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In case you missed it, early this morning, August 21, 2011, I was a guest on the WGN AM Radio show The Sunday Papers with Rick Kogan.
During the segment, I not only discussed some of the basic trends in the genealogy industry and why family history is becoming more and more popular, but I also had a chance to mention the upcoming FGS 2011 conference in Springfield, Illinois, September 7-10, 2011.
You can listen to the segment by clicking the link below:
I guess the episode went well since Rick said – live on the air – that he'd love to have my come into the studio for an expanded segment about genealogy! So I'll keep you posted on the progress of that project!
And many thanks to ISGS member Linda Swisher who used her contacts to arrange for my appearance on The Sunday Papers!
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Plouffe denies veep-switch report
One of President Barack Obama's closest advisers is denying a report that the campaign considered switching running mates in 2012.
Obama's 2008 campaign manager and former senior adviser David Plouffe said late Thursday on Twitter that neither Obama nor "most" of his staff ever even considered the notion of swapping Vice President Joe Biden out on the ticket for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
"Never any - any - consideration of VP/HRC switch. Not even entertained by the only person who mattered. Or most of us. Back to Halloween," Plouffe tweeted.
( Also on POLITICO: Book: Obama camp mulled dumping Biden for Clinton)
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Felicia Forte is a representational oil painter based in Detroit, Michigan. Felicia is a sought after instructor of drawing and painting who has taught at various institutions including The de Young Museum of Fine Art, The Walt Disney Family Museum. In December, 2013 she was awarded a month-long residency at The de Young Museum of Fine Art in San Francisco. In 2014 she participated as faculty at the Plein Air Convention and Expo in Monterey, California. In 2015 Felica's Self Portrait will exhibit at the National Portrait gallery in London for The BP Portrait Award. Felicia maintains a studio in Hamtramck where she works on commissioned portraiture, gallery work, and offers instruction in drawing and painting to private students. She was born in Los Angeles, California in 1979.


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Zoe Strauss's portrait studio is about to open in Homestead!
She's been assembling incredible images, stories, histories, and ideas on the Homesteading blog. The studio opens on Labor Day, and you can catch Zoe in Homestead until the middle of October. If you're a resident of Homestead, stop by and have your portrait taken! The portraits will find their way into the museum in an installation that involves video, massive wall graphics, and over 200 portraits.
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The magistrate ruled against King Construction of Houston, Miss., a subcontractor hired by Noatex Corporation to assemble conveyor systems at a factory site in Guntown, Miss.
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A silent tear has fallen for the Roseland Ballroom as it is set to close its doors early this April with a series of shows from Lady Gaga. This historic venue was built in 1922, and held the stage to some of the greatest names in music history from Frank Sinatra, Madonna, Nirvana and many more. We are sad to see just a huge piece of music history get torn down and turned into a 59-story apartment building. Although April 7th might mark the day the music died, the moments that have taken place on Roseland's stage will live on forever. Here are just a few of the most memorable moments of the Roseland Ballroom.Click to start the list


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We confront a crisis of constitutional misunderstandings—fundamental misunderstandings among much of the legal left; partial misunderstandings by others.
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The goods of human dignity, human rights, and human liberty can be secured only by a transcendent source and an ontological grounding.
The difficulty with the reparations argument has always been practical, not moral. It lies in the questions, by whom? to whom? and how much?
How the effort to cancel Hamilton actually cancels the possibility of life together.
Men are not billiard balls whose direction is determined in a purely mechanistic way by the impact of a few physical forces.
One might be forgiven for thinking that today's Republican Party is an American Christian Democratic party in everything but name only.
Sean Shelby announced as President & CEO of Liberty Fund.
What if the "self" that is "realized" under the conditions of liberal capitalism is a self that despises liberal capitalism?
A newsletter worth reading.
Our deepest official lie is that the line between good and evil runs through sexes, classes, and races—not through every human heart.
The Framers, very cognizant of history, sought to frame a constitution that successfully balanced self-government and liberty.
Sheridan wants to teach by tragedy, so his protagonists are essentially honorable, which is no longer tolerated in our storytelling.
Increasing the efficiency of criminal record-keeping gives the state greater ability to control its citizens.
The United States ultimately won the Cold War because we had a more prosperous and otherwise attractive society than the Soviet Union.
A peculiar aspect of our nation's lockdowns and mandatory safety precautions is that they have been imposed on everyone, irrespective of age.


