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Just two more shopping days until the end of the world. At midnight Friday, the Mayan calendar runs out and we all die. Happy Holidays.
Thanks to a countdown clock on my computer, I know when the world is supposed to end. I haven't been fearfully waiting for it as much as just keeping an eye on it.
My grandkids have their own dire countdown clock. It consists of asking every 21 seconds, "When will it be Christmas?"
Unfortunately, there is no way to answer the question to their satisfaction because, like dogs, kids only have two concepts of time: right now and never.
Telling kids Christmas will be "soon" is a waste of breath. Experience has taught them that the adult definition of "soon" is "when your butt falls off."
This doesn't stop them from asking, though. Approximately 40 times a day, my grandkids plead in aggrieved tones, "When will it be Christmas?"
Me: "Five days, eight hours and 41 minutes."
Them: "Ohh, no fair. When will it be Christmas?"
I remember asking my father this same question every year. Standing behind him while he drove, I would ask the back of his head 500 times, "How much longer till Christmas?"
Unless my mother could get me to shut up, a light would begin to glow from the old man's ear. It was not the welcoming light of a happy Christmas hearth but rather a furnace of rage.
About the time the old man was ready to pull over and dangle me off an overpass by my feet, my mom would encourage my siblings to have a sing-along. According to her, there was no better way to wait for Christmas than to distract yourself with Christmas carols.
Even as a kid I understood the idiocy of this logic. How was it possible to make waiting for Christmas easier by reminding yourself through song that it wasn't Christmas yet?
That was the Christmas I rode the rest of the way to grandma's house in the trunk of the car.
Eventually my parents discovered a way to make the time between the current moment and Christmas comprehensible. They put candy in a jar and allowed us to take a piece every morning.
It didn't take long for me to understand that the amount of time until Christmas directly corresponded to the amount of candy left. When there was no more candy, it would be Christmas.
One morning, I tried to speed things up by eating the entire jar. It didn't work. You can't time travel with stomach cramps.
My parents also tried a small pasteboard advent calendar. Behind a series of tiny numbered doors was a piece of chocolate candy on par with brown chalk.
This didn't work either because eventually my parents had to open the doors and eat the candy one at a time themselves, otherwise my siblings and I would do it in one sitting.
Finally, there came the Christmas chain. We made one of these in grade school; 25 paper links in a long red-and-green countdown to Christmas.
I screwed this up by insisting that the count factor in the last day of school before Christmas vacation. The teacher lost track of which count we were keeping, got mad and tossed the chain in the trash.
It takes something really dire to get a kid to stop asking about Christmas. Last week, I told all my grandkids about the Mayan calendar and why there wouldn't be any Christmas at all this year.
That changed the subject. Horrified, they stopped asking, "When is it going to be Christmas?" and started asking "Then why can't we open our presents now?"
Robert Kirby can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or facebook.com/stillnotpatbagley.


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One of the mysteries of life is why people in urban areas and throughout most industrial societies insist they need guns to protect themselves against criminals. In the 1970s there were over 2,000 murders a year in New York City, but today the figure is under 700. However, talk to people on Long Island and they will mumble fears about "going into the city" because they might be mugged or killed. The just released British Crime Survey reveals the number of murders is at a 20 year low. Thefts and domestic burglaries are slightly up, but the overall crime rate is down b y 5%. However, most surveys of public opinion reveal the population believes crime rates are going up.
As a teacher of a history of crime course which ordinarily contains several police officers, I am amused how by the end of the course they shake their heads and mumble they never realized how greater crime was in the past than today. It would help if schools offered courses in the history of crime in order to make people aware they live in the safest time period in human history in terms of crime.
Of course, proponents of guns insist that crime is everywhere although there is no statistical evidence to support this view. Open a book on the history of crime and you will discover how crime in the past was more prevalent in the daily lives of people and more dangerous.

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I've tried 'em.
I don't like night sights anyway. If it's too dark to see your sights, you can shoot quite accurately using merely the rear-end silhouette of your pistol. And if you can't see the rear silhouette of your pistol, you probably can't see the, um, target either. And if you can't see the target, how do you know that it isn't your wife?
So, you use a flashlight, right?
And you use the same flashlight to "charge" your glow sights.
So what do you need the glow sights for?
Somebody on this forum gave me a set of NightSighters to try. They stuck on OK, and didn't fall off. (I did it myself. You don't need a gunsmith.)
But they didn't do anything for me that I wasn't already doing without them.
So I took them off.


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Scott Earns Impressive Runner-Up Finish at Purdue Invite
By: Ryan Hartwig (@RyanHartwig)
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (GreenBayPhoenix.com) – One week after being named MVP at the Western Michigan Invitational, Green Bay sophomore Howard Scott (Exeter, England) advanced all the way to the championship match of the Flight A singles bracket on Sunday at the Purdue Fall Invitational.
Scott won his first four singles matches in the three-day, 20-team meet at the Schwartz Tennis Center, starting with an impressive 6-3, 6-3 win on Friday over DePaul's Filip Dzanko, who was ranked as one of the top-eight seeds in the 32-man flight. The Phoenix sophomore advanced to the semifinals with two more straight-set wins over Valparaiso's Dave Bacalla (6-3, 6-1) and No. 2 seed Chris Simich (6-0, 6-2) of Louisville.
Scott earned his trip to the title match with a 4-6, 7-6 (7), 6-1 victory over Toledo's Mark Singni before falling to the tournament's No. 1 overall seed Nadin Indre of Western Michigan 6-1, 6-2.
Fellow sophomore Leopold Gomez Islinger (Weiden, Germany) also had a strong tournament for the Phoenix, advancing to the semifinals of the Flight B singles bracket. Gomez Islinger knocked off Butler's Billy Weldon 6-0, 6-2 in his opening match before beating IPFW's Jonathan Raa 6-1, 6-4 in his second contest. The sophomore took down top-seeded Michael Lippens of Louisville 2-6, 6-3, 6-2 to move on to the semis where he fell to second-seeded Mateus Silva of Purdue 6-2, 3-6, 6-2.
