post-con days in lovely Montreal, prior to flying to Austin tomorrow for Armadillocon. It should be a fairly lazy, touristy week in Austin, with little lined up at this stage, though I'll be doing a radio interview with Seth Shostak on Friday and will certainly be meeting lots of people. In fact, a highlight next week will be meeting Natasha Vita-More and Max More, who are promising us a good time for my birthday on the 18th.
Posted by Russell Blackford at 1:17 am
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Don't miss the chicken-fried steak at Hoover's. Austin is c.f.s. country, and you'll do yourself a disservice if you miss it!
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I'll be just slightly tentative in this post, since I do not have a transcript of Eugenie Scott's speech at Dragon*Con yesterday (Sunday), and nor did I take notes, other than mental ones. If anyone else who was present wishes to clarify a point, then that is welcome. Still, I think I have a reasonable impression of the points that were made.
To be fair to her, the speech consisted mainly of an attack on Intelligent Design theory, claiming that it is not scientific. I more or less agree with this, though not necessarily for precisely the same reasons. For me, it's enough that ID theory has no genuine research program, is contrived to reach a predetermined outcome, and therefore lacks the very rigorous standards of intellectual honesty that we expect of scientists, etc. It is more like legal advocacy than science - it attempts to put the most persuasive case for a conclusion that is decided in advance. There's nothing wrong with that, in its place, but it's not science. ID's conclusions can in no way be characterised as conclusions with scientific credibility, and the claim that they are can never be relied upon by a public school system that wishes to teach them or to offer them as an alternative to genuine evolutionary biology.
That, however, is not how Scott put it. Still, she must be given credit for what she was trying to do, and she did make some similar points in her own way.
In any event, it was the first part of the speech that worried me. This emphasised the claim that science (Scott said "science", not "reason") is only on way of knowing. The others that she mentioned were personal insight and authority (I don't think she was saying that these three are the only "ways of knowing"). She appeared to be happy to count all sorts of ideas gained from personal insight, perhaps assisted by rituals or drugs, as "knowledge", which is rather odd, since knowledge is, at the least, justified belief. She counted revelation, including the words of holy books, as a sub-set of authority, and explained that the problem is when empirical claims are based on revelation.
Scott also said that science is a limited way of knowing because it can only investigate natural phenomena and can only offer natural explanations for them, and so cannot deal with supernatural claims. She offered no argument for this claim. Indeed, she gave an example of scientific study of truth claims that appeared to refute it. This was a description of a controlled experiment to see whether people really can perform better than chance at dowsing for water. Clearly, if the claim "I can perform better than chance at dowsing for water" is refuted by scientific investigation, it follows, a fortiori, that the claim "I can perform better than chance at dowsing for water by using supernatural means" is also refuted.
The fact is that science has reached a point where it is bad form for scientists to postulate supernatural explanations for phenomena. This is mainly because such explanations have such an unimpressive historical track record (think of preformationist theories of reproduction that depend on an original divine miracle to create an infinite set of tiny homunculi within homunculi, or of diluvian theories of geology that explain rock formation in terms of Noah's flood). So-called "methodological naturalism" is a useful rule of thumb adopted by modern science, and a contemporary scientist who did not adopt it when postulating causes would now be laughed at by colleagues.
However, there is no reason why science cannot offer supernatural explanations. In earlier times, reputable scientists often did this; methodological naturalism was never essential to the definition of "science". Moreover, although modern scientists are (quite correctly) unwilling to postulate supernatural explanations, that does not mean that they are unable to test supernatural explanations when postulated by others. The fact that supernatural explanations have a poor record when tested is (at least part of) the reason why scientists are now so unwilling to postulate them.
Scott's speech was rather long, with no time for questions. It went down well with the audience, and much of its content justified this, but I'd have liked to have seen some challenges to its simplistic claims about scientific epistemology. (She told people with a background in this area of philosophy to "deal [with it]", since she could not give all the detail, but that is hardly satisfactory.)
