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Lamar baseball knocks of Houston, 5-2
HOUSTON – Jeff Abt and Wade Mathis each drove in a pair of runs, leading Lamar University to a 5-2 win over the University of Houston in non-conference baseball action Wednesday night at Cougar Field.
The Cardinals return home to host Texas A&M-Corpus Christi in a three-game Southland Conference series this weekend at Vincent-Beck Stadium. Lamar and the Islanders will play Friday at 6:30 p.m., Saturday at 2 p.m. and Sunday at 1 p.m.
Lamar started the scoring with four runs in the top of the third inning. After a Cameron Campbell ground out, Andy Mena singled to left field. Aaron Buchanan and Ted Zentek both walked to load the bases.
Abt delivered a 2-run single to left field, driving in Mena and Buchanan. Wade Mathis followed with an opposite field 2-run double down the left field line to plate Zentek and Abt to give the Cardinals a 4-0 lead.
UH responded with a run in the bottom of the third inning. Caleb Ramsey was hit by a pitch from LU starter Albert Lott and advanced to second on a ground out. Matt Creel singled to left field to drive in Ramsey with the Cougars first run of the game.
The Cougars added another run in the home half of the fourth inning. Joel Ansley singled to center field with two outs. He stole second base and advanced to third on a passed ball by catcher Cameron Campbell. Ryan Still walked and stole second base. Ansley scored on the play when second baseman Mena mishandled the throw to second on the steal attempt to make the score 4-2.
Lamar closed out the scoring with a single run in the top of the ninth inning. Clayton Farhat singled to center field with one out. Pinch-runner Andrew Dewey stole second and scored on Joey Latulippe's double to straight away center field to put the Cardinals up 5-2.
The Cougars threatened in both the eighth and ninth innings. Machon Trimm worked out of a bases loaded jam in the eighth, striking out Chase Jensen to end the inning. After the first two hitters reached safely to start the ninth, Cannon popped out to second, Austin Gracey flew out to shallow right field and Ansley lined out to center field to end the game.
Albert Lott (1-0) started and picked up his first win of the season. On a predetermined pitch count, Lott allowed one run on three hits with no walks and two strikeouts in two and two-third innings pitched. Trimm pitched the final inning and a third for his third save of the season.
Abt went 1-for-3 with a run scored. Buchanan and Mena both went 1-for-3 and each scored a run for the Cardinals.
UH starter Taylor Hammack (0-2) took the loss for the Cougars. He allowed four runs on four hits with two walks and one strikeout in 2 1/3 innings. M.P. Cokinos went 4-for-5 at the plate to pace the Cougars


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After three hellish days in detox, Abby is finally feeling well enough, relatively speaking, to settle into a routine of sorts at the inpatient rehab center she's checked herself into. Throughout the detox process, throughout the tremors, nausea, debilitating headaches, and insomnia, all she's thought of (other than having a drink) is Lee and Lily. She's cried more than she'd ever admit, missing her husband and daughter and home almost to the point that she feels it physically. She almost regrets saying she needs to do this alone, but knows she'd never be able to do it if this wasn't her decision and hers alone.
But she still needs them. More than she's ever admitted to herself before. She takes a shower, subconsciously wanting to be fresh and clean for her first allowed phonecall after a successful completion of the detox process. She makes her way from her room to the main floor where she waits, impatiently, for her allotted time slot to begin.
When she finally gets on the phone, she freezes for a moment, her fingers forgetting what to do, what numbers to dial. When she shakes herself and dials the familiar numbers of Lee's phone, she can feel her heart banging around in her chest. What can he think of her now? Maybe he won't even want to talk to her. Maybe he's relieved to be rid of her and the mess she's made of her life. She wouldn't blame him, and she can feel her palms sweating as she listens to the phone ring.
She shakes her head again. I don't know...it says 'detangler' on it...You've probably seen me use it on her...
He looks down as he mutters, I don't really pay that much attention when you take care of her baths.
She shrugs. It's okay...now you know.
He sill feels foolish, thinking of the tears he could have avoided if he'd known about the detangler. Still think she'd rather have you doing her hair.
She sighs at that, wondering if he's trying to make her feel guilty for being here - if he is, it's working. I'm sure you do fine.
He wasn't trying to make her feel guilty at all and doesn't know what to make of her sigh. Sure. She's clean and her hair's not a tangled mess...but I'm not you.
I know you're not. She sounds frustrated now, though she keeps her voice down. I wish I was there, too, you know.
He realizes that he may be making her feel bad and reaches over to pat her knee. I didn't mean...I'm sorry. I only wanted you to know we miss you. Need you.
She nods. I know you do. I miss you too, need you.
He scoots a little closer, drapes his arm around her shoulders. You know there's going to be a board hearing when you come back...I'm obviously not going to be present but I was thinking that once you've complied with whatever disciplinary measures they dole out, maybe we could consider taking some time off. To just be together as a family.
She leans against him, her first thought being how she's going to take more time off on top of what she's already had to take this year, but the thought is soon shadowed by the knowledge that they need time as a family. I think we should. We need that.
Maybe just a few days. He knows she has residency requirements and he doesn't want to ask her to repeat a year, but he knows they need some down time as well. Take Lily and leave our phones, the laptop at home.