Two Green Bay doubles duos made deep runs in the Flight B doubles bracket, as Gomez Islinger and Rowan Isaaks (London, England) and Scott and Marius Merz (Heidelberg, Germany) both advanced to the semifinals. The teams were a win away from an all-Green Bay title match, but Gomez Islinger and Isaaks fell to Cleveland State's Jorg van der Vloet and Matt Ford 8-4 and Scott and Merz dropped an 8-1 decision to Toledo's Garrett Cona and Stjepan Sisko.
The Phoenix won a total of eight singles and seven doubles contests in the main draws over the three days.
Green Bay continues its fall slate next weekend at the ITA All-American Championships in Tulsa, Okla.
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - North Carolina linebacker Kevin Reddick and defensive tackle Sylvester Williams have each accepted an invitation to play in the 2013 Senior Bowl on Saturday, Jan. 26, in Mobile, Ala. The Senior Bowl annually features the nation's top NFL draft prospects.
Williams, a native of Jefferson City, Mo., enrolled at Carolina in January, 2011, after two seasons at Coffeyville (Kan.) Community College. He originally thought he was finished with football after high school, and worked at a factory before enrolling at Coffeyville. He graduated from Carolina in December and was a first-team All-Atlantic Coast Conference performer.
Williams started all 25 games during his two seasons in Chapel Hill. As a senior, he posted 42 tackles, 13.5 tackles for losses and 6.0 sacks to earn a spot on the Pro Football Weekly All-America team. He had a spectacular game on national television at Virginia (Thursday night game) with a career-high eight stops, two tackles for losses and a 10-yard sack to help lead the Tar Heels to a 37-13 victory.
A native of New Bern, N.C., Reddick was a four-year starter at UNC and posted 36 career tackles for losses, which ranks fifth in school history. In 2012, he had 85 total tackles and finished the regular season first in the ACC and 14th in the country in tackles for losses per game (1.54). His 18.5 tackles for losses ranks eighth in UNC single-season history.
The Senior Bowl is the nation's most unique football game and football's premier senior showcase event, annually featuring the country's best senior collegiate football players and top NFL draft prospects on teams representing the North and South that are coached by the entire coaching staffs of two National Football League teams.
The 2013 Senior Bowl and its practices will be nationally-televised by NFL Network. The first nationally-televised Senior Bowl was in 1958 by NBC, and the contest has been on national television each year since then. The game will be played in Mobile's Ladd Peebles Stadium.


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some of you know i am a green amature to this taxidermy thing i use to do it 16 years ago but so much has changed in that time.
i have gone to different sights to get info and been doing my home work as far as reading but i would like to know from any of you who actually have done the deed. when it comes to eyes.
yea i know there are some preset eyes, and some with eye rings.
but how do you rebuild the eye lid and set the eye
i have been practicing on a skull but i just .....i just doesnt seem right
if i can ill get a pic of the head with the eye mounted.
any tips or info that will be usefull.
i have been using clay but i think i am using the wrong clay because it cracks.
oh one more thing........i thought i would practice on some coots. there are some fat runners on the inside i have scrapped and scrapped and added borax and scrapped and washed and scraped. till i cant get any more fat out. (even after trimming) but it seems the fat is never ending. or should i say the oil.
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Taylor & Ryan
December 17
Miami, Florida
Q &A with the Bride:
1. What was the one thing about your venue that made you know it was the one?
Ryan and I love history, and after deciding to get married in Miami at the beautiful and historic Plymouth Congregational Church, we wanted to find a reception venue with old-world, Miami charm to match. The Biltmore Hotel is not only stunningly beautiful but also incredibly historic with numerous lives as a grand hotel, war hospital and now restored Miami landmark. The Alhambra room where our reception was held is enchanting, and its outdoor terrace overlooking the pool allowed our guests, most of whom were from out of town, the opportunity to enjoy cocktails with a backdrop of one of Florida's beautiful winter nights. Our gangster-themed after party, the groom's 30 th birthday party, was held upstairs in the historic Everglades Suite where Al Capone once infamously ran a speakeasy.
2. Which three details from your wedding were your favorites?
1) The music: Coming from a very musical family, I wanted to make sure that the music for the entire day was fantastic. Jeff Kaye helped program the most magical music for the church, and the Soul Survivors kept the dance floor packed with guests of all ages all night long.
2) The flowers: When I decided to wear a beautiful but non-traditional Carolina Herrera dress with seven colors, I knew finding the right flowers for the wedding would be a bit of a challenge. David Johnson of A Basket Affair made the process incredibly fun and entertained all of my crazy ideas. We ended up with a beautiful neutral color palate with a special Florida surprise, calamondin fruit from my family's backyard trees in all of the arrangements for a pop of color and little piece of home on each table. It was priceless hearing how surprised my brothers were when they saw their calamondin boutonnieres and instantly recognized the source.
3) The wheels: I kept a number of details from the groom during the wedding planning so he would have fun surprises throughout the day. His favorite was the beautiful white vintage Phantom Rolls Royce waiting to take us to the reception after a post-ceremony champagne toast.
3. Give us the one moment from your wedding day that you can't stop thinking about.
One of our favorite memories from our wedding day was the time the two of us had together during our post-ceremony photo session at the Biltmore. Our fabulous photographer, Cindy of Cuppa Photography, facilitated the most delightful quiet moments for Ryan and I to spend together before we rejoined our guests for cocktail hour.


