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Public Health Statement for Formaldehyde
September 2008
This Public Health Statement is the summary chapter from the Toxicological Profile for Formaldehyde. It is one in a series of Public Health Statements about hazardous substances and their health effects. A shorter version, the ToxFAQsTM, is also available. . This information is important because this substance may harm you. The effects of exposure to any hazardous substance depend on the dose, the duration, how you are exposed, personal traits and habits, and whether other chemicals are present. For more information, call the ATSDR Information Center at 1-800-232-4636.
This public health statement tells you about formaldehyde and the effects of exposure to it.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) identifies the most serious hazardous waste sites in the nation. These sites are then placed on the National Priorities List (NPL) and are targeted for long-term federal clean-up activities. Formaldehyde has been found in at least 29 of the 1,699 current or former NPL sites. Although the total number of NPL sites evaluated for this substance is not known, the possibility exists that the number of sites at which formaldehyde is found may increase in the future as more sites are evaluated. This information is important because these sites may be sources of exposure and exposure to this substance may harm you.
When a substance is released either from a large area, such as an industrial plant, or from a container, such as a drum or bottle, it enters the environment. Such a release does not always lead to exposure. You can be exposed to a substance only when you come in contact with it. You may be exposed by breathing, eating, or drinking the substance, or by skin contact. There are other sources of formaldehyde that may lead to exposure, such as consumer products, that are indicated in the document.
If you are exposed to formaldehyde, many factors will determine whether you will be harmed. These factors include the dose (how much), the duration (how long), and how you come in contact with it. You must also consider any other chemicals you are exposed to and your age, sex, diet, family traits, lifestyle, and state of health.
1.1 What is formaldehyde?
Formaldehyde is a gaseous pollutant produced by both human activity and natural sources.
Formaldehyde can mostly be found in the air.
Formaldehyde can also be found in rain water and surface water after release from the manufacture, use, and disposal of formaldehyde-based products.
Formaldehyde is widely used to make resins for wood products.
Consumer products containing formaldehyde include (IARC 2006):
These consumer oriented products mainly contain aqueous solutions of formaldehyde.
1.2 What happens to formaldehyde when it enters the environment?
|Break down
Formaldehyde is quickly broken down in the air, usually within hours.
Formaldehyde in water may be broken down by bacteria or other microorganisms.
Formaldehyde evaporates from shallow soils.
1.3 How might I be exposed to formaldehyde?
|Air-primary source of exposure
The primary way you can be exposed to formaldehyde is by breathing air containing it. Releases of formaldehyde into the air occur from:
Rural or suburban air generally contains lower concentrations of formaldehyde than urban air. Indoor air often contains higher levels of formaldehyde than outdoor air. Examples of concentrations of formaldehyde:
A ppm in air represents the fraction of volume of air occupied by formaldehyde. 1 ppm is equivalent to 1 unit volume of formaldehyde per 1,000,000 units of air.
|Workplace air
A large number of workers are potentially exposed to formaldehyde.
|Water and soil
Formaldehyde is occasionally detected in rain water and fogwater.
Formaldehyde has not been detected in soils, likely due to its high removal rate when released to soils.
Low levels of formaldehyde occur naturally in a variety of foods, such as fruits. Food may contain small amounts of formaldehyde from its use as a fumigant, fertilizer, or preservative.
1.4 How can formaldehyde enter and leave my body?
| Enter your body
When you breathe air containing formaldehyde, most of the formaldehyde is quickly broken down in the cells lining your respiratory tract and breathed out. Only at high levels does formaldehyde enter your blood.
Formaldehyde in food or water may also rapidly enter your body through the digestive tract.
A very small amount may enter through your skin when you come into contact with liquids containing formaldehyde.
|Leave your body
Once in your body, formaldehyde is rapidly broken down into other chemicals.
Most of these other chemicals quickly leave your body in the urine.
Formaldehyde can also be converted to carbon dioxide and breathed out of the body.
1.5 How can formaldehyde affect my health?
This section looks at studies concerning potential health effects in animal and human studies. Formaldehyde is a highly reactive molecule that can be directly irritating to tissues with which it comes into contact. Human and animal studies indicate that formaldehyde, at certain exposure levels, can be irritating to the upper respiratory tract and eyes with inhalation exposure, to the skin with dermal exposure, and to the gastrointestinal tract with oral exposure. Formaldehyde-induced noncancer and cancer effects appear to occur only at portals-of-entry (i.e., upper respiratory tract, gastrointestinal tract, and skin). Figure 1-1 illustrates the health effects of breathing formaldehyde in humans and laboratory animals and the range of air concentrations at which these effects were seen. Estimates of exposure levels posing minimal risk to humans (MRLs) are also presented in the figure. An MRL is an estimate of the daily human exposure that is likely to be safe over a certain period of exposure. MRLs are not intended to define clean-up or action levels, but are intended only to serve as a screening tool to help public health professionals decide where to look more closely. Therefore, MRLs are set at levels well below where effects have been observed. Figure 1-2 shows the health effects of formaldehyde ingestion in laboratory animals and the dose ranges at which these effects occur. Estimates of oral dose levels posing minimal risk to humans (MRLs) are also presented in Figure 1-2.
Workers and residents
The most common health problems in people exposed to formaldehyde include irritation of the eyes, nose, and throat.
Formaldehyde may cause occupational asthma, but this seems to be rare.
Laboratory animals
Animal studies have shown that inhalation of formaldehyde can result in irritation and damage to the lining of the nose and throat. High concentrations can also affect the lung.
Impaired learning and changes in behavior have been observed in rats after high concentrations of formaldehyde.
Stomach damage has been observed in rats exposed to high oral doses of formaldehyde.
Some studies of humans exposed repeatedly to formaldehyde in workplace air found more cases of nose and throat cancer than expected. Animal studies of laboratory rats exposed for life to formaldehyde in air found that some rats developed nose cancer.
The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) have characterized formaldehyde as a human carcinogen based on studies of inhalation exposure in humans and laboratory animals.
Figure 1-1. Health Effects of Breathing Formaldehyde
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Figure 1-2. Health Effects of Ingesting Formaldehyde
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1.6 How can formaldehyde affect children?
This section discusses potential health effects in humans from exposures during the period from conception to maturity at 18 years of age. Children are not small adults. They differ from adults in their exposures and may differ in their susceptibility to hazardous chemicals. Children's unique physiology and behavior can influence the extent of their exposure.
|Effects in children
A small number of studies have looked at the health effects of formaldehyde in children. It is very likely that breathing formaldehyde will result in nose and eye irritation (burning feeling, itchy, tearing, and sore throat). We do not know if the irritation would occur at lower concentrations in children than in adults.
There is some evidence of asthma or asthma-like symptoms for children exposed to formaldehyde in homes.
|Birth defects
Studies in animals suggest that formaldehyde will not cause birth defects in humans.
1.7 How can families reduce the risk of exposure to formaldehyde?
|Avoid tobacco smoke
Formaldehyde is a component of tobacco smoke.
Avoid smoking in enclosed spaces such as inside the home or car in order to limit exposure to children and other family members.
|Keep house ventilated
Formaldehyde is released into indoor air from construction materials and a variety of consumer products.
|Wash new clothes
Some permanent press fabrics emit formaldehyde.
1.8 Is there a medical test to determine whether I have been exposed to formaldehyde?
Scientists use many tests to protect the public from harmful effects of toxic chemicals and to find ways for treating persons who have been harmed.
|Detecting exposure
Formaldehyde cannot be reliably measured in blood, urine, or body tissues following exposure. Formaldehyde is produced in the body and would be present as a normal constituent in body tissues.
|Measuring exposure
Antibodies to formaldehyde-bound proteins can be found in the blood of people exposed to formaldehyde; however, this test cannot be used to determine the extent of exposure or the kind of health effects that might develop from exposure.
1.9 What recommendations has the federal government made to protect human health?
The federal government develops regulations and recommendations to protect public health. Regulations can be enforced by law. The EPA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are some federal agencies that develop regulations for toxic substances. Recommendations provide valuable guidelines to protect public health, but cannot be enforced by law. The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) are two federal organizations that develop recommendations for toxic substances.Regulations and recommendations can be expressed as "not-to-exceed" levels, that is, levels of a toxic substance in air, water, soil, or food that do not exceed a critical value that is usually based on levels that affect animals; they are then adjusted to levels that will help protect humans. Sometimes these not-to-exceed levels differ among federal organizations because they used different exposure times (an 8-hour workday or a 24-hour day), different animal studies, or other factors.
