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Bill Nye Depressed by Tar Sands' 'Extraordinary Exploitation' of Environment
Bill Nye recently took a trip north to the Alberta tar sands while filming his new science documentary and he did not mince words about the state of Canada's crude oil reservoir.
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— Melina LM (@Melina_MLM) September 2, 2015
"Producing all this oil that's producing all this carbon dioxide, that's not good from a global stand point," the children's television icon told the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (or APTN, a Canadian television network).
"From an environmental point of view locally, it's astonishing and overwhelming," he said.
After taking an aerial tour, Nye added that the sight of the oil sands was "depressive."
The Alberta tar sands is one of the largest bitumen (extremely heavy crude oil) reserves in the world, as well as one of the largest source sites of carbon pollution on the planet. (In case you didn't know, the proposed Keystone XL pipeline would transport this toxic muck right through the U.S., from Alberta to refineries in Texas.)
During his trip Nye visited Fort McKay First Nation, a community that's been choked by the damaging effects of the mining operations.
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"The Science Guy" told APTN he was "amazed" by the size of the tar sands production and commented on its wreckage to surrounding ecosystems.
"Furthermore, consider all the toxins that are being used to move the fluid around and then they put in these enormous ponds, or lakes, or encampments," Nye said. "It's very much out of nature's natural state."
He added, "I think anybody would say that First Nations have rights that have been abridged or catastrophically curtailed."
Nye told the network about how the upcoming Canadian federal election and the possible ousting of Canadian Prime Minster Stephen Harper could spell hope for the environment. "Everybody is talking about the very strong possibility" that the Harper government will be voted out, Nye said.
"Everybody says they feel like the tipping point's been reached," he continued. "Everyone we speak with, where enough is enough kind of thing. But then you have people that are in denial of climate change, who justify all of this extraordinary exploitation to the environment. It's amazing the scale of it, is just very hard to believe and very troubling."
Nye has spoken out about the tar sands and the Canadian Conservative Leader before. "The government in Canada is currently being influenced by the fossil-fuel industry," he told VICE last year. "Stephen Harper is a controversial guy in the science community because [of] the policies, especially in Western Canada."
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Tulsa Health Official Links Surge in COVID-19 Cases to Trump Rally
On Monday and Tuesday of the week that President Donald Trump held his first rally since March in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the county reported 76 and 96 new coronavirus cases respectively, according to POLITICO. This week, the county broke its new case record Monday with 261 cases and reported a further 206 cases on Tuesday. Now, Tulsa's top public health official thinks the rally and counterprotest "likely contributed" to the surge.
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Rainforests are an important defense against climate change because they absorb carbon. But many are being destroyed on a massive scale.
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Rock Dust Could Remove Billions of Tons of CO2 From the Atmosphere, Scientists Say
As we look for advanced technology to replace our dependence on fossil fuels and to rid the oceans of plastic, one solution to the climate crisis might simply be found in rocks. New research found that dispersing rock dust over farmland could suck billions of tons of carbon dioxide from the air every year, according to the first detailed large scale analysis of the technique, as The Guardian reported.
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By Tim Radford
German scientists now know why so many fish are so vulnerable to ever-warming oceans. Global heating imposes a harsh cost at the most critical time of all: the moment of spawning.
Nearing the Brink
Since fish in the temperate zones already experience a wide variation in seasonal water temperatures, it hasn't been obvious why species such as cod have shifted nearer the Arctic, and sardines have migrated to the North Sea.

But marine creatures are on the move, and although there are other factors at work, including overfishing and the increasingly alarming changes in ocean chemistry, thanks to ever-higher levels of dissolved carbon dioxide, temperature change is part of the problem.

The latest answer, Dr Dahlke and his colleagues report in the journal Science, is that many fish may already be living near the limits of their thermal tolerance.

The temperature safety margins during the moments of spawning and embryo might be very precise, and over hundreds of thousands of years of evolution, marine and freshwater species have worked out just what is best for the next generation. Rapid global warming upsets this equilibrium.

