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Mobile Monday Amsterdam: "Think about the values you are going to save"
November 4, 2008 in conference | Tags: bruce sterling, bunker, mobile, mobile monday amsterdam, momo, pitslamp, social, society, suffix.be, teemu arina, twiist | 1 comment
3/11: Mobile Monday Amsterdam.
Central theme: How mobile changes society.
Description in one word: surprising. Thanks to Bruce Sterling and Teemu Arina.
- Bruce Sterling, who writes for Wired (beyond the beyond), Wikipedia, and is the author of various science fiction books, literally climbed the pulpit. Starting his sermon with the words "welcome mobile sinners". Everybody turned silent, and listened to some wise words of Sterling. Like: "I want you to think real hard about the values you are going to save and stop worrying about the plastic." With 'plastic' he means the fancy phones. So he pleads to think about the social aspects of mobile, not so much about the technology. Great!
- The 26-year old Fin Teemu Arina entertained us with some great conjurer tricks, but he also gave a very interesting (and visually stunning) presentation about how mobile is changing our society. Since it was very abstract I refer to the blog entry in which he explains his points. A must-read!
PS @bunker was asked to take pictures by the organisation. Thanks to him, I could attend the event (it was fully booked after two hours and I was too late). Therefore some link love to an event @bunker will organise in May: Twiist. (PPS Twiist is still looking for sponsors, so go ahead and contact them 🙂 ) And a PPPS: @Simon was there as well and wrote a great review, mentioning the 'vulcano-metaphor' Sterling talked about.


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Gardenhire willing to give struggling starters more time
MINNEAPOLIS -- After signing Ricky Nolasco, Phil Hughes and Mike Pelfrey to a combined $84 million worth of deals in the offseason, the Twins hoped their rotation would be improved in 2014.
But so far, that simply hasn't been the case, as Twins starters have combined to post a 6.32 ERA that ranks second-worst in the Majors entering Saturday's game against the Tigers. It's more than a run worse than last season, when the rotation posted a Major League-worst 5.26 ERA.
Twins manager Ron Gardenhire acknowledged the rotation's struggles, but he said it's too early to make any sweeping changes.
"We've got our starters and we like them, but we also need results," Gardenhire said. "We think these guys are going to be OK. We're hoping they're going to be OK as we go along here. Making adjustments to the rotation, I wish it was that easy. You have to give them a little bit of time here. You don't want to jump the gun."
Gardenhire said he's confident based on their track records that Twins starters will get better as the season goes along. But he also said the Twins are concerned about the subpar outings by their starters. Reliever Samuel Deduno would likely be the top option to join the rotation if a change is made, but Gardenhire said he wants to give his starters a few more chances to turn it around.
"They're here for a reason," Gardenhire said. "Hopefully they'll get rolling and we won't have to have this conversation. But I understand the concern, because we're concerned, too. We need more innings out of our starters, and no one knows it better than our starters."


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QI�ve always owned cats, but I had a mild heart attack recently and my doctor wants me to walk more. Do you think a puppy can help me get healthier?
AAbsolutely. Dogs improve and protect your health in so many ways, and exercise from walking your dog is right at the top of the list. One National Institute of Health-funded study of people with heart attacks found that a year later those who owned dogs were more likely to be alive than those who didn�t � even if they had the most severe cardio problems. Having a loving pet also reduces stress. Harvard Medical School and Yale Law School, pressure cookers of stress, for sure, have specially trained therapy dogs that students can check out from the library for a dose of calming canine companionship. And therapy dogs also have been making the rounds at hospitals for a long time. Therapy Dogs International started in 1976.
For kids going through chemo, a visit from a dog can provide a rush of energizing adrenaline and needed distraction. For heart patients, petting a pooch can bring down blood pressure.
Other surprising benefits of having a dog: Some have almost 50 times as many scent receptors as humans, so they can sniff out everything from bombs to diseases. In fact, they can be trained to detect changes in behavior that indicate high blood pressure or a heart attack, and head out for help.
If you have kids or grandkids at home, they benefit, too. Babies seem to develop healthier immune systems if they grow up in a house with a dog, and older kids learn about caring and responsibility. The right dog can be a real benefit for you and your family. Dogs can make everyone�s Real Age younger, and we�re all for that.
QIs it true that tattoos can cause skin cancer? I�m dying to get one.
AThe short answer is ... the jury is still out. But, and this is a big but for those of you with tattoos, many kinds of tattoo ink are toxic and can be germ-filled. There�s been a wave of infections (19 in Rochester, N.Y., alone) from tainted ink. Unless the artist changes ink for every customer, when you get a tat you are being intimate with everyone who got a tat from that inkwell.
As for the toxins, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has started to look into the risks, and since more than 45 million Americans (36 percent of 30-year-olds) have tats, the info shouldn�t be too hard to get � eventually. Remember, it took a couple of decades to positively determine that smoking causes lung cancer. That didn�t mean it was smart to smoke before the official findings came out.
In the meantime, here�s what we know and we want you to think about: Those colorful inks include phthalates (hormone disrupters that you worry about in plastics), as well as carcinogenic metals and hydrocarbons. Black ink (based on soot) may contain hazardous polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, which can cause cancer. They�re also made with dibutyl phthalate and benzo(a)prene, which is labeled by the Environmental Protection Agency as �among the most potent and well-documented skin carcinogens.� Blue ink contains cobalt and aluminum. Red ink often contains cadmium and mercury sulfide. And the FDA notes that many of the inks are industrial grade suitable for printer�s ink and automobile paint. Plus, inks have been found to migrate to your lymph nodes.
Your skin is there to protect you from heat, cold, dirt, germs and dangerous chemicals. So ask yourself, does walking around with known toxins etched into your skin sound smart?
But heck, if you believe scarring the largest organ of your body � your skin � is cool, we suggest you take a deep breath and wait for the urge to pass.
Mehmet Oz, M.D. is host of "The Dr. Oz Show," and Mike Roizen, M.D. is chief medical officer at the Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute.


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There usually isn't much sentimental about a day at the library, especially since the day was yesterday, but it will be before long. A day filled with seeing Eric and Henry, Gary B. Roberts, Laura Lee K., helping a genea-blogger, mention of Kathryn Doyle and a crazed man who tried to stop the train I was on.
I went to the New England Historic Genealogical Library (NEHGS), in Boston, yesterday, because I received a letter earlier this week from Laura Lee K. of California stating, "In Boston at NEHGS, researching James Lowrey. Happened to find your rootsweb genealogy, just after finding John and Elidia in the Barbour VR. Have been reresearching your entries." We corresponded and I knew I just had to meet her.
Upon arriving and the elevator door at NEHGS, out came Eric and Henry (Eric is the director of the DAR Library in Washington, D.C. and Henry is the editor of the NEHGS Register). They were leaving to catch a plane, so no time for hugs or chatting (Eric and I have known each other for over 20 years). Next person I saw was well-known genealogist Gary Boyd Roberts, he was very happy and excited to be going to the FGS conference in Knoxville next week. I hadn't seen his name as a speaker, so I asked if he was talking, and he said, "no" and that he hadn't been there in a very long time. So, some of you may see him. (I am privy as to why he is there, and will keep it that way, but you can ask him.)