Recommendations and regulations are also updated periodically as more information becomes available. For the most current information, check with the federal agency or organization that provides it. Some regulations and recommendations for formaldehyde include the following:
|Drinking water
The EPA has determined that lifetime exposure to 1 ppm formaldehyde in drinking water is not expected to cause any adverse effects.
|Workplace air
OSHA set a legal limit of 0.75 ppm formaldehyde in air averaged over an 8-hour work day.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) set standards for formaldehyde emissions in manufactured housing of less than 0.2 ppm for plywood and 0.3 ppm for particle board. The HUD standards are designed to provide an ambient level of 0.4 ppm or less in manufactured housing.
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). 2008. Toxicological profile for Formaldehyde. (Draft for Public Comment). Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service.
Where can I get more information?
If you have questions or concerns, please contact your community or state health or environmental quality department or:
For more information, contact:
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
Division of Toxicology and Human Health Sciences
1600 Clifton Road NE, Mailstop S102-1
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Phone: 1-800-CDC-INFO · 888-232-6348 (TTY)
Email: Contact CDC-INFO
ATSDR can also tell you the location of occupational and environmental health clinics. These clinics specialize in recognizing, evaluating, and treating illnesses resulting from exposure to hazardous substances.
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text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Sefcodys College Nigeria Scam Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Sefcodys College Nigeria Scam Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> General Africa Forum View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message JohnJoined: 16 Jan 2003Posts: 17 Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2003 11:26 am Post subject: Sefcodys College Nigeria Scam Beware. An enterprising Nigerain 419 fraudster is trying to make money from Foreign language teachers by offering them jobs at a school which does not exist then asking for money for visa and permit expenses. Back to top scot47Joined: 10 Jan 2003Posts: 15343 Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2003 8:26 am Post subject: frauds from nigeria and elsewhere This certainly looked like a scam. I think as a general rule you should not pay for someone to get you a job or process a visa or work permit. If you work, they should pay you. Economics 101. Back to top JohnJoined: 16 Jan 2003Posts: 17 Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 12:34 pm Post subject: This is a follow up to the thread running on the old bulletin board at the moment. See the message entitled CAUTION or do a search for sefcodys at http://www.eslcafe.com/jd2/ For a final bit of proof I carried out a few searches on random pieces of text in the website and found a couple of more interesting web sites. First of all see http://www.dexol.4t.com/ which (also hosted on Freeservers) is the side of a rather ill defined trading company run by the Admissions Officer of Sefcodys and using the same phone number. Now if a school with 58 teachers can't afford its own phone line then don't count on too much from the "official car" promised to all teachers. Far more conclusively see http://www.ru.ac.za/ Now doesn't that white building look awfully familiar. And a couple of other images too. If you want to sponsor the studies of a would be Nigerian web designer there are far better ways of doing it. Back to top ghostJoined: 30 Jan 2003Posts: 1693Location: Saudi Arabia Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2003 3:58 pm Post subject: Nigeria scam, you guys should have known Come on guys, get real. Nigeria is not a place where anyone would want to teach, or need to teach, for that matter. First of all, English is the official language for education and the government, so they obviously do not need someone from a foreign country teaching there. Do your research guys, Lagos is the scam capital of the world, and no one in their right mind would want to go there. Back to top scot47Joined: 10 Jan 2003Posts: 15343 Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2003 7:25 pm Post subject: Lagos, Nigeria and Sanity Ghost you are making a dangerous assumption. You should never assume that your fellow posters are either rational or literate. You know and I know that Nigeria is not the place to go. Any more than the Dominican Republic or Haiti are suitable choices for would-be teachers. Alas, not everyone who reads these pages is sane. Lots of very flakey characters are attracted to EFL. Back to top shebabJoined: 17 Sep 2003Posts: 168 Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 11:01 am Post subject: Quote: You know and I know that Nigeria is not the place to go. Any more than the Dominican Republic or Haiti are suitable choices for would-be teachers. What's wrong with the Dominican Republic? Back to top scot47Joined: 10 Jan 2003Posts: 15343 Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 11:57 am Post subject: dom Dominican Republic ? It is on the same island as Haiti ! Come on ! It is not the "Switzerland of the Carib" ! Back to top shebabJoined: 17 Sep 2003Posts: 168 Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 9:08 pm Post subject: While they are on the same island, they are completely separated countries sharing a closed border. They were also colonized by completely different powers-Haiti, by the French, and Dominican Republic, by the Spanish. Haiti is dominated by former African slaves, while its more prosperous neighbor is populated by mulattos. Unlike Haiti, the Dominican Republic is also a very popular tourist destination for North Americans and Europeans. Having been there myself on a holiday, I can vouch for its safety and livability. Yes, Scot 47, it just may be the "Switzerland of the Caribbean", judging by the fact that it has a Club Med which I'm sure generates a fair amount of revenue. Whether or not ESL jobs are available is another story. If they are, I'm sure the pay is as lousy as it is in the rest of Latin America. Back to top fat_chrisJoined: 10 Sep 2003Posts: 3198Location: Beijing Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 10:25 pm Post subject: Those nutty 419ers from Nigeria. I haven't received any "my husband has died and I want to give you his money" emails in a while. Back to top scot47Joined: 10 Jan 2003Posts: 15343 Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2003 10:24 am Post subject: Nigeria Unlike some posters I have taught in Nigeria - admittedly many moons ago when the world was young and before some posters were born. My advice is simple and can be summarised thus : DO NOT GO TO NIGERIA. You would not get there through this Sefcodys scam anyway. If you did you would probably end up penniless and dead. 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You probably delete dozens of various files from your PC every day. But have you ever wondered what happens to a file after its deletion? How does "deletion" work in the first place? Does a file just disappear from the system without a trace after deletion? Does it become an empty space? What happens to the often confidential information contained in the file? And basically, where do deleted files go?
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Welcome back for another "What I'm Doing Digitally" post!
This week I wanted to focus on a free app that you can download and use some things I've already created for it.
The app is called Flashcardlet. Basically, It's an app that work just like normal flashcards, but without the mess of index cards! I love that you can create them for students or even other schools to download and students can also create them for themselves.
Here's my mini-tutorial of how to download the ones I've already created:
First, install Flashcardlet on your iPad. You will want to be sure that you set up an account with Quizlet.com because that's how you can create flashcards for your kids easily.
Then, click on "Flashcards".
Next, click the + sign in the corner and select "Download from Quizlet".
In the search box, type "Pattons Patch". It should come up with a rounding and place value set.
Click on the set you want, and click add to library.
From there you will click cancel and then library to get back to the list of flash cards you have.
Click on the set you want to view and click start studying.
Your kids can learn how to install flashcards, so if you create them and keep them public on Quizlet.com, your kiddos should be able to download them easily.
A little tip about naming them... make it something that is more unique and identifiable. If you simply call it Place Value Cards, there will be MANY MANY MANY sets for your kids to sift from. Putting your name or your school name should narrow it down!
The possibilities with this app are endless! I feel like this could apply to pretty much any subject.
I'll let you know when I upload more... they will all start with Pattons Patch.
Let me know if you have any ideas of how you might use this in your classroom!


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February 23, 2010
1983: Herschel Walker Signs with USFL
Football fans received stunning news on February 23, 1983 as the new United States Football League (USFL), slated to begin play in just a few weeks, announced the signing of Heisman Trophy-winning RB Herschel Walker to a contract with the New Jersey Generals. There had been something of a false start earlier in the month when Walker, whose agent had been in contact with the league for some two months, signed but then took advantage of a 24-hour escape clause to back away. However, this time it was a done deal and the 6'1", 220-pound phenom, just short of his 21st birthday, was officially a professional.
The news was both surprising and controversial. Walker, who had been a Heisman candidate since his freshman year at Georgia in 1980 (he finished third in the voting), had won the award as a junior in '82. It was widely anticipated that he would duplicate Archie Griffin's feat of twice attaining the Heisman trophy, especially since at the time it wasn't possible for underclassmen to enter the NFL draft.
The USFL had initially stated that it would follow the NFL's no-underclassmen rule. It had also been the new league's policy to take a go-slow approach to challenging the older league. They would be playing in the spring, rather than going directly head-to-head with the NFL in the fall, and payrolls were to be held to $1.6 million per club.
The payroll structure began to unravel even before the Walker signing as several major players coming out of college such as North Carolina's RB Kelvin Bryant, Grambling WR Trumaine Johnson, and Michigan WR Anthony Carter had inked contracts that stretched their respective team payrolls beyond the limit (the owners used personal services contracts to circumvent the cap). Walker's deal, which was a personal services contract with Generals owner J. Walter Duncan, came to $3.9 million for three years and included incentives that took the figure over $4.2 million.
Both the NFL and NCAA cried foul at the signing of the underclassman Walker, and several colleges banned the new league's scouts from their campuses. USFL Commissioner Chet Simmons insisted that no other underclassmen would be signed and that Walker presented a "special case". The truth was that, in having his agent approach the new league, Walker had already compromised his college eligibility for 1983, and had he pressed a court case, he might well have forced his way into the USFL through judicial decision (a threat of a lawsuit challenging the draft was something the NFL feared and ultimately led to its ending the ban on underclassmen).
