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Skip to comments.Professor Limbaugh Debunks Junk Earth Science (Creation/evolution linked to environmentalism)
Posted on 09/06/2005 7:02:43 AM PDT by DaveLoneRanger
RUSH: We go to Whitney in Roanoke, Virginia. I'm glad you held on, Whitney. Thanks for your patience.
CALLER: Oh, thanks for having me.
RUSH: You bet.
CALLER: I had a rational and intelligent argument, but now I'm a little nervous. I'm not sure how I'm going -- ha! ha! -- to present it, but it seems like to me that you just dismiss the environmental concerns just right offhand, and what I'm trying to figure out is: Are you dismissing the harbingers of doom and gloom themselves, or the environmental concern?
RUSH: Uhhh. Am I just missing the harbingers of doom and gloom themselves?
CALLER: Yeah. Do you just not like to listen to them talk or do you just hate environmental policy? Is it possible to be an environmentally savvy conservative?
RUSH: Sure!
CALLER: Okay.
RUSH: Yeah. Yeah. But I don't believe that there are any harbingers of doom and gloom in the environment out there.
CALLER: So you don't believe in global warming? (scoffs)
RUSH: No.
CALLER: Or that the large ozone hole?
RUSH: No. Wait, wait, wait, wait. I --
CALLER: Or that humans created the ozone, destruction of the ozone.
RUSH: No. No, no, no. I don't. Because the hole closes every year and we don't do anything to close it.
CALLER: Eh, ha ha ha.
RUSH: So how are we causing it? It's the same thing.
CALLER: Well, that whole vortex and, uh, you know, spinning earth sort of theory, and that's maybe pseudoscientific?
RUSH: (sigh)
CALLER: I just want you to clarify your position on the environment. I mean, do you hate the environment? Ha ha.
RUSH: You know, I'm glad you called. I really am, and I would love to talk to you about this.
CALLER: Mmm-hmm.
RUSH: So we're going to. No, I don't "hate" the environment. I don't hate anything.
CALLER: That's right. You're an optimist. Ha ha ha.
RUSH: I am skeptical of liberals.
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: I am totally skeptical of liberals. I am skeptical of any group of people who wants to say that we human beings in the advanced areas of existence, in the great democracies of the world are single-handedly responsible for destroying the environment, and if we don't stop now, it's all going to go away poof! I don't buy that for a moment. I think the modern environmental movement is simply the latest refuge for communists and socialists who are opposed to capitalism.
CALLER: I think that's where I'm confused, is the terminology. To me, "conservation" is not a liberal concept, and things like being conservative with your decisions about the environment --
RUSH: Well, that's not --
CALLER: -- is responsible.
RUSH: The thing you have to understand is the environmentalists are not concerned about the environment.
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: The environmentalists are using the environment as a platform to attack a way of life they disagree with.
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: And they're working, and it's succeeds with people like you, because after all, who wants dirty water?
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: Who wants dirty air?
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: And the environmentalists set up if you don't disagree with them, oh you must be for pollution. I'm not for pollution. I just want the facts straight. There is more pollution in the underdeveloped world than in the United States. We clean up or messes better than anyone else does.
CALLER: That's true.
RUSH: Well, then how at the same time with we be blamed for the destroying the planet and destroying the environment? We're doing just the opposite! We're going out of our way to protect it. We're going out of our way to do what we can to hold great and responsible stewardship over it, but normal economic or environmental cycles? For example, go look at -- if you can find it, go look at -- a map of the way the earth looked hundreds of thousands of years ago and you'll see the continents today don't even exist as they do today.
CALLER: Oh, sure.
RUSH: Huh?
CALLER: Sure, but there's seven billion -- or six billion -- more people. It seems like the cause and effect of that alone, without even the industry side of it, is going to have an environmental impact.
RUSH: Well, you know, Paul Ehrlich --
CALLER: Seven billion anything has an impact (giggles) I would think.
RUSH: (heavy sigh)
CALLER: I mean, isn't it -- I just wondering, is it responsible, or wise to err on the side of caution as far as the environment is concerned?
RUSH: Look it, we're going to have a disconnect here, because you're feeling about this --
CALLER: Yeah.
RUSH: -- and I'm thinking about it.
CALLER: Right. Well, you're right.
RUSH: And I don't know how to get to your feelings. I don't want to destroy your feelings here. I don't own your feelings. They aren't mine. I'm not responsible for your feelings, so I can't talk you out of them.
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: But if you wanted to think about this rationally rather than feel about it -- that's the appeal of the environmental movement. They want you to feel like, "Oh, my God, we're striking this great place!" I don't believe we have the ability to destroy it.
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: Now, I've got to take a break. Are you interested in continuing this?
CALLER: Sure.
RUSH: Okay, well hang on through the break, and I'll give it another stab. But you've got to let me answer the questions you ask me, okay?
RUSH: We go back to Whitney in Roanoke, Virginia. I trust you're still there?
CALLER: Yes, sir.
RUSH: Okay, let me just say a couple of things here, because you asked me why am I dismissing all the environmental damage and why do I believe what I believe, and I want to try to explain it to you so that, as you keep listening, you'll be able to put the comments that I make on all this into context and into perspective.
CALLER: Mmm-hmm.
RUSH: The first thing in helping to explain my attitude on the environment. I think the environment is a political issue. I don't even "think" it, I know it. The environment is a political issue, and environmental activists are liberals, they are leftists. Well, now, you know me. I don't trust them. I disagree with them. I am suspicious of their motives. I know who the environmentalists are. I have listened to what they've said. I've read what they have written. I have debunked so much of what they have said. Michael Crichton has written a book called State of Fear, in which he documents the way they lie; the way they make things up, the way they basically exist as fund-raising organizations, and they use fear to raise money. They're also anti-capitalists -- and they're big government types. They want government controlling your property, what's called a "wetland" and all sorts of things. As to global warming, in 1975, Newsweek magazine had cover story on the coming global freeze. Six years later, I'm watching ABC's This Week with David Brinkley and a scientist named Michael Oppenheimer is saying, "We've only got 20 years to stop global warming. If we don't..." and Brinkley said, "Well, can you prove it's happening now?"
He said, "No, but we need 20 more years, but we don't have time to wait those 20 years because if we don't act now it's going to be too late."
So 20 years has gone by and the environmentalists still cannot prove that this is manmade. They cannot prove that the current warming cycle that I admit we're in, can be proved to be manmade and even man-caused. There have been too many global heating and cooling cycles long before man came along and industrialized the planet, and there have been way too many volcanoes spewing pollution that doubles the amount of the total of all the automobiles ever invented and manufactured in the world. That tells me that we human beings are very vain on one hand. We've got animal rights people telling us that we're no different than rats and insects. We've got the environmentalists on the other hand telling us we are so powerful, that we have the ability to destroy this which we didn't create. You asked about ozone. Do you know how ozone is created?
CALLER: You mean with coffee machines and car exhaust and all that?
RUSH: No, no, no. I mean atmospheric ozone. That's where the ozone is. Do you know how that ozone is created?
CALLER: Uh, no. Go ahead.
RUSH: The sun manufactures it, interacting with other elements in the atmosphere.
CALLER: Right, with oxygen and creates O3. Right.
RUSH: Right. So, let's assume that President Bush wanted all Democrats to get skin cancer.
CALLER: (laughs)
RUSH: So he orders the secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld, to destroy the ozone layer.
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: We couldn't do it if we wanted to.
CALLER: If he did, it wouldn't just give the Democrats skin cancer. It would give us all skin cancer.
RUSH: Exactly. But the point is, we couldn't do it!
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: We couldn't destroy the ozone layer. We'd have to put out the sun. We would have to find a way to send fire trucks to the sun and put it out.
CALLER: Then what was the point of Reagan signing the Montreal protocol ending CFC productions, or restricting it at least?
RUSH: It's all irrelevant to me. The ozone hole closes. When is the last time you heard the ozone hole as a big issue?
CALLER: No, that's why I'm asking you.
RUSH: It's been years, and all we've done is drive more cars, burn more fuel. We cool and do these sorts of things. The other day, some environmentalist group came out and said, "It's too late. No matter what we do, we cannot solve and stop global warming. It's too late now." Well, my reaction to that is, if there's nothing we can do to stop it, then there's no way we could have caused it.
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: Because if we caused it, we simply stopped what we're doing to cause it, and they say it's too late.
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: These are just fear-mongering people who are on the left who are turning this whole issue into a political issue. You have this astronaut, Eileen Collins, and she's flying all over the world in the space shuttle. She looks down and she sees what she thinks is destruction. (story) I think she saw development. You know, if you didn't know better, drive by a plot of land where it's all plowed up and torn up and they're getting ready to build a subdivision of homes there. You would think, "My God, what came along and destroyed this," if you didn't know it, if you had no clue what had come along, if you didn't know that bulldozers had come in and plowed that land and dug it up in preparation for laying sewer lines and all that, to build a subdivision, you would think, "My God, we're going to hell in a hand basket."
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: By the same token when you're flying over the earth -- and I do this all the time -- and you see rivers and streams after heavy rain, they're always brown. The Mississippi River is brown as it can be after a heavy rain. The idea that rivers and streams are blue these days is a figment of people's imagination based on artwork. They're not. Swimming pools are blue, and the ocean is blue, if you have a blue sky. You ever seen the ocean when it's overcast? It looks gray and green and dank and all that.