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You know how you say things like, "Boy, I haven't been sick in a really long time!" or "Man, my face has been really clear lately!".....
....and then the very next day, you get a sinus infection/bronchitis or wake up with 6 pimples on your face?
I swear, this always happens to me. I have told Shane so many times, usually after one of the above examples or something similar happens to me, "I am never going to say stuff like this ever again, because as sure as I do, it happens."
Remember my post from just yesterday? All the great progress we are making with Cameron on potty training? (Do you see where I am going yet?)
We have had so many great days in a row with Cameron going to the potty. We keep telling him what a big boy he is, and how great he is doing. Well, I think that maybe we told him just a few times too many, because last night, he decided that he was a big enough boy that he could go all by himself.
Now, many of you know Cameron. Of all my children, he is my--well, roughest is the word that comes to mind. He doesn't walk around things, he walks over them. He considers 'playing with you' to be running from the other side of the room and slamming into your thigh muscle and then laughing hysterically while you are on the ground, moaning, and rubbing said muscle. (Yes, this just happened this morning.) He just is a bit brute-like......notice, I did NOT say he was a brute, because I hate when people label children like that. You can not simply take one of his characteristics and lump all of his others into that one. It just doesn't fit. He is very gentle and caring in many ways, (like after he realized that I was really hurt, he came over to me and, patting my back, said, "I sorry mommy, okay mommy?") but he can be so rough in others. Anyway.....
So, Cameron tells Shane that he needs to go potty, but Shane was busy at the moment. He told him that he would take him in just a minute. That answer apparently did not satisfy Cameron. The little stinker didn't come looking for me to help him, either (I was busy in the other bathroom anyway). Instead, Cameron took it upon himself to: 1. go into the hall bathroom, 2. put up the toilet seat, 3. step up on his stool, and 4. go pee-pee.
Miss any steps there?
In case you haven't figured it out yet, he forgot to pull down his pants and his underwear. So, he stood there, right in front of the potty, and peed right in his pants.
Of course, as soon as he realized what was going on, he knew something was wrong and began crying hysterically.....both Shane and I came flying into the bathroom, to the rescue, and reassured him that this was only an accident, but that he was never, ever to go to the potty without Mommy or Daddy helping him, ever again.
I'm NEVER telling anyone when Ethan potty trains....
Friday, February 22, 2008
Don't say it...
You know how you say things like, "Boy, I haven't been sick in a really long time!" or "Man, my face has been really clear lately!".....
3 comments:
- Kara said...
Okay, I know that is frustrating but at least he tried by himself! That is too cute!
- February 22, 2008 at 4:11 PM
- Julie said...
Poor guy! He probably felt terrible about that, didn't he?
I guess you could look on the bright side - he didn't have to poop. ;0)
- February 22, 2008 at 4:33 PM
- The Boe's ~ said...
Oh my word...I haven't checked blogs lately and I see I have missed out on yours.....Where do I sign up on this "skinny-hot-mamma-for-summer" series!!!!!!!!!
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A made-for-TV version of the Jack Nicholson/Adam Sandler movie "Anger Management" starring Charlie Sheen appears more and more likely to be a reality - assuming a network takes the bait, that is.
Sheen is partnering with producer Joe Roth, who has worked with Sheen on five feature films including "Major League," "Young Guns," and "The Three Musketeers," to develop the sitcom with Lionsgate Television.
Sheen touted his return a few weeks ago, but at that time Lionsgate had no comment on any development deals. Now, Lionsgate Television Group President Kevin Beggs has released a statement confirming "Anger Management" is in the pipeline.
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"We always look for series ideas that are noisy, accessible and relevant," said Beggs. "Charlie Sheen in 'Anger Management' takes those criteria to a whole new level and we are thrilled to be in business with him, Evolution, Debmar-Mercury and Revolution Studios on this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. With a star of Charlie's magnitude, a producer as venerable as Joe Roth and a branded property as compelling as Anger Management, this show has unique upside while still adhering to our disciplined business model."
In the film "Anger Management," a mild-mannered guy is ordered to attend the titular program only to find that it is run by a dangerously unstable man.
"I chose 'Anger Management' because, while it might be a big stretch for me to play a guy with serious anger management issues, I think it is a great concept," joked Sheen.
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I know snow's lovely
It sparkles like frosting.
Best from the window
Or I'll need deicing.
Cold actually hurts
Like a third-degree burn;
I'll pass on the snow play
Give a child my turn.
I wonder if it's aging
Or just my lousy pain
But with either choice
I've not a thing to gain.
I often wonder how they did it
Our ancestors I mean.
I think I would have "held it"
To avoid that outdoor latrine.
I simply can't imagine
Burning buffalo chips or peat
Just to warm a cabin
How did they retain their body heat?
Yes, they have my admiration
How did they survive?
Perhaps that's just one reason
Most died at thirty-five.
I'll renew my pleasure
In my forced air heat
Give it a pat as I walk by
In my stocking feet.
Don't I have enough to do
With pain, and so much loss?
Wish I was a drinker
It would make me hit "the sauce."
I must comfort myself in other ways,
Like the joy of long john silkies
Or find some big warm man
Who'd like to play some kneesies.
Hey, it's not a crime to complain
This cold weather is no joke
All those outdoor sports aren't me
They're for some braver folk.
It's not just the cold I fear
It's falling on my ass,
Which would put me in a fix
Thus icy stairs will get a pass.
Must make the best of it
With electricity and electronics
To dispel that ancestral myth.
Therefore dear ancestors
Don't you be despairin'
As I call LLBean for new long silkies
To replace the ones I'm wearin'.
It kills me to admit it
But I love modern conveniences
The pioneer woman in me cries out
And occasionally she winces.
I have to realize in her place
Many hardships I'd have borne,
It's best she doesn't know
Or she would surely mourn.
The next time I complain
I'll remember all she gave
By reminding myself, if I was her
I'd now be in my grave.
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Hi CArl,
Where did you find that waterfall? Looks like a great place for fall foliage?
Hi Carl,
Thank you very much!
This may very well be the field camera I need for the landscapes I shoot.
All the best,
Cambo Actus with the Sony A7R and view camera lenses.
Good evening,
I was wondering if you have had any time to perform further tests with this setup? It looks very intriguing.
I have lenses from 55mm to 110mm that I would like to be able to use with this camera combination.
I also have Hasselblad and Pentax 67 lenses.
Thank you very much,
Hi Carl,
I saw that you have the Cambo Actus. I'm looking at it and wondering about the 40mm lens you have. If shifted in all directions and stitched, do you know approx what the equivalent field of view would be if you could put a wide angle lens on the camera?
I have a Leica M and some Contax G lenses. What kind of adapter are you using to couple the two? I have been using the Contax lenses with a micro 4/3rds system, but have not seen an adapter for the M.
I own a Leica M and have a set of Contax G lenses. What kind of adapter are you using to couple the G to a Leica M? Thanks much, John Hellow
I am wanting to ask you about your experience with the little Shen Hao 6x9 camera. Did it turn out that the focus was smooth enough and the camera rigid enough to work well with the small negative film size?
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The Holy Nights of Christmas
Posted by Kim Graae Munch in Esoterics on December 23, 2011
The twelve holy nights before Christmas
This symbolizes the development of man from the creation and until the birth of Christ, when man had descended the deepest into the physical world. This period is called Mars in esoteric language.
It's about the lower Abyss, the lesser Chemical Wedding, the union of soul and body. This is old European folk tradition and Rosicrucian esoteric knowledge.
The night after the 24'th is the birth of the Son of Man, Jesus, when we were the deepest into the physical, and he showed the way up of the Abyss.
The twelve holy nights after Christmas
This symbolizes the ascent of man from the deepest penetration into the physical world, from being mastered by the physical he now becomes master of the physical. This period is called Mercury in esoteric language.
It's about the higher Abyss, the greater Chemical Wedding, the union of soul and spirit.
The night after the fifth is the birth of the Son of God, Christ, the Baptism of Jesus. The thought seeds is taken from here: De 12 hellige nætter. They are only a hint for contemplation, they are not mandatory and I may find some that are more relevant.
|Night after
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|Dec. 13
|I am the water of life, which is shed for thirsty people.
Saint Lucia.
|Dec. 14
|I leave the Father's house, but returns as savior.
|Dec. 15
|I step forward, and from the plane of thought I rule.
|Dec. 16
|I see, and when the eye is opened, all is light.
|Dec. 17
|I recognize my other self, and when this self fades away, I grow and shine.
|Dec. 18
|I build a lighted house in which I dwell.
|Dec. 19
|I am it and it is I.
|Dec. 20
|I am the mother and child. I am God, I am matter.
|Dec. 21
|I choose the road that goes between the two major power lines.
|Dec. 22
|I am warrior, and from the fight I stand victorious.
|Dec. 23
|I see the goal. I reach this goal, and then I see another.
|Dec. 24
|I am bathed in celestial light, but turns, however, my back to the light.
|Dec. 25
|In the coming year my true home should be the shrine of love. I promise to obey the law of love.
|Dec. 26
|I get my right to give love and remember that I had no right to demand love.
|Dec. 27
|I become member of the army of light promise to keep my place.
|Dec. 28
|I undertake – of my own volition – the responsibility of the whole.
|Dec. 29
|Although divided, we are one – I promise to protect this unity.
|Dec. 30
|What the sun is to nature, is the warmth of love for our inner lives. I promise to protect and nurture this hearth.
|Dec. 31
|I will abide of my free will and without complaint from being taken away from my place if I had to give way or waver for any hardships faced by my loved ones.
|Jan. 1
|I know that love is a universe, and that I only grasp its atom. I pledge to uphold its pure marriage with Earth.
|Jan. 2
|I promise toward the sinner to exercise judgment punishment: forgiveness, and help new covenant of love (as is God).
|Jan. 3
|I give of my heart full of creative power, which I got from love. Thus is my promise.
|Jan. 4
|Love is the only ruler and creator, the only king. Love is my bow and my arrow. My pledge and my salary.
|Jan. 5
|I dedicate the spirit of this night that is born in me, to the work of love.
It's interesting that Jeanne Darc was born the sixth of January where the Greek-Roman period ended and our current period started, she changed the face of Europe physically and spiritually, she was the pioneer of modern man.
Se also "The Dream Song about Olaf Åsteson who slept from christmas and thirteen days".