Alas, none of the speech acknowledged that the problems created by religious thinking - and the acceptance of religious leaders, religious organisations, and holy books as having authority - go FAR beyond those caused when empirical claims are based on scriptural revelation. Of course, those are the problems that Scott is required to deal with at the NCSE, but they are far from the only ones or necessarily the most important ones. Any suggestion that they are is most unfortunate.."
I know that many rational people don't like the implied comparison of religion, or of particular religions, to Nazism, or the suggestion that goodwilled folks such as Eugenie Scott are selling out to something as evil as Nazism. Nazism was and is a particularly vicious quasi-religious belief system.
But the great organised religions are, collectively, a bigger problem than Nazism these days. When a religious organisation such as the Catholic Church is welcomed as an ally of the cause of reason merely because it takes the right side on one issue, that looks like a form of appeasement. The Vatican hierarchs are not our allies merely because they don't oppose evolutionary theory. The Vatican is the same organisation that teaches that the use of the contraceptive pill, masturbation, homosexual acts, etc., are all very serious "sins". It is anti-rational and authoritarian.
It doesn't hesitate to try to get the coercive power of the state to ban whichever of these "sins" it can, wherever and whenever it can. It is a kind of opportunistic predator in that respect. Most recently, RU-486 was legalised in Italy only in the face of strong Vatican opposition. The Catholic Church continually does all it can to interfere in personal decisions about how we live our lives, and especially about bioethical issues at the beginning and end of life. It does not merely preach its benighted moral views to the faithful, but tries to get governments to enshrine those views in legislation, thus getting them imposed on us by force.
In short, the Catholic Church is a far greater menace to our liberties than a bunch of American fundamentalists whose immediate goal is to undermine the teaching of biological evolution in American schools. Of course, organisations such as the Discovery Institute have a much broader theocratic agenda, but this is precisely what Eugenie Scott will never criticise them for. The only problem, apparently, is that they make empirical claims based in scriptural revelation.
No, that is not the only problem, or the greatest problem. The far larger problem is the epistemic, moral, and above all political authority claimed by many religious organisations. This most definitely includes the Catholic Church, which Scott obviously sees as an ally - even employing a Catholic priest to head the NCSE's faith outreach program.
I am not suggesting that the NCSE enlarge its remit to attack religion more generally. That is not its raison d'etre at all. But it can be neutral about such questions as whether science undermines a large amount of religious thinking, far beyond the claims of creationism and Intelligent Design. It can stop relying on an unnecessarily narrow (and very dubious) view of scientific epistemology, designed to leave as much authority with religion as possible. It can stop selling Gould's intellectually bankrupt principle of Non-Overlapping Magisteria on its website.
It's a pity that Scott's talk left no time to debate any of this. Perhaps next year the Dragon*Con organisers will provide space in their program for challenges to the more dubious and dangerous epistemological claims that Scott was trying to sell to us yesterday. Maybe Jerry Coyne would be a good speaker for next year. Put your hand up, Jerry.
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Maybe Russell Blackford would be a good speaker? ;)
P.S. Russell, hope you didn't a dodgy email for some website from my email account. Sunday morning it appears my account was used to spam a message all over the shop. I think I've fixed the problem. Sorry if you got the email.
Yeah, I did get it. But don't worry; these things happen in our modern networked lives.
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The problem with this idea of appeasement is that it suggests that the NCSE is somehow offering an exchange, letting religious organizations have their way on other issues provided that they accept evolution. However, as you yourself pointed out, it's not as if the NCSE would be expected to engage in the fight over RU-486, etc., in the first place, and it isn't getting in the way of such fights, either.
So where is the analogue to letting the Germans conquer the Sudetenland?
You need to understand that Eugenie is a *very* traditional American biological anthropologist, with training in "other forms of understanding" and cultural relativism...
How did I know that JJ would turn up here to ask a question that I've already answered? I must have used some supernatural method.
Well, some things never change. :)
A worrying report.
Something struck me after reading this post....