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: It looks entirely different. It doesn't mean it's any dirtier that day than when the sun's out and the sky is clear. But the reason this appeals to you is because nobody wants to destroy the planet, because it sustains us, and so people come along and say, 'All these cars and all these barbecue pits and all, why, they have to be having an effect," and your common sense says to you, when you couple it with your emotion, "Yeah, well, I think I'll cut back," and so you think everybody should cut back and in so doing you're protecting the environment. My contention is that human beings living their lives, technologically advanced and improved at all times, in this country and around the world in democracies, are cleaning up their messes as fast as we make them. In fact, just the other day -- what are we to make of this, Whitney? Some congressman or representative in northern California said, "You know what? It's not automobiles that has been causing smog. It's cow flatulence." (story)
CALLER: Ha ha ha.
RUSH: Did you hear about that?
CALLER: No, and California is its own country as far as that. I mean, I don't even listen to anything that comes out of California. (laughing)
RUSH: Okay, well then why do you listen to what the environmentalists say?
CALLER: Well, again, Roanoke, Virginia, we live, it's just streams and rivers and lakes everywhere.
RUSH: Yeah?
CALLER: I live near a paper plant.
RUSH: Yeah?
CALLER: It's on the Jackson River, and if you want to fish, you've got to fish above the plant. If you fish below the plant, there are no fish.
RUSH: But there are fish if you go above it, right?
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: Okay so, the fish are smart enough to go where they can survive.
CALLER: That's true. Wouldn't you think there's something about the plant that's killing the fish?
RUSH: Uh, no.
CALLER: No, really?
RUSH: No. Are they finding a bunch of dead fish floating in the river?
CALLER: No, they just don't live there. They've moved away. Well, there's carp. You're not going to eat that.
RUSH: (sigh)
CALLER: I guess you could.
RUSH: If there's rampant fish dead -- I keep hearing this -- I want to see the bodies. I do!
CALLER: (laughs)
RUSH: I do. Look it. I'm just telling you: I don't believe liberals, Whitney, and you shouldn't, either, whether they're talking about the economy, whether they're talking about abortion, or they're talking about Judge Roberts or they're talking about the environment, because it's all aimed as advancing a liberal agenda, which is largely an anti-capitalist agenda, a big-government agenda, and they want people to be as concerned about it as they can be because you'll give up some of your freedoms in order to protect the environment. When you give up your freedoms, government gets the freedoms that you had.
CALLER: But these companies that invent things to clean up the environment. I mean, that's a capitalist endeavor. I'm sure they make a fortune, making, you know...
RUSH: So? So?
CALLER: Yeah.
RUSH: So what's wrong with that? They're cleaning it up.
CALLER: That's great. I don't see how it's anti-capitalism if a new company comes along with a new idea and makes a load of money off of it.
RUSH: Well because listen to what they say is the reason. They're blaming the United States for all this pollution!
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: Look at the Kyoto protocol. China is the bigger polluter than the US could ever hope to be. They're exempt from the Kyoto protocol.
CALLER: Which is ridiculous.
RUSH: Well, of course. The Kyoto protocol is nothing more than the world's attempts to get its hands into our back pocket --
CALLER: Right. And I agree with that totally.
RUSH: -- and to force us to be less competitive and less advanced economically so as to level the playing field. We are the world's superpower. They're coming after us every which way they can, wanting our money with their hands in our back pacts or what have you. Look, I don't want to get sidetracked here. Let me give you my fundamental reason for this. Politics aside.
CALLER: Okay.
RUSH: And I'm just going to get as personal as I can with you.
CALLER: Appeal to my emotion, Rush.
RUSH: Pardon? No, I'm not going to appeal to your emotion.
CALLER: All right.
RUSH: Well, I don't know where I'm going to appeal to.
CALLER: Okay.
RUSH: I'm just going to tell you why I don't believe this stuff.
CALLER: Okay.
RUSH: I believe in Creation.
CALLER: Mmm-hmm.
RUSH: I believe in God.
CALLER: Mmm-hmm.
RUSH: I believe that the idea that human beings have the ability to destroy what we couldn't create if we had to. No human being. Start from scratch. We can't even explain the existence of the earth, scientifically. We've got to go back to something called the Big Bang, and then we've got to try to make guesses as to we were all spermazoid, promozoics. We came out of the ocean. We walked four legs and two legs, but nobody really knows for sure. We have these theories. There were the other day some theory was just debunked big time and I don't remember off the top of my head what it is, but the idea if you look at this planet and you look at all the changes this planet has undergone that we can document historical for thousands of years, the forces that cause change on this planet dwarf the combined efforts of all human beings today. We couldn't any more move a continent. We couldn't any more destroy a mountain. We couldn't any more drain an ocean. We couldn't any more destroy ozone. We couldn't any more raise the temperature if we were freezing to death. We couldn't steer a hurricane away from where it's headed. We can't stop a thunderstorm. We can't make a clear sky rain. We can't do one thing climatologically that we wish we could do when we're faced with disaster or when we're faced with drought. We can't make it stop raining. We can't cause it to rain. We can't raise the sea level. We can't drain a river. We can't fill a river. We can't create the water out of nothing that will fill a river that used to run robustly and now is dried up for other economic reasons or evolutionary reasons. We can't do any of these things. We don't have the capacity. We don't have the wherewithal. We don't have the knowledge. We don't have the equipment. We're basically a bunch of passengers along for the ride on this planet. The idea that we can destroy this is simply above my ability to comprehend. Look at how Eileen Collins, the shuttle astronaut, spoke of how "thin" the atmosphere is.
CALLER: Ha ha ha. I know.
RUSH: No, she's got a good point.
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: "Look at how thin that atmosphere is." Compared to the planet itself, it is really thin. You go up above 15,000 feet you can't breathe without oxygen tanks.
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: That's barely three miles.
CALLER: Yeah.
RUSH: Three miles three miles in the middle of the universe sustains us, right?
CALLER: That's right.
RUSH: It's been around for how many hundreds of thousands of years? How many volcanoes have belched pollution into it, how many jet planes have been flying around? and yet we're just as sustained as ever. Back in 1979 Paul Ehrlich wrote a book, "Once we get to two billion, three billion people on the planet, there won't be enough food. We'll all starve."
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: We've got six billion people on the planet, and we're still feeding them.
CALLER: (garbled)
RUSH: Well, but it's not the fault of the planet, and it's not our fault.
CALLER: Right, right.
RUSH: It's the fault of local governments who don't give the people the freedom to live in a capitalistic free market economy.
CALLER: I agree.
RUSH: But the nations of the world that do produce food are able to provide aid when it's necessary, are they not?
CALLER: That's true.
RUSH: Absolutely. The only thing gets in the way is the warlords who steal the food that we give.
CALLER: Yes.
RUSH: And of course the rock stars who think they're doing something by singing a bunch of songs on a weekend. But my point is --
CALLER: Easy for them, they're millionaires.
RUSH: Take a look at this. We orbit around the sun. We are roughly ninety-three million miles away from this sun.
CALLER: Mmm-hmm.
RUSH: If we were ninety-five million miles away from it, we wouldn't exist. It would be too cold.
CALLER: It's pretty delicate.
RUSH: If we were 90 million miles away from it, we would be boiling and we would never exist. The precision with which this planet functions and operates within its own solar system around its sun and not one thing -- we couldn't affect this orbit if we wanted to. If we were getting too close to the sun, there's nothing we could do to stop it. It is so precise. I hear all these people talk about, "There have to be other places in the universe with life." I'm not so sure, because you take a look at the size of the universe and look at the earth as relationship to the sun, within that context. We can't even measure how small this precision is that. If we were just off, if our planet was just off a couple of million miles in the relationship to the whole universe is nothing. I mean, it's literally zero, statistically zero, and yet for this to be recreated somewhere in the universe, the odds of this -- and I heard a NASA scientist say this. The odds of the life producing conditions that are so precisely met on this planet with its atmosphere and all of its ecosystems that produce the necessities for life and the sun, to find this duplicated somewhere is going to be pretty statistically difficult. I just don't believe that we have the ability to destroy the earth. Damage? Yes. Can we fix the damage? Yes. But can we stop the cycles that are going to happen regardless, the heating and the cooling and the climate and the weather? No we can't. We're not responsible for destroying the ozone because we can't create it if we did and yet the ozone hole closes. How do you explain this? You explain it by telling people.... Well, you can't explain it. The environmentalists will say, "Well, it's a natural phenomenon but the whole wouldn't exist at all if it weren't for us," and then we had stories years ago about how islands were sinking so fast in the sea because the ozone hole and people getting skin cancer. You don't see those stories anymore. You saw them once or twice and that was it. They're trying to gin up a bunch of fear, and they're trying to get to people and make them afraid -- and, by the way, when it gets to a hundred degrees in the summertime, what's the first thing people think? Oh, global warming!
CALLER: (laughs)
RUSH: That's how subtle and seductive it's all been. I'm just trying to tell you I don't buy any of this notion that we are causing it because we couldn't if we wanted to.
CALLER: Well, then how does the public who wishes to be informed, like myself, on environmental facts, which scientists do I listen to and which do I dismiss?
RUSH: Common sense. Common sense! Of course you can (sigh). Look, this will go on forever.