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Applicants attend classes in their county.
The Michigan Master Gardener Program is a horticulture education and volunteer leader training program offered by MSU Extension. It provides home gardening information to Michigan citizens through a network of trained volunteers. An interest in plants, a personal commitment to volunteerism, and an enthusiasm for sharing knowledge with others are the only prerequisites. Applicants attend classes in their county, learning basic horticultural principles and environmentally sound gardening practices. They then provide volunteer leadership and service to their community through a variety of gardening-related activities. The program objectives are to provide instruction in basic horticultural science to motivated active gardeners and to provide MSU Extension with trained volunteers who will provide timely, accurate information to the public in the rapidly expanding area of home horticulture.


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Before we dive into the should/will win debate, allow us to take a moment to express our dismay at the complete and total absence of even a single nomination for the Coen Brothers' "True Grit," which merited at least consideration for Best Picture (drama or comedy, you pick), Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor and Screenplay. We can't shake the feeling that maybe not enough members of the Hollywood Foreign Press saw the film.
But enough whining, lets' take a look at the nominees. We've put who we think will win in italics and who we think should win in bold.
Best Motion Picture, Drama
"Black Swan"
"The Fighter"
"The King's Speech"
"The Social Network"
Of the films nominated, none was more ambitious than Christopher Nolan's massive—in every sense—heist film about a bunch of guys who break into your dreams. And the more we look back at the list of nominees, the more "Inception" stands out as the one we'd tell people they had to see. But this is shaping up to be "The Social Network's" year, which is understandable, as it's a very good film that's very much about the moment we're living in. We just can't help but wonder if 10 years from now we'll look back and think, "Good film, but what was all the fuss about?"
Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
"Alice in Wonderland"
"The Kids Are All Right"
"The Tourist"
On the one hand, we admire the HFPA for making a point of making sure that comedies and musicals are properly recognized. On the other hand, we wonder about the HFPA's sense of humor. Where's "The Other Guys," "Cyrus," "Get Him to the Greek," "Scott Pilgrim," "Kick-Ass," "Easy A" or "Hot Tub Time Machine"? At least those are true comedies.
Best Actor in a Drama
Jesse Eisenberg – "The Social Network" as Mark Zuckerberg
Colin Firth – "The King's Speech" as King George VI
James Franco – '127 Hours" as Aron Ralston
Ryan Gosling – "Blue Valentine" as Dean
Mark Wahlberg - The Fighter as Micky Ward
No performance knocked us out quite like Gosling's in "Blue Valentine," a go-for-broke-warts-and-all" clinic in an emotionally harrowing un-love story. But Firth's been denied for too long, and the role of a stammering British king rising up to face the Nazis will be too much for voters to ignore.
Best Actress in a Drama
Halle Berry – "Frankie and Alice" as Frankie/Alice
Nicole Kidman – "Rabbit Hole" as Becca Corbett
Jennifer Lawrence – "Winter's Bone" as Ree Dolly
Natalie Portman – "Black Swan" as Nina Sayers
Michelle Williams – "Blue Valentine" as Cindy
Willams' work in "Blue Valetine" was every bit as impressive as Gosling's, and probably harder to conjure. The part called for Williams to play an unalloyed monster for much of the film, a cruel, nasty, uncommunicative woman who lacks the courage to save her marriage. But Portman was brilliant as Nina, the beautiful white swan who slowly turns black. As underwhelming as we found the film, Portman was fantastic in a physically and emotionally demanded role.
Best Actor in a Comedy
Johnny Depp – "Alice in Wonderland" as Mad Hatter
Johnny Depp – "The Tourist" as Frank Tupelo
Paul Giamatti – "Barney's Version" as Barney Panofsky
Jake Gyllenhaal – "Love and Other Drugs" as Jamie Randall
Kevin Spacey – "Casino Jack" as Jack Abramoff
The only threat to a Johnny Depp win is Johnny Depp possibly splitting the Johnny Depp vote, which could leave an opening for Giamatti to sneak in. Doubtful.
Best Actress in a Comedy
Annette Bening – "The Kids Are All Right" as Nic
Anne Hathaway – "Love and Other Drugs" as Maggie Murdock
Angelina Jolie – "The Tourist" as Elise Ward
Julianne Moore – "The Kids Are All Right" as Jules
Emma Stone – "Easy A" as Olive Penderghast
As much as we loved Stone in "Easy A," Bening was as good as ever in "TKAAR." That said, Stone's work in "Easy A" is exactly what this category should all about; while "TKAAR" may have been a comedy (it was funny, but not really a comedy), Bening's role was decidedly dramatic.
Best Supporting Actor
Christian Bale – "The Fighter" as Dicky Eklund
Michael Douglas – "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" as Gordon Gekko
Andrew Garfield – "The Social Network" as Eduardo Saverin
Jeremy Renner – "The Town" as James "Jem" Coughlin
Geoffrey Rush – "The King's Speech" as Lionel Logue
Bale turned himself into a crack head right before your very eyes. But we'd like to give a shout to Renner, whose work as a trigger-happy bank robber has received too little attention.
Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams – "The Fighter" as Charlene Fleming
Helena Bonham Carter – "The King's Speech" as Queen Elizabeth
Mila Kunis – "Black Swan" as Lily
Melissa Leo – "The Fighter" as Alice Eklund
Jacki Weaver – "Animal Kingdom" as Janine 'Smurf' Cody
Another high five to the HFPA for recognizing Weaver's eat-her-young matriarch in the brilliant Darwinian crime family drama "Animal Kingdom." In this category it should be Weaver and a meaningless discussion about second place. Instead it will be Adams taking him the prize, and she was outstanding as Mark Wahlberg's muse/spine/rock, so we can live with it.
Best Director
Darren Aronofsky – "Black Swan"
David Fincher – "The Social Network"
Tom Hooper – "The King's Speech"
Christopher Nolan – "Inception"
David O. Russell – 'The Fighter"
See Best Picture, Drama
Best Screenplay
Simon Beaufoy, Danny Boyle – "127 Hours"
Stuart Blumberg, Lisa Cholodenko – "The Kids Are All Right"
Christopher Nolan – "Inception"
David Seidler – "The King's Speech"
Aaron Sorkin – "The Social Network"
When he's on his game, Aaron Sorkin writes dialogue better than anyone. He was on his game while writing "The Social Network."
Best Original Score
Alexandre Desplat – "The King's Speech"
Danny Elfman – "Alice in Wonderland"
A.R. Rahman – "127 Hours"
Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross – "The Social Network"
Hans Zimmer – "Inception"
Reznor & Ross' managed to highlight the foreboding, drama and betrayal that lurked around every corner of "The Social Network," without drawing attention to itself. Meanwhile, Hans Zimmer's score for "Inception," (which we loved) inspired fart jokes and The Big Red Button.
Best Original Song
"Bound to You" – "Burlesque"
"Coming Home" – "Country Strong"
"I See the Light" – "Tangled"
"There's a Place For Us" – "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader"
"You Haven't Seen the Last of Me" – "Burlesque"
We can't really get behind any of these nominees, but the HFPA is going to pull their collective hair out over whether to vote for Gwyneth, the Euro-phile beauty who may yet have a career ahead of her, or Cher, who showed them a good time last year.
Best Animated Feature Film
"Despicable Me"
"How to Train Your Dragon"
"The Illusionist"
"Toy Story 3"
Another category that isn't even close. We're actually surprised that "TS3" wasn't nominated for Best Picture.
Best Foreign Language Film
"Biutiful" • Mexico
"The Concert" • France
"The Edge" • Russia
"I Am Love" • Italy
"In a Better World" • Denmark
Javier Bardem showed a depth and range rarely seen in film as a hustler dying of cancer in "Biutiful," but we have a feeling that Alejandro González Iñárritu's film will prove to bleak for the HFPA. Now a triumph of the human spirit, like "The Concert"? That could be right up their alley.
Golden Globes: Which Movies Will Win, Which Ones Should Win
Before we dive into the should/will win debate, allow us to take a moment to express our dismay at the complete and total absence of even a single nomination for the Coen Brothers' "True Grit," which merited at least consideration for Best Picture (drama or comedy, you pick), Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor and Screenplay. We can't shake the feeling that maybe not enough members of the Hollywood Foreign Press saw the film.