There may have been plenty of controversy, but Herschel Walker was the biggest name in college football and a huge prize for the new league. Signing with the team that would play in the New York metropolitan area only enhanced the effect. It also assured that he would receive intense scrutiny, and when he started slowly (he gained just 65 yards on 16 carries in his first game, a nationally-televised 20-15 loss to the Los Angeles Express) the criticism was quick to come. However, maintaining his composure throughout, Walker ended up leading the league in rushing with 1812 yards over the course of the 18-game season, although the Generals were a disappointing 6-12.
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'Tis the season for all things holiday, the time of the year when family, friends and colleagues celebrate in their own special ways. More often than not, these gatherings have two common denominators: food and music. Whether you're hosting a big party, baking holiday treats as gifts or just bringing a side dish somewhere, any chef will tell you that preparation and timing are key ingredients. That, and fueling the kitchen with music.
So we figured, why not bring music and kitchen prep together for you?
Rather than blare cooking instructions through your Sonos (which, by the way, also makes a fantastic gift for someone), there's another route that seems better. In addition to hunting down some A+ holiday recipes, turn songs into your cooking timer. What do we mean? Say you're baking a loaf of artisan bread that needs 45 minutes of oven time. Hit play on The Songstress by Anita Baker (see what we did there?) immediately after putting your loaf in to bake, and when it plays all the way through, check your bread to see if it needs the other three minutes the recipe calls for. Make sense?
Here are some other holiday dishes (and musical timers) that will make your kitchen smell — and sound — delicious this season:
Lasagna Bolognese
It doesn't get more tried-and-true (and rich) than this Italian classic, and anyone planning to undertake this baby from scratch is in for a 4 hour haul with prep and cook time. The bolognese sauce and béchamel in the recipe will take up about 3 hours of that time, so some music to keep you in the groove is key.
Start with Andrea Bocelli's Cinema, with operatic takes on hit movie songs that will be familiar even if you're not an opera—or Godfather—buff. Get through that, and you're one hour (and one minute) in.
You may not think of Weezer's frontman Rivers Cuomo as Italian, but his father's heritage is what gave him his last name, so next queue up Pinkerton Deluxe Edition for 2 hours and 7 minutes of the under-appreciated 1996 album. It's excellent lasagna assembly music.
Start with Andrea Bocelli's Cinema, with operatic takes on hit movie songs that will be familiar even if you're not an opera—or Godfather—buff.
The last 45-50 minutes of the recipe involve throwing your now-layered lasagna into the oven and doing little else, so lay down on the couch, put on Sigur Ros' Kveikur — yes, it's decidedly un-Italian but it's relaxing and that's what's key here — and 48 minutes later, you've got lasagna perfection.
Holiday cookies can be so much more than tree-shaped handouts, and music can help serve as inspiration for your recipe. For instance, these Maple and Brown Sugar Oatmeal Cookies take 12 minutes of baking time — so play D'Angelo's "Brown Sugar" (4:22) followed by Arcade Fire's "Wake Up" (5:35) (maple syrup and Arcade Fire, two of Canada's finest exports), and you've got a two minute warning before your cookies have hit their 12-minutes-in-the-oven mark.
Potato Latkes
These bad boys are impossibly delicious. If you're Jewish or not, whether it's during the eight days of Hanukkah or not, latkes need to be eaten more often by more people. There's your reason to dive head-first into Latke Land, with the help of four fine mensches: Andrew Zimmern and the Beastie Boys. Zimmern, who when he's not eating foul and rotten things on television, is actually an accomplished chef and, as Adam Sandler so astutely observed, "all three Beastie Boys" have Jewish roots as well.
"…dive head-first into Latke Land, with the help of four fine mensches: Andrew Zimmern and the Beastie Boys. Zimmern…"
With Zimmern's recipe clocking in at an hour, your potato pancake soundtrack should very definitely be Paul's Boutique (crucial recipe-relevant tracks: "Egg Man" and "Shadrach"), which at 53 minutes will almost fulfill your frying journey. And, much like the album, sampling your latkes heavily while cooking … consider it quality control and homage to the B-Boys. To cover the remaining seven minutes, "Finger Lickin' Good" off of Check Your Head and "Root Down" are equally apropos and the perfect length to close out the hour.


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REDWOOD CITY – A Daly City man was sentenced today to 15 years in prison in connection with a 2013 drunk driving hit-and-run crash that killed three people in Colma
Paul Michael Anthony Diaz, 26, pleaded no contest in June to three counts of vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated with gross negligence and felony hit-and-run resulting in injury or death, San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said.
Prosecutors said Diaz, who has a previous DUI conviction, had been drinking and was driving an estimated speed of 90 mph when he crashed his Ford Mustang on May 27, 2013 on Hillside Boulevard in Colma, killing his three passengers.
Diaz crashed into the back of another vehicle, lost control of the Mustang and slammed into a retaining wall, shearing the car in half.
Prosecutors said Diaz pulled himself out of the car, saw his girlfriend, identified as 23-Year-old Rosa Maria Falla, lying dead on the ground and then took off running.
The other two passengers killed in the crash were Jonathan Jade Mouton, 21, and Ruvin Abel Vasquez, 22.
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More than a century ago, George Washington Plunkitt of the Tammany Hall political machine contemptuously declared, "Reformers are morning glories." Politics was for professionals, he added. "You've got to be trained up to it, or you're sure to fail."
Here in Massachusetts, Plunkitt may be proven wrong. In an era bracketed by Governor Deval Patrick's decisive reelection in 2010 and Elizabeth Warren's grassroots triumph last November, reformers have become effective regulars. But there is still an undertow of the old political culture of "wait your turn" that would be familiar to Boss Plunkitt.
For a generation, deep blue Massachusetts has overwhelmingly supported Democratic presidential candidates and has not voted to send a Republican to the US House since 1994. Yet we had four consecutive Republican governors between 1990 and 2006, when Patrick won an upset in a three-way primary and coasted to victory against Republican Kerry Healey.
But Democrats then bungled the special Senate election of January 2010 for Ted Kennedy's former seat, when Republican Scott Brown defeated Attorney General Martha Coakley. Despite the Democratic sentiments of voters, the institutional party has often seemed dysfunctional, decrepit, and not welcoming of new blood.
In this odd history, one fact screams out. The two big statewide winners of recent decades were complete outsiders.
We could be in a new era of what might be called the reformer as regular. The people attracted by Patrick and Warren are now increasingly the institutional party, and they are very good at politics. Even so, the legacy Democratic Party is still alive, and familiar faces are running for the Senate seat just vacated by John Kerry.
The front-runner in the Democratic primary is Ed Markey of Malden, 66, a staunch liberal with a good reputation and a safe House seat. However, Markey, the senior environmentalist in the House leadership, has not had a tough contest in decades.
His main rival, Representative Stephen Lynch of South Boston, is also a well-established incumbent. Whoever wins the primary on April 30 faces a June 25 general election, which is expected to be close if Scott Brown enters the race.
Patrick was a political novice in 2006, but a quick study, and he energized an army of eager volunteers complemented by skilled professionals. Warren, with no electoral experience, built on Patrick's talent pool and went the governor one better, enlisting some 20,000 ground troops and 60,000 in-state small donors, as well as massive national financial support.
Patrick's win in 2006, a good year for Democrats nationally, was dismissed by some as a lucky accident. But Patrick's convincing reelection in 2010, a dismal year for Democrats, was no fluke. He is now one of the most popular and effective governors in recent memory.
Yet dynamic outsiders like Patrick and Warren coexist with the local culture of traditionalists. A friend active in local Democratic politics tells this story: His Democratic state committeeman, a longtime party stalwart, was complaining about a newcomer who was showing up at meetings. "He had all these new ways of doing things. I had to set him straight."
The alarming heresies turned out to be ideas for getting more people involved. This tendency of traditionalists not to welcome strangers is a staple of decaying urban machines.
In the Chicago variant, Abner Mikva, later a reform congressman and federal judge, tells of trying to volunteer, as a college student in 1948, to help Governor Adlai Stevenson and Senator Paul Douglas. When he showed up at the local party headquarters, the ward boss asked, "Who sent you?"
"Nobody sent me," Mikva replied.
The boss glared, "We don't want nobody that nobody sent."
Local party machines like to keep the pool of volunteers familiar. Otherwise, you never know whom they might vote for. By contrast, an outsider candidate like Warren or Patrick has nothing to fear and everything to gain from expanding the voting base.
Traditionalists are good at turning out their own people, not so great at energizing a broader public or cultivating a fresh talent.