Meeting Laura Lee, who had been at the Library for an entire week, with her darling, non-genealogist husband, was a real treat. They were attending the NEHGS program called, "Come Home to New England" a program that is held twice in the summer. Laura discovered me through my Roots Web site and wrote me. I had just written about the Lowrey Family Reunion several weeks ago, and it was this family she was working on. Meeting her was like seeing an old friend. We spent a lot of time together sharing this and that. I loved that she told her new friends that we were cousins. But most of all was the fact that my blog was the first she had ever read (how can you not get sentimental over that). My blog address is on my Roots Web site. I learned that she had gone to the Jamboree and to Salt Lake City this year, so of course, I was envious. In addition, she knows Kathryn Doyle of the California Genealogical Society. Laura and I will continue to correspond, we share many, many lines which I want to help her with. I was thrilled that somebody can use my genealogy research.
It was a full day, and one of the most fun I've had at a library, perfect in every way. Until....I took the train from Boston to home. Half way through the 45 minute ride, a crazy drunk or drugged 20ish person ran down our aisle, out the car and up the steps to the first car, where the engineer was! The train continued, but we all wondered what was going on. Several conductors came through, and now the train stopped and the guy was brought back, with all the conductors and the engineer. To think he was trying to get to the engineer was rather scary, to say the least. The guy was seated, and warned that the police would remove him at the next stop. He continued to rant and rave and we all held our breath, and the passenger again got up, and the train stopped a 2nd time. It ended peacefully, we were all 20 minutes late, and the guy was one lucky person, and not arrested. Apparently, it is a federal crime (as in air planes), but the conductor made the call to not contact the police. He said, he thought of the passengers not wanting to be late.
So, can you get all this from the internet? I don't think so. But, that being said, I do love the internet. Read the photo below...that is one day I won't go to the library!


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There's no limit to the blasphemy and curses that I want to scream. Can I fix something without something else breaking or some other idiotic Microsoft "feature" not being uncovered in an untimely manner and not to my advantage?
AW hell.
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The Maharaja
Short answer - no.
Question, I have a .tif document (an application), which I recently learned is Tagged Information Format or something like that - WTF. How do I convert it to a word document so I can fill it out?
Scott Z
TIF format is commonly used for images. You can't convert it into a Word document.
Try opening it with Photoshop, Painshop, or even MS PaintBrush.
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(Pocket-lint) - The hot hatch falls into two distinct categories: understated and exaggerated. Think Golf GTI or Vauxhall Astra VXR, each has its merits and they are clearly targeted at different markets, but crucially both are about adding some fun to your driving.
For many, the idea of a Golf GTI is great on paper, but just too pricey in reality. Enter the Alfa Romeo Cloverleaf mark, or Quadrifoglio Verde for fans of Italian. The Cloverleaf treatment can be given to both the Giulietta, Alfa's current flagship car and the MiTo, its small three door hatchback.
Rather than adding big spoilers and bright paint schemes, Cloverleaf keeps it understated, with a nice set of rims and engine upgraded and a slightly tweaked interior. In the case of the MiTo, which we have on review here, you get a turbocharged 1.4 MultiAir engine, a beautiful set of rims (which we will talk about later) and a faux carbon fibre effect interior with the option to add lightweight Sabelt racing seats.
For some, what the Cloverleaf adds to the MiTo just might not be enough to justify the extra cost. We think it transforms a fairly average car, into a thing of beauty.
The majority of this is due to the black and silver 18-inch rims Alfa has put on the MiTo, which are one of the best-looking accessories a set of tyres has ever seen. Add to that the Cloverleaf badge on the side, blacked-out rear windows and silver-effect wing mirrors and the MiTo Cloverleaf ends up looking rather special.
Inside though, things are rather different. Our review car was fitted with the optional £2,500 Sabelt racing seats. They are a joy to behold and a real highlight for those who fancy adding something special to their car. However, other than the seats, the interior really does fall flat.
The problem is, the MiTo is a budget car to begin with, and the changes Alfa has made for the Cloverleaf simply can't mask the fact that it's plastic fantastic everywhere. The silver-look radio and gear stick is a particular low point.
We aren't making excuses for Alfa here, as the cost of the MiTo QV is a lot less than most of the bigger hot hatches, but we can't help but think it could have been cleverer about where it spent money on the interior.
What the interior lacks, minus those seats, is that zing factor you expect on a range-topper like the Cloverleaf, it just doesn't quite have that special something which would make you think of shelling out a bit extra.
The MiTo Quadrifoglio Verde is a quick car. On paper it manages 0-62 in 7.5 seconds, thanks to its absolutely brilliant turbocharged 1.4 litre engine. In fact, of the whole set-up, the engine is the part that really stands out.
It is hands down the best bit about the car and for the most part, helped by that fantastic exhaust note, helps to distract you from that very average interior. It is nice and torquey and likes to be revved, with the turbo starting to pull things along rapidly at about 4000rpm.
You will notice a fair amount of torque steer in the MiTo if you put your foot down, but not enough for it to be a real issue driving the car hard out of corners.
So, it's full marks for the MiTo Cloverleaf's engine. It is such a strong unit, sounds fantastic and adds enough sportiness and go to the car to justify that four-leafed badge that gives the car it's Italian name of Quadrifoglio Verde.
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Alfa's strong point has never really been driving position, and its no different here, with the MiTo having too much of an abrupt feel to it. Visibility isn't bad, but we found ourselves, even with the seat all the way back, feeling slightly too boxed in, with the steering wheel too high.
The pedal box is a touch too tight, but does have a nice set of metal pedals to play with, alongside a nice big metal left footrest for motorway journeys. Clutch feel is good, and both the brakes and accelerator nice and responsive.
We say responsive, but this only applies if you keep Alfa's gimmicky D.N.A switch sat in D mode. The acroynym refers to three modes "dynamic", "normal" and "all weather", it basically alters steering feel and throttle response. The problem is, it has no middle ground. Either you feel like you are driving a blob in normal, or a twitchy go-kart in dynamic.
In all honesty, the moment the MiTo was switched to dynamic, we never took it off unless we were driving on the motorway. Irritatingly, we found the system wouldn't let us change around the 60mph mark, so getting that extra bit of go from the engine to overtake became an issue, unless we slowed down, flicked the switch and then pulled away again.
Steering feel is also far too light in normal mode, set up nicely for the city but if you fancy doing something sporty, it absolutely has to be kept in dynamic. You don't get a massive amount of feedback from the road via the steering either, although it's enough to keep you from misjudging a corner and ending up in a ditch.
Drive the MiTo QV hard on the B-roads and you are treated to that true hot-hatch experience. Plenty of pull, tight handling and a short-throw gear stick that makes you feel like a racing driver. It might not be the best of the hatches, but it certainly performs.
The MiTo QV is a bit of an odd proposition. As new, it isn't the hot hatch to go for, instead we say opt for something like the Fiesta ST or Clio Renaultsport. However, if you fancy looking good from the outside and driving about in a bit of style, then the Alfa is a no-brainer. It just looks better than the competition. Especially if you go for that 8C red paint scheme as an option.
As a used car though, the Cloverleaf strikes us as the MiTo to go for. You'll get an excellent fuel economy in normal mode and can flick into dynamic when you don't have your kids in the back. Those Sabelt seats make it feel like you're driving a racing car. It is the best MiTo there is, as you might expect, and secondhand there are some good deals to be had.
Alfa keeps on getting better, build quality is improving and clearly, the exterior looks are still there. If things keep going the way they are, whatever Alfa turns out next should be an absolute corker.


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Geothermal energy trade mission - Download the presentations
Adunos GmbH
Adunos GmbH is a fast growing energy solutions company dedicated to the promotion of renewable and sustainable energies. The company concentrates on developing, delivering and implementing high quality products, such as domestic hot-water and air-water heat pumps, and new integrated energy solutions, such as wireless m-bus smart-metering systems. Already exporting into various European countries, Adunos GmbH plans to further distribute their heat pumps in combination with smart metering systems throughout Europe. Adunos GmbH is primarily looking for main distributors for the smart metering system for UK. This could be installers of metering systems, metering service providers, construction companies, wholesalers or energy suppliers. Download the Presentation here!