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My relationship with email is fraught. On the one hand, it ravages my time and concentration; on the other hand, it's better than the damned phone.
I get too much email to answer, and that makes me feel guilty. Would it help to post a general disclaimer? Often I think so. Many people post disclaimers about their email irresponsibility. Neal Stephenson's is a spectacularly gruff example. I totally agree with Stephenson that I need "vast, unbroken slabs of time" to do anything substantive, but I don't want to growl quite that much at people. Donald Knuth is inaccessible to incoming email, but he still uses outgoing email, which strikes me as morally inconsistent. Umberto Eco is said (by Knuth) to have no email address at all, which I can't do, because then I'd have to use the phone. Linda Stone speaks depressingly of our era of "Continuous Partial Attention"; Stone's right, and thus I harbor a secret master agenda of being one of the few people left on Earth who refuses attention-wasting paraphernalia and thereby become one of the few people who still accomplishes anything new.
But in the past, when I've tried to post a stylish and subtly hip disclaimer — not too gruff, not too morally inconsistent, not giving away my phone number, not too revealing of my secret master agenda — I've found that the considerate, thoughtful people whom I want to talk to all stop emailing me, and conversely, the people who ask obvious questions because they don't read documentation don't read stylish and subtly hip disclaimers either, so they keep emailing me, and as a result I paradoxically enrich for email I don't want.
Now that HMMER3 is starting to roll out, my email is starting to become even more unmanageable. I'm starting to see a pattern of three main lines of inquiry that I'm going to have to increasingly ignore and feel bad about. In the forlorn hope that someone who doesn't get a reply from me might check here at the blog rather than just assuming I'm a total jerk, here's three generic question/answers that cover a lot of email:
How do I do X in HMMER? If you ask me a question that's already covered in HMMER3's documentation, I may not reply, in the hope that you realize you can just do your homework. It's a little awkward to get into a "please read the documentation", "I did", "no you didn't; look at page XX" discussion with a lot of people during the day; partly because I tend to get more testy than I ought to be, partly because I tend to answer in a hurry and make embarrassing mistakes, and partly because it becomes faster to just answer the question rather than have that discussion, but I didn't have time to answer the question in the first place. Of course, if someone finds something that I haven't documented well, I always reply, and I always fix the documentation so I don't have to reply to similar questions in the future. I'm much more likely to reply if someone indicates that they've already read the documentation carefully, rather than taking advantage of my easy email accessibility.
How do I do X in this interface to HMMER? If you're using someone else's software or web interface to use HMMER, and your problem is in their software not mine, your first point of contact should be the person who developed the interface. That includes commercial software packages that bundle HMMER, and things like BioPerl and other Bio* interfaces. I'm much more likely to reply if a question is directly about HMMER's own input/output, not something that's been filtered through someone else's interface.
How do I do X in this thing that's called *HMMER* but really isn't? Programs like MPI-HMMER, GPU-HMMER, LD-HMMER and the like are using the name HMMER without our permission, in annoying disregard of my attempts to get them to use a name that doesn't confuse people and burden me with a bunch of extra email. Except for the software released by us from hmmer.org, we don't have anything to do with these other forks or clones, and you again need to contact the people responsible for them.


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|Crossbows is a concept which has only appeared in an adaptation of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien.
Crossbows are a type of bow weapons where the bow and its string are mounted on a stock. The bowstring along with bolt is pulled back and then held in place until fired by a trigger lever.
They are commonly shown in adaptations, but aren't mentioned in the original works.
[edit] Portrayal in adaptations
2002: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers:
- In the movie The Two Towers, the Uruk-hai use crossbows at Helm's Deep. Uruk-hai can use these kinds of crossbows with deadly accuracy and with ease but it takes some time to reload. However in The Battle for Helms Deep you only see Uruk crossbowmen in the beginning of the battle and then you don't see them for some reason.
2006: The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II:
- Uruk crossbowman are portrayed as a deadly fighting unit.