Convalescing Boston Mayor Tom Menino epitomizes the culture of "wait your turn.'' He looked sufficiently robust in his State of the City address last week to savor a sixth term.
There is much conjecture about why Menino took so long to endorse Warren. It may have had something to do with Menino's good relations with Brown, or his early assumption that Brown would defeat Warren, or perhaps some perceived personal slight. But part of the reason was that Menino and Warren represented entirely different political cultures.
Another factor that contributes to the lethargy of state Democratic politics is the Legislature. It is a mostly one-party body dominated by regulars who seldom face challengers, as well as a top-down operation.
The House speaker awards chairmanships and other perks based on loyalty. Back-benchers don't get to do much other than provide constituent services. When key decisions get made, they aren't in the room. It's not a culture that showcases them or cultivates energetic people to run for higher office.
A final — and huge — factor that discourages emerging new talent is the money hurdle. Markey is the instant front-runner in the Senate primary because he begins with a $3.1 million war chest left over from non-competitive House races. That cleared most of the field.
Warren, coming out of nowhere, raised upwards of $40 million to defeat Brown, partly because she had a whole year to campaign. As an emergent national liberal rock star, she could also reap a lot of out-of-state money.
Markey, by contrast, faces an abbreviated campaign and a low-turnout special election. He is justifiably a hero to environmentalists, but not exactly a rock star.
An intriguing question is whether the political professionalism and volunteer army built by Patrick and Warren can give a less charismatic figure like Markey or Lynch enough lift to hold Kerry's seat. Patrick and Warren began as outsiders, but they and their close allies such as state party chair John Walsh are increasingly the official party.
Walsh has gone out of his way to showcase up-and-coming reformers. To the consternation of some old party regulars, he is a big enthusiast of primaries. He considers them more energizing than divisive. His list of appointees to the platform-drafting committee for the next Democratic Party state convention reads like a roster of young leaders with statewide potential.
Since Patrick was elected in 2006, the Legislature has experienced an above-average rate of turnover, about 60 percent overall and almost 70 percent in the state Senate, mainly through retirements. Many newcomers are allies of Patrick and Warren. Several reformer-outsider politicians are mentioned as potential candidates for statewide office in 2014 and beyond — people such as state Senators Ben Downing of Pittsfield or Dan Wolf of Harwich. In addition, the talent pool includes people who bridge the role of reformer and insider, such as State Treasurer Steve Grossman.
The reformers are investing in a style of politics that combines technical skill with grassroots energy. We will soon see whether that formula can transform the culture of "wait-your-turn.''
"If we had a secret sauce," says a senior aide to both Patrick and Warren, "it's that they both loved meeting with local people, and we had professionals who could come in behind them and create a real organization."
Markey has already hired two of Warren's top fund-raising staff members, Michael Pratt and Colleen Coffey. Doug Rubin, master strategist for both Patrick and Warren, is working for the state party and will help the Senate nominee.
Skeptics say that Markey lacks the pizzazz of Warren. But people close to both campaigns say Warren loyalists took Brown's character attacks on Warren personally and are motivated to deny him a return to the Senate. Still, much depends on whether an old Washington hand can rediscover his inner grassroots activist.
A cruelty of politics is that yesterday's insurgent is today's incumbent. As a young state rep, Markey was such a thorn in the side of House Speaker Tom McGee that the speaker took away Markey's office and put his desk in the hall. Markey, running his first race for Congress in 1976 in a crowded Democratic field, turned the incident to his advantage, declaring in a TV spot, "They may tell me where to sit, but nobody tells me where to stand."
These trends seem to go in cycles. The first era of the reformer as regular began under Michael Dukakis, an outsider and consummate liberal elected governor in 1974, who created one of the Commonwealth's most effective grassroots political operations.
The senior citizens who volunteered for Patrick and Warren were youngsters for Dukakis four decades ago. "It's a lot more open now," says Dukakis, who will turn 80 this year. "It was much harder to break in back then."
Robert Kuttner is co-editor of The American Prospect and a senior fellow at Demos. His forthcoming book is "Debtors' Prison: The Politics of Austerity Versus Possibility."
Note to readers: This column went to press before Scott Brown announced he would not run for US Senate.


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It started with this Code Craft blog post on the Code Garden - an analogy that sucked less. It got me thinking and ranting about metaphors in software and metaphors of software. Designing your technical architecture with software, the XP "Metaphor" practice, metaphors for HCI, metaphors like those used in the Head First series and Ajax Patterns to explain concepts, metaphors to explain what software is to managers. Where do they make sense and where is it plain wrong to try and explain software with a metaphor.
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Hans Schlegel
Born on 3 August 1951 in Überlingen, Germany, Hans Schlegel considers Aachen to be his hometown. Hans is married to astronaut candidate Heike Walpot. He has seven children. Recreational interests include skiing, scuba diving and flying. He also enjoys reading and do-it-yourself work.
During 1970–72 Hans served as a paratrooper with the Federal Armed Forces. He left with the rank of second lieutenant, and after several reserve trainings, he was appointed reserve lieutenant in 1980. In 1979–86 he worked as an experimental Solid State Physicist at the Rheinisch Westfälische Technische Hochschule at the University of Aachen and researched electronic transport properties and optical properties of semiconductors. During 1986–88 he was a specialist in non-destructive testing methodology in the research and development department of the Institut Dr. Förster Gmbh & Co. KG in Reutlingen, Germany.
From 1988 to 1990 Hans performed basic astronaut training at the DLR German Aerospace Center. The training included about 1300 parabolas to experience weightlessness on a KC-135 aircraft. He became a certified research diver and holds a private pilot's licence, including instrument rating and aerobatics.
In 1990 he was assigned as a payload specialist for the Spacelab-D2 mission and started Payload Training in Cologne, Germany and at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. The second German Spacelab mission took place from 26 April to 6 May 1993 as part of mission STS-55 on Space Shuttle Columbia.
In August 1995 Hans went to the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Moscow, Russia, to train as backup for the German–Russian Mir-97 mission. During the mission from 10 February to 2 March 1997 he was Crew Interface Coordinator responsible for ground-to-air communications. Between June 1997 and January 1998 he received additional training and certification as a flight engineer for Russia's Mir space station.
In 1998 Hans joined ESA's Astronaut Corps. In August 1998, ESA sent him to the Johnson Space Center to train as a Mission Specialist with NASA's Astronaut Class of 1998. He was also assigned to the Capcom Branch of the Astronaut Office, speaking to astronauts on the International Space Station. He worked as lead Capcom and as Space Station Capcom Instructor.
In July 2006 Hans was assigned to the STS-122 Shuttle mission that delivered ESA's Columbus Laboratory to the International Space Station.
Spaceflight experience
From 26 April to 6 May 1993, Schlegel was Payload Specialist on Space Shuttle Columbia STS-55 Spacelab-D2 mission. Nearly 90 experiments in life sciences, material sciences, physics, robotics, astronomy, Earth and its atmosphere were conducted during Spacelab D2.
Hans' second spaceflight, STS-122, launched 7 February 2008 on Space Shuttle Atlantis ended on 20 February 2008. The highlight was the delivery and installation of ESA's Columbus laboratory, Europe's major contribution to the International Space Station. Hans performed a spacewalk that lasted nearly seven hours to help prepare the space laboratory for its scientific experiments, and replaced an empty nitrogen tank on the Station's P1 Truss.


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Mel Colm-Cille Gerard Gibson, AO (born 3 January 1956) is an Australian-American actor, film director, producer and screenwriter. Born in Peekskill, New York, Gibson moved with his parents to Sydney, Australia when he was 12 years old and later studied acting at the Australian National Institute of Dramatic Art.
After appearing in the Mad Max and Lethal Weapon series, Gibson went on to direct and star in the Academy Award-winning Braveheart. In 2004, he directed and produced The Passion of the Christ, a controversial, yet successful, film portraying the last hours in the life of Jesus. In recent years, remarks by Gibson have generated accusations of homophobia, antisemitism, racism, and misogyny; he has apologised repeatedly for the statements and denied that they represent his real opinions.
Gibson was born in Peekskill, New York, the sixth of 11 children, and the second son of Hutton Gibson and Irish-born Anne Patricia (née Reilly, died 1990). His paternal grandmother was the Australian opera soprano, Eva Mylott (1875–1920). One of Gibson's younger brothers, Donal, is also an actor. Gibson's first name comes from Saint Mel, fifth-century Irish saint, and founder of Gibson's mother's native diocese, Ardagh, while his second name, Colm-Cille, is also shared by an Irish saint and is the name of the parish in County Longford where Gibson's mother was born and raised. Because of his mother, Gibson holds dual Irish and American citizenship.