CALLER: I know, sorry.
RUSH: No, but you could certainly engage in some destructive things, but do you destroy the ability of man to survive? No. But I mean there's damage done to the planet... To use this kind of thinking that is seductive, we should never have built the first house in this country because something got destroyed to do it, something necessary to prolong life.
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: They didn't want us cutting down trees now. Of course beautiful things happen when you do cut them down. You get baseball bats, you get houses, all kinds of things -- and trees are a renewable resource. Common sense much the common sense, and don't forget that the people who try to make you feel guilty are a bunch of liberals and if you keep that in mind you'll have a healthy skepticism about what they say.
CALLER: That's what I wanted. That's why I called, for you to elucidate this subject for me. I feel better informed now.
RUSH: I'm happy to have helped. I'm a little long in this segment, folks. I deeply apologize, but I as host considered it to be worthwhile.
By that logic, eating a 1/10th gram of nerve gas should be safe. You can go first.
If you take 70 micrograms of LSD, and you weigh 70 kilograms, the LSD will be one part per billion by mass in your body, and even lower than 1 ppb by mole. If you do this, and I advicse against it, you will be higher than a kite and crazier than a loon. How could less than one molecule per billlion completely destroy your thought processes?
You're being too hard on Rush. He's a usually sensible guy who's out of his league on this one. Give him a break; one can't be expert on everything.
With conservative friends like you who needs the left? :-)
I feel the same way about people who post scientific idiocy in the name of conservatism.
Your analogy is bull...flawed. Can you guess why?
Patrick Kennedy is a scientist? Where's his degree from?
"We collected popcorn samples in 12 theaters from six chains in San Francisco, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. We combined them into three "composites" (coconut oil, coconut oil with topping, and canola shortening), and sent the composites to an independent laboratory to be analyzed for calories, sodium, etc." -- CSPI in depth study on popcorn and coconut oil
So what's your criticism of this? I agree that popcorn in movie theaters is probably not high on my list of social concerns, but there's something wrong with the methodology? How?
"Research just published by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) claims, in opposition to a bill currently before Congress, that unborn babies' perception of pain is unlikely until the third trimester. However, the article fails to mention the authors' ties to the abortion industry." -- CWA comment on the "fetuses feel no pain" article.
I'd certainly be inclined to be skeptical of this or any other research where the author was a clear advocate of one position or other. So, given that we have grounds to suspect the motives, can we find anything wrong with the substance of the paper? Merely pointing out one side or other has a vested interest does not invalidate their position, it just suggests one needs to scrutinize what they say extra-carefully.
On a personal note, I am a mathematician (not a "mathematician" like Hawking -- he's a physicist) and if you believe in evolution, math is still true. If you believe in ID, math is still true. Axiom, conjecture, theorem, proof. No muss, no fuss. Of course, that kind of rigor is a little too difficult for most.
It's not an issue of rigor. It's an issue of the clear difference between science and mathematics. Your misunderstanding of the former does you no credit.
Why don't you share with the class?
I think this entire issue is funny. I took a class at Ohio State a few years ago which covered environmental laws and such. In the class we talked about how the US has a policy to halt all forest fires in Yellowstone to protect the trees and the forest. After we did this, we started watching the forests die off, because nothing was being replaced. They realized that the problem was being caused by the act of putting out the fire itself. When they put out a fire, it prevented the forest from destroying the older trees and repalcing them with newer trees. So if man interefered, the forest dies off, because they weren't being replaced. This of course applies to natural fires only (caused by lightning, droughts, etc.) any man-made fire is put out, or so I was told. At any rate, even more interesting being taught in this class is that the concepts of "nature" are flawed. The concepts of nature used to create the national park system was based on the fact that these areas were absent the prescence of man, yet they keep finding indian artifacts and such there. Doesn't seem to hold the effort in its proper light. And keep in mind that in order to protect nature, we open it up to the public for parks and recreation.
Doesn't matter. He's a scientific expert in the eyes of the media and the public and "scientists" allow him, by assent, to use their results for his own purposes. But again, this is what science has become, not what you want it to be.
So what's your criticism of this?
Methodology. Many sciences have gotten to the point where they are simply the art of finding one data point and then calculating the best-fit straight line.
I'd certainly be inclined to be skeptical of this or any other research where the author was a clear advocate of one position or other.
Well, you weren't the referee, were you? It managed to get into JAMA and then the NYT. And now, the ether.
It's not an issue of rigor. It's an issue of the clear difference between science and mathematics. Your misunderstanding of the former does you no credit.
Oh, I think I understand it quite well. Entirely too well.
The atmosphere is a simple mixture. It cannot "die" per se.
N'est pas?
I saw this:
Rush: "They cannot prove that the current warming cycle that I admit we're in, can be proved to be manmade and even man-caused. There have been too many global heating and cooling cycles long before man came along and industrialized the planet, and there have been way too many volcanoes spewing pollution that doubles the amount of the total of all the automobiles ever invented and manufactured in the world."
One: There's a BIG difference between "proving that the current warming cycle is "manmade... man-caused" and establishing with considerably certainty that human activities are partly responsible for the currently observed warming (which is what has been done). Scientists can make that distinction; it's more difficult to explain it to non-scientists, and I suspect it would be difficult to explain it to Rush.
Two: "Volcanoes spewing pollution" is so vague. I suspect Rush is tabbing volcanoes as a major CO2 source, given his reference to automobile emissions. If he is, he's stating something that I, with my interests in both environment and geochemistry, have politely corrected numerous FReepers about -- volcanoes are not a major CO2 source compared to fossil-fuel energy emissions. If, on the other hand, he was so nuanced to be considering sulfur dioxide, volcanoes are a significant source -- about 1/4 of the emissions from coal burning (unfiltered) or underground coal fires.
I truly agree with you, RWP, that Rush has frequently demonstrated considerably misunderstanding of scientific knowledge related to the environment. My problem is not with his level of knowledge, but that he passes on his misconceptions to his listeners, many of whom don't have the ability to realize where he is erroneous, so Rush's errors are transformed into their own state of perceived factual knowledge. Misinformation breeds mis-knowledge, i.e., people don't understand why what they have been told is incorrect. (If they were computers, it would be GIGO.)
He's a Congressman. Not even the MSM is stupid enough to confuse congresscritters with scientists. I did a google search using the terms 'patrick kennedy' and 'scientist' and couldn't find a single reference to Kennedy as a scientific expert.
Every scientist I've seen interviewed has denied that there's any obvious connection between the frequency of hurricanes and global warming. Most make the point that hurricanes wax and wane with a well-established cycle, and there's no evidence the cycle has been changed by anything humans have done. Many brought up Hurricane Camille, and the great storms of the 30's and early 40's.
Is just making stuff up as you go along part of your grand vision of mathematics?
Thanks for the additonal criticism or the original post. I didn't want to touch anthropogenic global warming, becuase it has until recently been somewhat scientifically controversial (I should have pinged you, though). But the ozone hole is not controversial. Even Fred Singer admits it's there and it's man-made - what he disputes is that the UV levels have increased as a result, that they are anything we should worry about, or that the Montreal Protocol has effectively helped - all of which are indeed legitimate criticisms. But the existence of the ozone hole itself is a closed issue.
I'm sure in the next Scientific American, the cover story will be "Patrick Kennedy is full of used food," right?
Is just making stuff up as you go along part of your grand vision of mathematics?
Nah, that's physics.
Incidentally, the ozone hole is a very different thing from global warming, and unlike global warming which is genuinely debateable, the ozone hole issue is much clearer.
The reaction is catalytic. The concentration of ozone is not terribly high either. It is the high level of dilution that keeps the reaction running slow on human time scales.
Then, and this is not criticism this is seeking answers, why then is the ozone hole in one location rather than all over? Wouldn't it conclude then that there's more involved than man-made pollution? If there were holes directly over industrialized areas, or even over areas near industrialized areas, I would be totally convinced, but I don't understand how with wind patterns and etc.(and trust me I'm no expert on the subject) would create the hole in the ozone layer over in the southern hemisphere. So I guess what I'm saying is, how can everything you say be truthful and everything he says (Rush) false, when neither side can truly account for how it happens...Perhaps thats what science needs to study first, then tell us what we need to do.
Desertification from overfarming and land clearance is a real phenomenon. You can't stop desertification. Once you've effed it up, it's effed up.
That is a good question. The reason is that the ozone destroying reaction occurs not in the gas phase, but on the surfaces of ice crystals in the stratosphere, so called 'polar stratospheric clouds'. The stratosphere at lower latitudes does not have these clouds, and so has no surfaces on which the chlorine can absorb and enhance the reaction.
Catalysis on surfaces is as familiar as the catalytic converter in your car.
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For some hunters, part of the preparation for fall hunting seasons is replacing a lost or destroyed hunter education certificate. The basic fee for a duplicate certificate is $11 and there are four ways for a hunter to obtain a duplicate certificate. A duplicate can be obtained online, or by writing or telephoning the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks' Pratt office (620/672-5911), or by visiting any of the following KDWP locations:
• Regional offices (Hays, Dodge City, Wichita, Topeka, and Chanute)
• state park offices ; or
• department offices located in Emporia, Pratt, or Lenexa .
The Kansas Hunter Education Program was established by the Kansas Legislature in 1972. More than 400,000 hunters have been certified by the program since it began, thanks to the efforts of volunteer instructors around the state.