Guillain-Barre Syndrome, a Rare Neurological Disorder, Linked to COVID-19
By Sherry H-Y. Chou, Aarti Sarwal and Neha S. Dangayach
The patient in the case report (let's call him Tom) was 54 and in good health. For two days in May, he felt unwell and was too weak to get out of bed. When his family finally brought him to the hospital, doctors found that he had a fever and signs of a severe infection, or sepsis. He tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 infection. In addition to symptoms of COVID-19, he was also too weak to move his legs.
When a neurologist examined him, Tom was diagnosed with Guillain-Barre Syndrome, an autoimmune disease that causes abnormal sensation and weakness due to delays in sending signals through the nerves. Usually reversible, in severe cases it can cause prolonged paralysis involving breathing muscles, require ventilator support and sometimes leave permanent neurological deficits. Early recognition by expert neurologists is key to proper treatment.
We are neurologists specializing in intensive care and leading studies related to neurological complications from COVID-19. Given the occurrence of Guillain-Barre Syndrome in prior pandemics with other corona viruses like SARS and MERS, we are investigating a possible link between Guillain-Barre Syndrome and COVID-19 and tracking published reports to see if there is any link between Guillain-Barre Syndrome and COVID-19.
Some patients may not seek timely medical care for neurological symptoms like prolonged headache, vision loss and new muscle weakness due to fear of getting exposed to virus in the emergency setting. People need to know that medical facilities have taken full precautions to protect patients. Seeking timely medical evaluation for neurological symptoms can help treat many of these diseases.
What Is Guillain-Barre Syndrome?
Guillain-Barre syndrome occurs when the body's own immune system attacks and injures the nerves outside of the spinal cord or brain – the peripheral nervous system. Most commonly, the injury involves the protective sheath, or myelin, that wraps nerves and is essential to nerve function.
Without the myelin sheath, signals that go through a nerve are slowed or lost, which causes the nerve to malfunction.
To diagnose Guillain-Barre Syndrome, neurologists perform a detailed neurological exam. Due to the nerve injury, patients often may have loss of reflexes on examination. Doctors often need to perform a lumbar puncture, otherwise known as spinal tap, to sample spinal fluid and look for signs of inflammation and abnormal antibodies.
Studies have shown that giving patients an infusion of antibodies derived from donated blood or plasma exchange – a process that cleans patients' blood of harmful antibodies - can speed up recovery. A very small subset of patients may need these therapies long-term.
The majority of Guillain-Barre Syndrome patients improve within a few weeks and eventually can make a full recovery. However, some patients with Guillain-Barre Syndrome have lingering symptoms including weakness and abnormal sensations in arms and/or legs; rarely patients may be bedridden or disabled long-term.
Guillain-Barre Syndrome and Pandemics
As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps across the globe, many neurologic specialists have been on the lookout for potentially serious nervous system complications such as Guillain-Barre Syndrome.
Though Guillain-Barre Syndrome is rare, it is well known to emerge following bacterial infections, such as Campylobacter jejuni, a common cause of food poisoning, and a multitude of viral infections including the flu virus, Zika virus and other coronaviruses.
Studies showed an increase in Guillain-Barre Syndrome cases following the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic, suggesting a possible connection. The presumed cause for this link is that the body's own immune response to fight the infection turns on itself and attacks the peripheral nerves. This is called an "autoimmune" condition. When a pandemic affects as many people as our current COVID-19 crisis, even a rare complication can become a significant public health problem. That is especially true for one that causes neurological dysfunction where the recovery takes a long time and may be incomplete.
The first reports of Guillain-Barre Syndrome in COVID-19 pandemic originated from Italy, Spain and China, where the pandemic surged before the U.S. crisis.
Though there is clear clinical suspicion that COVID-19 can lead to Guillain-Barre Syndrome, many important questions remain. What are the chances that someone gets Guillain-Barre Syndrome during or following a COVID-19 infection? Does Guillain-Barre Syndrome happen more often in those who have been infected with COVID-19 compared to other types of infections, such as the flu?
The only way to get answers is through a prospective study where doctors perform systematic surveillance and collect data on a large group of patients. There are ongoing large research consortia hard at work to figure out answers to these questions.
Understanding the Association Between COVID-19 and Guillain-Barre Syndrome
While large research studies are underway, overall it appears that Guillain-Barre Syndrome is a rare but serious phenomenon possibly linked to COVID-19. Given that more than 10.7 million cases have been reported for COVID-19, there have been 10 reported cases of COVID-19 patients with Guillain-Barre Syndrome so far – only two reported cases in the U.S., five in Italy, two cases in Iran and one from Wuhan, China.
It is certainly possible that there are other cases that have not been reported. The Global Consortium Study of Neurological Dysfunctions in COVID-19 is actively underway to find out how often neurological problems like Guillain-Barre Syndrome is seen in hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Also, just because Guillain-Barre Syndrome occurs in a patient diagnosed with COVID-19, that does not imply that it was caused by the virus; this still may be a coincident occurrence. More research is needed to understand how the two events are related.
Due to the pandemic and infection-containment considerations, diagnostic tests, such as a nerve conduction study that used to be routine for patients with suspected Guillain-Barre Syndrome, are more difficult to do. In both U.S. cases, the initial diagnosis and treatment were all based on clinical examination by a neurological experts rather than any tests. Both patients survived but with significant residual weakness at the time these case reports came out, but that is not uncommon for Guillain-Barre Syndrome patients. The road to recovery may sometimes be long, but many patients can make a full recovery with time.
Though the reported cases of Guillain-Barre Syndrome so far all have severe symptoms, this is not uncommon in a pandemic situation where the less sick patients may stay home and not present for medical care for fear of being exposed to the virus. This, plus the limited COVID-19 testing capability across the U.S., may skew our current detection of Guillain-Barre Syndrome cases toward the sicker patients who have to go to a hospital. In general, the majority of Guillain-Barre Syndrome patients do recover, given enough time. We do not yet know whether this is true for COVID-19-related cases at this stage of the pandemic. We and colleagues around the world are working around the clock to find answers to these critical questions.
Sherry H-Y. Chou is an Associate Professor of Critical Care Medicine, Neurology, and Neurosurgery, University of Pittsburgh.
Aarti Sarwal is an Associate Professor, Neurology, Wake Forest University.
Neha S. Dangayach is an Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Disclosure statement: Sherry H-Y. Chou receives funding from The University of Pittsburgh Clinical Translational Science Institute (CTSI), the National Institute of Health, and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Dean's Faculty Advancement Award. Sherry H-Y. Chou is a member of Board of Directors for the Neurocritical Care Society. Neha S. Dangayach receives funding from the Bee Foundation, the Friedman Brain Institute, the Neurocritical Care Society, InCHIP-UConn Center for mHealth and Social Media Seed Grant. She is faculty for emcrit.org and for AiSinai. Aarti Sarwal does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
Reposted with permission from The Conversation.
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Biden-Sanders Unity Task Forces Unveil Improved Climate Policy
By Jake Johnson
Unity Task Forces formed by presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders unveiled sweeping party platform recommendations Wednesday that—while falling short of progressive ambitions in a number of areas, from climate to healthcare—were applauded as important steps toward a bold and just policy agenda that matches the severity of the moment.
"We've moved the needle a lot, especially on environmental justice and upping Biden's ambition," said Sunrise Movement co-founder and executive director Varshini Prakash, a member of the Biden-Sanders Climate Task Force. "But there's still more work to do to push Democrats to act at the scale of the climate crisis."
The climate panel—co-chaired by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and former Secretary of State John Kerry—recommended that the Democratic Party commit to "eliminating carbon pollution from power plants by 2035," massively expanding investments in clean energy sources, and "achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions for all new buildings by 2030."
In a series of tweets Wednesday night, Ocasio-Cortez—the lead sponsor of the House Green New Deal resolution—noted that the Climate Task Force "shaved 15 years off Biden's previous target for 100% clean energy."
"Of course, like in any collaborative effort, there are areas of negotiation and compromise," said the New York Democrat. "But I do believe that the Climate Task Force effort meaningfully and substantively improved Biden's positions."
Today the 6 Biden-Sanders Unity Task Forces are unveiling final language. The Climate Task Force accomplished a gr… https://t.co/gz3broq2qe— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez)1594240617.0
The 110 pages of policy recommendations from the six eight-person Unity Task Forces on education, the economy, criminal justice, immigration, climate change, and healthcare are aimed at shaping negotiations over the 2020 Democratic platform at the party's convention next month.
Sanders said that while the "end result isn't what I or my supporters would've written alone, the task forces have created a good policy blueprint that will move this country in a much-needed progressive direction and substantially improve the lives of working families throughout our country."
"I look forward to working with Vice President Biden to help him win this campaign," the Vermont senator added, "and to move this country forward toward economic, racial, social, and environmental justice."
Biden, for his part, applauded the task forces "for helping build a bold, transformative platform for our party and for our country."
"I am deeply grateful to Bernie Sanders for working with us to unite our party and deliver real, lasting change for generations to come," said the former vice president.
On the life-or-death matter of reforming America's dysfunctional private health insurance system—a subject on which Sanders and Biden clashed repeatedly throughout the Democratic primary process—the Unity Task Force affirmed healthcare as "a right" but did not embrace Medicare for All, the signature policy plank of the Vermont senator's presidential bid.
Instead, the panel recommended building on the Affordable Care Act by establishing a public option, investing in community health centers, and lowering prescription drug costs by allowing the federal government to negotiate prices. The task force also endorsed making all Covid-19 testing, treatments, and potential vaccines free and expanding Medicaid for the duration of the pandemic.
"It has always been a crisis that tens of millions of Americans have no or inadequate health insurance—but in a pandemic, it's potentially catastrophic for public health," the task force wrote.
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a former Michigan gubernatorial candidate and Sanders-appointed member of the Healthcare Task Force, said that despite major disagreements, the panel "came to recommendations that will yield one of the most progressive Democratic campaign platforms in history—though we have further yet to go."
We rein in #pharma's greed by: 1) Allowing Medicare to FINALLY negotiate Rx drugs FOR ALL AMERICANS 2) Using Rx d… https://t.co/6k9iUCLMp7— Abdul El-Sayed (@Abdul El-Sayed)1594238411.0
Observers and advocacy groups also applauded the Unity Task Forces for recommending the creation of a postal banking system, endorsing a ban on for-profit charter schools, ending the use of private prisons, and imposing a 100-day moratorium on deportations "while conducting a full-scale study on current practices to develop recommendations for transforming enforcement policies and practices at ICE and CBP."
Marisa Franco, director of immigrant rights group Mijente, said in a statement that "going into these task force negotiations, we knew we were going to have to push Biden past his comfort zone, both to reconcile with past offenses and to carve a new path forward."
"That is exactly what we did, unapologetically," said Franco, a member of the Immigration Task Force. "For years, Mijente, along with the broader immigrant rights movement, has fought to reshape the narrative around immigration towards racial justice and to focus these very demands. We expect Biden and the Democratic Party to implement them in their entirety."
"There is no going back," Franco added. "Not an inch, not a step. We must only move forward from here."
Reposted with permission from Common Dreams.
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Here's a small portion of the comic that artist Dean Trippe has been working on for the last year, his childhood confessional piece, Something Terrible.
The comic deals with extreme childhood trauma and is very moving stuff indeed. You can find the full strip at TenCentTicker, where its downloadable for the very awesome price of 99c, all proceeds go to Dean to help him make more awesome art.
But wait, there's more! You see that awesome colour panel near the end of this excerpt? You can buy prints of that piece, entitled: "You'll Be Safe Here", from Dean's store at Society Six. You want some of this, surely?
If you enjoyed this, check out Dean Trippe's art on tumblr, deviantART or on his website.

