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Gloopy Ice Cream Paint Brushes Photographed by José Lourenço
As part of an ongoing project titled "Ice Cream," Portuguese visual artist José Lourenço photographs swirls of thick paint atop brushes in a form reminiscent of melting ice cream cones. The rainbow-hued brushes ooze with layers of sherbert-y color that look good enough to eat. Lourenço documents a wide range of colorful interventions and artworks on his Instagram account. (via Designboom)


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About 55% of American citizen are overweight or obesity now. This number is increase significantly compare with data in 1980's only 33% of American citizen are overweight. Another worried statistic is child obesity reach until 100% in 2009 from the beginning 1980's and last 1990's.
So, why this facts are scary? Are the more we age increase the heavier our weight? That's true, but many of use miss perception about how to keep healthy, especially when the time is come for diet. This next article will explain whether the myth is right or wrong.
Physical exercise 2-3 times a week for 30 minutes will make your weight go down
Wrong. Little exercise is better than no exercise at all. I don't say exercise is useless, but exercise can burn calorie and really can reduce or keep your weight. Although exercise moderately can make your body healthy but to losing weight is depends how and what is the exercise.
For example : If you about 3 mil/hour and take 30 minutes, 4 times a week, then you'll walk totally 6 mil/week. If each mil you burn 600 calories, than during that whole week you burn 600 calories. That 600 calories only reduce your weight about a quarter pound, and that still depends how you keep your diet. If you eat little bit more, then of course your weight is not going down.
If you want exercise as your first and main strategy to losing weight, you need to do more exercise now. The best way is combine exercise with low calorie diet.
Walking is the best way to reduce weight
Right. Just like other physical activity, walking can burn calorie and help you to reduce weight. It's good if you walking fast, not slow walk. The longer you walk the more you burn calorie.
Do about 10,000 steps a day (about 5 mil). If each mil burn about 100 calories, then you'll burn more than 500 a day. Do it everyday and you'll burn more than 3,500 calories or 1 pound a week.
Additional Protein will stimulate muscle growth
Wrong. Protein do had important role for our body—build and manage muscles, hormone and enzymes synthesis and consolidate immune cell. But, excessive amount will be accumulates as fat, same like carbohydrate.
Basic Rule: How many calorie, if you consume it in excessive amount will be kept as fat. The best way to build muscle is having an intensive exercise and consume more calorie from protein.
I can eat egg without afraid being fat
Right. Egg is good for you. Research showed many people who diet had high risk to get liver disease, it because of the saturated fat and egg contain low saturated fat. Egg also contain low calorie (about 75 calories for boiled egg and 110 calories for fried egg). Egg also contains essential nutrients and antioxidant.
American Heart Association recommends one egg each day is good and enough. For the rest of the day, you should change egg and bacon with fruits and bread and always use non cholesterol or low margarine to cook egg.
Diet pills is the best way to losing weight
Wrong. Safe diet pills or diet drugs is drug which been prove by Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for people who had significant overweight—them who had 30% excess of weight from normal weight or them who had disease because of obesity such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol level or diabetic.
Obesity drugs such as Meridia (works on brain to control appetizer), and Xenical (inhibits fat to be absorbed) only permitted to use to change diet and life style.
Obesity is chronic disease and can not be changed in short therapy.
Vitamin supplement needed to reduce weight
Wrong. Supplement can not make miracle, and con not neutralize the effect of fat heap. Don't depend on supplement as a short cut to full fill your nutrients. You can get the same amount of vitamin by consume fruits and vegetables (which also contain fiber, antioxidant and other nutrients which you can't get from supplement pill).
However, if you eat less than 1,500 calories a day, you need to consume additional multivitamin-mineral supplement.
I can eat fat food when I'm on diet
Right. If this your favorite food even it contain fat in it, you still can consume it. You don't have to denied your self. Eat it but in control portion, don't eat excessively, if you afraid you can count calorie in a portion food you eat, than balanced it.
Now, you know the myth and the fact, How you're going to do to change your diet?
Adopt a better life style
First, take out all junk food in your place and change it with better snack, more healthy and had more nutrients, like fruits, vegetables and beans.
Then make sure to increase your activity everyday. For example, you can park your car at the end of the road and you walking farther than usual or you can use stair to go to the second floor rather than use escalator. This few thing will burn your calories more.
Stop smoking, gambling, drink alcohol, and other habit that make you addicted. Then start to make list and menu for a week and obey it. And always your portion you're your favorite menu, like beef meat and pasta, don't ever had excessive portion.
And last, drink more water every day. This help you to ménage your metabolism and consolidate your immune system. When you drink more water, you can reduce a bit of your hunger.

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What a remarkable
coincidence it is that
Edward Lasker, the stepson of Mary Woodard Lasker, the most powerful
health lobbyist in history, who became the head of the American Cancer
Society and launched the crusade of scientific fraud against smokers,
was a writer in Hollywood AND had ties to the American Tobacco Company
- his father, Albert D. Lasker,
ran their
advertising campaigns in the 1920s and 1930s! In other words, the
Laskers purposely set them up for the anti-smokers to fabricate their
shows of phony outrage. Furthermore, Ed Lasker was an old friend of
Joseph Cullman, the president of Philip
of which he later became a director. Philip Morris was largely financed
by J. Russell Forgan (who also wrote the act which created the Central
Intelligence Agency) in order to serve as fake opposition to the
anti-smokers, while letting them get away with their scientific fraud!
And now, let's talk about what the anti-smoker controlled
establishment is guilty of, namely, deliberate, willfull, and knowing
scientific fraud, extending over a period of more than six decades.
There have been more than 50 studies, which show that human
papillomaviruses cause over ten times more lung cancers than they
pretend are caused by secondhand smoke. Passive smokers are more
likely, for socioeconomic reasons, to have been exposed to this virus.
Yet, ALL of the anti-smokers' studies are based on nothing but
lifestyle questionnaires, in order to falsely blame passive smoking for
all those extra lung cancers which are really caused by HPV.
HPV Causes Lung Cancer
And the anti-smokers have systematically committed this same
type of
fraud in every disease they blame on smoking and passive smoking. THIS
is the outrage that all good people should be angry about!
"Six major Hollywood film studios agreed on Friday to place
anti-smoking ads on new movie DVDs targeted to children in a bid to
counter the influence of tobacco use on screen. The studios joined
forces with California health authorities in what was called an
unprecedented agreement to protect children, both in the United States
and around the world, from the health risks of smoking. Under the deal,
Sony Pictures, Universal Studios, Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures,
Walt Disney Studios and Twentieth Century Fox will include anti-smoking
advertisements in the opening minutes of DVDs of all new movies with
smoking scenes that are rated G, PG and PG-13... The initial ad,
called 'Icons,' contrasts tobacco industry images of a cowboy, a
hip-hop DJ and a 1920s flapper with a dying man in a wheelchair. It
will first be seen on the Sony DVD release of '21' -- a PG-13 rated
drama about a student casino scam. That DVD hits retail shelves on July
22." (Some U.S. DVDs to Carry Anti-Smoking Ads. Reuters, Jul. 11, 2008.)
is an
outrage! The anti-smoker filth are guilty of deliberate, systematic
scientific fraud, by purposely using dfective studies in order to
falsely blame smoking for diseases that are really caused by infection!
They are not legitimate scientists - they are nothing but Nazi
propagandists, using Nazi pseudo-science, to wage a war of cultural
genocide against smokers! Boycott every one of those despicable curs
for selling out to the anti-smoker filth!
"Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) today announced
the rating system is enhancing the amount of information provided to
parents on the issue of smoking in films. In the past, illegal teen
smoking has been a factor in the rating of films, alongside other
parental concerns such as sex, violence and adult language. Now, all
smoking will be considered and depictions that glamorize smoking or
movies that feature pervasive smoking outside of an historic or other
mitigating context may receive a higher rating... MPAA Chairman and
CEO Dan Glickman issued the following statement: '... Clearly, smoking
is increasingly an unacceptable behavior in our society. [Sic. It
"unacceptable" only to lie those lie-spewing pieces of subhuman filth,
the anti-smokers.]
There is
broad awareness of smoking as a
unique public health concern due to nicotine's highly addictive nature [a smear
manufactured by the anti-smoker filth], and no parent
their child to take up the habit. [Says who,
fascist filth?] The appropriate response of the rating
system is
to give more information to parents on this issue. [The
anti-smokers only want to use the ratings as a tool to censor other
peoples' kids.] This action is an extension of our current
practice of factoring under-age smoking into the rating of films. Now,
all smoking will be a consideration in the rating process. Three
questions will have particular weight for our rating board when
considering smoking in a film: Is the smoking pervasive? Does the film
glamorize smoking? And, is there an historic or other mitigating
context? Additionally, when a film's rating is affected by the
depiction of smoking, that rating will now include phrases such as
'glamorized smoking' or 'pervasive smoking.' This ensures specific
information is front and center for parents as they make decisions for
their kids.'" (Film Rating Board To Consider Smoking as a Factor. MPAA
Press Release, Thursday, May 10, 2007.)