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'Nearly 25 percent of the Sabres – coach Lindy Ruff and players Daniel Briere, Brian Campbell, Paul Gaustad and Jason Pominville – have their own radio gig. There are also two Saturday television shows that feature taped interviews with different players each week, "PowerPlay" at 6 p.m. on WNYO-TV and "Face Off" at 6:30 p.m. on Channel 2.'
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Rihanna & Chris Brown's Christmas Day Lakers Date
Having themselves a wondrous wintertime tryst, Rihanna and Chris Brown hit up Staples Center for a little NBA action on Christmas Day (December 25).
The seemingly on-again music superstars smittenly shared laughs and a tub of popcorn throughout the hardwood showdown between the hometown Los Angeles Lakers and the visiting New York Knicks.
Clearly happy to be back in the good graces of his ex-flame, 23-year-old Brown took a moment during the action-packed Yuletide date to spread his joy by messaging "Merry Christmas #teambreezy" to his many faithful followers.
Meanwhile, RiRi, 24, took to Instagram to share a sexy holiday snap alongside her gals accompanied by a playful caption reading, "Santa baby! Hurry down the chimney tonight! Is it too late to be nice?"


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For over 100 years, Firestone has led the pack with its racetrack legacy, starting with a 1911 Indianapolis 500 win by a car running Firestone tires. Since then, Firestone-equipped cars have displayed exemplary performance on and off the track. In 1900, Harvey Firestone started the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company in Ohio, making tires for buggies, wagons, and other farm equipment. Firestone has continually worked to reduce emissions not only with production footprint, but also with products life cycle.
Once Harvey Firestone partnered with Henry Ford to put the first pneumatic rubber car tires on the Model T – and subsequently becoming the OE supplier for the Ford Motor Company - Harvey Firestone's business took off and began to evolve into Firestone Tires customers know today. This industrious background supplied Firestone with the grit and determination to produce the tires that empower today's vehicles to drive farther and grip the road better than any other tire.
Bridgestone Corporation purchased Firestone in 1988, transforming the companies' combined operations into the world's largest tire and rubber company. The operations in the Americas were renamed Bridgestone/Firestone, Inc. and became the largest subsidiary of Bridgestone. As part of its integration with Bridgestone's existing U.S. operations, Bridgestone/Firestone moved its headquarters from Akron to Nashville in 1992. Today, this subsidiary, now named Bridgestone Americas (BSAM), consists of an international family of enterprises with 52 production facilities throughout the Americas.
BSAM and its subsidiaries develop, manufacture, and market a wide range of Bridgestone, Firestone, and associate brand tires to address the needs of a broad range of customers, including consumers, automotive and commercial vehicle OE manufacturers, and those in the agricultural, forestry, and mining industries. The companies are also engaged in retreading operations throughout the Western Hemisphere and produce air springs, roofing materials, and industrial fibers and textiles. The BSAM family of companies also operates the world's largest chain of automotive tire and service centers.


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|Barbara Howard Joins the School of Business as Associate Dean
|The new academic year opened with Barbara Howard filling the newly created position of associate dean for the School of Business.
The new academic year opened with Barbara Howard filling the newly created position of associate dean for the School of Business.
Howard comes to Ithaca from SUNY Geneseo, where she served 13 years as assistant dean of its School of Business and director of its internship program. Her arrival at Ithaca reunites her with Dean Mary Ellen Zuckerman, formerly dean of Geneseo's School of Business.
"Barbara and I worked effectively together for the nine years that I was dean and she was assistant dean at SUNY Geneseo, so I'm delighted that she was offered the position here at Ithaca and that she accepted it," said Zuckerman, who's beginning her second year at IC.
As associate dean, Howard will be responsible for the MBA programs and assessment, scheduling and oversight of curriculum matters. She, assistant dean Ayana Richardson, and academic services coordinator Catrina Decker have primary responsibility for student services. As dean, Zuckerman remains responsible for faculty development and evaluation, has general oversight of all staff, and is responsible for the School's overall strategic direction, as well as external relations with alumni, parents, friends and corporate partners. The dean also works with top administration within the College.
"I am very excited about the opportunity to work with Mary Ellen again," said Howard. "We developed a strong working relationship at Geneseo over the years. We know each other well and appreciate each other's perspective.
"Mary Ellen is very good at seeing the big picture and leading new initiatives. I feel my strength is making sure that the details are considered and implemented in a successful way. This approach has worked well for us in the past."
Howard holds degrees in liberal arts and accounting from Finger Lakes Community College and received her B.S. in accounting and M.B.A. from Rochester Institute of Technology. While in school, she also worked seven years as front-end manager of Almekinder's grocery store in Ontario, N.Y. On completion of her M.B.A., she joined the faculty at RIT's College of Business in 1982, where she served as director of graduate business programs and a lecturer in accounting and finance. She started at Geneseo in 1989; taught courses in managerial and international finance, financial and managerial accounting, managerial economics, and information systems; served as a certified business adviser to the New York State Small Business Development Center; and was named assistant dean in 1998.
"My previous position was very student-oriented, so I have a naturally tendency to want to know the students and support their educational pursuits," said Howard. "The School of Business has a student-centered focus, and I expect to be involved in many of the student activities as well."
She and Zuckerman agree a sense of collaboration and community is important for a small school such as the School of Business, with about 700 students, 36 faculty, and nine people in administration.
"We definitely want to know the faces and names of as many students as we can, so they feel welcome in the School and know that this is their academic home at Ithaca College," Zuckerman said.
"We plan to continue this partnership to further the growth and move to ever-increasing excellence at Ithaca College," the dean continued. "Our skills complement one another, so the partnership works well. And we already know and trust the professionalism of one another, so we can get up to speed quickly in our work together."
For Howard, the good fit extends well beyond her long relationship with Zuckerman: "I have only been here a few weeks, but I already feel comfortable with my colleagues at Ithaca."


