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4 And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for
5 And the Lord God of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and it shall
6 It is he that buildeth his
7 Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the Lord. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?
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10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor
11 ¶In that day will I raise up the
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13 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that
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GDB 80: Fit for the Kings
Jason Gregor
April 07 2009 12:05PM
The atmosphere was much different at the morning skate today. Players were smiling, joking around with each other, even Craig MacTavish was in good spirits as he danced around Stortini and Jacques before going in all alone on Deslauriers and giving him the forehand, backhand, forehand deke.
There will be no line up changes for tonight:
21 – 10 – 83 12 – 89 – 19 18 – 13 – 34 27 – 51 – 46
The Colossal Fossil will start in goal, and the D pairings remain status quo.
Today I doubt any of you even care what the lines are, because a win is the only focus for those who still believe in miracles. Make no mistake miracles do happen in sports.
Miracle on ice: USA defeats the USSR and goes on to win Olympic gold in 1980.
Miracle on Manchester: In game three of round one, the LA Kings trailed the high-powered Oilers 5-0 after 40 minutes, but they scored five times in the third before Daryl Evans scored the OT winner and the Kings went on to win the best-of-five series in 1982.
The Miracle Mets of 1969: They won 38 of their final 49 games, before beating Henry Aaron and the Atlanta Braves in the NLCS, and then the Mets faced the powerhouse Baltimore Orioles with Brooks Robinson, Frank Robinson, Jim Palmer and Davey Johnson. The Mets lost game won when their ace Tom Seaver got pounded, but the won four straight to cap off a four month Cinderella-type run.
The difference with the Oilers is that they need help for their miracle to happen.
The Predators host the Blackhawks tonight and the Blues are in the Desert to battle the Coyotes.
The Preds are 2-0 v. the Hawks at home this year, winning 4-1 and 5-3. They went 1-2 in Chicago. The Preds are still without Legwand, Arnott and Erat, and the Hawks have won three in a row.
The Blues are 3-0 v. the Dogs this year winning, 4-3, 3-1 and 2-1. The only good news for Oiler fans is that the 'Yotes are 6-3-1 in their last ten and they are 22-14-3 at home, while the Blues are 16-18-3 on the road.
The other game of interest tonight is the Flames v. the Canucks. If the Flames win they clinch the NW and I'm hearing that if they win, then Curtis McElhinney could start both games this weekend v. the Oilers. McElhinney is 0-6-1 this year with a 3.73 GAA and a .883 SV%.
Some days you need something to make you believe the impossible is possible.
Kings won't roll over
After last night's 4-1 loss to the Flames, Terry Murray ripped his team for 15 minutes in the locker room. Then when he left the players had a player's only meeting for 20 minutes. The message was to show some pride and play for each other.
The Oilers need to win, but it sounds like the Kings won't just hand it to them.
Parting shot
Some days the best part of my job is sitting down and listening to Rod Phillips or Jim Matheson recant some classic stories. RP is one of the most animated storytellers ever. He gets right into it and makes the story all the more enjoyable.
Today RP was telling Stortini and me a story about Barry Melrose. Melrose was playing for the Cincinnati Stingers in the WHA during the 1978/79 season and they were playing the Oilers. Dave Hunter, who was a pretty good pest in his day, had given Melrose a few cheap shots earlier in the game.
Melrose skated by the Oilers and screamed, "Dave you cheap @#$%&*, I'm gonna kick your ass." Well, Dave stood up, but it was Dave Semenko and he hopped the boards.
Melrose back-pedals and with a high-pitched shrill spouts, "Not YOU Dave, not you," and Semenko proceeds to lay a beating on Melrose.
Semenko just said that Melrose didn't specify which Dave he was gonna beat up.
Miracles indeed....
I'll be there till the bitter end...however painful it might be.
April 07 2009, 12:24PM
*opens his phone and sends a text to Mr. Katz*
"Whaddup D, I am driving the bandwagon to Rexall tonight, mind saving me the usual spot. Don't worry if it is a tighter fit than usual, or if you have to double park me, not a very big bandwagon these days. More like a bandsmartcar...LOL. TTYL."
*closes phone, gets on his knees and prays to Darwin that he is not the only one riding in the bandwagon after the game*
If the McElhinney is a possible starter for both games, then I will say this one time and one time only...GO FLAMES!
Can't wait till the miserable season is over.
Go Oilers Go
April 07 2009, 12:36PM
There is no way Calgary will start Mcelhinney both games. Thats the Flames blowing smoke up the Oilers ass.
April 07 2009, 12:40PM
I'm a Scientist! wrote:
*closes phone, gets on his knees and prays to Darwin that he is not the only one riding in the bandwagon after the game*
Darwin would tell you that the Oilers must adapt to their environments or face extinction...or he would just yammer on about finches and such.
On a different note, I want to bring this to the attention of Oiler fans everywhere.
There's a promotional video that the NHL released recently that has a very disturbing image in it. Please watch the clip...
At a glance it looks like a slick montage of goals, superstars, hits, and all the normal stuff. Nothing special, right?
Well, there's something that I hope I'm misinterpreting right near the end of this clip: that dirty sink. I couldn't make any sense of it at first, until pausing on the image and giving it a bit of thought.
Doesn't it look like oil going down a drain to you?
Those cruel, cruel bastards at NHL headquarters. This long standing Edmonton fan knows how to hold a grudge. Or maybe somebody else has a better explanation?
Great story about 'Streaks' running from Dave. Good to hear that the Oilers are a loose bunch right now. After a stressful and dissapointing season they deserve to take it easy for a bit.
Big game in Vancouver tonight, it should be an intense affair. Too bad Calgary fans are too preocupied w/ their delusions of grandeur to appreciate a good team. I like the team as a hockey fan but I really am sick of these pompus redneck fans. That guy over at FlamesNation is a perfect example. He seems to think that The Flames have the greatest team ever assembled. I dont know who I hate more Nuks fans or Flames fans. Come to think of it I hate all Canadian hockey fans.
Just what we need...a glimmer of hope and then possibly face a a goalie with no wins on the season. Why don't we just make it his first career start or first game back after losing a leg? The Oilers do love to hand out the charity.
@ shakey: Wonder if any Kings haven't scored in 70 games?
April 07 2009, 01:00PM
Deans wrote:
After a stressful and dissapointing season they deserve to take it easy for a bit.
Uh, I think they've been taking it easy for a pretty long time now, maybe its time they actually work hard.
April 07 2009, 01:00PM
@ Andrew W
Everything including the kitchen sink = NHL Playoffs?
@ DK0: I'm sure we'll see one of them tonight. Sean O'Donnell maybe? Or better yet, Matt Greene with the assist to Jaret Stoll.
I will be there tonight cheering my ass off!! Go Oil!!
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Deans wrote: After a stressful and dissapointing season they deserve to take it easy for a bit. Uh, I think they've been taking it easy for a pretty long time now, maybe its time they actually work hard.
They have played tentative but not lazy. For the most part I feel this team cares but they lack intensity. Maybe they are afraid to make mistakes, I really dont know what the issue is. What I do know is that this team has some mental issues. How else do you explain all the last minute comback attempts recently? I just dont buy that the team has been laxidasical.
LOL @ Barry Melrose
So did the Oilers media machine kill watching the game free online for good or is it still available somewhere?
@Rusty Shackleford
Hmmm... Maybe...
Thanks for responding and giving me another possibility. I was starting to feel paranoid, like I was turning into Deep Oil or something.
Mostly, I just thought it was a funny take on an odd image, but it doesn't seem that anybody other than you is paying attention to it.
April 07 2009, 01:19PM
I could go for a miracle. Yeah, I've thought about it and I'm in.
That Melrose story is awesome.