AP Sensing GmbH
AP Sensing GmbH is a global leader in advanced photonic sensing. The company dedicates itself to providing global solutions in the Distributed Temperature Measurement (DTS) market and became an innovator in optical measurement and optical assembly technique. Offering traditional geothermal response tests (GRT) and developing a controlled enhanced geothermal response test (EGRT) solution, AP Sensing's objective is to contribute to a sustainable exposure to natural resources. Already operating in most parts of the world, AP Sensing is looking to meet with operators of geothermal power plants, independent consultants, architects and constructors. Download the Presentation here!
BESTEC GmbH
BESTEC GmbH has set itself the objective to close the gap between theory and practice in the field of future energy sources. The resulting outcomes are concepts that combine economics and ecology with equal weighting. Furthermore, the company is conducting Europe's largest research project into electricity generation from geothermal sources. From planning to implementation, BESTEC GmbH links the strengths of research and industry to realise pioneering energy concepts and is looking for British construction and energy companies to develop their UK market. Download the Presentation here!
GeothermieBohrer - geotermica Erdwärmesysteme GmbH & Co. KG
GeothermieBohrer is a brand name of the company geotermica Erdwärmesysteme GmbH & Co. KG. The geothermal expert is concentrating on installing surface collectors and drilling geothermal boreholes. Wanting to revolutionize today's energy consumption patterns, GeothermieBohrer is preparing to expand its business to various countries of the world, starting with the United Kingdom and Ireland. In order to achieve these objectives, the company is looking for distributors and installers of heat pumps, architects and planners, as well as project planners for heat pump installations. Download the Presentation here!
MHG Heiztechnik GmbH
MHG Heiztechnik is one of Germany's leading providers of sophisticated heating systems. With top-class heating products, such as air/water or brine/water heat pumps, the company offers its national and international customers a wide-ranging programme for the ultimate in cosy warmth, convenience and reliability. To further expand its business in the UK market, MHG Heiztechnik is primarily looking for British construction companies, as well as architects and installers of heat pumps. Download the Presentation here!


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There have been a number of Genea-Bloggers commenting on the first viewing of new TV Series Who Do You Think You Are?
There are over 900 Genea-Bloggers as of this post. You can find them here: Genealogy Blog Roll
I read many of them every day to learn how they, the Genea-Bloggers do their Family Research. This blog was created to help share how the Family Tree Maker program (Version 2008 and newer) works and can be used to support our research. Over time, I hope to see and explore the Family Tree Maker program to help with the research and the sharing of the information that is found along the way.
I have read a number of the reviews by the Genea-Bloggers already and each of them is worth the time to read. Initially, I was not going to post a blog but started to post a comment on one of the reviews. After I started, I figured that I may have my own views of this TV program. So, I am adding my two cents.
I do not consider myself a genealogist, but am very interested in collecting / researching on who my ancestors were. What is my family history? I started to just 'collect' the names, and cite my sources, but realized by "hanging out" with Genea-Bloggers online, participating in some of the Blog themes, and having the honor of meeting some of them over the past year.
This group of awesome folk, have changed my mind as to what this "hobby" is really about. Its more about creating a Family History. Collecting, not names, but stories, and telling those stories.
This first episode of Who Do You Think You Are? was a great reminder of the journey that I am on with great hints on how to do some of this work.
What I liked about the first show, and hope it continues, is the Balance of information in it's presentation.
I think those of us who do Family Research can say "been there, done that". For example: The Genea-Blogger himself, Thomas MacEntee posted this thoughts on the Destination: Austin Family Blog. Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing, posting his comments and there are many others.
The more experienced picked up some of the details of the hobby. Such as the lack of use of Gloves when handling some important documents and having to wait for something to be provided. However, is that a real issue or is there some controversy on the use of white gloves in handling of these documents?
Having watched the PBS program, Faces of America and the BYU program, The Generations Project, it was interesting how this program differed and how they were the same.
Here is some of what I learned / relearned from this first episode of Who Do You Think You Are? (WDYTYA)
Sarah Jessica Parker started by talking to her mother and picked up some basic, starting information.
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Start with the immediate family and collect information. Listen for names, dates, places, and the stories, really listen to the stories.
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After collecting the information, don't dismiss the information and don't jump conclusions based on that information.
Follow up on the Stories and look for documentation that may help prove or disprove the stories. In this program, Sarah Jessica Program went to her home town in Ohio and looked at some census records. In this piece of the show, there was some conflicting information, a death date in one year and a census record of the same person in the following year.
But as TV shows go, we saw a very short clip of what went on in Ohio and can only guess as to how much work, time and people it took to give us that short clip.
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What do you do with Conflicting information? Simple, follow up. Document where we found our information, recognize the differences, then find where you might find the resolution to the conflict.
Going from Ohio to California helped clarify (resolve) the conflicting information.
The piece that hit home for me, was the "Gold Rush". I have copies of letters from ancestors who were on the Oregon Trail to their relatives "back home".
The next stop was New England to find a link, like to the trip to California, to see how the family tied into the history of our country.
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Don't be shocked about what you might find, but don't jump to conclusions too quickly. Earlier in the show, Ms. Parker and her brother talked about how long they thought the family had been in the US. While in Ohio, there was an indication that one of the surnames had a connection to New England. Picking up on that "hint" we were taken to Boston, where the Salem Witch Trial was introduced. The reaction to this revelation was priceless.
Like the trip to California to clarify a conflict in information, knowing a little more history of the Trials a less shocking conclusion was reached.
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Share your findings. The episode ended when Sarah Jessica Parker returned home to re-visit her mother, to share her findings, and the stories.
I learned a lot, confirmed what I thought, and encouraged me to continue to do research. I didn't watch the program to be taught how to "do genealogy", but to pick up some of the clues.
Perhaps the show was to draw of the non-genealogist into doing Family research. Several Twitter messages, following the show, indicated that some other family members were showing interest in genealogy. I am guessing that some genealogy websites had some increased internet traffic.
Besides the balance in presentation between folks that do family research and to the non-genealogist, it was the Reaction to the Findings that "can't be made up". Actress, yes, but think that her reactions on the screen were real.
Looking forward to next weeks episode.
Here is a link to the NBC Website with some Video's of the programs:


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An autoimmune disease develops when the body's immune system fails to recognize normal body tissues and attacks and destroys them as if they were foreign, rather than attacking an outside organism. The cause is not fully understood, but in some cases it is thought that autoimmune diseases are triggered by exposure to microorganisms or other environmental causes, especially in people with a genetic predisposition to the disorder. A single organ or multiple organs and tissues may be affected.
There are many autoimmune diseases with symptoms that range from mild rashes to life-threatening conditions that attack major organ systems. Though each disease is different, immune-system malfunction is present in all of them. Disease symptoms vary depending on which tissue is targeted for destruction. Symptoms common to all autoimmune disorders include fatigue, dizziness, malaise, and low-grade fever.
Autoimmune disorders are frequently classified into organ-specific disorders and non-organ-specific types. Organs and tissues frequently affected include the endocrine gland, such as thyroid, pancreas, and adrenal glands; components of the blood, such as red blood cells; and the connective tissues, skin, muscles, and joints.
In organ-specific disorders, the autoimmune process is directed mostly against one organ. But patients may experience several organ-specific diseases at the same time. In non-organ-specific disorders, autoimmune activity is widely spread throughout the body. This includes Rheumatoid Arthritis (joints), Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, and Dermatomyositis (connective tissue).
