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An Overview Of All Of The WordPress Websites That My Heroic WordPress Collaborative Internet Team Is Either Working On Or Drawing Off Of For WordPress Blog Material (1-15-2013)
Posted on January 15, 2013
***Important Note Dated January 15, 2013: Quite Obviously Not All Of The WordPress Websites Listed Below are going to be used by our WordPress Collaborative Internet Team, but Many of Them Are (at One Point In Time or Another). This list is being Published Here for Our WordPress Collaborative Internet Team's Sake, as well as our Readers. It will help our WordPress Team to get Organized and Schedule Things, and it will help our readers understand the depth and scope of what we are trying to do by using WordPress and the Internet. Allen Darman and His Heroic WordPress Collaborative Internet Team
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Notable Quotes
The scariest moment is always just before you start.Stephen King
I started my War Against Big Pharma and the Powers that Be over twelve years ago in the Summer of 2000. It was pretty scary for me in the beginning, for I knew that people were Inevitably going to be sent to kill me. After three years of surviving about a dozen "killing episodes" involving perhaps three dozen individual hit attempts, I have lost all of my fears completely. Although I Will Always Be Cautious For The Rest Of My Life, I am done being scared. Allen Darman
The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.Leo Rosten
I'm No Professional Writer. I Hack at It! Thank God I have two Professional Lesbian 420Sub WordPress Website Development Specialists and Professional Editors to back me up! They Make Me Look Professional! And They Make My Writing Look Good! Allen Darman
Every writer I know has trouble writing.Joseph Heller
My son Willy Darman and I co-discovered the Cure to Writer's Block!!! in the summer of 2004. We call it Willy's Baggie (of nutritional and natural supplements). I am a dummy! I did not realize the Great Significance of what my son and I had co-discovered (Willy being the bigger part of this) until almost two years later! Willy had to ask me to make his Willy's Baggies again in May 2006. If he didn't ask me this, I would have completely missed the boat here. The World owes my son Willy Darman a Huge Thank You for what he discovered and what he did. Ironically, Willy does not have a clue in regard to the enormity of what his Willy's Baggie Discovery really means for the entire human race. Allen Darman
The Search for a Cure for ADHD and bipolar disorder ended! with my son Willy Darman and I. We Co-Discovered these Cures for the World! Allen Darman
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.Jules Renard
About Me and About Us >Short and Long Version< (1-6-2013)
*Important Prefacing Notes*:
My Primary WordPress Website Since July 2009 Or So has been Nutrientscure Dot WordPress Dot Com.
The Above WordPress Website has over two thousand and two hundred (2,200) WordPress Blogs on it.
As of April 10, 2012, I Am No Longer WordPress Blogging Alone On The Internet.
As I of April 2012, I Am The Leader of A Four Person
Revolutionary WordPress Website Development
Collaborative Internet Team.
Perhaps All I Wish to Say About The Above Mentioned Development at the Moment Is…
Thank God I am not Working Alone!!! with WordPress Any More!
My Revolutionary WordPress Website Development Collaborative Internet Team's Primary WordPress Websites
As of January 15, 2013 will Be Shared between Seven (7) Active WordPress Websites.
Of these Seven, Quite Arguably the Most Important Are:
As of January 15, 2013 My Revolutionary WordPress Website Development Collaborative Internet Team
Will Also Have Five (5) Active Secondary WordPress Websites.
Seven plus Five Equals Twelve! Duh! (I'm Not Good In Math sometimes!)
These Twelve Active WordPress Websites of My Heroic Revolutionary WordPress Collaborative Internet Team
(Seven Primary and Five Secondary) Will All Be Named >>>Here<<>>
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About SmokeMasterAllenD
I am a sixty year old hippie that still likes his "420 chill time"… lol. I am honest, funny, and full of love. Highly intelligent (my parents genes), but humble before God too. I am a Truth Warrior for both America and the World. I am also an Alternative Medical Discoverer, Author, Blogger, Internet Truth Spreader, Freedom of Speech Activist, Bill of Rights Activist, Truth Soldier Activist, Mental Health Activist, Self Applied Alternative Medicine Activist, Respect Native Peoples Knowledge Activist,Respect Lesbian and Gay Rights Activist, Water Powered Car Activist, High Mileage Carburetor Activist, Free Electricity Activist, Burn No More Fossil Fuel Activist, Use No More Nuclear Energy Activist, Save Mother Earth Activist, Expose the New World Order Agenda Activist, Marijuana Activist, Decriminalize Drugs Activist, Free Form Amino Acid Therapeutic Value Awareness Activist, Save Public Access to Nutritional Supplements Activist, Anti-GMO Foods Activist, Social Change Activist, Revolution Activist, Civil Disobedience Activist, Internet Educator, Internet Government Theorist, Internet Freedom Activist, Internet Woodstock Idea Man, Revolutionary WordPress Collaborative Internet Team Leader, and Hopefully (if I live long enough and get adequate help) Internet Woodstock Promoter *all rolled into one*.None of the above jobs pays me a dime. (I don't mind. My Jobs are heartfelt, interesting, and often a lot of fun!) I work at all of these jobs due to a Strong Sense of Moral Obligation to do so. This Sense of Moral Obligation is NOT blunted by the fact that one (or more) of the above jobs may cost me either (1) my Freedom or (2) my Life. In Regard to My Background Before Being Employed in Regard to the Above: I voluntarily retired from managing Darman Mfg. Company, Inc. in 1994 in order to pursue loftier goals. Some of my initial goals were to find, define, and refine the proper (bio)chemical manner in which to cure depression, ADHD, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and the like. As I achieved one goal after another in the aforementioned regards, these (my) goals have changed over time. Currently my general goal is to try to Change the World For the Better via blogging and creating Educational Video Material directed towards assisting the OWS Movement And The Freedom Revolution Worldwide. All of my Written, Photographic, and Video Work is given away *Freely over the Internet*. I copyright *NONE* of what I film or write, as I have no commercial agenda whatsoever. Perhaps I should mention that for the past three years I have worked "under the gun" in an almost literal sense. I state this due to the fact that since January 2010 there have been multiple attempts to take my life. It's a miracle that I am still alive.
Since April 2012 I am no longer Alone! as far as Blogging on the Internet!
I am the Leader of a Heroic Revolutionary WordPress Website Development Collaborative Internet Team of Four Brave Geniuses!!!
I could not have a Better Team!
Our Primary WordPress Website of http://nutrientscure.wordpress.com/ will lead to Our Revolutionary WordPress Website Development Collaborative Internet Team's Multiple Websites on the Internet.
My Personal Favorite in the Above Regard is IdeasForInternetGovernment.WordPress.com.
However, I also really like the Revolutionary WordPress Website of aCallForRevolution.Wordpress.com,
An Older Revolutionary WordPress Website of aCall4JustifiableRevolution.WordPress.com,
Another Older Revolutionary WordPress Website of July4thRevolution.WordPress.com,
The WordPress Internet Woodstock Website of iWoodstock.WordPress.com,
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The Straight WordPress Management Website of WordPressManagementByAllenD.WordPress.com,
The Stoned WordPress Management Website of iManage420UsingWordPress.WordPress.com,
The Newly Formed WordPress Website Under Construction of RoundtableInternetGovernment.WordPress.com
and I Like Many of Our Collaborative WordPress Internet Team's Other Websites too!
I hope that You enjoy them! as much as I really do!
Allen Darman
Puff Puff Pass!
Notable Quotes
Writing is a struggle against silence. Carlos Fuentes
Writing to me is simply thinking through my fingers. Isaac Asimov
Eighty Five Percent of "Me" is *My Extraordinary Parents Arthur and Marion Darman*. I am only Fifteen Percent of "Me". AllenD
Easy reading is damn hard writing.Nathaniel Hawthorne
Damn hard writing is Easy! when using WordPress Because It Is So Easy To Make Changes later! AllenD
Be obscure clearly. E.B. White
Be Clear obscurely! Puff Puff Pass! AllenD
Every writer I know has trouble writing. Joseph Heller
I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.Steven Wright
I'm writing a book. Thank God I have 2 Lesbian 420sub Angels! 2 do the page numbers 4 Me after I get them Real Stoned! on their knees! in front of me! SmokeMasterAllenD
There is creative reading as well as creative writing.Ralph Waldo Emerson
I Welcome Your Feedback! Please Leave a Reply! AllenD
My Two Lesbian 420Sub WordPress Website Development Specialists REPORT THAT THEY ARE GETTING SUBJECTED TO POISON GAS ON Tuesday 1-15-2013 (1-15-2013)
My Two Lesbian 420Sub WordPress Website Development Specialists REPORT THAT THEY ARE GETTING SUBJECTED TO POISON GAS ON Tuesday 1-15-2013 (1-15-2013)
I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.