"Prior to joining the MPAA, Mr. Glickman was the Director of
Institute of Politics located at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy
School of Government (August 2002-August 2004). The Institute of
Politics began operation in 1966 with an endowment from the Kennedy
Library Corporation. A living memorial to President John F. Kennedy,
the Institute seeks to unite students, particularly undergraduates,
with academics, politicians, activists, and policymakers on a
nonpartisan basis and to stimulate and nurture their interest in public
service and leadership." [Sic. In 1984, the John F. Kennedy School of
Government received a sizeable grant to establish an Institute
for the Study of Smoking
Behavior and Policy from the Carnegie Corp., whose
president, David A. Hamburg,
was a longtime
anti-smoker.] Glickman was a U.S. Representative from Kansas for 18
years, and the Secretary of Agriculture from 1995 to 2001. He is also
on the International Advisory Board of The Coca-Cola Company. members
include Buena Vista Pictures Distribution, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios
Inc., Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., Twentieth
Century Fox Film Corporation, NBC Universal, and Warner Bros
Entertainment Inc. (Chairman Dan Glickman. MPAA, accessed Jul. 29,
"In a related announcement, the MPAA and the Alliance of
Picture & Television Producers said they were joining Hollywood
Unfiltered, a smoking-awareness health initiative aimed at educating
members of the industry about the potential harm from onscreen
glamorizing of smoking. The project is an initiative of the
Entertainment Industry Foundation, a nonprofit group dedicated to
education, health and social issues." (Smoke in MPAA's eyes: ratings
criteria affected. By Carl DiOrio. The Hollywood Reporter, May 11,
Screw Hollywood! All those vermin stand for is a so-called culture of nothing but lies, smut, and trash!
Who to Boycott: The
Entertainment Industry Foundation is funded by Bloomingdale's, a
division of Federated Department Stores; Lee Jeans, a division of VF
Corporation; Mercedes-Benz USA [that will be easy for most of us]; Novo
Nordisk, makers of insulin; Olympus (photography); Pantene hair
products; People magazine [a perfect example of their so-called
culture]; philosophy [sic], skin-care products; Revlon cosmetics; and
Saks Fifth Avenue. (EIF Major Sponsors. Accessed 7/29/07.)
Pierce Brosnan is its campaign chairman. Officers: Gary Credle, Chairman, Exec. VP of Warner Bros.; Pamm Fair, Secretary, Deputy Nat'l Exec. Director, Screen Actors Guild; Leonard I. Klein, CPA, Treasurer, of Cooper, Moss, Resnick, Klein & Co., LLP; Mr. J. Nicholas Counter, III, Past Chair, President, AMPTP; T.J. Baptie, Past Chair, Past Chair, Vice President Corporate Relations, The Walt Disney Company. Directors: Joe Aredas, Int'l Representative, I.A.T.S.E.; Sid Craig, Craig Management; Ernie Enriquez, VP Warner Bros.; Howard D. Fabrick, Esq., partner Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Field; Dean Ferris, Exec. VP Labor Relations, Fox Entertainment Group; Lynn Heymont, VP CBS Broadcasting Inc.; Jeff Hoffman, VP The Disney Company; Allison Jackson, Senior VP, Paramount Pictures; Faye Nuell Mayo, Pres. Mayo Entertainment; Janice Pober, Senior VP Sony Pictures Entertainment; Teresa Samaniego, Director, Public Affairs ABC7; Jim Watters, Pres. and Gen. Manager, Universal Studios. The Honorary Board of Governors includes former Philip Morris director Rupert Murdoch. (EIF Leadership. Accessed 7/29/07.)Leadership / The Entertainment Industry Foundation
"General Electric, the corporate parent of Universal Pictures,
decided last April that, with few exceptions, 'no smoking incidents
should appear in any youth-rated film' produced by the studio or its
sister units, Focus, Rogue and Working Title Films... Before G.E.
moved with what is widely regarded as the toughest antismoking policy
to date, Time Warner had said it 'strongly discourages' smoking in
youth films produced by its Warner Brothers and New Line units, and
seeks to limit smoking depictions in films marketed to what it called
mixed audiences. Viacom is meanwhile scrambling to devise a smoking
policy of its own, having been assured two weeks ago by Mr. Crosby and
his allies that it was increasingly out of step with its studio
brethren. That warning came about because antismoking groups had
recently discovered that the News Corporation and its 20th Century Fox
Film division were already on the bandwagon, thanks to a strict though
intentionally unpublicized policy of rooting tobacco out of
youth-friendly films for the last three years.Since 2004, the studio's
production manual has mandated that no principal character can be seen
to smoke in a film set in contemporary times and to be rated G, PG or
PG-13 unless the studio's president of production signs off on the
scene. Tobacco ads and promotions are not supposed to be visible in Fox
movies. Even antismoking messages on screen are not to have been
provided by tobacco companies. The reduction of on-screen smoking is a
pet project of the studio's co-chairman, Tom Rothman, according to both
Mr. Crosby and industry executives who requested anonymity because they
did not want to offend a competitor or were not authorized to discuss
the policy." Except for
James L.
Brooks, whose Gracie Films "delivered the animated PG-13 rated
"Simpsons Movie," featuring enough tobacco (even in the trailer) to
earn a "black lung" rating from the scenesmoking.org Web site, which
monitors smoking impressions in movies." Don't boycott him!
"Even the most aggressive studios have built wiggle room into
their policies. To date, no company has said that it would bar smoking
in the many films that are produced independently and later acquired
for distribution by a studio. Thus, the hard-bitten, soft-hearted table
server played by Cheryl Hines in the PG-13 rated "Waitress," picked up
by Mr. Rothman's Fox Searchlight at the last Sundance Film Festival,
can still wield a cigarette near the pregnant character played by Keri
Russell." The
anti-smoker filth
should be exterminated for their Big
Lie that
secondhand smoke harms fetuses! One of the
fascists is
Michael Passoff, associate director of As You Sow, a so-called
"socially responsible" investment group based in San Francisco, meaning
they are socially irresponsible, pampered lie-spewers who ought to be
held accountable by direct action. Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., "said
he would prefer to see an industrywide antismoking initiative." (More
Hollywood Studios Say 'No Smoking'. By Michael Cieply. New York Times,
Oct. 1, 2007.)
The only movies we
to see are those depicting violence against anti-smokers - and their
corrupt puppet government!
"Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, said he had not read the report but resented the obvious analogy to the government's treatment of the tobacco industry. 'Tobacco kills people,' he said. 'And tobacco is not protected by the First Amendment. I don't want us grouped with tobacco and that's what these recommendations do.'" (Federal Report Criticizes Entertainment Marketing. By Kevin Sack. New York Times, Sep. 10, 2000.)