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Click any word in a definition or example to find the entry for that word
to search for something on the Internet, especially using the Google™ search engine
'Last week, with the new year on the horizon, I Googled the top ten resolutions to help me prepare my answer for the question of the day.'San Diego Reader 6th January 2010
'Earlier this year, I woke up with the mother of all toothaches. It was not just an uncomfortable twinge, it felt like I'd had a nocturnal tussle with a champion boxer and lost … Having Googled my symptoms, I feared the worst …'Daily Mail 22nd December 2009
Since brand-new words – words which have never been seen before in any shape or form – account for less than 1% of neologisms, it's perhaps surprising that just such a creation was recently named 'Word of the Decade' by the American Dialect Society. When you discover however that the aforementioned winner was the word google, the decision does not seem quite so unexpected.
there is little doubt that having access to the biggest single repository of information ever invented, the World Wide Web, has transformed our lives … Google … embodies a concept which has become common practice in everyday life
In the 20th annual vote, google the verb, used as a generic reference to the activity of 'searching the Internet', beat a range of nominees to be crowned word of the decade. Among the other candidates were terms that encapsulated other significant preoccupations of the last ten years, such as green in its ecological sense, 9/11 in reference to the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001, and wifi as an abbreviation of wireless fidelity. Runner up was the word blog which, though a worthy candidate, was thought to have ultimately lost out because of its 'ugliness' and more restricted functionality – in the words of Grant Barrett, chair of the New Words Committee: '… more people google than blog, don't they?'
And there is little doubt that having access to the biggest single repository of information ever invented, the World Wide Web, has transformed our lives during the past ten years. In today's society, there are few people who, when needing information quickly, would not first think of using the Internet, and statistics show that their tool of choice is usually Google™. Google the verb is therefore a sure-fire winner in terms of usefulness; it embodies a concept which has become common practice in everyday life.
But there is one other reason for google's lexical success – namely its capacity for derivation and extension. Starting at the beginning of the decade with activity noun googling and nominalisation googler (a person who googles), we then moved on to the curious practice of Googlewhacking (=trying to find search queries which return one single result – personally, I can think of more appealing ways to while away a few minutes), followed by fridge Googling or google cooking (=looking for a recipe by googling the contents of your fridge or kitchen cupboards). Towards the end of the decade our self-obsession gave us the googlegänger (=a person who is not you but pops up in the search results when you google your own name). And as online identity became more significant, being googleable (=found when entered as a Google™ search) was considered desirable, which in turn gave us the quality of googleability (=a measure of how easy it is to find someone or something by googling) and the potential to be ungoogleable. And so the list goes on, all such wordplay helping to anchor the term google more firmly into our consciousness.
The first appearance of the word google dates back to 1998, when Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two Stanford PhD students, perfected an advanced technique for finding information on the Web and thereby founded Google™ Inc.
Like Hoover and Thermos before it, google is an example of what linguists refer to as an eponym, a name which begins to function as a generic description of a concept. As the examples show, eponyms are often based on trademarks or brand names, though the eponymous use of google was considered a mixed blessing by Google™ Inc, who feared it would jeopardize its trademarked status. Google the verb has nevertheless made it into a number of mainstream dictionaries, first appearing in the Oxford English Dictionary in 2006. In an attempt to tread the middle ground, lexicographers have tended to list the verb with lower-case g, whilst maintaining the capitalization of the search engine's name in their definition. In practice, as the examples above illustrate, the capitalized use of the verb is very common and there is little doubt that google / Google is well on its way to being a generic reference for 'searching the web' in much the same way that hoover is a general term for 'using a vacuum cleaner'.
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I have several youth shotgun questions that I would greatly appreciate any and all insight on.
1. What is the correct way to measure both a shotgun on length of pull?
2. Does anyone have any first hand knowledge of Escort Youth SHotguns or a company
that makes a good youth 20 gauge in a synthetic or camo version?
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Degree or Program Details
Environmental Studies and Sustainability Major
Provides an introduction to quantitative and qualitative methods of assessing and analyzing humankind's impact upon the environment.
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|Total Credits Required for Degree
|Liberal Studies
|Health Promotion Requirements
|Required Courses in Major
|Core Courses
|Choose 8 credit from the following:
|AN 210 People, Culture and Nature (4 cr.) [IV]
|AN 320 Native Peoples of North America (4 cr.) [IV]
|EC 340 Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (4 cr.) [IV]
|EC 410 Managerial Economics (4 cr.)
|EC 425 International Economics (4 cr.)
|EC 460 Economic Development (4 cr.)
|GC 300 Regional Studies: World Cultures (4 cr.) [IV] or
|Study Abroad (4 cr.)*
|GC 470 Environmental Ethics (4 cr.)
|GC 491 Internship (2-6 cr.)
|NAS 342 Indigenous Environmental Movements (4 cr.) [IV]
|PS 206 International Relations (4 cr.)
|PS 402 Political Economy (4 cr.)
|PS 415 Politics of American Foreign Policy (4 cr.) [IV]
|SO 351 Social Change (4 cr.) [IV]
|*Study abroad may be substituted for GC 300 with advisor approval.
|This major does not require a minor.


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The highlight of Arsenal's boat trip on Hangzhou's famous West Lake on Friday morning was a performance of Bian Lian dancing.
This is based on traditional Chinese opera where rapid changes of mask represent different moods. Bian Lian means "face changing" in Chinese.
It was pacy and colourful entertainment… and Arsène Wenger even got involved.Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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Hi Everyone,
I want to take the opportunity to make a special announcement with
regard to contact and communications with me.
It's no big secret, that for years now my "Achilles Heel" has always
been communications with the membership, delayed responses, or
simply lack thereof. The reasons for this have been many. But put
simply, it's been a struggle to juggle communications with you while
making things happen and bringing things to life for you. It's been
an upset balance almost from day one. What started out as a hobby
turned quickly into something larger. And it has grown much larger
than me. The time has come to try to implement a more efficient way
to keep in contact with the community while I do what is necessary
to continue to fulfill my obligations, both current and future.
