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HISTORY repeats itself, and to Katherine just now came most unwelcome example of such repetition. She had foreseen that some such crisis must arise as had arisen. Yet when it arose, the crisis proved none the less agonising because of that foreknowledge. Two strains of feeling struggled within her. A blinding sorrow for her child, a fear of and shame at her own violence of anger. Katherine's mind was of an uncompromising honesty. She knew that her instinct had, for a space at least, been murderous. She knew that, given equal provocation, it would be murderous again.
And this was, after all, but the active, objective aspect of the matter. The passive and subjective aspect showed danger also. In her extremity Katherine's soul cried out for God—for the sure resting‐place only to be found by conscious union of the individual with the eternal will. But such repose was denied her. For her anger against God, even while thus earnestly desiring Him, was even more profound than her anger against man. The passion of those terrible early days when her child's evil fortune first became known to her—held in check all these years by constant employment and the many duties incident to her position—returned upon her in its first force. To believe God is not, leaves the poor human soul homeless, sadly desolate, barren in labour as is a slave. But the sorrow of such belief is but a trifle beside the hideous fear that God is careless and unjust, that virtue is but a fond imagination of all‐too‐noble human hearts, that the everlasting purpose is not good but evil continually. And, haunted by such fears, Katherine once again sat in outer darkness. All gracious things appeared to her as illusions; all gentle delights but as passing anodynes with which, in his misery, man weakly tries to deaden the pain of existence. She suffered a profound discouragement.
And so it seemed to her but as part of the cruel whole when history repeated itself yet further, and Dr. Knott, pausing at the door of Richard's bedroom, turned and said to her:—
"It will be better, you know, Lady Calmady, to let him face it alone. He'll feel it less without you. Winter can give me all the assistance I want." Then he added, a queer smile playing page: 137 about his loose lips:—" Don't be afraid. I'll handle him very gently. Probably I shan't hurt him at all—certainly not much."
"Ah!" Katherine said, under her breath.
"You see it is done by his own wish," John Knott went on.
"I know," she answered.
She respected and trusted this man, entertained for him, notwithstanding his harsh speech and uncouth exterior, something akin to affection. Yet remembering the part he had played in the fate of the father, it was very dreadful to her that he should touch the child. And Dr. Knott read her thought. He did not resent it. It was all natural enough! From his heart he was sorry for her, and would have spared her had that been possible. But he discriminated very clearly between primary and secondary issues, never sacrificing, as do feeble and sentimental persons, the former to the latter. In this case the boy had a right to the stage, and so the mother must stand in the wings. John Knott possessed a keen sense of values in the human drama which the exigencies of his profession so perpetually presented to him. He waited quietly, his hand on the door‐handle, looking at Katherine from under his shaggy eyebrows, silently opposing his will to hers.
Suddenly she turned away with an impatient gesture.
"I will not come with you," she said.
"You are right."
"But—but—do you think you can really do anything to help him, to make him happier?" Katherine asked, a desperation in the tones of her voice.
"Happier? Yes, in the long‐run, because certainty of whatever kind, even certainty of failure, makes eventually for peace of mind."
"That is a hard saying."
"This is a hard world."—Dr. Knott looked down at the floor, shrugging his unwieldy shoulders. "The sooner we learn to accept that fact the better, Lady Calmady. I know it is sharp discipline, but it saves time and money, let alone disappointment.—Now as to all these elaborate contrivances I've brought down from London, they're the very best of their kind. But I am bound to own the most ingenious of such arrangements are but clumsy remedies for natural deficiency. Man hasn't discovered how to make over his own body yet, and never will. The Almighty will always have the whip‐hand of us when it comes to dealing with flesh and blood. All the same we've got to try these legs and things"—
Katherine winced, pressing her lips together. It was brutal, page: 138 surely, to speak so plainly? But John Knott went on quietly, commiserating her inwardly, yet unswerving in common sense.
"Try 'em every one, and so convince Sir Richard one way or the other. This is a turning‐point. So far his general health has been remarkably good, and we've just got to set our minds to keeping it good. He must not fret if we can help it. If he frets, instead of developing into the sane, manly fellow he should, he may turn peevish, Lady Calmady, and grow up a morbid, neurotic lad, the victim of all manner of brain‐sick fancies—become envious, spiteful, a misery to others and to himself."
"Is it necessary to say all this?" Katherine asked loftily.
Dr. Knott's eyes looked very straight into hers, and there were tears in them.
"Indeed, I believe it is," he replied, "or, trust me, I wouldn't say it. I take no pleasure in giving pain at this time of day, whether mental or physical. All I want is to spare pain. But one must sacrifice the present to the future, at times, you know‐use the knife to save the limb. Now I must go to my patient. It isn't fair to keep him waiting any longer. I'll be as quick as I can. I suppose I shall find you here when I've finished?"
As he opened the door Dr. Knott's heavy person showed in all its ungainliness against the brightness of sunlight flooding Dickie's room. And to Katherine he seemed hideous just then—inexorable in his great common sense, in the dead weight of his personality and of his will, as some power of nature. He was to her the incarnation of things as they are—not things as they should be, not things as she so passionately desired they might be. He represented rationalism as against miracle, intellect as against imagination, the bitter philosophy of experience as against that for which all mortals so persistently cry out—namely the all‐consoling promise of extravagant hope. As with chains he bound her down to fact. Right home on her he pressed the utter futility of juggling with the actual. From the harsh truth that, neither in matters practical nor spiritual, is any redemption without shedding of blood he permitted her no escape.
And all this Katherine's clear brain recognised and admitted, even while her poor heart only rebelled the more madly. To be convinced is not to be reconciled. And so she turned away from that closed door in a veritable tempest of feeling, and went out into the Chapel‐Room. It was safer, her mind and heart thus working, to put a space between herself and that closed door.
Just then Julius March crossed the room, coming in from the stair‐head. The austere lines of his cassock emphasised the page: 139 height and emaciation of his figure. His appearance offered a marked contrast to that of the man with whom Katherine had just parted. His occupation offered a marked contrast also. He carried a gold chalice and paten, and his head was bowed reverentially above the sacred vessels. His eyes were downcast, and the dull pallor of his face and of his long, thin hands was very noticeable. He did not look round, but passed silently, still as a dream, into the chapel. Katherine paced the width of the great room, turned and paced back and forth again some half‐dozen times, before he emerged from the chapel door. In her present humour she did not want him, yet she resented his abstraction. The physician of the soul, like the physician of the body, appeared to her lamentably devoid of power to sustain and give comfort at the present juncture.
This, it so happened, was one of those days when the mystic joy of his priestly office held Julius March forcibly. He had ministered to others, and his own soul was satisfied. His expression was exalted, his short‐sighted eyes were alive with inward light. Tired and worn, there was still a remarkable suavity in his bearing. He had come forth from the holy of holies, and the vision beheld there dwelt with him yet.