She nods. That sounds...really good. She runs her hand over Lily's head. You'd like that, huh Lily? Mama and Daddy all to yourself for a few days?
Mama mine. She tilts her head to look up at Abby.
I'd like that. He agrees with their daughter.
I'd like that. He agrees with their daughter.
That's right, baby. She kisses Lily's lips when the little girl looks up at her.

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Michael Gerard "Mike" Tyson (born June 30, 1966) is a retired American boxer. Tyson is a former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world and holds the record as the youngest boxer to win the WBC, WBA and IBF world heavyweight titles, he was 20 years, 4 months and 22 days old. Tyson won his first 19 professional bouts by knockout, with twelve of them occurring in the first round. He won the WBC title in 1986 after defeating Trevor Berbick by a TKO in the second round. In 1987, Tyson added the WBA and IBF titles after defeating James Smith and Tony Tucker. He was the first heavyweight boxer to simultaneously hold and only Heavyweight to individually unify the WBA, WBC and IBF titles.
In 1988, Tyson became the lineal champion when he knocked out Michael Spinks in the first 91 seconds of the fight. Tyson successfully defended the world heavyweight championship nine times, including victories over Larry Holmes and Frank Bruno. Tyson lost his titles to 42-to-1 underdog James "Buster" Douglas on February 11, 1990, in Tokyo, Japan, by a knockout in round 10. Tyson continued in his quest to regain the titles, defeating Donovan Ruddock twice in 1991. Tyson was then scheduled to take on the undisputed heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield but pulled out due to injury.
In 1992, Tyson was convicted of raping Desiree Washington, for which he was sentenced to six years in prison but was released after serving three years. After being released from prison in 1995, he engaged in a series of comeback fights. In 1996, Tyson won the WBC and WBA titles after defeating Frank Bruno and Bruce Seldon by knockout. After being stripped of the WBC title, Tyson lost his WBA crown to Evander Holyfield in November, 1996 by an 11th round TKO. Their 1997 rematch ended when Tyson was disqualified for biting off part of Holyfield's ear.


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Thursday, September 20, 2012
On the Street….Piazza Oberdan, Milan
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Very beautiful pose and composition! Gorgeous lady!
Interesting pose :)
This is brilliant!
Beautiful profile. And the lighting you captures makes her look stunning.
I like her skirt!!! it's simple and different
Agreed! I have a similar skirt to this, and I love her sweater. Very chic yet comfortable.
Yes. But do you wear it just the same?
Skinny or curvy, I think fit should be taken into greater consideration.
Unless "we" are at the beach or in our own garden.
Beautiful profile, and this haircut lokks so good on her!
her hair suits her down to the ground, pardon the pun.
Great shot love the shadows.
Grogeous outfit! Her style is so modern and unique. Wow..
Marc Jacobs' influence, already?
Yes, I believe this woman is, in fact, a runway model and was in the Marc Jacobs show.
Beautiful lady. Just hoping that young girls will know that they will as beautiful if there is more 'body'.
I agree
I was about to say the same… nothing against this woman being skinny… but everyone must know even if you dont have bones jutting out of you, you can be beautiful… AND have style.
Nicely said!
Absolutely. I feel that her 'boniness' detracts form her skirt. great hairstyle. She is definitely beautiful in her own right.
She is definitely beautiful in EVERY right. Lets not start this again.
I agree, too!
Gorgeous hair , so chic, but like others , please remember many many gorgeous women have curves.
a woman to marry.
You got that right!
sorry, guys. she's taken and she's mine!
Hahaha. Nice one, Drew! :)
Such an inspiring elegance !
great sweater
wowza. unexpected hotness.
Beautiful light and this body… so interesting.
Love her hip bone.
Love the fall floral skirt. There are so many women in Italy that pull off short hair so well and she is a perfect example. You captured her beauty fabulously.
Oh, so elegant. The short hair makes her. Elongates her neck.
Great great style!
The sweater's hem line cut-outs make her pelvic bones accessories…and sensual accessories at that.
Gorgeous, like a modern day Audrey Hepburn <3
The top part is perfection : hair cut, glasses, her profile and sweater.
As I am scrolling down, gasp ! Is that her pelvic bone and a very low rise skirt ? I don't understand.
thank you! thought i was the only one!!!
I don't get it either – the top is fine and then it looks as if she's so thin the other half fell down. A crotch-duster skirt is too low in my opinion.
Perhaps it's an attempt to create a new erogenous zone? Boobs and legs are so 2011? There's a lot of emphasis on pelvic bones in Marc Jacobs' Spring 2013 collection. Perhaps that inspired this look.
I don't understand either – the woman's choice of dressing or Scott's choice to shoot. The choices made above the waist are so stylish but the extreme choice she's made in how to wear the skirt takes away from the beauty she has, in my opinion.
I agree.