According to the American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association, about 75 percent of autoimmune disease cases occur in women, particularly those who have had children. The cause is not fully understood, but in some cases it is thought to be triggered by exposure to microorganisms especially in people with a genetic predisposition to the disorder.
Common types of localized autoimmune disorders:
- Addison's disease (adrenal)
- Autoimmune hepatitis (liver)
- Celiac disease (GI tract)
- Crohn's disease (GI tract)
- Graves' disease (overactive thyroid)
- Guillain-Barre syndrome (central nervous system)
- Hashimoto's thyroiditis (lowered thyroid function)
- Multiple sclerosis
- Raynaud's phenomenon (fingers, toes, nose, ears)
- Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (pancreas islets)
- Ulcerative colitis (GI tract)
Common types of systemic autoimmune diseases:
- Lupus [Systemic Lupus Erythematosus] (skin, joints, kidneys, heart, brain, red blood cells, other)
- Polymyalgia Rheumatica (large muscle groups)
- Rheumatoid arthritis (joints; less commonly lung, skin, and Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis)
- Scleroderma (skin, intestine, less commonly lung)
- Sjogren's syndrome (salivary glands, tear glands, joints)
- Systemic Sclerosis
- Temporal Arteritis / Giant Cell Arteritis (arteries of the head and neck)
The types of autoimmune disease treated at SCCA with stem cell transplants include:
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Systemic Sclerosis
- Systemic Lupus Erythermatosus
- Rare neurologic diseases
Other autoimmune diseases treated at SCCA include:
- Autoimmune Cerebellar Degeneration
- Autoimmune Peripheral Neuropathies
- Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP)
- Gait Ataxia with Late Age Onset Polyneuropathy (GALOP)
- Lambert Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome
- Myasthenia Gravis
- Opsoclonus/Myoclonus (Anti-Ri)
- Rasmussen's Encephalitis
- Stiff Person Syndrome
- Tropical Spastic Paraperesis\ HTLV-1 Associated Myelopathy (TSP/HAM)
Autoimmune diseases that affect blood cells are discussed under Blood Disorders.
- Immune thrombocytopenia purpura (ITP)
- Autoimmune hemolytic anemia
- Autoimmune neutropenia


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Demi Lovato is "sorry not sorry" she left the 2016 Met Gala to go to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting.
The "Confident" singer, who's long been outspoken about her struggles with addiction, revealed her traumatic experience at the Costume Institute Gala's annual fundraiser, in the latest issue of Billboard.
Donning Moschino and arriving on the red carpet alongside designer Jeremy Scott, Lovato posed for photographers and didn't seem bothered by anything in particular. However, after a curious photo of Nicki Minaj appearing to give her a serious dose of side eye on the carpet emerged, fans suspected trouble in the couture air.
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"This picture pretty much summed up my first and probably last met #cool #sof--kingawkward #notforme #sweatpants #forensicfiles #whatsgood," she captioned the picture on Instagram at the time. "p.s. some of y'all need to learn how to take a joke.. I'm obviously laughing at the fact that 1. I look incredibly awkward and 2. That the shade being thrown in this picture actually gives me life."
Now, nearly two years later, the 25-year-old has offered some more insight into that triggering night. "I had a terrible experience," Lovato told Billboard. "This one celebrity was a complete b----- and was miserable to be around. It was very cliquey."
The atmosphere was so off-putting, Lovato needed to leave. "I remember being so uncomfortable that I wanted to drink," she said. Instead, the sober star headed to a 10 p.m. Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, diamonds included.
"I changed my clothes, but I still had my diamonds on — millions of dollars of diamonds on in an AA meeting," she recalled to the magazine. "And I related more to the homeless people in that meeting who struggled with the same struggles that I deal with than the people at the Met Gala — fake and sucking the fashion industry's d---."
While some stars would have kept such a story to themselves, that's not Lovato's style. Instead, the former Disney star has grown into a no-holds-barred, unfiltered powerhouse — and for good reason.
Brutal honesty "holds me accountable," she explained to the magazine. "When I started talking about my sobriety — I can never be seen at a club getting wasted. If I relapse, it shows my fans it's OK to relapse. And I can't do that."


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Nicki Minaj Shows Off Her New MAC Viva Glam Lip Glass In London
Nicki Minaj wasn't out partying for Halloween like the rest of our pop stars, but practically every day is October 31 when you're the Barbz. The rapper was spotted wearing a wild patterned coat and a teal bustier in London on Monday (October 29) to celebrate her new MAC Viva Glam lip gloss — excuse us, lip glass — at Selfridges. Nicki shared her excitement and gratitude via Twitter, "We launched my new MAC VIVA GLAM Lip Glass today. Thanks for cmng out barbz!!! mmmuuuaaahhhh!!!!" Proceeds from the Viva Glam line "go toward helping women, men and children living with and affected by HIV and AIDS."
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My Story: Home Is Where Your Houseboat Is
According to Washington, D.C.'s Julianne Waesche, life as a "live-aboard" has its challenges, but it works for those who crave something different. And it can be cheap.
Why do you live on a houseboat? I'm from Seattle. We had a summer home on Bainbridge Island, and many people there live on houseboats. I always thought I'd like to do that, too. About seven and a half years ago, I went down to Gangplank Marina, where 95 people live on houseboats, and bought this one.
What attracted you to the boat? It's a 45-foot houseboat with two nonworking engines, so it doesn't go anywhere. When I first saw it, it looked like a floating trailer, with plywood floors and hollow-core doors hanging off the hinges inside. It was just horrible. But I liked it for the slip location. It's on the end of the very last dock, so it's private.
How much did it cost? I paid $30,000 for the boat plus "live-aboard status," meaning I can live on it full-time. It's hard to get that status now because spots are very limited. I had my contractor put in an additional $15,000 of work, including laying down wood floors over the plywood. And it's beautiful, just beautiful.
How is the boat outfitted? It's about 14 feet wide, with a forward deck, an aft deck and two decks above. I have a stateroom with a platform bed and a built-in desk. The boat also has a bathroom, a galley kitchen and salon, and a full-size inflatable bed for guests. The living space is about 450 square feet.
What are your expenses? My electric bill averages $100 a month. We all pay $35 a month for group cable, and we pay a "slip fee" based on the boat length—$11.50 per foot per month—plus a $150 monthly fee for live-aboard status. I also pay about $1,600 a year for boat insurance.
How do you handle bad weather? You definitely become hardy in the winters. But when a big storm, such as a hurricane, is predicted, I secure the boat and leave for my vacation home in West Virginia.
What are your neighbors like? Besides the live-aboards, there are recreational boaters, many of whom come from different parts of the world. For example, we had a couple anchored out in the channel from the Netherlands. They sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to get here.
Who should own a houseboat? If you want to drive into your garage and walk into your kitchen, a houseboat is not for you. If you want to drop your kayak off the side of your boat and paddle off, then it's great.
Do you need to be handy? It takes more determination than skill. We live-aboards are resourceful and flexible people. You have to be that way.
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Inaptly titled, When Horror Came to Shochiku is a four-disc set of comparatively obscure Japanese movies all from 1967-68, films that connoisseurs of such outré fare have been asking about for decades. One of the four, The X from Outer Space (Uchu daikaiju Girara, 1967), is pure science fantasy, not horror by any measure, and it's the only one of the batch previously widely available to American audiences. Back in the 1970s it was a fixture of local TV stations' "Monster Week" afternoon movie shows, and later it was released to VHS and laserdisc, albeit dubbed into English and panned-and-scanned.