Meanwhile, brooding storm sat on Katherine's brow, on her lips, dwelt in her every movement. And something of this Julius perceived, for his devotion to her was intact, as was his self‐abnegation. Throughout all these years he had never sought to approach her more closely. His attitude had remained as delicately scrupulous, untouched by worldliness, or by the baser part of passion, as in the first hour of the discovery of his love. Her near presence gave him exquisite pleasure; but, save when she needed his assistance in some practical matter, he refused to indulge himself by passing much time in her society. Abstinence still remained his rule of life. Just now, however, strong with the mystic strength of his late ministrations and perceiving her troubled state, he permitted himself to remain and pace beside her.
"You have been out all day?" Katherine said.
"Yes, I stayed on to the end with Rebecca Light. They sent for me early this morning. She passed away very peacefully in that little attic at the new lodge looking out into the green heart of the woods."
"Ah! It's simple enough to die," Katherine said, "being old. The difficult thing is to live, being still young."
"Has my absence been inconvenient? Have you wanted me?" Julius asked.—Those quiet hours spent in the humble page: 140 death‐chamber suddenly appeared to him as an act of possible selfishness.
"Oh no!" she answered bitterly. "Why should I want you Have I not sent Roger and Mary away? Am I not secretly glad dear Marie de Mirancourt is just sufficiently poorly to remain in her room? When the real need comes—one learns that among all the other merciless lessons—one is best by oneself."
For a while, only the whisper of Lady Calmady's skirts, the soft, even tread of feet upon the thick carpet. Then she said, almost sharply:—
"Dr. Knott is with Richard."
"Ah! I understand," Julius murmured.
But Lady Calmady took up his words with a certain heat.
"No, you do not understand. You none of you understand, and that is why I am better by myself. Mary and Roger in their happiness, dear Marie in her saintly resignation, and you"—Katherine turned her head, smiled at him in lovely scorn—"you, my dear Julius, of all men, what should you know of the bitter pains of motherhood, you who are too good to be quite human, you who regard this world merely as the antechamber of paradise, you, whose whole affection is set on your Church—your God—how should you understand? Between my experience and yours there is a very wide interval. How can you know what I suffer—you who have never loved?"
Under the stress of her excitement Katherine's pace quickened. The whisper of her skirts grew to a soft rush. Julius kept beside her. His head was bent reverently, even as over the sacred vessels he had so lately carried.
"I too have loved," he said at last.
Katherine stopped short, and looked at him incredulously.
"Really, Julius?" she said.
Raising his head, he looked back at her. This avowal gave him a strange sense of completeness and mastery. So he allowed his eyes to meet Katherine's, he allowed himself to reckon with her grace and beauty.
"Very really," he answered.
"But when?"
"Long ago—and always."
"Ah!" she said. Her expression had changed. Brooding storm no longer sat on her brow and lips. She was touched. For the moment the weight of her personal distress was lifted. Dickie and Dr. Knott together in that bed‐chamber, experimenting with unlovely, mechanical devices for aiding locomotion page: 141 and concealing the humiliation of deformity, were almost forgotten. To those who have once loved, love must always supremely appeal. Julius appeared to her in a new aspect. She felt she had done him injustice. She placed her hand on his arm with a movement of apology and tenderness. And the man grew faint, trembled, feeling her hand, seeing it lie white and fair on the sleeve of his black cassock. Since childhood it was the first, the solitary, caress he had received.
"Pardon me, dear Julius," she said. "I must have pained you at times, but I did not know this. I always supposed you coldly indifferent to those histories of the heart which mean so much to some of us; supposed your religion held you wholly, and that you pitied us as the wise pity the foolish, standing above them, looking down. Richard told me many things about you, before he brought me home here, but he never told me this."
"Richard never knew it," he answered, smiling. Her perfect unconsciousness at once calmed and pained him. He had kept his secret, all these years, only too well.
Katherine turned and began to pace again, her hands clasped behind her back.
"But, tell me—tell me," she said. "You can trust me, you know. I will never speak of this unless you speak. But if I knew, it would bring us nearer together, and that would be comforting, perhaps, to us both. Tell me, what happened? Did she know, and did she love you? She must have loved you, I think. Then what separated you? Did she die?"
"No thank God she did not die," Julius said.—He paused. He longed to gain the relief of fuller confession, yet feared to betray himself. "I believe she loved me truly as a friend—and that was sufficient."
"Oh no, no!" Katherine cried. "Do not decline upon sophistries. That is never sufficient."
"In one sense, yes—in another sense, no," Julius said. "It was thus. I loved her exactly as she was. Had she loved me as I loved her she would have become other than she was."
"Ah! but surely you are too ingenious, too fastidious!" Katherine's voice took tones of delicate remonstrance and pleading. "That would be your danger, in such a case. Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien, and you would always risk sacrificing the real to the ideal. I am sorry. I would like you to have tasted the fulness of life. Even though the days of perfect joy are very few, it is well to have had them"—
She threw back her head, her eyebrows drew together, and her face darkened somewhat.page: 142
"Yes, it is well to have had them, though the memory of them cuts one to the very quick."—Then her manner changed again, gaining a touch of gaiety. "Really I am very unselfish in wishing all this otherwise," she said, "for it would have been a sore trial to part with you. I cannot imagine Brockhurst without you. I should have been in great straits deprived of my friend and counsellor. And yet, I would like you to have been very happy, dear Julius."
Their pacing had just brought them to the arched doorway of the chapel. Katherine stopped, and raising her arm leaned her hand against the stone jamb of it above her head.
"See," she went on, "I want to be truly unselfish. I know how generous you are. Perhaps you remain here out of all too great kindness towards my poor Dick and me. You mustn't do that, Julius. You say she is still living. Consider—is it too late?"
Was it indeed too late? All the frustrated manhood cried aloud in Julius March. He covered his face with his hands. His carefully restrained imagination ran riot, presenting enchantments.
And Katherine, watching him, found herself strangely moved. For it was very startling to see this so familiar figure under so unfamiliar an aspect—to see Julius March, her every‐day companion and assistant, his reticence, his priestly aloofness, his mild and courtly calm, swept under by a tide of personal emotion. Lady Calmady was drawn to him by deepened sympathy. Yet regret arose in her that this man proved to be, after all, but as other men are. She was vaguely disappointed, having derived more security than she had quite realised from his apparent detachment and impassibility. And, as an indirect consequence, her revolt against God suffered access of bitterness. For not only was He—to her seeing—callous regarding the fate of the many, but He failed to support those few most devoted to His cause. In the hour of their trial He was careless even of His own elect.
"Ah! I think it is indeed by no means too late!" she exclaimed.