April 07 2009, 01:19PM
@ shakey - I'm not paying tonight, so there better be an online link. The last few PPV's have had links that worked (not the best quality). I checked a few and don't see any yet, but they usually pop up closer to game-time.
April 07 2009, 01:22PM
@ Deans: Lazy, takin it easy, lacks intensity, maybe we're splitting hairs here. I think we both agree they lack an edge or an assertiveness to their game.
I think those 3rd periods prove what this team CAN do and those awful 2nd periods tell us what the team is WILLING to do.
April 07 2009, 01:33PM
@ shakey: I think i saw the last one on channelsurfing dot net.
April 07 2009, 01:34PM
@ The Towel Boy: You can ride shotgun in the bandwagon... Yeeehawww!
April 07 2009, 01:36PM
I really want the flames to win tonight for reason mentioned above, but when I look at the Canucks lineup I think they are a much better team than the flames sans Regehr. If they played in the first round I bet the Canucks win that one in 5
@ Rusty Shackleford: Make this a game where they win and they're in then maybe I hand over the $14.00 but this 'if we win and then the other 3 lose and the sunsets exactly at 8:20 on a natinal holiday in France' crap is getting old. I'm still bitter that it took 75 plus games before most of these guys started showing that they care.
Storts goes flying to the net trips on his skate laces and takes out Greene and the goalie, both have to be helped off the ice while Storts gets up straightens out his LEG and cracks Brown just for the hell of it. Yeeeeeehaw
April 07 2009, 01:43PM
So IF(thats a big one) the oilers win tonight and get all the help (chicago, pheonix and calgary win in regulation time) What do the odds become?
1 point out with 2 to play against a team that's fixed in 3rd place?
still doesn't look good to me, but we'll see. game 81 is the soonest possible elimination if the oilers win tonight though. (they're eliminated tonight if they lose and one of st. lou or nashville wins)
So did Mac T actually score on this little triple deke? If so I'm worried about the future of JDD.
April 07 2009, 01:52PM
Love the Melrose story.
April 07 2009, 01:54PM
@ shakey: Here's to the hoping the sun sets at 8:20 in France tonight (isn't every day in France a national holiday?)... I'll drink to that!!
"...even Craig MacTavish was in good spirits as he danced around Stortini and Jacques before going in all alone on Deslauriers and giving him the forehand, backhand, forehand deke."
Talk about rubbing salt in the wound. First he won't dress the guy in a kajillion games, and now he's showing him up in practice!?! What's his next move, bring Schremp up and put him on D for 3 on 1 drills? What a sadist Mac T has become!
Haha. Actually I am also glad to see the boys enjoying the last couple of games of the season. Better than dwelling on missed opportunities. They'll have plenty of time for that in the summer.
BTW: What other profession are you rewarded with a 5 Month summer break for mailing it in all year? And where do I apply?
Chaz wrote:
BTW: What other profession are you rewarded with a 5 Month summer break for mailing it in all year?
Edmonton City Council Playoff Flag maker in Edmonton Canada Post
Mayor Mandel want to give us our "rink in a box...rink in a box"
Everyone stop getting my hopes up damn it.
Go Flames Go!! Ugghhhh..... Excuse me as I now need to go throw up.
April 07 2009, 03:42PM
@ Chaz:
The senate Bank Executive(oh wait that's just to take bailout money!)
April 07 2009, 03:46PM
*steps out of the office in to the balmy plus 11 playoff like weather and struts towards the bandwagon... pulling himself up the staircase and in the drivers seat he sits for a moment. Holding on to the suicide handle of the steering wheel he lets out a big sigh and refects on the season that was...that time when Hemsky came back from injury and had a killer two games...that time they won 4 in a row to start the season...the time Souray beat the hell out of somebody...siiigh...Refocusing his eyes, he checks his hair in the mirror, does a minor adjustment then turns the key to fire up the bandwagon...then he pops in George Michael cassette and cranks the hell out of "Faith"*
Here we goooo......
"...we gotta have faith-a faith-a faithuggghh"
All is good. OIL will win tonight, bank on it. No way the Pred's win two of three with the team's they are playing, and with all their injurie's. No chance. Blue's are bound to choke sooner or later and with all the pressure the young team is now facing you can count on it. Playing team's with nothing to play for is as tough as any playoff team. Minny's gotta learn how to score before they ever win three in a row this this time of year. All is good in Oil land. Ye-Haaaaaaaa!!!!!
April 07 2009, 04:01PM
Gregor, the fact that you mention miracles, no matter how miracle-y they are, fills me with an inexplicable warm feeling. I hope it was your words, otherwise I've just peed myself.
April 07 2009, 04:30PM
Oil 2-1 shoot out - Sully pots winner
April 07 2009, 05:14PM
How much money does O'Sullivan have on the board tonight?
April 07 2009, 05:26PM
shakey wrote:
I'm sure we'll see one of them tonight. Sean O'Donnell maybe? Or better yet, Matt Greene with the assist to Jaret Stoll.
Stoll is out for the year. He tore his groin two weeks ago.Amber McCormick wrote:
Gregor, the fact that you mention miracles, no matter how miracle-y they are, fills me with an inexplicable warm feeling. I hope it was your words, otherwise I've just peed myself.
I'm blushing...are you hinting that my words might have given you the big O!!!
April 07 2009, 05:51PM
Anybody here have an online link for the internet stream?
Jack "FMNF" Bauer wrote:
Anybody here have an online link for the internet stream?
There's NO games listed on atdhe. Looks like your best bet is to cruise over to Lowetide's (see the blog roll) site and check the GDT. If there's a link, somebody over there usually posts it. Might take a bit of wading through. Those old guys post crazy amounts before the game starts.
i'm watching the pregame PPV right now... the more I see Horcoff, the more I hate him.
getting dangerous for me.. really can't stand him.
shouldn't say I "hate" him, more of a stroooong disliking of him.
also read barnes's article in the journal today and it seems as though he's already coming up with a litany of excuses for his severe lackluster offensive play. I can't recall once in that article where he owned up to any of his poor, sometimes brutal play.
Nashville and the wild both up 1-0... Why do the hockey gods upset me... I demand they make them lose so our fate is in our own hands... (wishful thinking but why give up now?)
April 07 2009, 07:08PM
Hate to be a party pooper, but I checked the Kings TV schedule for 2009 and for some reason the Edmonton game doesn't get American TV? I guess the radio it is unless someone is streaming the PPV or Centre Ice...


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Skip to comments.Bacteria in mouth may trigger colorectal cancer
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- U.S. researchers said Wednesday they have discovered how a common oral bacterium can trigger a cascade of changes leading to colorectal cancer.
The microorganism called fusobacteria, which are found in the mouth, may stimulate bad immune responses and turn on cancer growth genes to generate colorectal tumors, two studies published in the journal Cell Host & Microbe revealed.
Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related death in the United States. Recent studies have shown that fusobacteria from the mouth are also abundant in tissues from colorectal cancer patients but it was not known whether they directly contribute to the formation of tumors.
In one of the new studies, Professor Yiping Han from the Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine and her collaborators discovered that fusobacteria rely on a molecule called FadA, which is found on the surface of these bacterial cells, to attach to and invade human colorectal cancer cells.
FadA then turns on cancer growth genes and stimulates inflammatory responses in these cells and promotes tumor formation, Han said.
Han's team also found that the FadA gene levels are 10 to 100 times higher than normal in precancerous and malignant colon polyps. Moreover, they identified a compound known as peptide that can prevent FadA's effects on cancer cells.
"We showed that FadA is a marker that can be used for the early diagnosis of colorectal cancer and identified potential therapeutic targets to treat or prevent this common and debilitating disease," Han said.
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Um, nope.