Norman Lear filmed "Cold Turkey in Iowa," a concerted effort, funded by the American Cancer Society, the American Heart Association, and the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, to coerce all smokers in a small town in Iowa to quit smoking. It is safe to assume that Philip Morris director Ed Lasker, Mary Lasker's stepson who had ties to Hollywood, was complicit in this despicable undertaking and its obsequious writeup by Francis J. Ryan of the Philip Morris Research Center: "There was a love affair between the town and the moviemakers built up almost overnight. The town admired the obvious professionalism and dedication of the actors and technicians, the hours they spent in rehearsal, the driving insistence of the director that scenes be done over and over until they were right. The movie crew was smitten by the intelligence, common sense, adaptablility, and cooperative spirit of the people, so much so that they made a ten minute short subject on how wonderful the people were, which fell a little flat when presented on national TV a year later." Which is what happens when things are baldly dishonest. In fact, two thirds of the smokers didn't even try to quit, and the anti-smokers' attention was fixated on a minority of the weak and suggestible. (Cold Turkey in Greenfield, Iowa: A follow-up study. By Francis J. Ryan. Philip Morris Research Center, Sep. 1971.) That gullible hick town was only paid $6 thousand for putting up with this crap. The people should have told the studio that if they ever want to see a big cowflop, they can just go out in the pasture.Cold Turkey, 1971 / UCSF (pdf, 42 pp)
The American Cancer Society gave CBS-TV its Second Annual Media Award for Excellence in Communications [sic] for a segment of the series, "Good Times," by Norman Lear's Tandem Productions, a spiel called "Love Has a Spot on Its Lung" (ACS 1977 Annual Report). The Society bragged that "Norman Lear's TV production, 'Good Times," used smoking ploy situation on two consecutive programs. The PI Department worked closely with the producers. The ACS was mentioned and an audience of over 25 million homes was reached." (Target 5 Newsletter, 1977;1(2&3). John Henry Jones, editor).ACS 1977 Annual Report / UCSF (pdf, 37 pp)
Norman Lear was a sponsoring member of the Citizens' Committee for the Conquest of Cancer, co-founded by Mary Lasker's crony, Sidney Farber, and co-chaired by Emerson Foote of the American Cancer Society and Solomon Garb, who was a correspondent of Mary Lasker between 1969 and 1981. Other sponsoring members included William McC. Blair Jr., Mrs. William McC. Blair Jr., now vice president of the Lasker Foundation; Elmer H. Bobst; R. Lee Clark; Mrs. Alice Fordyce, Mary's sister; James W. Fordyce, Mary's nephew; Mary's old friend, Leonard Goldenson of ABC-TV; Mrs. Paul G. Hoffman, aka Anna Rosenberg; Robert W. Holley of the Salk Institute; Mathilde Krim; William Regelson, founder of FIBER, on whose board Mary later served; and Bernard J. Reis, Treasurer of the Lasker Foundation. Garb sent a bullying letter to Curtis H. Judge, President of Lorillard Inc., demanding that "the tobacco industry" lobby for "higher total appropriations to NCI" and that "the Tobacco Research Institute [sic] should allocate substantial sums to finding anticancer drugs in plants." (Garb to Judge, Sep. 20, 1978.)Citizens' Committee for the Conquest of Cancer, 1978 / UCSF (pdf, 4 pp)
Dick Van Dyke, Jean Stapleton, Tom Poston, Norman Lear To Return to 'Cold Turkey' Filming Site in Iowa. PR Newswire, Sep. 22, 1999; Greenfield, Lear, movie stars ready to renew the romance. Des Moines Register, Sep. 24, 1999. Gloated Norman Lear: "The federal government just filed suit against the tobacco companies. That sure makes it topical. This is going to be a great time."
"ERIC JOHNSTON Washington, D. C.; ACS Honorary Life Director. Pres., Motion Picture Assn. of Amer., Inc. ACS Honorary Board Chm. (1946, 1950); Board Chm. (1945, 1947-49) ; Natl. Campaign Chm. (1945). Pres., Motion Picture Export Assn. Past Pres., U. S. Chamber of Commerce. Past Administrator, Economic Stabilization Agency. Chm, Comm. for Internat. Economic Growth; Past. Chm., Internat. Development Advisory Bd. Ambassador, Special Representative of The President of the United States. U. S. Medal of Merit. 15 Honorary Degrees from American universities. 5 Decorations from foreign governments." (Know Your Board of Directors 1961. American Cancer Society.)ACS Board of Directors, 1961 / UCSF (pdf, 36 pp)
Stephen Bing is the grandson of New York real estate magnate Peter Bing, and the son of RAND Corporation trustee Peter S. Bing. (Steve Bing's Hollywood Life. BBC News Online June 20, 2002.) The playboy movie producer is the heir of a fortune estimated to be from $400 million to $600 million.Steve Bing's Hollywood Life / BBC News Online 2002
Bing contributed $800,000 to California's Proposition 10 campaign to add an additional 50 cent tax on every pack of cigarettes, to fund anti-smoking hate propaganda and early childhood brainwashing, which they unctiously pretended was "for the good of the children" instead of "for the benefit of the bloodsucking parasites who want to castrate our children's minds by starting on them as soon as possible." (This is how they've already managed to create several generations of cringing, spineless little worms who don't have the guts to resist them.) This was more money than Philip Morris, Brown & Williamson, RJ Reynolds, and Lorillard put together spent to oppose it. (Top 10 contributors to Prop. 10 campaign. By Ross Hanig and Ralph Brave. Sacramento News & Review, Sep. 3, 1998.)Sacramento News & Review, 1998 / UCSF (pdf, 12 pp)
Bing was the 13th largest campaign donor to the Democratic Party in 1998. In national politics, "In addition to the $759,000 he gave to support Democratic candidates, Bing contributed $1 million to help pay for the party's national convention. "He also gave $1 million to help defeat a California referendum that would have cut cigarette taxes and depleted programs to teach children about the dangers of smoking" [meaning anti-smoker lies]. (Stephen L. Bing. By Pam Smith. Mother Jones, March 5, 2001.) He was fined $25,000 for failing to disclose $500,000 in contributions during the 2000 election. (Producer Stephen Bing fined for failing to file campaign disclosure. AP, Bakersfield Californian, June 25, 2002.)Bing / Mother Jones
Bing was a major donor to 2004 presidential candidate John Edwards,
a North Carolina Democrat, and a big doner to the health fascist Center for American Progress,
behind the Democratic Party's health plans.
Rob Reiner played Michael Stivic ("Meathead") in Norman Lear's TV show, "All in the Family." He is a principle and co-founder of Castle Rock Entertainment and feature film director.
"Rob Reiner, filmmaker and Chair of the California Children and Families Initiative, and former Republican U.S. Congressman and Co-Chair Mike Huffington today enthusiastically announced that City of Los Angeles Mayor Richard J. Riordan, a proven advocate and leader for children, wholeheartedly endorsed the initiative. They were joined by Beth Lowe, Past President and Board Member, and Mary Emmons, Chief Executive Officer of Children's Institute International, a Los Angeles based non profit child welfare agency, who hailed their support and illustrated the dramatic positive impact the initiative will have" [for those leeches only!] and more blah-blah that's identical to the robotic cant of totalitarian dictatorships. Governors Christine Todd Whitman of New Jersey and George Voinovich of Ohio were helping to "place this issue on the national agenda." (Mike Huffington to California Secretary of State Bill Jones, Mar. 9, 1998; Filmmaker Rob Reiner Wins Support From City of Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan. CCFI Press Release, April 30, 1998.)CCFI Press Release, April 2, 1998 / UCSF (pdf, 2 pp)
"'The tobacco industry will do anything and everything to defeat this,' said Reiner, who played the liberal son-in-law and frequent Archie Bunker target on the landmark 1960s sitcom, 'All in the Familty.' 'They've been telling lies to the American people for sixty years,' Reiner said of tobacco company executives. 'And they will continue to do so." (Rob Reiner Campaigns Here for Prop. 10. By Jeff McDonald. San Diego Union Tribune, Aug. 30, 1998.) The filthy, lying bastard! For six decades, the health fascist Lasker Syndicate has controlled our health establishment and turned it into their private factory for fraud. And neither they nor their media sluts and stooges like Rob Reiner will tell the truth that THEY CONTROLLED THE TOBACCO COMPANIES AS WELL, with former Hollywood filmmaker Edward Lasker sitting on the Board of Directors of Philip Morris!San Diego Union Tribune, Aug. 30, 1998 / UCSF (pdf, 2 pp)
"Supporters of the Proposition will counter the industry with a $4.3 million ad campaign beginning on October 13, which will focus on the tobacco industry's pattern of lying to the public and opposing good public health measures. [SIC - This is the party line of bloodsucking anti-smoker vermin, who purposely use defective studies to falsely blame smoking and passive smoking for diseases caused by infection, while using their undisputable control of the health establishment to suppress research -cast] 'The tobacco industry has been lying to us for decades. Now they're telling us that Proposition 10, an initative help our youngest kids, is nothing but a big bureaucracy,' states actor and Proposition 10 backer, Rob Reiner." (Advocacy Institute, Scarcnet News Summary, Oct. 2, 1998. Source: "Star Power Takes on Big Tobacco," by Jill Lawrence. USA Today, Oct. 2, 1998, p. A3.) "Bureaucracy" is too benign a word for human garbage who want to turn children into mentally retarded slaves, devoid of any principles except obedience and conformity to the herd - just like the subhuman garbage with whom these cynical disciples of Machiavelli pack our city councils before initiating an assault on smoking, who open their subhuman mouths and spout lies and defamations without the slightest regard for truth, with the coldly calculated intent to intimidate the people out of exercising their rights. This is "democracy" in Bloodsucker Land! And then, on to Zionist global dictatorship-by-proxy of their Skull & Bones / Brown Brothers, Harriman puppets, with the American sheeple as their cannon-fodder.