Julius March let his hands drop at his sides. He gazed at her, and her expression was of wistful mockery—compassionate rather than ironical. Then he looked away down the length of the chapel. In the warm afternoon light, the solid and rich brown of the arcaded stalls on either hand, emphasised the harmonious radiance of the great, east window, a radiance as of clear jewels.—Ranks of kneeling saints, the gold of page: 143 whose orioles rose in an upward curve. to the majestic image of the Christ in the central light—a Christ risen and glorified, enthroned, His feet shining forever upon heaven's sapphire floor. Before the altar hung three, silver‐gilt lamps of Italian workmanship, in the crimson cup of each of which it had so long been Julius's pleasure to keep the tongue of flame constantly alive. The habits of a lifetime are not hastily set aside. Gazing on these things, his normal attitude returned to him. Not that which he essentially was but that which, by long and careful training of every thought, every faculty, he had become, authoritatively claimed him. His eyes fell from contemplation of the glories of the window to that of the long, straight folds of the cassock which clothed him. It was hardly the garb in which a man goes forth to woo! Then he looked at Lady Calmady—she altogether seductive in her innocence and in her wistful mockery as she leaned against the jamb of the door.
"You are mistaken, dear Katherine," he said. "It has always been too late."
"But why—why—if she is free to listen?"
"Because I am not free to speak."
Julius smiled at her. His suavity had returned, and along with it a dignity of bearing not observable before.
"Let us walk," he said. And then:—"After all I have given you a very mutilated account of this matter. Soon after I took orders, before I had ever seen the very noble, to me perfect, woman who unconsciously revealed to me the glory of human love, I had dedicated my life, and all my powers—poor enough, I fear—of mind and body to the service of the Church. I was ambitious in those days. Ambition is dead, killed by the knowledge of my own shortcomings. I have proved an unprofitable servant—for which may God in His great mercy forgive me. But, while my faith in myself has withered, my faith in Him has come to maturity. I have learned to think very differently on many subjects, and to perceive that our Heavenly Father's purposes regarding us are more generous, more far‐reaching, more august, than in my youthful ignorance I had ever dreamed. All things are lawful in His sight. Nothing is common or unclean—if we have once rightly apprehended Him, and He dwells in us. And yet—yet, a vow once made is binding. We may not do evil to gain however great a good."
Katherine listened in silence. The words came with the power of immutable conviction. She could not believe, yet she was glad to have him believe.page: 144
"And that vow precludes marriage?" she said at last.
"It does," Julius answered.
For a time they paced again in silence. Then Lady Calmady spoke, a delicate intimacy and affection in her manner, while once more, for a moment, she let her hand rest on his arm.
"So Brockhurst keeps you—I keep you, dear Julius, to the last?"
"Yes, if you will, to the very last."
"I am thankful for that," she said. "You must forgive me if in the past I have been inconsiderate at times. I am afraid the constant struggle, which certain circumstances of necessity create, tends to make me harsh and imperious. I carry a trouble, which calls aloud for redress, forever in my arms. They ache with the burden of it. And there is no redress. And the trouble grows stronger, alas! Its voice—so dear, yet so dreaded—grows louder, till it deafens me to all other sounds. The music of this once beautiful world becomes faint. Only angry discord remains. And I become selfish. I am the victim of a fixed idea. I become heedless of the suffering of those about me. And you, my poor Julius, must have suffered very much!"
"Now, less than ever before," he answered.—But even as he spoke, Katherine was struck by his pallor, by the drawn look of his features and languor of his bearing.
"Ah, you have fasted all day!" she cried.
"What matter?" he said, smiling. "The body surely can sustain a trifle of hunger, if the soul and spirit are fed. I have feasted royally to‐day in that respect. I am strangely at ease. As to baser sort of food, what wonder if I forgot?"
The door of Dickie's bed‐chamber opened, letting in long shafts of sunlight, and Dr. Knott came slowly forward. His aspect was savage. Even his philosophy had been not wholly proof against the pathos of his patient's case. It irritated him to fall from his usual relentlessness of common sense into a melting mood. He took refuge in sarcasm, desirous to detect weakness in others, since he was, unwillingly, so disagreeably conscious of it in himself.
"Well, we're through with our business, Lady Calmady," he said.—"Eh! Mr. March, what's wrong with you? Putty‐coloured skin and shortness of breath. A little less prayer and a little more physical exercise is what you want. Successful, Lady Calmady?—Umph—I'm afraid the less said about that the better. Sir Richard will talk it out with you himself. Upset? Yes, I don't deny he is a little upset—and, like a fool, I'm upset page: 145 too. You can go to him now, Lady Calmady. Keep him cheerful, please, and give him his head as much as you can."
John Knott watched her as she moved away. He shrugged his shoulders and thrust his hands into his breeches pockets.
"She's going to hear what she won't much relish, poor thing," he said. "But I can't help that. One man's meat is another man's poison; and my affair is with the boy's meat, even if it should be of a kind to turn his mother's stomach. He shall have just all the chance I can get him, poor little chap.—And now, Mr. March, I propose to prescribe for you, for you look uncommonly like taking a short‐cut to heaven, and, if I know anything about this house, you've got your work cut out for you here below for a long time to come. Through with this business? Pooh! we've only taken a preliminary canter as yet. That boy's out of the common in more ways than one, and, cripple or no cripple, he's bound to lead you all a pretty lively dance before he's done."


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Esophageal atresia is a disorder of the digestive system in which the esophagus does not develop properly. The esophagus is the tube that normally carries food from the mouth to the stomach.
Tracheoesophageal fistula
Esophageal atresia is a congenital defect, which means it occurs before birth. There are several types. In most cases, the upper esophagus ends and does not connect with the lower esophagus and stomach. The top end of the lower esophagus connects to the windpipe. This connection is called a tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF). Some babies with TEF will also have other problems, such as heart or other digestive tract disorders.
Other types of esophageal atresia involve narrowing of the esophagus, and may also be associated with other birth defects.
Esophageal atresia occurs in about 1 out of 4,000 births.
Before birth, an ultrasound performed on the pregnant mother may show too much amniotic fluid, which can be a sign of esophageal atresia or other blockage of the digestive tract.
The disorder is usually detected shortly after birth when feeding is attempted and the infant coughs, chokes, and turns blue. As soon as the diagnosis is suspected, an attempt to pass a small feeding tube through the mouth or nose into the stomach should be made. The feeding tube will not be able to pass all the way to the stomach in a baby with esophageal atresia.
An x-ray of the esophagus shows an air-filled pouch and air in the stomach and intestine. If a feeding tube has been inserted, it will appear coiled up in the upper esophagus.
Esophageal atresia is considered a surgical emergency. Surgery to repair the esophagus should be done quickly after the baby is stabilized so that the lungs are not damaged and the baby can be fed.
Before the surgery, the baby is not fed by mouth. Care is taken to prevent the baby from breathing secretions into the lungs.
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The infant may breathe saliva and other fluids into the lungs, causing aspiration pneumonia, choking, and possibly death.
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Prematurity may complicate the condition.
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The marketers who work for Domino's Pizza in Brazil must know that when selling pizzas, the nose can be a powerful ally.