Conversely, Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell (Kyuketsuki Gokemidoro, 1968), appears only to have been released briefly to VHS in 1984, and that was on a limited basis by a video label specializing in porn.
The others, The Living Skeleton (Kyuketsu dokuro sen, 1968) and Genocide (Konchu daisenso, 1968), seem to have been shown only in Japanese-American movie theaters, and even then for just a week or so shortly after their releases in Japan.
All four emanate from Shochiku, a Japanese studio that rarely ventured into such waters, the company better known in the West as the home studio of directors like Yasujiro Ozu, Keisuke Kinoshita, and Yoji Yamada. The vast majority of more familiar kaiju eiga ("giant monster movies") and other sci-fi spectaculars were a specialty of Toho Studios, not Shochiku. But that genre's popularity and, in particular, its continued marketability abroad while domestically revenues were declining sharply industry wide after the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, prompted similar efforts from all the other studios: Shochiku, Daiei, Toei, and Nikkatsu.
All four of Shochiku's efforts are extremely peculiar, and varyingly effective partly because they're so damn odd and often are surprisingly original. Each offers vividly imaginative visual concepts and/or unique story ideas, even when they're executed with toy-like miniatures or papier-mâché apparitions. Impressively and bafflingly, none is like any of the others, though they sometimes resemble films made by other companies. For example, while The X From Outer Space capitalizes on Toho's success with Godzilla & Co., the wild and wooly The Living Skeleton is very reminiscent of bankrupt Shintoho Studios' horror films from the late 1950s and early '60s, while Genocide anticipates Western world eco-thrillers of the 1970s, playing like a fusing of Frogs, The Swarm, and When Time Ran Out...
An Eclipse Series release (Number 37), When Horror Came to Shochiku is bereft of extra features but does offer short essays by Chuck Stephens on each film, all of which are presented in their original language (The X From Outer Space also includes a dubbed version) and are 16:9 enhanced widescreen.
Though not well regarded among die-hard giant monster movie fanatics, The X from Outer Space has a uniquely peculiar charm that's hard to describe. It's a light-hearted film with a beguiling '60s-a-Go-Go sensibility. And a city-trashing monster.
The story concerns the happy-go-lucky crew of AABΓ, an evocatively designed space sled commanded by stern Captain Sano (Toshiya Kazusaki), with biologist Lisa (Peggy Neal), comedy relief communications officer Miyamoto (Shinichi Yanagisawa), and ship's doctor Shioda (Keisuke Sonoi), later replaced by Dr. Stein (Mike Daneen), also on board. They encounter an egg-like UFO that discharges blinking radioactive blobs, one of which will become the Giant Space Monster Girara (the Japanese title).
And what a monster it is. The creature looks less like Godzilla than a jamming Dizzy Gillespie wearing a party hat. Girara bellows incessantly (be sure to turn the sound way up when you watch this, so your neighbors can share in the fun) before being shrunk back down to its natural blob state - "girarium" (natch) which suspiciously resembles shaving cream.
Other than goofily memorable Girara, the Tokyo-trashing miniature destruction scenes are pretty ordinary and not done with the careful construction, lighting, and camera placement that sometimes can render them highly effective. Rather, the film charms for other reasons. While the 1954 Gojira continues to impress audiences with its sincere warning about the dangers of nuclear proliferation, the goofier appeal of kaiju eiga like Mothra (1961), Godzilla versus the Sea Monster (the latter a giant lobster, 1966), and Gamera vs. Giron (a monster steak knife, 1969) are much more representative of what really wowed nonplussed Western world audiences.
Shochiku's film takes the genre one step further into the Japanese Twilight Zone. With its incongruously festive musical score and title song, sleigh ride-like space flights, cocktail parties for co-ed astronauts on the moon, The X from Outer Space is Godzilla by way of Frank Tashlin.
One final note: Japanese genre films of this era often featured a token foreign co-lead in the cast. Sometimes there was a bona fide Hollywood name (Nick Adams, Russ Tamblyn, Joseph Cotten, etc.) but usually foreign amateurs who happened to be living in Tokyo (and were perhaps strolling past the casting department at an opportune moment) played these roles. Charming Peggy Neal enhances this as well as Hajime Sato's Terror Beneath the Sea (1966), but her best role was probably as femme fatale Mary in the epic Crazy Cats comedy Las Vegas Free-for-All (1967). Genre historians like myself have tried tracking down these gaijin actors for years. Writer Brett Homenick located Kathy Horan (Goke, Genocide) for an interview in the fanzine G-Fan, and in 2009 I was at last able to track down the elusive Ms. Neal. Regrettably, chronic ill-health has precluded the more extensive interview I originally planned, though I've been collating bits and pieces from our phone conversations over the last few years. Hers is a fascinating story.
The best of this quartet unquestionably is the insanely imaginative Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell, notable for its evocative visuals and its unpredictable, dream-like story. Hajime Sato, who had a flair for such material, stylishly directed it.
During an anything-but-routine commercial flight from Tokyo to Osaka's Itami Airport the sky turns an inexplicable brilliant orange-red while a professional assassin, the effeminate Teraoka (Hideo Ko, who resembles a drag queen out of costume while attending mime school), announces his intentions to hijack the plane. Simultaneously, mysteriously disoriented black crows begin bashing themselves into the fuselage with bloody-red ka-thumps. And if that weren't enough, a bright yellow UFO flies by just before one of the birds crashes into the cockpit window, triggering a rough emergency landing in a desolate, rocky valley.
Survivors Sugisaka (Hiroyuki Nishimoto), the co-pilot, and stewardess Kazumi (Tomomi Sato) tend to the passengers, a nihilistic ensemble of High and the Mighty types, including unscrupulous politician Mano (Eizo Kitamura); scuzzy Tokiyasu (Nobuo Kaneko), an arms dealer willing to fob off his sexy wife (Yuko Kusanoki) to Mano to win a valuable contract; and American Mrs. Neal (Kathy Horan, in a role intended for Peggy Neal perhaps?), whose husband was killed in action in Vietnam following a gruesome head injury.
Teraoka flees the crash site with Kazumi as his hostage. However, a short distance from the wrecked plane they stumble upon the UFO, now landed and looking like a glowing gold pith helmet with four swirling tennis ball underneath. A florescent blue blob, apparently some creature, vertically splits open the assassin's forehead and slithers inside (looking like independently-minded sperm entering a vagina!), possessing and turning him into a bloodthirsty alien vampire who preys on the surviving passengers!
Condemned or merely dismissed for decades, Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell in recent years has been reappraised as a wildly imaginative and audacious work, particularly after director Quentin Tarantino expressed much fondness for it. Though hampered somewhat by a limited budget - the crash landing, for instance, is an unrealistic but vividly conceived miniature set piece - the film has many memorable moments, from its knocked-it-out-of-the-park prologue to its bizarre, apocalyptic conclusion, which writer Stephens amusingly describes as what George Romero might have done with Last Year in Marienbad.
Indeed, what all four films have in common (okay, less so with The X from Outer Space) applies to Japanese program pictures and genre films generally: they were made by sophisticated craftsmen and artists plying their trade in a (usually) unsophisticated genre. Compared to cheap American horror and sci-fi movies of the '50s and '60s, movies like Goke show a level of intelligence and good artistic judgment lacking in their far less ambitious American counterparts.
The venturesome The Living Skeleton is a vengeful ghost story similar to John Carpenter's later The Fog (1980). There are several striking similarities, to the point where some have insisted this film was a direct influence. As Carpenter was a film student at USC at the time the film was shown in Los Angeles, it's certainly possible that he might have seen it.