The Sacramento News and Review gave this filthy bloodsucker a 12-page spread to spout his crap. (Baby Crisis. Hollywood Rob Reiner Wants to Know If California Really Cares About Children. Sep. 3, 1998.) On page 9 are buried the figures showing that anti-smoker funding from the Hollywood unreality magnates dwarfs that of the tobacco companies, who were the only ones funding the opposition. So much for those hypocritical Hollywooders who pretend to support freedom. And, this is how the media have shoved all of this down our throats - a torrent of lies and hype versus phony, trivial opposition, while everything that really needs to be said is buried, downplayed or never permitted expression in the first place.Sacramento News and Review, Sep. 3, 1998 / UCSF (pdf, 12 pp)
The San Jose Mercury News gave Reiner a five-page spread (Filmmaker Takes on Big Tobacco. Rob Reiner Leads Fight to Raise Taxes, Help Kids. By Steve Johnson. Oct. 4, 1998.)San Jose Mercury News, Oct. 4, 1998 / UCSF (pdf, 5 pp)
"Rob Reiner, for instance, made a guest appearance on CNBC's 'Hardball,' barely containing himself as he attacked tobacco chieftains. His cause was California's Proposition 10, a ballot initiative that would raise the tax on a pack of cigarettes from 50 cents to 85 cents... 'Who do you trust?' asked Mr. Reiner, 'The tobacco industry or protecting young children?'" (Eitorial Roundup, re editorial: "Smokescreen," Wall Street Journal, Oct. 30, 1998, p. W11.)
"California's Proposition 10, a ballot initiative that would raise the cigarette tax by 50 cents a pack to fund early childhood development, prenatal care and anti-smoking programs, is being promoted by a diverse, bipartisan coalition that includes Democrat and film director Rob Reiner, former Republican Senator Michael Huffington and conservative icon Charleton Heston... Reiner said his group would spend around five million dollars on television and radio ads featuring Heston, actor Martin Sheen and former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop." (Bipartisan Coalition Supports Proposition 10, But Public Support Declines Slightly. Oct. 19, 1998. Source: Cigarette Tax Supported by Unlikely Coalition. By Don Terry. New York Times, Oct. 18, 1998, p. A20.)
"The California Children and Families Commission will unveil a $14-million ad campaign tomorrow promoting the new children's programs funded by Proposition 10. The ads come six weeks before Prop. 10 -- a 50-cent a pack tobacco tax -- faces repeal on the March ballot. The Children and Families Commission was created by Proposition 10 to spend the new revenue on early childhood development and smoking prevention. Critics claim, howevwer, that the Commission has been too slow in allocating the money. 'We haven't had a lot of visibility. [!!!!!] We are working feverishly to get it done,' said actor and director Rob Reiner, the commission chairman. The ads will be in English and Spanish and will run statewide until May 15 on television, radio, billboards, and print media." (Proposition 10 Ad Blitz Revealed in California. Advocacy Institute, Scarcnet News, no date. )
"Actor Rob Reiner ripped into Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-MS) at a reception sponsored by the Center for Tobacco-Free Kids last week. 'He's the guy who led the effort to kill the McCain's tobacco bill, and here he is talking about how he's trying to keep kids off tobacco," Reiner said, according to sources in the room. He added that Lott had 'serious balls' to show up at the event. Lott wasn;t in the room to hear Reiner's comments, but Lott spokesman John Czwartacki said, "If 'Meathead' has anything to say to Senator Lott, he should put it in writing.' Sources said Lott attended the dinner because his brother-in-law, attorney Richard Scruggs, was receiving an award." (Actor Reiner Criticizes Senate Majority Leader at CTFK Dinner. Advocacy Institute, Scarcnet News, May 3, 1999. Source: Lott vs. 'Meathead,' Roll Call, April 30, 1999.) Another example of how the bloodsuckers control both sides, with their phony opponents tossing cream-puffs back at them!
Reiner endorsed Democratic Presidential candidate Howard Dean after his first-choice candidate, Albert Gore, declined to run. "Attendees at a recent Reiner-sponsored lunch for Dean included 'Seinfeld' co-creator Larry David, Haim Saban of Saban Entertainment, supermarket magnate Ron Burkle, film producer Stephen Bing, writer-producer Nora Ephron and producers Norman Lear and Michael King of King World Productions -- all big party contributors." (Reiner Endorsement Boosts Dean in Hollywood. By Gina Keating, Reuters, Feb. 20, 2003.)Reiner Endorsement / Gay and Lesbian Political Action and Support Groups
Rob Reiner and the famous South Park "Butt Out" program, which
on Dec. 3, 2003: Reiner tries to use the boys as accomplices in faking
a photo to falsely accuse Big Tobacco of giving them cigarettes. The
hero is Kyle, who tries to tell the bedazzled
Cartman that
the anti-smokers are liars and bullies who will stop at nothing to
force their will on people. (Summary: Butt Out. TV.com.) The script.
(Episode 713 - Butt Out. South Park Scriptorium.com.)
"Joe Eszterhas started smoking at age 12. As a screenwriter of
of Hollywood's biggest movies including - Basic Instinct, Jagged Edge,
and Flashdance - Eszterhas not only incorporated smoking into his
movies…he believes he glamorized it. Having been a lifelong "militant
smoker," Eszterhas was faced with a life-altering choice when 18 months
ago, he was diagnosed with throat cancer at The Cleveland Clinic. Not
only was he going to have to quit smoking, but he would have to stop
drinking as well - an addiction he had acquired at age 14." (Joe's
Story. Cleveland Clinic 11/19/2003.)
Joe Eszterhas is the bloodsuckers' model of a so-called "militant smoker" - namely, an ignorant piece of crap who has never made the slightest effort to question the anti-smokers' corrupt pseudo-science, and whose "militancy" consists of nothing but striking poses. Naturally, when this kind of empty pretender comes down with a supposed "smoking-related disease," the first thing the despicable worm does is make propaganda for the enemy. Because of this, the anti-smoking garbage get away with ignoring the role of human papillomavirus in laryngeal cancer. The role of Hollywood-glamorized lifestyles in spreading this infection gets a pass as well. It goes to show why those who mistake the worthless poseurs in Hollywood for leaders are nothing but sheep following goats - Judas goats.Joe's Story / Cleveland Clinic
Look at the piece of sewage whine: "Please understand as well
in a litigious age, it may only be a matter of time until you are
personally sued for contributing to the addiction/injury/death of a
cancer victim who began watching you onscreen. You may wind up on the
nightly news sitting in a courtroom surrounded by your alleged victim's
grieving family." While the rotten, corrupt pieces of nazoid filth
gloat in triumph, because no one has the guts to speak out about human
papillomavirus, or any of the numerous acts of fraud the anti-smoking
vermin have used to falsely blame smoking and secondhand smoke! In
Bloodsucker Land, we have nothing but SHOW TRIALS! And we can thank
worms like Eszterhas for helping them get away with it. "Since my
recent announcement of my own smoking-related cancer, I have been made
aware that a great many hard-eyed, unforgiving people hold you
responsible for their loved ones' addictions, illnesses or deaths. They
form an underground network of the grieving and the vengeful. Some of
them are moved less by social conscience than by vigilante fervor."
Yes, and we've noticed that the bloodsucking pieces of filth love to
steal our money, too. And the outrage is that these vermin have never
faced anything more fearsome than worthless little weenies, while their
filthy accomplices in the media egg them on with lies and glorify them
as heros. (Stars must quit on-screen ciggies. By Joe Eszterhas. Daily
Variety Dec.12 , 2002 Pg. 40.)
Larry Hagman, star of the CBS TV show "Dallas," a smoking
was the frontman for a San Francisco Bay Area anti-smoking youth
bullying campaign, for which he expected to raise $15 million a year in
a "media and advertising blitz that makes non-smoking the thing to do
for young people" by insulting smoking as "nerdy." He boasted that "We
can beat the tobacco industry at its own game," disregarding the fact
that the tobacco industry never lowered itself to to the bottom of the
sewer pipe where the anti-smokers function. General Mills and Exxon
each contributed $10,000. Local sponsors included the Gerbode and Goldman
the First Bank System Foundation and the Lutheran Brotherhood.
(Anti-Smoking Campaign Set For Bay Area. By Jan Silverman. Oakland
Tribune, Jun. 12, 1984.)
"Although he has previously endorsed campaigns to legalise
marijuana, Harrelson, above, has adopted a hardline approach to
tobacco, and has refused to join colleagues in London venues where it's
permitted. His first-night dinner at the Meridian this evening will be
tobacco-free and journalists wishing to interview him are banned from
lighting up. As a result, the actor has been invited to become patron
of the Roy Castle Lung Foundation, a leading pressure group in favour
of the ban. "He is keen on healthy living," a spokesman for Harrelson's
play said. "He's a vegan, cycles round London and his clothes are made
out of hemp." (Harrelson versus Depp in battle of the smoking ban. By
Guy Adams. The Independent (London), Dec. 5, 2005.)
"Anger Management star Woody Harrelson completely disregarded
York Mayor Mike Bloomberg's smoking ban - believing it does not apply
to marijuana. The rebellious actor attended a Coldplay concert in
Madison Square Garden on Friday with magician David Blaine and friends,
before attending an after-party at Joe's Pub. And, according to gossip
website Pagesix.Com, the noted marijuana advocate happily ignored 'zero
tolerance' Bloomberg's harsh law, and indulged in his favorite pastime.