Domino's in Brazil partnered with 10 DVD-rental stores to rent discs that, when played in a DVD player, come out smelling like a pizza, AdAge.com reports. As the movie plays, the customer is apparently none the wiser. But when the movie is over and the customer hits eject, a pizzalike odor wafts into the room.
A special thermal ink on the DVD reacts to the heat of the DVD player, not only releasing the odor but also causing a picture of a pizza to appear on top of the disc. A message reads: "Did you enjoy the movie? The next one will be even better with a hot and delicious Domino's Pizza." In the pizza business, subtlety gets you nowhere.
While streaming is all the rage in the United States, AdAge.com reports discs are far more popular in Brazil.
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In this age of streaming video, the idea might seem a bit anachronistic. However, "in Brazil streaming services like Netflix and iTunes are relatively new, and for people with good social conditions," said ArtPlan art director Diogo Barbosa. "Also our broadband connection isn't as fast as that used in the U.S., and because of that we still have video rental stores in your neighborhoods."
This is the latest in a series of unusual marketing moves in Brazil. Last week, we reported about Huggies Brazil testing a Twitter-enabled diaper accessory. If your kid pees, you get an alert on Twitter (yay?). And last month, Budweiser Brazil revealed that it is testing a Facebook-enabled glass called a "Buddy Cup." When two Buddy Cup-holding drinkers toast each other by clinking their glasses, they become Facebook friends.
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It's holiday time! Aside from a noticeable change from sunny to cloud-filled skies, this time of year ushers in increased shopping and social activities. Taking place not only in the "real world" but also online, they can expose you to possible infections.
Like most online shoppers, you may not be completely aware of how to protect yourself from online identity theft and other online threats, such as fraud, email scams, phishing and virus attacks. You are banking, shopping and living more of your life on the Web, unaware that as you access information and leave your cyber fingerprint behind, you're also leaving a trail of identity crumbs.
But cyber threats ramp up and rain down viciously during this time of year! Can you root them out on your own? Probably not. So if you're not a computer security expert -- and you don't have a squad of security elves waiting readily at your disposal -- how do you protect yourself from identity theft and other online threats?
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Sweet! … But what is the "cloud"? The cloud is a general term that refers to having remote access to your personal digital files and many applications from anywhere on any Internet-connected PC or mobile device, at any time, on a pay-as-you-go basis. Most importantly, being "in the cloud" means that this software floats on the Internet instead of being tied to any one of your devices, providing a protective layer between you and potential security threats. Better yet, it means you will never have to download another update, worry about losing data or wonder how your ever-rotating arsenal of digital devices will stay safe online.
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Linda Sue Hanson, age 63, of Pine River passed away on Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012, at Abbott-Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis.
She was born on Nov. 13, 1948 in Superior, Wisconsin, the daughter of Louis and Bernice Pearson.
Survived by sons: Mike (Kathy) Papp and Jason (Chi-Li) Papp; grandchildren: Brian, Marissa, Matthew and Tony David; brothers and sisters: Richard Pearson, Debbie Smith, Sharon Schmidt and Ron Pearson; other relatives and friends.
Preceded in death by her husband: David M. Hanson, her parents and four siblings: Eugene, Louie, Virginia and Shirley.
A Memorial service for Linda Hanson was held on Monday, Sept. 24, at 11 a.m. with a gathering at 10 a.m. at Word of Peace Lutheran Church in Rogers, Minnesota.
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I made the Feb 09 issue of T&TH. [:D]
In Lovett Williams' article titled "When Beards Get Weird". In the paragraph sub-titled "Feathers That Missed a Moult" thats my bird. Its really from the spring of 06 and I sent him an email about it back then.
Here is a pic of the tail. I actually mounted it and made it so it will hang on the wall backwards.


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Interview: Dr. Eric Hoffmayer on Tracking Whale Sharks in the Gulf of Mexico
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(This blog is part of a series of interviews with scientists who are championing marine research in the Gulf of Mexico.)
A preeminent whale shark expert and ecophysiologist, Dr. Eric R. Hoffmayer is a research fishery biologist with the National Marine Fisheries Service, Southeast Fisheries Science Center, Mississippi Laboratories. His interest in coastal shark species ranges from their reproduction and life history to their specific abundance, distribution and feeding ecology in nursery grounds. He has pursued a particular interest in the Gulf of Mexico's whale sharks, the largest fish in the ocean, compiling information on their basic biology, habitat use and movement patterns.
Ocean Conservancy: How much is known generally about the whale sharks found in the Gulf of Mexico? What is the size of the population?
Dr. Hoffmayer: Ironically, even though whale sharks are the largest fish in the ocean, we still know so little about them, specifically here in the Gulf of Mexico. We know from our research efforts, as well as from research efforts of our colleagues in the southern Gulf, that whale sharks are relatively common in the Gulf. Unfortunately, due to their highly migratory nature and preference for offshore habitats, we still do not have a good population estimate for this region. However, colleagues working in the southern Gulf have estimated that between 500 and 900 individuals occur off the Yucatan Peninsula. In the northern Gulf, whale sharks occur along the continental shelf edge from Brownsville, Texas, to the Florida Keys and commonly occur off the mouth of the Mississippi River.


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Many of my loved ones and friends dislike the militant attitude I take about religion in the public sphere and I understand they feel strongly about their beliefs. I feel strongly about mine, too. When someone interferes with health decisions, whether use of contraceptives or abortion, I cannot remain quiet. A woman's health is her business and responsibility and not religion or political ideologue has a right to interfere. I have no objection at all of people not using contraception devices or choosing not to have abortions and I have no right to object. Nor do others have the right to interfere.
When it comes to writing laws about women's control over their own bodies, they are just plain in error on this issue. Family planning and choosing not to have children is a right, not to be intruded upon. It is insanity to bring an unwanted child into the world or to interfere with family planning in those cases where the mother doesn't want the pregnancy or can't afford to raise a child. That is a personal, private matter.
I am not only open but I am also outspoken. If the religious assert their position all the time, I don't see why we atheists shouldn't do the same. That being said, I do understand that many atheists are not coming out because they face dire consequences for doing so, and I do sympathize with that. But I think those of us who are fortunate enough to be on the open, have to be outspoken so we can do our little part to help those still in the closet to come out.
Yes I equally think that is important. We must take advantage of every opportunity to talk about it, as it will ease the way for those who are in challenging circumstances. The initial coming out decades were hard for gays too, but now that "everyone knows a gay person", the stigma is nearing its last years. We still have a long way before this can be said of atheists. In addition gays were never really a direct insult to heteros, whereas being atheist is pretty much a direct insult to a faither, so I think it will take much longer.