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Worldwide: Women and leadership in Muslim societies - voices for change
On November 25, 2002 WLP brought together an international group of women leaders to discuss the constraints and opportunities Muslim women face in expanding their political participation and leadership opportunities.
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The work of Prof. Nasr Abu-Zeid has been subject of concerted attack by fundamentalist groups in Egypt. He is currently in exile following charges of apostasy brought against him and the ruling of the Apex court in Egypt ordering his divorce from his wife Dr. Ithal Younis.
The following extracts from the book "Women in the Discourse of Crisis" by Prof. Nasr Abu-Zeid have been translated from Arabic by Marlene Tadros.
The discourse over women in the Arab world is generally discriminatory.
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Volunteer "citizen scientists," working in support of Essex County Greenbelt's Osprey Program, monitored Osprey nests in 10 communities and submitted their observations, helping Greenbelt confirm that 26 pairs of Osprey nested across Essex County in 2013, as compared to 18 pairs in 2012; 14 pairs in 2011 and 11 pairs in 2010.
The 26 pairs are the most observed since Greenbelt started helping the Osprey population in 2007 by building and repairing nesting platforms. "Osprey are really thriving in Essex County, and with the work of so many volunteers, we are collecting excellent information that is helping us understand where they are nesting and whether they are successfully fledging young," said Greenbelt Director of Stewardship Dave Rimmer, who also directs the Osprey Program.
Rimmer released these findings in a full report entitled Status of Osprey Breeding Activity in Essex County Massachusetts 2013, available on the Greenbelt website, ecga.org.
Some 200 volunteers and Greenbelt staffers filed online reports of Osprey nesting activity from Salem to Salisbury, starting in April right though to September.
Greenbelt expanded its Osprey Program in 2013, adding a webcam on a nest at its Cox Reservation headquarters. The Osprey Program also established a more comprehensive nest monitoring effort; installed a new Osprey platform and repaired others; installed two outdoor kiosks with detailed information about Osprey biology and conservation, and collaborated with Dr. Rob Bierregaard of UNC, Charlotte, to track two fledgling Osprey by satellite to study Osprey migration.
But the highlight of 2013 was streaming webcam video from the nesting platform at the Cox Reservation, which went directly to the Greenbelt website. Rimmer credits the webcam for building new public awareness and support for Osprey conservation in Essex County. Video of Allyn and Ethel, the nesting Osprey pair at the Cox Reservation, their eggs and chick, was viewed more than 60,000 times on Greenbelt's website and facebook page, from as far as away as a family in France and a class of school children in Florida. The webcam will go live again sometime in March, when the Osprey pair is expected to return.
On Greenbelt's website, ecga.org, you can view the full report of the Status of Osprey in Essex County in 2013, see a map showing Osprey nest locations in Essex County, as well as view the current flight path of Whit, the one surviving fledgling from a Gloucester nesting platform. Dr. Bierregaard tagged Whit last August so a satellite could follow his travels as he migrated from Gloucester to Venezuela.
Rimmer says, "Osprey are such a beautiful and captivating bird of prey, while also a strong indicator of the health of our coastal ecosystem. We have been overwhelmed by the public interest in Osprey activity, especially the steaming webcam video that was viewed worldwide by so many. All of us at Greenbelt are eagerly anticipating the return of Osprey to the area this year in March and April, and we are excited to once again engage as many people as we can with our programs."
Anyone interested in volunteering for Greenbelt's Osprey Program should contact Dave Rimmer at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Kokeshi dolls. (Japanese Wooden dolls) We sell a range of attractive kokeshi dolls. Please look at the wonderful kokeshi dolls made by kokeshi creators who have won important Japanese prizes.
This is a doll made of wood and is one of the most famous Japanese dolls and toys. There are two types: the 'Traditional Kokeshi dolls' and the 'Creative Kokeshi dolls'. The 'Traditional Kokeshi dolls ' is born from the technology of the potter's wheel, and its keynote is tradition. In contrast, the 'Creative Kokeshi dolls' has creation as its keynote. 'Traditional Kokeshi dolls' are said to have the Naruko style or the Tsuchiyu style etc. according to the region they are made in Japan. They each have peculiar forms and patterns, and the production technique has been handed down from teacher to pupil, from the past to the present day.
On the other hand, the 'Creative Kokeshi dolls' is formed from the free conception of the maker individually and is produced using an original technique. It is a craftwork that develops swimming with the current of the times, like a messenger of peace. The creation activity is the result of the study effort of many designers. Particular care is given to ensuring the peculiar beauty of the 'Creative Kokeshi dolls' by careful use of the artistic techniques of the potter's wheel such as carving and firing. Articles by famous writers have led to the product being evaluated as a unique type of art craft. The warmth of wood can be indescribable, and if you see the lovely appearance of Kokeshi dolls, your mind will be calmed and you will feel drawn to the Kokeshi dolls.
There are many ardent collectors of Kokeshi dolls since its charm appeals and spreads like magic, and the Kokeshi dolls is likely to be cherished for many years Why don't you experience the charm of the Kokeshi dolls, too? Just seeing the Kokeshi dolls will almost certainly have a healing effect on you.


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Greg Graffin's New Album 'Millport' Out Now
The album, produced by Graffin's longtime Bad Religion collaborator Brett Gurewitz, delivers a stirring reinterpretation of the classic Laurel Canyon country-rock sound alongside the singer-songwriter's always pointed lyricism, which on Millport, deftly explores issues of history, permanence and relevance.
"This kind of music is deeply meaningful," Graffin tells The OC Register. "It's partly because of its rich tradition but it's also in the way it makes you feel. Everyone gets introduced to it differently, sometimes it's a father or an uncle or just a friend, but there's this idea of sharing these songs and handing them down through the generations."
Millport features the Bad Religion frontman backed by a core of esteemed colleagues from the Los Angeles punk scene including Social Distortion members Jonny 'Two Bags' Wickersham, Brent Harding and David Hidalgo Jr. The result is less a musical reinvention than a creative liberation - a group of veteran Los Angeles musicians playing a brand of music they have long loved.
As Graffin recently told The Los Angeles Times, "Sometimes I like to slam dance and sometimes I like to square dance. I mean, I'm a rounded human being."


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This one is just damn good.
Ok, time for the obligatory, "Sorry I haven't updated blah blah blah..."
Well, I'm sorry. My lovely wife and I are in the process of looking for another house. Between that, work, freelance and breakdancing, there's not much room for other stuff.
So if anyone is looking to move into NOHO we have a great little house we'd like to sell you.
Orange Line, Red Line and NOHO Arts District adjacent.
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Me too, her facial experssions are so much better the SOL HORNET cutesy pouty moe schtick. I like her hairstyle, colors and ovarlook more then SOL HORNET, however I am less fond of her accessories/weapons:/ (which also seems to be less) . I think I am going to get her, she will be my first model kit and she would be released in summer which means I will have time to build her^^.quotemarks wrote:SOL Roadrunner promo video
Oh man, I love her smug and confident smile.
Here are new images of future Megami Device releases (and current pre-ordrs ones, cause why not?) from Wonderfest, I didn't like anything in particular, but maybe others will:)
Images were taken from tomopop http://www.tomopop.com/wonder-festival- ... 7623.phtml


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Corrections: Gender, trash math, minority recruitment
There are several corrections or clarifications from the January 10 cover story, "Missing: Inside the Dashad Smith investigation."
•The Hook primarily referred to Smith's friend Kash Carson as "she" but used "he" in several places. Carson is a gay man and is not transgendered but prefers to be referred to as female.
•The proper name for the citizen council created to improve communication between police department and citizens is the Citizen's Advisory Panel.
•The 3,000 cubic yards of trash was within an area Charlottesville Police Sgt. Marc Brake estimated to have been 100 by 100 feet by 20-feet deep.
•The article states Charlottesville Police Chief Tim Longo and a member of the Citizen's Advisory Panel have already visited Virginia universities to recruit minorities. Those visits will begin this spring.
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You may want to revisit the math again.
A 10-foot by 10-foot hole (100 square feet), 20 feet deep, as you describe, would hold 74 cubic yards. That leaves the other 2,953 cubic yards of trash sticking up out out of the hole, in a pile 800 feet tall.
By comparison, the Washington Monument is 555 feet tall, but considerably wider at the base.


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The Network of Care for Mental/Behavioral Health is an online information portal for individuals, families and social service agencies concerned with community mental health services, substance use treatment programs and help for people with developmental disabilities. This online community provides critical information, communication and advocacy tools with a single point of entry for those seeking access to social services. It ensures there is "No Wrong Door" for those navigating the system of behavioral health resources, those working to avoid the need for formal services, and those ready to transition out of the behavioral health system.
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Blaze Heats Up
The Chicago Blaze, one of two new expansion teams in the United States Chess League (USCL), now has a Web site and a blog. (Yours truly will be one of the regular posters.) The team is getting ready for its first season, which begins on August 25 with a match against the Arizona Scorpions, the league's other new team.
This week the Blaze issued an official press release with a preview of the what's to come. The schedule is now posted online. Mark your calendars and plan to follow all the action throughout September, October, and into the November playoffs.
Meanwhile, Elizabeth Vicary is conducting a poll on her blog to see who people think will win the USCL championship this year. You can vote for the team you think most likely to win.