The story opens aboard the Dragon King-maru, a freighter and ramshackle passenger ship sacked by Japanese bandits, led by badly-burned, bald leader Tanuma (who looks like a slimmed-down Tor Johnson from The Beast of Yucca Flats). The sadistic pirates ruthlessly gun down everyone on board, including Dr. Nishizato (Ko Nishimura) and his new bride, Yoriko (Kikko Matsuoka). The bandits make off with 300 million yen in gold bullion while the ship is presumed lost at sea.
Three years later, Yoriko's identical twin sister, Saeko (also Matsuoka), is living with a Catholic priest (Masumi Okada) and dating seaside café owner Mochizuki (Yasunori Irikawa). Elsewhere, the Dragon King-maru returns to the Japanese coast, a ghost ship rolling in with the fog. Scuba diving, Mochizuki and Saeko encounter submerged skeletons chained at the ankles. They board the nearby ship, where Saeko encounters what appears to be the spirit of her dead sister.
Soon the ghostly Yoriko, aided by a colony of fluttering (and well-manipulated) rubber bats, begins her vengeance against the bandits. She compels one to the top of a lighthouse where he leaps to his death. In a particularly imaginative scene, one of the crooks, underwater in a diving suit, stumbles upon the half-dozen (wired together) skeletons. He panics, and when hoisted up by his shipmates is found dead, tangled in the netting with the vengeful skeletons.
Enthusiastically directed by Hiroshi Matsuno, The Living Skeleton has awesomely bad miniature effects (the Dragon King looking very much like a bathtub toy), while the unconvincing skeletons sport particularly unreal scowling skulls. The mad climax is certainly unexpected, resembling both Bela Lugosi's mad scientist cheapies for Monogram in the '40s and, more directly, Shintoho's similarly loopy The Woman Vampire (Onna Kyuketsuki, 1959). The only film of the four in stark black-and-white, The Living Skeleton even has the same overcooked contrast as those earlier Shintoho potboilers.
Also known as War of the Insects (a direct translation of its Japanese title), Genocide has a strong, even startling opening and climax, though it gets bogged down in routine espionage-in-the-jungle intrigue for much of its middle section. But in other ways the film is rather remarkable. One wonders, for instance, how Shochiku hoped to sell this angry, anti-American eco-thriller in the States. The U.S. military as depicted here are little more than hysterical, sanctimonious anticommunist thugs who'd unhesitatingly sacrifice all of Japan to radiated doom in the name of "freedom." And they're just one of this impressively nihilistic film's myriad targets.
In the Anan Archipelago, a fictional setting apparently patterned after Okinawa and other southernmost Japanese islands, married man Joji (Yusuke Kawazu) is carrying on a torrid affair with white woman Annabelle (Kathy Horan, in the role of her gaijin career), later described by one admirer as a "plump white butterfly." In the skies above, a B-52 is on a mission when it's inexplicably attacked by a swarm of insects, mostly bees. This somehow triggers flashbacks of combat in Vietnam for one of its crewman, drug-addicted Charly (Chico Roland), who goes nuts and, along with the bugs, causes the bomber to crash. Charly and two others parachute safely and take shelter in a cave where more insects attack. A bitten, sweaty, and hallucinating Charly is later found barely alive. (Throughout the film is squirmily uncomfortable macro-photography of insects biting real human flesh.)
Back in Tokyo, Dr. Yoshito Nagumo (Keisuke Sonoi) is increasingly alarmed by the toxicity of insects Joji has been collecting and shipping from Anan's Kojima Island. He decides to head down there to find out what's going on. Elsewhere, Japanese spies are working on behalf of a mysterious Eastern Bloc agent developing the insects for germ warfare purposes. Meanwhile, American soldiers, unaware of these fifth columnists, are themselves scrambling to implement "Operation Broken Arrow," to find the B-52's hydrogen bomb that was parachuted down along with the three men.
Genocide is all over the place, expressing outrage at U.S. and Soviet Cold War posturing, at the Vietnam war, Nazi concentration camps, nuclear weapons, the strained U.S. administration of Okinawa, mass murder, and environmental issues. There's a seedy interracial romance and a depiction of southern islanders teetering toward discrimination not uncommon then. (All the local men are sweaty, leering spies or promiscuous, cowardly layabouts.)
The picture has plot holes aplenty, like the conceit that the U.S. Air Force would knowingly allow a drug-addict soldier with post-traumatic stress and clearly on the deep end ride shotgun on a B-52. The set for the aircraft's cockpit and fuselage area, reused for the climax, is thoroughly unreal, closer in appearance to the multi-leveled futuristic aircraft seen in Toho's The Mysterians (1957) and Gorath (1962) than the realistic B-52 of Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove (1964).
The execution of other scenes borders on the unintentionally funny. When spies after the downed H-bomb find it in the jungle, with bees swarming all around, the first thing they do is point their guns in the direction of the bomb and shoot at the bees. Conversely, the supremely pessimistic ending has an undeniable power, and overall Genocide certainly doesn't deserve to be almost totally unknown, even among genre fans.
Despite the large cast of foreigners who often appeared in these kinds of films, including familiar faces like Harold S. Conway, Franz Gruber, and Mike Daneen, somewhat unusually all of their dialogue has been dubbed into Japanese rather than subtitled, which is perhaps another clue Shochiku knew they wouldn't have much luck selling this in North America and Europe.
Video & Audio
All four movies are presented in their original Shochiku GrandScope (2.35:1) format, with 16:9 widescreen enhancements. (The aspect ratios vary slightly, presumably to avoid negative splices, varying frame lines, and the like.) The transfers aren't great and most likely Eclipse/Criterion worked with the masters provided them by Shochiku. The film elements sourced are just so-so and, like Toho's video transfers (though curiously quite unlike DVDs and high-def transfers of Daiei, Toei, and Nikkatsu films) tend to be rather soft, though all are certainly far superior to what American audiences are used to expecting from Japanese fantasy films of this era. All have mono audio (Japanese only except for The X from Outer Space, which includes an alternate English-dubbed track) and good English subtitles.
Extra Features
Supplements are limited to Chuck Stephens's brief but good essays, a shame as much material exists in Japan (including a priceless trailer for The X from Outer Space) and audio commentary tracks (possibly including original cast members like Neal and Horan) would seem like naturals.
Parting Thoughts
At least two of these films are superior and far more original than your average monster spectacle and completely undeserving of their near total obscurity. The other two have moments of inspired lunacy and their long overdue release is most welcome. Highly Recommended.
Stuart Galbraith IV is a Kyoto-based film historian whose work includes film history books, DVD and Blu-ray audio commentaries and special features. Visit Stuart's Cine Blogarama here.


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It looks like I'm going to stop wandering around so much to different churches and start attending Flint River regularly with Heather and the boys, so I'm discontinuing my regular "Another Sunday" series. If I end up visiting somewhere new, I may write another entry, but, right now, it just doesn't work for where I am. Instead, I'm going to try starting a new series, "You Are Free," focusing either on teaching about how Christians are free, or riffing off teachings that give false perceptions of that freedom. This is the first part of that series.
God wants you to serve.
Have you ever been told this in church? Hopefully so. Because it's true.
Have you ever been told that you're not serving right, or serving enough? That's a common one to here, too.
But what does God want?
Maybe you've been told that people use "doing the family stuff" and "doing life" as excuses not to serve. They say they're too busy because of the new baby or the kids' ball games.
Or maybe that coming to the church service on Sunday doesn't count either. That's "worship," not "service."
Likewise Sunday School or other small groups. Those are "discipleship" or "Bible study," not service.