Well I do not usually bring the topic up in my everyday life and sometimes avoid it. However, if the topic is brought up I will be honest. I also have a lot of online atheist friends. Because of this the topic comes up on my Facebook pretty often and in my info I am labeled as an atheist. So while most people know they do not discuss it with me. I have had a lot of friends (many from high school delete me from their Facebook and make it a point to tell me that they did so because of my atheism. I happily remind them that they are certainly welcome to do so and that if they think less of me because I don't believe as they do then they have no business being called "my friend" anyway :) So yes, I don't go out of my way to proclaim it or hide it.
I too have dealt with this on facebook as well as in person. I have found several "friends" I knew long ago who, back then, were very open minded. Since then, they have found jesus and have "unfriended" me because I have not followed suite. I have been an atheist since I was 12 years old. I never thought about my beliefs until just recently--political BS. I do not push my atheism to any extent. For me, it is just there. My "born again Rambo" friends bring it up and then get upset at the way I have been for so many years. They make me think of it and then fault me for being who I have been for so many years. This pisses me off.
I feel like the friends who'd rather unfriend me never really knew me, so the loss is only superficial... though it still may hurt. I've come to a point in my life where I'd rather be liked for the real me rather than the perceived me. If that means fewer friends then so be it. But I'm past middle age now, and this may simply be a common feeling when one ages...
Atheist Census' back online after hacker attack
Posted: 17 Dec 2012 05:40 AM PST
Atheist Alliance International reports that its Atheist Census, an attempt to count the world's atheists, is now back online after hackers took it down more than a week ago.
"It seems that there are people who do not want atheists to be counted, who do not want to accept that as more people question and think critically about religion atheists are a growing demographic. It is a measure of the project's success – even at this early stage – that some people wanted to shut it down," Carlos Diaz, the organization's president, said in a prepared statement.
The group launched the census on Dec. 7 and it fell to a Denial of Service attack about 17 hours later. At the time that the census site was attacked, about 8,800 people had completed the survey, with another 2,300 pending.
Participation in the Atheist Census is free. Since the return of the site, about 20,000 total people have submitted their information to the effort, which is attempting to collect demographic information about atheists throughout the world, including their education levels, age, gender identity and country.
The Atheist Census can be found at http://www.atheistcensus.com/
DOS. yep.. that's about all they have .. instead of tears of failure. ; P
Hi Atheist and proud, I was brought in as a child with Religon but not heavily pushed, I sang in a church choir although mostly for pocket money till I was around 10 yrs old. I had no issues with family saying I was non believer.
I recently was told about the site by a friend who lives in America and was shocked at how judgmental people still were over religion and joined the site to understand some of the issues a American atheist goes through.
I grew up in an open-minded family. My parents dragged us to church every Sunday, but did this out of guilt. When I was 12 years old I rebelled and refused to go again. I denied the existence of god and confounded my parents with the MANY flaws in the bible. Yet, they still respected my views. When my brother was in high school he "found" god and became a "born again Rambo." He is now a methodist minister and oh so miserable.
When my brother converted he drove my parents crazy. When my open-minded father found out he had stomach cancer, he too found god and turned on me. He died trying to "bring me to jesus." For me, that was the most painful part of my father's death. It was both amazing and depressing to watch a man like my father go from open mind--willing to see other points of view--to intolerable fundamentalist bullshit. I would love to blame my brother, but I cannot. He is too steeped in the same bullshit and is miserable.
The sad thing about it all is that I have not changed my position since I was 12. I am now 55. Suddenly, I am evil! I never gave my atheism any thought until just recently. The political environment has made atheists a convenient target. Even some of my more liberal friends have advised me not to advertise my atheism. I never did! If someone asked, I would tell them. Now I skirt the issue. I find it easier to tell those who question that I was "born and raised in the methodist church." It is a true statement and usually satisfies them. Am I in the closet? I have never hid my atheism, but now I retreat to the closet at times because suddenly I am not a "good person" and condemned to a fiery place.
Our current political climate has made people like us think about the closet. I am not a big Obama fan, but I voted for him because the republican alternatives were abhorrent. I am hoping that the re-election of "Bronco Bama" will usher in a renewed enthusiasm for science and reason. It seems as though--hopefully--the fundamentalist idiots are digging their own hole in the ground. They have become a joke of themselves.
Coming out is a lot like quitting smoking, alcohol, or other drug abuse. It's uncomfortable for a short while but becomes quite liberating with time. You will very likely kick yourself for not doing it sooner. You are you...not your religion.
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SCRANTON, PA. (Dec. 20, 12:15 p.m. ET) – Composite decking maker Azek Building Products Inc. has purchased Vast Enterprises LLC, a Minneapolis company that has been manufacturing Azek's line of composite pavers.
Azek said the deal was completed on Dec. 19. Terms were not disclosed.
Scranton-based Azek had purchased an interest in Vast in September 20111, and since then Azek has marketed Vast's pavers through a strategic alliance.
The Azek pavers are made from up to 95 percent post-consumer rubber and plastics. To date, the company said the product has diverted more than 7.5 million pounds of material from U.S. landfills, using material from more than 450,000 scrap tires and 13 million plastic containers.
Azek is owned by CPG International Inc., which also purchased Wilmington, Ohio-based TimberTech earlier this year.


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Remembering Mike Bernardo: The Greatest Rivalry
- Written by Dave Walsh
The kickboxing world was jolted last year, February 14th, when news of K-1 fighter Mike Bernardo's death emerged from Muizenberg, South Africa.
Bernardo had a reputation as one of the most fearsome heavyweights to ever compete in K-1. He compiled a list of devastating knockout wins over Peter Aerts, Francisco Filho, Glaube Feitosa, Stan Longinidis, Jorgen Kruth, Mirko Cro Cop, and Sergei Gur. But perhaps Bernardo's most memorable encounters were those with the 1996 K-1 Grand Prix Champion, Andy Hug.
From 1995-1997 Bernardo and Hug had a series of 4 awesome fights, with both men picking up two victories along the way. Only a single match out of the four went to a decision. Without a doubt it was one of the most storied kickboxing rivalries of the '90's.
Bernardo often found himself in the role of the villian when squaring off against Hug, and he certainly could look the part. Large, imposing, and bald- Bernardo's signature ferocity in the ring ran directly counter with that of Hug's. Bernardo frowned, Hug smiled. Bernardo entered in a black boxing robe, Hug entered in a white karate gi. The two men naturally played off the personalities and ringmanship of the other, and Mike Bernardo soon became an internationally known, larger than life K-1 superstar because of it.
In honor of "Beru-chan's" historic achievements within kickboxing, and his contribution to the development of the sport as a whole, let's take a moment to look back at K-1 Revenge II in 1995, when Bernardo faced off against Hug for the second time. Earlier in the year Bernardo had shocked Japan by KO'ing Kyokushin's golden boy in the second round of the '95 Grand Prix Opening Battle. This fight was set to be Hug's "revenge" as the name of the show implied, but Bernardo had different plans.