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Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Banned Books Week... What Kind of Reader are YOU?
5 comments:
- Marie Cloutier said...
I got 12, some of which I read in high school. I try to read at least one banned/challenged book every year for BBW and some of them are things i've read since school.
- September 28, 2010 at 6:35 AM
- Tynga said...
Apparently I'm a literary Lightweight. I've actually read my share of banned books, but not the most challenged =)
- September 28, 2010 at 12:14 PM
- Suzanne Yester said...
Hi Marie & Tynga!
I'm in between both of you! I'm "A Little Forbidden Reading Never Hurt Anybody"! But I'm going to work my way up a little this week with A Wrinkle in Time, which I started to read and really am enjoying!
I read at least one challenged or banned book each year for BBW too! This year my "official" choice is The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
Thanks for stopping by and taking the quiz! Stop by tomorrow and read Carrie Ryan's post on why YA authors write "controversial" books!
- September 28, 2010 at 1:28 PM
Interesting quiz!
I haven't read too many from this list - just 6, but I've read them all without realising that they faced any banning.
Where's Waldo was banned?!
- September 28, 2010 at 10:54 PM
- Brooke said...
I've read 8 on this list. James and the Giant Peach? Seriously?
- October 1, 2010 at 9:56 PM


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Christmas shopping patterns in Sudbury changing
Brian Vendramin, a business professor at Cambrian College, believes Christmas 2018 will be different in a number of ways.
First off, Vendramin pointed to the fact that plenty of online business was impacted by the strike at Canada Post.
"I think that meant a lot of consumers got offline and stood in line," Vendramin said. "In other words, they didn't bother to place an order online. They may have done their research, but then went to local retailers and spent their money there."
Vendramin said they local retailers he has visited have really stepped up their games in terms of customer service.
"They've always had good customer service, but I think they're now delivering exceptional customer service," Vendramin said. "They think of this as an opportunity to win back customers that they might have not seen for a year or two.
"Businesses are trying to leverage what's happening in the market place today. The merchants I've talked to have said they're very happy with sales up to date."
Vendramin said it's important to remember the wholesale cycle has drastically changed in recent years.
"By that, I mean there's no longer Black Friday," Vendramin said. "It's Black Friday week, and those discounts seem to go right through to Boxing Day. Some people think that Black Friday is more important than Boxing Day.
"What you have to factor in is the amount of people who are going to get gift cards over Christmas and then leverage those on Boxing Day sales. So, if they get $100 and things are 50 per cent off, obviously it's an opportunity for a consumer to double their gift card."
More people are shopping online, Vendramin said, yet it's only representing about 10 per cent of sales. One of the issues with online shopping, however, is the phenomenon called shopping cart abandonment.
"For example, you go online, you fill out your basket and when you go to check out, you go, 'oh my, I didn't realize some of this had exchange rate,' and instead of taking one or two items out, what do you do? You leave your whole basket there. If someone could solve that shopping cart abandonment problem, I think they could be very, very wealthy.
"And online people are getting smart to this. If you're leaving without buying, they may say, 'before you close the window, can we put this in a wish list for you? Or, if you buy now, we'll give you an extra 10 per cent'. They realize there's a problem, but they can't alleviate that shopping cart abandonment.
In contrast, if you go shopping at the grocery store, for example, if "you're a little over budget and you don't have basket, you don't leave your whole shopping cart there. You take a few items out, then you checkout. But online, you don't checkout."
Vendramin said online sales took over and started impacting the holiday season during the hype of the last five years of Cyber Monday.
"We often think of Black Friday as being bricks and mortar or stores, and that the Cyber Monday was online, but that has changed, too," Vendramin said. "For example, if we go on Christmas Eve, at about 6 p.m. at Best Buy, I'm sure we'll be able to get their Boxing Day sales right away. So, the lines are very blurry now. It used to be that Black Friday was on Black Friday, but now it starts before and it goes on.
"And you have a company like Canadian Tire who does Red Thursday, and they try to get a jump. Business is about getting differentiation, separating yourself from somebody else."
In an age of consumerism, the holiday shopping sprees are notoriously important for businesses.
"It's a healthy part of an annual sales budget," Vendramin said.
It's a great time of the year to make profit, but can also be a stressful period of time for businesses.
Michael Macnamara, chair of Sudbury Chamber of Commerce, said it is important for businesses to be able to have staff in place to be able to deliver product, trying to get product out by that magical Dec. 25 day.
"You have increased traffic, it's an overall busier time of the year, but on the other hand you have people who want to take time off," Macnamara said. "A lot of your staff, of course, want to take the time off around Christmas and it's tricky. It's not an easy game for retail businesses around the city to be able to balance both those needs."