No, my FRiend. Colon cancer is a serious killer - I survived stage 3 after a lemon sized tumor was removed 6 years ago, had six months of chemo and serious complications that nearly killed me afterward. Nothing to do with the gay thing. It does run in families, my grandfather died from it. In my case, I got to see miracle healing and have the gift of more time with my family. Medical treatment has made great progress on this illness. I am very happy to be here and alive and participating in life!
Sorry to hear that. Good luck with your recovery.
Glad you survived. On a related note, I wonder how many men have died from prostate cancer because they didn't want their doctor's finger up their butt for 3 seconds. I mean, really?
Don't need to go to the doctor for that anymore. TSA has people that do that.
OK, real question: after getting the rectal finger wave for years in the military, can I now count on the PSA test to replace the undignified invasive prostate exam?
Bacteria in colon may trigger mouth cancer
Hadn't thought about it before, but some contemporary doctors have been acting a little weird. ;-)
Nope it killed my mother and several others in the family...
I suspect you comment is supposed to be funny but it illustrates how out of touch so called conservatives are with the real world.
I'm becoming more convinced every day that Conservatism is not winning elections because Conservative voters only listen to talk radio (15% tops of the electorate) Fox (geezers over 65) and blogs like this which are so often just an echo chamber of the same folks saying the same thing year after year..
IMHO the problem is the messengers not the message. We have lost the battle of the message by failing to recognize personality is what wins an election in today's America.
The vast majority of those here and conservatives in general have squandered what little political capital they had left by attacking O and the Dims personally. Face it, folks like O and the Dims better than they like conservatives at this point in time.
The fools in Washington of both parties can continue to play the day to day game of patty cake but the country as a whole has simply tuned them out. The electorate here is becoming much like the third world in that they have long since concluded that the politicians have nothing to say that matters in their lives and are useless... America's greatness was based on our ability to do big things and we simply no longer have the political leaders capable of even deciding to get out of bed in the morning let alone conceiving of any "big" idea that could possibly benefit the country..the name of the game for all politicians is get mine while I can.
try some probiotics everyday
So let's go ahead throw in the towel and bow down Hillary.
No. Do both. What the prostate feels like is important too.
Maybe I'm jaded. After four children and my midwife's hands in undignified places for legitimate reasons, it doesn't bother me any more.
Inspiration and positive messages win elections:
You just reiterated Jason Lewis's rant from today.
Sell your tripe at DU. Obozo's policies and agenda is what has been"attacked, NOT his skin color. Obozo isn't "loved" for his personality, which is contrived! He's "loved" for the false promise he brought!
If my doctor doesn't give me 5, I pout for three days.
Nothing but the choicest rotten tomatoes for you!
Same here, after 10 children. I had a colonoscopy with no anesthesia ... just a little labor breathing and a motherly nurse patting my hand.
Get your colonoscopy, everyone. Dying of colon cancer is bad.
(This Public Service Announcement is offered in memory of Congressman Billybob.)
I wonder if the bacteria mentioned in the article is associated with gum disease. My dentist often mentions that gum disease contributes to a variety of serious health problems.
Here's a Rino you will learn to appreciate:
That's BS. We're winning all kinds of elections. We're winning at all levels except one office at Pennsylvania ave. Conservatives have as a big a foot print today in state governments than we've ever had, and we've controlled the House for all but four years of the last two decades.
Have fun here @ FR where, unlike virtually every "progressive" site on the web, you won't get immediately banned for ingsoc unbellyfeel.
She was 102.
She injured her leg when she jumped from the burning Zeppelin inferno.
She had to use a cane for the rest of her life
coz she always walked with a blimp.
That's rather unnngh, but it would kill germs!
I use tea-tree oil to prevent ear infections.
Did the hydrogen peroxide discolor your teeth?
Mine is scheduled for next month. Second time around. The procedure, in itself, isn't bad; it's the preceding 24 hours that suck.
It will keep me from having a sinus infection. I always ended up with a sinus infection after a cold and the infection would finally sent me to the doctor for antibiotics. I have not had a sinus infection for several years, ever since I started using my Neti Pot.
And that's the truth! I have almost 2 years to the next one.
Sorry I don't equate the GOP with Conservatives.
Sorry I don't equate the GOP with Conservatives.
I agree with your second statement, but not the first. It is conservatives who are winning. 2010 was a conservative wave. 2012 was a Republican bungling. The Republicans react to polling and act weak to be nice. Conservatives are making a case for another direction. We have conservative governors all over the country, some in blue states like WI. We have conservatives taking over statehouses, winning Congressional seats and Senate seats. Five years ago we had DeMint and a few occasional good conservatives in the Senate. Today we have a conservative coalition leading the way.
This is a must-read thread from 2011. I've studied it multiple times. Somewhere in the middle of it, another Freeper with a biochem background shows up and attempts to bash the whole thing; he was not successful IIRC.
Toothbrush no longer enters my mouth unless it's loaded with baking soda.
Winner! Nice rant.
The PSA is worse than the "probe". A high reading from a PSA test will probably result in a much more invasive and worthless prostate biopsy.
My urologist put me through two of those (they are very lucrative for him), that he claimed showed some "suspicious cells". When I refused a third one, he admitted that was reasonable, considering my age and other medical factors.
I knew he wanted the $3,000 fee for the exam, but he admitted if the exam disclosed cancer, treatment might not be advised.
Mucho thanks for the heads up. I'll be 65 soon & my Dad once told me that sooner or later we guys are all going to check out either from prostate cancer or enlarged prostate.
I was just hoping to avoid further finger waves; the last one came from a retired BG, MC, Ret. working for OSHA who told me "you don't enjoy getting a DR exam, you think I enjoy giving them!!?""
This was after he rammed the ol' index finger where I least wanted it & I yelled, "OW!!! What are you doing up there, doc, TDY!!!?"
The needle he would fire through the rectal wall into your prostate 2 dozen times over the course of an hour will be worse than "OW".
My dad had prostate cancer when he died, but he died of other causes. He told me he refused prostate surgery, because of the bad results a friend of his suffered from such surgery.
During my visit to my urologist last spring, he told me he had undergone a prostate biopsy recently, and apologized for bitching at me for flinching every time he fired the biopsy needle into my prostate during my two biopsies.
Thanks for the ping!
Fusobacterium nucleatum Potentiates Intestinal Tumorigenesis and Modulates the Tumor-Immune Microenvironment
Biopsy needle? Geez...so much to look forward to in the `golden years'.
Just had my first colonoscopy but that was nothin' in the hurt department. Open heart surgery wasn't that big a deal either. Guess it's back to my old Army doc whose name believe it or not is Dr. Cutting.
Better than Dr. Payne, I suppose.
My brother in law's a doctor - his feeling is that lots of men get prostate cancer and they usually die of something else - something like old age...
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MGM Resorts appears to have cleared a major hurdle in its quest to build an $800 million casino in Springfield.
The Massachusetts Gaming Commission staff is recommending that MGM be allowed to proceed with its casino bid, as long as it deals with certain issues.
One of those issues: a former MGM board member, Terry Christensen, who was indicted and convicted of wiretapping and conspiracy, and even after the indictment continued to advise MGM executives and attend board meetings.
Stephen Crosby, chair of the gaming commission, says MGM's past mistakes won't necessarily disqualify it from winning a casino license.
"We have looked into many things that have gone on before and really the issue is: How does the company deal with it?" Crosby told reporters Monday. "So yes – we have sort of a presumption to move on if we have confidence about how people have fixed problems."
Current MGM Board Member Roland Hernandez acknowledged errors in judgment in the Christensen matter.
"We absolutely recognize the severity of it," he said. "There were lapses. We don't deny there were lapses."
MGM also answered questions about the company's business practices at its casino resort in Macau and compliance with the foreign corrupt practices act.