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Today's guest post (originally posted here) is from Katie Hinde, an Assistant Professor in Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. Katie studies how variation in mother's milk influences infant development in rhesus monkeys. You can learn more about Katie and mammalian lactation by visiting her blog, Mammals Suck… Milk!. Follow Katie on Twitter @Mammals_Suck.
Dinosaur Aunts, Bacterial Stowaways, & Insect Milk
Milk is everywhere. From the dairy aisle at the grocery store to the explosive cover of the Mother's Day issue of Time magazine, the ubiquity of milk makes it easy to take for granted. But surprisingly, milk synthesis is evolutionarily older than mammals. Milk is even older than dinosaurs. Moreover, milk contains constituents that infants don't digest, namely oligosaccharides, which are the preferred diet of the neonate's intestinal bacteria (nom nom nom!) And milk doesn't just feed the infant, and the infant's microbiome; the symbiotic bacteria are IN mother's milk.
In his recent paper, leading lactation theorist Dr. Olav Oftedal discusses the ancient origins of milk secretion (2012). He contends the first milk secretions originated ~310 million years ago (MYA) in synapsids, a lineage ancestral to mammals and contemporaries with sauropsids, the ancestors of reptiles, birds, and dinosaurs. Synapsids and sauropsids produced eggs with multiple membrane layers, known as amniote eggs. Such eggs could be laid on land. However, synapsid eggs had permeable, parchment-like shells and were vulnerable to water loss. Burying these eggs in damp soil or sand near water resources- like sea turtles do- wasn't an option, posits Oftedal. The buried temperatures would have likely been too cold for the higher metabolism of synapsids. But incubating eggs in a nest would have evaporated water from the egg. The synapsid egg was proverbially between a rock and a hard place: too warm to bury, too permeable to incubate.
Luckily for us, a mutation gave rise to secretions from glandular skin on the belly of the synapsid parent. This mechanism replenished water lost during incubation, allowing synapsids to lay eggs in a variety of terrestrial environments. As other mutations randomly arose and were favored by selection, milk composition became increasingly complex, incorporating nutritive, protective, and hormonal factors (Oftedal 2012). Some of these milk constituents are shunted into milk from maternal blood, some- although also present in the maternal blood stream- are regulated locally in the mammary gland, and some very special constituents are unique to milk. Lactose and oligosaccharides (a sugar with lactose at the reducing end) are two constituents unique to mammalian milk, but are interestingly divergent among mammals living today.
Marsupial and monotreme young seemingly digest oligosaccharides. Among placental mammals, however, young do not have the requisite enzymes in their stomach and small intestine to utilize oligosaccharides themselves. Why do eutherian mothers synthesize oligosaccharides in milk, if infants don't digest them?
Among all non-human primates studied to date, Type II oligosaccharides are most prevalent (Type II oligosaccharides contain lacto-N-biose I). Type I oligosaccharides (containing N-acetyllactosamine) are absent, or in much lower concentrations than Type II(Taufik et al. 2012).
In human milk, there is a much greater diversity and higher abundance of milk oligosaccharides than found in the milk of other primates. Most primate taxa have between 5-30 milk oligosaccharides; humans have ~200. Even more astonishingly, humans predominantly produce Type I oligosaccharides, the preferred food of the most prevalent bacterium in the healthy human infant gut- Bifidobacteria (Urashima et al 2012, Taufik et al. 2012).
Human infants have bigger brains and an earlier age at weaning than do our closest ape relatives. Many anthropologists have hypothesized that constituents in mother's milk, such as higher fat concentrations or unique fatty acids, underlie these differences in human development. But only oligosaccharides, a constituent that the human infant does not itself utilize, are demonstrably derived from our primate relatives (Hinde and Milligan 2011). At some point in human evolution there must have been strong selective pressure to optimize the symbiotic relationship between the infant microbiome and the milk mothers synthesize to support it. The human and Bifidobacteria genomes show signatures of co-evolution, but the selective pressures and their timing remain to be understood.
Yes, INSECTS!
for consideration as the number one mutualism in which the common name of the host
and the Latin name of the bacteria are awesome to say out loud!
Bring on your challenger teams.
Bat flies are even more crazy amazing because they have a uterus and provide MILK internally through the uterus to larva! Male and female bat flies have endosymbiotic bacteria living in bacteriocytes along the sides of their abdominal segments (revealed by 16S rRNA). Additionally, females host bacteria inside the milk gland tubules, "indicating the presence of endosymbiont cells in milk gland secretion".
The authors are not yet certain of the specific nutritional role that these bacterial endosymbionts play in the bat fly host. The bacteria may provide B vitamins, as other bacterial symbionts of blood-consuming insects are known to do. My main question is what is the exact role of the bacteria in the milk gland tubules? Are they there to add nutritional value to the milk for the larva, to stowaway in milk for vertical transmission to larva, or both?


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That aside, I use it exclusively! I scrap with it -- much more efficiently and faster than I ever did with a mouse, plus it allows me lots of control for precision erasing and doodling. So fabulous, seriously. You need to use it -- it's amazing.
Also, I love my tablet for keeping my wrist NOT tired. If you are prone to carpal tunnel or if your wrist gets tired when you're scrapping, it's really a good thing. I was doing some big time organizing, and was using my tablet -- it was awesome. I switched to a mouse for a few days, and my wrist and hand were so tired after a few hours of it.
I love my tablet!!
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I use the tablet for everything, it's so precise, so quick and it's touch is so light. I couldn't imagine doing some of the things I do if I had to use the mouse again..
I have problems now with my hands, old age creeping in I guess! And using the mouse is more of a problem these days. The pen is light and is more natural to hold, the fingers get stiff and sore when spread across the mouse - so if you're like me and have hand problems - look as using a good tablet - once you get the hang of it (it only takes a day or so, so persevere with it) you won't look back.
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Posted 26 June 2009 - 07:09 AM
I am in the process of making a collage of all my ancestors and I can't imagine doing all that erasing/blending with a mouse. I love the precision and would not go back to a mouse.
I haven't done any writing and I'm not really a doodler, so haven't used the tablet for that.
I shoot with a SONY A300 and scrap with PSE8
Posted 26 June 2009 - 09:59 AM
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Posted 26 June 2009 - 11:45 AM
I'm thinking maybe Ty would like to use it to draw and stuff on the computer too.
I open PC Paint for my DD and she just loves to scribble away. We've made several cards for the grandparents that way. He'll enjoy it, I am sure!
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It's really great and feels so natural for brush work in Photoshop. I just have the smallest Wacom but I like it because I like keeping my hand movements small.
Just set your mouse aside and use the pen for a day or two while doing layouts, and you'll love it!
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Posted 23 July 2009 - 03:40 PM
However, I have a question. I misplaced my extra pen tips that came with it. Can those be purchased and if so, where?
Posted 23 July 2009 - 03:50 PM
I didn't have a problem getting used to it...I guess I just didn't use it much. Maybe I'll pull it out for the next layout I do and see how it goes.
I even have Thao's Dynamic Brushes - Drawing... I need to play with them.