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A Skillful Facsimile Page in a 1611 King James Bible
There's an intriguing tradition of a "crocodile mystery" on the Folger Shakespeare Library blog, "The Collation," which periodically posts the mystery in question, awaits comment, and then posts an explanation a few days later. Earlier in May, we were intrigued by a crocodile mystery image that looked like a page from the 1611 King James Bible. What was so mysterious about this image? Was something not as it appeared? The answer, from Collation author Sarah Werner, Undergraduate Program Director at the Folger, concerned a fascinating nineteenth-century phenomenon, the "pen facsimile." We wanted to share the following excerpt from her Collation blog post, which you can read in full here:
As the commenters on our May 3 crocodile guessed, the mystery image shown there, and repeated here, shows writing masquerading as print or, to use the more formal term, a pen facsimile. (Click on any image in this post to enlarge it).
The book in question is the Folger copy of the 1611 Authorized Version of the Bible, also called the King James Bible. The last leaves of the book are increasingly damaged—the corners are missing and repaired with blank paper—until the final original leaf is entirely gone. In its place is a pen facsimile, a hand-drawn copy of what the original leaf would have looked like.
As you can see by comparing the facsimile with the original leaf, shown here from a copy at the University of Pennsylvania, the facsimilist did a very good job. But you can also see, when you're looking for it, that the pen facsimile is just a bit wobblier than the print original. The kerning (the adjustment of spacing between letters) is just slightly irregular; some long-s's are missing their crossbar; and the three capital-G's starting the instances of "God" in the third verse are all just slightly differently shaped.
Once you know which is which, it's hard to "unsee" the details that reveal it as a facsimile.
Adding pen facsimiles of missing or damaged leaves was not unusual in the nineteenth century for collectors who preferred their works to be pristine and perfect, a common preference. Adding such a facsimile was referred to as a way of perfecting the copy. The verb "to perfect" is one of those odd bibliographical terms that shows how much standards and tastes have changed since we've been studying rare books and similar objects. To perfect a book was to supply any missing or damaged leaves with leaves from another copy of that book or with facsimiles of those leaves. By our modern-day standards, of course, this is far from a perfect practice and one that libraries today don't follow.
It's not clear who the facsimilist was for the Folger's King James Bible, or when the work was done. There's a note in the catalog of the former owner, W.T. Smedley, from nineteenth-century Bible expert Francis Fry, attesting to the book's good condition and noting that "The last leaf is repaired. It is very rare. They are so often lost." Either Fry was using "repaired" as a euphemism for "facsimile" (although this seems unlikely, since he accurately describes the volume's title page as a facsimile) or it was done after Fry examined the book.
Facsimilists, including the unknown figure who created the final page of the Folger's KJV, were not intending to deceive anyone by passing off copies as originals. Rather, the intent was to make as close to complete as possible copies of works that were missing leaves. While I'm astounded by the talent of such a facsimilist as we just saw, my favorite pen facsimile, shown here, reveals not remarkable skill, but remarkable desire. This title page is from one of the 82 copies of the 1623 First Folio of Shakespeare in the Folger collection. It's not what I would do if I owned a First Folio with a torn title page, but then again, I can't begrudge the desire of this long-ago owner to make clear what this book is.
Sarah Werner is the Undergraduate Program Director at the Folger Shakespeare Library.
To read the rest of this article, including additional amazing images of pen facsimiles and their print equivalents, read the full blog post on The Collation. For more information about another facsimilist, John Harris, and a bibliography of books and articles related to the practice, consult this interesting page from the British Library.
To explore more of the Folger first edition of the 1611 King James Bible, complemented by notes and read-aloud audio, consult our online feature Read the Book. Since the Folger copy lacks an original title page, as co-curator Steve Galbraith explains in his title-page audio comment, Read the Book uses the original 1611 title page from a Bodleian Library copy.
May 16, 2013 | Categories: The KJB in History | Tags: Authorized Version, facsimile, First Folio, history of the book, King James Bible, manuscripts, pen facsimile, rare books, Shakespeare, The Collation | Leave a comment