As most of you know, I have always been one man doing the work of
many. I have never had employees as other makers have. I've had
to take on multiple roles in my time here at TDH. Sculptor, Producer,
Shipping and receiving, accounting, public relations, technical support,
and friend to the community. Unfortunately, there is no way anyone
can successfully manage such tasks when the scope and scale has
outgrown your abilities. I am a typical man, with a reasonably typical
ego. And what comes with that is a "pig headed" mentality that says,
"I got it covered, I can do this". Just as much as not asking your wife
or significant other to give you proper directions and taking it upon
yourself to get you both lost, I've stood my ground until I found myself
looking around wondering where the hell I am. Along the way, the most
significant aspect I seem to have failed is my "friendship" to the
The perfect example of all of this is the current GMH project that's
on the table. It would seem that Stormrider has finally been able
to articulate what I and most others have tried to over the years
and failed. In "layman's terms" ...
Post # 657
There are members here that have been around a long time that have
seen this first hand, not just from me, but from others as well. An
understanding has been developed over the course of time that this is
the way it is, and in this hobby patience is "key". The problem is, with
TDH growing at the speed of light our newer members do not necessarily
come on board with a built in understanding. Unfortunately, it is often
left to the "Older membership" to allay the concerns of our newer
members when one arrises. This is not only unfair to those gracious
enough to donate their time and efforts to vouch for me, but as inefficient
as all get out. For the record, each and every one of you that
have spoken up, or out for me over the years. I thank you :)
Moving forward to the point of this most recent novella :
A decision has been made to attempt to clean up the mess I've seemed to
have created. I cannot emphasize this enough, and will re-emphasize this
through the rest of my message to you all ... this is a "pilot program".
From this point forward, the vast majority of my communication with the
community will be handled through our very own "Flo Fett". She has
graciously stepped forward to help assist in improving communications
between myself and the community.
Most of you will look at this as somewhat of a "secretarial duty". I want to
be very clear, that it is much more than that. "Flo Fett" (Florence) is not a
"secretary". She is my "Fiancé". The love of my life, and my partner in life.
So I would ask each and every one of you to use the utmost courtesy when
corresponding with her (both privately and publicly), and offer her the
highest level of respect. If anyone fails to extend her these courtesies, your
message will not only be ignored by her, but addressed by "ME", and will
likely force me to re-evavluate this new policy. I would very much like to see
this promoting the secondary backbone that makes TDH ... and that is we were
built as a "Family Community". Hopefully, it will help set a trend and be a
perfect example of members and their families working together for a
common goal.
For those of you that may not have yet been "in the know" about something
as profound as this, it will likely open a gaggle of new questions with regard
to recent history and my own personal tragedies. This is not the time, nor
the place to discuss such matters as they are not only "deeply" personal,
but even more tragic now. So I ask each and every one of you to use discretion
in your replies here as well as your private communications with either of us.
When the time is "right", I will of course tie the "loose ends" for those of you
that care to know.
Moving on with procedure :
The way this will work is VERY simple. Florence's communications with you
on "my behalf" will be handled through "MY ACCOUNT". "FETTPRIDE". So
please, keep this in mind. Again, all communications intended for "ME",
will be NO DIFFERENT than before. You will PM ME, "FETTPRIDE", and your
messages will be answered in a reasonable time by "FLORENCE" when I am
unable, or indisposed. If you direct your messages to her account, they
will go "UNREAD". This is not to be "mean". But only to make sure that
her own account isn't inundated with messages.
Someone may likely pose the question that this is against the policies here
at TDH because it closely borders "sockpuppeting" with Florence logging into
my account to answer messages. I must emphasize that express permission has
been granted by TDH's Administration. To be specific, the owner of the board.
So every step and reassurance has been taken and given to promote a more
streamlined method of my interacting with the membership. Let's face it, no
matter how many methods I have given for anyone to contact me
(I'm the only maker that has made public his personal addresses and phone
numbers) it's moot when you consider that if I'm unable to respond to a PM, it's
likely that I won't be able to respond to an email, FB message or voicemail
When you message me, it will be made VERY CLEAR to whom you are speaking
with. ALL messages will be signed by either myself or Florence accordingly.
There will be no ruses here. No split personalities. No one hiding behind
anyone else. To be even more specific, you'll always know the difference.
Florence is from Scotland, her articulation, her spelling and grammar, and
her general method of communications is VERY different from this old redneck :)
To everyone here at TDH I would like to give you my sincerest apologies for
having dropped the big red ball for so many years. I do realize that it has
become quite an irritation (at best) to communicate with me, or patronize
me. So much so, that it has hindered both business and friendships. It is
my sincerest hope, that this will go smoothly and provide you ALL with a
much better service :cheers
I will petition the Administration to make this a "STICKY" so that it won't
get lost in the shuffle of day to day threads and will always be available
to newer members.
Very basic, but VERY clear ...
1. Direct ALL communications to "FETTPRIDE", NOT "Flo Fett"
2. Please conduct yourselves with respect and courtesy (both publicly and privately)
3. Please make your communications straight forward and try not to convolute.
For the most efficient response, it will be best to be strait forward and clear.
* Matters of a more personal nature especially, will be addressed by myself
directly, but will likely produce a more delayed response. Rest assured, this in
no way means that I'm going to become "the little man behind the curtain". I
will make myself available as I always have to the best of my abilities.