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As most of my readers know,
we do our best,
NOT to fear monger here.
There is however,
the obvious fact,
that this world is really getting somewhat turbulent,
as we approach zero point,
or the singularity,
black swan event,
or whatever YOU want to call it,
but there IS something brewing.
And for those of YOU who say things like,
"Every year they say that,"
I say to you:
If only one of us is right once,
what will YOU do then?
It's good that people keep mis-guessing the aforementioned event.
It's good that those who "predict" are wrong,
because this event only needs to happen one time,
just once,
and I don't know what the event is and/or might be,
never have claimed to,
but it could/would/will/has change/d everything.
Dates are just the result of humans attaching numbers to astronomical cycles,
they are irrelevant.
As I said above,
who's to say a mass event has already occurred,
and/or IS occurring right NOW?
All of these people ascending in various ways,
twin flame reunions,
recalling your Higher selves,
mass consciousness expansion at an exponential rate,
on and on,
and when did all this start?
Well if you look to the right of my page,
you'll see that CERN is firing their particle accelerator,
this Friday, March 20, 2015,
coinciding, coincidentally of course,
with a Supermoon eclipse.
They haven't fired this since just after that infamous date,
of December 12, 2012,
specifically in February 2013.
Before that,
they had been playing with their toy,
since around 2008.
But before that,
what sort of particle accelerators had they been testing,
with leftover technology that the Nazis pioneered?
Now stick with me here…
…if you go back throughout the history,
of this current mass awakening many are experiencing,
it began on a relative mass scale in the late 1950's,
into the 1960's, and into the 1970's,
obviously just after World War 2 ended.
Operation Paper Clip,
look into it,
numerous HIGH-level Nazi scientists and engineers,
relocated safely from the Third Reich,
into the hands of the psychopaths,
who run the CIA,
that work in shadows,
and YOU have no idea where they have gone at this point,
with the previously mentioned technology.
Now I know CERN is not based in Amerika,
but those who control Amerika,
are the banker scum who control the money,
and where are they based?
2 + 2 is NOT 5,
but I won't digress into that now…
So let's pseudo-speculate just a bit,
Nazis taken to Amerika after WW2 ends,
pioneering technology YOU have never heard of,
and as the Fed and the Globalist bankers pirated,
and continue to pirate Amerika,
these technologies have fallen into the hands,
of the scum atop their proverbial pyramid,
those who have total control over most of YOU already.
…but hang in there…this gets better…moving on…
These elitists are in it for full-scale domination,
and they have rationalized that they need the biggest weapons,
in order to successfully do so.
The proton particle accelerator they play with at CERN,
generates energy levels UNPRECEDENTED,
even at an atomic level.
Going back,
just after the first atomic bombs were tested and used,
the first mass waves of "awakened ones,"
were born…
…i.e. the first star children, indigos, crystals, etc…
…look into it for YOU if YOU don't know…
It's as if there is some counter-reaction of energy,
filtered back to the populous,
as the potential level of destruction and energy released from WMD grows.
So there were the first waves,
following those first atomic tests,
then more waves as they continued to test nuclear weapons,
all over the world,
leading from the 1950's,
as mentioned earlier,
all up through the decades…
…the research shifted from atomic weaponry,
to more advanced molecular particle weaponry,
and the advent of what is now known as CERN.
What is CERN?…
Look into it, no links this time, YOU can do it for YOU,
but I can sum up:
Around 20 miles long,
they just blast protons in opposing directions,
at near light speed,
to see what happens basically.
Now I don't know the science,
I just try to put together puzzle pieces,
like YOU,
so when I look at the historic timelines,
of when these progressively leveling-up weapons are tested and used,
in relation to evolutionary bounces that advance consciousness,
back toward it's higher self/5th dimensional self,
those "bounces" line up in accord with those weapons being used.
So CERN comes along and fires it's first test in 2008ish…
…and what has become of those first star children from the 1950's?
Those originals are old now, many dead, some still very much alive.
We have the children of the first star children now grown,
many with their own children,
that have various terms associated with them,
such as rainbow children, again, look into it for YOU.
So as you can see, since the 1950's first wave,
a few generations have now been incarnated,
many of which are more in tune with the increasing energies,
but not quite awake yet,
but more and more and more and more waking up every moment…
…and when CERN fired off in 2008,
a HUGE energy wave swept the planet,
and we began to get noticeably more information about New Age type things,
although I don't really like using that term,
but it works here,
in order to illustrate people somewhat beginning to share and talk about,
subjects like dimensions, vibrations, ascension, etc…
…all around mid 2000's to late 2000's,
and I know it has been discussed extensively before that time,
but I'm talking about it becoming so widespread,
and with the help of the energy super-highway we call the Internet,
more people than ever before in known history,
were remembering and awakening,
to their soul consciousness,
allowing ego to die,
freeing themselves from their own chains.
Then there is the 2012 time period.
People thinking the world would end,
apocalypse, blah, blah, blah,
but what if something DID happen on a global scale,
just not in the way most people think,
and it was a gross misinterpretation, of what the Mayans were really trying to convey?
There were so many people who woke up in 2012,
you could feel the energy of something equatable to a mass birthing,
(thanks to Cyriak for the visuals above and below)
and it was everywhere,
and it's still everywhere,
only now it's grown,
and it grows exponentially,
all in time with this upcoming next firing of CERN,
which hasn't fired since the beginning of 2013.
they basically double the power every time they play with this thing,
so when they do it again this Friday,
for the first time in over 2 years,
it will be a stronger blast of energy than EVER before…
…and what will happen?
I wish I knew, I wish i knew,
but again,
Like I explained in this post,
something happens when they try to handle this level of energy,
that reciprocates with the energy giving life to this humanity,
as if their negativity,
is polarized as positivity and filtered back through the connected consciousness of all.
and with that,
I've just passed 1000 words,
so time to go.
More to come.
Love to all.