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Capital of the prefecture, built on the entrance of the Gulf of Amvrakikos. A modern city, administrative, commercial, intellectual and tourist center of the prefecture. Beautiful, traditional buildings adorn the port and the historical center while the pedestrian walkways and cobblestone streets lined with popular taverns and cafès remind us of the islands. The city's rich intellectual and artistic activities include frequent conferences, exhibitions and festivals.
Preveza is built on the location of ancient Vereniki which was founded by Pyrrhus, the king of Epirus,in 290 B.C. to honor his mother-in-law, Vereniki. The city was established towards the late 11th century, after Nikopolis was deserted. Many conquerors passed through the city until it was finally incorporated with Greece in 1912. Its port offers connections to the islands of the Ionian sea. It is located 426 km NW of Athens (via Rio-Antirio) and 440 km SW of Thessaloniki (via the Ioannina-Trikala-Larisa road).
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At Nikopolis, 7 km N, an extremely important archaeological site founded by Octavius Augustus, in honor of his victory in the naval battle against Antony and Cleopatra at Aktio (31 B.C.). It was built upon a 3.5 km wide "cleft" between the Amvrakikos lagoon of Mazoma and the Ionian Sea. During Roman years, it flourished as the capital, administrative and ecclesiastic centre of the Roman province of Old Epirus. The city was deserted after the Bulgarians invaded it in the early 10th century. Among others, the archaeological site includes Roman walls, a conservatory and theatre (1st century A.D.), Augustus' Monument, the Nymphaeum, the Byzantine walls, a Paleochristian villa and the Vasilospito, a Roman structure which was also used in Christian times.
At the Pontic settlements of Nea Sampsounta-Nea Sinopi-Arhaggelos, 20 km N, with the Minor Asia customs surviving to this day. The Byzantine Monastery of Kozili can be found on a hill amidst age-old trees, and is the head of the Kozili Episcopate, which was founded before 1020, after ancient Nikopolis was deserted.
At the villages of Kamarina - Kriopigi, 25.5 km NW, with a view of the Amvrakikos Gulf and the Ionian Sea. The archaeological site of ancient Kassoppi, capital of the Kassopian tribe of Epirus which was established just before the mid 4th century B.C and declined with the founding of Nikopolis, is situated near Kamarina.
At Zalogo, 29 km NW. In December 1803, the women of Souli threw themselves and their children off the rugged cliff of this historical place while singing in order to avoid capture by Ali Pasha's men. The monument in honor of these heroic women was crafted in 1961 by sculpture G. Zogolopoulos and architect P. Karantinos.
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In 1848, by then a nationally celebrated poet, Edgar Allan Poe published ''Eureka,'' a 150-page prose poem on the nature and origin of the universe. The work, an overheated grab bag of metaphysics and cosmology, was a flop. A reviewer for Literary World likened it to ''arrant fudge.'' A hundred years later T. S. Eliot summed up the critical consensus. ''Eureka,'' he wrote, ''makes no deep impression . . . because we are aware of Poe's lack of qualification in philosophy, theology or natural science.''
Of course, Eliot had a point: ''Eureka'' was the work of an amateur, a backyard stargazer who read astronomy books in his spare time.
But Eliot -- himself no scientist -- was underestimating his fellow poet. Eighty years before 20th-century cosmologists hammered out the math, Poe, it turns out, came up with a rudimentary version of contemporary science's best guess for explaining how the universe began.
Departing from conventional wisdom of the day, which saw the universe as static and eternal, Poe insisted that it had exploded into being from a single ''primordial particle'' in ''one instantaneous flash.''
''From the one particle, as a center,'' he wrote, ''let us suppose to be irradiated spherically -- in all directions -- to immeasurable but still to definite distances in the previously vacant space -- a certain inexpressibly great yet limited number of unimaginably yet not infinitely minute atoms.''
The language is vague and convoluted, and some details are wrong (Poe had no concept of relativity, and it makes no sense today to speak of the universe exploding into ''previously vacant space''), but here, unmistakably, is a crude description of the Big Bang, a theory that didn't find mainstream approval until the 1960's.
This wasn't Poe's only uncanny display of prescience. He also came up with the idea that the universe was expanding (and might eventually collapse), a notion that the Russian mathematician Alexander Friedmann ferreted out of Einstein's equations in 1922. Einstein initially pooh-poohed the idea, and it wasn't widely accepted until the 1930's, after Edwin Hubble gleaned some hard data from the velocities of far-flung galaxies.
Black holes? Poe envisioned something like those, too. And he was the first person on record to solve the Olbers Paradox, which had dogged astronomers since Kepler: the mystery of why the sky is dark at night. If the universe was infinite, as 19th-century astronomers believed, there should be an infinite number of stars as well, plenty, in other words, to illuminate the sky at all times. Poe understood why this in fact was not the case: the universe is finite in time and space (and light from some stars has not yet reached the Milky Way).
So what accounts for Poe's prophetic genius? Tom Siegfried, the science editor of The Dallas Morning News, doesn't explain just how the poet derived his cosmological theory, but in his new book, ''Strange Matters: Undiscovered Ideas at the Frontiers of Space and Time'' (Joseph Henry Press), he argues that the history of astrophysics is littered with such ''prediscoveries,'' or ''instances of theoretical anticipation.''
''There are lots of things theorists predict on the basis of what's known and what's already been found,'' Mr. Siegfried explained in a telephone interview. ''The distinction with prediscovery is that theorists discover the existence of something observers have never seen. It's one thing to figure out an explanation for the observation. It's another thing altogether to suggest something exists that no one had any idea about beforehand.''
Unlike, say, Leonardo da Vinci's sketches of ''flying machines'' or Jules Verne's descriptions of submarines and televisions decades before such objects were ever made, scientific prediscoveries, as Mr. Siegfried defines them, are not human inventions awaiting technological realization, but rather insights into the nature of reality.
''Eureka'' may be Mr. Siegfried's most striking example, a literary mind hitting the cosmological jackpot. But his list of bona fide prediscoveries includes an impressive number of contemporary physics' most basic concepts: antimatter, electromagnetic waves, neutron stars, neutrinos, quarks and atoms.
In the 1860's the Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell inferred the existence of invisible radiation from a mathematical analysis of electricity and magnetism. (Nine years after his death, Maxwell was proved right when the radio waves were discovered by the German physicist Heinrich Hertz.)
In 1931 the English physicist Paul Dirac came up with a more preposterous-sounding notion: antimatter. From the mathematical equations of other physicists, Dirac concluded that electrons, one of the observed building blocks of atoms, must have identical but oppositely charged twins. The following year Carl Anderson, an American physicist, identified a positively charged electron, or positron, the first antiparticle.
And around the same time, the Austrian physicist Wolfgang Pauli prediscovered the neutrino: a neutral particle so light and undetectable that it could pass through a lead wall trillions of miles thick without a trace.
Given the number of successful prediscoveries in the past, Mr. Siegfried argues, some of the wacky ideas floating around in astrophysics today are bound to be validated sooner or later. That turns out to be an alarming proposition: Mr. Siegfried's book is filled with enough mysterious hypothetical entities -- some of which, under the right circumstances could snuff out the earth in a nanosecond -- to sustain a dozen Hollywood thrillers.
Which object will turn out to be real? Cosmic Q-balls (''lumps of super matter that may have formed when tiny superparticles coagulated in the hot dense phase of the early universe'')? Wimpzillas (particles ''heavier than a million billion ordinary subatomic particles'')? Or quark nuggets (a four-ton object less than one twenty-fifth of an inch long that could ''shoot through Earth like a bullet through butter'')?
Any of these concepts might help solve the mystery of ''dark matter,'' the unidentified stuff that astronomers believe makes up 90 percent or more of an average galaxy's mass. Personally, Mr. Siegfried said, he's betting on WIMP's -- that's short for weakly interacting massive particles -- thought to be heavy, generally unstable particles that hover in the outer regions of galaxies and rarely interact with ordinary matter.
As extravagant as some of these potential prediscoveries sound, the astronomers behind them have a substantial leg up on Poe. They're working within a scientific world, using the latest technology, trading information and comparing notes. And yet Mr. Siegfried raises the tantalizing possibility that valuable scientific ideas may lie outside science, awaiting a mathematical mind to seize on them: Alexander Friedmann, the man credited with inferring the expansion of the universe from Einstein's theory, he notes, loved Poe.
Did Friedmann read ''Eureka?'' No one seems to know. Nevertheless, Mr. Siegfried speculates, it's quite possible ''that Friedmann was conditioned by Poe's imagination to see the true meaning of Einstein's equations, whereas others, Einstein included, did not.''
As for Poe, he never doubted that his ideas would eventually get their due. ''What I have propounded will (in good time) revolutionize the world of Physical & Metaphysical Science,'' he wrote to a friend in 1848. ''I say this calmly -- but I say it.''


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Over the past years, we have gradually seen the decline of service at the Library and Archives Canada.
Now it has come to light that the government is thinking of closing some parts of the LAC that the public now uses, and turn the space into office space for government employees.
This also involves what has been considered as "public space" on the main floor, including the auditorium, and meeting rooms. The British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa (BIFHSGO) meets for their monthly meetings, and conference; the Ottawa Genealogical Society (OGS) use to hold (until very recently) their monthly meetings and conferences there, and various SIGs also hold their meetings every month.
Now, a new group The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) has a website called "Save the Library and Archives Canada" at http://www.savelibraryarchives.ca/default.aspx.
They held a press conference yesterday where they laid out their concerns about the LAC, and they have set up a web page where you can read the open letter they wrote to the Daniel Caron, Librarian and Archivist of Canada. You can also leave your email address in order to be brought up-to-date with the latest news from CAUT.
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It's been nearly 14 years since California legalized medical marijuana, and the industry is still an uncoordinated mess.
Medical marijuana still violates federal law. California has no statewide oversight, and cities are still struggling to determine how to oversee medical cannabis. It creates confusion for everyone -- the growers, the dispensers, the users and the regulators.
But have you heard the one about the New Jersey governor who proposed an interesting idea that opens up a whole new debate? He suggests turning the cultivation over to a prestigious research university.
Governor Chris Christie proposed having one of the country's oldest and most prestigious universities be the sole grower of that state's medical marijuana crop. The university is Rutgers. Christie went a step further and suggested state-approved hospitals would become the sole suppliers of the medicine.
"I think that the responsible thing to do-if the voters and legislators decide medical marijuana should be legalized-is to use a portion of the tax on medical cannabis to conduct further research on quality of the product, optimal dosing and method of administration, monitoring of beneficial and adverse effects, for example. What would be needed is for a very responsible, thoughtful entity - and UC might be an example - to be involved in developing standards for the cannabis itself, and how and went it is administered, and assuring that whatever it is people are prescribed is as safe and pure as we would expect for other medicines. So, eventually, yes - I could see a possible role for UC Scientist," says Igor Grant, M.D., UCSD Department of Psychiatry.