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OK, I'm going to date myself a bit here... but I was making a living with computers before there was windows or a mouse. When we went through the big conversions and tried to get everyone (particularly corporate men) accustomed to the mouse, we gave them the game of solitaire to get used to the feel & process. I did the same thing with my pen, started with a big clunky game then made myself stop using the mouse at all for a couple of days. Actually, I left my mouse in a Moscow, Idaho hotel room so I had to use my pen exclusively... and now I love it. Thus, therefore, ergo... send your mouse to Moscow, Idaho.
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Out of the blue I had a grey bar towards the bottom of the screen (Im on a mini mac if that matters) and when I tapped it with my pen it took me to that browser page, and then when I tapped the side of the tablet with the pen it brought me back to the original browser page I was on, so I was able to very simply bounce between the two of them back and forth. I'm finding it easier to use the pen as the day goes on. I pulled my mouse off the computor and stuck it in the closet, to force me to only use the mouse. eek!
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I've never even looked at one. Can you tell?
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Posted 24 July 2009 - 09:21 AM
Patty Anne, it's just so good to see you here on the MB again! Now back to the pen and tablet. You've all got me just about convinced. Now what should I buy and where should I buy it? And can I use it on my desktop and my laptop? That's a pretty dumb question probablly!
I've never even looked at one. Can you tell?
I had to go find mine. lol
It's a Bamboo by Wacom. The part of the tablet that you use looks to be about 4x6. Model #MTE-450A.
I walked into Best Buy and looked at them. I didn't get the "Bamboo fun" because I didn't want/need any extra software that it came with. And I think the "fun" comes with a mouse that I didn't need.
I guess now that I located mine and blew the dust off of it, maybe I should plug it into my compter, eh? lol
Oh...you should be able to use it on any/either computer.
Posted 24 July 2009 - 09:43 AM
See,it's just like Give a Mouse a Cookie - one question just leads to more ;-)
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Posted 24 July 2009 - 09:56 AM
I meant that the Fun came with photo editing software. I don't remember which ones. Like an older version of PSE or something. I didn't want whatever it was.
Mine is not wireless. There might be some that are.
Here is the Wacom site.
Okay...it says the Fun comes with this for 20 more dollars (for the small which is $99...the medium is $199...the regular <not Fun> is $79)
"Bamboo Fun includes valuable creative software right in the box to help get your creative juices flowing.
Adobe® Photoshop® Elements (6.0 WIN / 6.0 MAC) for editing, retouching, enhancing, organizing, and sharing digital photos
Corel® Painter Essentials 4.0 for creating natural media art and turning photos into paintings
Nik® Color Efex Pro 3.0 WE3 for selectively applying lighting and photo enhancements with the pen"
Posted 24 July 2009 - 10:17 AM
There are some practice exercises you can do to help you get used to the pen but like everyone else has said, you have to put the mouse away so you can get adjusted.
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"Love doesn't rule you. What rules you is fear, phenomenal fear. Through this kriya, love can be invoked and fear can be reduced."
-Yogi Bhajan
Part 1
This exercise is called Reverse Adi Shakti Kriya. Here you are mentally and hypnotically blessing yourself. This self-blessing is to affect and correct the magnetic field. It is said that doing this exercise will hurt if you have a lot of anger. Self-help is very difficult for those who are angry. After doing this exercise for 5 minutes your muscles may start hurting if your diet is improper. The taste in your mouth will change if you are breathing correctly.
Posture: Sit in Easy Pose with a straight spine and hold your right palm six to nine inches above the top center of your head. The right palm faces down, blessing you. This self-blessing corrects the aura. The left elbow is bent with the upper arm near the rib cage. The forearm and hand point upward. The left palm faces forward and blesses the world.
Eyes: The eyes are closed and focus at the lunar center in the middle of the chin.
Breath: Breathe long, slow, and deep with a feeling of self-affection. Try to bring the breath to one breath per minute: Inhale for 20 seconds, hold for 20 seconds, exhale for 20 seconds.[1]
Time: Continue for 11 minutes. Then inhale deeply and move slowly and directly into position for Exercise 2.
Part 2
This exercise will benefit everything between the neck and navel. It will give strength to the heart and will open up the heart center.
Posture: Extend your arms straight out in front, parallel to the ground, palms facing down. Stretch out to your maximum.
Eyes: The eyes are closed and focused at the lunar center in the center of the chin.
Breath: The breath is long, slow, and deep.
Time: Continue for 3 minutes. Then inhale deeply and move slowly and directly into position for Exercise 3.
Part 3
Posture: Stretch your arms straight up with the palms facing forward. There is no bend in the elbows.
Eyes: The eyes are closed and focused at the lunar center.
Breath: The breath continues to be long, slow, and deep.
Time: Continue for 3minutes.
To finish: Inhale, hold your breath for 10 seconds while you stretch your arms upward (try to stretch so much that your buttocks are lifted) and tighten all the muscles of your body. Exhale. Repeat this sequence two more times.
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Saw it on CNN's Headline News that over in England,that "1000's" put that down as a religion for a census I believe. I wonder what sort of worship is involved with that? Do you worship George Lucas or something else?
Saw it on CNN's Headline News that over in England,that "1000's" put that down as a religion for a census I believe. I wonder what sort of worship is involved with that? Do you worship George Lucas or something else?
Me? Sometimes I can't stand organized religions that come trying to convert you. Like you aren't a moral person, or shouldn't be able to live with your conscience if you aren't just like them.
Well, maybe they got to me a little:
First we'll need to collect tithings from all the fans.
We'll need money, because we're going to go door to door dressed like the Emperor's Crimson Guards and take copies of the Holy Trilogy to give out to infidels and influence their children. Action figures will work extremely well in the latter capacity - and it's a miracle! Helliluyah! Finally a use for all those clearanced Darth Mauls....
By the way, of course we'll earn rankings amongst our most devout, and those of 'deciple' status will get the bicycles made to resemble speederbikes, manufactured back in the vintage '80's. Remember to wear your best black suit and don't forget your Dark Helmet. We must go about our Lord's business here on earth, being ever conscious of our safety. Carry the Hasbro lightsabers with you to use as a billyclub in rough neighborhoods.
Which by the way, brings me to one of the questions at hand: do we worship George? No we do not.
Clearly religion states that there can be only One Lord, Lord Vader.
And he gave his only begotten son's own right hand in sacrifice for our sins. Think about that the next time you shy away from prying your fingers through the sliding doors at Walmart's back entrance (by the lawn and garden center) so you could slip in at 6:55 and get to all the Star Wars figures first!
But while there is only one Lord, our beloved Master Vader, George Lucas was his Prophet. A vision came to him in the holy land, and once every day, before Walmart, Target, or Toys R Us, we must all turn towards Santa Clara, California, and pray. Pray that the racks won't be empty, or the Deluxe Bacta Luke will be stocked. Pray for forgiveness if you got Luke Speederbike out the back door for $12.44. But pray like a Sith! And hope at 7:01 the scalpers fall and twist their damned ankles if they're running in the aisles!