Youth 15 and younger may hunt without hunter education, if directly supervised by an adult 18 or older. Otherwise, anyone born after July 1, 1957 must have hunter education certification in order to hunt in Kansas. In addition, persons under 27 years of age must carry an approved hunter education card while hunting in Kansas (unless exempt as described above). KDWP accepts approved hunter education course certification from all other states.

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Feeling a little red, white, and blue? Join the Houston Museum of Natural Science in that patriotic spirit by coming to see an original copy of the Declaration of Independence!
What is so special about this copy, you ask? And I'm so glad you did.
Donald Scheer of Atlanta, Georgia just happened to find a lovely countryside painting at a flea market in Pennsylvania. It wasn't the painted scene he was after, though, the frame was what caught his eye. Upon attempting to separate the two the frame fell apart in his hands and out popped a yellowed document from between the two. Upon his realization to what he found he took the document to be appraised. Sotheby's, the infamous auction house, declared this document to be one of the three finest copies of the Declaration of Independence to be preserved.
From 10am to 6pm on Saturday, July 12th, you can view this copy of the Declaration, register to vote, enjoy the Independence Cinema, and join in crafts and activities at the Declare Yourself! exhibition!
Also, don't miss your opportunity to join in the fun with Rockfest on Saturday, July 19th, from 11am until 2pm to view the biggest Guitar Hero 2 contest in Houston, meet rock experts, crack geodes, pan for gold, and much more!
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Counting Jews
Do statistics really matter?
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(5) Anonymous, June 7, 2014 3:23 PM
Very interesting and very beautifully.
(4) ross, May 28, 2014 4:33 PM
Never won.
I've never won any Chinese Auction...ever! Chances are I'll never win, and it seems to be true. So why do I still get my hopes up? Because I'm naive. Uh, no, I mean because statistics don't matter. If I'm meant to win something...If I'm meant to win something...
Sigh. I'll just keep repeating that. At least it's tzedukah.
(3) Aviva - Jerusalem, May 26, 2014 10:06 AM
vwry encouraging for small famiies
Somebody told my friend that her grandmother had one child and he had ten. Each of those had ten. She is one of those grandchildren.
There is a lady living not far from us who was an only child and she has 20 children! And a good friend of mine has only two daughters and they each have a lot of children and are still young and will have many more, please G-d.
There are so many stores like these, and one need not despair. But the story of the Tribe of Dan is the most amazing.
(2) Judith, May 26, 2014 4:11 AM
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We have been touring our Whales Tohorā exhibition internationally since October 2008, taking our unique whale stories to the world.
It opens at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa on 2 March, and has recently been on show at the Field Museum of Natural History, in Chicago.
When you take such a big exhibition on tour and have to move things as big as a couple of sperm whale skeletons there are bound to be some great stories… and some hairy moments.
Tū Hononga (meaning "the connection") is the male sperm whale skeleton at the heart of the exhibition. He is about 17 metres long and the large skull and jaw weighs about 795 kilos. That's quite a challenge to move safely through the doors of some museum buildings and then up several floors into the galleries – as the staff and Te Papa install team at the Canadian Museum of Nature found out.
Read the Canadian Museum of Nature's blog and watch the video about Tū Hononga's latest adventure.
Be warned! – make sure you read right through to the end 🙂


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Well the votes are in, 22 billion rows is big enough data. It's not the billions of web logs rows of a Google or Facebook but its big enough for everyone. One of the comments that struck me was that one in a million happens 22,000 times. So whatever your criterion is for big data, it is more a state of mind about the amount of data as opposed to the actual terabyte amounts or the number of rows. Regardless of what database systems you work with, big is a relative term. Just ask your SQL Server, Oracle and Sybase DBA friends what they consider a big system. Usually the answer is nowhere near what you get for DB2 z/OS or even DB2 LUW systems. I talked about this a last year in my blog ("Performance is Relative").
Other comments and questions received about last week's blog asked for more clarification on the idea of keeping a database design simple. So below are three different ways to keep your big data data warehouse design simple.
First: There are reasons Bill Inmon's and Ralph Kimball's decentralized and centralized data warehouse ideas are so popular, those design patterns work. Design patterns for all types of IT applications, Java/.NET MVC (model view controller), various business models and standard processes have been extensively analyzed and endorsed over many years through the design pattern books, conferences and government studies. The decentralized and centralized data warehouse design patterns work and your design should use them for your data warehouse performance. Big data or not, there is no reason to do something more complex. Starting with these types of design patterns, using and optimizing simple Fact table(s) surrounded by Dimension tables(s) design pattern will provide you data warehouse performance. Decentralize or extend these design patterns with as many Fact tables and slow moving Dimension tables will optimize and minimize the amount of big data referenced in typical transaction and your data warehouse performance won't be an issue.
Second: Make sure to normalize your big data design. It's typical to try to consolidate everything within a data warehouse performance design. Unfortunately having too many elements in a table forces too much data into an application transaction and data warehouse performance can suffer. Just as decentralized and centralized data warehouse performance design patterns have been used for years, database table normalization has been around for even longer because it logically optimizes your design. The database design normalization process has been documented everywhere over the years and it is effective for making sure the table elements relate to the whole database table key(s). Combining table keys or designs causes excessive repeating data or data groups and over-normalization leads to excessive application joins. Normalization is striking a balance and no one does it perfectly the first time. Normalize your data warehouse performance design several times and your transaction performance can strike a balanced performance for all critical applications.
Third: Design, test, redesign test and repeat. Schedule enough database and application meetings and testing time to understand all the application transactions and reports. Data warehouse performance and modeling big data can get unwieldy, so testing your design early is vital. Sometimes big data table population numbers cause tools to abort. Cut the number of zeros down and model all your application transactions against your database design, build it and run applications against it. Data warehouse performance requires real life testing and actual running of the code or SQL that interfaces with the design. No one has any time to do it perfectly but everyone will be mad if you have to redesign and do it all over right before implementation. Know your performance before production through thorough testing. Big data and data warehouse performance requires design and testing. Make sure to do these several times during your development with as much big data as possible.
These are only some of the simple truths that insure your data warehouse performance for your big data system is a success.


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Chlamydia is the most frequently reported bacterial sexually transmitted disease (STD) in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Yet, many people don't know about it. For public health officials, stopping its spread is a priority. Fortunately, you can prevent this disease.
Many people with chlamydia don't have symptoms. Women especially are unlikely to have symptoms. If you do have symptoms, you may notice them as soon as one week after you are exposed to the disease. Symptoms, if present, include pain or burning when you urinate and a discharge from the vagina or penis. Women may have abnormal vaginal bleeding, such as spotting between periods or heavier periods.
Symptoms can be so mild that you don't notice them. Even so, the disease does not go away without treatment. If you don't get treatment, you can have permanent damage, including pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). PID can lead to scarring of the fallopian tubes, the tubes that carry eggs from the ovaries to the uterus, and infertility.
Consider these facts:
About one-third of women inadequately treated for chlamydia can also get PID. PID is a serious infection of a woman's reproductive organs. Each year, PID makes 100,000 women infertile.
Chlamydia can increase the risk of tubal, or ectopic, pregnancy.
A baby born to a woman who has chlamydia may develop pneumonia or an eye infection.
Although rare, men can develop complications. These include swelling in the scrotum and infertility.
You can get chlamydia by having sex with someone who has it. You increase your risk if you have sex without using a condom. Your risk is also higher if you have more than one partner. If you have sex, correctly using a condom can decrease your risk.
Having a screening test can help prevent the spread of chlamydia because it allows for prompt treatment. The CDC recommends a chlamydia test for any woman who answers "yes" to one of these questions:
Are you under age 25 and sexually active?
Have you had a new sex partner within the past 90 days?
Have you had more than one sex partner within the past 90 days?
Have you not used a condom each time you had sex?
If you are infected, tell your partner. He or she needs a test, too.
Chlamydia is easy to treat. There are several antibiotic treatments that are effective. As little as one dose of a certain antibiotic can kill the bacteria. Tell your doctor if there is any chance you could be pregnant. Some antibiotics should not be used in pregnant women.
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I'm not going to try to dispute any of the good or bad things about the iPhone. I just love Steven's observation below regarding the price drop of the iPhone. It just… fits.
I find it ironic that the same Apple fans who in June were lofting their newly acquired iPhones in the air like they'd won the Stanley Cup are now complaining that they paid too much.
Read the article here: Levy: How Steve Jobs Lost Control of iPod Launch


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I expect a tie.
"They" will want to drive as many viewers as possible into watching the final debate.
I am pretty sure many of us will be watching the debate. I was wondering on what some of your expectations are for both candidates.
Personally, I am expected a stacked deck of pro-Obama town hall participants and a moderator who will carry the banner if need be.
Expecting a strong Obama performance b.c of the soft format but I also think any moderator bias will be easily spotted b.c of the format.
I expect a tie.
"They" will want to drive as many viewers as possible into watching the final debate.
I expect both candidates to acknowledge that we have real problems and be as unspecific as possible on what the reality of solving them is.
The first guy to tell the truth, taxes on the middle class have to go up, we are going to have to reduce our life style to pay down the debt that our security and entitlement guarantees demand is done.