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The Snow leopard is found in high mountains in Central Asia. Its eyes are green. The snow leopard has a greyish white coat with rosetts. Of all the leopard family, snow leopard is the least aggressive and is very agile and excellent leapers. Snow leopard legends and myths are far and few between, giving an elusive and tantalizing quality to them.
Snow leopards prefer to inhabit steep cliff areas, rocky outcrops and ravines. Such habitats provide them with the camouflage they need to ambush unsuspecting prey. They stalk their prey and usually spring from a distance of 20-50 feet. Their long and powerful hind limbs help the snow leopard leap up to 30 feet, which is 6 times its body length. Mostly active at dawn and dusk, snow leopards are rarely seen in the wild. Unlike other big cats, snow leopards are unable to roar. Solitary in nature, they pair only during the breeding season.
The Snow Leopard as a Spirit Animal, it usually means having strong intuitive faculties and heightened sensibilities. Snow leopard teaches how to make great leaps over new obstacles in life. It gives strength to clear out the haunts and demons within the mind and holds promise of new life, new perception and a renewed perspective on life.
There is also an old story of Milarepa, Tibet's poet-saint, who was stranded for six months in the Great Cave of Conquering Demons. When his followers went to find him, they found he had been transformed into a snow leopard. The snow leopard is a totem that can reflect a renewed energy, ability, opportunity to conquer one's own great demons.
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I am sure this question has been asked many times. However, I like to ask it again with the intention of what is the future of these languages.
I was first introduced to Groovy and really liked it. I felt the syntax was simpler and it was much closer to Java and I was able to quickly learn Grails.
Then there was Scala, and the web frame work Lift. I am still learning Scala and I find the syntax very difficult at times.
However, I still wonder what is the future of Groovy. When the author of Groovy says he would have never created groovy if he knew about Scala, then it makes me wonder if there is a future at all. Of course Groovy has came a long way and Grails is used today by many large companies.
If one was to look at Grails vs Lift today, then Grails would be clear winner. More companies are using it. But given everything I have said so far, I am interested to know if one should invest in Groovy? Is Groovy going away and Scala the better choice? If the CEO of BMW says he drives a Mercedes then one would wonder why shouldn't we all drive Mercedes too, right?
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WRAY — Birders, families, and wildlife fans alike will delight in this opportunity to watch the annual courtship dance of the greater prairie chicken, one of Colorado's amazing avian inhabitants. On weekends throughout March and April, the town of Wray, Colorado in partnership with the Colorado Parks and Wildlife, will offer guided tours to view the birds — locally called the "sandhill dancers" — in their natural habitat.
"Many birders visit Wray to see the prairie chickens and mark them off their 'Life Lists' for bird watching," said Josh Melby, district wildlife manager for Wray. "What they find here is one of the most fascinating and memorable mating rituals they'll ever see in the wild."
Each year, wildlife enthusiasts and birdwatchers come from around the world to enjoy this rare opportunity to view greater prairie chickens and their exotic courtship display. To ensure that wildlife watchers avoid any harmful disturbance to the birds during the courtship period, tour participants will use a special viewing blind, seating only 20 people per trip. Reservations are required. For more information, go to: http://wraychamber.net/ or call the Wray Chamber of Commerce at (970) 332-3484.
Greater prairie chickens were declared endangered in 1972, but have recovered due to cooperative efforts of local landowners and the Colorado Parks and Wildlife. There are approximately 10,000 to 12,000 greater prairie chickens in the state at this time, most of which live on private property in the sandhill region of northeast Colorado.
The greater prairie chicken tours are made possible through a cooperative effort of Colorado Parks and Wildlife, the East Yuma County Historical Society, the Wray Chamber of Commerce, and local landowners and volunteers. The town of Wray is located on US Hwy 34, about three hours driving time from Denver or Fort Collins.
Did you know?
Colorado is home to 9 species of grouse; the greater prairie chicken, lesser prairie chicken, dusky grouse (formerly blue grouse), sharp-tailed grouse, greater sage grouse, Gunnison sage grouse, the mountain sharp-tailed grouse, the plains sharp-tailed grouse and white tailed ptarmigan. All grouse have feathered legs.
You can participate in tours to see the sharp-tailed grouse courtship dances in the Yampa Valley, and the greater sage grouse in Walden. For information, see http://wildlife.state.co.us/Viewing/EventsFestivals/
Some traditional dances of the North American Plains Indians are believed to have been inspired by the courtship dances of the prairie chicken.
The Conservation Reserve Program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture may be one helpful tool for prairie-chicken conservation. Farmers enrolled in the program agree to plant appropriate vegetation on eligible fields, field edges and stream banks to create wildlife habitat and retain topsoil. Agricultural lands restored to grasslands under the CRP program could be valuable habitat for Greater Prairie-Chickens in some areas. To learn more about the CRP and/or how you can enroll see: http://fsa.usda.gov/FSA/crp
For more information about viewing wildlife in Colorado, go to: http://wildlife.state.co.us/Viewing/Pages/Viewing.aspx.


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The rumor mill kicked into high gear last week when several sites, corroborated by evidence from unnamed PC OEMs, claimed some of Intel's future desktop CPUs would forgo processor sockets in favor of being soldered directly to motherboards. This move would theoretically render end users and system builders unable to swap out processors on their own.
At the time Intel had no official statement on the matter, but the company has now gone on the record with Maximum PC: "Intel remains committed to the growing desktop enthusiast and channel markets, and will continue to offer socketed parts in the LGA package for the foreseeable future for our customers and the Enthusiast DIY market. However, Intel cannot comment on specific long-term product roadmap plans at this time, but will disclose more details later per our normal communication process."
Intel's response was likely prompted not just by the persistent rumors but also because its competitors were seizing the opportunity to promote their products at Intel's expense. Gary Silcott, Senior Manager of Client Products at AMD, reached out to us on this topic earlier this week.
"AMD has a long history of supporting the DIY and enthusiast desktop market with socketed CPUs and APUs that are compatible with a wide range of motherboard products from our partners," Silcott told Ars. "That will continue through 2013 and 2014 with the 'Kaveri' APU and FX CPU lines. We have no plans at this time to move to BGA only packaging and look forward to continuing to support this critical segment of the market."
While Intel's statement should calm enthusiasts nervous about soldered-on CPUs, it's worth noting the company's remarks change basically nothing about what we already knew. Last week's rumors didn't suggest Intel would immediately cease to manufacture all socketed desktop processors when the Broadwell architecture is launched in 2014, and Intel's statement doesn't preclude the possibility that some of its CPUs will indeed use the soldered-on BGA package rather than the socketed LGA package. By the same token, Intel's "foreseeable future" timetable is vague enough that it could mean virtually anything.
Even if CPUs do become non-upgradeable as I believe they eventually will, many of you pointed out in the comments section you didn't generally upgrade your processors without upgrading your motherboards anyway. Since Intel's new CPU architectures often bring new processor sockets with them, the practical effect of this move for enthusiasts might be overblown. At any rate, Intel says it's not something you'll have to worry about just yet.