Anne Rice
Words are powerful things, especially when they are true. Words can easily topple governments, and they can easily get every member of the Mafia hunted down and either jailed or killed from one corner of this earth to the other if they don't stop trying to kill My Two Girls!
Allen Darman
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Jules Renard
I have earned no money for all that I have written and posted or published on the Internet for the past dozen years. Money is overvalued! although I could certainly use some! I would rather have my health and my self respect first! Without these two things money means nothing to me.
Allen Darman
Easy reading is damn hard writing.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Damn hard writing is **Easy** when *You ARE Using* the Incredibly Useful and Versatile Blogging Platform called ***WordPress!!!***, because it is **So Easy!** **To Write!, To Publish!, To Change!, and To RePublish!** things! It is Also Amazingly Easy Using WordPress To Put Your Written Work On A Professional Looking Website on the Internet, and to do so For Free! This last applies to those that are too poor to afford a small and very reasonable dot com fee! Often that means Me!
Allen Darman
I Am Certain The Federal Government Is Going To Soon Try To Jail or Murder Most Or All Of Our Heroic WordPress Website Development Team Using The NDAA Or Other Federal Law (12-13-12)
To My 2 Lesbian 420sub WordPress Serf Bears In San Francisco Let Us Take The Federal Government Out Of The Picture For A Moment And Assume It Is Only The Mafia That Is Repeatedly Poison Gassing U2 To Try To Murder You (1-5-2013)
Internet Freedom Is Dead In America!!! Federal Government *Censors*And*Hackers* Continue To Actively Remove *Key*WordPress*Internet* *Collaborative*Team*Blogs* From A Number Of Our Websites These Same Federal Government Censors and Hackers Are Not Only Removing Key Blogs THEY ARE ALSO CORRUPTING MANY *KEY*BLOG*LINKS* AS WELL AS CORRUPTING SOME *KEY*BLOG*COPY* AS WELL (12-24-2012)
Governmental vs. Alternative Medicine; It Is Time For Change (8-17-2010)
Posted on January 2, 2013 by SmokeMasterAllenD
Alternative medicine has "trumped" conventional drug-oriented medicine on the Internet in the past ten years, as far as the truth is concerned.
Much has changed regarding alternative medicine on the Internet in the past decade. Its presence has exploded exponentially. And so has its depth of healing knowledge. (It has found many cures, when none existed before.)
If you perform a "simple linking search" on the Internet typing in whatever illness you may have, and precede it with the words "alternative medicine" or "integrative medicine" (without the quote marks), and then compare what you find to what conventional medicine has to offer for the very same illness, the abovementioned facts will often become clear.
Does this mean that alternative medicine is going to replace conventional drug-oriented medicine in a very big way, as it justifiably should?
Not necessarily.
It is up to the law.
Alternative vs. Governmental Medicine
Federal law in America favors ONLY "conventional drug-oriented medicine" at this point. "Governmental medicine" is perhaps the appropriate term here. ("Governmental medicine" and "conventional drug-oriented medicine" are synonymous, for the former mandates the latter.)
Federal law does so with the ridiculous FDA mandate that states "ONLY A DRUG can prevent, diagnose, treat, or cure ALL disease". (Based on reality, this is nuts!)
In taking the above stance, federal law is also mandating the reverse; NO NUTRIENT, NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENT, ***OR*** NATURAL MEASURE is allowed to prevent, diagnose, treat, or cure ANY disease". (Based on reality, this is nuts!)
Why does our government mandate drugs to heal, and bar nutrients, nutritional supplements, and other natural measures from healing?
In mandating drugs, federal law provides for greater drug company sales and profits, at the expense of the public's health.
Federal law also provides close to 100,000 substantial, and fraudulently achieved, incomes. These are the incomes that drug-prescribing medical doctors make. (How many M.D's are there? It has to be 80,000 plus, and growing, I think.)
This "opposite the truth" state of medicine is the result of corporate bribery of medical schools, corporate bribery of doctors, and corporate bribery of the law.
Many hundreds of billions of dollars are at stake here on an annual basis. And trillions of dollars over time.
There is a reason that there are 17,000 lobbyists pushing a myriad of corporate agendas in Washington, D.C. This reason is that when money buys the law, it makes corporations (and the people that own and run them) wealthier.
Of these 17,000 lobbyists, Big Pharma (the drug companies), Big Healthcare (the hospitals), Big Medicine (the doctors), and Big Health Insurance (the health insurance industry) are very well represented. Thousands of lobbyists work for these industries to bribe lawmakers, and to otherwise influence the law. (Each year these industries are spending more than they did on lobbying the year before.)
America spent 2.9 trillion dollars on healthcare as a whole in 2009, almost a fifth of our GDP (gross domestic product). No other country spends nearly as much. (It is as if "we are the sickest nation on earth". Indeed, we are. This should be no surprise considering our Standard American Diet, our heavily chlorinated, fluoridated, and toxic laden tap water, and our sad state of medical affairs.)
This overall cost of 2.9 trillion dollars, and its ratio to GDP, would both be getting worse even if Obama's folly in the spring of 2010 did NOT pass (health care costs have been rising more than the GDP percentage-wise for decades). Obama mandating another thirty million or so conventional health care customers via "health care reform" will push medical costs to the point that they are going to bankrupt the United States. (Many economists feel this way. I suggest the reader join the 743,000 or so persons that have watched the YouTube movie "Meltup" at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb1n1X0Oqdw, and watch other videos on YouTube regarding America's impending fiscal collapse as well.)
For this 2.9 trillion on healthcare that we spent in 2009, one in six children is now considered to be "learning disabled". Cancer rates, obesity rates, mental illness rates, addiction rates, and physically disabled rates have all continued to increase dramatically for decades with no end in sight. New illnesses are being born that did not exist in the first half of the last century such as fibromyalgia, acid reflux disease, P.A.D. (peripheral artery disease), and social anxiety disease, to name a few. Rampant obesity, rampant diabetes, and rampant high cholesterol are all considered to be "the norm" today. The rate of autism has "gone through the roof". And NO cures are being found. (Only newer and more expensive drugs are being found, many of which perform no better than the out-of-patent ones that they replace.)
We, as the taxpaying public, have gotten nothing for our money when it is spent on drug-mandated medicine. Drugs only "mask" (hide) one's symptoms, while always increasing the toxic load on the body. Nutrients, nutritional supplements, and other natural measures, which can actually CURE many illnesses (physical, degenerative, and mental), are not legally allowed to do so. (This latter situation is absolutely nuts!)
What about choice? Freedom means choice. If I had to choose, I would choose that ALL my health care dollars be spent on alternative medical truth, and NONE of them would be spent on fraudulent doctors and toxic drugs. Unfortunately, Obama's mandate of conventional medicine substantially took away our (the public's) freedom of choice healthcare-wise, by burdening all of us individually with conventional medical costs.
Four separate times in 2010 bills were introduced at the Federal level that attempted to restrict the public's access to nutritional supplements, affected their available potency, or unnecessarily burden the supplement industry in some way. (This is corporate bribery at work, for nutritional supplements solidly threaten entire classes of drugs.)
Currently there is a law (S. 510) working its way through the U.S. Senate that is, or can easily become, unduly restrictive of the production, growing, and/or sale of food. Seehttp://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/2010/04/24/s-510-is-hissing-in-the-grass/#more-1828 for more on this.
What The Heck Is Going On?
Our doctors are making us sicker with their vaccines, their antibiotics, and their drugs. Big Pharma's motivation to increase its sales and profits underlies this.
We are being pushed, if not often forced, to take a myriad of toxic, and often "therapeutically useless", vaccine shots from cradle to grave.
We are being over-prescribed antibiotics. Even one single course of antibiotics often (most of the time) messes up gut floral health for decades… unless these problematic gut flora issues are not "fixed". (This is "standard alternative medical understanding"… and it is the truth as well.)
Did you know… that gut floral health is critical to optimal human health? Yes, it is. (This is "standard alternative medical understanding"… and it is the truth as well.)
Did you know… at least 85% of all Americans severely lack gut floral health. (A man named Bernard Jensen taught us this.)
Did you know that the use of antibiotics without "a full course" of gut floral correction immediately afterward is ABSOLUTELY nuts! (This is "standard alternative medical understanding"… and it is the truth as well.)