Things like being a good parent, being a good spouse, honoring your parents as a child are "good qualities to have," but aren't service. They're not what God expects from you.
But what does God expect? What does He want? What is service?
If you're a slave, a servant, service is doing what you're told. If that's to work in a field, or clean a house, that's service. If it's being told to sing, or to play with a child, that's service.
We serve God when we do what He tells us.
When Jesus on Earth, there were three things He said to do that were so important they were called "great." Two great commandments. One great commission.
Love God. Love others. Make disciples and teach them to obey.
Worship. Relationships. Discipleship. Study. These are the things that God asks us to do. And if we do them because He asks us to, they're service.
That doesn't mean that those are the only things you should do. Maybe you're called to teach Sunday School. Or to help the homeless. Or to be in the choir. Or to go on a mission trip. If you are, that's what God's asking you to do. And doing it because He asks is service.
But maybe the thing God most wants you to do right now is to be a better spouse. Or to be the best parent you can. All of these things are under that "Love others" commandment. Paul spends a good bit of time breaking down the details on these things in his letters. And if that's the big thing God's asking you to do right now, then that's what you should be doing it. And if you do it the way He asks, that's service.
There's no cookie-cutter, one-size-fits-all approach for what serving God looks like. Nobody else can tell you. Nobody else should make you feel guilty; not if you're asking Him and trying to do what He asks of you.
When He was on Earth, Jesus didn't teach Sunday School, or join mission trip teams, or serve on committees, or sing in the choir. He went around talking to people about God, and helping people He met with problems. That, certainly, can be service. All we know about his mother Mary is that she did what God asked her to do and tried to be the best mom she could. That's service, too, because that's what God wanted.
This isn't about liberty; it's about freedom. It's not about saying you don't have to do anything; God does want you to serve.
It's about being free to ask God what how He wants you to serve, and being free to do that out of love for the Father, regardless of anyone else's expectations.
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Q: In the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed, why has "one in being with the Father" been changed to "consubstantial with the Father?"
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The bishops at the Council of Nicea (AD 325), in order to ensure that Jesus was professed as the eternal Son of God, equal to the Father, stated that he is "the Son of God, begotten from the Father, the only-begotten, that is from the substance of the Father, God from God, light from light, true God from true God, begotten not made, the same substance ( homoousion) with the Father..." The Creed of the Council of Constantinople (381), which is professed at all Sunday Masses and Solemnities within the Catholic Church, similarly stated: "We believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, of the same substance ( homoousion) with the Father."
When these two ancient creeds were translated into Latin, the term " homoousion" was rendered as " consubstantialem," that is, "the same substance of the Father." Prior to the Second Vatican Council, the Latin " consubstantialem" was rendered as "consubstantial" within the English translation of the Creed. Many theologians and the Holy See thought that the term "consubstantial" was more in keeping with the Latin tradition and a more literal and accurate translation than the more recent "one in being."
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BOSTON – Natural, non-toxic, energy saving, eco-friendly, green … these are only a handful of the claims that tens of thousands of product specifiers face every day. With the green building materials market rapidly growing at 5 percent per year to a projected $571 billion by 2013, the number of manufacturers promoting their product's green attributes will continue to grow (NextGen Research).
It's incredibly hard for specifiers to keep up. According to "The Seven Sins of Greenwashing," manufacturers and distributors often make the decision more complicated, with more than 98 percent of products making misleading claims about green attributes. And while there are dozens of standards trying to prevent greenwashing, the volume of standards and discrepancies between them only serve to make the product specification decision nearly impossible.
The Green Product Association (GPA) grew out of this need for leadership around green products. Over the past six months, GPA has built strategic partnerships with leaders in building materials, media, innovation, and global trade, all of whom are critical to effective market transformation that truly benefits all users.
Recently, the association formally introduced its Thought Leaders. The individuals below are recognized authorities on green products who provide expertise and knowledge informing all GPA activities. In particular, Thought Leaders serve two purposes: (1) To help GPA define and clarify what makes a product green and how to evaluate products and manufacturer claims; and, (2) To advise GPA on program direction and communications in order to safeguard the integrity of the Green Product Association so that architects, specifiers and purchasers know that they can trust information and resources developed by GPA.
Thought Leaders bring valuable expertise in all aspects of the product life-cycle, such as green chemistry, Life Cycle Assessment, human health and toxicity, biomimicry, and green building.
GPA's first Thought Leaders are:
Penny Bonda, ASID Fellow, LEED AP, has been championing sustainability in interior design for more than a decade. She is the founding chair of the U.S. Green Building Council's (USGBC) LEED CI committee, founding chair of the ASID Sustainable Design Council and principal developer of REGREEN. Bonda also serves on the Council for Interior Design Accreditation Standards Council, Antron Sustainability Advisory Council, and GREENGUARD Advisory Council and is one of USGBC's faculty for LEED training.
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BEASON FUNERAL: Funeral services are scheduled today for the victims of a mass murder in Beason last week. State Journal-Register.
Late harvest, shorter days could mean danger for farmers
SPRINGFIELD – Harvest is late this year due to a wet spring, and that has some local farmers worried about their safety. When they start to bring in their crops, their machinery will be sharing the road with faster vehicles as nightfall arrives earlier and earlier each day. By Rhys Saunders of the State Journal-Register. To localize: Check with local farmers to see what extra precautions they're taking.
Natural gas prices headed down, but delivery charges could be going up
SPRINGFIELD – Natural gas should be about 26 percent cheaper this fall and winter based on estimates from Ameren Illinois Utilities. Whether the savings eventually will be more than offset by increases in delivery charges for the gas and electricity is a question that will be before state regulators Tuesday, when the Illinois Commerce Commission holds public hearing on the company's request for a $45 million hike in delivery rates for natural gas and $180.6 million for electricity. By Tim Landis of the State Journal-Register.
Pekin-based car magazine off to roaring start
PEKIN – Ron Langenbahn has always loved to look at cars — inside and out, from all angles. For Langenbahn, American Motorhead Magazine is a car show with a table of contents. The longtime Pekin resident has read the magazine for five months — a long time considering that Liz and John Olsen have published only seven monthly issues. The magazine lists Liz as the publisher and John as advertising consultant. But, as with most enterprises that have only two staff members, they both do what's necessary to get each issue to press and deliver magazines to readers. By Art Drake of the Pekin Daily Times.
Customers find much more than jewelry at bead shop
PEORIA HEIGHTS – Free To Bead is a colorful, closet-sized shop along Seiberling in Peoria Heights, just off Prospect Road. Strings of beads hang on the walls, stalls of beads line counters along the walls, and more beads cover the top of the square-shaped island that takes up almost all of the store's floor space. Some people visit the store to shop for beads. Some people find more than they expected. By Pam Adams of the Peoria Journal Star.
Geometry provides potter's inspiration
PEORIA – About 15 years ago, Jeff Oestreich was looking for a new direction in pottery. Then he stumbled into a New Zealand village and was struck by what he saw in the art deco-style buildings. The Minnesota-based ceramicist began to work the basic elements of art deco into his pottery, about 60 examples of which are on display Thursday through Oct. 25 in "Pots: Pleasure in Details" at Bradley University's Heuser Gallery. By Gary Panetta of the Peoria Journal Star.
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Elizabeth Davies: What kids can teach us about honesty
There's just something refreshing about honesty. If you spend your days surrounded primarily by the over-18 set, you might not be so familiar with the concept. See, we adults have learned how to be good liars. We've also given it a name: We call it tact.