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AL West is best
A lot of people around the game aren't noticing how good our division, the AL West, is this season. If you look at the records, it's the best of the six divisions – and it's not even close.
I'm finally back now, playing again, but I've had a lot of time lately to watch games and study things, missing five weeks with the adductor strain on my right side. One thing I've seen is that our whole division has been playing some great baseball, whether the media recognizes it or not.
Check it out. After Sunday's games, the AL West's four teams are a combined 35 games over .500. The next closest is the AL East, 25 games over .500. That's a 10-game gap.
Our Angels are 26 over, Texas is 17 over, and Seattle is four over. Oakland is 12 under .500.
The only way you can judge a division is how it does outside its own division, since you're going to end up .500 playing each other. We've beaten up on the AL East, and I think that says a lot about how tough our division has been. We're 21 games over .500 against the East. Boston is 11-20 against the West, and Tampa Bay is 8-17.
To be 35 games above .500 overall, that's a division winning percentage of .537. Take all of our games outside the division, and our winning percentage is .553.
After the AL East, the next strongest division is the NL West, 12 games over .500. What that tells me is there's great baseball being played all over the West. Look at Colorado and San Francisco, leading Florida and Atlanta in the Wild Card race, and Texas taking the lead from Boston for the AL Wild Card.
The NL East is nine games under .500, and the two Centrals are way down. The NL Central is 26 games under .500, and the AL Central is 37 games below .500.
The Yankees and Red Sox get most of the national publicity and attention, but if you put their records together, they're 140-96. The Angels and Rangers combined are 138-95. That's close to a dead heat.
I remember watching ESPN last year, hearing guys say that the Los Angeles Angels have the best record in baseball, but it's because they beat up on a weak division. We beat up on everybody last year, not just the West.
To say we benefit from playing in a weak division, that's just not true – especially this year. Our record in the division is not good. We're 15-19. But we're 23-10 against the AL East, 19-12 against the Central and 14-4 in Interleague Play.
The Rangers, look what they're doing. Those guys can play. Seattle is hanging tough and still playing well, and Oakland's playing good baseball with all the young players it has.
West Coast teams just get no respect. Why? I guess because everybody's asleep in the East when we're doing our thing.
I'm not in the AL Central any more, with the Twins, so I can tell you that the West is a lot better than people think. And I'm not even bringing up the travel factor, how our teams have to spend so much more time in the air and how that can wear on you over a long season.
The West is for real. Don't sleep on us. And there's a ton of great young talent coming up in both West divisions, so it should be wild out West for a long time to come.
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Torii- Can't tell you how glad I am to see you back in the lineup. I was afraid that things would collapse with you and Vlade hitting the DL but the team held the fort admirably while you both were out. Have you seen this yet?
.310 Figgins, .301 Izturis, .309 Abreu, .306 Guerrero, .306 Hunter, .304 Morales, .314 Rivera, .311 Aybar, .297 Napoli
Now that's scary!!!! I'm glad the West if flying under the radar….come playoffs…it will hurt that they didn't. Glad we have a class act like yourself providing some backbone to this team. Take care…my kids really look up to you!
Could'nt have said better. Like to watch ESPN but your right the West gets no respect. Personally I cant stand John Kruk, its as if you has a personal grudge against the Angels.
YOU TELL 'EM MR HUNTER! whoo hoo!!!! My fav blog yet! East may be beast but I say West is best. People just aren't willing to change their minds that's all or they just don't realize 😉
We angel fans sure missed you and glad you're back! Best of luck!
angels 2009
Get em Torii!!!! Lets have 2 AL West and 2 NL West teams in the playoffs. Then ESPN has to cover us! Welcome back buddy!
Thank you!!! You couldn't of said it any better. ESPNs all talks are about the Yankees, Boston. Having a rested Vlad and yourself Mr. Hunter will only be good for us come along the end of the season/playoffs, specially with Santana and Lackey coming along pretty good now. Hope Osullivan will match what Lackey did his rookie season and Weaver achieving his durability goal. we have a great middle infield who will always be fresh having someone sit out every other day and keep them rested. Having a great record against the yanks and boston not making the playoffs? our only concern would be our owns league the rangers but even then WE CAN TAKE EM! :]]
Stay up T!
Torii man you're the dopest dude ever. Thanks for showing us these numbers man. I hope ESPN shows this on their stupid SportsCenter. I'm glad I wear 48 on my jersey.
As a Twins fan, I think I have probably a little too much respect for your Angels after the way they've clobbered us here and there the last two series.
Torii!!! Glad your back man!! I agree, the west should get more respect
Amen!!! I told my girlfriend that you're my favorite Angel and once again you proved it.
Kudos to Ludwig for his Kruk blast. How does that dude even have a job on TV or anywhere for that matter???? Apparently hating on the west or ignoring it all together is job security in Bristol.
Torii, you have my ultimate respect and I agree with most everything you've said. I often consider you the heartbeat and spirit of the Angels as they are today!
The only thing I noticed was a possible error in the AL East's record over .500. As of last night's games, and by my math, they are actually 26 games over .500, which leaves the AL West in the lead by 7 games with 33 games over .500.
After Sunday's games, which is the basis on which you wrote this, I believe we would be about 10 games ahead of the East, rather than 20. Still a good lead.
I don't mean this to take away from the point of your blog which is to give attention to and praise where it is due in the West!
Much respect!
Torii, you da man! I hope you stay with us for a long, long, long time! I have been an Angels fan all my life and today's team is definitely my favorite bunch of guys since the '82 crew. The addition of yourself (Mr. Personality), Bobby A. (Mr. Patience) and Fuentes (Mr. Underrated) has literally transformed this team. All of the other pieces were in place or in development and now we have a legacy to build. Stick around!!
Torii, as usual your blog was insightful, interesting, and right on! I hope you play for the Angels for a long, long time, but after your playing days are over, you would make a fantastic sports analyst for the networks!
Dang you Tori, you and your Angels beat the Indians last night, 5-4. You guys are amazing, 1-9 hitting .300 or more. You are going to go deep in the playoffs. 🙂
Love you torii, and all my angels! I have a trivia question-does anyone out there know the last time a teams entire starting line up was batting 300 or better?
Welcome back Torii! You are spot on as usual. We may be in Hollywood, but the East Coast media doesn't look outside of the original 13 colonies. I also wonder if most of the teams in the West are expansion teams that did not develop until after 1960 and are just not considered part of the MLB.
You forgot Torii…even the fans are better! I agree with your 5 week analysis of the Western Division, you could even go back maybe 4 or 5 seasons. I don't know why anyone would want to leave the west (except for money) and not want to win. No rain, Sleet, snow just sunshine and playing great ball. What more can you ask for? Glad you are back, too bad you got tuckered out on your first day back and could not follow up. But, hey, I got tired just watching that 13 inning game.
Tori first time I've read your blog(any famous person blog at that) and It thrills me to see a superstar athlete be so down to earth and have touch with reality.You said what us fans been arguing with other least coast teams fans thank you. I also want to thank you for signing with the Angels and for being one of the BEST role models for the Kids. You carried this team on your back in the early season and your teamates have noticed that so don't think you have anything to Carry the weight on your shoulders anymore You led by example and it rubbed off on everyone. Iwas at the first game this year and saw Howies Hr it almosr hit me I was 2 fisting some beers it was awesome! I am glad that we don't have sorry teams in our division anymore as well. An old friend of mine that I play pool with told me " you don't get better playing teams/people that your better than only the one's that are better than you" I think that is a great concept and approach to many compettitive sports, It installs that drive needed to want to succeed and only gives the hope and want to only get better or to make lemonade from lemons. Texas is definetley as good as Angels but I think maybe Angels were'nt mentally ready for them and underestimated them trmendousley, next time around we'll have a better go at it I think. Everyone who says not to trade for pitching I'm with you but I did want PEAVY. I really hope to crush boston in playoffs but theyr'e ship is sinking(like I predicted) thanks to Angels dropping a few to the rangers. Texas seems to pitch alot of balls on the edges hoping for strike calls that's why they're pitching exist now though.
Torii I am originally from the east coast. Growing up with Yankees and Met fans. When I moved out west as a young adult, my brother who is an Angel fan, grew on me. Now being an Angel fan and being teased all the time about it, I understand the east coast west coast feud. Your theory on the east coast being asleep while we are breaking records is so true!! So glad the you are playing again and that you are smiling!!! Keep healthy and play smart. Stay away from those walls!!