Conventional doctors almost never use probiotics, or any other natural treatment, to correct gut health. (If they do, they are "breaking the law".) The problem here is that "probiotics are not drugs". BY LAW, to cure ALL illnesses doctors CAN ONLY USE DRUGS. (This is ABSOLUTELY NUTS!!!)
The drug industry defines the "standard treatment protocol" for all diseases. The "standard treatment protocol" for an illness represents "the best that conventional medicine knows" for the illness in question. A "standard treatment protocol" should be designed to make the patient well. This should be its ONLY goal.
In today's world of "upside down medicine" the "standard treatment protocol" for a myriad of illnesses is not designed to make the patient well. It is designed to maximize Big Pharma's profits and sales.
In general Big Pharma wants to make you remain "as sick as possible, and still get away with it". This is being done to… yes, you guessed it… to maximize Big Pharma's profits and sales.
However, Big Pharma knows that it can only go so far in regard to making you (or keeping you) sick… or you will catch on to the truth.
So "they" use "sneaky ways" to make you sick, such that "you don't realize that they made you so".
In regard to being "sneaky", antibiotics and vaccines are "Big Pharma's two best friends".
The drug industry is using their control over our government, control over medical schools, control over doctors, and fraudulent medical science to make more money. "More money" is their "only goal"…. it is as simple as that.
Big Pharma is knowingly treating a myriad of broad essential nutrient deficiency symptoms with "drugs" and "only drugs".
The drug industry does not care at all about curing you. This industry wants you to remain ill. They want to "keep you being their customer"…. a customer for their toxic, but very profitable, drugs.
Big Pharma and medical researchers are caught in lie after lie, and fraud after fraud. The fines they get for doing so are either non-existent or "peanuts" (in relation to their profits).
Over the years millions have died unnecessarily. (Perhaps as many as 200,000 people die each year as a result of taking doctor-prescribed or over-the-counter drugs.)
Despite all of the above, our government is STILL mandating drugs that do not cure, and disallowing nutrients that do. (Our government is clearly mandating lack of choice here.)
Our government is STILL promoting processed, irradiated, sterilized, GMO, and/or "dead" food. If S. 510 passes things will get much worse. (S. 510 is another bill that is taking away public choice.)
Our government STILL allows us to be brainwashed by a deluge of drug company and food company ads on TV. (Incidentally, almost no other country allows direct drug ads to the consumer like we do. I for one see a great need to legally ban ALL direct-to-the-consumer drug ads.)
We are also being forced by law to be poisoned with chloride and fluoride in our water supply, with no warning of their intake dangers by any branch of our government via TV (the most efficient medium to reach the general public).
Even our drinking water reflects lack of choice, especially where fluoride is concerned.
Isn't our government supposed to act in the best interests of the people?
I think the American public would choose to be healthy, happy, productive, and economically competitive in the world marketplace vs. unhealthy, unhappy, disabled, and bankrupt as a country.
If the American public is unable to make the above choice now, perhaps when things get worse economically the right choice will become clearer.
It should be clear to all that economic health, public health, academic achievement, and our national security are all intertwined.
One cannot have a secure nation without economic and public health, no matter how much is spent on wars overseas or on national defense.
One cannot have a high rate of academic achievement without a high rate of public health. (Spending over a half a billion dollars on a high school in LA will not help academic achievement if its pupils are eating candy bars and pizza for lunch along with a soda pop, and then are taking an antidepressant, ADHD, or other psychotropic drug… all while having a serious case of a yeast called candida at the same time.)
Basic common sense applies here. One cannot have a high rate of public or economic health if much of our nation is regularly taking toxic, symptom masking drugs, while eating a diet of processed and/or junk foods at the same time. And spending a trillion or two on never-ending wars is not going to help our national security if a large (and growing) portion of American youth are obese, mineral (or other essential nutrient) deficient, health compromised, disabled, addicted, "dumbed down" by toxins or bad foods, or mentally ill.
It Is Time For Change
Governmental medicine needs to go the way of the dinosaur. It is both fraudulent and obsolete. It is bankrupting this country economically, as well as bankrupting the public health.
Governmental medicine is only benefiting one group of people; those that are becoming richer due to it.
President Obama… you were right about one thing. It is time for change.
It is time for you to change.
It is time for you, ALL career politicians on "the corporate take", and ALL career politicians unaware of the enormous fraud of drug-mandated medicine, to be changed "out of office" via the vote when up for election.
It is time for our government policies to change, such that they do not favor the corporations over the people, and such that they cannot ever do so in the future.
And it is time for our highly touted democratic system to change. Any system of government that allows corporate lobbyists, and corporate influence, to dictate the course of law is inherently flawed. Such a system of government fosters rampant political corruption. Rampant political corruption sounds an inevitable death knell for the country being governed.
We need to amend our Constitution such that it locks out corporate influence of government, rather than allows and promotes it, as it clearly does now.
On another front… when our government can collude with corporate interests to suppress the truth that a car can run USING WATER in its fuel tank FOR ITS ONLY FUEL, or can run with almost twice the mileage using some water split into hydrogen and oxygen as an additional fuel (to gas or diesel fuel), while starting a war over the control of oil (Iraq), something is seriously wrong with it. (See the "The Water Powered Car" at http://nutrientscure.wordpress.com/2010/08/25/the-water-powered-car/ or http://www.waterfuelcell.org/ for more on this.)
Things sure do need to change.
November is coming. Other than Ron and Rand Paul, and a few other possible exceptions such as Senator Grassley, we need to vote all the bums out. (Any legislator that did not scream "bloody murder" when the Supreme Court ruled this winter that corporations can donate any amount to any candidate they desire to during the elective process ABSOLUTELY NEEDS TO GO.)
The sad truth here is that drug-oriented medicine is the biggest hoax in history bar none. No other hoax is even close in magnitude. (What Bernie Madoff did on Wall Street is "very small potatoes" compared to the fraud of modern medicine.) And due to government mandate this hoax continues to thrive; while stripping America of both its economic and public health.
America needs to decide, and decide very soon, whether it is going to let itself be enslaved by the corporations, or whether we will rise up and take our freedom back.
We need to do this before anti-supplement, anti-healthy food, and anti-freedom of speech laws are passed. If such laws are passed the job of reversing the corporate takeover of our government and our healthcare system will be considerably harder.
We also need to do this before national bankruptcy, hyperinflation, public panic, and corporate controlled martial law take over. When these things happen, change may simply be "too late". (I strongly suggest that the reader take a long look at the websitehttp://www.thefallofamerica.net/ and watch the free movie trailer there.)
Incidentally, now that we know that alternative medicine is better than drug-mandated governmental medicine, which is better in regard to the next choice before us? Which is better… "alternative medicine as practiced by an alternative doctor"… or "alternative medicine primarily self-applied"? The answer to this question is interesting. It may surprise you. This is going to be a blog for another day.
Allen Darman
Web Address of this blog:http://nutrientscure.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/repost-governmental-vs-alternative-medicine-it-is-time-for-change-8-17-2010/
Web Address of the Original Copy of this blog:http://nutrientscure.wordpress.com/2010/08/27/governmental-vs-alternative-medicine-it-is-time-for-change-2010/
Important Note: This material is not copyright protected in ANY way. Anyone and everyone may freely send this material to anyone they wish. In addition to this, anyone and everyone may put this material on their own website if they wish. Allen Darman
Notable Quotes
I do not like to write – I like to have written.Gloria Steinem
I do not like to "just blog" – I like to have WordPress Blogged! AllenD
The best style is the style you don't notice.Somerset Maugham
What does writing style mean? I only went to high school, and that was so long ago. I don't remember anything about style. AllenD
The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.Benjamin Disraeli
Although I still profess a Great Love For Books, they are becoming obsolete in this Modern Technological Age. The best way Now to become acquainted with a subject is to write a WordPress Blog about it. AllenD
Reblogged this on Nutrientscure's Blog and commented:
President Obama… you were right about one thing. It is time for change.
It is time for you to change.
It is time for you, ALL career politicians on "the corporate take", and ALL career politicians unaware of the enormous fraud of drug-mandated medicine, to be changed "out of office".
It is time for our government policies to change, such that they do not favor the corporations over the people, and such that they cannot ever do so in the future.
And it is time for our highly touted democratic system to change. Any system of government that allows corporate lobbyists, and corporate influence, to dictate the course of law is inherently flawed. Such a system of government fosters rampant political corruption. Rampant political corruption sounds an inevitable death knell for the country being governed.