The gaming commission is expected to vote on MGM's suitability within the next few days. It is the only company still bidding for the sole Western Massachusetts casino license.


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The Law and Economics of Irrational Behavior: An Introduction
Francesco Parisi
University of Minnesota - Law School; University of Bologna
Vernon L. Smith
Chapman University - Economic Science Institute; Chapman University School of Law
George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 04-16
F. Parisi & V. Smith, THE LAW & ECONOMICS OF IRRATIONAL BEHAVIOR, Stanford University Press, 2005
Behavioral economists accept many of the premises of traditional economic thought: that situational outcomes are the result of individual decisions, taking place in a particular economic environment. But behavioral economists go a step further, arguing that the human action is shaped not only by relevant economic constraints, but is highly affected by people's endogenous preferences, knowledge, skills, endowments and a variety of psychological and physical constraints. Incentives matter and incentives drive human behavior, but incentives are often more than simple monetary gain. The rise of behavioral economics and the findings of experimental economics, have led to a clash between the theory of rational-choice and those who believe that this idea does not properly account for the montage of human emotions, biology and attitudes. However, it may be possible to end the intellectual tug of war between rational choice theorists and behavioralists without turning it into a zero-sum game. In this Introduction we consider the contributions of twenty-eight authors who have joined together to present such a possibility. Covering a wide range of fields from neuroscience, to economics, to law and sociology, these distinguished academics have presented an array of valuable contributions that, aware in their own application that rational choice theory can no longer be bought in a wholesale fashion, aim at revisiting its basic premises in such a way as to ensure a more rigorous analytical model. These authors then proceed to offer a practical application of this modified theory to a variety of economic and legal problems that have bedeviled traditional economic thought.
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E. John Wherry, PhD
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Pennsylvania State University, 1993.
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Thomas Jefferson University, 2000.
BS (Science)
Pennsylvania State University, 1993.
PhD (Immunology)
Thomas Jefferson University, 2000.
Description of Research ExpertiseResearch Interests
T cell exhaustion, T cell Memory.
Key words: T cell exhaustion, Immunological memory, T cell memory, Chronic infection, T cell dysfunction, Memory T cell differentiation.
Research Summary
A major goal of the research in Dr. Wherry's laboratory is to understand the mechanisms of T cell exhaustion during chronic infections and cancer. Our work studying CD8 T cell responses during chronic viral infections has demonstrated that virus-specific CD8 T cells often lose effector functions and fail to acquire key memory T cell properties (i.e. become exhausted). Using approaches including high dimensional flow cytometry, transcriptional and epigenetic profiling and in vivo models we are defining cellular pathways involved in T cell exhaustion and normal memory T cell differentiation. Some areas of considerable current interest for the lab include inhibitory receptors (e.g. PD-1, LAG-3), transcription factors and inflammatory pathways. Blockade of inhibitory receptors such as PD-1 (i.e. checkpoint blockade) is now a major therapeutic approach in human cancer. Ongoing studies are examining the mechanisms of these blockades in preclinical models as well as in humans and are investigating the next generation of immune targets to reverse T cell exhaustion. In addition to T cell exhaustion, the laboratory has major interests in the biology of human T follicular helper cells (TFH). Our studies are interrogating the pathways controlling optimal TFH responses following human vaccination. Finally, additional interests in the lab include intestinal novovirus infection, respiratory infections and co-infections.
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1) Regulatory mechanisms during chronic viral infections
2) Transcriptional regulation of T cell differentiation
3) Age-related changes in T cell responses
4) Molecular program of memory T cell self-renewal
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Sharon Adamski - Research Specialist
Mohammed Ali - Research Specialist
John Attanasio - Lab Tech
Bertram Bensch - Postdoctoral Fellow
Ramin Herati - Infectious Disease Fellow
Sarah Henrickson - Pediatrics Fellow
Alex Huang - Oncology Fellow
Jonathan Johnnidis- Graduate Student
Makoto Kurachi - Postdoctoral Fellow
Olesya Palko - Research Specialist
Felix Quagliarello- Lab Manager
Laura McLane - Graduate Student
Kristen Pauken - Postdoctoral Fellow
Ryan Staupe - Graduate Student
Erietta Stelekati - Postdoctoral Fellow
Vesselin Tomov – Postdoctoral Fellow
Laura Vella - Pediatrics Fellow
Samantha Halter - Executive Assistant
Selected PublicationsBlackburn, S.D., Shin, H., Freeman, G.J., Wherry, E.J.: Selective expansion of a subset of exhausted CD8 T cells by αPD-L1 blockade. PNAS 105(39): 15016-21, Sep 2008.
Blackburn, S.D., Shin, H., Haining, W.N., Zou, T., Workman, C.J., Polley, A., Betts, M.R., Freeman, G.J., Vignali, D.A.A., Wherry, E.J. : Coregulation of CD8+ T cell exhaustion by multiple inhibitory receptors during chronic viral infection. Nat. Immunol. 10(1): 29-37, Jan 2009.
Doering TA, Crawford A, Angelosanto JM, Paley MA, Wherry EJ: Defining the transcriptional networks of CD8+ T cell memory versus exhaustion. Immunity 37(6): 1130-44, 2009.
Paley MA, Kroy DC, Dolfi DV, Bikoff E, Robertson EJ, Lauer GM, Reiner SL and Wherry EJ: Key role for balancing progenitor and terminal subsets of exhausted T cells during chronic infection. Science 338(6111): 1220-5, 2012.
Crawford, A., Angelosanto, J.M., Doering, T.A., Kao, C., Wherry E.J.: Molecular and transcriptional basis of CD4+ T cell dysfunction during chronic infection. Immunity 40(2): 289-302, Feb 2014.
Kurachi M, Barnitz RA, Yosef N, Odorizzi PM, Dilorio MA, Lemieux ME, Yates K, Godec J, Klatt MG, Regev A, Wherry EJ and Haining WN.: BATF operates as an essential differentiation checkpoint in early effector CD8+ T cells. Nature Immunology 15(4): 373-83, 2014.
Stelekati E., Shin H., Doering T.A., Dolfi D.V., Ziegler C.G., Beiting D.P., Dawson L., Liboon J., Wolski D., Ali M.A., Katsikis P.D., Shen H., Roos D.S., Haining W.N., Lauer G.M., Wherry E.J.: Bystander chronic infection negatively impacts development of CD8(+) T cell memory. Immunity 40(5): 801-13, May 2014.
Herati RS, Reuter MA, Dolfi DV, Mansfield KD, Aung H, Badwan OZ, Kurupati RK, Kannan S, Ertl H, Schmader KE, Betts MR, Canaday DH, Wherry EJ.: Circulating CXCR5+PD-1+ response predicts influenza vaccine antibody responses in young adults but not elderly adults. Journal of Immunology 193(7): 3528-37, Oct 2014.
Chang JT, Wherry EJ and Goldrath AW.: Molecular regulation of effector and memory T cell differentiation. Nature Immunology 15(12): 1104-15, DEC 2014.
Gandhi SJ, Minn A, Vonderheide RH, Wherry EJ, Hahn SM, Maity A.: Awakening the immune system with radiation: Optimal dose and fractionation. Cancer Letters March 2015.
Pauken KE, Wherry EJ.: Overcoming T cell exhaustion in infection and cancer. Trends Immunol 36(4): 265-76, April 2015.
Twyman-Saint Victor C, Rech AJ, Maity A, Rengan R, Pauken KE, Stelekati E, Benci JL, Xu B, Dada H, Odorizzi PM, Herati RS, Mansfield KD, Patsch D, Amaravadi RK, Schuchter LM, Ishwaran H, Mick R, Pryma DA, Xu X, Feldman MD, Gangadhar TC, Hahn SM, Wherry EJ, Vonderheide RH, Minn AJ.: Radiation and dual checkpoint blockade activate non-redundant immune mechanisms in cancer. Nature 520(7547): 373-7, April 2015.