It's an edgy look and–at a time when much attention is being given to eating disorders–it's a tad subversive. There's shock value here. Few will react with a yawn to this photo. It's not the sameold sameold pretty that one can find on hundreds of fashion blogs. This is art with a mission–its purpose is to cause a visceral reaction–a reaction that will cause many viewers to alter their ideas of what is beautiful, acceptable, or even disgusting. Low rise is not a new idea. Jeans often sit very low on the hip. What makes this different is the absolute emphasis that the width between the top and the skirt puts on the very visible and delicate pelvic bones of a woman with a minimum of body fat. Displayed this way on this woman, that part of her body suddenly becomes uncommonly sensual. And painfully vulnerable.
Sorry, j'ecris. It may just be that she's too skinny for the skirt and it's sliding off her.
It's a little farfetched to think that someone would wake up one day and think, "Let's make an artistic statement out of my pelvic bones."
Although I agree that it is exciting to experiment with extreme proportions and body type as a challenging form of self expression AND I do believe she is out the gate early on the low riding skirt idea ( "sagging" for skinny girls, minus the boxers….)…my quibble with her look IS…I don't think this works with any old skirt! Just as the sagging look wouldn't work with say, pleated pants as effectively as jeans, I think the floral peasant-ish skirt looks like it is being re-purposed to do too much work. Marc, of course, got it right with his plainer skirts making the proportional, sculptural statement of showing the hips bones…it was like a retro-subversion…the hip bones as fins, like on a car?????? And/ or channeling that iconic Vogue image of Edie S with the strong lighting and jutting hip bones?
Nice try, but I would have shifted through the closet to find a less busy skirt to do the job! that's all I'm saying….XO!
I agree! I like the pose, I love her hair, her face, very beautiful woman, and the shirt is so lovely and chic. BUT I don't get it why on earth is she wearing the skirt that low? It does not look good at all. The proportions goes totally wrong and it looks like it will fall down any second.
agreed. she looks very cool, and i'm not going to get in any sort of debate over anorexia. while i dislike the preponderance of overly skinny bodies in fashion, i'm actually of the body type that naturally has jutting hip bones (and i do think they're one of my best features) – but this look is just ODD. it reminds me of baggy pants-ers. i love the top – the gaps along the bottom edge are brilliant – but the skirt looks like it's so low down that i'm going to get an accidental crotch-flash and/or it will slide off her body any minute, and that simply isn't attractive or comfortable to me. "oops" is the phrase that comes to mind w/ the bottom half of this look.
i love pushing style boundaries but when it involves bodily discomfort and awkwardness in the name of being "cool" i think it loses its point. i live in an urban area and see plenty of baggy pants-ers on a daily basis, and have for years. but watching a guy walk around constantly pulling up his jeans as he's walking, or walking with his legs held together as if he has to go to the bathroom, it's the most awkward thing ever, and i seriously wish the "style" (while i totally get its cultural and social reasons and implications) would go out.
I'm with you.
Hooray! I thought it was just me who found the skirt worn so low to be a bit vulgar. What does it look like when she sits down? And is it worn as low in the back? Was the skirt cut to be worn this way or does she have some weird reverse mullet hemline action going on here? From the sweater up–gorgeous!
same here.
The tide rises, right?
What's to say her skirt can't when she needs it to?
Perfection in every sense.
Well, maybe I'd take care of some of those wrinkles in the top.
Right, too too low.
love this picture!
xx Amy.
I think the photo itself is beautiful. I also feel that a body slightly more fleshed out is even more beautiful. Elegance can be bigger than a size 0.
I'm sure elegance can be bigger than a size zero, but the fact is that Janice, the woman in the photo is a size zero, and she is gorgeous. If the girl was a size 4 or 6, it would be considered rude if you said that it would be more beautiful if she was a bit slimmer. Lets just appreciate the beauty that this woman attains, and not what you think would make her more beautiful.
well said.
Hear! Hear!
Totally agree. It's a fantastic image . I'm tired of naturally thin women being spoken negatively of when in fact they exude their own particular fragile and feminine beauty that should be accepted and even appreciated in the same way that naturally curvaceous women are often enough celebrated.
I have often thought this, but I have never been able to express it so eloquently. Thank you.
Thank you! It's so refreshing to hear this perspective. I was called skinny and taunted throughout my teenage years, and people thought nothing of it because apparently ridiculing someone for being thin is politically correct. Negative comments on body type of any form are harmful; just like there are are curvy body types that are naturally so, there are tiny bodies that are also natural and perfectly healthy… We should celebrate beauty and fashion in all it's shapes and forms.
beautiful short cut of the shirt
a bit too 'low key' for me
Beautiful woman! I adore her style, the haircut alone is gorgeous! I do however think there are better areas to emphasize bare skin, then again if were that stylish ( freshly waxed, and trimmed south of the boarder-wink!), maybe I'd have her confidence to pull this look off! Scott, you captured the light just lovely in this photo…well done!
She's so stylish!
such wonderful light – I love her look!! xxx
Amazingly beautiful woman. The short hair is so fresh.
Very pretty profile and a very lovely sweater with the black piping at the neck. But I'm not a big fan of bones sticking out everywhere…
Like the clothes. Love the way you shot it.
I don't get it.
Omigosh, girl! Pull up your skirt!!!!!
Really provacative photo. Interesting how she wears her skirt
Ouch, non c'est trop extrĂŞme, elle est presque nue…
no. are you seriously? the skirt is falling off, this is ridiculous. pretty head, though.