"The Vatican hierarchs are not our allies merely because they don't oppose evolutionary theory."
Isn't there perhaps something mistaken about the obsession with the teaching of evolution if it is approached this way? If there are alliances with organisations like the Catholic Church, isn't that winning one battle (evolution), but conceding defeat in so many other areas? If this is NOMA, the magisterium of science and reason is small indeed.
"How did I know that JJ would turn up here to ask a question that I've already answered?"
You didn't answer it very well. When Chamberlain appeased the Nazis, there was a clear attempt at an exchange: The Germans would be allowed to take the Sudetenland, and in exchange, the Germans would not attempt to conquer any more territory. Here the supposed exchange is muddier:
"You can have all the authority you want (to lobby for banning of RU-486 or whatever your latest problem is) as long as you don't oppose the teaching of evolution."
The NCSE isn't in the business of opposing religious organizations' attempts to push their moralities, so it's not as if their not engaging in business that they wouldn't engage in anyway could be much of a term of an exchange. Nor is the NCSE in much of a position to let or not let religious organizations have authority on anything. This doesn't correspond very well to not interfering with the conquest of the Sudetenland.
Steve Zara: "If there are alliances with organisations like the Catholic Church, isn't that winning one battle (evolution), but conceding defeat in so many other areas?"
But who is conceding defeat here? Letting other organizations fight the Vatican on RU-486, condoms, etc. is hardly a concession.
As did Steve Zara, I found the report somewhat troubling. The NSCE seems to increasingly take on the charateristics of a political organization (which I suppose actually is its major purpose) in that it seeks to accomodate the views of groups like the Catholic Church in order to win support for what the NSCE sees as its larger goals. Hence, making nice with an organization that (sort of) accepts the accuracy and importance of evolution, but which also promulgates the most outrageous lies on other subjects of a scientific nature (the effectiveness of condoms in preventing transmission of HIV, for instance). This sort of realpolitic may be ultimately productive and useful, but it sure is hard to lie back and "think of the Empire" while is is being done.
On the subject of NOMA: I have never understood the argument that supernatural claims are "outside the scope" of science. Science is a means of exploring the observable universe. If a particular "supernatural" claim does not affect something in the observable universe, then of course such a claim is "outside the scope" of science. However, it seems to me that such claims are ususally trivial, and, on a practical level, don't really matter to anyone. Most of the "supernatural" claims that anyone cares about are the those that posit some "supernatural" effect on the observable universe, and as such are the legitimate subject of science.
Even the so-called "Big Questions" can be amenable to scientific exploration. The claim that there exits an omnipotent, omnipresent, omnibenevolent diety, that actively intervenes with some frequency in the observable universe, is in essence falsified each time a study fails to find a correlation between intercessory prayer and medical outcomes, or an actuarial study fails to find that the godly have fewer fatal accidents than do atheists, and so on.
Of course, such an outlook would be politically inconvenient for the NSCE, as it implicitly requires the proponents of religion to provide evidence for their claims to justify the belief that they are true.
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Tom Coward, the NCSE is an organization that is specifically about "working to keep evolution in public school science education." Despite its name, it was never meant to advocate on behalf of a wide range of scientific issues the way that, say, the AAAS does. It has always been about the creation-evolution conflict. The NCSE isn't silent about "the effectiveness of condoms in preventing transmission of HIV" in exchange for favorable religious views on evolution. It is silent on the matter because it is not on their turf, and it isn't stopping the organizations for which such a matter is on their turf from having their say.
Normally one doesn't find such anti-Catholic bigotry outside of a Jack Chick tract.
If the RCC opposes abortion or RU-486 it is out of a desire to protect human life and dignity and to prevent what CS Lewis referred to as the "abolition of man".
(BTW, from a purely Darewinian". Ironic, no?)