** Lewd, or otherwise inappropriate conduct / behavior will NOT be tolerated by
either one of us, or the Administration. I would ask that you treat Florence with
the same level of respect that you have given "Mirax" (Kristen) over the years **
*** Keep in mind, that Florence is also "ONE PERSON". She will do her best to
make sure everyone is treated equally, and in order. But please understand
that she does "WORK A DAY JOB", and there is a time difference because she
is still in Scotland at the moment, and will still be for a short time. Until she
arrives in the States, please remember this as you await a response as any
response you receive will likely be in "OUR" wee hours of the morning or
early afternoon and weekends.
Please bear with us, as we get our feet wet with this. Understand that this is
the first time either of us has done anything quite like this and it will not be
an exact science at first. There will be mistakes until we can get some sort
of rhythm going.
If we can all follow along, this will likely become permanent. But I re-emphasize
that this is a "TRIAL" program. What Florence is doing for me, is a benefit to us
ALL. I am grateful and feel very privileged that she has stepped up to offer her
assistance. Thank you sweetheart, I love you :)
All the best,


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The Huskies were able to break their streak without a basket 25 seconds into the second half, but couldn't generate enough offense to overcome a dominate Phoenix offense in the paint. Green Bay finished the game with 44 points in the paint, with 24 of those coming in the second half.
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Gold as legal tender -- Seriously?
Post: #21
RE: Gold as legal tender -- Seriously?
I hope it doesn't come to that, but I guess the best way to prepare for this is to save up a lot of gold/resources, and be as self reliant as possible.
05-08-2011, 04:03 PM (This post was last modified: 05-10-2011 06:01 PM by freakin.)
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RE: Gold as legal tender -- Seriously?
This clip is from 2009. But I find that it's still somewhat relevant to this discussion.
05-09-2011, 10:43 PM (This post was last modified: 05-09-2011 10:43 PM by decredico.)
Post: #23
RE: Gold as legal tender -- Seriously?
Only two nations currently powerful enough to have Fiat currencies, USA and China.
A fiat currency is designed to spin.
Things today are not as bad as some people hope and claim.
Post: #24
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Post: #25
RE: Gold as legal tender -- Seriously?
(05-09-2011 11:17 PM)Sinan Wrote:(05-08-2011 01:26 AM)robag Wrote: Kubrick knew about this stuff too, hence his gold messages encoded in The Shining.
Then Jack says, "hows my credit".
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RE: Gold as legal tender -- Seriously?
(05-09-2011 11:17 PM)Sinan Wrote:(05-08-2011 01:26 AM)robag Wrote: Kubrick knew about this stuff too, hence his gold messages encoded in The Shining.
Yes. the gold room also doesn't exist in the present time (the overlook layout in relation to the gold room is impossible). I verified this in the overlook maps at the kubrick archives. Also in the film if you look closely at the gold room sign in the hight def DVD, it actually says the Cold Room. Why. Fort Knox has no gold. It hasn't been audited for decades despite public pressure.
In Vincent Lobrutto's biog on Kubrick it describes how he would update the Shining crew on the price of gold regularly. Every time the price dipped he would tell them with a megaphone "Gold has just dropped. Everybody, buy gold."
08-20-2011, 12:20 AM (This post was last modified: 08-20-2011 09:00 AM by MKultra.)
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RE: Gold as legal tender -- Seriously?
Gold up $200 in the last month (currently pushing $1,900 this morning) with the US S&P downgrade and Fed Reserve's perpetual "zero interest policy" till 2013.
News from today:
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RE: Gold as legal tender -- Seriously?
My two year investment is now up almost 100%. Gold is the way forward for investors.
08-24-2011, 09:40 AM (This post was last modified: 08-24-2011 01:12 PM by MKultra.)
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RE: Gold as legal tender -- Seriously?
Fed Chairman Bernanke will be making an announcement later this week in regards to the possibility of QE3 (stimulus). The MSM is suggesting he will announce another around of stimulative money injections... (which immediately makes me skeptical)… since that would almost certainly send gold through the $2,000 mark, and potentially set off a panic-like rush to gold. It's already shooting straight up to the moon as we speak in anticipation.
Although QE3 is very possible. I think what's more likely is… Bernanke will insinuate that there will be no more stimulus in the short term. This may cause gold to drop in the short term back down to $1,600 or so. The media will shout from the rooftops, "gold is a bubble that has just popped!!" … and suggest that the average investor should dump their gold now while the price is still high.
However… don't believe it… whether the Fed openly admits it or not…they are, (and will be), injecting new money into the economic pot to sustain the US economy. And gold will resume its steady climb upwards, (as it has after every short term dip in the chart above). There is no limit to how high gold can go (in dollars) because there is no limit to how low the dollar's value can fall through the FED's money printing. If there is a short term correction, that may be the best buying opportunity the average investor sees in the foreseeable future.
09-01-2011, 05:03 AM (This post was last modified: 09-01-2011 05:14 AM by MKultra.)
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RE: Gold as legal tender -- Seriously?
(08-31-2011 02:40 PM)LEROYGARZA Wrote: Hello I'm new here and mostly joined to ask a question. I am defiantly looking into investing in gold but I just don't know where to begin. Do I just buy Gold bullions?
First, if you are planning to buy gold/silver I would strongly suggest taking physical possession of it, rather than buying a paper contract for gold/silver that is supposedly sitting in a dealer's vault somewhere. I believe there is far more paper contracts for gold/silver than actual bullion in existence. It's entirely possible they may come a time when these contracts are "called in" and there isn't enough physical gold to go around, (see the Hugo Chavez link a few posts back).
I would recommend sticking with either bullion or fairly common and well recognized gold/silver coins with high purity such as (US Liberty/Eagles, Canadian Maple Leafs, Krugerands, Austrian Philharmonics). These types of coins are widely accepted everywhere. Stay away from rare coins that have additional "historical/collectible" value unless you become well educated on those types.
With that said, there are numerous reputable gold dealers online that will send you the gold/silver in the mail (Kitco, APMEX, and Bullion Direct for example). However, there are extras fees for shipping and insurance to take physical possession, (which is ok if you planning on holding on to it for the medium to long term).