We need to amend our Constitution such that it locks out corporate influence of government, rather than allows and promotes it, as it clearly does now.
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My BackGround In Business Management (4-20-2012)
Notable Quotes
Every writer I know has trouble writing. Joseph Heller
My son Willy Darman and I co-discovered the Cure for Writer's Block in the summer of 2004. I'm a dummy… it took me a few years To Realize This. Allen Darman
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My Background in Business Management (4-7-2013)
That Dummy Allen Darman is Above! Boy, does he make a lot of mistakes! And he has a funny looking bald head! At Least He Works Hard Though. He Tries. Allen tells me "I am 420Single and 420Looking, I am a 420Power Blogger on WordPress, and I am an Activist for Positive Social Change". Allen also Tells me "I know it's Against the Law, but I need Two Wives, so that One Could Keep the Other Company when I am Working.
Prepared by AllenD and his heroic WordPress 420Collaborative Team!
It's San Francisco Or Die For AllenD Fairly Soon!!! That's No Lie!
The Story of Darman Mfg. Company and Genius…
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America Sorely Needs an Internet Woodstock! And Soon! So Us Hippies Can Figure Out A Way To Regain! And/Or Retain! Our Internet Freedom!
a iwoodstock blog with no name (yet)
by SmokeMasterAllenD
April 9, 2012
The new *Two Billion Dollar* Internet Cyber Security Center being built in Utah Will *Absolutely Have the Power* to *Shut Down the Internet in Whole or In Part*.
Internet Cyber Security Center?
I do not care what the Feds call this new place… for this is *What It Is*.
The Real Reason It Is Being Built (regardless of what our treacherous Federal Government says) is that…
The Feds are Justifiably Concerned that what happened in Tunisia and Egypt Revolution-wise Will Soon Happen Here in the United States.
They are Afraid.
This Internet Security Center Is Primarily Being Built *To Stop Inevitable Revolution*… Make No Mistake About This… No Matter How Many Lies the Feds Spew Out.
One Goal Here Is For the Feds to *Be Able To…
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Butterflies and humans are having a great time in this hot weather but it's not the same for all wildlife.
Water is essential for all of us.
Many of the smaller species find their water from the morning dew and puddles. In this unusually hot weather we are experiencing, water evaporates and they are unable to find it.
Earthworms, that form a vital part of the diet for many wild animals, are going into aestivation - they cannot survive in this state indefinitely and around 87% will perish.
Harper Asprey Wildlife Rescue are hit on many levels in the rescue:
A dehydrated animal cannot feed and will not usually become hydrated with water alone.
We use rehydration fluid for much of our wildlife. This is a simple home remedy version you can use in your garden -
1 litre of water
1 tablespoon of sugar
1 teaspoon of salt
We regularly top up our water with rehydration fluid but here is a simple way we use to slow down evaporation in the outside runs.
Get a shallow and stable tray from your garden centre like this one here that is used for plants to stand in. Fill it up with gravel like this and the whole evaporation process will slow down. Wildlife can dig in the gravel during the night to find water.
Water is essential for us to survive so please spare a bowl for our wildlife and remember for these little cuties it's tough out there.

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Ionut Sur, the author of the highlighted project Prometheus ILight - Pendant Light by Ionut Sur says, The project captures the moment in which Prometheus stole knowledge from the Gods so he can share it with mankind. It is designed to serves as a protective shell. The light from the sphere is warm because it is only a fraction. The cube represents the source, the Gods themselves and is fitted with a strip of LEDs, generating cold light, the boundary between the two levels of existence and perception..
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Jon Gosselin is taking the high road -- for now -- on a day when his estranged wife Kate broke her silence about their split and his other ex Kate accused him of two-timing.
"I do feel a lot of failure," she said. "This is not what any mother sets out for her children. This does not feel like the best for them. It's necessary and it has to take place."
Appearing on NBC's "Today" show wearing her wedding band Monday morning, the reality show mom said it was very upsetting that Jon had been linked to a number of other women including the daughter of her tummy tuck surgeon in the weeks since they announced they were filing for divorce in June.
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"It is hurtful," she said, "and to be very honest is the most hurtful part is when his decisions directly affect the children."
At one point during the interview, a bleary-eyed Kate was handed a tissue as she spoke of the difficult weeks since filing for divorce and said she was stunned by Jon's flings.
"I was shocked. But, to be honest, that's his life," she said.
She refuted claims that she had been the one to end the 10-year marriage between them and said she still wears her wedding ring because of her children.
"I think it's very clear that we're two different people at the point with two different sets of goals," she said, "and I'm wearing the ring because it's been there for 10 years and just because the kids still see it."
"I don't want to upset them," she said, adding the kids "know that it's my 'married to Daddy' ring."
The star of TLC's "Jon & Kate Plus 8" has kept mum until now on her very public breakup but said in divorce papers filed in June that her 10-year marriage to Jon was "irretrievably broken."
Kate put to rest some rumors that have been percolating in the tabloids -- denying she had a relationship with her body guard.
"There is no affair there never has been an affair," she said of her security guard.
She also said reports of her purchasing a condo in Rockville, Maryland, were false -- rumors that were sparked when she was spotted having a meal with her bodyguard's wife at a restaurant below a series of apartments. She refused to disclose where she lives when Jon spends time with the kids at their Pennsylvania estate.
"I'm in hiding," she said.
The mother of eight said the pressure of being in the spotlight was difficult but that her split from Jon would have happened regardless.
"It would have happened anyway -- cameras on, cameras off," she said.
Jon Gosselin today canceled plans to sit down with E! News with his reaction to Kate's revelations, Us magazine reported. No explanation was given for his cancellation.
He did make a brief statement to E!, saying he was glad Kate Major was "out of his life" - and that he hopes his soon-to-be ex-wife is moving on with her life.
"She's the mother of my children," he said of Kate Gosselin. "I only wish her the best."
The 32-year-old father of eight was first linked to Hailey Glassman, the 22-year-old daughter of Kate's tummy tuck surgeon. He then was connected to a Star magazine reporter who had to resign from her job because of the conflict of interest.
"At this point ... I'm single, per se," he told People magazine in July. "I'm just a regular guy who just wants to have friendship and good times. And I like meeting people."
Major spoke to E! News about her relationship with Jon, saying she and the Gosselin dad planned to run away together - and that his feelings for Glassman weren't real.
"He tried to two-time both of us," Major said. "He wasn't honest with Hailey. He needs to man up and tell the truth. I'm not going to be the other woman," she said.
The reporter spilled that she and Jon had plans to "travel together" and that she had proof of their romance, despite his claims that he and Major were strictly platonic.


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The amount of information that so-called data brokers collect about ordinary Americans is astonishing.
By vacuuming up information from social media postings, combing through online consumer transactions and adding public records to the mix, these aggregators create powerful and detailed profiles.
The practice has gained steam in recent years, and it is becoming clear that individuals should have the ability to see what data brokers have collected about them, and have some control over information gathered that is not public record.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently released a report that provided an in-depth look at how nine of the nation's data brokers conduct what is essentially commercial surveillance.
The FTC said consumers should be able to see the information collected about them, and have meaningful ways of managing the use of that information.
There is a substantial lack of transparency in how these businesses conduct themselves, the FTC found.
However, it's only fair to note the commission did not find any evidence of illegal use of data. That's important because it suggests data brokers recognize they are treading in sensitive territory when it comes to privacy.
Nevertheless, categorizing people as " diabetes interest" or "expectant parent," to cite two examples the FTC found, and using or selling this information poses legitimate questions about whether the brokers have gone too far.
What if you'd prefer to keep a health condition a private matter, or haven't yet told anyone that a child is on the way?
Data mining is an important part of commerce, and individuals have a responsibility to be mindful of the information they share online. Yet, there ought to be a simple way of limiting the dissemination of information about yourself that is not in the public domain without giving up on the Internet or shopper loyalty cards altogether.
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(11-03-2011, 02:24 PM)azicet Wrote: [ -> ]My team is about where they were last year. Unfortunately my team is the Islanders so it'll only get worse from here.
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Braves right-hander Derek Lowe turns 37 on June 1. He is guaranteed $15 million in each of the next three seasons. And he had a 6.65 ERA in his final nine starts. So, while Lowe is the starting pitcher the Braves most want to trade, they are finding it difficult to move him, according to major-league sources. … The White Sox are another potential match for Lowe — first baseman Paul Konerko, another right-handed hitter who would fit the Braves, will earn $12 million next season. Konerko, however, has only one more year remaining on his contract, while Lowe has three years at greater dollars.