Bengsch B and Wherry EJ: The importance of cooperation: partnerless NFAT induces T cell exhaustion. Immunity 42(2): 203-5, Feb 2015.
Pauken KE, Wherry EJ.: TIGIT and CD226: tipping the balance between costimulatory and coinhibitory molecules to augment the cancer immunotherapy toolkit. Cancer Cell 26(6): 785-7, Dec 2014.
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Apolytikion of Apodosis of Nativity in the Fourth Tone
Thy Nativity, O Christ our God, hath shined the light of knowledge upon the world; for thereby they that worshipped the stars were instructed by a star to worship Thee, the Sun of Righteousness, and to know Thee, the Dayspring from on high. O Lord, glory be to Thee.
Kontakion of Apodosis of Nativity in the Third Tone
Today, the Virgin bears Him who is transcendent, and the earth presents the cave to Him who is beyond reach. Angels, along with shepherds glorify Him. The Magi make their way to Him by a star. For a new child has been born for us, the God before all ages.
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Racism is an instinctive tool to capture resources and deny them to competitor "species." This is why Obama is backed by the Wall Street bankers. To them, he is a tool to safeguard their fortunes against the rising tide of public resentment. They are excellent psychologists, and psychic abusers of the popular Black mind.
They know, through their experts in PR (advertising and the management of the public mind), how the popular Black mind pines for symbols of "hope," for action heros on basketball courts and on the big screen — Will Smith saving the fantasy worlds Hollywood conjures with smoke and mirrors. Any hero in any arena can be produced to distract and quell the masses, so long as it is not an actual hero in any arena of actual power...
Obama may have some decent intentions beyond his blatant careerism, but clearly the careerism is primary, and for that he must reassure his sponsors that he can quell the public. The job he is applying for is to keep public affairs calm enough so the same select businesses and the same select gamesters can continue to make the same government-backed mega-profits.
In business circles, this is called "maintaining a stable business environment." Obama says "change" but his sponsors know this to mean "stability." "Change" is what we'll get from the billions we are forced to pay into taxes and inflated prices that profit all too few.
Populations that have histories of being oppressed are easily duped, because they are so desperate for "relief," for "salvation."
In one of our conversations earlier this week, Cnu offered up a link to a great essay at Counterpunch which worked through the relationship between President Obama, the overclass, and a symbolic politics of racial grievance which does little to challenge deleterious, systemic, institutional, macrolevel changes in American political economy.
While I most certainly believe in the power of aggrieved and subordinate groups to resist power and hegemony, and of course to force elite actors to respond to their justice claims, we must also concede how those at the top are adept at managing conflict as a means of serving their own narrow interests.
The election of Barack Obama is central to this story. It is clear that the colorline has been renegotiated in America since the time of the founding. However, it still remains. The Civil Rights Movement was successful as much because of peoples' activism and resistance, as for how elite actors realized that Jim and Jane Crow white supremacy was a national embarrassment in the context of the Cold War.
More broadly, the Racial State evolved over time because the type of personal, intimate, and directly violent exploitation of the plantation (with its old fashioned "dominative" racism) was not suited for a growing industrialism, or many years later, an economy that would evolve into a global, service based, information age set of international markets and actors. As Wendy Somerson notes, in this model "structural racism and sexism are thus denied through visual inclusion within corporate culture."
More broadly, the Racial State evolved over time because the type of personal, intimate, and directly violent exploitation of the plantation (with its old fashioned "dominative" racism) was not suited for a growing industrialism, or many years later, an economy that would evolve into a global, service based, information age set of international markets and actors. As Wendy Somerson notes, in this model "structural racism and sexism are thus denied through visual inclusion within corporate culture."
White supremacy in the United States (and Europe) had to "evolve" from the personal to the structural and institutional if it was to remain effective at allocating resources, and the gains of the in-group and its elites were to be preserved. By comparison, South Africa's herrenvolk society failed to adapt and was subsequently torn down. The genius of American racism is how it adapted in order to survive--all the while maintaining many of the same core inequalities and hierarchies of years and decades past.
The election of Barack Obama was the culmination of this transition. Multiculturalism incorporated won out. Diversity, even a type that is driven less by "justice" and more by profit maximization and the exploitation of human capital, is taken as a given. However, there is nothing at all radical about it. Ironically, I would suggest that the election of the country's first black President is the death knell for justice claims about racial equality and redistribution.
In a time when whiteness is perceived to be under siege, and the State has been drowned in the bathtub by the Right, the narrow and tenuous coalition of white Americans who were somewhat sympathetic to the idea that racial inequality ought to be addressed through robust policy interventions are now disinterested, and in many cases, hostile to such appeals.
Part of this dynamic is a function of crude self-interest and anxieties about scarce resources in the Great Recession. A second component is a cultivated type of white racial resentment and backlash against black and brown progress (seen in the 1960s and early 1970s with the anti-busing movement; in the 1980s with the "small government," "silent majority," and "California tax revolt;" and with the angry white men culture warriors of the late 1980s and early 1990s) which the Tea Part GOP White Nationalists have grown and nurtured in the Age of Obama.
To many Americans, the symbolism of a black man as President of the United States is an epitaph for racism's death--despite all of the available evidence which demonstrates how race impacts life chances in the present. In all, many across the colorline confuse an increasingly diversified class of (token black and brown) political elites, and a myth of an inclusively diverse America cooked up by the dream merchants on Madison Avenue, with a progressive vision and politics that actually empowers people of color by addressing hard questions about the maldistribution of resources in this country--inequalities that track very closely to the dividing lines of racial hierarchy and privilege.
As I often do, what follows is a particularly timely and telling passage from the great new book The Twilight of Equality. Here, Lisa Duggan is working through the rise of neoliberalism, the Culture Wars, and the power of conservative multiculturalism as a type of commonsense for "post racial" post civil rights America.
As I often do, what follows is a particularly timely and telling passage from the great new book The Twilight of Equality. Here, Lisa Duggan is working through the rise of neoliberalism, the Culture Wars, and the power of conservative multiculturalism as a type of commonsense for "post racial" post civil rights America.
Could it be that the election of Barack Obama was the final act in the Black and Brown Freedom Struggle, as the Right can create a narrative that racism is dead--all the while mining white racial resentment and victimhood for electoral gains? Piling on, how has this moment been perverted by white racial resentment and faux Right populism into one where a corporatist center right Democrat is skewered as a "Socialist" for not being even more slavish to the financier class? Or more broadly, that the State and the social safety net must be destroyed in the name of "efficiency" and "small government" because it serves and protects minorities, the poor, women, "liberals," gays and queers, all to the disadvantage of "real Americans?"
From the Clinton Administrations's serious efforts to recruit racial minorities and women into high-level government service, and to reduce the range of exclusions of sexual minorities, to the G. W. Bush administration's more clearly token gestures of inclusion, the rhetoric of "official" neoliberal politics shifted during the 1990s from "culture wars" alliances, to a superficial "multiculturalism" compatible with the global aspirations of U.S. business interests.
"Culture Wars" attacks and alliances did not disappear, but they receded from the national political stage in favor of an emergent rhetorical commitment to diversity, and to a narrow, formal, nonredistributive form of "equality" politics for the new millennium.
...Some proponents of "equality politics" moved away from civil rights lobbies and identity politics organizations to advocate for the abandonment of progressive-left affiliations, and the adoption of a neoliberal brand of identity/equality politics. These organizations, activists, and writers promote "color-blind" and anti-affirmative action racial politics, conservative-libertarian "equality feminism," and gay "normality"...Such a realignment would rival the 1970's "Southern Strategy" that moved phalanxes of former Democratic voters out of the New Deal coalition and into the Republican columns, largely through "culture wars" racism.