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Milledgeville, huh?
I attended Georgia Military College back in the day before transferring to Tech. Is that where you work?
I am proud!!! I hope someday they can be a viable party.
Glad you liked the pics!
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The folly of man's planning
By Julio Severo
Modern Christian families have usually 2 children. Single women with three or four children fathered by different men are not a rare sight, at least not in Brazil. An unmarried man with several children by several women is a growing modern reality. That is the horrendous legacy of family planning.
The preaching of family planning, initiated by lesbian theosophist Annie Besant in the predominantly Protestant England in the 19th century, achieved its objective: today's England is much less Christian, and men and women are much less prone to get married. Of those getting married, the pattern is two children at the most.
Margaret Sanger, inventor of the term "birth control" in the early 20th century, used to say that birth control would eventually destroy Christianity. Looking at England, nobody could doubt Sanger, founder of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, which is today the largest abortion organization in the world.
As in England, the family-planning fever, launched by New Age leaders, spread as fire throughout Protestant nations. Next, ideas of racial purification (eugenics) and population control came in the same trail. German Nazis and the Soviet communists benefitted a lot from those ideas.
If the goal of the population-control agenda was to indoctrinate families to have two children, the success was total, at least in Europe and in the US. But in the trail a shady picture appeared.
With the divorce of sex from procreation, marriage came under contempt. With marriage despised, sexual freedom came, where a man is free to make sex to whoever he wants, with no marital responsibility. The result, as we have seen, is many and increasing cases of single women having several children fathered by different men. And equally bizarre cases of men that, as perverted hummingbirds pollinating throughout their world, live their lives impregnating a woman after another.
I met a man that, when young and without God, lived unconcerned about marriage, just getting busy with pleasures, which yielded to him eight children by eight different women. Later, he accepted Jesus and became a minister.
But there are cases of much younger men that may also brag that they have eight or more children with different women. These children, with several siblings, will never have a normal father's love, while their fathers continue their insane contests for new women to impregnate.
At the end, a gigantic mass of illegitimate unborn babies, by different fathers and mothers, are aborted or get permission to be born. And the statistics for children born outside marriage and natural family are not beautiful: 70% delinquents come from these irresponsible relationships.
In past times, it took a lifetime for a depraved man to impregnate several women. Today, with sex much easier and free, young men can impregnate a variety of women in a shorter time, and the results are always several abortions or illegitimate children.
Instead of correcting the problem by valuing natural family and establishing punishments for irresponsible conducts, social engineers prefer to redefine family, removing its original sense of "father and mother married with children beget by them" to benefit any deformed grouping, regardless of marriage, composed of:
* A cohabiting man and woman bringing up children from previous relationships.
* A divorced man with a divorced woman bringing up children from previous marriages.
* A man with another man bringing up children fathered by other people.
Those deformed groups, which are extremely problematic, are included as "family" in sick cultures, and it is no wonder that governments say that "family" has "problems". Probably, governments want intentionally the classification of those deformed groups as "family" in order to have full powers and excuses to interfere, mutilate, traumatize, damage, deform and destroy the power of the natural family.
Instead of promoting the growth of the natural family, malicious and opportunistic governments promote the growth of deformed groups and their valorization as "family". Instead of valuing an increase in births in natural families, irresponsible governments, with their population-control doctrine, eventually promote explosion of abortions and illegitimate births.
The family-planning doctrine was able to reduce drastically the number of marriages in the Western nations. It was also able to reduce drastically the number of children in the increasingly fewer formal marriages today. But in the process it provoked the disarray of sexual relationships and unrestrained procreation by men and women that want nothing to do with marriage.
The population-control doctrine, which is reducing marriages and families, is provoking an unprecedented explosion of fatherless and family-less children. As the number of marriages decreases, the number of illegitimate babies increases continuously.
The abundant access to legal abortion in the Western nations has, for the time being, been able to varnish the enormity of their demographic woes, because a lot of women that were supposed to be with 8 or more children by different men are single and childless, continuing "normally" their careers and active sexual lives. The cost of the sexual freedom is an immense blood shedding that is impossible to measure.
To men that don't want to impregnate woman after woman, the only option left is anal (homosexual) sex and become other piece in the population-control game to destroy natural marriage, contributing for many of the gay demands for the disfigurement of the natural family.
Sex, any sex, is promoted today, provided that it mutilates, traumatizes, damages, deforms or even destroys children, values, Christianity, marriage and family. It is not without purpose that the International Planned Parenthood Federation is engaged in the promotion of abortion, homosexuality, feminism and sexual education in the schools.
The consequences are already here. And in the next decades, more consequences will come. Because of the reduced number of children, Europe is in process of being dominated by large Muslim families. But the European leaders' most urgent questions in the next years are: with a population of young workers more and more reduced, how to support social security? What to do with the enormous number of seniors increasing continuously? Netherlands, formerly a strong Protestant nation, has given the official answer: euthanasia.
Netherlands, religiously faithful to the population-control doctrine, has been pioneering in homosexual "marriage", children's adoption by gay couples, legal acceptance of marijuana and other drugs, etc. Besides euthanasia, Netherlands has been exporting abortion to other nations, through her infamous abortion boat. And for the sake of diversity and demoncracy, Netherlands has the dishonor of having the first pedophilic party in the world, composed mostly of homosexual pedophiles.
Netherlands and other modern nations reflect the fulfillment of Margaret Sanger's wish: birth control destroys Christian churches and their influence on society
That is the cost of the acceptance of the man's planning. That is the cost of the rejection of the planning of God.
To marry and have several children inside of marriage is folly, fools in this world say. But this is the "foolishness" of God. Not to marry and fill the earth with children's blood or fill it with traumatized children without a father, without a family and without a moral direction: that is the man's foolishness without God. That is the legacy of family planning.
Portuguese version of this article: A loucura do planejamento do homem
Rivers of Blood: A Brazilian pro-life Evangelical writes about the contraceptive culture and prophecies in Revelation (short version published in LifeSiteNews)
Blood in the rivers: the contraceptive culture and prophecies in Revelation (original version)


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"The patient has had an electrical dysfunction of the cortex, resulting in abnormal neuronal discharges. The resultant signal propagation caused generalized tonic-clonic muscular activity."
Dr. Grumpy's translation: "He had a seizure."
A Blog detailing the insanity of my medical practice and the stupidity of everyday life.
I can abide neither hyposyllablification nor extra redundant words.
If you cannot use big words, then why go to medical school for four years and do a residency for another four. Otherwise he has a knack for politics since that requires complicating the trivial and simplifying the complex.
Seriously, you'd think he had too much time on his hands.
Note to wordy neuro-sometimes less really is more.
He must be one of the best five neurologists in town.
I think he must have been one of the 5 good neurologist in Grumpytown
Maybe the extra billable hours spent dictating all this words are like a little bonus every month.
He be fittin'!
do you treat "abnormal neuronal discharges' with antibiotics?
Ah, the old "stretch out a high school term paper" trick. How big were the margins?
I guess you just have to keep practicing jargon or you'll lose the ability.
I wonder if he just got plain fed up with all the bureaucratic mumble jumble that you have to deal with, and decided to do a little mumbling-jumbling of his own.
mary beth- i use kleenex
As a transcriptionist, I would love to transcribe for this doctor. Then maybe I could finally get that yacht....
Seems more likely to me that the doc was the one who had the seizure.
Janine, you'd be able to get a big yacht, not like the little ones poor people have.
Oh! eLECTRICAL dysfunction. Thought that was an 'r'. That makes much more sense.
i gave up studying to be a teacher coz i can't make up incredibly redundant sentances like that. graphic design on the other hand preferes a picture over useless words... O.o
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Over at Judaism.SE, there's a question: How should we respond to objectionable content in a public forum? It got me thinking, how should we apply Jesus' teaching on reconciliation:
"If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother."—Matthew 18:15 (ESV)
Sometimes, we are in a public forum with someone who is our brother or sister in Christ, and they say or do something that hurts us or is a sin against us. When in person or when a private communication channel is provided (e.g., Facebook, email, and many internet forums), it's easy enough to take them aside. But what should we do where there is no way to initiate a private conversation with a fellow Christian?
Obviously, this very site is an example of where this might come up. But I'm not making it a meta-question since it's really a question about how Christians should behave in any public forum. And of course, it must be an ecumenical position since, unless the forum happens to be specific to a particular branch of Christianity, the other person might come from any faith tradition (or none at all). How do we love those who sin against us in strictly public places?