Stats: B-R: Paul Konerko, Derek Lowe. Fangraphs: Paul Konerko, Derek Lowe.
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The middle one is in the Overson book. Let me think who it is. Alice, perhaps? Yep. That's Alice Whiting Overson, Edgar Pratt's wife. It's a different picture, but see page ii: 189 for an almost-identical one. I'll send a note to her family. Could that possibly be Edgar Pratt in the first picture? The glasses are the same as Edgar is wearing in his picture in the book, but the age doesn't look quite right.ReplyDelete
The middle one is definitely Alice Whiting. The third, the little girl, looks an awful lot like Barbara, Alice's daughter. For some reason that is what I am thinking, but it looks like it might have been taken a few years before she was born. Perhaps Paul Overson could identify these pictures better.ReplyDelete
Good news! I talked to Paul H. Overson (my father-in-law) and he said that the top photo is Frederick Arthur Whiting. He said the bottom photo sort of looks like Barbara Jo, or his other sister, Betty, but when I mentioned that all of the photos have the same back drop and looked to be taken at the same time, he said that it could be Alice's youngest sister, Verna. Paul said that this is a very young photo of his mom, Alice, so likely she would not have had children yet, so he thinks that the third photo must be of Alice's younger sibling. Verna is still living, and she is in Lindon, Utah. Paul sees her on occasion, and maybe he could ask her if she knows - she is not likely to be on the internet. Hope that helps!ReplyDelete


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Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Bilderberg will continue to push for world government at the May 14-19 secret meeting in Vouliagmeni, Greece, according to a participant. Alice Rivlin, who has represented the Brookings Institution at Bilderberg, smiled and nodded when asked if the agenda this year includes "world government, a world without borders and an American Union."
These have been Bilderberg goals for many years but have been blocked by what participants refer to sneeringly as "nationalism." Bilderberg intends to expand the North American Free Trade Agreement throughout the Western Hemisphere as a prelude to establishing an "American Union" similar to the European Union. The ultimate goal is a world government under the UN. Her greatest Bilderberg thrill?
"Sitting next to the queen," she replied, referring to Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.
In a separate Bilderberg development, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner tripped over his mouth and let the truth escape while addressing the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. The CFR is heavily represented at Bilderberg meetings.
Geithner expressed support for a proposal to replace the dollar as the world's reserve currency with a basket of currencies that would be managed by the Inter – national Monetary Fund.
"We're actually quite open to that," he said. Publicly, both Geithner and President Obama say they are opposed to the idea.
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Cruise preview: 40 dockings, 45,000 passengers
Holland America's 781-foot Zaandam will pull into the Port Chilkoot Dock May 22, the first large cruise ship docking of the summer season.
The Zaandam, which can carry 2,087 passengers and crew, is scheduled to make nine visits to Haines between May and September. Holland America's 719-foot Statendam will also make nine dockings, bearing a projected 16,613 people over the entire season.
Tourism director Tanya Carlson said 40 dockings are projected for the coming season, five more than Carlson projected last year. In 2012, dockings included 22 by large ships and 11 by small vessels.
About 44,800 people are anticipated to come to Haines via cruise ship this year.
Alaskan Dream Cruises is upping their dockings from three to eight, and American Spirit is also increasing from 10 to 11.
Princess Cruise Lines, which brings the biggest ships, is dropping dockings from three to two this year, Carlson said.
Un-Cruise Adventures will make an appearance in Haines for the first time with two dockings of the 192-foot Safari Legacy. Championing its trips as "unique" and "an alternative to your typical cruise," Un-Cruise Adventures' arrival in Haines is likely attributable to the "Backroads Alaska" initiative, a partnership between Haines and Sitka to promote the benefits of docking in ports less traveled.
"We can only take one ship at a time, so the cruise passengers get the port to themselves for the day. It's not shoulder-to-shoulder like it is in other areas. They get a real rural Alaska town. It's not all commercialized like some of the other ports," Carlson said.
While cruise ships are an important component of tourism in Haines, Carlson said she spends the majority of the tourism department's marketing dollars on attracting independent travelers through advertising, membership in various organizations, and interviews with magazines and radio stations.
As part of next year's budget, Carlson decided to drop $1,375 in membership fees in the U.S. Travel Association and the American Bus Association and picked up a $2,000 membership in the Gay & Lesbian Convention and Visitors Bureau (GLCVB). The gay and lesbian population is largely an untapped market in Alaska; Haines would be the first city in the state to partner with the GLCVB, she said.
"It's a sector that is really, I would say, past up-and-coming. They're present. They have a lot of money to spend, and they actually charter entire ships that come to Alaska, usually once a year," Carlson said.
Carlson has also been working with the tourism advisory group on several issues, including getting groomed, marked and mapped cross-country skiing and snowshoeing trails. It's hard to advertise trails and entice people to come use them without having a hard document, like a brochure with a map, to point to.
"Although we have some (trails), they're not formalized. So it's hard for me to send people and say, 'Yeah, if you go to 25 Mile, there's groomed trail there, just follow it.' We don't have anything mapped out. So that's where there's a little bit of a difficulty," Carlson said.
Carlson has also set aside $1,950 for the Jilkaat Kwaan dancers to perform on the dock when large cruise ships pull in. (An additional $1,050 via a budget amendment for the present fiscal year is also being pursued).
"People want something different when they come to Alaska and they don't get that anywhere else... This just gets them an up-close, personal experience with one of the cultures in Alaska," she said.


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After two weeks of competition, hundreds of medals and an endless reel of heart-grabbing moments, the London Olympics are history and a fresh crop of champions departed the stern city they collectively charmed.
All the pre-Games grumbling over terrorism and price tags gave way to glory and goodwill as athletes pushed their bodies to extraordinary limits, enchanting audiences around the world with as much personality as prowess.
While the full athletic and economic impact of the so-called legacy Games remain to be seen, the London Olympics are already being hailed as enough of a victory to inspire calls for London's mayor Boris Johnson to run for prime minister. No apocalyptic gridlock. No mishaps at the Opening Ceremony. No real scandal.
Sure there were some glitches—bizarre cheating allegations, some doping charges, a few judging protests—but they were heavily outweighed by displays of goodwill, terrifically silly memes and those stirring moments of Shakespearean caliber that, for a two-week period, seemed to make day-to-day life happily recede.
Who can forget the 2012 Games' most memorable moments?
Much of the symbolism of artistic director Danny Boyle's Opening Ceremony was lost on American audiences, but there's no denying that it was a wildly ambitious, eye-popping spectacle. The $42 million show spanned more than a century of British history. Farm animals, chimneys and creepy children's book characters made appearances alongside Paul McCartney and Mr. Bean. A stunt double playing Queen Elizabeth II descended into Olympic Stadium from a helicopter as the real monarch stood solemnly in her VIP seat. Her unsmiling expression was one of many images to make the internet and Photoshop rounds.
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The badminton competition got off to a strange start after eight players were booted for trying to lose. The doubles players from China, South Korea and Indonesia apparently tried to blow their matches so they could get an easier match-up in the knockout round.
Boris Johnson dangled helplessly from a zipline that was supposed to launch the spirited London mayor into Victoria Park after Great Britain notched its first gold medal. The image of Johnson in a blue helmet and suit holding two drooping Union Jacks became instant internet fodder and spawned a whole catalogue of comically photoshopped pictures.
As usual, the Olympics provided ample inspiration for social media memes and humor blogs. Perhaps the 3,500 hours of live-streamed coverage made it easier for viewers, already sitting at their computers, to instantly post their comedic interpretations.
A quick highlight reel: As mentioned, there was "Dangling Boris." Gymnast McKayla Maroney's sour expression on the medal podium spawned the "McKayla is Not Impressed" Tumblr, in which the teenager appears as a disapproving witness to everything from a Justin Bieber concert to a promo for Bravo's "The Real Housewives of New Jersey."
The U.S. swim team made a lip-synced music video to "Call Me Maybe" that had been played more than 6 million times by day 15 of the games. Sprinter Usain Bolt's "Bolting" celebratory move became the latest pose to imitate and share with the world on Facebook and Twitter.
And Ryan Lochte's confession to in-pool peeing earned him a spot in two Funny or Die videos, in which he expounded on his habit.
Oscar "Blade Runner" Pistorius of South Africa became the first amputee ever to compete in the Olympics. He finished last in the 400m semifinal heat and again in the final 4x400 relay, but the cheerful athlete won a standing ovation and fulfilled his goal to compete in the Games alongside able-bodied competitors.