Creative use of cuts on the sweater!
Nice pic but the pelvic bone ?? No way! I am sorry but I do not see elegance in showing bones, apart from that I see a beautiful profile, nice haircut and a nice top
Love her short, slick hair style and the way the light is hitting her face. Great photo!
Beautiful profile and elegant hair. That is all I have to say about this photo.
Love Scott's blog when it is provocative…in a good way !
such an edgy look in so many ways. i love the cutouts on the sweater and the skirt is beautiful, i would just be constantly worried of a wardrobe malfunction!
From the neck up…Gorgeous.
All the other tho, I just can't fathom: the un-ironed and cropped sloppy top to the dropped? waist skirt…can't like it.
interesting. the sweater is cut to show the hip bone. she's a beautiful woman, though. i'd like her skirt more up, just to show a little. but then again that would not be so interesting. :-))
Breathtaking, and you just KNOW she's Italian.
The whole pelvic bone thing looks really weird.
Her haircut is fantastic – at first I thought her hair was long, tied up in a French twist.
Shes Canadian, as far as I know…
Thanks for letting me know! Hooray!
(I'm Canadian too.)
Wonder how much cleavage you can see from the back…after year of low-rise pants I'm kind of tired of looking at rather too much of people's bums.
perfect lighting
Loving her look!!
Really do love the sweater but I do not love how low she is wearing the skirt.
Beautiful photo. Love the light and the pants she's wearing is totally awesome!
I think it's pants, not skirt. Very brave lady, indeed.
how many of us dream of having Scott stop us on the street to take our picture? lets be honest, we kinda all do. maybe seeing this picture made this pretty lady's day…so let us be generous with our words and thoughts. no one should have to read negative comments about their body. bigger, bony, long-hair, short-hair, tattooed….we are all kind of lovely, no?
Thank you!!!!! oh my goodness, I've been waiting for someone to say something positive. She is absolutely stunning, and God has been gracious enough to give her a fast metabolism. Just let her be.
I don't think it's her body that is causing the reaction. She is gorgeous and lovely, but she hasn't accentuating her best features with her choice of proportion! The ensemble is just awkward.
THEY ARE TROUSERS. it's NOT a skirt.
And her pants are not that low. It's the way the light is hitting her body that makes it seem as such. And stop freaking out about how thin she is. It's inappropriate.
The near-exposed private region unfortuantley distracts me from the merits of the ensemble and the beauty of the woman.
love this picture, she is so elegant and gracious. just the way she wears the skirt showing to much skin is not my style. but still she looks fantastic!
Haven't seen a skirt worn this low since the last tribal fusion show I went to. Not sure how I'm feeling about it as a street look. Actually, I am–a healthy 1/2 inch higher would maintain the aesthetic while making it clear that this is a deliberate look, not a wardrobe malfunction in progress.
I think a little hip bone can be sexy, but this skirt is just pulled down too far – even if she pulled it up an inch it would be a million times better. That said, she is definitely gorgeous, and I love her haircut.
Her sweater is wrinkled and her skirt looks like it's about to fall off… not a good look. I do like her hair though.
Female version of an Abercrombie and Fitch advertisement, with better clothes – just needs strategic photo cropping.
People, she looks like that because she's a model from the Marc jacob's show. She was on this blog on Sept. 10th in the photos of the Marc Jacob's show. She's in the last photo standing in the middle.
Awesome look! love the florals! xo, Alma
Simple and beautiful!
This picture is so strange! I'm wondering what it looks like from the back (is her crack showing?), do her pants fall down if she takes her hands out of her pockets? And why are people so repulsed when one wears their pants too low in the back, but if they're low in the front, it's suddenly "elegant" and "beautiful". She is a good-looking woman, but I just don't get it.
What a strange foto: I first see her beautiful profile but, scrolling down, a wrinkled sweater and, further down, a skirt pulled so low it barely covers her pubis. There is someting startling and indecent about her skirt, her pose.
That's Janice Alida. She's a model so those pelvic bones are to be expected. I worked as a dresser during Milan Fashion Week a few years ago, and these models are really naturally thin. They have really small bones and lanky frames.
Don't usually comment but everything about this photo is stunning. absolutely stunning.
Beautiful gorgeous lady but please just pull the skirt up about 4 inches, it looks ridiculous!
I totally agree !!
I am actually agreeing with you! C'mon guys, give credit where it's due, and yea… the top part is just but great! Very gorgeous, but scroll down and oops! she could have worn something better. Baggy pants for example, worn at high waist or maybe a fitting official dress. That facial look is great for such a bottom!
She looks perfect. And BRAVE. I don't think people get the appeal to everyone when they see someone thats got the guts to try whatever they want. ThT KIND OF ATTITUDE ALWAYS LOOKS GOOD.
Looks like she's taking a cue from Marc Jacobs S/S 13 playbook with the super low slung skirt. And they're both taking a cue from Abercrombie's playbook for the last 10 years.