Tori your blog on the 18 of aug is the first I have ever read online even from athletes and your insight makes me realize that superstar athletes such as yourself are really down to earth guys who love the game and don't forget not to lose touch with reality and stick their head in the clouds with a hard earned full bank account. I just wanted to thank you for signing with the Angels and bringing your veteran expertise and leadership qualities to this fine organization and making it that much better, you put this team on your back and carried them early this season so don't feel like you have to carry the weight on you shoulders anymore.This is a real team and it shows after every game and Tori you are one of the best role models that I know to the kids, Glad to have you back, We need your bat in september so leave your spidey suit in the locker if it's o.k to give up a run/hit.We all know your the last laziest person on d on this team.
With all due respect, if the Angels were in the AL East, they'd be fighting for third place.
but don't forget the AL West has only 4 teams whereas the only divisions have 5 and 6.
^I meant "other". If you take away Baltimore in the AL East, then AL East would be 51 games over .500 whereas AL West would be 32 games over .500 (that's a 19 game gap with the advantage going to the AL East). Thus your comparison with the two divisions would be valid only if every division in the MLB has 5 teams (even # of teams).
Thats true the East is way too overrated always every year . But the need to look and see whos been dominating the MLB in the past 5 years the AL west ANGELS!!!!!!!!!!!!! Torii Hunter is the best CF player !!!!!!!!! Were too good 4 the ESPNs lol
Very well written mr hunter. being a mariners fan, i know all too well how much of a pain in the *** you and the angels are, lol. ESPN loves their yankees/red sox/mets and i believe the mariners wouldnt get any coverage at all if not for ichiro and griffey. unfortunately we are pretty much too far back and dont have enough to win the division this year or get a wildcard spot. but i hope texas beats boston out for it, would be cool to have 2 teams make the playoffs from the AL West. If not Texas then the Rays. Anyway, i hope you guys draw the spankees in the playoffs so you can beat up on them as usual(even when i wanted them to beat you guys to help the m's you still swept them haha). Good luck.
Btw thanks for that HR you hit 2 nights ago 🙂


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Okay, I was going to write a program for fun (and maybe, probably not practical use) that sees how much Video Memory you have, and how much your using. My friend sugessted DirectDraw for this task.
I googled video memory programming, and came up with this link. The first answer says this:
From what I've read you need ddraw.h and ddraw.dll (both of which I have)....
Total amount of display memory on the device, in bytes, minus memory reserved for the primary surface and any private data structures reserved by the driver. (This value is the same as the total video memory reported by the IDirectDraw7::GetAvailableVidMem method.)
Free display memory. This value equals the value in dwVidMemTotal, minus any memory currently allocated by the application for surfaces. Unlike the GetAvailableVidMem method, which reports the memory available for a particular type of surface (such as a texture), this value reflects the memory available for any type of surface.
From MSDN (*dodges flames*) it says that IDirectDrawVideo::GetCaps (HRESULT GetCaps(DDCAPS *pCaps);) can get this information also.
Now, onto my question. Should I use one of these two methods or possibly another one? And is there a good DirectDraw tutorial that teaches use of one of the methods?
I found this. Good tutorial, but it doesn't teach GetCaps or dwVidMemTotal/dwVidMemFree. If someone could point me in the right direction, I would be most grateful.


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Every night sweet little Julia makes sure ALL off her animals and dolls are comfortable and then, in whatever space is left, lays down to sleep. Half of her body is usually hanging off the bed, all to make sure her little friends are comfy cozy.
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Nightly Routine
Every night sweet little Julia makes sure ALL off her animals and dolls are comfortable and then, in whatever space is left, lays down to sleep. Half of her body is usually hanging off the bed, all to make sure her little friends are comfy cozy.
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Thursday, May 29, 2008
I have always wanted to know how to make yummy cinnamon rolls, I think I did it =)
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Sunday, May 25, 2008
New Recipe Sunday
Following are what we had, recipes and our personal reviews. (Reviews come from Dawn, my sister-in-law who went to Scottsdale Culinary Institute and is a fabulous cook and pastry chef, my mom who loves to cook, has the best stocked kitchen in America and makes even the simplest dish taste extra special. Eating at my mom's is one of my favorite indulgences and finally me, I don't consider myself half the cook Dawn and mom are, but I sure am good at eating and reviewing. I like to read cookbooks, cooking blogs and looking for new recipes to try.
First up, Corn Salsa Salad:
This came from my friend Bobby, and we all gave it 5 out of 5 stars, so fresh and tasty. We did add a can of green chilies to the original recipe. This is my new staple to take to summer picnics and barbeques. It is fresh and healthy.
2 cups cooked corn (we used fresh corn on the cob)1 avacado
2 cups cherry tomatoes
1/2 cup chopped red onion
1 small can mild green chilies
2 Tbs. Olive oil
1 Tbs. fresh lime juice
1/2 tsp lime zest
1/4 tsp salt
1/8 tsp. pepper
This is an Ina Garten (Barefoot Contessa) Recipe. Definately 5 out of 5 stars, I could eat this alone for dinner and be very satisfied. I will be making this to compliment many family dinners to come.
2 1/2 pounds fresh asparagus (about 30 large)
2 Tbsp. olive oil
1/2 tsp kosher salt
1/4 tsp freshly ground black pepper 1/2 cup fresh grated Parmesan cheese
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Lay asparagus in a single layer on a sheet pan and drizzle with olive oil. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Roast for 15 to 20 minuites, until tender. Sprinkle with th eParmesan and return to the oven for another minute. Serve with lemon wedges.
French Bread Rolls I found this recipe on a cooking blog and it was so easy and, DELISH! I was proud of myself for making yummy bread, I have made rolls maybe twice in my life and for some reason have always been intimitaded by bread making. We all gave these 5 out of 5 stars (Dawn even gave them 6 out of 5!) Click here for the recipe.
Divine Breadsticks
I thought these were just so-so (2 1/2 to 3 stars) My oven was turned off after baking the rolls and so the time and temp got all messed up, that may have had something to do with them not being "Divine" in my mind. Click here for recipe. I might give them one more chance someday.
Garlic Chicken Farfalle Pasta
This one also got average reviews (3 stars), I really liked it, I just didn't die over it and don't know if I will think to make it again. It is VERY flavorful and spicy. If you want to try it, click here for the recipe.
This was our dessert, if I remember right, it got 3 to 4 stars. We will post the recipe on Dawn's cooking blog soon. If you like cheesecake, you would probably like this one. Dawn said she would make it again, in a different size spring form pan and sprinkle more oreos on top
Overall, dinner was great. I love new recipe Sunday.
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Thursday, May 22, 2008
Yesterday was the last football game of the season, this boy was THE defensive champ. I am pretty sure he pulled more flags by far than any other player (I could be a little off, afterall, I AM his mom) He got five or six touchdowns and loved every minute of every game. We look forward to many more football seasons to come.
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Thursday, May 8, 2008
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Just the girls
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Summer is coming, not that it isn't already sunny enough where I live, and I'm currently testing over a dozen different sunscreens. (Not kidding.) You could say sun damage has been on my mind. But no matter how much I like any of the sunscreens I'm trying, none of them solve one of the most basic problems skincare and anti-aging fanatics face with their UV protection:
Thing is, the labeled SPF on sunscreen packaging is based on the protection the product provides when applied at 2 mg/cm2, which works out to approximately 1/4 tsp for face alone. (This varies depending on the size of your face, but I don't see many of us running out to get the exact surface areas of our faces measured and then commissioning custom measuring spoons to provide perfect dosage. Honestly, I think 1/4 tsp is just fine as a guideline.)
Below that 1/4 tsp, however, protection drops dramatically.
Whether or not most of us truly need the full labeled SPF of a product on an everyday basis is up for debate, but I think most of us would like to feel we're getting the protection we paid for. And like I said, that can be hard to judge in the mornings when you're just trying to slap on your products and get out the door.
That's why I was so excited to learn that my friend Angela, one of the two hilarious and beautiful bloggers behind Beauty and the Cat, had come up with an idea for a moisturizer/sunscreen combo that would come pre-dosed in single-use pearls–balls, for the uncouth among us–measured out to deliver the protection promised on the label. Ingenious! Not only had Angela envisioned these great balls of SPF, she'd also submitted it to Volition Beauty, a beauty company that sources product ideas from user submissions and public voting.
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EXCITING NEWS! 🎉 SWIPE FOR MOAR INFO. 🗳 LINK IN BIO. 🙋🏻I need your help to bring my idea to life. @volitionbeauty liked my idea for Sun Pearls and is running a campaign to tally interest in the product. If the campaign gets 3,500 votes, Volition Beauty will *actually formulate and sell the product*. 🙀 #audiblegasp ✅ Please take a sec to vote. It's easy and doesn't commit you to buying anything. (You do need to provide your email.) Even if you're a vampire with no intention of ever using sunscreen, I hope you'll support me and vote for this campaign to move forward. Spread the word! 🗣 Thanks, everyone! -Angela P.S. I wanted to submit a pic with Roxy, but Renee felt some kinda way about that…👀
Angela's balls need your votes to progress to the prototype stage. So to help spread the word and build some support for her balls, I sat her down (virtually, over email) to discuss how the idea came about and what she hopes will happen next.