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Update: My Cancer Adventure Continues
The mail yesterday brought a delightfully deranged gift from my friend, W:.B:. Andrew Hammer in Virginia. Yes, it's a plush, stuffed stomach. Biggest laugh I've had in weeks.
As I have publicly announced last month ("Yes I have cancer. You thought I was a Scorpio."), I was diagnosed with stomach cancer at the end of March, and I started chemotherapy about two weeks ago. The treatment is aggressive to keep the cancer from spreading.
I have discussed my traveling schedule with my oncologists and surgeon. In the beginning, they advised me to "keep to my usual routine." I don't think they fully comprehended that my usual routine was to take week-long driving trips, sleeping in the back of a van, hauling book boxes around, getting up at 7AM for a Masonic breakfast with lunatic early risers, while being kept out until 2AM by far more rational night owls. While they are understanding of my situation, doctors seem bizarrely more concerned with keeping me alive than they are about me swanning about the countryside. And I misunderstood the regimen schedule when this saga began- it's considerably longer than i thought. So, I have now been advised to cancel my traveling events in May and June.
Skipping over the ickier details, the plan is to kill as much of the tumor with chemo as is possible for an initial nine weeks, hack out the part of my stomach that is affected, replumb the whole mess, and follow up with another nine weeks of chemicals. That puts the surgery at approximately the end of May or beginning of June. In the meantime, I'm wearing a portable chemo pump around my neck, that's about the size of a 1970s cassette deck.
I'm not used to having my wings clipped, and this was supposed to be a very busy spring and summer. But I'm told I need to shut my squeakhole about the inconvenience, and be a little more upbeat about the "not dying" side of things.
This does NOT mean I am getting worse—quite the opposite. Everyone has been quite positive and optimistic, and most important, no one has taken Alice out in the hall and suggested a long, final Caribbean cruise, and maybe a nice party where everybody brings a funny story about Chris. But I am being sternly warned about fatigue, weight loss and other side effects, and just the simple technical challenges of traveling, versus trying to keep to the chemo treatment regimen.
The funniest part of this mess is that, after losing 90 pounds over the last year, I'm being told to eat 3,000 calories a day in anticipation of the eventual appetite loss. Criminey. I didn't eat 3,000 calories a day when I was at my most alarmingly spherical circumference.
I apologize for waiting to make these scheduling decisions until now, which puts many brethren in a bind for their events, but my health issues and answers have been changing on a daily basis, with lots of unknowns. I hope you understand. I will be happy to help any of you find a substitute, unless you want to try to reschedule in the Fall. I'll do whatever I can to attempt to assist from my end.
I remain the luckiest guy in Freemasonry, and Alice and I both appreciate the literally hundreds of emails, letters, cards, phone calls, and stuffed stomach toys that have been coming in. In spite of my grousing, early detection of this condition, along with the friendship of all of you, have been the greatest gifts for which I am truly thankful.
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The brightest hopes for your future and that of your family.ReplyDelete
Greg O'Connor-Lafayette Lodge #123
Praying for you Chris.ReplyDelete
Chris, you will be in my prayers every day. Stay strong Brother. There are many pulling for you. Dogman, MA. GRAND CHAPTER, WIDOWS SONS.ReplyDelete
Thoughts and Prayers, positive energy and any other therapy I can send your way Brother!!ReplyDelete
Your health, courage and persistence are in my prayers, Brother Chris.ReplyDelete
Keeping you in my prayersReplyDelete
Prayers for you and a quick recovery.ReplyDelete
Sending prayers and positive energy your way, fellow Prepster and film foxhole ally.ReplyDelete
I guess I wasn't aware that there was a market for stuffed replicas of body parts. I can deal with the the stuffed stomach and am thankful you don't have rectal cancer. Who wants to see a picture of a stuffed a ... Uh, never mind.ReplyDelete
Glad your keeping your spirits. Keep getting better and you'll be back to your "normal" routine soon enough.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 18, 2011 12:47 AM
Praying for you. Doesn't surprise me that you're getting better, though, as so many brothers rely on you for Masonic information, they might dig you up and kill you again if you did die!ReplyDelete
So really, you don't have any choice but to get better. :)
Hope things go well for you through the chemo though. I have one uncle who just finished chemo for esophageal cancer (strange, as he was never a tobacco user), and one who is currently undergoing chemo, I believe for stomach cancer as well. They're both doing fine now, but it is a long, arduous process.
Stay confident and positive, and know there are hundreds of people out there thinking about you and wishing you the best.
I mean, I still haven't had the pleasure of meeting you. One more reason you can't up and die. ;)
Get well soon my friend, or I'll come find you and kick your Masonic ass.ReplyDelete
Nah, I'm too impatient to do something as stupid as dying.ReplyDelete
My cancer is in my stomach, right at the base of the esophagus. The two parts have different cell structures, so you either get stomach or esophageal cancer—they don't usually cross over. Smoking doesn't have anything to do with esophageal cancer. The biggest cause seems to be acid reflux that makes both organs susceptible to attack by cancer. Didn't cause mine, but if you have recurring acid reflux and you love really spicy food, get it checked, pronto.
That said, no one knows what caused mine. For all I know it was the 10-12 Diet Dr. Peppers I drank every day for 15 years.
Sending my prayers your way Chris.ReplyDelete
I will also keep you in my thoughts and prayers, Brother Chris.ReplyDelete
Adding you to my prayers Brother Chris! I haven't been to your Blog in a month or more, and was sending your link to a potential new brother...and read this. Stay positive and know that there are thousands of brothers out there wishing you a healthy recovery! Thank you for all you do for the fraternity.ReplyDelete
Wishing you the best on a speedy and full recovery.ReplyDelete
Thoughts and prayers, Bro. Chris.ReplyDelete
I would send you my "stuffed stomach", but I'm still using it!
Remember the Lou Costello response in boot camp;
Drill Sergeant: "Throw out your chest!"
Lou: "But I'm not through with it yet!"
You hang in there, Brother, we all love you!!
Darrell G. Waddell - Daylight Lodge #760 F&AM - Louisville, KY
I continue to keep you in my prayers. I survived something very like this myself and feel certain you will also join the "Kicked the Big C's Arse Club." It;s a great group, and best of all -- no memory work!ReplyDelete
I went through my own bout with cancer (though not stomach cancer) about 15 years ago. It was rough but I lived and am stronger for it. Since then I'm astonished at how far they've come both with chemotherapy drugs and anti-nausea medication. I'll be keeping you in my thoughts, but I suspect you'll pull through just fine.ReplyDelete
P.S. A friend was recently diagnosed with diabetes and received a stuffed pancreas from another friend. Apparently there's quite a lively trade in plushy organs. (Don't know if there's a black market, or if anyone has fallen asleep and woken up with their teddy bear's kidneys missing.)
Prayers and healing energy coming your way!!ReplyDelete
Bro Chris,ReplyDelete
I am so sorry to hear about your failing health with the big C. I am sure a lot of us has been touched by cancer and I hope & pray you will win your battle with cancer.
Mario Baylon Jr
Lincoln Lodge No 34 Philippines
Lodge Jose Rizal 1045 NSW Australia
Brother Hodapp, Having been through Prostate Cancer and currently fighting Bladder Cancer, I can understand the inconvenience you are feeling. I feel the same way until I realize that not that many years ago, we would both be planning that Caribbean vacation with our wives. I'll take the inconvenience, thanks. The alternative involves wearing that lambskin apron for the last time. You are in my prayers. Know that you have contributed more to modern Masonry with your writings than you could know. I hope we will one day meet on the level.ReplyDelete
John Ruggiero, Ancient York Lodge, Lowell, MA
Long time reader, and first time commenter. Just wanted tell you to keep up the good fight!ReplyDelete
Light & F. Love!
Keep the faith Brother and keep up the fight. Know that you are not alone and there are many that are pulling and praying for you.
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