Are we even sure that is even a skirt as many have suggested? I ask only because it appears (on a close inspection of hand placement) that she has her hands in pockets. So maybe a pair of shorts or some sort of tailored pant, hung low?
they're CĂ©line trousers.
xo Jennifer
Amazing figure! (What is her lifestyle ? I would love to know) Despite this, i think this gorgeous outfit would be more elegant & ladylike if she wore her waistband higher !!
The Milan women are so beautiful!
-Daisy Nguyen from PS BANANAS fashion blog:
She's from Vancouver, Canada. Canadian women are so beautiful.
PS: Besides being Canadian, she models runway shows. Hence she's in Milan.
If you're going to flash belly, then it has to look like hers!
holy hipbones!.. love it.
Doesn't matter whether it's a skirt or a trouser or shorts. It's too low. You need a safety margin in case of catching on door handles or small children grabbing your clothes, or mischievous people giving a tug as they walk past. Any of those and this would be a wardrobe malfunction par excellence. Just like those gangsta types who wear their waists around the tops of their thighs.
I like the top though. KInda cute the way it has little splits over the hipbones.
Ethereal beauty. She's working her physique perfectly .
I love the pose. Upper part; totally stunning! As I scroll down… crap! Why the hell did she put on that skirt?
Please stop trying to cover up your own insecurities by tearing this girl apart. It is juvenile and immature. She is absolutely stunning.
Nobody is tearing this girl apart. On the contrary, many are commenting on how gorgeous she is. We just don't like the way she wears her pants. You can almost see her pubic hair. And one has to wonder how this looks from the back.
funny, but i'm going to have to disagree with you. you cannot almost see her private region. I think the slits in the top accentuate how low the trousers are. i do think that negative comments are juvenile and immature. some people are saying that it would look better if her trousers were higher. sure, a valid opinion. but for you to assume that you can almost see her private, which you cannot, and to make comments like "one can only wonder how it looks from the back", is kind of rude in my opinion. keep negative comments to yourself.
You're the one who's being rude, not me. It is called the pubic region, and that is where the hair normally ALMOST starts. She calls attention to it by baring that region for all to see, and I comment on it, not in a negative or rude way. Are you trying to some how censor the comments on this blog, by telling me I should keep my "negative comments" to myself?
Haters? She's a gorgeous woman. Leave her well alone.
As for the pubic hair comment, that's beyond gross. Not to mention, unlikely. She's a model, remember?
As always, your images are stunning. This is just very 'thought provoking'. Are you making a statement? She is lovely, but the bones and posing of this is, so odd. Considering the position that has been take at Vogue and some of the other magazines on being so 'thin'…I am a tad surprised. I want to think there is a message here for those with a poor body image…thank you for all of your incredible images.
Your point could be valid had this been an advertisement. Most fashion advertisements are supposed to portray beauty, so if you had a problem with a super thin woman being portrayed as ultimate beauty, I could understand that and would respect your point. But Scott's blog is about capturing what is happening on the streets—he is not necessarily declaring to the world, what beauty is. It's not a message—it's a story—and that story is told from the streets. He captures many shapes and sizes on this blog (sure, maybe he gravitates toward leaner figures). But this is a healthy woman, on the street. There is no statement trying to be made. It's just a woman who was probably going for a walk, when someone asked to take her picture. Stop reading into it.
I know this point has been reiterated many, many times, but what if he captured a larger, beautiful woman, who was actually overweight? Would one be justified in commenting, "it's surprising that you would promote this lifestyle in spite of the obesity endemic"? I think that would be rather unnecessary.
It's a story, not a dictum on what's considered beautiful.
For the record, the GUCCI girls in the pictures right before this are being mauled and having insults aimed squarely at their "skeletal" backs. All this tittering and tut-tutting: "concern" for these ladies used as pretext. Preposterous and mean in equal measure.
Cull the trolls.
She's beautiful, too skinny or not, naturally so or not, but this skirt should be worn a bit higher. Pubic areas are not fashion statements.
BTW its not a skirt , they are Celine pants
I was about to comment in speculation that this is not a skirt, but pants, however, you just beat me to it.
For those of you who thought they were worn too low, does this change your perspective at all? Just curious.
Great look, except that she is wearing that skirt way too low. It looks bad, and her hip bones jutting out are not aesthetically pleasing. If she had worn it somewhere closer to her natural waist, the lines would have worked so much better.
That's a beautiful, beautiful picture.
Skirt and tee together make a great combination!
pure simplicity
Lovely girl, but I am completely distracted by my need to follow her around with an iron.
The low pants are in poor taste and not befitting such a sophisticated and elegant woman. Plus the sweater needs to be ironed or steamed. Wrinkly doesn't work on such a chic look.
i think those are pants, not a skirt,
i think she has a pretty hair cut,
i think she needs to see some one,
not for her anti-eating look,
but for her styling choices.
yes i agree. all those men who want t marry her…. just goes to show i have no idea what men find attractive in a woman. it's not personal, i just don't find this attractive or even interesting. saying that i was interested in reading the comments.
I actually thought with the Marc Jacobs show that the low-slung skirts eclipsed the beauty and length of the model's legs, so I can't understand why anyone would want to use these proportions. Plus an exposed midriff is chilly – lots of important organs to protect in there. I do like the colours and the pattern though!