Thirty-six female boxers made history by competing in an Olympic sport that was boys-only until this year. Claressa Shields, a 17-year-old American who grew up in Flint, Mich., a city marred by poverty and crime, won the middleweight gold medal. Ireland's champion boxer Katie Taylor won gold in the lightweight division, and in fairy-tale form, the host country got a piece of the glory as Nicola Adams won the flyweight title and "God Save the Queen" was piped through the Excel Center.
Hundreds of spectators at London's Olympic Stadium rose to their feet and applauded Sarah Attar, a 19-year-old who competed in the 800 meters under the flag of Saudi Arabia. She and one other pioneering woman, judoka Wojdan Ali Seraj Abdulrahim Shahrkhani, were the first women ever permitted to represent the Gulf nation in an international sporting event. Attar came in last place, but told The Associated Press that she participated to inspire, not to win. Their presence at the Games came down to an 11th-hour compromise between Olympic officials and Saudi leaders over details including how much skin the athletes would be permitted to cover. Women from Qatar and Brunei competed for the first time as well.
More than 60 Olympic records and 30 world records were broken at the London Games, mostly in weightlifting and swimming. Some of the flashiest records included Usain Bolt's 9.63 second 100m sprint that broke his own Olympic record, but fell short of breaking his world record of 9.58.
The U.S. women's 4x100 relay team ran the race in 40.82 seconds, smashing the old world record of 41.37.
First-timer Missy Franklin set an Olympic and world record in the 200m backstroke with her time of 2 minutes 4.06 seconds, while her teammate Allison Schmitt set an Olympic record in the 200m freestyle (1:53.61).
And Michael Phelps headed off into retirement after setting one of the most impressive records of the Games. By adding six medals to his astounding 16-piece collection, Phelps became the most-decorated Olympian of all time.
If the ease with which Jamaica's Usain Bolt set records and effortlessly clobbered competitors was not enough to make him the star of the 2012 Games, his outsized personality would probably have been. Bolt was a walking spectacle through the Games. After winning gold in the 200m he shushed the crowd, dropped to the track and started doing push-ups. He offered fist-bumps to track attendants, he danced at the starting blocks and he identified himself as "the most naturally gifted athlete the world has ever seen" on a Twitter page that's a window into his personality.
Ryan Lochte arrived in London a self-assured, sometimes dopey sex symbol—an image his appearance at the Games only amplified. He winked and blew kisses, he thought out loud about a future that might include designing Speedos and moving to an L.A. bachelor pad. He tried to defend his mom who characterized his relationships with women as "one-night stands." It was all fuel to the fire. Blogs called him fratty and conceited. He wore a grill with his gold medal. Fellow Olympians scrambled for pictures with him and female divers inserted a request in a parody video for Ryan Lochte to call them—maybe.
Michael Phelps was nearly overshadowed by his bombastic teammate. Locthe had beaten Phelps in a few key events and predictions abounded that Phelps' glory days were over. But then he swam into history by grabbing golds in the 100m fly, 200m individual medley, men's 4x200m IM and 4x200m freestyle relay and became the most-decorated Olympic athlete ever.
Gabby Douglas became America's latest sweetheart after she led the U.S. women's gymnastics team to a gold, and then scored another gold in the individual all-around. Her flawless, jaw-dropping routines made her the "most-clicked" athlete on NBC's Olympic site and won her the cereal box treatment. But her ascent was quickly reversed after she placed last on bars, fell off the beam and became the subject of a mean-spirited debate about her hair. Still, the 16-year-old appears to have gracefully weathered the storm.
Gymnast McKayla Maroney first became a superstar when she dazzled spectators with an opening vault that sent her body rocketing through the air and into a landing that was so sudden and still that it appeared to have surprised even Maroney. She scored a 16.233 on the vault, to give the U.S. women's gymnastics team a lead it would not relinquish. At the next competition, however, Maroney landed a vault on her backside, which was still enough to earn her a silver on the apparatus, her disappointment not-withstanding.
Kate Middleton had even the celebrities of the Olympics feeling star struck. The women's gymnastics team told the "Today" show how excited they were to meet the Duchess and find out that she was a fan of their leotards.
Missy Franklin's magnetic smile lit up the Aquatic Center again and again as she racked up her first four Olympic medals, inspiring a massive interest in the 17-year-old's post high school plans. Would it be college or professional swimming? She's leaning toward college, she told The AP, but she's still figuring it out.
Johnson was a famously good sport about the whole zip line fiasco. He cracked jokes and goofily waved the flags he was holding until he was rescued several minutes after his descent slowed to a mid-air stop. His lighthearted response to the awkward situation, along with his vehement defense of his city after Mitt Romney questioned its preparedness gave a big boost to his popularity and increased speculation that he might be bound for 10 Downing—speculation that Johnson has swatted away.
Mitt Romney's trip to the London Olympics turned into a fumble on his first international trip of his candidacy. The presidential nominee called London's security strikes "disconcerting" and wondered aloud if the city was ready to host such a large-scale event. These comments sparked a backlash from the British press, Mayor Johnson and Prime Minister David Cameron who said "It's easier if you hold an Olympic games in the middle of nowhere"—a reference to the Salt Lake City Games Romney oversaw.
And a day after Ralph Lauren unveiled the uniforms team USA would wear into Olympic stadium for the Opening Ceremony, someone decided to look at the tags and discovered, to the horror of American politicians, that they were made in China. The bipartisan firestorm that erupted with the news prompted Lauren to agree to have them manufactured in the USA next time around.
The U.S. women's soccer team won a thrilling semi-final over Canada that included a flurry of five goals in 26 minutes, with the Americans never taking the lead until the game's final minute. Two days later, the U.S. team would avenge its 2011 World Cup loss by beating Japan 2-1 to take the gold.
No one at the 2012 Games put on a greater display of pure toughness than Manteo Mitchell of the American 4x400-meter relay team, who ran the second of of his leg with a broken leg to help the U.S. advance to the finals.
South Korean Im Dong Hyun, the legally blind archer who on the first day of competition broke his own world record with a 72-arrow score of 699.
Soaring expectations for some athletes amplified the heartbreak and disappointment of their failures. That was no more apparent than in the men's and women's gymnastics competitions.
Everyone expected Jordyn Weiber to win the all-around gold in Gymnastics. But the 17-year-old didn't even qualify and had to watch her teammates compete from the sidelines. The gold medal went to her lesser-known teammate Gabby Douglas, whose stellar performance made her an overnight celebrity. Seeing heartbreak later were Douglas and Maroney, both falling in individual rounds.
On the men's side, John Orozco was hailed as the rising star who could challenge the Chinese and Japanese who dominate men's gymnastics. The Bronx native did just that during a preliminary round but then stumbled and stumbled yet again on the pommel horse, landing in a disappointing eighth place in the individual all-around.
Lolo Jones was hoping for a comeback. She was on pace to win the 100m hurdles in Beijing, but clipped the final hurdle and landed in seventh. The London Games were supposed to be her chance at redemption. Instead, she became the subject of major media scrutiny for such things as posing nude in ESPN the Magazine. Even worse, she ended the Games with a fourth-place finish—just shy of the bronze.
Morgan Uceny, a runner from California had fallen down in the 1,500m at the world championships last year. She picked herself up, finished 10th, and fought her way onto the Olympic track and into a perfect position to make a go for a medal. But then it happened again. She was tripped from behind on the last lap of the race and fell to the track, pounding her palms onto the ground in frustration. This time, she did not finish the race.
The strength these athletes showed in subsequent media appearances and interviews, in which they were forced to recount the details of some of the most devastating moments of their careers, were stunning examples of Olympic grace. Their failures, as much as their previous successes, were lessons in poise and in handling the tragedies that life invariably has in store.


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Calling their scheme "manipulation," Illinois' head insurance regulator in April blasted a plan by health insurance companies to circumvent federal health insurance reforms and continue to charge discriminatory rates for an extra year.
While the Illinois Department of Insurance says it won't approve such plans, which it politely says are "contrary to law," a statewide health advocacy group worries that the insurance companies will pressure Gov. Pat Quinn into bending the rules.
The issue revolves around a core provision of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, commonly called "Obamacare." Under that law, health insurance companies won't be able to charge higher rates for women, people with preexisting conditions and certain other classes of people after Jan. 1, 2014. The law also requires health insurance companies to include a basic set of benefits and bans them from denying coverage to people with existing conditions after the deadline.