Perhaps the easiest and most economical way for someone to buy and take possession is to simply to go into local gold dealer's shop. But go in armed with some basic info… specifically know what the day's current gold/silver "spot price" is. This can be found by a simple internet search. (Today gold is about $1,825 oz). This can fluctuate $25-$75, or more, a day.
Ask the gold dealer what he sells his gold bullion/coins for…(typically they will say some dollar figure or percentage "over the spot price"). Bullion will tend to be a bit over the spot price (2-5%), coins slightly more. This is generally an industry standard… if the dealer is tries to sell you something far above the spot price…you can get suspicious and question him further. But most won't try to rip you off. If you know the spot price, they will generally assume you're not a fool. Gold dealers will always buy you gold back later (usually 1-3% over spot). That's how they make their profit… buying gold 1-3% over spot, selling (2-5%+) over. However, many are experiencing shortages in supply since there are more buyers than sellers.
From your standpoint, there is nothing wrong with paying a bit over spot, since typical buyers plan on holding for the medium to long term with the expectation that gold may rise hundreds of dollars over the next few months/years. However, you just don't want to get ripped off by paying too much over spot if you don't have too. So its best just to check out a couple of local gold shops in the area and get a sense of their fees and pay what you feel comfortable with. Once you find a shop that you feel comfortable with its pretty easy to get to know the owner (usually the guy behind the counter) and get educated further.
Anyway, that's my short and quick advice, others here may have better. But a little research goes along way.
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"The world of Armani is multifaceted," begin the show notes for Giorgio Armani's spring presentation. That's an especially accurate statement this season, though not necessarily in the way it's intended. Presumably, the author was referring to the varied surfaces and prisms through which Armani focused his vision for spring—a discourse on the reflection of light. But an exhibit showcasing some of Armani's most elaborate designs over the past two decades happened to be opening right next door, serving as a reminder of just how multifaceted Armani's talents are. Yes, this may be a man known for popularizing and perfecting a certain minimalist aesthetic, but this is also a man who has dressed Lady Gaga.
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Armani also touched on several emerging trends. He layered short, smooth jackets over long satin tunics over soft, ankle-length pants. He showed sleeveless dresses belted at the waist worn over lightweight pants for evening. And he paired long, straight, embellished skirts with flats, which is proving to be a major theme for spring. The accessories, too, were simple but strong. In addition to the men's-inspired oxford he has preferred in the last few seasons, he showed an unobtrusive, strappy stiletto; a chic, single-sole flat sandal; and a structured, doctor-style bag in dark blues and various sizes.
But back to the dress over pants idea. Many designers have proposed it, and whether women will in fact adopt that combination for evening remains to be seen. What's significant is that, together or pulled apart, Armani presented a fine selection of eminently wearable pieces for night. This even goes for the last look: satin pants with a fitted blazer in a galaxy print. Real women will leave it at that. It will take someone like Gaga to sport the contraption resembling a constellation of stars that orbited the model.


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"American Dreams of Brazilian Racial Democracy: Is Race to Brazil as Class is to the United States?"
Speakers: Sean T. Mitchell, Rutgers University, Newark
In this paper I examine popular and scholarly conceptions of race and inequality in Brazil and the United States. I argue that popular conceptions of class in the United States and popular conceptions of race in Brazil depoliticize inequality in closely parallel ways. This parallel has mostly gone unremarked in the large literature comparing race and inequality in the two countries because most scholars take either US or Brazilian conceptions for granted in their comparisons.
I develop this argument partially on the basis of ethnographic data on the land conflicts between quilombola (slave and maroon descended) villagers and the hub of Brazil's space program in Alcântara, in Brazil's northern state of Maranhão. This conflict was conceptualized in class terms two decades ago; today it is increasingly conceptualized in ethnoracial terms. My analysis of the racialization of this conflict allows me to examine the changing ways in which the links between race, class, and social inequality are imagined by Brazilian elites and non-elites. I use the framework that I develop in this ethnographic analysis to compare a wide variety of literature and data on Brazil and the United States.
By contributing to and critiquing the comparative literature on Brazil and the United States, this paper also aims to help to push forward a comparative anthropology of inequality and political identification.
Sean T. Mitchell is assistant professor of anthropology at Rutgers University, Newark. His ethnographic work focuses on social inequality, ethnicity, violence, governance, citizenship, and technoscience in contemporary Brazil and the United States.
December 6, 2010
"Emancipation Landscapes and Public Space in Early New York"
Speaker: Christopher N. Matthews, Hofstra University
Histories of slavery and freedom in the northern United States present a counterpoint to mainstream stories that highlight the plantation South. While northern slavery remains not as pronounced, northern emancipation was still greeted with public fanfare and celebration. In parades and speeches, the formerly enslaved seized the urban New York landscape to assert their freedom in a highly visible public space. However, emancipation created other landscapes as well. These reflected an inward focus that came with the spatial and symbolic removal of labor from the white familial household. I argue, in fact, that public spaces used in the demands and expressions of freedom by African Americans and other marginalized people covered for a more subversive white-desired segregation of public from private, mirrored in the segregation of back from white and work from home. Northern emancipation, therefore, was only a partial freedom as it simply involved a shift in the basis of social distinction from legal status to the presumed and practiced capacity for civility, illustrated best in the creation of the home as a civilized private space distinct from the public worlds of work, race, class conflict, and poverty.