Woody was heard asking fellow patrons, "Is it cool to spark up in
here?" before nipping to a VIP suite to smoke the illegal weed with
Blaine and some models." (News for Woody Harrelson. IMDb. Woody
Harrelson Flouts the Law. June 18, 2003 (WENN)).
"TESTS by US government experts have shattered one of the
dramatic Hollywood film plotlines - it is virtually impossible to cause
a fire by dropping a lit cigarette into a puddle of petrol. Arson
investigators found they could hardly create a flicker of a
flame let alone the kind of fireball beloved of film and TV directors
and seen in movies such as The Usual Suspects and Alfred Hitchcock's
The Birds. Researchers at America's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
did a variety of tests at their Maryland laboratories. They came after
a series of suspected arsonists tried to claim that
fires were started accidentally by cigarettes rather than deliberately
with naked flames in a bid to avoid prosecution. The bureau conducted
2,000 attempts to start a fire from exposed
petrol using a cigarette, including spraying a mist of petrol directly
on to a lit butt. They tried concentrated pockets of fuel and even
spreading the
petrol out in a baking tray to cover a wider area. They dropped a
variety of cigarettes of different brands into the
petrol to see if it made any difference and used a vacuum device to
ensure that the tobacco burnt at the highest possible temperature. But
the petrol did not ignite, leaving chief investigator Dr Richard 'Rick'
Tontarski to assume Hollywood was stretching the truth a little. He
said the film industry probably realised this, adding: 'Actually
they are pretty well aware of it. They don't care.' The bureau
explained: 'Despite what you see in action movies,
dropping a lit cigarette on to a trail of gasoline won't ignite it,
assuming normal oxygen levels and no unusual circumstances. That's
because the gasoline has limited contact with the hottest,
glowing part of the ash, and X-ray thermography has shown that this is
very localised.' In dozens of films and TV programmes major explosions
and blazes are
started, either accidentally or deliberately, by a cigarette dropped
into petrol. The most famous example is perhaps the Sixties classic The
Birds, in
which a giant flock of seagulls attack motorists at a filling station.
One victim drops the petrol pump to the ground and the fuel trails
down the street, where a smoker throws his cigarette into the stream,
which ignites all the way back to the station. In The Usual Suspects, a
fire on a boat which ends up killing 27
people is started by an unseen stranger dropping his butt into a trail
of fuel. And in Kevin Costner's 3,000 Miles to Graceland, the star
flicks a cigarette out of the window of his car and blows a petrol
station to bits." (Holy smoke! A cigarette end simply can't set petrol
alight. By Ethan McNern. The Scotsman, Feb. 28, 2007)
"The motion picture industry has failed to police itself
against the
evils of bad physics. This page is provided as a public service in
hopes of improving this deplorable matter... We poured a very small
amount of gasoline in an aluminum pie pan or slightly deeper cake pan
and placed it in the middle of a concrete slab. The pie and cake pans
were chosen because they allowed the gasoline to spread out into a very
shallow puddle the way it would if spilled on the ground. It also
pretty much guaranteed that the vapors at some point above the pan
would mix enough with air to form an ignitable mixture... We lit a
cigarette and tossed it into the pan. The cigarette paper wicked up
gasoline and quenched the glowing tip without igniting anything (see
Figure 4). We tossed in more lit cigarettes. We tried lighting gasoline
soaked paper towels. We used long tongs for reaching far away objects
to hold glowing cigarettes over the pan at various heights. More than
once we placed several glowing cigarettes in the pan (see Figure 5).
Our record was 40 glowing cigarettes at one time. In most cases, we
allowed the glowing cigarettes to smolder until they went out...
Various experiments were conducted at different times of the day with
different air temperatures and humidity. A total of 223 cigarettes of
11 different types were eventually used all without ever igniting the
gasoline. Yet, at the end of each experimental session the gasoline was
successfully lit using a single match attached to a long pole (see
figures 6 and 7). The gasoline would typically ignite just before the
match touched it. This indicated that there was an ignitable mixture
just above the surface of the gasoline. Numerous lit cigarettes were in
this region for significant periods of time." The results were
unchanged even after the experimenters added a smoking apparatus.
(Cigarettes as Lighters. In: Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics!
The Lasker Syndicate is working for a global dictatorship that
enslaves all people under their regime of lies, smears and deceit.
While one part of it manipulates opponents of war into supporting this
dictatorship under the auspices of the United Nations and the
"Progressive" movement, another wing
promotes war hysteria. What a remarkable coincidence that the Lasker
gang also had ties to the two war movies that came out on the eve of
the US invasion of Iraq. They control both sides!
"Does Hollywood just jump aboard the patriotic bandwagon when
looms? That's the general explanation for the harvest of
military-minded pictures that arrive in theaters when the U.S. is
suffused with bellicosity. But getting a film up and running is a long
and well-planned-out process. The two war-oriented movies that found
their way into theaters on the eve of the U.S.-U.K. invasion of Iraq, Tears of the Sun
and Hunted,
necessarily had to be
scheduled long before that action could be forecast. Whatever fateful
Olympian calendar accounts for the timing of their appearance, Tears of the Sun
and The Hunted
are two prime examples
of how Hollywood helps to reflect back, reinforce, and shape the
American public's view of itself as it girds for war. Specifically, it
perpetuates an idea that no matter how aggressive an American military
action appears, the fact of the matter is that it is Americans [who]
are actually either on the defensive or reacting to the barbarism of
foreigners... The two movies are good examples partly because they are
bad. Each is created by a 'pseudo-auteur,' directors who never achieved
the level of competent metteurs-en-scene before they were crowned as
artists." (The Fog of (Hollywood) War. By Henry Sheehan, March 2003.)
Alex Lasker, co-writer
of Tears of the Sun,
is the
son of Mary Lasker's stepson Edward Lasker
(who was a director of Philip Morris from 1960 to 1980) and actress
Jane Greer. William Friedkin, the director of The Hunted,
also directed The
parts of which were filmed in her crony Florence
Mahoney's Georgetown mansion.
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Lately I have thoroughly enjoyed designing a series of Damask style scroll saw patterns. The beautiful and flowing Damask designs have a way of giving wood movement and grace and they are also very forgiving for scroll sawyers who may accidentally wander off the line a bit. They make wonderful backdrops for many types of designs and offer a contemporary yet classic look. The addition of strategically placed overlay pieces make interesting and appealing plaques that can be either displayed hung on a wall or even set up in a small easel and placed on a mantle or sofa table.
While the designs look stunning finished naturally using mineral oil and a light coat of spray shellac, as usual I took things a step further and used some incredible DecoArt products to bring it up to another level. I wiped the snowflake with a thin coat of Metallic Lustre, which is a water-based paste wax that has a brilliant metallic shine. The semi-transparent wax still allows the beautiful grain of the ash to show through, yet makes the snowflake look like ice! I also decided to brush a light coat of DecoArt Glamour Dust Ultra Fine Glitter Paint over the snowflake to give it a subtle shine. The finely ground glitter in the clear base gave it just the look I wanted - of freshly fallen snow.
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Haven't posted in a while, so I thought I'd just post some pictures of some completed items. Enjoy!
Haven't posted in a while, so I thought I'd just post some pictures of some completed items. Enjoy!
I love to knit for babies! You can knit so many different cute things and they don't complain about the colors, style, and/or pattern! I try to knit a few baby things to keep on hand for when I am asked to attend baby showers, as baby gifts, etc.
Yesterday, I attended a baby shower for my friend, Shea, and while I did not get a chance to take a picture, her gift was the ever-popular Baby Surprise Jacket. After the gift-opening time, several of the ladies rushed forward to get a glimpse of the jacket and asked me about the pattern. As of today, there are 15,311 Baby Surprise projects on Ravelry. Wouldn't surprise me if there were a few more after this shower. It's really a fun and easy knit!
I also enjoy knitting Kids' Fruit Caps by Ann Norling. I have knitted quite a few of these and they are great gifts! One year, for the fall, I knitted Pumpkin Hats for all of the babies in my Sunday School Class!
I have even knitted a few baby blankets, but most of them were 'way before Ravelry and so I don't have pictures. But, I did start a new circular baby blanket yesterday after the shower. It's more of a Christening Blanket/Shawl. I can't wait to see how it turns out. Since it's 100% Merino Wool, it should block beautifully!
I probably will start some more fruit caps, as well. I have plenty of yarn in my stash!
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Hello my fiber friends! I have really been in a knitting funk lately. I did finish my shawlette from my Sea Socks but I have yet to block it. And frankly, right now, I hate it! It is way too long and narrow; not at all what I expected when I started the project. I am hoping that blocking will make a big difference.