Time's Mark Halperin has made himself useful for once by obtaining, and publishing, a copy of the 21-page memorandum of understanding that the Obama and Romney campaigns negotiated with the Commission on Presidential Debates establishing the rules governing this month's presidential and vice presidential face-offs. The upshot: Both campaigns are terrified at anything even remotely spontaneous happening.
They aren't permitted to ask each other questions, propose pledges to each other, or walk outside a "predesignated area." And for the town-hall-style debate tomorrow night, the audience members posing questions aren't allowed to ask follow-ups (their mics will be cut off as soon as they get their questions out). Nor will moderator Candy Crowley.
Most bizarrely, given the way the debates have played out, the rules actually appear to forbid television coverage from showing reaction shots of the candidates: "To the best of the Commission's abilities, there will be no TV cut-aways to any candidate who is not responding to a question while another candidate is answering a question or to a candidate who is not giving a closing statement while another candidate is doing so." The "best of the Commission's abilities" must be rather feeble, seeing as how almost every moment of the two debates so far was televised in split-screen, clearly showing shots of a "candidate who is not responding to a question while another candidate is answering a question."
I'm hoping someone besides Biden will show up pantsless.
Maybe both will show up in their birthday suits!
Bigger waste of time tonight:
Yankees game or debate?
Yankees suck balls. Can't wait to see them lose the abandoned city in Michigan.
Sent from my Double-Wide using Semaphore...
LOL. Where did they find these people? Making Nassau look bad.
Why is Romney picking on birds again?
Will be hilarious when the fact checkers get a hold of Obama's talking points tonight...
Turned on Debate.
In the span of 30 seconds.George Bush.....
George Bush.....
George Bush.....
George Bush.....
George Bush.....
Turned off debate.
Facepalmed and went on with my evening.
This has been a retread of the first debate. Same topics. Just a more stimulated Obama.


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Call me flabbergasted. Deliberately destroy six entire vintages of a fabled wine, and the Italian justice system metes out a measly four-year sentence? Two less than the prosecutor requested, actually.
Sentenced was Andrea Di Gisi, a former employee of Gianfranco Soldera of Case Basse, a top Montalcino estate in southern Tuscany. Fired by Soldera, Di Gisi's motive allegedly was revenge. By entering the cellar of Case Basse at night and opening the valves of casks so that the wine gushed out onto the cellar floor, he effectively stole six years' work from his former boss. Not only that, since Soldera's Brunello di Montalcino spends up to five years aging in cask, it will be at least that many years before Soldera will be able to release another vintage of his top wine.
According to Montalcinonews.com, Di Gisi, who has been dubbed "il killer di Brunello" in the Italian press, is planning to appeal the sentence. Sotto wine director Jeremy Parzen, who must follow a gazillion Italian wine blogs (in Italian) reports the story on his blog Do Bianchi via Franco Ziliani's blog Vino al Vino, who in turn is commenting on what was reported about the matter in Montalcino News.


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Chelsea will recall promising young goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois at the end of the season to prepare him for taking over from Petr Cech.
According to Spanish newspaper AS, the Stamford Bridge club will make a final decision in March over his future, but it looks almost certainly like they will call him back from his two-year loan spell at Atletico Madrid.
It also claims that Roberto di Matteo was considering recalling the 20-year-old earlier this year, but Courtois' desire to continue with Atleti persuaded the Blues to sanction an extra year on loan.
However, it now appears Chelsea are keen to have him back in England and the report claims they intend to send him out on loan once more, this time to a Premier League club, preferably in London.
Stamford Bridge goalkeeping coaches feel it is time for the Belgium international to gain experience of the differing style in England and also want him to begin acclimatising him to living in London.
All this is reportedly the beginning of the long-term plan to eventually have him ready to replace current number one Petr Cech, who is now edging towards the latter stages of his career at 30 years of age.
Chelsea signed Courtois from Belgian Pro League side Racing Genk in a deal that was reportedly as high as £7.9million in the summer of 2011.
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By Phil Jensen
OAKLAND – Charles Woodson returned a San Diego fumble 25 yards for a touchdown as the Raiders defense continued to hold firm in the third quarter.
Woodson scooped up a Danny Woodhead fumble and raced into the end zone. It was his 13th career defensive TD, tying him with Rod Woodson and Darren Sharper for the NFL record.
San Diego thought it had a TD on a 12-yard pass from Philip Rivers to Keenan Allen, but it was overturned on a replay. The Chargers settled for a 35-yard Nick Novak field goal.
Rivers finished a drive with 14:57 to go with a 5-yard shovel pass for a TD to Danny Woodhead.
Raiders 24, San Diego 10
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Jarvis back for another stint with CD as of today. Matt Henry back for Canty tomorrow.
Don't squander the gold of your days making a shrine of cricket videos, trying to improve the hopeless failure, giving your life away to the Blockys, the Devciches and the Weerasundaras! Surrender your devout little cricketing heart to the inured agribusinessman.
Why isn't the ND game on tv? Sky are bloody useless.
Northern DistrictsProudly supporting KS Williamson, TG Southee, TA Boult, BJ Watling, CJ Anderson, MJ Santner and IS Sodhi, TL Seifert and ZN Gibson
Fascist Dictator of the Heath Davis Appreciation Society
Supporting Petone's Finest since the very start - Iain O'Brien
Also Supporting the All Time #1 Batsman of All Time Ever - Jacques Kallis and the much maligned Peter Siddle.
Vimes tells it how it is:
Presume they decided three de Grandhommings within a week would be the equivalent of an ice cream headache for all concerned.
Ah, didn't realize their was another game on today. Still, Boxing day in NZ and not a single game of cricket on tv. Terrible.
I'm presuming that Sky didn't realise there's a game on as it's not Friday and it's not being played under lights.
Don't worry NZ will have a Big Bash side soon.
Boy, Milne looks on course to set a record for HRV figures from a current NZ international that'll stand for years!
Wellington could declare tbf, try to get their five overs in.
I've been thinking the same about Sky, useless.
Man Milne gets tap in 20/20, just goes to show how stupid it is to only pick him for 20/20s for NZ, his worst format.
Wellington with a chance to set a record total here. Anyone know the record highest score in the HRV Cup? I'm guess around 225?
Milne...A pity this match isn't televised. I would love to here from McMillan about how great he's bowling whilst he's getting pumped at 20 rpo.
Cribb will be getting into the vault overnight, you'll find Sinclair's knock on this channel rather than mine -
Live scoring dead. Sinclair 71*, CD 108/1,
nineseven overs left.
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'The Voice' final performances tonight
(NBC) -- The drama builds tonight on "The Voice".
The remaining three singers will turn in their final performances in the quest to be the show's champion.
The journey started months ago with blind auditions for Nicholas David, Scotsman Terry Mcdermott
and Floridian Cassadee Pope.
The finalists all have professional music experience, but their months on "The Voice" have been an education.
"We've been at like, the best music school you could go to, on so many levels," David says.
That's made for a supportive atmosphere among the singers.
"I've never looked at this as a competition, but more of like, an opportunity, and an experience
of a lifetime," David adds.
Tonight, they'll each take the stage one last time, trying to connect with viewers and earn their vote.
"Anybody can go up there and sing a song and wail, and it sounds amazing. But unless
you feel their heart and soul in it, it's just not believable," Pope says.
Despite the high stakes, the singers don't expect nerves to be a major issue tonight.
"If anything, this is going to be a relief," McDermott says. "It's going to be fun. Because we know we're in the final show. We're going out on a high whatever happens."
A season long search will culminate in one performance to determine who wins "The Voice".
Tonight's performance final airs from 8 to 9:30, followed by a sneak preview Of the new comedy "1600 Penn".
Tomorrow the winner will be announced during a two hour finale airing from 9:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.
Rihanna, Kelly Clarkson and Bruno Mars are among the scheduled guest performers during that show.


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Vatican City, Nov 9, 2012 / 01:58 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Just after holding the synod on the New Evangelization, Vatican officials say that Pope Benedict XVI will start his own Twitter account.
The announcement of his new account, which may be launched by the end of the year, comes after bishops from around the world met in Rome to discuss ways to evangelize an increasingly secular world.
At the evangelization synod of bishops, which concluded on Oct. 28, one of the messages that emerged was that social networks and other new media environments are places where "consciences are often formed, where people spend their time and live their lives. It is a new opportunity for touching the human heart."
Pope Benedict has used Twitter before, but the one instance of that happening involved him launching a news portal for all of the Vatican's news outlets. He inaugurated that portal by tweeting, "Dear Friends, I just launched News.va. Praised be our Lord Jesus Christ! With my prayers and blessings, Benedictus XVI."
But the Pope will now have his own account, which will offer feeds in five or six languages, and some believe Latin, the Church's official language, could be one of them.
"We've been speaking for some time now of a Twitter on behalf of the Pope," Father Federico Lombardi, director of the Holy See press office, told CNA on Nov. 9. "The project continues to be studied. All the relevant information, including also its handling, is not now known."
"It's possible that this will happen by the end of the year, but I always recommend waiting for the official announcements before giving indications of the precise time," he added.
The Twitter account for the Vatican news site has 105,000 followers and shares links to Vatican Radio's stories and other news updates every hour.
But there are also several fake accounts that claim to be Pope Benedict's.