Discussant: Jim Moore, Queens College, City Univeristy of New York
January 31, 2011
"From Mass Graves to Mass Disasters: Global Applications of Forensic Anthropology"
Speaker: Dawnie Wolfe Steadman, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Discussant: Zoe Crossland, Columbia University
This presentation explores the contextual, theoretical and practical challenges of forensic anthropology in three different contexts – local case work, national and international mass disasters, and international human rights investigations. Forensic anthropologists typically serve as consultants to local medical examiners and coroners, forensic pathologists, law enforcement and attorneys to address questions related to personal identity and trauma of skeletonized or incomplete human remains. An increasing number of forensic anthropologists also apply their expertise beyond local casework. Forensic anthropological skills are highly valued in mass disaster situations, including transportation accidents as well as terrorist acts, such as those of September 11, 2001. Forensic anthropologists also form an integral component of international teams who investigate human rights atrocities around the world. This work was formally initiated in 1984 by the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF). Forensic anthropologists and archaeologists locate, recover and identify bodies from mass graves and provide an objective analysis of the circumstances of death. One problem is that U.S.-based methods and standards of forensic practice do not always easily transfer to global contexts. However, human rights work affords much room for theoretical considerations, including the meaning of identity in the context of genocide and the political and social meanings of missing and dead bodies. Local case studies, the World Trade Center disaster and aviation accidents, and ongoing human rights work in Spain will illustrate the concepts and challenges discussed.
Feb 28, 2011
"Selfhood, Affect, Ontology. Poultry Husbandry in a Mayan Community"
Speaker: Paul Kockelman, Columbia University
This essay has three key themes: ontology (what kinds of beings there are in the world); affect (cognitive and corporal attunements to such entities); and selfhood (relatively reflexive centers of attunement). To explore these themes, it focuses on women's care for chickens among speakers of Q'eqchi'-Maya living in the cloud-forests of highland Guatemala.
March 28, 2011
Panel : "A Radical Humanist. Franz Boas at the Centennial of The Mind of Primitive Man"
Organizer: Neni Panourgia, Columbia University
"Mind, Body, and the Native Point of View in Boas's Mind of Primitive Man"
Speaker: R. Darnell, University of Western Ontario
The Mind of Primitive Man (1911) stands as the primary theoretical manifesto of Boas' anthropology. Reassessment is overdue for at least two reasons: first, the basic point that relational or abstract thought is a universal human capacity has come to be common sense in public as well as anthropological discourse and thus is dismissed as a theoretical position; second, post-war positivism in North America foregrounded descriptive ethnography of a non-mentalist variety and insisted that Boas was a-theoretical. "Mind" was as out of fashion as "primitive" was becoming. The empiricists dismissed Boas' cultural relativism, which came into its own during his anti-racist resistance to Nazi ideology, in favour of material and ecological perspectives that seemed to leave no room for epistemological relativism in the sense of standpoint (a term which he used on occasion). The current theoretical climate of anthropology again turns to questions of what Boas called "the native point of view" or the psychological aspects of culture and cultural experience. This paper will turn to Boas' work as a physical or biological anthropologist and assess the commensurability between his ideas about plasticity of human bodily form and his ideas about the mental or psychological forms of abstract thinking in relation to the diversity of human cultures. I will suggest that Boas moved between the cultural and the biological, sometimes holding one constant and sometimes the other. The theoretical position we might attribute to Boas in 2011 in terms of contemporary interests is implicit in his magnum opus a century earlier.
"What Boas Beckoned: 1911, and ever since (relatively reread)"
Speaker: James Boon, Princeton University
On p. 220 of the 1938 expansion of The Mind of Primitive Man, Franz Boas applied a rather spirited verb to a process of understanding that clearly bridges "primitive" and "m


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DarwidHalim wrote:kirk5a wrote:DarwidHalim wrote:They are just sensation that you label as pain.
In reality, it is just sensation. Nothing more, nothing less.
"Sensation" is also a label.
DarwidHalim wrote:If you can see that pain as sensation, you will have different reaction.
If you see that sensation as pain, you will have different reaction.
If you see that sensation as something you really really wait, you will have different reaction.
danieLion wrote:Hi DH, Kirk,
"Sensation" is not merely a label, and sensating is more than a label; it's an activity.
kirk5a wrote:Dropping labels and conceptualizing does not stop the appearance (manifestation in experience) of that activity. (which, it should be noted, requires attention towards that, to be clearly manifest.)
Darwid is making an overly big hullaballoo about dropping concepts, using that to foment the extreme position of "not real/not there"
DarwidHalim wrote:Reflection,
It is in this impermanence, ignorance people suffer, because what is not there is seen as there.
It is in this impermanence as well, people enlighten, because what is not there is seen as not there.
Have you ever wonder how can a yogic walk through the wall?
One of the yogic said this:
You make thing solid not because it is actually solid.
It is solid because you conceptually make it solid and you believe so.
Siddharta Gautama can walk through the wall, walk through anything, even when his aggregate is there.
We think he has aggregate because he has this bloody and meaty bone.
That is what we think.
But do you think he also think in this way? It is just no.
If you think this aggregate is solid and becomes the source of suffering, you will get what you think.
But if you can see the nature of your aggregate and can see everything as just process, you will just be able to see everything indeed cannot be mine and no point to make everything as personal because those intrinsic things just cant be found.
DarwidHalim wrote:Who is experiencing?
DarwidHalim wrote:Yes, dropping labels and concept indeed does not stop the appearance (manifestation)
Up to here you are right. I never assert the opposite as well.
But, you actually go a bit further which make it not right, which is manifestation in EXPERIENCE.
Who is experiencing?
DarwidHalim wrote:Who is experiencing?
kirk5a wrote:"Experience" is just a word....
danieLion wrote:DarwidHalim wrote:Who is experiencing?
Hi Darwid,
Not who (a "thing"), but what (a process). Answer: the pañcaupādānakhanda.
danieLion wrote:kirk5a wrote:"Experience" is just a word....
Hi Kirk,
You're committing the same error you did with "sensation."
Experience is more than just a word. I think it's better to say most experience occurs on a non-verbal level.
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