Needless to say, I haven't posted in a while and I want to keep this up regularly. So, here are some things that I finished in the past and that I feel are "picture-worthy!" Enjoy!
One of the best things about knitting (or any hand-made gift, for that matter) are the people who truly appreciate your hard work. I am lucky to have several people in my family who absolutely LOVE everything I knit for them. One of them was my mother, who went to be with the Lord about 5 years ago. Another fan of my knitting is my Aunt Jean.
Aunt Jean is one of my mom's older sisters. She was such a big help when I organized and planned Mom and Dad's 50th Wedding Anniversary Party that I knitted a pair of socks for her. Early in December, my Aunt asked if I would consider knitting another pair of socks for her. "Sure!" I replied, "But you have to wait until I finish my Christmas gift knitting."
So, on January 1st, I purchased some sock yarn and some worsted weight wool to make socks and a pair of felted clogs for this sweet person. I finished them and sent them off to her in Edwardsburg Michigan last week. (And, yes, I totally forgot to take pictures of them!)
On Monday of this week, I received a phone call from my Aunt. She told me that she loved the two pairs of socks and especially the slippers! She wanted to pay for them, for the postage, etc. No way, Aunt Jean. Those were knitted with love for you!
My Aunt's appreciation and enthusiasm of my knitting helped me to get over a bit of the "blahs" that I developed during this long, cold winter!
I hope that you have something to smile about today, too!


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Monday, 26 April 2010
Virtual Revision
Reading the news recently I saw the news item about teacher Chris Orr, stranded in Alicante due to the volcanic ash scare, worrying about his 'A' level students. Showing initiative he found an internet cafe and continued to lead his normal 'A' level revision lessons by Skype. Obviously the school played ball and trialled it to see how well it worked. The answer? - it worked well.
The real test is, of course, the reaction of the students. The video clip confirms that, as we all would have predicted, they just took it in their stride. This is their normal technology, they are 21st Century learners. Students just accepted it and quickly realised that it was no different to like having their teacher there. What they did do was appreciate the effort he made to support them. It is very commendable.
Whilst it is great to see this commitment, it is may be surprising to some that this story has made the news. Many schools all round the world are using Skype quite routinely to support lessons already and more are beginning to use it each week. Far more are seeing how someone, anywhere in the world, can drop into lessons for some input, or to share their working. Some schools are doing joint lessons... the whole approach to using technology to enhance learning is changing. The quicker we embrace this appropriately, the better.
Also, it's great to see a really positive story about education at the moment!
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I still think the teacher shows real initiative. My Head would not let me do that when I was stuck. I did offer but it got rejected. I may show him this article when I go back to school.
- 28 April 2010 at 09:42
- Gareth Long said...
Thanks for writing a comment. It's a shame your HT did not take you up on your offer - it's obvious really. But hopefully, these views will continue to change.
- 28 April 2010 at 09:54
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Most Americans' views on abortion don't fit perfectly in the "pro-life" or "pro-choice" categories, and nearly three-quarters say it's ok disagree with their religion's teachings on the issue, recent research suggests.
The Millennial generation sees teenage pregnancy through portrayals on MTV or movies, which have been shown to have a positive impact on support for legal abortions, according to the Public Religion Research Institute's survey released Thursday.
Most of the under-thirty crowd has watched MTV's 16 and Pregnant or Teen Mom, and viewers of those programs are nearly twice as likely to say that at least some health care professionals in their community should provide abortions (with 65 percent of viewers in favor and 34 percent of non-viewers opposed). They are also more likely to favor the legality of abortion and to consider the procedure morally acceptable.
MomHouston recaps the shows each week and discusses the issues they illustrate about teen pregnancy in America. The girls on the show rarely discuss abortion as an option.
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I have an old leather-bound King James bible that's been in the family forever, and occasionally I flick through it at random. I've always loved the sonorous language, which is so powerful and so much richer than the insipid, watered-down new bibles of the twentieth century.
Now don't get me wrong. I haven't lost my marbles and gone all religious, but those crazy people from Castlebar got me thinking. Remember them? The lunatics denouncing gays with quotes from the Old Testament.
I was a bit rusty on my Old Testament. It was time to read it again.
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy for a start.
Holy shit!
I now realise that the deities in those days did a lot more job-sharing than they do in latter times. There was less demarcation. It's quite obvious that the God of the Old Testament was actually Satan double jobbing. This guy loves blood. He loves slaying and smiting and going in unto virgins.
He's mad. The God of the Old Testament is Colonel Kurtz.
The whole biblical world is full of people beset by unclean spirits that have to be cast out. Out to fuck there, ya bastard unclean spirit, says the Prophet. Fuck off out of it!
I remember when I was a lad, asking a religion teacher about the five books of the Pentateuch, as we called it, or the Torah as it's known to the Jews. Why don't you tell us about Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy?
Ah, he said, that's a bit boring. It's all laws and things.
It sure is. Laws about when a rape victim should be killed and when gays should be killed, and when people who work on the Sabbath should be killed. And when everyone in your defeated enemy's land should be killed, including babes in arms, all men and all married women, but making sure to keep the young virgins alive so that you can go in unto them.
This is the word of the Lord.
A fucking maniac.
Genesis, a book most sane people would read as a fairy-tale is the basis for the Sarah-Palin creationist fundamentalists in the US.
Even in this book, God is a demented homicidal maniac. When he realises that Man is a nasty bastard, and that creating such despicable creatures was a mistake, he decides to kill everyone. But he doesn't stop there. A recurring theme throughout the book is God's delight in seeing animals suffer, so he decides to drown everything. Cats, dogs, pigs, cows, sheep, goats. He doesn't explain how he proposes to drown the fish, the ducks, the swans, the otters, the seals, the walruses, the shags, guillemots and cormorants, but we can only assume it was by magic. In those days, God didn't really think things out.
He had wrath issues.
Anyway, he didn't kill Noah who was six hundred years old at the time, and feeling every second of it. God commanded the old guy to build a ship 150 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet deep. A very dodgy design, in my opinion, likely to induce severe seasickness, but who am I to question God?
Contrary to popular belief, he didn't tell Noah to take two of every animal into the Ark. He took fourteen of some, but only two of the unclean ones. Every animal in the world, all packed into a small boat. Imagine the smell.
Genesis tells us that it rained for forty days and that the waters rose fifteen cubits, which is twenty-two feet, covering all the twenty-two-foot mountains in the world. Yetis and alpacas breathed a sigh of relief, not to mention every non-aquatic bird in the world. It was a bit of an intelligence failure for God in many ways, but he set up a focus group for the debrief and they all learned from their mistakes.
Anyway, that was God's first mass murder. The first of many in the Old Testament. He goes on to kill everyone in the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, and to fuck with Abraham's head by telling him to kill his son Isaac.
God is a nasty piece of work in Genesis, obsessed with murder and sex. He kills poor Onan for practising coitus interruptus.
It gets worse in Exodus, when the children of Israel leave Egypt looking for the land of Canaan which hath been given unto them by God, who doesn't care that people live there already. The plan is to kill them all, which is pretty much what Charlton Heston does as he leads his people in a journey of conquest and ethnic cleansing.
God starts to get his kicks by killing babies, and smites the first-born of all the Egyptians, from the Pharaoh to the servants, and even their animals. Mwoohahahaha!! says God, in a little-known passage from Exodus.
He also starts to hand down laws.
A bull that gores somebody must be stoned to death. Not stabbed. Stoned, for maximum pain. If it happened due to the owner's carelessness, he has to be stoned as well. Of course, if the gored person is only a slave, the bull's owner has to pay the slave's owner, but the bull still gets stoned.
Children who curse their parents must be killed, along with those who lie with animals.
It reminds me of something my good friend Parkenstein says: I'm great in bed. Two minutes and I'm off to sleep. Not a peep out of me.
If they killed people who only lay with animals, I wonder what they did to people who fucked animals?
Obviously, working on the Sabbath gets you killed, but that goes without saying.
The thing that amazes me about it is how violent Moses turns out to be, killing people for the slightest offence, but on mature reflection, maybe it shouldn't be such a surprise. Look how influential he became in the NRA.
I was going to talk you through the rest of the Torah, but in truth, the whole thing is more of the same. Smiting. Slaying thine enemies. Taking unto thyself thine enemy's women. Slaying thine enemy's first-born. Sacrificing herds of cattle, the smoke sweet unto God. Pestilence. Plague. Slaying. Smiting. When and to whom thou may sell thine daughter.
I trudged on through the Prophets, the Psalms, Judges, Ecclesiastes, endless slaying and smiting.
Smiting, slaying and pestilence.
Jesus Christ, I was longing for the kind and tolerant New Testament, but Jesus seems to have little trouble with the things the old-timers said. In fact, he seems to be your standard, orthodox Imam that anyone might expect on the TV these days in gold-rimmed glasses defending some beheading in the name of Allah.