I suppose that when I'm hanging (daily) in my Carharrts in Montpelier, Vermont USA, I push them down this far with hands in my pockets and a t-shirt covering my stuff. Enjoy the raw, she's not making it hard. Nothing is wrong, it's just different.
Scott – come to MontP. You'll search, but there's stuff to be found.
Great outfit. Gorgeous gal. Just a tad too low-slung is all.
always great photos on piazza oberdan…
guys, this model is 5′ 11″ tall. she can even wear an inch lower and everything will still be appropriate.
Love the shot. At the same time, I find it vulgar how low below her hips the skirt is.
So much style, confidence, fashion and glamour but its the bare bones that make their pelvic presence felt!
I'm not not used to this elongated proportion created by her bared hips. I've noticed it in Marc Jacobs newest collection. Harks back to McQueen. It's very unattractive even though her body is beautiful. It's an almost alien look. Very sexual.
It looks like there is some sort of a skin-tight, flesh colored undergarment covering her lower abdomen. Otherwise, the front fastening of her trouser's/skirt's waistband falls right on top of her mons pubis. Not a comfortable look, nor a particularly sexy one. In fact, it is reminiscent of the very low slung trousers, worn over very visible, very colorful boxer shorts, favored by certain members of the not-so-sophisticated class. Not a good look, IMO.
Are you sure that is a skirt? Looks like pants
Wow. What a gorgeous show stopper. Now i never say this, but I wish I was her. or at least had her attitude.
I was in Milan recently and no one was walking around wearing anything like that. Damn….


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Life has, once again, taken me off-line and out of touch with my wonderful hobby. I do, however, peel a few minutes away every now and then. In one of those precious moments, I came across a great potential resource for researchers of African American ancestry that I'd like to share.
Tom MacEntee over at GeneaBloggers runs quite a few inspirational theme ideas for other family history bloggers. One of his recent ones is called, "Friend of Friends Friday". The premise is this:
"if you have encountered records of enslaved ancestors, whether they are your own ancestors or not, make it a point to transcribe those records and get them posted on the Internet via your blog."
WHAT A GREAT IDEA! There is simply no repository of this kind of information and no replacement of it as a resource to peek behind the shroud of slavery before 1870. Of course its not indexed, comprehensive or, in some cases, written to be very useful for researchers. But it is a start. I've attached the Google reader RSS URL here. Enjoy and check out some of the other great ideas Tom and his friends have come up with over time. There's also a special section on African American blogs as well.
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Ranger Uranium Project: Section 44 Agreement
|3 November 1978
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|Exploration Agreement (Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act) | Mining Agreement (Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act)
|Ranger Project Area, Northern Territory, Australia
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|The Ranger Project Area is 250 km east of Darwin, surrounded by the Kakadu National Park.
|Subject Matter:
|Economic Development | Employment and Training | Cultural Heritage | Environmental Heritage | Mining and Minerals | Compensation
|Summary Information:
|The Section 44 Agreement (the Agreement) is dated the 3 November 1978 and is made between the Commonwealth Government (the Commonwealth) and the Northern Land Council (NLC), pursuant to s 44 of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 Cth. The Ranger Project area (RPA) became Aboriginal land when the Commonwealth Government implemented a recommendation of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry (27 May 1977) that Aboriginal claims to vacant crown land in the Alligator Rivers Region be granted. An agreement between the Commonwealth Government and the NLC as representative of the interests of the Aboriginal Traditional Owners was therefore necessary.
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|The Agreement covers the following matters, amongst other things:
- An annual rental of $200,000;
- $1.3 million payable in five installments from execution of the Agreement until commencement of full-scale uranium production;
- $600,000 payable in four installments to meet the administrative costs of the NLC.
The way in which monies were distributed by the NLC to Aboriginal people was not covered by the Agreement. However, the NLC distributed the annual rental and 'up-front' monies of $1.3 million to the Gagadju Association whose members are, broadly, those with traditional ties to the RPA;
Related Entries
|Ciaran O'Faircheallaigh (2002) A New Approach to Policy Evaluation: Mining and Indigenous People
|Commonwealth Department of Trade and Resources (1980) Ranger Uranium Project Deed to Amend the Government Agreement
|Commonwealth Department of Trade and Resources (1980) Ranger Uranium Project Deed of Assignment
|Mining Agreement (Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 (Cth)) (Australia) | Exploration Agreement (Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 (Cth)) (Australia)
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I seriously don't even know what you're talking about, it seems you have some reading comprehension issues. You most certainly have some attitude issues.I'm not crying and I don't advocate anyone dropping out of law school, first or last semester. I just wanted to give my opinion to people who are about to commit to law school. It's a serious life choice and people should know what it's really like out there. The situation is dire out there, for LEGAL JOBS. No poo you can join the Army. You can do that without law school and save a bunch of money. But don't for a second think that someone will want to hire you after you just spent three years after law school doing nothing law-related. How is that a good investment?And I don't even understand why you're being so angry and obnoxious about it.
well if you want to practice law, what would you suggest doing?