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For the 30th consecutive time, the San Antonio Spurs beat the Golden State Warriors at home.
If only it were that simple.
The Spurs' 129-127 Game 1 second-round victory didn't come until the second overtime had finished. It came only after Manu Ginobili ended a game-long slump with a three-pointer to win it in the final two seconds. It required an 18-2 rally to end regulation. It meant withstanding a 22-point flurry by Stephen Curry in the third quarter. It caused some of their fans to leave before the rally commenced.
And who could blame them? The Spurs were down 16, dead-to-rights, with the upstart Warriors holding all the momentum. Tim Duncan, who was at Wake Forest when the Spurs last lost at home to the Warriors, wasn't even in for most of the run.
"I have no clue. I really got to watch it to see what happened," Ginobili said of the comeback. "They started missing shots. Steph was unbelievable in the third quarter."
BOX SCORE: Spurs 129, Warriors 127
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The Spurs hadn't led by two points until 113-111 in the final two minutes of the first overtime period. They hadn't led by three until 123-120 in final two minutes of the second overtime period.
The first key to the magnificent rally? Squelching Curry.
The Warriors point guard had 22 of his 44 points in the third quarter but struggled in the final five minutes of regulation and the two overtime periods. It was Jarrett Jack, Golden State's sixth man, who made the clutch shot to give the Warriors a three-point lead before the Spurs' final possession. And Jack made the first shot of overtime. And Jack took the final shot of the game, missing a three-pointer to win it at the buzzer.
Curry meanwhile clanked the last shot of regulation, a good look on a midrange jumper that he surely would have hit in his torrid third quarter, when he shot 9-for-12, including 4-for-6 from three.
"I don't remember stopping Curry," Popovich said, smirking. Curry did score four points during the second overtime period.
The second key to the rally? Tony Parker being Tony Parker.
The Spurs point guard struggled early in the game, but he had eight points in the final regulation rally, then eight more in the two overtime periods. Parker, the 2007 NBA Finals MVP, finished with 28 points, eight rebounds and eight assists.
But Ginobili found the open three for the final shot for the Spurs. His three-pointer came on an inbound play with 3.4 seconds left in regulation and splashed through the net with 1.2 seconds left, setting up Jack's miss.
"I went from trading him on the spot to wanting to cook him breakfast tomorrow," Popovich said of Ginobili, who finished 5-for-20. "That's the truth."
Duncan kept the Spurs in it early, finishing with 19 points and 11 rebounds before checking out with a stomach illness. But Ginobili and Parker missed 22 of their first 30 shots combined, allowing the Warriors to build their lead.
Then Parker went off, scoring eight during the Spurs' stretch run during regulation. And Duncan checked back in for the Spurs' final possession in overtime. Everything was set up for the victory there. But Ginobili clanked a good look from midrange, forcing the second overtime. He didn't miss his next shot to win.
Game 2 is Wednesday at 9:30 p.m. ET on TNT.
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Raising Hell, CD (£7.43)
This 1976 Spring release was the Fatback Band's 3rd album and was perhaps the turning point for the band particularly in the UK. Featuring3 of their all time greatest hits "(Are You Ready) Do The Bus Stop", "(Do The) Spanish Hustle" and "Party Time", Raising Hell is a sublime piece of 70s funk. Anyone who has seen the band perform live in the last few years will know that these numbers are show stoppers and the band's vast legion of whistle blowing fans go ape every time they hear them!


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NEW YORK (AP) — Target says Chairman and CEO Gregg Steinhafel is out, nearly five months after the retailer disclosed a massive data breach that hurt its reputation.
The nation's third-largest retailer says Steinhafel has agreed to step down as the company's chairman, president and CEO, effective immediately. He also has resigned from its board of directors.
Target, based in Minneapolis, says Chief Financial Officer John Mulligan has been appointed interim president and CEO. Roxanne S. Austin, a member of Target's board, has been named as interim nonexecutive chair of the board.
Steinhafel, a 35-year veteran of Target, will serve in an advisory capacity during the transition.
Target said in December that hackers stole credit and debit card information on tens of millions of customers.
(The Associated Press)
Here's a timeline of events leading up to Steinhafel's departure.
1999: Steinhafel named president after 20 years with the company during which he held numerous merchandising and operating positions.
2007: Steinhafel named to Target's board of directors.
May 2008: Steinhafel named president and CEO.
January 2009: Steinhafel named chairman of Target's board.
Dec. 19, 2013: Target acknowledges that data connected to about 40 million credit and debit card accounts was stolen as part of a breach that began over the Thanksgiving weekend. The theft marks the second-largest credit card breach in U.S. history. Steinhafel issues a statement of apology the following day.
Jan. 10, 2014: Target announces that in addition to the credit and debit card numbers, personal information — including phone numbers and email and mailing addresses — were stolen from as many as 70 million customers in the breach, putting them at risk of identity theft.
The chain also said its sales had been hurt by the breach, cutting its forecast for fourth-quarter earnings and a key sales barometer.
Jan. 29, 2014: Target says investigators found that hackers stole credentials from a vendor to access the retailer's systems. It did not identify the vendor at the time, but a Pittsburgh-area heating and refrigeration business that did business with Target later came forward to say that it also was the victim of a sophisticated cyberattack.
Feb. 26, 2014: Target says its fourth-quarter profit fell 46 percent on a revenue decline of 5.3 percent as customers became spooked about the safety of their private data.
While Target said sales have been recovering since the breach, it expects business to be muted for some time. It issued a profit outlook for the current quarter and full year that was below Wall Street expectations.
March 5, 2014: Chief Information Officer Beth Jacob resigns, first executive caught up in the fallout of the breach.
April 29, 2014: Bob DeRodes, who has 40 years of experience in information technology, is named as new chief information officer.
The company also says that MasterCard Inc. will provide its branded credit and debit cards with the more secure chip-and-PIN technology that it says will be coming out next year. That will make Target the first major U.S. retailer that will have its own branded cards with such technology.
May 5, 2014: Target announces Steinhafel's departure and names Chief Financial Officer John Mulligan as interim president and CEO.


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A five start rating for having a clear plastic label holder. All albums, regardless of the color of the cover, should come with the same label holder. Sending some with bright metal label holders makes for a distraction when side by side on a shelf.
These albums are the ones I use to update my grandchildrens scrapbooks every year. They seem to be holding up very well as some of them are about 8 years old.
Gorgeous albums. Sturdy yet attractive. I have 14 and counting!


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Law of Moses
God gave laws through Moses to the house of Israel to replace the higher law that they had failed to obey (Ex. 34; JST, Ex. 34:1–2; JST, Deut. 10:2). The law of Moses consisted of many principles, rules, ceremonies, rituals, and symbols to remind the people of their duties and responsibilities. It included a law of moral, ethical, religious, and physical commandments and performances—including sacrifices (Lev. 1–7)—that were intended to remind them of God and their duty towards him (Mosiah 13:30). Faith, repentance, baptism in water, and remission of sins were part of the law, as were the Ten Commandments and many other commandments of high ethical and moral value. Much of the ceremonial law was fulfilled at the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, which ended sacrifice by the shedding of blood (Alma 34:13–14). The law was administered under the Aaronic Priesthood and was a preparatory gospel to bring its adherents to Christ.