The Pope, who still writes letters by hand, will not be tweeting himself, but he will approve each message posted on his behalf.
"Tweets will be fairly infrequent and their content will probably not veer too far from his texts, and on many occasions point to the things the Pope says," a Vatican official told Newsmax.
The Vatican is hoping to evangelize through Twitter, which has around 500 million users.


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There's something transformative about black queer relationships that can reshape the way we think about power dynamics. There's something that might help us think about justice in different ways if we look at a variety of family styles and family practices and family lives.
Think about the family models we most often see in U.S. society: white people, straight families and a middle class standard. Professor Nikki Young, women's and gender studies, looks at those models and wonders what other ways of living are practiced.
Her work intersects with Christian social ethics, gender and sexuality studies, and critical race theory. She has focused primarily on black queer families as a group that serves as an excellent model for exploring the different ways people live in relationship with one another. She explains, "There's something transformative about black queer relationships that can reshape the way we think about power dynamics. There's something that might help us think about justice in different ways if we look at a variety of family styles and family practices and family lives."
Young has found that many black queer families try to resist a capitalistic paradigm within their familial bonds. Instead, the focus is less on what people owe each other and more on what people can offer one another in their relationships. This perspective becomes important in families often pushed to the outside by the mainstream.
Young is incorporating her ideas about relationships into her recent work on the concept of freedom. Instead of looking at freedom as a way to preserve individuality, she approaches it as a balance between self-actualization and accountability. "Being in relationship with people positively is a way of being who you are, of being free to exist," she says. "Freedom is not in opposition to relationships, but is enhanced because of them."
Relationships lie at the heart of Young's approach to teaching, as well. "One of the things I've appreciated about Bucknell is the commitment to participating in community that our faculty and students embrace. Forging relationships outside of the classroom helps the students see that they can think about the world through the critical lenses they've developed in the classroom, and they can bring the world that they're experiencing into the classroom. What you do, the way that you behave, the decisions that you make affect what you learn."
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Maybe it's not true, but I will believe it till the day I die based on what I know.
Hail to the victors, everyone. Our fanbase is certainly among the leaders and the best when we can we can construct our beliefs based on our own narrow anecdotal experiences, all the while recognizing that there may, in fact, be a larger truth out there, but actively reject the possibility of such an alternate reality because it may shatter our carefully constructed bubble.
With this attitude, we have every right to feel superior.


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There is no doubt this has been a storybook season for the Quinnipiac hockey team, which is ranked No. 1 in the country for the first time in school history.
The team is 21-3-4 and is unbeaten in ECAC play (14-0-2). The Bobcats have 30 points, 11 ahead of second-place Yale.
One of the architects of the program's success, athletic director Jack McDonald, has deep Boston roots.
McDonald is a native of Braintree and a former star track athlete at Archbishop Williams and Boston College (Class of 1973). He was inducted into the BC Hall of Fame in 1982 and the Archbishop Williams Hall of Fame in 1997. He is thoroughly enjoying the Bobcats' success.
"It's a surreal ride here, it's amazing,'' said McDonald. "You never, ever thought that the words 'Number One' would ever be used.
"Sports is great and it's full of surprises; you never know what's going to happen. Even when we were No. 20 in the polls and No. 18 and No. 15 and No. 10, we never ever thought about No. 1. Ever.
"To spend three weeks at No. 2, we were thinking, 'This has been fun.' Then, all of a sudden, it happened. It has been amazing.''
This isn't his first experience with hockey success. McDonald, who is in his 18th year in Hamden, Conn., served as AD at the University of Denver from 1990-95 and was assistant AD for marketing at BC from 1987-90.
"Having been able to be at BC for so many years and Denver, to be with them and for at least a couple of days, ahead of them is pretty cool,'' said McDonald. "It's really cool. It's a great, great statement for the university. Quinnipiac is a great place.''
One of the more remarkable aspects of the Bobcats' season has been the consistency of play. Sometimes when teams haven't had a high level of success, they don't have the ability to handle it and fall back to earth. So far, Quinnipiac hasn't had any such hiccup.
"We had a little quick five-minute congratulations meeting with the president [John Lahey], myself, and the coach [Rand Pecknold],'' said McDonald. "I think everyone said, 'Keep your eye on the prize,' a hundred times.
"We're excited about it, there's no question we are. We haven't been this deep into a season — in fact, I don't think any of our sports have been this deep into a season — with a zero in the loss column. It's very unique.
"I heard a quote one time, 'One shift, one period, one game.' That's the one I use the most. Let's get by St. Lawrence on Friday and we'll see what happens after that.''
McDonald has a storied legacy at BC. He was a four-time New England champion and set the New England indoor mile record (4 minutes 0.9 seconds) in 1976. He coached the men's and women's track and cross-country teams, earning Big East, New England, and NCAA District 1 Coach of the Year honors in 1984 and 1987.
The excellence expected at BC is also expected at Quinnipiac. McDonald said the staff has high standards for the student-athletes and the student-athletes have those same standards for themselves, which has helped keep them grounded.
"I think the guys have their eye on the prize,'' said McDonald. "Behind it all, they have the best grade-point average they've ever had, they are still doing a ton of community service, and they've done it all without losing focus on their education and giving back to the community.
"They were like that when we weren't ranked. Men's hockey is getting the attention, but they are exactly a picture of the entire athletic department and Quinnipiac University. They represent our growth. Men's ice hockey is really helping the university attract attention.''
Bentley on the verge
This stands as a very important weekend for Bentley (11-15-1, 9-11-1). The Falcons, who have dropped five games in a row, host Army (7-14-4, 7-9-4) Friday and will travel to West Point for a game Saturday. The Falcons are 3 points out of a bye in the Atlantic Hockey playoffs and 1 point out of home ice in the first round . . . Another key matchup this weekend is between Holy Cross (14-10-2, 10-7-2) and Connecticut (13-12-3, 10-9-2). The teams are tied with Canisius for fourth in the AHA standings. UConn has earned at least a point in five of the last six outings, moving up from 10th place. Holy Cross has been idle for two weeks because of the blizzard . . . Northeastern (8-14-3, 4-11-3) has an opportunity to move up in the Hockey East standings with a two-game set against Vermont (8-14-4, 5-10-4) at Matthews Arena. The Catamounts have won just two of 11 games on the road. The Huskies are coming off a strong effort in the Beanpot, where they lost to BC in the championship game. Rookie forward Kevin Roy turned in a dynamic performance with five goals in the tournament's two games, earning Most Valuable Player honors. Roy became NU's fifth MVP and first since goaltender Bruce Racine in 1988. He is the first MVP of a second-place team since Boston University's Sean Field in 2004 . . . There could be some serious movement in Hockey East this weekend. BC (17-7-2, 12-6-1) is in first place with 25 points, only 1 point ahead of Merrimack and New Hampshire. Providence is alone in fourth with 23. Although Maine (13 points) is in the ninth spot, the Black Bears are only 1 point out of a playoff spot. BC heads to Merrimack Friday and will host UNH Sunday.Nancy Marrapese-Burrell can be reached at email@example.com.


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Top 10 Nexus 7 Apps and Games : Round 2
In early September, Charles laid out his top 10 must have Nexus 7 apps, and now it's my turn. There are a nice chunk of applications and games for the Nexus 7, but these are the top 10 I find myself in more often than not.
Unlike the previous list, my focus will be on games, with a few other applications sprinkled in. If I have the Nexus 7 in my hands, I'm probably playing a game, so check out my favorites below!
Angry Birds Star Wars
I'll be the first one to tell you that I haven't cared about an Angry Birds release since the original, and while I'm not even a fan of Star Wars, Rovio has done it again with its latest game. Angry Birds Star Wars blends previous Angry birds games with one of the most successful film franchises of all time. Sure, the way you play the game remains intact but your Angry Birds assume the identity of your favorite Star Wars characters and have some new powers to dispatch the evil pigs.
Price: Free – Play Store Link
Ever since Auralux was released, I've been absolutely obsessed with it. I can't even begin to tell the world how many times I've beaten it. Auralux is a simple strategy game that involves protecting your own sun. The suns produce star-like particles that you send out to attack other suns and make it your own. It's painfully easy, but it's addicting. While the game is free, you don't really get a sense of how great the game is unless you buy speed mode. This speeds the game up and makes it much harder and fun. There are multiple level packages you can buy as well.
Price: Free – Play Store Link
Plume made Charles' list back in September and it's made my list for a good reason. Simply put, Plume is essentially the best Twitter application for Android tablets, period. With a great set of widgets and features throughout, there's not much around that can rival Plume today in our opinion.
Price: Free – Play Store Link
Rayman Jungle Run
Rayman was the first game I ever played on the PSOne so many years ago, and Jungle Run is just as fun. Jump, fly, defy gravity, and more to grab the coins and avoid obstacles. Easy to get the hang of but challenging to beat, Rayman is loads of fun that will keep you entertained for a long time.
Price : $2.99 – Play Store Link
Granny Smith
Granny Smith is a pretty casual game, and even though it's not completely action packed, it's still fun. Your character is an old lady and your mission to keep the bandit from getting all the apples as you race him. You'll have to clear a fair amount of obstacles that will present themselves quickly in this scroller game, and sometimes just a second's pause can mean the difference of winning or losing. There's a good amount of replay value as well, as you have the chance to play as other characters later on in the game.