I have the inside view from a T14. MOST of my fellow graduating 3Ls do not have job offers. ANY offers. This is not simply a lack of BigLaw jobs but a structural problem in the legal community in general. Don't be fooled into thinking, "Well, I never wanted to be making $160k working at a stifling corporate law firm anyway." The job market is pure crap across the board. There is stunningly high unemployment at these elite schools.However, the school is rehiring many of us to work at the library or in part-time research assistant positions so that we do not drag down the employment rate. You are a fool if you think law school is a decent place to "ride out the recession." Even Harvard Law grads are having problems finding jobs. So if the T14 grads are in danger, then what about the rest of the schools (from first tier to TTT to fourth tier)? I hope this post is not deleted. It could save people hundreds of thousands of dollars. If you got into a law school and paid a deposit, you must still think about what I am saying and make a wise decision.
That is just what gets me is people just say these things like it only applies to law school. I am pretty sure every type of school tries to manipulate their stats as best they can.
I didn't say it was a permanent job. It is a summer position. If there are summer positions available, does that not indicate there are jobs in general. I'm also not saying that every person who goes to law school will get a job. I was saying that perhaps you didn't network enough.
Also, if it's so unbelievable that I have a summer job before beginning school, I guess that speaks pretty well for me. What is so difficult to believe about it, really?
you can't take the bar without having gone to law school so the Do NOT go to law school trolls are pointless.
I want to be a lawyer, my mother was a lawyer and I've worked as a teacher and I enjoyed my internships in law much more, you can't take the bar without having gone to law school so the Do NOT go to law school trolls are pointless. For those going to law school because they have nothing else to do or a worthless UG degree i understand, but for those who have a strong desire to become a lawyer, there isn't any other way to pursue that goal (unless you want to be a paralegal).


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WASHINGTON, D.C. – A Washington, DC-based steak and seafood restaurant violated federal law by subjecting two employees to a hostile work environment based on their religion and national origin, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today. According to the EEOC's complaint, Faissal Chtaiti, who is Moroccan and Hilal Suboh, who is Palestinian, were subjected to harassment based on their religion and national origin by Deauville, Inc. d/b/a Monocle Restaurant ("Monocle Restaurant"). Both men are Muslim.
Chtaiti and Suboh were both employed as waiters at the Monocle Restaurant located at 107 D Street, NE, Washington, DC. The EEOC charged that from around December 2004 through at least December 2007, Chtaiti and Suboh were harassed by the restaurant's General Manager. According to the EEOC, the harassment included derogatory comments such as referring to the men as "Arab dog," "stupid Muslim" and "crazy Muslim." The General Manager also made comments like "go back to the Sahara because it's better for you Arabs with the camels," and "Palestinians should learn how to handle the [expletive] Jews," according to the EEOC's complaint.
National origin and religion harassment violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The EEOC filed suit (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Deauville, Inc. d/b/a Monocle Restaurant, Civ. No. 1:10-cv-00586, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia), after first attempting to reach a voluntary settlement.
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Bubble 1.0 Hype Ideas Brought Back To Life By 2.0 Companies
from the well,-look-at-that... deptIt's been amusing watching all of the ridiculous PR-generating gimmicks from the original dot com bubble come back to life over the last couple years from new companies who are either using the same playbook or too new at the game to know that it's been done before. For example, remember the online travel startup TravelZoo? In order to enter the already overcrowded online travel market and still get some traction, the company promised shares of stock to early users. While there were plenty of questions about the legality of this, it appears that the company played by the rules and didn't violate any kind of securities law (which seems surprising, since offering any kind of shares in a private company usually requires an awful lot of very specific hoops that you need to jump through) -- and it even paid off for some users of the site who were able to make some money. Unfortunately, the gimmick ended up costing Travelzoo a lot more than it expected. Either way, there's some random new company out there that's trying to do something similar, promising stock to users for performing certain actions within their site. Again, this should raise a number of legal questions, but the site's founders insist that it's okay because they're not actually issuing shares, just allocating them to be issued at the point of a liquidity event. It's not clear that a securities regulator would feel the same way about it. Publicly offering any kind of equity tends to require some very, very careful steps for any company to take, and you'd have to image that the potential risks from violating securities law could be a lot greater than any brief burst of (non-product-related) publicity this kind of gimmick generates.
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A remarkable photo of Bryde's whale at the end of a lunge, showing the dramatic expansion of the accordion-like throat pouch. Photo courtesy of Doug Perrine.
For several years, I have been collaborating with a group of researchers from many different backgrounds to understand the biomechanics, functional, and evolutionary morphology of large baleen whales. Some of the work out of this team includes modeling efforts based on first principles in fluid dynamics and parachute physics; others have been much more hands-on (or elbows-deep), documenting their surprising anatomy; still others have used historical literature. All of these efforts ultimately are aimed at revealing how these ocean giants work, and how they evolved.
A. Wayne Vogl, professor in the Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences (and editor of Gray's Anatomy for Students) at UBC, holds a microscope slide of stained rorqual nerve tissue below a blue whale skeleton mounted in UBC's Beaty Biodiversity Centre. Photo by Global News.