- I will give unto them the law as at the first, but it shall be after the law of a carnal commandment:JST, Ex. 34:1–2;
- The law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ:Gal. 3:19–24;
- We keep the law of Moses and look forward with steadfastness unto Christ:2 Ne. 25:24–30;
- Salvation does not come by the law of Moses alone:Mosiah 12:27–13:32;
- In me is the law of Moses fulfilled:3 Ne. 9:17;
- The law which was given unto Moses hath an end in me:3 Ne. 15:1–10;
- Because of disobedience, the Lord took Moses and the Holy Priesthood from the children of Israel, leaving the law of carnal commandments:D&C 84:23–27;


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The Lowland Reel
Lowland Amusement - the Tune
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this version has the alternative title 'Captain Keeler'.
David Glen, however, has a tune in book 4 of his Collection titled 'Captain Keiller', which has 'Lowland Amusement' as the alternative title, and it is slightly different: http://www.ceolsean.net/
Glen's version, which I have only just discovered, looks more like a lowland version to me. I base this on the 2nd strain which instead of the repeated notes it has runs of four quavers; I'll try and get a performance of this version uploaded; in the meantime, my current performance is HERE
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|a Little Bit Biased
Maybe you know exactly what I'm talking about, but maybe you don't. Maybe you're thinking... How can you have too much inspiration? How much is too much, is not the point. That's up to you. But haven't you ever hit a point where you wish you'd stop surfing Pinterest, stop reading about your friend's gorgeous projects and go ahead an make your own already? Or, even... even... stop thinking of the new fabulous projects you've dreamed up and remember instead the reasons why you started what you already have going?
|by Hidden in France, via Maureen
This happens to me. Regularly. And yet, on the other hand, I'm tremendously grateful for the inspiration I receive daily, freely bestowed by both friends and the unknown creators through Flickr, Pinterest and blogland. I would never walk away from all that! Sheesh, enjoying beauty is a reward in and of itself. And viewing others creations influences my own in ways that are personally fulfilling. Sometimes when I can't sew, spending time in these places is a way of "investing" in sewing moments to come.
|Blue Elephant Stitches
I have heard of a few approaches to solving this problem...
1) Taking a break. That is, abstaining from reading blogs, Flickr, Pinterest, etc. for an amount of time to create mental space. Sometimes bloggers will post a little notice on their blog to let their readers know they'll be back later. Personally, I can't imagine wanting to take a long break, like a month. Even a week seems like a stretch. And there lies the rub... we want it. And we need a break. But we want it! It's like my relationship to leftover birthday cake. Taking a break is not something I've really tried. Have you?
2) Limiting the flow. This can present itself as only being active in one or two platforms (as in... I don't "do" Facebook). It manifests in that desire to trim down your blog reader or only follow a few boards in someone's Pinterest stream. So far, this has been my approach. It's really hard to do. I'll look through my reader and try to evaluate rationally... does this artist inspire me? what do I gain from being there? are we friends? do I feel good when I visit? It's terribly hard to eliminate something because it feels like "someone". But, it's not. I mean, not following someone's blog is not unfriending them. It's saying that I don't need to do this every day. What if I visit once a month or whenever their Flickr feed calls to me? (Sometimes that works very well for me. And... oftentimes I end up re-subscribing.) I simply cannot follow every blog that I would like to. There would be no time left to live! Which is exactly the problem of too much inspiration. I limit the size of my wardrobe by the the size of my closet. Maybe I should limit my reader by a particular number of blogs?
3) Limiting time. As in, I can only spend 30 minutes browsing and then I'm off to the sewing machine! Does anyone do this? That seems so rational, so simple. Gosh, I don't do that. I'm one of those people that likes to empty my reader every few days, regularly surf Flickr pools of interest and keep up with "recent activity" on Flickr. Limiting time gets right to the point. It seems like it would force you to prioritize those resources that are most valuable to you since you would know you would miss them if you dally.
4) Cold turkey. Every once in a while I hear of someone who has pushed back... like all the way. They're trying not to be inspired by others, so that they can find their own voice. They're spending time in nature or looking at non-sewing inspiration in hopes of developing more original ideas. Or, they've just plain decided that making without social media is more fun.. without those feelings of comparison or the constant interruptions of new ideas. Hmm.
If reading over these ideas leaves you with a panicky feeling, you might like to know that I feel the seam fears:
*I'll miss some fabulous ideas!
*My friends will be hurt.
*I will miss my friends!
*My readers will stop visiting.
*Maybe I won't come back.
Ok, except for that last one. I know I'll come back (um, I'll not leave in the first place). But, I have a feeling that some folks worry they'll drop off blogging altogether if they lose their rhythm. The thing is there are also some fears involved with giving in to too much inspiration:
*I won't make anything original. Who am I, anyways?
*I won't finish things I've started. There are always new, inspiring ideas.
*I will always feel "not good enough". After all, 8 of my friends finished gorgeous projects today.
*I'll be so busy absorbing that I won't be living. Creating is where I want to be.
|Where the Orchids Grow
Anyone still listening? I confess this stuff has been on my mind lately, especially since I've been mutlitasking between Curves Class creation and my "regular" stuff. It's just been a lot of projects floating around in my mind. Even though I keep finishing things, I have so many exciting ideas in my head that I cannot see my way to starting anytime soon... which is incredible frustrating. I need to take a chill pill. Then I came across Diana's article today at CraftyPod and knew it was time to pause and think.
How do you manage all this inspiration? Is it good for you? Do you feel fulfilled in your creativity as a quilter or sewist or do you feel overwhelmed most of the time? Is your relationship to social media healthy? And, do tell me, how (if at all) we bloggers add to the problem. Do you wish we'd just make a quilt, instead of leading a quilt-along along with it? Do you wish I posted less often than 5 days a week?
I want to hear the good and the bad, just keep out the ugly (naming names) so no one gets hurt!
p.s. these images are all from my Pinterest boards. Don't go look if you already have too much inspiration!


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Another small issue I just ran across.
I was trying to post on the Christmas word link game the word "gifts" and it gave me a reply that I must have at least 6 characters to post. Is there anyway this can be changed. Especially in game threads, there could be times when you want to type word with as few as two letters.


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Le Sortilège (the Spell), an Outdoor Adventure Game in Brussels
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Be part of an adventure in a game for all ages, combining fun, problem-solving and team spirit in a fantastic medieval world in Brussels.
As soon as you arrive, you'll be invited to follow a story by travelling to another world. All along your journey across the "Val du Bois de Béguines", clues will give you snippets of the story to lead you to the next clue and take different challenges.
Become a barbarian, knight, princess or goblin and face the fairytale characters you'll meet in the Enchanted Plain, travelling up the Infernal Hill, or even beyond the Shifting Earth. Climb up the Tree of Knowledge or cross the Sacred Grasses and fight against the Knight, see the Witch of the Stinking Marshes close up and challenge the Medicine Man.
Sortilège.be is aimed at families, friends, schools and even businesses who are looking for a fun, energetic activity in harmony with nature.
New adventure trail in the tree-topsLe Sortilège.be has a new accrobranche route consisting of 20 workshops in the trees at 3-4m off the ground with zip-lines, monkey bridges and giant jumps... so let the adventure begin!
Participants must be at least 1.50m tall with their arms held up.
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From 1pm to 6.30pm.
Last departure at 4pm. Please leave about 3 hours for your adventure.
Please consult the calendar at www.sortilege.be to find out which days we are open.
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Go on a magical adventure!