To delay that requirement, some insurance companies operating in Illinois attempted to shift their "plan year" – the 12-month period during which a health insurance plan provides coverage – to begin just before the deadline and extend into December 2014.
Andrew Boron, director of the Illinois Department of Insurance, issued a bulletin to the companies in April, saying the agency wouldn't allow shifting plans to delay the law's requirements. Boron said shifting plan years would result in either the current plan year being too short or the next plan year being too long.
"Both results are in contravention of the federal rule, and violate the spirit and intent of the law that the market reforms be administered in a consistent and timely manner," Boron wrote in his bulletin to the insurance companies.
While it may seem Boron's admonishment nixes the companies' plans, advocacy group Campaign for Better Health Care says the companies are now lobbying Gov. Pat Quinn to provide a way around the rules. The group sent out an email to supporters last week urging them to call Quinn's office and demand that he uphold the rule.
"As implementation moves forward, we must continue to work together to ensure that Obamacare is not manipulated by those who put profits over people," CBHC said in the email. "This won't be the last time insurers try to skirt the health care law. It's up to all of us to make our voices heard and hold insurance companies accountable."
Two other facets of federal health insurance reform are shaping up in Illinois.
On July 22, Quinn signed into law Senate Bill 26, which extends Medicaid coverage to cover those who earn up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level. For a single person with no children, the poverty level begins at $11,490 and increases by $4,020 for each additional household member. That means Medicaid in Illinois will now cover individuals making up to $15,856 and increasing by $5,547.60 for each additional household member.
Expanding Medicaid is part of the federal plan to ensure everyone has some form of health insurance, which is expected to decrease the overall cost of health care. The expansion is expected to see 342,000 more Illinoisans enrolled by 2017. It will also qualify Illinois to receive an additional $12 billion in federal funding from 2014 to 2020 because the federal government covers the cost of expansion for the first three years. The reimbursement rate will gradually decrease to 90 percent by 2020, where it will remain indefinitely.
In addition to Medicaid expansion, Illinois is gearing up to begin open enrollment for its market-based health insurance exchange on Oct. 1. The exchange allows people to purchase private health insurance through a public portal in which every health plan is vetted by the state to meet basic benchmarks. It's meant to allow access to basic plans for small businesses, those whose employers don't offer health insurance, and people with preexisting conditions that might otherwise preclude them from obtaining coverage.
For more information about Illinois' implementation of health care reforms, visit www.healthcarereform.illinois.gov.
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Hsing Defends North American Cup
Ariel Hsing successfully defended her title at the 2012 North American Cup in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. Hsing defeated Canadian Mo Zhang for the second straight year at the North American Cup. Zhang, the 2011 Pan American Games champion, kept the match close, but ultimately Hsing was able to prevail in seven games, 13-11, 12-10, 5-11, 11-9, 4-11, 4-11, 12-10.
Despite being favored, Hsing faced great obstacles leading up to the North American Cup. All members of the United States Olympic table tennis team recently played at the North American Olympic Trials and have been training rigorously for the upcoming Olympic games. Hsing was impressive and fought through the fatigue from training to emerge victorious in Mississauga.
USA Table Tennis Chief Operating Officer and High Performance Director Doru Teodor Gheorghe was impressed by the effort given by the American athletes at the North American Cup. He was especially impressed by Hsing's performance.
"I am very proud of all of the team members' performance. Everybody was out of shape since all peaked at the North American Trials and are getting ready for Olympic Games," Gheorghe said "It was a struggle for everyone but Ariel proved again that she has a good mental strength and she pulled herself together when needed."
By winning the North American Cup, Hsing can travel to London confidently. Prevailing against a tough competitor like Zhang shows that Hsing is physically and mentally prepared to succeed in London at the 2012 Olympic games. Now she needs to focus on getting some rest after a tough competition.
"I actually thought I prepared well for this tournament, but boy, was I in for a surprise. My legs felt like lead and my arm felt like jelly. I was playing really bad, and on the night of the first day of the tournament, I was wondering what on earth I was going to do the next day," Hsing said "Luckily, my teammates helped me practice thoroughly, and my coach gave me great advice and support, so we finally pulled through and finished on a high note."


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Consider an elevator moving down with uniform velocity. A person standing inside watches an object fall from the ceiling of the elevator to the floor. Say the height of the elevator is $h$. Then the work done by gravity in that frame of reference should be $mgh$. But consider this same event being watched by someone else in the stationary frame of reference. In his reference frame, the object travels a larger distance as it falls from the ceiling to the floor of the elevator because the floor itself is moving downwards (one can calculate this extra distance covered to be $u \sqrt{\frac{2h}{g}} $) and hence the change in kinetic energy should be more in that frame than in the moving frame!
I just can't seem to figure out where I'm going wrong here. I'm probably missing something very obvious.
So I would be very grateful if anyone could explain this to me.
Edit: Okay, let's say the object is a clay ball and it collides with the floor inelastically such that it's kinetic energy is converted into heat. In the moving frame of reference the heat would be simply equal to $\frac{1}{2}mv^2$ which is equal to $mgh$. In the stationary frame of reference it would be equal to $\frac{1}{2}mv^2-\frac{1}{2}mu^2$ since the ball after colliding is moving with speed $u$. This can be calculated to be equal to $mgu\sqrt{\frac{2h}{g}} + mgh$ which is clearly greater than the heat produced in the frame attached to the elevator and this is a contradiction because the heat measured in any frame should be the same.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — The dean of Washington National Cathedral is speaking out in support of gay marriage in a new advertisement airing in advance of next week's Supreme Court arguments on same-sex marriage.
The Respect for Marriage Coalition, which advocates for gay marriage rights, announced its newest ad entitled "Journey" on Friday. It comes as several new public opinion polls show greater support for same-sex marriage than just a few years ago.
The ad says a growing number of Americans believe it's time to allow marriage for gays and lesbians. It features people talking about their gay friends, family members and neighbors who want to marry. The Very Rev. Gary Hall, the National Cathedral dean, appears in his clerical collar and speaks briefly about a gay couple in his ministry.
Hall announced in January that the National Cathedral will begin hosting same-sex marriages.
Cathedral spokesman Richard Weinberg said the church intends to continue advocating for equality for gays and lesbians. Hall plans to speak at a rally Tuesday at the Supreme Court.
"The cathedral's continued involvement in advocacy related to LGBT equality is grounded in our faith," Weinberg said, referring to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community "One of Jesus' great commandments was to love our neighbors as ourselves, and the dean's participation in this ad is a way of saying that there are people of faith who believe gay couples should have the freedom to marry."
The $150,000 ad buy is part of a larger $1 million campaign. It will air in Washington around the Sunday political talk shows and the following weekend.
The Respect for Marriage Coalition is led by the group Freedom to Marry and the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest gay rights organization. The campaign is also supported by major unions, including the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, and other diversity groups and advocacy organizations.
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Today marks 3 weeks since the Caine's Arcade video was posted online. Here is a bit of what has happened:
Over 5 million views/tears/smiles.
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'Bagging and bodydropping your truck will certainly compromise the confines of the bed space. The new equation will now include making room for intruding wheels and tires, whether or not to create wheeltubs, and of course, laying out a new floor that will work with or around the differential and protruding areas of the frame.
Cutting and trimming the existing floor is an option if need be, but if you're in the middle of a ground-up back-half build, you're going to want to fabricate a reinforced area. And if you plan to show your truck, you'll also want the new floor to hold some cosmetic value.
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When actress Nancy E. Carroll originally read the script for "Precious Little," it wasn't exactly love at first sight.
"I didn't hate it, but I also didn't understand it," she says with a laugh.
Lee Mikeska Gardner, the artistic director of the Nora Theatre Company, had sent the script to Carroll to see if she was interested in performing in the Nora's production of the play, directed by Melia Bensussen. Now, after an unrewarding read-through, Carroll had to make a decision.
"I thought, 'I'm clearly missing something here. But I totally trust Lee and Melia, so I'm going to depend on them to help me understand how the pieces of the play fit together,' " says Carroll. "It's a very interesting play, now that I understand it."
"Precious Little," an 80-minute one-act that runs March 2-26 at the Central Square Theater in Cambridge, follows a research linguist named Brodie (Gardner) who finds out that her unborn child may never be able to learn a language. She now faces a difficult decision, and her sharp mind may cloud her judgment rather than provide clarity.