The RCC also opposes euthanasia for the same reason. So it is ironic that you should compare them to the Nazis. Years before they began killing Jews the Nazis insituted a Darwinian eugenics program that killed the mentally and physically handicapped ("life unworthy of life"). The new eugenics will have even more powerful tools at its disposal, which it wil use without hesitation once we have achieved the "total eclipse of all values" predicted by Nietzsche.
Unlike the Nazis,the RCC considers all human life to be worthy of life, whether too young to defend itself, too handicapped to provide for itself, or too old to be considered "useful". All human life is sacred.
It is also why the RCC opposes the death penalty and is in favor of uber-liberal social programs to help the poor and needy. In regards to social programs, the RCC is further left than any American liberal.
Furthermore, the RCC has as much right as any other issues group to lobby the government, organize protests or instruct its membership on behalf of its views and beliefs. Don't agree with what the RCC to be a sin? Fine, don't be a Catholic.
Nobody is forcing you to join.
I eagerly await you next post on the evil conspiracies and machinations of the Jesuits.
Anonymous: "from a purely Darewinian [sic]'."
Some XKCD for you:
There are a couple things that you are overlooking:
1) The societies that embrace abortion and birth control are generally the more prosperous ones. Fewer children are born, yes, but those fewer children have far better odds of survival than children from a large (and probably religious) family in a Third World country.
2) Atheism doesn't have to spread by parents passing down their beliefs to their children. Religious believers can deconvert as well. Also, children don't even have to accept the religion of their parents, and they are increasingly not accepting their parents' faith.
"Don't agree with what the RCC to be a sin? Fine, don't be a Catholic.
Nobody is forcing you to join."
You appear to have missed the "Vatican opposition to secular legislation" problem, which was, as it happens, the very point RB was making. By attempting to influence my government on such issues as RU-486 they are, in fact, trying to force me to join.
CW-
Indeed. The Vatican is a political organisation. Allying with the Catholic Church is a political act that implies tolerance of their political goals.
"By attempting to influence my government on such issues as RU-486 they are, in fact, trying to force me to join."
So does every other political organization with an agenda and a goal of changing society, whether they be Greens, Libertarians, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, or the RCC.
So what is your point? That it is OK for secular religious groups to advance their view of society, but not religious groups?
"The societies that embrace abortion and birth control are generally the more prosperous ones."
You have cause and effect backwards. Prosperity preceeds declining birth rates, not the other way around.
However, those societies with below replacement level TFRs will be top heavy in pensioners as the age demographics shift into the "gray zone". Geezers do two things:
1. consume a great deal of accumulated and produced capital (mostly in the form of health care and pensions both public and private) while not producing any wealth, and
2.vote with a vengence.
God help any politican who even thinks about limiting benefits to old Americans once the Boomers begin to retire enmasse.
We Boomers are going to be a crushing financial and tax burden on the younger generation. And we will be the biggest voting block. Econmic growth isn't sustainable under these conditions.
"Religious believers can deconvert as well."
Conversion isn't just one way. Those raised as atheists can also embrace religion (the son of Madyln Murray O'Hare being a famous example). For the most part however, children adopt their parents memes and seldom reject them permanently or totally.
The conversion rate of religious to athesit is simply not large enough to compensate for the latter's inability to breed.
So what is your point? That it is OK for secular religious groups to advance their view of society, but not religious groups?
Anyone should be able to advance their view of society providing it is based on evidence and reason, and not on the theological gang-warfare of religion, where the arguments reduce to "No, Got told ME what is true!"
If a religious person wishes to advance a view using the same standards of debate as anyone else, there should be no restriction on that.
"So what is your point? That it is OK for secular religious groups to advance their view of society, but not religious groups?"
No, that is not the point at all. The church may do as it pleases. The NCSE, however, should not be embracing the church simply because they happen to be in agreement (more or less) on one very narrow issue.
I would have thought that it was perfectly clear in the original: "When a religious organisation such as the Catholic Church is welcomed as an ally of the cause of reason merely because it takes the right side on one issue, that looks like a form of appeasement."