Fair warning: Much juvenile humor incoming. Mostly about balls.
FIDDY: Can you tell me more about your balls? How and when did they start growing (from an idea into a project) and when do you expect them to drop?
Angela: The growth of my balls has been explosive and unexpectedly fun. The idea began as a modest challenge to myself when I learned about Volition's unique business model: turning ideas for beauty solutions from ordinary people into actual, marketable products.
You can see my vision represented in the product photo and description on the campaign page, but my balls are yet to be fully formed. Only once we reach the vote goal does Volition proceed with formulating prototypes and samples for me to test. I truly hope my balls will be ready to drop soon after.
FIDDY: I know Volition hasn't started making prototypes yet, but have you had any conversations about the contents of your balls? That is, the filters and finishes you're considering?
Angela: Those aspects of my balls haven't been shaped yet, but I'm eager to get into more detailed discussions with Volition once the campaign ends.
I worry sometimes that my idea is a skincare unicorn. (To its credit, Volition doesn't think so.)
What I'd like is an all-in-one timesaver that moisturizes, provides strong UVA and UVB protection, and has a soft, smooth, non-shiny finish that's wearable on its own or under foundation. The finish is very important to me because I'm used to super shiny formulas that require powdering or foundation, so I'd love to render that step optional.
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Angela: At this point, thousands of people have seen my balls–or at least a mockup of them. Now that my balls have been exposed, copying is certainly a possibility. While I hope that doesn't happen, I don't know what the legal options would be. As a practical matter, I would hope that we work towards completion as fast as we can and create the better product.
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The most recent Review of Optometry has three news items emphasizing the importance of infant and child eye and vision evaluation– not just a screening done by the pediatrician or school nurse.
The first describes how retinoblastoma, a rare but potentially fatal eye cancer found in children, can be detected by the appearance of a white pupil in baby photos. It used to be thought that early stage eye cancer couldn't be detected this way, but a recent study found that early disease in a child as young as 12 days can be visible as a white pupil.
When treated early, retinoblastoma is often curable.
Next, a new study shows that in children with autism, changes in visual behavior can be
detected in the first few months of life. The children that were later diagnosed with autism started out showing normal eye contact with caregivers, but over the next several months their eye contact decreased. Decrease in eye contact began somewhere between two and six months of age. Since the social interaction (eye contact) started out intact, it suggests that there may be another opportunity for early intervention in autism.
Finally, researchers in Sweden discovered that children born before 32 weeks gestational age had a much higher– up to 19 times– risk for retinal detachment by adolescence or young adulthood. The risk for retinal detachment increased with age. So for children born prematurely, it's very important to have annual dilated eye examinations. It's also critical to know the signs and symptoms of a retinal detachment: sudden onset or sudden increase of floating spots in the vision, which may look like hairs, cobwebs, or debris in the visual field; flashes of light in the affected eye; and what may look like a curtain or shadow over part of the visual field. If a person notices any of these symptoms, it's critical to contact an eye care provider immediately. A retinal detachment is an emergency, and the sooner it can be repaired, the more likely the person's sight can be saved.
If you have any concerns about your child's developing vision, the first step is a comprehensive eye and vision evaluation. The American Optometric Association sponsors a public health initiative called InfantSEE, which provides no-cost examinations to children between 6 and 12 months of age. Infantsee.org can help you find a participating provider in your area. Yearly eye examinations are also now covered by all insurances as an essential benefit for children under 19 as a part of the Affordable Care Act.
At the Vision & Conceptual Development Center, we provide evaluation and non-invasive, non-surgical treatment for a variety of vision disorders, including Convergence Insufficiency, Strabismus (eye turn), Amblyopia (lazy eye), problems with tracking, Visual Perceptual disorders, and visual anomalies secondary to developmental delay, autism, concussion, stroke, or brain injury. We are also InfantSEE providers.


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This letter was written by Molly Weasley to Vernon and Petunia Dursley on 23 August, 1994, asking permission to take their nephew, Harry, to the Quidditch World Cup. The letter was sent via Muggle Mail, and Molly, unfamiliar with Muggle customs, covered the entire letter envelope with stamps, save the part in which the address was written.
Dear Mr and Mrs Dursley,
We have never been introduced, but I am sure you have heard a great deal from Harry about my son Ron.
As Harry might have told you, the final of the Quidditch World Cup takes place this Monday night, and my husband, Arthur, has just managed to get prime tickets through his connections at the Department of Magical Games and Sports. I do hope you will allow us to take Harry to the match, as this really is a once-in-a lifetime opportunity.
Britain hasn't hosted the cup for thirty years, and tickets are extremely hard to come by. We would of course be glad to have Harry stay for the remainder of the summer holidays, and to see him safely onto the train back to school.
It would be best for Harry to send us your answer as quickly as possible in the normal way, because the Muggle postman has never delivered to our house, and I am not sure he even knows where it is.
Hoping to see Harry soon,
Yours sincerely,
P.S. I do hope we've put enough stamps on.
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An Open Letter to My Denomination: Have We Lost Our First Love?
Dear Southern Baptists:
I could be writing to a broader audience. Perhaps I should be. And I know many outside our denomination will read this brief letter. I hope those readers will bear with me as I have a "family discussion."
Please hear me clearly. I am not writing out of any sense of superiority. Indeed, many of you could put me to shame. But my heart is breaking with what I perceive to be a loss of passion for those who do not know Christ. Many of you have seen the numbers. We are reaching fewer people for the gospel today than we did decades ago when we were a much smaller group.
The First Love
Where is the passion in most of our churches to reach the lost? Where is the passion among our leaders, both in our churches and in our denomination? Jesus told those at the church at Ephesus that they had sound doctrine, that they hated evil (Revelation 2:1-7). But He also told them they had lost their first love. When we truly love Jesus with all of our hearts, we can't help but tell others about Him. We can't help but share the good news.
I thank God for our contending for the faith. I thank God for our affirmation of the total truthfulness of Scripture. I thank God for orthodoxy. But I pray that it is not becoming a dead orthodoxy-an orthodoxy that has lost its first love.
The Purpose of the Letter
The purpose of this letter is not to chastise. I am a messed up sinner who has no right to look at the splinter in the eyes of my brothers and sisters when I need to deal with the plank in my own eye. I need to fall more deeply in love with Jesus. I need to share His love as part of my very being. In His power I must do more and I must do better.
No, the purpose of this letter is simply to share a broken heart, and to express a heartfelt desire to change. I must love Jesus more deeply and tell others about Him more often. I must show Christ's love not only with my words, but with every action and interaction I have. I must be more like Him every day.
I have no proposal. I have no new programs for now. I simply have a burden.
And as a commitment to God first, but then a commitment to you, I am asking God to lead me to love Him more deeply than I ever have. I am asking God to put people in my life where I can show His love, and tell them about my Savior.
It Must Begin with Me
My life's desire is to glorify God by loving Him with all my heart. And I have no right to say that unless I am so much in love with Him that I "am unable to stop speaking about what (I) have seen and heard" (Acts 4:20). Evangelism must be as natural to me as breathing.
Pastors, will you join me in this plea? Will you be an evangelistic example for the churches God has called you to serve? Laypersons, will you pray for evangelistic hearts in your own lives? I must make that prayer a part of my life every day.
Have we lost our first love? Is that love reflected in in how we share the gospel of Christ every day?
May God break me until I am all His, telling others about His Son every day.
And may the sharing of the good news of Christ once again become the focus of all our lives in the churches of our denomination.


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Essentially I'm cross-posting this issue from the nvidia forums (I posted there first but there seems to be little interest so I figured I'd ask here as well.
Anyway, on to the matter at hand: When iterating over constant memory in kernels the GPU has a tendency to simply return 0s rather than fetch the value at the corresponding adress. I'm using a Macbook 15' 4.1 with Snow Leopard, nvidia cuda sdk 3.0 installed and a GeForce 8600M GT. Following is a code example of when aforementioned issue arises:
__kernel void add(__constant float *a, __global float *answer)
const int id_x = (int)get_global_id(0);
int i,j;
float sum = 0;
for(i = 0; i < 3; i++)
for(j = 0; (j < 3); j++)
//This will not work
sum += a[i+j];
This will work:
sum += a[j*i];
So will this:
sum += a[j];
And this:
sum += a[i];
//Write result
answer[id_x] = sum;
In this instance if I changed the iteration to the following:
int k = 0;
for(i = 0; i < 3; i++)
for(j = 0; (j < 3); j++,k++)
//This works
sum += a[k];
It worked just fine. Until today that is. Now this code will fail and return 0s as well. Oddly enough I'm using this work around in one of my kernels (it's a simple naive convolution filter used for benchmarking) and it still works (code via pastebin). Now I haven't read the specification back to back so if there's something about pointer arithmetic I'm missing please tell me. However, considering this rather simple bug I'm unable to use constant memory. Using a single loop workaround with modulo arithmetic is not an option as it nearly doubled the running time of the kernel (god knows why). It's important to point out that this code works just fine on the CPU, it's only when run on the GPU starts returning 0s.