Now once we establish ourselves, we must build a church with our extra tithings (donations from our less scrupulous brothers' prophets on E-bay would greatly help).
The physical church should be a large green building matched and shaped like Master Yoda's head. It should be clearly visible from at least one major local highway in your area, so that it could be as offensive as possible to most non-fans. And bait for the curious. Inside will be shrines dedicated to our collections and private terminals for logging on to E-bay and communing with our fellow collectors. On Sundays, we should all gather there, dressed as Crimson Guards. Then after services, we should fan out to restaurants where infidels go after their religious services. Give them your valueless Decipher CCG extra cards and bless them in the name of our Lord. Imagine the joy you would feel if you were minding your own business with your wife and family after your familiar, boring infidel services, when members of the Church of Yoda suddenly came to your table dressed as Crimson Guards and silently offered to stack your deck either in favor of Light or Darkness!
We offer them Power!
What else should we do when we're organized? Community service is a proud endeavor for most organized religions. With our value placed on fascist consumerism, a little sacrafice could be made for Toys For Tots and other children's funds with the pegwarmers found in your worship areas. Beyond that, the media should be made aware of your organization you are representing, and the charitable contributions of the Star Wars community.
And respect for one another within our Church is paramount. Action figure deals on Church grounds or in the parking lots of places of worship and retail, should be all conducted according to Free Trade Laws and no scalping should be allowed. E-bay is permissible only after all local demand has been satisfied.
If you have further suggestions for the christening of a new Church of Yoda, please add to the holy writings you witness here.
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If this is true, then we have a winner in the Star Trek or Star Wars thread...i mean...its ok to be a fan, but a religion...
As always...........L
Tycho, you are a heretic and hereby banished to the realm of the Discount Bin, where there will be a great wailing and gnashing of formerly-mint cards! The Holy Trilogy is George Lucas, Yoda, and the Midichlorians, all equal and separate entities all the same. Blasphemy! Kidding, kidding.
Here's what my newspaper had in their article, from the Associated Press:
"Jedi is a force created by all living things." ??? Huh? I miss something?He added that the office was not saying that Jedi Knight is an official religion. Jedi Knights are the warriors who battle evil through the ages in the "Star Wars" movies, in which Jedi is a force created by all living things.
p.s. How does this affect our "Jedi Knight" ranking here at SSG?
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I predict that the upcoming Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi film will include the word "and." Multiple times.
and just think, we're laughing now, but in 1000 years, tycho's post could be the first chapter in the "book of yoda".
This is what the British broadcasting Corporation had to say on thissue of Jedi as religion:
"Jedi makes the census list
(Jedi is the faith espoused in the Star Wars films)
It's official: "Jedi Knight" is ON the list of religions for the 2001 UK census.
A campaign to get people to write the entry on their census forms has succeeded in the term being included on the list of religions, alongside Church of England, Roman Catholic, Muslim, Buddhist and Hindu.
Sufficient numbers of people wrote the entry in for it to be allocated its own code for the census processing team to use.
But officials from the Office of National Statistics are keen to point out that just because Jedi Knight has been given its own code, that does not confer on it the status of official recognition.
"Presbyterian my real religion is"
"We are not defining what a religion or a faith might be," a spokeswoman said. "We are recognising what some may have entered on their census form and ensuring that our coding framework will cater for it."
Other religions which are included on the list, alongside the better known cases, are the Church of Free Love, Wiccan, Divine Lightmission, and Coleraine Christian Centre.
Shortly before the census last April, an e-mail was circulated in the UK stating that if 10,000 people put Jedi on the census form, it would become a "fully recognised and legal religion".
A similar thing had previously happened in New Zealand, when citizens were led to believe they needed 8,000 signatures to make Jedi an official religion.
Also on the list:
Free thinker
Celtic Pagan
The list of religions - posted on the statistics office website, and available under "Internet links" - is simply the list of answers to the religion question.
It is not yet clear how many people will have written Jedi on their form, as the counting process is still going on. Results are to be published in Autumn 2002.
And even then, the information might not be easy to obtain, as it will not be published separately in the official census reports released by the statistics office. Anyone wishing to find out the number would need to commission a special report to be produced."
So the upshot is that yes, there is a listing of jedi in Britain but it counts for nothing in actuality. And the New Zealanders are more crazy than us UK people for starting it all off in the first place.


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I have a holiday card template that is a .psd file. When I open it up I can't see the layers (and I know there is layers). I am using CS3. All I see is the background file that is locked.
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Debbie are you sure that is the psd file? Sometimes they include a preview file so you can see what the finished product would look like after you place all of the layers. Not all designers include a psd of their templates, just a sample and then the individual png files that you have to layer on top of each other. With the background being locked it almost sounds like you have png file or the sample file.
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Sigh. Because our automatic PK was hurt, I lost $20.
Sigh. Because our automatic PK was hurt, I lost $20.
How about this Oregon St vs Stanford Game?
The #1 Passing team in the nation is doing just that,
but cannot finish the drives.
Stanford Defense has the bend don't break philosophy going on strong.
Look at Mannion's stats;
Oregon State Passing C/ATT YDS AVG TD INT Sean Mannion 35/44 228 5.2 1 0
Stanfords QB?
Stanford Passing C/ATT YDS AVG TD INT Kevin Hogan 8/18 88 4.9 0 0
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Play Great Defense, Run the ball and make a few passes along the way.
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by the way, did the poor little ol' alabama crimson tide beat the vols by enough points to get into the "schaeffer logic top ten in america"? that is what it's all about....right....how many you win by?
dustin, do you have any stats for me and schaeffer on just how many points alabama would have beaten tennessee by had they run a "hurry up" offense instead of just taking their time, lining up and running a play? i suppose it might have been more than 45? idk?
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The map is based on 20 Terabytes of satellite imagery taken from May 2005 to April 2006 by the ESA's Envisat environmental satellite. There are different land cover types shown in the map: croplands, wetlands, forests, artificial surfaces, water bodies and permanent snow and ice. For convenience, the map's legend complies with the UN Land Cover Classification System (LCCS).
The version of the map that is available for downloading is 11.929 pixels x 6.614 pixels, or a total of approx. 75 megapixels. If you download the full-resolution TIF image from the ESA website, it could be printed at approx. 126cm x 70cm (50" x 28"). The file size is 301MB. The original version is 129.600 pixels x 64.800 pixels, or approx. 7,82 GigaPixels! If printed it would measure approx. 11 meters x 5,5 meters (30 ft x 15 ft).
In addition to the global map posted here, there are eleven regional maps available for downloading: North America, Central & South America, Africa, Australia & Oceania, Asia, Europe, SE Asia, France, the UK & Ireland, Germany & Benelux, and Venezuela.