In fairness, at least there's a comic side to Jesus.
My favourite story so far is the one about the Gadarene swine. Do you remember it?
Jesus goes into a town of the Gadarenes, and he meets a fellow possessed by unclean spirits. As I said, everyone was possessed by unclean spirits in those days, but in this story, Jesus becomes Brian. He casts out the evil spirits, whose name is Legion, and they fly into a herd of 2000 pigs. The pigs go apeshit and jump off a cliff into the sea where they're all drowned, and Jesus is delighted.
Look, he says. They're gone, the bastards.
Unfortunately, the people of the town aren't so happy.
They come unto Jesus, and beseech him, saying , Would you kindly fuck off out of here and not come back, you mad bastard. All our fucking pigs are drowned.
Ah, this Bible study is great.


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University of Nebraska–Lincoln Selects Ex Libris Rosetta to Preserve Digital Collections. Exlibris. June 24, 2013.
University of Nebraska–Lincoln (UNL) has adopted the Rosetta digital preservation solution. The university will implement Rosetta across the entire campus to preserve the school's renowned digital humanities collections, campus websites, research data, and other digital assets. Rosetta will be under the management of the UNL library system, a member of the Association of Research Libraries and Committee on Institutional Cooperation. The Rosetta community comprises academic, research, and national libraries; museums; and archives.


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Male Canada lynx
Appx. 1/1/07
Rescued 5/5/13
Gilligan's age is unknown. We were told he was purchased along with Skipper at an auction.
Gilligan had the tiniest cage measuring 5′ x 7′. It was also the dirtiest of all of the cages. The mud floor was not mud, but feces covered with a sprinkling of straw. It appeared as though Gilligan had tried to keep much of his waste confined to one area on top of his plastic dog house. He had perched atop the house day after day to defecate. The large pile of feces cascaded out of the side of his cage. It was clear that his cage had not been cleaned in several months.
Strewn about the cage were bits of meat, bones and fur. The dog house was too small for Gilligan to fit in and other than a small child's play picnic table he had nowhere to escape the weather. He was forced to sleep in the open and surrounded by filth.
Because Gilligan's cage was so small there was not enough room for Big Cat Rescuers to enter it with nets and a crate. So using wire that they had brought, they constructed a secondary enclosure to the door of his and inside placed the crate filled with soft dry hay. Gilligan was unsure about this new crate and despite its appeal of warmth and dryness he refused to enter it. He was left to contemplate entering the crate on his own while Big Cat Rescuers moved on to try and catch Skipper.
After Skipper was captured and carried to the Big Cat Rescue trailer, Gilligan had still refused to enter the crate. With no other options he was sedated with a blow dart. He quickly fell asleep and Dr. Justin did a full exam. After the exam he was gently placed in the crate and given the reversal agent for the tranquilizer.
When he awoke he was in a soft bed of hay being loaded into the trailer for his long trip back to Tampa.
Gilligan seems absolutely blissful in his new enclosure. In his first days he constantly sniffed all around soaking in the fresh air. He was also quite amazed with the wildlife that abounds at the sanctuary from cardinals, to lizards, to squirrels, he is very observant and intently watches as they flit and scurry about.
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Gilligan Moves to an A/C Den
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I remember the pictures. his awful poop cage. I am so glad he is happy and safe and in fresh air, fresh food and water is his, awesome caring people. Thank You <3
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Did the Staff at Entrepreneur Feel the Vibes of This Kombucha Brand?
Kombucha is one of the latest buzzy health drinks making its rounds. The fermented drink features live cultures (think: yogurt). Drinkers tout its health benefits, such as improved digestion and arthritis and cancer prevention.
But what did the staff at Entrepreneur think of the fizzy drink? We put Humm Kombucha to the test in our latest Try-Day Friday video.
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I live in a small New York City apartment. My bedroom just barely fits the dresser, desk, and queen-size bed. The living room and dining room are in fact the same room, and the kitchen is…compact. So it is crazy to me that at least once a week, my husband cannot find his cell phone in the morning. I've been late to work multiple times because I've had to call his phone before I can walk out the door.
I should stop calling, though, because the phone is always in the same place: the bed.
You might think a phone makes a strange bedfellow; it's not particularly cuddly, and it has the potential to wake you up with dings and vibrations. Yet many, many people – especially millennials – sleep with their phones either in their beds or right next them on nightstands. I'm guilty of this also: it's a great alarm clock, and so convenient for when I can't sleep – especially after I've been up at 3 AM with the baby.
Since the baby means my sleep is already fragmented, the latest missing phone incident made me wonder: is snuggling with my phone as harmless as snuggling with my infant? As it turns out, the answer is an emphatic no. There are 3 main reasons I sleep near my phone, and none of them is really justifiable:
- Our phones operate as sleep trackers. We live in a data-driven world, and I want to know how I'm sleeping, and how I can sleep better. Many apps claim that they can tell us how well we slept – and how often we woke up – by tracking the movements on our mattresses. Yet there's a lot of research that demonstrates these apps aren't particularly accurate, and the temptation to use the phone may outweigh any benefits.
- Reading. I use my phone as an e-reader, and like many people, I like to read in bed to relax before falling asleep. The problem is that the type of light smartphones put out disrupts melatonin production. Since melatonin is what tells your body it's time for sleep, the phone can actually prevent you from falling asleep – which is great for finishing that book, but not so great for being well rested in the morning.
- FoMO. I don't know about you, but I suffer from chronic FoMO – Fear of Missing Out. FoMO compels me to constantly check Facebook and Twitter, and to stay late at dinner parties even when I'm half-asleep. I don't want to miss anything. But phone-related FoMO isn't just from social updates. People send work-related emails at all hours of the day and night, and we are often expected to respond at all hours.
My phone FoMO is made worse by the fact the phone is actually addictive. Our brains are wired (because of dopamine) to constantly seek out experiences that make us happy. This makes us crave and anticipate rewards, the less predictable the better – and what's a better source of this than a smartphone? Who doesn't love the jolt of pleasure they feel when someone has commented on an Instagram post, or sent them an unexpected email? (Full disclosure: I live for it. And you know you do, too.)
My solution? Remove the temptation entirely. My phone now spends the night alone, out of arm's reach, which means more room for late-night baby rocking, early morning tiny giggles, and better sleep for all.


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The quality of our roof depends on the material and labor we choose on each project. Our Relationships, locally and industry wide make the difference in each component of our projects. GAF and Owens Corning shingles are the top rating shingles in the industry, and we believe that our success will be driven by using only best in class materials, with top rated warranties. Each roof we install, includes the Manufacturer extended warranty, which in most cases, extends the roof from 10 years to 50 years for manufacturer issues. Only Certified or Master Elite Contractors with GAF may offer this warranty, in which we include on all our GAF Roofs. Likewise, only Preferred or Platinum Preferred Contractors with Owens Corning may offer these extended warranties, in which we include on all our OC roofs. The next part of the Radiant Quality Guarantee, is based on our people, our labor, and sub contractors. Only a certified crew, that is insured may install our GAF or OC roofs. Each crew has been working in this field for many years and has experience we can only dream of. Our people in conjunction with the best materials on the market create the highest quality job you can ask for!
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'A masterful command of language and space. … a dynamic coming-of-age story [for] young adults.' VOYA '10 Star Review'
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Although I was only seven years old when this single was released, I can say that I've loved this song from the very beginning. I bought the single years later, but that was only because I had a double LP with this track on it since early 1979. And then there was this 12" single...
Every year in June there was a street market in a street near to my parents' house. The first time ever I went there I found this 12" single, featuring 'Dancing in the city', and pressed on blue vinyl. I was stunned. Even if it wouldn't contain an extended version, I simply had to have it. And so I bought it. It didn't even cost that much, although I'm sure it's pretty rare and hard to find now. But I might be wrong of course.
My collection: 12" single no. 9
Found: Braderie, Den Haag
Cost: 3 guilders or so
Tracks: 'Dancing in the city' / 'Take my number'
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Wednesday, 14 April 2010
Dancing in the city 1987 - Marshall Hain
In 1987, Dutch DJ Ben Liebrand remixed Marshall Hain's 1978 hit 'Dancing in the city'. It wasn't just a straightforward remix, as singer Kit Hain contributed new vocals to the track, adding a new verse. Gerbrand Westveen played the saxophone on this new version.
The single was released in the summer of 1987, but failed to chart.
My collection: 7" single no. 4800
Found: Record fair, Utrecht, April 10, 2010
Cost: 0,5 euro
Tracks: 'Dancing in the city (Summer city '87)' / 'Dancing in the alley'
The single was released in the summer of 1987, but failed to chart.