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8 Things You Should Do To Ensure You Have a Happy Relationship
Relationships. It's no secret that a successful one takes work - and a lot of it. But don't worry, we've found a 'happy couple cheat sheet' that will all but guarantee you have the happiest relationship possible. Our friends over at Zoosk.com surveyed over 1,118 people who claim to be happy couples, and the result was these eight things you should do if you want a successful relationship:
1. Share responsibilities
Four out of five happy couples share decision-making, two out of three share financial decisions and two in three split chores evenly.
2. Have lots of sex
Three out of five couples said they have sex at least twice a week, one in three have it at least four times a week and 16% of couples do it EVERY DAY.
3. Be affectionate when you're NOT having sex
69% of happy couples kiss each other and show affection several times a day.
4. Be honest
70% are always honest with each other - they don't even tell little white lies.
5. Stay in shape
Three in four couples say it's important to be in shape and 18% say their partner's physical appearance is the thing they're most attracted to.
6. Don't talk about politics
37% of happy couples say they never talk about politics and another 47% rarely talk about it.
7. Be the same religion
71% of happy couples have the same religious beliefs.
8. Communicate
72% have in-depth conversations about work, life and family on a regular basis.
There you have it, the secret to a perfect relationship. Okay, there might be a little more to it than just these 8 things, but it's a good (if not great) start.
So how many of these things are you accomplishing in your current relationship? Share your experiences in the comments section below!


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This week's Sepia Saturday theme is on the subject of shoes, however all my family photos seem to show folks in Utilitarian Footwear (not very attractive or interesting) so I'm not sticking with the theme this week (although I would show you photos of my huge collection of US-made cowboy boots if you asked nicely). Granny did do some outrageous stuff while wearing her good stockings and shoes, but that's a story you've heard before, while she was up a tree with her cousins, and old enough to know better. This week, may I introduce my maternal Grandmother (the somewhat boistrous and fun Elsie of the trashed sewing box) and the rather more reserved but the best Granddad ever (Douglas the biker)….
Having posted a charming photo of Norman (Douglas's brother) and his cute granddaughter, Rose, I decided to rummage around in my photos and see what pics I have of Douglas's other brothers. Douglas had 6 brothers, James who died aged 3 1/2 from scarlet fever, Bruce and Tommy who I don't have any photos of, and Andrew, Norman and Gordon. These last three brothers managed to maintain contact with Douglas and they met up regularly and had photos taken for posterity. Douglas was the last of the brothers to die, in 2002 (he was 91).
Douglas and Elsie took a road trip in 1955 with Douglas's brother, Gordon, and his wife Betty. My mum would have been 17 when her folks just decided to Up Sticks from central Scotland and head off to Europe for a couple of months. Quite a surprising decision at the time, I would think, but Douglas was a mechanic to trade, so they had no worries about the reliability of the vehicle. They obviously had no worries about being shut in a car with his brother and sister-in-law either 🙂
They headed off from Fife, Scotland – and I have to tell you, I never saw Douglas or Elsie in such a casual state when they were older – so it's lovely to see now :-). The four of them went off on their travels, annoying goatherds in the French Alps by nicking their sticks
picnicking at the side of the road while the locals were trying to fish,
and generally being a bit touristy. I bet Douglas had to drag Elsie out of the Casino.
But at least the only run-in with the cops was to find out the way to Turin, and not to bail Elsie out of the Police Station 🙂
There will be a couple of further instalments from this little album, so if you are a Sepia Saturday blogger and want to see what the Fab Four got up to, please subscribe in your reader of choice, as I hope to be back "on theme" next week 🙂
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The Central Connecticut men's soccer team dropped its season-opener on Friday night, 3-0, on the road at West Virginia. The Blue Devils, who play their first five games of the season away from home will travel to Penn State on Sunday for a match at 7 p.m.
Junior goalkeeper Josef Abele, making his first career start in net for the Blue Devils, posted four saves in the match. West Virginia had 24 total shots in the game, including eight on goal.
The Blue Devils had nine shots in the match, including three on goal. West Virginia goalkeeper Lee Johnston stopped all three to post the shutout.
For the Blue Devils, sophomore forward Zach Zurita led the offense with three shots, including one on goal. Classmate Freddy Metellus added a pair of shots with one coming on goal.
The Mountaineers struck quick with a goal in the fourth minute of the opening half. Francio Henry put the home team on top 1-0. West Virginia led 2-0 at the half, and their final goal came in the 66th minute for the 3-0 victory.
The Blue Devils, who finished 8-8-2 a year ago, are back in action on Sunday night on the road at Penn State beginning at 7 p.m.


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Some years, I finish my bookkeeping and file our income taxes early, but not this year. I finally forced myself to do some preliminaries to tax-figuring on Sunday. I cleaned out the file cabinet and sorted through the bills and receipts that I've been tossing into a box since last April.
Once I got started, I wondered why I'd been postponing the job. Organizing the papers we really need and getting rid of the rest gave me a nice feeling of virtue. In fact, I stayed up rather late working on it last night.
I felt tired, achy, and hot at work today, but I blamed it on the warm building and my short hours of sleep. When I got home this evening and took my temperature, I learned I had a fever of 101.3°. With Advil, it has dropped about a degree now. Apparently, I'm getting a cold.
I need to complete our (and Isaac's) income tax, finish filling the photo frame that we are giving to Dennis's mother, and help Keely move. Tonight, though, I only have energy for lying on the sofa.
Maybe I can figure out how to use the new Gmail "Custom Time" to help meet my deadlines. (I'm just making a lame joke. Truly, I am disappointed with Google.)
Custom Time gives Gmail users the option of setting back the timestamp of an e-mail -- even as far back as the time that Gmail was invented.
Some of the user comments reek with dishonesty. What happened to "First, do no harm," which is supposed to be Google's motto.
Maybe this is Google's idea of an April Fool joke.