Christian specialty stores fight for share of sales against big-box stores, Internet
SPRINGFIELD – Jan Keller of the Mustard Seed Bookstore in Fairhills Mall in Springfield, Ill., says loyalty among her customers for Christian merchandise is still there — but it's not like it used to be. By Steven Spearie of the State Journal-Register. To localize: Talk to Christian bookstores in your area and add quotes, figures.
BRITT: Toon on Iran and nukes.
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Editorial: An Olympian effort from the Windy City
Chicago is pulling out all of the stops in Denmark this week in trying to land the 2016 Summer Olympics for the Windy City. Oprah will be in Copenhagen trying to woo the International Olympic Committee, as will the governor, the mayor and the nation's transportation secretary, who happens to be from Peoria. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama will be in town. They'll find out on Friday how successful they were in their competition against Madrid, Tokyo and Rio de Janeiro. We view this bid with a mixture of excitement and trepidation. An editorial from the Peoria Journal Star.
Editorial: Vigilance a watchword for our times
We're not sure whether we should be relieved or terrified as we read details of Michael Finton's alleged plan to blow up the Paul Findley Federal Building in downtown Springfield. There is relief, obviously, in knowing the FBI took charge of Finton when his dreams of jihad were just taking shape. But with that relief comes a shudder. An editorial from the State Journal-Register.
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Keep these things in mind as deer season arrives
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By Mike Mulhern
TALLADEGA, Ala.
It's a great story, one of the best of the season: a brilliant, totally unexpected charge to victory by underdog David Ragan, pushed along in his gutsy bid by underdog teammate David Gilliland.
Two of the sport's good guys, having a great day.
And for team owner Bob Jenkins -- what, you've never heard of him? -- it was oh, so sweet.
Jenkins runs one of this sport's most underfunded operations, even at that quite an expensive venture.
And in the final moments Ragan and Gilliland were up against men from this sport's three most powerful operations, Joe Gibbs' Matt Kenseth, Jack Roush's Carl Edwards, and Rick Hendrick's Jimmie Johnson.
And Kenseth, Edwards and Johnson were each concentrating so intently on each other that they missed the Ragan-Gilliland train until it was too late.
For Ragan it was even sweeter, since Kenseth and Edwards were once his teammates at Roush's.
How Ragan and Gilliland pull this off? Well, even looking at the video again and again, it's hard to figure it out.
First, former teammates Kenseth and Edwards, who have had their moments over the years, appeared to be focusing too hard on each other, and keeping an eye on always dangerous Jimmie Johnson, backed by fellow Chevy driver Regan Smith, himself a winner in a thriller Saturday.
And by the time Kenseth, on the high-side, noticed Ragan and Gilliland charging up the middle, it was too late to throw a block.
With a full-head of steam Regan and Gilliland then roughed up Edwards -- not easily done -- and sailed away into the darkness of victory.
And it was dark at Talladega Superspeedway at the end of the race, just after 7 p.m. CT.
Too dark really to race.
But NASCAR officials were determined to give the fans a finish. And the fans -- though the stands were maybe only two-thirds-full -- got a hellava of a finish...even if was a blur.
"The lights on the pace car (just before the green-white-checkered finish) were so bright, I kept looking away, trying not to get blinded," Edwards said.
Of course none of the drivers would concede on the record that it was too dark to race, for fear of one of those $25,000 or $50,000 or more NASCAR penalties that the sanctioning body has been oh so eager to dish out.
Well, none, except Ryan Newman.
Newman had the misfortune of being at the wrong place at the wrong time. Again.
Again Newman had a stock car flying at him and landing on his windshield. A few years back here it was Edwards' car smacking Newman. This time it was Kurt Busch.
Innocence doesn't count in this game.
And Newman -- remember the crash when he was hung upside down and unable to extract himself for maybe 12 minutes? -- this time had had enough. He vented hard at NASCAR.
And it was in similar vein to what teammate Tony Stewart said he one year ago.
Drivers simply do not like driving plate races, regardless of what they may say publicly. Even the great Dale Earnhardt, after his legendary charge from 18th to victory here in the final five laps in 2000, declared sharply "I don't like restrictor plate racing."
But most drivers, having realized that the track owners here have no intention of changing anything, have all but given up their complaining.
Just as unexpected as Ragan's victory was Kenseth's loss.
Kenseth yet again showed the strongest car in the field, almost unpassable, leading a whopping 142 of the 192 laps. He conceded he was "really disappointed....but it could always be worse I guess."
Uh, yes.
Just before the 3-1/2-hour rain delay, just past halfway, with 160 miles yet to run, Kenseth had sized up his end-game opponents as Edwards and Ricky Stenhouse. Kenseth's Toyota teammates had already crashed out, so he had no one really helping him in the draft. But Edwards and Stenhouse, if they could work together, appeared nearly as strong as Kenseth.
In fact at the rain Edwards and Stenhouse were 1-2.
"Those two together, I don't think anybody was going to be able to beat them," Kenseth said.
It was, all in all, another good performance by Stenhouse, a rookie, driving for the team that Kenseth drove for for so many years. He did make a few mistakes: speeding on pit road, letting Edwards get by him just as NASCAR threw that rain caution, and then triggered that final crash, on lap 182 of the scheduled 188-lapper.
Somewhat ironically Stenhouse's 'girlfriend,' Danica Patrick, who had starred at Daytona two months ago, didn't have much going for her this time, while Stenhouse was rocking and rolling.
In hindsight Kenseth could see how the end-game had developed: "You don't know what's going on seven or eight rows back, and how far they're hanging back, and how big a run they can get on the pack.
"It's just unpredictable, and it's crazy."
The past two years Kenseth, while at Jack Roush's, was kingpin at Daytona and Talladega.
At Daytona this time Kenseth, now with Toyota's Joe Gibbs, was again very strong, but he blew an engine.
"Restrictor plate racing is tough," Kenseth says. "Everybody, after our great year last year, said it's a strong point. I think it's a weak point. I feel like I'm not very good at making the right spots.
"Last year I think we were leading, or in the top-two, in all four green-white-checkers."
And again here Sunday.
"You definitely want to be the leader," Kenseth says of these two-lap shootouts. "And I thought I got a good restart. It's just Carl had a really fast car, and he got that rocket restart and cleared me.
"I would have never dreamed David Ragan and David Gilliland had that much momentum.... and I had about two feet to pull down in front of them. But I knew they were going to hit me so hard I was going to wreck."
Kenseth, if not for that engine penalty (the appeals panel meets this week to assess that), would easily be in strong position to challenge for the championship. And he still could, though losing his crew chief for six weeks will put him at a serious disadvantage.
"We've led the most laps four or five times, and we won two races," Kenseth said. "But I feel there have been a few I've left on the table.
"I kind of let everybody down here, because you take off leading on that green-white-checkered and you come back eighth... even though I don't really know what I would have done different."
I guess I need a nascar fine also for badmouthing the gen 6 car. I think it is awful and combined with the greedy tactics, pioneered by Dale Sr. and executed by Kenseth results in Talladega 3.0!
That blown engine revealed the tremendous low pressure area behind the cars, there is hardly any downforce on the front of cars in the pack, no wonder they are jumping all over the place. Most times the line can pull up to the back bumper of the leader and then go no further.
Or the move is successful and then the leader goes into the lane changing frenzy, which interrupts the air on both lines. Breaking the draft does work there.
Too bad nascar can never go back. the new windshield angle is a big factor why the cars are faster along with less weight. The cars are too aerodynamic, probably 20 mph too fast, especially for the "cookie cutters", resulting barely one lane to negotiate the tight second turns, and it wouldn't hurt to at least act like indy car (on blatant blocking) and tell the drivers to kinda sorta stay in one lane when leading at Talladega etc., it did get exciting at the end when they did!!
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