"When we are in crisis, our knowledge can get in the way of being quiet enough to make the decisions that we need to make," says Carroll, who clearly understands the play more deeply than she did after her first reading. "We tend to live in the past or in the future, and not in the moment."
The play, written by Madeleine George, provides a rare acting challenge for some lucky actor: They get to play a gorilla. When she learned she needed to fill the role of this primate, director Bensussen immediately thought of Carroll.
"I'm not sure if that's a compliment or an insult," Carroll says with a laugh.
It's a compliment. That's what people tend do after they see Carroll act: They compliment. Carroll, a Rockport resident, has distinguished herself during the many decades she's been a Boston-area actress. Her career runs the spectrum, from the smallest stages in Boston, to the Huntington Theatre Company, to Broadway ("Present Laughter") and Hollywood ("Spotlight" and "Olive Kitteridge").
And now she plans to ape an ape.
In the play, Brodie visits a gorilla in the zoo. Although the audience can hear the gorilla's thoughts, Brodie cannot. However, communication takes many forms. And by watching the ape, Brodie recognizes that the animal "is in total harmony with her environment and herself," says Carroll, who also performs other (human) roles in the play.
If Carroll is playing a gorilla, she wants to get it right. And that starts with the animal's movements.
"Thank God for the internet," says Carroll, who's been studying videos of gorillas online. "I've been watching the way they position their hands and their bodies. Their hind legs are so short that they walk on the knuckles of their hands. It's been a wonderful physical challenge. I need to capture every physical detail that I can in order to help the audience suspend its disbelief."
It's that kind of commitment and attention to detail that has taken Carroll's career all the way to Ireland. That was the home base for a production of Martin McDonagh's "The Cripple of Inishmaan," which enjoyed a five-month run in Ireland and the United States, including a stop in Boston. The production was staged by the same Druid theater company that's now completing its run of "The Beauty Queen of Leenane" at the Emerson/Paramount Center in Boston.
Carroll's ability to land a role in an acclaimed international production is further proof of her talent and perseverance.
"I was looking for an adventure," says Carroll, recalling how she joined the Druid cast. "I wanted to travel."
She began scrolling through websites for acting opportunities far and wide, and she saw that Druid was holding auditions in New York for a touring production of "Cripple."
"The notice said they were looking for someone who could play a 90-year-old woman, but also had the stamina for a long tour," remembers Carroll. "I thought, 'I can do that!' I contacted my agent and said, 'Please get me in.' "
Carroll got an audition. And a call-back or two. But then there was silence.
"A couple weeks went by and I started feeling pretty disappointed," she says. "And then I got the phone call that I had been cast. It was just about the best job I've ever had. Ireland is my favorite place in the world. That experience was heaven. The added bonus was that [Druid] asked me back again" to perform in "Big Maggie."
Carroll also got the chance to see how plays are produced in Ireland, and she reports there are many differences. She says the rehearsal period is about twice as long as the condensed schedule actors endure in the United States.
"And the rehearsal breaks – they call them 'tea breaks' – are about 30 minutes instead of about 10," says Carroll. "After all, the kettle has to boil."
But now she's back on American time. As we spoke, Carroll and the rest of the "Precious Little" cast were about a week away from technical rehearsals, and Carroll was looking forward to the addition of lights, sets and sounds that, she believes, will play an important role in telling this stylized tale.
She says, "I think it's going to be magical."
"Precious Little"
WHEN: March 2-26
WHERE: Central Square Theater, 450 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge
TICKETS: Start at $16
INFO: 617-576-9278; CentralSquareTheater.org


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With the second inauguration of Barack Obama, and the seating of new legislatures, elected officials should pay attention to the issues that defined the election and make policy decisions that reflect the people's choices.
Elections have consequences. After a campaign in which Republicans called for tax cuts mostly delivered to high-income people, fewer regulations on business and slashing budgets, citizens continue to support a system that has been around since the 1930s, combining a free, active market economy with a government that provides opportunity and security and constrains laissez-faire capitalism. About 60 percent want tax increases on the top 2 percent, and most don't want to harm programs and tax deductions for middle-class, working-class and poor Americans.
Opinion research from 40 years ago to today shows that Americans are wary of "big government" but strongly support core programs like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. And while most are concerned about too much regulation, they want laws and rules that protect workers and unions' rights, constrain banks and provide clean air and water.
While the conservative media did its part in painting Democrats as scary socialists, out of touch with American traditions and its people, many right-wing leaders and organizations were not far behind. Just take a look at the conservative media or purported think tanks like the national Heritage Foundation or the Maine Heritage Policy Center, and you'll see apocalyptic language, combined with shoddy presentations masquerading as actual research. To rebound, they should take reality more seriously and treat political opponents with greater respect.
In Maine, Gov. Paul LePage finds himself in a new, more lonely place. His name was not on the ballot, and he remained quiet during the campaign season, at least after being captured saying he'd call the Legislature into special session and anger Democrats, not long after he compared Obamacare and the Internal Revenue Service to the Gestapo.
But LePage was the critical factor in Maine legislative races.
Both LePage's organization, People Before Politics, and opposition groups framed incumbents' records in terms of their support for the governor's agenda. Locally, Sen. Nichi Farnham, R-Bangor, signed a 2011 letter criticizing LePage's tone and opposed his veto of the research and development bond. But Farnham voted for most of LePage's legislative program and led the committee to end Election Day registration. She lost the Senate race to Democrat Geoffrey Gratwick.
Because of Democrats' strong wins, it's clear that some things will not happen in Maine. No new laws will limit voting. The privatization and takings agendas are dead, as are anti-union proposals. However, additional tax cuts passed under the last Legislature will roll out soon and either will have to be curtailed by bipartisan officials or will remake state spending.
Mainers repudiated the dishonest, negative campaign run against successful U.S. Senate candidate Angus King and added to New England's unusual tendency to select independents. King should understand that his strong win was not just about him and his message about a broken political system but was also fueled by a rejection of the Republican agenda candidate Charlie Summers endorsed.
Nationally, no policy issue is garnering as much attention as preventing the "fiscal cliff," with its increases in taxes and big cuts in spending.
We were brought to this point by brinkmanship over raising the debt ceiling. Congressional Republicans refused to take this normal step, and leaders set up a series of steps – a "super-committee" to create a budget and then the "fiscal cliff" should the committee fail. Republicans rejected Obama's outline, which included substantial cuts in core social programs and proportionately few dollars in tax increases.
The 2012 elections should provide a fresh start to negotiations. Obama's earlier proposal, delivered under duress, should be off the table. The vast bulk of the deficit is due to the Bush tax cuts, the recession, two wars and the Bush prescription drug plan.
With Americans having chosen a more progressive Congress and picked the president who opposed the Paul Ryan budget plan, the new budget should reflect voters' direction.
In Maine and nationally, Democrats should see their wins as an endorsement of their approach and a repudiation of Republican over-reach. However, Democrats will need to stay engaged with the public as they carry out their mandate, demonstrating principled partisanship and bipartisan compromise.
Even as elections have consequences, another is just two years away.
Amy Fried is a member of the Maine Regional Network, part of the Scholars Strategy Network, which brings together scholars across the country to address public challenges and their policy implications. Members' columns appear in the BDN every other week.


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Three days after my call to Union, I was looking at his yearbook page, and other copied files. I discovered my father was in the Choir, Dramatic, Track and Camera Clubs. Who was this person? He never sang, did any sports, didn't attend plays, and took very few photos. As my father, he collected old maps, old guns, old stamps and was an avid ham operator. His nickname was "Pud," what kind of name is that, where did it come from, well, I'll never know.
The file contained my birth announcement, printed in two newspapers, and a few other pieces about his service. His obituary was in the file, and date stamped at the college a week after he died. Seems my mother knew what to do, as she sent all these articles to Union. He majored in Science/ Chemistry and became a Chemist, working at several Boston area companies.
My mother's file was similar, with a yearbook photo and listing of her clubs. Since she majored in Costume and Textiles, she was quoted as saying, "Have to make a sweater to match the socks I knitted for the game tomorrow" Looking at her photos reminded me of the movie, Mona Lisa Smile, since Skidmore was a woman's college. (She was her class agent 15 years up to the time of her death.) Many years later, she attended Northeastern University and received her Masters Degree in Education, and became a teacher.
If your parents went to college, this might be a nice resource. I found out more than what is mentioned above. Neither college asked me for any information, perhaps because obituaries (with my name mentioned) were in their files. The process was so painless, and I got a huge payoff. Photos below are of my mother.
|My mother holding the magazine.
|My mother on the ladder.