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Guangwen Zhou
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PhD University of Pittsburgh
Room: ES-1323
Phone: (607) 777-5084
Research Lab: Surface and Interface Laboratory
Teaching/Research Focus: Gas-surface reactions, oxidation, catalysis, surface chemistry and physics; self-assembly of nanoscale structures; epitaxial growth of thin films, nanostructured materials and materials characterization including transmission electron microscopy, scanned-probe microscopy and x-ray scattering
Guangwen Zhou joined the faculty of the Department of Mechanical Engineering in fall 2007. He received a PhD in materials science from the University of Pittsburgh in December, 2003. He was a post-doctoral researcher at Argonne National Laboratory and a research assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Zhou's research expertise and interest center on the application of transmission electron microscopy (TEM), especially in situ, and other modern micro-characterization techniques for the study of advanced materials and processes. Problems of specific interest include gas-metal reactions, surface chemistry and physics, oxidation, interfaces, catalysis and nano-structured materials. Zhou has published nearly 40 referred journal articles in journals including Physical Review Letters, Surface Science, Applied Physics Letters, and an invited article in Journal of Materials Research. His awards include the Materials Research Society Graduate Student Silver Research Award (Fall Meeting, 2002), a finalist (top 10 out of over 150 applicants) for Argonne's Named Postdoctoral fellowship, "Best Materials Science Paper of 2001" awarded by Microscopy and Microanalysis and the NSF in situ TEM workshop fellowship (Arizona, 2006). He is an active member of the materials related professional societies including Materials Research Society (MRS) and Microscopy Society of America (MSA).


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Fashion retailer Nicole Farhi boosts conversions and lowers bounce rate with software from Locayta.
Amy Dusto
Fashion and lifestyle retailer Nicole Farhi, which sells online and in a handful of stores across the United Kingdom, grew its e-commercerevenue 20% after improving site search and implementing an automated merchandising program, says William North, e-commerce manager. The sales boost resulted from a 56% increase in conversions and a 30% increase in the number of online transactions since the retailer added the technology six months ago, he says.
Nicole Farhi uses software from vendor Locayta Ltd. for three main aspects of site search and merchandising—creating special landing pages, showing pertinent search results even when shoppers misspell search terms and dynamically creating merchandising displays, North says.
The retailer began using the platform to create custom, searchable categories for marketing campaigns or information not typically thought of as a product, he says. For example, a "delivery" category on the site now allows customers searching for "shipping" to land on a page with all the retailer's delivery details, he says. Before, that search would lead to "no results." Nicole Farhi can also use custom categories to create landing pages for shoppers coming to the site through a particular e-mail so that, for example, a message about Easter outfits could lead to an Easter category page.
"It's all about getting users to what they're looking for and saving them a few steps," North says. Locayta's software allows North and Nicole Farhi's two other e-commerce staffers to drag and drop elements into custom category pages and preview them without any technical support, he says.
At the same time, Nicole Farhi also took advantage of Locayta's site search technology to improve the results customers see when they mistype or describe an item using terms other than those the retailer thought of. "If they misspell 'jakcets,' it gives them jackets anyway," North says. Before, if customers typed gibberish into the search box, it would return "no results," but now it has an "oops" message that suggests options the shopper may have been seeking instead, he says.
Helping shoppers find the items they want has reduced bounce rates, or the percentage of visitors who view only one site page and leave, by 27%, and increased the average length of a site visit by 5%, he says.
In addition, Nicole Farhi uses Locayta's Freestyle Merchandising software to update the product display on web pages dynamically, according to parameters the retailer sets. For example, Nicole Farhi can select certain product categories, like new collections or current best-sellers, and set ranges for factors like price points, the amount of products in stock and sales margins, North says. Then the software takes those settings and creates an optimal display for each visitor related to his or her browsing behavior, he says. A shopper who views a pink cotton sport jacket, for example, might see similarly priced products that other shoppers who considered the pink jacket also viewed. The "freestyle" term refers to the fact that the system updates every 15 minutes based on activity—for example, a new product might suddenly bump up into the "best-selling" range and thereafter start appearing in home page displays, North says.
"Anything that improves the relevancy and timeliness of online offers is highly prized by consumers," says Paula Rosenblum, an analyst and managing partner at research and advisory firm Retail Systems Research LLC. "Given the current barrage of e-mails, re-targeting offers and overall media overload, retailers can expect happy and more loyal customers with a curated offering."
Locayta delivers its technology over the Internet in a software-as-a-service model, starting at $1,000 per month and increasing in negotiated amounts based on a client's size and needs, the company says. Nicole Farhi pays a share of revenue on top of the base price of the Locayta software, North says, though he declines to give the software's exact cost.
Locayta, which has offices in London and Culver City, CA, has two clients in the Internet Retailer Top 400 Europe guide to e-retailers, apparel merchant Boohoo.com and general merchandiser Tesco Stores.


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Chapter 1
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God—Resist temptation—Be doers of the word—James explains how to recognize pure religion.
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2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into
3 Knowing this, that the
4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be
6 But let him
7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
9 Let the brother of
10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the
11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the
13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be
14 But every man is
15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth
16 Do not err, my beloved brethren.
17 Every
18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to
20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
21 Wherefore lay apart all
22 But be ye
23 For if any be a
24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
25 But whoso looketh into the perfect
26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his
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Already watched, teared up. Much deserved win!ReplyCancel
Ugh CDaN
Today is non-stop waterworks
suicide is never the way. my heart aches for the pain and darkness he must have been in. now his children have to carry the burden of his depression. suicide is never the way. there's always a dawn, the sun always rises. there is goodness in the world, depression passes. in my opinion one can exercise a certain amount of choice, choose to help others, choose to see things differently, choose to not dwell on the pain. I realise others don't feel that way though. I just wished he had hung on and gotten through it. tragedy. a beautiful soul, smile and talent. we love you RobinReplyCancel
he was so thrilled, so joyful, so humbled. gleeful. i was ecstatic watching robin win this years ago, and i've occasionally re-watched this clip over the years. it brought me a lot of joy, too.ReplyCancel
me, my mother and sister went to see the birdcage when it was in theaters. my mom has a gay brother but is not at her most comfortable around other gays.
it still, to this day, is one of her favorite movies. she claims that it was her being out with her "girls" but i will always credit robin williams and nathan lane for her utter joy during that hour and a half of her life that she still talks about to this day.
i assure u it was not US it was THEM. lol
Godspeed Robin…
The only thing that makes me less sad is to think that he is not dead, just in Jumanji waiting for someone to throw a 6 or an 8 with the dice.ReplyCancel
thanks for sharing this sweet story.ReplyCancel
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Its excruciating to the watch the media machine get a hold of this story. This is an epic video. Thanks, Enty.ReplyCancel
A Kleenex moment. He's at peace now. May his loved ones find some peace, too, at some point and find a semblance of normalcy despite the huge void left by Robin's passing.ReplyCancel
My dad and I have watched good morning Vietnam at least a hundred times together. Never gets old. Rip buddyReplyCancel


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Exclusive Holiday Cards Benefitting Healthy Child Healthy World
As parents, it is overwhelming just keeping up with the day-to-day. It's a feat in our household when I've remembered to get permission slips signed, put library books and a healthy lunch in my childrens' backpacks and then make it to the school bus…on time. So when it comes to keeping up on all the latest news on toxins in our homes, safety recalls, much less trying to discern all those misleading labels, I'd throw my hands in the air if it weren't for organizations like Healthy Child Healthy World.
This is why I'm thrilled that were supporting Healthy Child Healthy World as part of our Cards That Care program, where we are donating 100 percent of the sales proceeds of these exclusive holiday cards, inspired by the organization's Five Easy Steps. The card Icons From a Healthy Childhood, portrays icons representing eating healthy (apple), cleaning up indoor air (butterfly), using non-toxic products and recycling (recycle) and holiday peace (snowflake). Similarly, the card 5 Steps to a Healthier Home, reminds us that creating a healthy environment is not impossible if we 1) avoid pesticides, 2) use non-toxic products, 3) clean up indoor air, 4) eat healthy and 5) be wise with plastics. Thus, the name Five Easy Steps…
Not only do I love the designs of these cards, but they are meant to be a keepsake, reminding the recipient of simple ways to keep our homes healthy. Now that's a gift – err, um card, I'll keep!
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