Price: $0.99 – Play Store Link
Pulse News
Pulse is a great way to stay up to date with your news. The slick user interface is second to none in the world of news apps on Android and it provides just about everything you need to stay up to date with your favorite sites like IntoMobile.
Price: Free – Play Store Link
Zombie Driver THD
Oh, Zombie Driver, where do we start? First off, I'm terrible at this game, but I'll always have a soft spot for running down zombies. There's loads of action in the game and killing zombies has never looks so nice thanks to the optimizations made for the NVIDIA Tegra 3.
Price: $6.99 – Play Store Link
Oscura is an interesting game. It's very simple and has a charming creepiness to it. The lighthouse's power crystal has been shattered, which was used to keep dark creatures away from your home island. Your mission is to retrieve the shards and restore the lighthouse. Entrenched in darkness, you character has a few nifty powers to help him along his way, like slowing down time and more.
Price: $0.99 – Play Store Link
ShadowGun THD
Does ShadowGun even need an introduction? One of the most graphically rich games on Android, ShadowGun THD is a must-have if you like third-person shooters. You play as a bounty hunter hell-bent on stopping a mad doctor and his army of mutants, cyborgs, and other enemies. Luckily, you have some incredibly advanced weaponry at your disposal, allowing you to kick some serious ass. ShadowGun is a non-stop action game that's well worth the money.
Price: $4.99 – Play Store Link
HD Widgets
While most of this list consists of games, we definitely wanted to save some room for a nice widget application. Beautiful Widgets rival HD Widgets claims this spot for some great clock, weather, and settings widgets. One of our favorite features about HD widgets is its ability to customize your widgets to great extent. You can customize colors of virtually everything on the widget, change fonts, transparency levels, and more. And if you're not looking to spend too much time on customizing your new widget, HD Widgets offers up a randomize button that will give you some awesome combinations to throw on your home screen.
Price: $1.99 – Play Store Link
Top 10 Nexus 7 Apps and Games : Round 2 originally appeared on IntoMobile.com on 2012-11-16T22:03:43Z. FV1gMYsz9b5j


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PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) — Two Rutgers basketball players on Mike Rice's team say the fired coach wasn't the abusive tyrant he appears to be on a widely viewed video that ultimately cost him his job.
"You can't let those individual moments define what he was," junior forward Wally Judge said during a telephone interview Thursday. "In my past two years, me being an older guy and being under other coaches, I have grown from the moment I stepped in these doors, not only as a player but also as a person because of how he has treated me."
Sophomore forward Austin Johnson agreed.
"He did a lot for us off the court, academically, socially," he said during a separate telephone conversation. "I have to say I enjoyed my time, even it was an emotional rollercoaster."
Rice was fired Wednesday, the day after a video aired on ESPN showing him shoving, grabbing and throwing balls at players in practice and using gay slurs.
"I feel if people had a chance to see the other portions of practice, or had been at practice, their judgment would not be as severe," Johnson said. "I am not saying what he did wasn't wrong, because I do believe it was wrong. But it is also tough because it was a highlight reel of his worst moments.
"I never expected for this to escalate as fast as it did," Johnson said. "We have to deal with this and it's new for a lot of the younger guys."
Judge believes some of those moments come across worse on camera than they really were.
Eric Murdock, former director of player development at Rutgers, put together the video that showed clips of several different practices over three years. In November, he showed it to athletic director Tim Pernetti.
"Honestly, a lot of the things that have been seen have been taken out of context. A lot of things that aren't seen are when we grab him and kid around," Judge said. "Like I said before, when people ask me why did I play for him, I told them 'He's a players' coach.'
"Mike was almost like a big brother. He would get on the floor with us and go through drills with us. He made it fun. When you have a big brother-type of figure, you know you can play around like that. I have grabbed Mike and put him in a headlock and we joke around and kid. That was the type of relationship he built with his players."
Pitt guard Travon Woodall also defended Rice, who recruited him when he was an assistant coach there.
"They are going at my man Mike Rice too hard," Woodall tweeted. "He's the reason I came to Pitt."
Woodall later added Rice is "not the only coach to put his hands on a player, or talk the way he did."
Murdock played in the NBA and was viewed in the program as someone who could mentor players. His contract was not renewed.
"I have a lot of respect for him. When he was here, he was somebody I would talk to because he knew of my aspirations for playing at the next level and he was a guy who had done it," Judge said. "He was a great guy to talk to. As far as this situation goes, I understand everything that is going on; I can't necessarily be mad at him, but it's been blown out of proportion. There are certain ways of going about things and this wasn't the way."
Rice left Pitt to coach at Robert Morris before landing at Rutgers, where his record was 44-51 over three seasons. He posted a 16-38 mark in the Big East, after going 73-31 in three seasons at Robert Morris. The Scarlet Knights went 15-16 this season and 5-13 in the league.
Rice was hired by Rutgers in May 2010, and he brought assistant Jimmy Martelli with him from Robert Morris. On Thursday, Martelli resigned.
In November, when athletic director Tim Pernetti first saw the tape, Rice was suspended three games for improper conduct, fined $75,000 and required to take anger management classes.
Still, Judge insisted Rice wasn't a "villain."
"He wasn't a guy we hated or despised," Judge said. "After practice, we would all go in the locker room and laugh. It was never a sad face or a hung head. What he did was he separated the court and he separated life. When we were on the court, we were on the court and locked in. That's why you see so many intense moments because he was so locked in on turning this program around. When we got in the locker room we were a family. We laughed."
Johnson hopes Rutgers' next coach can bring success to a program that hasn't been to the NCAA tournament since 1991.
"I feel like winning solves everything," he said. "If we can get someone in and change the culture, I feel like all this stuff will be forgotten."
Said Judge: "We don't want a white-collar, clean-cut guy. We want somebody who understands us and will push us every day, like Rice did."


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Thursday, January 20, 2011
a set a day #11...
59 comments:
- Lesley said...
PHEW!!!! How much goodies!!!
I'm out of breathe and i've only been sitting here reading!!
Love, love, love them all!!!!
- January 20, 2011 at 8:38 AM
- Holly said...
Everything I have been seeing is fabulous, and I am trying to figure out what I would want to get first! Thanks!!
- January 20, 2011 at 8:39 AM
- Therese said...
Wendy----You are flippin amazing-------your stamps, your blog, your creativity, your bubbly personality........ I am in awe of your stamps, your work, who would of thought of snaps for hubcaps............your art parts.....I will have to go and get at least 3 of each.......take care and thanks for everything.......hugs, Therese
- January 20, 2011 at 8:40 AM
- Karen G. said...
Love the hand! The art parts in this sneak peek are unbelievable.
- January 20, 2011 at 8:41 AM
- Etta said...
DANG...lovin' me some Wendy Art right now!!! Can't wait to see the ENTIRE COMPLETED CONFIGURATION...it's gonna be "DA BOMB!!!"
- January 20, 2011 at 8:41 AM
- TheLastOfNine said...
Would love to have an Inky Arty Party (get it, an art parts party). Yes a bit corny but so many wonderful things that can be created, oh how I want them all!!
- January 20, 2011 at 8:46 AM
- scrappin-scrappin said...
Ohhh total awesomeness!!! How exciting that Ranger will be carrying your products!!
- January 20, 2011 at 9:02 AM
- Liz in MO said...
My goodness, I am so glad that Ranger is stocking your products now. I love this stamp set and the art parts and well...... everything. I think I need a loan.
- January 20, 2011 at 9:05 AM
- lois Skiathitis said...
So much excitement. I'm making a list of what has to be purchased first. Your projects are gorgeous Wendy. Now I can get all my supplies at one place how terrific that Ranger will be carrying your products. TFS!!! :-D
- January 20, 2011 at 9:08 AM
- Jean said...
Just love the way the art parts are coordinating with the new ideology line. Will definitely need a configurations tray to play with them all.
- January 20, 2011 at 9:10 AM
- 2amscrapper said...
I settled in with a cup of coffee on this cold, snowy day and loved reading every detail of your post--so many wonderful things happening for you, Wendy! This stamp set and the art parts have been added to my must have list. Helene
- January 20, 2011 at 9:14 AM
- Melody (lacyquilter) said...
too cool.
- January 20, 2011 at 9:35 AM
- Stacie (craft-princess) said...
The last stamp set and this one are my favs so far!! WOWIE!!! Gotta have them!! :)
- January 20, 2011 at 9:37 AM
- linda said...
Wendy, Art form is my favorite stamp so far - I really, really like this one and can't wait to get my hands on it!
Lovin' the new art parts - any thoughts of selling these in bulk so we can fill bins with bits and pieces? I would love to see type trays filled with your art parts in my craft room!
- January 20, 2011 at 9:48 AM
oh my goodness! I am overwhelmed so I can only imagine how you must feel! How exciting - so many new things you've created to share with us....thank you!
- January 20, 2011 at 9:53 AM
- Lisa Somerville said...
love this set!
- January 20, 2011 at 10:01 AM
- michelle said...
The stamp set is amazing but oh all those art parts have just blown me away!
- January 20, 2011 at 10:02 AM
- lesleyworth said...
wooohooo! dress forms...more art parts...DELIGHTFUL!
- January 20, 2011 at 10:08 AM
- Primitive Seasons said...