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She's All That star Rachael Leigh Cook is pregnant with her first child, Us Weekly reports.
The baby's father is Vampire Diaries actor Daniel Gillies, who married Cook in 2004.
"I've been hiding my rapidly growing bump while shooting but this kiddo is vying for screen time," the 33-year-old actress, who plays special agent Kate Moretti on TNT's Perception, told the magazine. "We clearly have a future actor on our hands."
Gillies added, "A lot of people are asking whether I'd prefer a boy or a girl. In truth, it doesn't matter to me — I just can't wait to meet little Keanu Robocop."
Both Gillies and Cook star in Gillies' directorial debut, Broken Kingdom, which premieres on Showtime May 15. The second season of Perception premieres on Tuesday, June 25 at 10/9c on TNT. Gillies will reprise his Vampire Diaries role as Elijah for the drama's upcoming spin-off The Originals, which the CW recently ordered to series.
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So, 9 by Design wrapped up this week on Bravo. What did you think? I have to say, at first these people really got on my nerves – I think because everything was so hectic – pregnant woman running around moving furniture, six kids yelling, a crazy stressful move, name dropping, claiming to be southern with the oddest accents ever, and a hyper husband. However, these people have TOTALLY grown on me. I think it started when they ran to the flea market and completely transformed their temporary granny rental in about five minutes flat. Then I started to see how sweet they are about helping their friends, and how they scramble for the bucks. Let's not get it twisted – they make multi, multi millions on the houses they flip, so don't feel to sorry for them when you see them have a tag sale, however, I like that they are having a tag sale.
Another thing about them: I remember seeing their Great Barrington house (I think it was in Oprah at Home a few years ago) and I've never forgotten it. I remember seeing the yellow and white curtains by the front door and assuming it was Kate Spade's house. I remember a picture of Madonna smoking over the bed, and those vintage stools, and it all made an impression on me. Lately, I see so much design and I've seen the same old things blogged and printed in glossies over and over, it's rare that something stands out (oh, and I should mention, I can feel myself writing the same things over and over – a phenomenon I call "deja blog"). When something is that memorable, I have to respect it. All and all, I'd give this show a thumbs up. It was certainly heading in the right direction by the end of the season – less hectic home stuff, more start to finish projects in a range of sizes, and I think it will have a great season two.
Side Note: I think we need to add oversized sepia tone horse photographs to our design drinking games. I am seeing them EVERYWHERE lately!
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--and a vastly greater majority of the day and evening snuggled up in a blanket on my lap, glassy-eyed and flushed, dripping popsicles and juice all down my front. I'm a sucker for this kid when she's a sickie, on account of she's the one who's spent her life trying harder to break my heart than the other little bruiser has, but still...when I look with longing across the room and fantasize about getting up to clean off the table and give it a good scrubbing? Momma could use a break.
If I had managed to get anything done today (which I didn't), here is what I would have chosen from:
Current Works-in-Progress
- book proposal revision: heavily edit, redo one tutorial using a different fabric, redesign, solicit proofreaders, possibly solicit expert contributions
- Craftster Read to Me Mommy swap: finish travel felt board scene (with monogrammed carrying bag?), think up and create one more small craft to go with it
- sock monkey baby bag: sew it up and send it off to Barefoot Kids
- Montessori Parents' Library: prep for my meeting tomorrow (at 7:45 in the freakin' morning!), make signage
- school Valentines: crayon hearts this year?
- thank-you note to Aunt Peggy: dear god, she sent the girls a generous present for Christmas, and what have I sent her in return? Bupkiss!
- Valentine's gifties to little cousins (on account of I ran out of time to send them Christmas gifties): stuffed cousin dolls and something else...hmm, hmm, hmmm...
- Valentine's giftie to aunt and uncle (same reason): red wine jelly?
- Valentine's giftie to Matt's brother (crap, this is getting bad): decorated picture frames a la little girls
- Fair of the Arts application: three pics and some rhetoric
Perhaps the baby will feel well enough tomorrow to lie in bed and watch Land Before Time all day.


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President Barack Obama gave a campaign speech at Cuyahoga Community College in Ohio on June 14, 2012, and it was extremely difficult to hear the same old message of blame rather than a new message of solutions. Once again, the president spent his time blaming the Republican Congress for the nation's woes and his own inability to accomplish what he knows he hasn't accomplished.
No one should have to remind President Obama or the American public as to why the nation has a Republican House of Representatives. The House became Republican in 2010 after the midterm election – half-way through Obama's four-year term because America wasn't satisfied with the job the president and the Democrats were doing. Incidentally, Obama isn't the first president who had to work with a divided Congress, and odds are he won't be the last.
Given that there are going to obviously be differences between a divided U.S. Congress, it is the president's task to come up with proposals and ideas that will appease his fellow-lawmakers. It's been done before, and it should be happening now. However, it isn't happening at all. The save-face solution, so thinks President Obama, is to blame Congress repeatedly – as he did in his Ohio speech.
When the president spoke about unemployment, he leveled his first blame of the day on the Republicans: "What's holding us back is a stalemate in Washington between two fundamentally different views of which direction America should take… Nothing is more important than an honest debate about where these two paths would lead us. Now, that debate has an understanding of where we are and how we got here."
No, it's how Obama understands it, not the nation-at-large.
He went on to retread his old message: "For more than a decade, it had become harder to find a job than paid the bills, harder to save, harder to retire, harder to keep up with rising costs of gas and health care and college tuitions. You know that. You lived it." If this sounds like it was cut-and-paste from a 2008 Obama campaign speech, it probably was.
Focus on the president's words, "You lived it." Yes, Americans have lived it, and that's why they know things are getting worse, not stabilizing – and definitely not improving.
Obama's speech spent a great deal of time on the economy – the downfall of his presidency. He restated that he wants to tax the rich more but avoids the other side of the equation – giving more to the poor. This week, efforts to cut food stamp costs to the nation nearly in-half failed. The idea was to put more of the burden on individual states. Though Obama believes that a tax cut for the wealthy has hurt the national economy, he ignores the fact that constantly giving so much to people who don't contribute to the American economy by working is just as much, if not a bigger part of the problem.
Also, in Obama's speech, he continually ignores the obvious. That taking more away from the wealthy kills motivation for many to strive for all they can financially gain in this country. By giving more and more to those who don't work kills the need and motivation for those people to work. It's common sense.
It's also frustrating to hear Obama continually compare the Clinton defense finances of the 1990s to Bush's in the 2000s. Obama undoubtedly remembers the 9-11 attacks on America.
Obama attacked the Republicans and Mitt Romney for wanting to cut spending – including spending on health and education. While he admits that he doesn't know exactly where the cuts would be – or, "where the knife will fall," as he said – he used scare tactics to say that research to cancer and other diseases will be cut. Hold it – he said he didn't know where they were going to make the cuts. It could be they will spend more on research of deadly diseases than Obama's administration did.
Again, President Obama's big speech in Cuyahoga County, Ohio was difficult to listen to without getting extremely frustrated, but it is something of which all Americans should be listening.
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