CW: "When a religious organisation such as the Catholic Church is welcomed as an ally of the cause of reason merely because it takes the right side on one issue, that looks like a form of appeasement. [emphasis added]"
Ok, and when a religious organisation such is welcomed as an ally on the cause of working to keep evolution in public school science education because it takes the right side on that cause, what does it look like then?
Oh, "Anonymous," you might be interested in this post on the Friendly Atheist blog: "Atheist Demographic Growth Stable".?
Hand up! (I hope I don't have to wear a nurse's uniform . .. .)
"The societies that embrace abortion...".
CW: "Are you suggesting that 'the cause of working to keep evolution in public school science education' is somehow not the cause of reason?"
Yes. Mind you that keeping the theory of evolution in public schools can certainly help.
CW:"Or are you suggesting that in the interest of that one very narrow battlefield in the fight for reason we should just abandon the rest of the war?"
No, I'm suggesting that it is nonsense to call what the NCSE does "appeasement."
"I'm suggesting that it is nonsense to call what the NCSE does "appeasement."
Appeasement: The policy of granting concessions to potential enemies to maintain peace.
I'm afraid I don't see how this is "nonsense". When, as a matter of strategy, an atheist like Scott espouses NOMA or a national science education agency embraces the Catholic church, well appeasement seems rather the exact term.
CW: "Appeasement: The policy of granting concessions to potential enemies to maintain peace."?
Another thing. As a supposed act of appeasement, NOMA.
But that assumes that the Catholic Church is seen by the NCSE as a potential enemy.
It should be. Any group promoting education about science should not be associated with an organisation that lies about the science of AIDS, about?
They lend them credibility.
By the way, I was reminded of this this great site again today:
ferouscranus.htm
Steve Zara: "If an organisation is labelled as promoting science, it is assumed that this is what it supports, even if it happens to be focussing on one particular aspect of science."
Which does not mean that the NCSE is going to comment on every bit of bad science that there is, especially when they have their hands full just dealing with creation?
Steve Zara: "They lend them credibility.".
By the way, I was reminded of this this great site again today:
ferouscranus.htm
If I were "utterly impervious to reason, persuasion and new ideas," I wouldn't have written a mea culpa not too long ago.
Seriously, what do you expect the NCSE to do?
I'm about to blog about this.
After all the recent controversy, and especially after this excellent post by Russell, I'll tell you what I would like the NCSE to do.
Nothing at all. Literally nothing.
Struggling to make an impact on the matter of the teaching of evolution while making all kinds of controversial concessions to religion in other areas of reason seems pretty much a waste of effort to me.
Oh, "Anonymous," you might be interested in this post on the Friendly Atheist blog: "Atheist Demographic Growth Stable".
I'd think you'd be interested in the fact that the article in question references unscientific surveys that suffer from confusion of terms (hint: non-religious =! atheist)..
Besides, there was another group that tried to rely exclusively on memetic reproduction instead of genetic. They were called the Shakers.
They aren't around any more.
Anonymous: "I'd think you'd be interested in the fact that the article in question references unscientific surveys"
If you think that ARIS and the Pew surveys are unscientific, then you are pretty clueless on the matters that we are discussing.
On another matter ... NOMA concept, I'd say that this was fair..
Anonymous:
You're determined not to be taken seriously, aren't you?
Pay attention:
Many atheists do choose to have children. Those that don't are not necessarily incapable.
Furthermore, atheists are the same species as theists. They can, and sometimes do, interbreed. facts with...well...I wouldn't want to go so far as calling anything you've said in this thread a "point".
You should feel really stupid for needing all that explained to you.
"BTW, from a purely Darewinian point of view which society is superior and more succesful: one that embraces abortion and birth control, or one that does not?"
It depends, are the populations limited to islands? Chatham islanders, before being wiped out by the Maori, engaged in infant castration to prevent the population from outstripping the island's resources.
Easter islanders, on the other hand, did no such thing and suffered a huge population crash in the 19th century after decades of overfishing, over-hunting, and non-sustainable agriculture..
-Dan L.
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