Wendy yesterday and today's stamp set are really my faves. No matter what else you do I just love these two sets. I love dress forms. This is going to be so much fun. I wish CHA would hurry up and be over so we could look forward to the relese of these products. You have outdone youself.
- January 20, 2011 at 10:09 AM
- Debby said...
Love this new set of stamps and all of the art parts! I want them all. That background stamp is really cool. Have to get this set for sure. So glad Ranger will be carrying your products!! Congratulations.
- January 20, 2011 at 10:11 AM
- Gerrie Johnnic said...
Congrats GF! Big Time news, I am so excited that Ranger is stocking you! I can't wait to see everything up close and personal, hey when will the new book be out, I luv your books! Luv this new set, lots! Can't wait for all these babies to get into my hands!
- January 20, 2011 at 10:23 AM
- Marijane said...
Oh boy, your "peeks" today really have me excited and I can't wait to see the whole configurations box that you made. The idea that you now have Art Parts that fit the little boxes is SUPER! I purchased the smallest c-box awhile ago and have been intimidated to try it, but no more.......now I want a bigger one! Hooray, Ranger now carries your products - GOOD FOR THEM!!!
- January 20, 2011 at 10:25 AM
- sue said...
Wow!! That was alota, alota (as my grandson says)stuff. 11 down and 3 more to go. This is going to be so much fun playing with all the new products. Love the watch art part.
- January 20, 2011 at 10:26 AM
- Karla Anderson said...
ahhh your killing me lady! love this stamp set...so far this will be my first Wendy purchase after CHA. LOOOOVE IT! and the Art Parts..oh my, I have been hoarding the last release, time to knock out a few projects so I have an excuse to buy MORE. Thanks for sharing your ART.
- January 20, 2011 at 10:42 AM
- Wanda H said...
Girl, I am lovin' all these art parts!!! And another great set of stamps!!! Gotta have the pocket watch and the minis and the leaf vine... and I KNEW there had to be houses coming... I would have been amazed if there wasn't any... awesome!!!
- January 20, 2011 at 10:56 AM
I am so loving all the new art parts and stamp sets too!! You have a gift, not only as an artist, but also in the way you relate to your FANS! I love that you were a surgical nurse....I always say that my hobby is my left brained activity in my right brained world!!!
- January 20, 2011 at 10:59 AM
- Eileen said...
Oh you did it again! Another set I HAVE to have, and I know I need every single art part too.
YIKES! Now, why couldn't I have been born rich instead of beautiful? LOL!!!
- January 20, 2011 at 11:09 AM
- NANCY DARE said...
I am so loving EVERYTHING!!!...Can't wait to see it all at CHA next week!
- January 20, 2011 at 11:17 AM
- Dorothy said...
How in the world do you keep up???
I want it all ya know!
- January 20, 2011 at 11:20 AM
- jan said...
My very FAVORITE stamp set of the new release!!! The sewing bust will get me every time!!
- January 20, 2011 at 11:24 AM
- Salamanda's Scrappy Adventures said...
Wow! I want this set!
- January 20, 2011 at 11:25 AM
- Salamanda's Scrappy Adventures said...
Wow! I want this set!
- January 20, 2011 at 11:26 AM
- Sandi M said...
Cool stamp set! As for all these art parts....well I want them ALL! If I could just win a small fortune from the lottery commission....sigh. Guess, I'll have to buy them bit by bit one by one until my money ship sails in :)
- January 20, 2011 at 11:35 AM
- Elaine A said...
Wendy -
Too many wonderful things to process all at once. I LOVE that stamp set and in particular, the last sentiment and the dress form. ANd in case you didn't know, I'm an Arts Parts Junkie! I LOVE them, gotta have the pocket watch, the dress forms, that sweet teeny tiny hand, the flowers, oh heck - ALL OF THEM!!!!
Elaine Allen
- January 20, 2011 at 11:36 AM
- Helen said...
Every bloomin' day you bring us another stamp set that is AMAZING and goes to the top of the "must have NOW" list.... and as for those Art Parts.... love them all. Where is the money going to come from to pay for it all?!!
- January 20, 2011 at 11:57 AM
- buglady said...
Oh my goodness, another stamp set that I will have to buy! And all the art parts, so amazing! Just loving all the sneak peeks! And I went to Ranger first before your blog and saw about the distress stains. Oh how am I going to afford buying all this new stuff! Must pace myself.
Aloha, Kate
- January 20, 2011 at 12:36 PM
- nonnie said...
my favorite set so far....want to see thr art part set too!
- January 20, 2011 at 12:37 PM
- Tona said...
I love every single stamp in this set!!!! Oooh, & the great art parts...love it all
- January 20, 2011 at 12:39 PM
- kim-paperbabe said...
WWOOooooooOOOOOOOWWWW I am sooo loving your new releases Wendy I just want to try EVERYTHING, all those art parts, and fabulous fantastic stamps! You must be giddy with all the excitment!!!
Thanks for sharing your talent
BiG HuGs Kim :)
- January 20, 2011 at 12:40 PM
- Nancy said...
Again: LOVE THIS! Love it ALL!!
Congrats on the bigger/new association with Ranger!
With all you're sharing here, all of these stamp sets & art parts & all - have you been sleeping at all??? Good heavens, woman! You're a whirling dervish! (is that spelled right? hope so! lol)
- January 20, 2011 at 1:11 PM
- Sandra said...
Sandra ltb
- January 20, 2011 at 1:55 PM
- Mall Rat said...
Congrats on Ranger stocking your stuff, that is awesome now I have another spot to look for you and Tim ! You gotta love Ranger. The house's are so cute .. I can't wait for those to hit the store. I love the attitude stamp, kinda remind me of me :) Have a great day Wendy !
- January 20, 2011 at 3:12 PM
- Vic said...
Oh, dear, how will I ever be able to pick what to get first?!! LOL
- January 20, 2011 at 3:42 PM
- SusanK said...
I'm over the moon impressed with what I'm seeing! Do you need a house cleaner or cat sitter? I'd work for goods! :)
- January 20, 2011 at 4:15 PM
- Stephanie Rodgers said...
I'm going to sleep each night dreaming of acquiring all the arts parts and new stamp sets! And, what perfect timing! My brand new craft/classroom will be completed within the next 2 weeks! I'm planning on lots of extra storage space for all my new stuff! lol
- January 20, 2011 at 4:19 PM
- Debs Doodles and More said...
todays reveal is so far my favorite, from the dress form to the wonderful sayings, this is a must have set for me.
- January 20, 2011 at 5:02 PM
- mluxa said...
O.M.G. for cryin' out loud, Wendy, I was really hoping I wouldn't have to take out another "CHA" loan this year, but it looks like I will have to. The new art parts are fabulous, and I will want one of everything. Stamps are so fun, and I'm sure I will end up with all of them. My "art friends" tease me - So, is there a Wendy Vecchi stamp you don't have?? I say NO!
- January 20, 2011 at 6:21 PM
- SherrySue said...
dress forms, every girl should have dress forms for creativity! Thank you for your best set of stamps yet!
- January 20, 2011 at 7:02 PM
- Linda R said...
- January 20, 2011 at 8:03 PM
- Cottagerca said...
\it's all looking good.
- January 20, 2011 at 9:11 PM
- Penci said...
I look forward to your previews each day and as I am reading, studying, enlarging pics, and oohing and aahing, I feel my heart pounding and my pulse racing!!!! You really DELIVERED on this CHA release. I really enjoy your blog and how you described and comment on everything.....really makes us feel like we are right there with you! Thanks for all you do. Think you can talk Ted into releasing your stamps on each day of the previews? lol (one can dream)
- January 20, 2011 at 9:56 PM
- octlove said...
Wendy - you really have me over the moon on this stamp set...I just have a thing for dress forms & seeing the art part makes me swoon...be still my heart:)
- January 20, 2011 at 10:42 PM
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- January 20, 2011 at 10:43 PM
- sweet craf-tea chick said...
fabulous stamp set and fabulous creations, wendy! thanks for sharing and have a great friday and weekend! *hugs* steph :)
- January 20, 2011 at 11:14 PM
- singapore florist said...
it's so lovely.
- January 21, 2011 at 1:18 AM
- karen said...
As usual...I LOVE ALL OF IT! I have yet to get my hands on some art parts...they are hard to find in these parts...Canada. Thanks Wendy..you really rock!
- January 21, 2011 at 6:21 AM
- Liverpool Lou (Anne) said...
More gorgeousness, the art parts are fantabulous :-)
Anne xx
- January 21, 2011 at 8:59 AM
- Susan said...
Oh my gosh - such a wonderful assortment of awesome goodies!
- January 21, 2011 at 11:54 AM
Hey, "grey classy broad" (St. Louis FKS), where do you get those adorable coat hanger paper clips?
I LOVE your new stamps and GREAT art parts! Can't wait to get my orders!
Reggie (other "grey classy broad")
- January 25, 2011 at 1:24 PM


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The big 127 Yard Sale is over. Wanda said they had a big sale at her house.
Vanessa's husband Willis' mother passed away recently and they have been cleaning out her house, so they had a lot of stuff to sell. She and Barbara helped them set up and sell things as well as the stuff they brought.
She said they survived heat, rain and wind but made it through the weekend.
Charles Gregory and his friend Billy Kemper cooked and sold food as they have done for several years now.
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