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Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin the current President of the Russian Federation.
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Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Yasser Arafat
Mohammed Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini,was Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (1968-2004) and President of the Palestinian National Authority (1993-2004).
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Mao Zedong was the leader of his country from 1949 until his end in 1976.
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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela is the former President of South Africa.
Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was a major political leader of India and the Indian independence movement.
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Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was Chancellor of Germany in 1933, and Führer from 1934 to 1945.
Che Guevara
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Fahd of Saudi Arabia
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Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan, was the 40th President of the United States (1981-1989) and the 33rd Governor of California.
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Can 'Call Me Maybe' Work as Job Recruitment? [VIDEO]
A New Jersey public relations firm has embraced the "Call Me Maybe" voice-dub trend by posting a choreographed video to YouTube — as a part of an effort to look for job candidates.
The catchy song from Carly Rae Jepsen has been endlessly covered over the past few weeks, but this is the first time we've seen a business use the hit song to reach job applicants.
Litzky Public Relations, a boutique PR agency in Hoboken, New Jersey, aims to attract young staffers with pop culture and social media knowledge.
"With two open positions and tons of recent grads entering the job market, Litzky PR wanted to connect with potential candidates in a unique, engaging format that allowed our agency to stand out from the crowd," Michele Litzky, president and founder of Litzky Public Relations, told Mashable.
The video starts with an employee — who carries publications such as Advertising Age and PRWeek — entering the firm's office building, while lip-syncing the lyrics to Jepsen's song. The clip then shows staffers dancing and singing along throughout the office — from meeting rooms to in front of the coffee machine — as well as on the streets of Hoboken.
"By using the power of social media and tapping into a pop culture phenom, we are connecting with candidates where and how they live," Litzky said. "The video immediately communicates our playful office culture and showcases the pride each employee takes in being a 'Litzky Lady.'"
Ironically, despite the song's lyrics, the firm doesn't actually want candidates to call. At the end of the video, an employee holds up a sign that says, "No calls, please. Visit LitzkyPR.com/jobs."
What do you think of the strategy to lure potential job candidates? Is it all good fun, or a sign of trying too hard? Let us know your opinion in the comments.


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This article will talk about types of medium length hairstyles for round faces. However, women who have round face usually have monotonous hairstyles because they have to be suitable to their round face. They often have no idea how to style their hairstyles whether long hair, short hair, or medium length hair. Therefore, they usually style their hairstyles with monotonous style. They are afraid of new hairstyle, whereas there are many kinds of hairstyles for round faces. However, this article will not talk about all of hairstyles for round faces. This topic focuses on women who have round faces with medium length hair.
However, medium length hairstyles for round faces have many types. This article will share two types only. The first is fine flip. This style looks great with layers minimum but it is little boring. The style has no haircut layers by adding the haircut on your face. With chiseled layers and framing flips face, your hair looks stylish and full. Here, the steps how to style the fine flip hairstyle. The first step is blow-drying the whole of your hair by using paddle brush. Then, flip out the every top of your hair which covers your face using curling iron which has large shape. Then, the curl is broken up in order to look like flip using your fingers. The last is with hairspray, set your hair based on your type.
The second style for round faces with medium length is ginger spice. The style is very beautiful and gorgeous for any situation. Here, the steps how to design it. The first is all moisture on your hair should be removed by blow dryer. Then straighten your hair using paddle brush. Then, use flat iron to straighten out every your strand hair when all hair is really dry. Grab several sections of your hair on the top of head and then tease the all roots hair slightly to fill volume. Hopefully, this topic about medium length hairstyles for round faces can be useful to you.


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Gabriel Glenn was born on February 5th, 2011. He weighed 9 lbs even, and measured 20 1/2 inches long, with a head circumference of 15". Here is his birth story.....
At about 3:00 a.m. on Saturday morning, and at 40 weeks, 4 days gestation, I awoke to my first contraction. It was strong and very obviously the real thing, after having "practice" contractions for several weeks now. I was in bed alone because every Friday night Rob and Jocelyn have a sleepover in the living room. I went back to sleep but kept waking up with each contraction, about every 15 minutes. At about 4:00 I decided to go tell Rob that things were starting, but that I was still in the early stages and that I planned on going back to bed. He was so funny. I nudged him awake and said, "I'm in labor..." His eyes popped wide open and he said in a panicked whisper, "OK...What do we do?!" I just laughed at him and told him, "Nothing. I'm going back to bed, and you should too." I should have known he wouldn't be able to do that though. I went back upstairs and soon heard him clanking around in the kitchen and vacuuming the living room. Cutie. :)
So this is when I called my sister, Missy, who had a three hour drive from Vernal, and then next I called my mom. Mom showed up probably around 5:00 a.m. and we just took it easy in my bedroom until Missy pulled into town at about 7:30 ish. I could tell that I still had a while to go, but the contractions were all very strong and coming on about every 6-8 minutes. This is when we called my midwife, Heather.
Heather and her two assistants got here around 8:00,I think, and we waited for a while before I decided to get checked. When she checked me I was 5 cm dilated.
I got into the tub, which felt great. My mom, who also played the role of doula, helped me stay relaxed and remind me of my Hypnobabies techniques. Now I'm going to come right out and say that this was not my relaxing Hypnobabies birth like Ava's birth was. I don't know if it was because Gabriel was bigger, or if it was because I wasn't able to get in as much practice before labor, but it was definitely harder. Each contraction was very strong and I had to keep saying my cues like, "peace" and "relax" as I had a contraction to remind myself to be limp and not to resist.
The water eventually got cold, so I ended up back out in my bed. My birth team was so awesome. Everyone was involved with counter-pressure, doing the knee press, light touch massage, or whatever I might have demanded at that particular moment. Things were pretty intense at this point.
After a few hours I was back into the tub, just trying anything to be more comfortable. The tub ended up NOT being what I wanted, and within just a few minutes I was climbing back out. My midwife suggested that I try the birth stool, which is basically a toilet seat looking thing that allows you to squat and not have to support your entire body with your legs. At this point my contractions were right on top of each other. As soon as a contraction ended, I stood up from the tub and before I could climb out, another one was right there. I was feeling very grunty and pushy at this point and was full on pushing by the time I sat on the birth stool. With each push I could feel Gabe's head coming down another inch, closer and closer. My mom sat behind me and supported me while I leaned forward into one of the midwives. At this point my water broke and Gabe's head was right behind. Rob was right by me and as Gabe's head came out I heard him excitedly say, "Holy crap! It's a baby, Miggy!" Yes, Rob. I am VERY aware. Hahahaha...
With another push Gabe's shoulders came out and I couldn't push another second. I told the midwives, "Just pull him out now!" Which they did :)
Right off the bat Gabe was SCREAMING! It was very reassuring to hear that, because if he could scream like that he had to be healthy. He was placed right in my arms and he screamed for about 20 minutes non-stop. My midwife actually took him at one point to make sure there wasn't something obvious that could have been hurting him. There wasn't, though, he was just letting us know what he thought of this cold, bright, loud world. :)
We made our way to the bed, nursed, & cut the cord. A while later we measured him and found out that he is quite the big boy! I was so proud. :)
After a few stitches, some Papa Murphy's pizza, and some clean up, the midwives took off and left us with our new little man. The girls came over (they were at Rob's parents) and met their new baby brother, who they loved immediately. We sang him "Happy Birthday" and just nestled in bed for the rest of the day.
Although this wasn't a text-book Hypnobabies birth, it was still wonderful. Intense, yes. Hard, yes. In total it was about a 9 hour labor, similar to Ava's birth, so I feel like that wasn't too bad since Jocelyn's birth was 15 hours of labor in a hospital, hooked up to all sorts of drugs and two hours of nurse-directed pushing. Even though it was hard, it was short lived and nothing went wrong. Most importantly my sweet baby boy is here and I'm obsessed with him in every way.
Every time I have a baby I am so surprised at how much I can love them. I never imagined that boys would be as much fun as girls but I was SO wrong. Welcome, baby Gabe! We are SO happy you're here.
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Gabe's Birth Story
Gabriel Glenn was born on February 5th, 2011. He weighed 9 lbs even, and measured 20 1/2 inches long, with a head circumference of 15". Here is his birth story.....
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