My collection: 7" single no. 4800
Found: Record fair, Utrecht, April 10, 2010
Cost: 0,5 euro
Tracks: 'Dancing in the city (Summer city '87)' / 'Dancing in the alley'
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Labels: Ben Liebrand, Eighties, Marshall Hain, Remixes
Tuesday, 28 April 2009
Dancing in the city - Marshall, Hain
'Dancing in the city' was the debut single of Marshall Hain, the duo formed by Julian Marshall and Kit Hain. The single peaked at number 3 in the UK and number 7 in the Netherlands. The single even made it to the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at number 43 in the winter of 1979. Meanwhile, the duo released one more single, 'Coming home' and an album, 'Free ride'. After these were unsuccessful, the duo called it quits.
My collection: 7" single no. 403
Found: Disco Market, Den Haag, 1986
Cost: 1 guilder
Tracks: 'Dancing in the city' / 'Take my number'
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Sunday, 16 November 2008
Coming home - Marshall Hain
Say Marshall Hain, and most people with some knowledge of the late seventies charts will reply with 'Dancing in the city'. A typical one hit wonder act, Julian Marshall and Kit Hain only released on album ('Free ride') before going their separate ways. Kit Hain tried to launch a solo career, but that didn't go so well either.
'Injustice!', I cry, for the follow-up to 'Dancing in the city' is a jewel. 'Coming home' was released in October 1978 and scraped the lower regions of the UK singles chart for a couple of weeks. The album 'Free ride' includes a version that is slightly different from the single version, because it omits the great fretless bass intro, replacing it with vocals from Julian Marshall instead.
So here it is, in all its glory, the single version of 'Coming home' and the B-side 'Different point'. Just to prove that I was right in buying this, even if I was just an eight year old kid.
My collection: 7" single no. 72
Found: Disco Market, Den Haag, 1978
Cost: 1 guilder
Tracks: 'Coming home [7" version]' / 'Different point'
Download: here
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Service & Outreach Volunteers
"When were you hungry, Lord, and I did not feed you?" Saint Mary is blessed to have members who give freely and generously of their time, talent and treasure to support the less fortunate among us. They see and reflect the face of Christ among those in need of food, shelter, social justice and love.
Peace & Social Justice Committee
Members of the Peace and Social Justice Committee have a compelling desire to serve poorer members of our society. Through their actions, these parishioners advocate for a peaceful solution to the social challenges in the community of Saint Mary and the Archdiocese of Baltimore. Members work to complete this mission through:
- educating fellow parishioners about social justice issues.
- advocating to build a more peaceful and just society.
- joining with the St. Vincent de Paul Society of Saint Mary to coordinate the monthly "Van Outreach" to the homeless people of Baltimore.
- organizing the "Giving Tree" Project during the Advent season.
Our Daily Bread
Parishioners use their talents by participating in the ministry of Our Daily Bread to serve the poor and needy in Baltimore City. They do this by:
- bringing frozen macaroni and cheese casseroles, twice a month (by noon on the Sundays before each first and third Mondays of the month), to the rectory for use by Our Daily Bread at their lunch.
- serving as volunteers at Our Daily Bread as needed.
If you are interested in this ministry and for more information, contact Carolyn Weglein at firstname.lastname@example.com.
St. Vincent de Paul of Saint Mary
The St. Vincent de Paul Society of Saint Mary helps local people sustain themselves with housing, utilities, and other immediate needs as they work toward a better future. Our parish chapter of this international Catholic ministry to the needy uses poor box contributions and other donations to assist its clients and, whenever possible, visiting them in their homes. The group also conducts our parish's monthly delivery of food and clothing to the homeless.
Consider making a monthly or bimonthly commitment to assist in this effort by contributing sandwiches, soft fruit, individually packaged cookies, or fruit drinks. Help with assembling food bags is also appreciated. Parishioners meet on the last Saturday of each month at 4:30pm in the St. Mary's parking lot next to the garages. Food contributions may be left at the rectory before noon or between 3:30pm-4:15pm on the day of outreach. To learn more, please contact the parish office.
Saint Mary was one of the founding members of the Govans Ecumenical Development Corporation (GEDCO) in partnership with faith-based and community organizations. GEDCO provides affordable housing, supportive services, and emergency assistance to community residents. GEDCO is committed to a just society that respects the dignity and worth of all people and to fostering growth toward personal independence. GEDCO's CARES program serves families and individuals in crisis by connecting them with resources that enable movement towards self-sufficiency. These resources include food and emergency financial assistance services. The CARES program operates from Saint Mary's and is run by a dedicated team consisting of one full-time and one part-time employee, and over 100 volunteers.
Boy Scouts
One of the oldest Scout troops in continuous operation, Boy Scout Troop #133 celebrated its 76th Anniversary in 2013.The Troop welcomes all youth from the Govans and surrounding area and promotes traditional Scout values and skills. The troop meets every Friday evening at 7:00 pm. It offers a variety of activities such as camping, backpacking, canoeing and wilderness survival training. Anyone interested or for more information, please contact the parish office.


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In 1969 Fred Wesley and Maceo Parker disbanded from James Brown to peruse other interests, leaving James to find replacements. He recruited The Pacemakers, a Cincinnati based band featuring a young Bootsy Collins on Bass.
What Bootsy brought was a vitality and energy that seemed to go hand in hand with Browns raw brand of infectious music. This new band was based entirely on rhythm and brought Brown's energy to a new level.
Unfortunately this collaboration only lasted one year as Bootsy wanted to push the funk farther than James would allow.
Below is a rare performance of these two soul giants captured on stage together. Forgive the audio quality. I have attached a much cleaner audio version of this track. The selection is taken from James Brown - Live at the Olympia in Paris released in 1971. This release was originally intended for a 1972 release as a vinyl triple album, but was canceled after the key members left Brown to join Parliament-Funkadelic.
James Brown - Ain't It Funky Now
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Our first aircheck from new contributor Frank Davis just happens to be the first tape I pulled from the top of the box – Frank sent hundreds of tapes, and we'll be pulling from this collection for years to come.
Join us now as we head back in time through the magic of Maxell UDS-II Chrome tape to 1987. It's Labor Day weekend and WNBC, in it's final year on the air (though they don't know it yet) is in the middle of an extended "Time Machine" weekend. The station is counting down the top 66 hits of the 60s. This starts at #29 and runs through #17. While scoped, this still runs 43 minutes, through two beach reports and two full newscasts, including both local and NBC Network news.
Lots of 1987 commercials, reverb and PAMS jingles, resung for WNBC, to give this station an unmistakeable WABC sound – all they needed were the WABC jocks to make it complete.
The Time Machine was one programming element of many which made up programming of WNBC during this time period. During the week, the lineup consisted of Don Imus (Imus in the Morning), Ray Dariano with Oldies during the Mid-day, Alan Colmes talk show afternoons, and sports from 6-12 midnight. WNBC ran Oldies overnights 12-6am. With this pot-pourri of programming, WNBC tried to be all things to all people – and it worked, at least to some extent. With much of the Rock & Roll audience moved to FM by this time, it was difficult for any AM station to program music, but WNBC kept some form of music programming on the air right up until it's demise in August 1988.
This is an original recording made by our contributor. No copies exist anywhere else on the web or with collectors. Listen to the "WNBC Time Machine", and remember why it was our favorite radio station, bar none in the late 80s. "The Fan" had nothing on this, baby!


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Tory leader David Cameron has said anyone who thinks they can gain from a degree should have the chance to go.
But the Cornerstone group of MPs said studying traditional arts subjects could make graduates worse off, with growing numbers "not benefiting".
However, the government says that university is still a "worthwhile investment" for students.
'Passed the point'
MP Julian Brazier, who wrote a paper for the Cornerstone group, said: "Everyone with the educational attainment to benefit from a degree course should have the opportunity to go to university - as David Cameron has rightly said."
However, participation had "already passed that point" , he added.
Cornerstone argued that vocational courses such as media studies gave a bigger boost to job prospects.
Mr Brazier said "barely half" of those who had entered university in recent years had completed their degrees "and followed careers for which a degree is even a norm, let alone a requirement".
Many taking arts subjects were "likely to make a substantial financial loss out of their time at university", given the costs involved.
The paper cited research showing that one in three students recently entering university either dropped out of their courses, failed to get work or settled for non-graduate jobs.
A Swansea University report published last year found graduates could expect to earn £150,000 more over their lifetimes than those with just A-levels - £250,000 less than previously estimated by ministers.
Researchers said some subjects - such as the arts - could even mean losses, when fees and living costs were taken into account.
The report, based on the British Labour Survey, blamed the increase in student numbers for narrowing the earnings gap.
But the government said that the discrepancy between earnings figures was partly due to the different ways in which they had been calculated.