Our most recent work was published this week in Current Biology, as the cover article. Led by Wayne Vogl, along with researchers from Bob Shadwick's laboratory at the University of British Columbia, and Jeremy Goldbogen (Stanford University), we describe the unusual morphology of throat pouch nerves in rorqual whales. When this particular group of baleen whales feed, their entire mouth expands dramatically (in less than 10 seconds, for the largest species), requiring a complete reconfiguration of their basic mammalian jaw and throat anatomy. Previously, we described how the tissue mechanics of the accordion-like blubber around the throat permits this expansion (and return to its resting state); there are still big, unaswered questions about what happens to the tongue, and even how baleen works to strain captured prey, which remain very difficult to test.
Our Current Biology paper provides one more clue, mostly arising out of the serendipity of finding intact nerves during our anatomical fieldwork over several seasons in Iceland. Once we realized the enormous size and unusual gross morphology of the throat pouch nerves, we collected samples for histological section, which revealed their surprising organization, much like bungee-cords. This type of tissue organization allows them to stretch and recoil without injury, a property which is absolutely necessary to accomplish the dramatic engulfment that happens during a single lunge. Read more about the paper, including extensive media coverage, in the lab Publication section.


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Here are some of my picks for where to drink for the next two weeks. Events will be updated as details become available.
Game of Thrones Ommegang night: On April 10, the Riverside Market will toast the release of Brewery Ommegang's Iron Throne blonde ale, brewed for the premiere of HBO's "Game of Thrones," now in its third season. The bar can't re-create the lush decor and rough terrains of Westeros, but it can create lush tasters of Ommegang's beer portfolio, which will be available in bottles. 608 SW 12th Ave., Fort Lauderdale; 954-358-8333 or Facebook.com/RiversideMarket.
Las Olas Food and Wine Festival: The street festival isn't till April 19, but starting April 14, you can enjoy discounted fare at restaurants and bars in the area. At the Las Olas Wine Cafe that day, a $20 wine card will afford you wine samples at the street fest. On April 16, Cheese Culture will offer wine pairings for 30 people for $50 each. The next day, Preston's at the Riverside Hotel will offer a pairing for $50. For festival information, call 954-727-0907 or go to LasOlasWFF.com.
Weston Town Center Crawl: The crawl here includes more than bars: Yes, JG McGuinness will participate, but so will Starbucks and the Cheese Course. And that makes sense, considering this crawl benefits 2-1-1 Broward, the crisis center and suicide-counseling hotline. Tickets cost $10 until April 10 and $20 after, and Rick Case Fiat cars will transport crawlers to and from some participating venues. Registration will take place at JG McGuinness, and the event will start at 5 p.m. 1744 Main St., Weston; 954-640-5822 or 211-Broward.org.
Tiki Bar Battle of the Bottles: On April 12 at the BeachHouse Hotel and Tiki Bar, sample 10 wines from three California vintners who name their products after baked goods: Cupcake Vineyards will be there, along with Layer Cake Wines and Cakebread Cellars. After the sampling, the hotel will offer guests plates from Bonefish Grill and baked desserts. For $20, you'll get a card good for 11 samples of wine, so you can have seconds of your favorite fruity fermentation. 82 Gleason St., Delray Beach; 866-372-7263 or CranesBeachHouse.com.
Oskar Blues beer dinner: Kapow! Noodle Bar will bring Colorado to Boca Raton April 16, with a beer dinner pairing Asian-fusion dishes and Oskar Blues brews. The five-course meal will include Korean pancakes with Dale's Pale Ale, sake-braised short rib with G'Knight Imperial Red and fried sweet-rice balls with Mama's Little Yella Pils. Tickets cost $37.92 at OskarBluesBeerDinner-EFBevent.EventBrite.com. 431 Plaza Real, Boca Raton; 561-347-7322 or Facebook.com/KapowNoodleBar.
Barleywine and Bleu Cheese: The Blind Monk will pull out its stinkiest cheese April 10, when five types of barleywine will be available for pairing with the moldy curd. One of the strongest styles of beer, barleywine pairs well with pungent cheeses. The beer's thick body blends with creamy or solid cheeses, which dial down some of its bitterness. 410 Evernia St., West Palm Beach; 561-833-3605 or TheBlindMonk.com.


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Monday, August 13, 2012
a walk around the lake
10 comments:
- stephanie said...
my husband served his mission in alberta. shortly after we were married he took me to visit. reading your post this morning brought me right back to that magical place. you described lake louise perfectly! gorgeous photos, as always. thanks, sheena!
- August 13, 2012 at 7:38 AM
- in dreams said...
my mum, aunt, and grandmother all waitressed at chateau lake louise...i feel like i missed out on a really important tradition by not waitressing there myself! i guess i still have time to visit though...it is such a magical place, isn't it?
- August 13, 2012 at 8:24 AM
- Ashlae said...
What beautiful photos. It reminds me of Iceland, which means I need to go there. ASAP.
Mountains and glaciers and glow-y lakes are something else, huh?
PS - your family is too adorable for words.
- August 13, 2012 at 8:58 AM
- Laura said...
Oh oh oh. Look at that photo with the hotel in the background. I LOVE what you do with a camera and a beautiful country. :)
- August 13, 2012 at 9:09 AM
- Sara C. Walk said...
all I can say is WOW!!!!! I need to go there
- August 13, 2012 at 9:51 AM
- Amber Andrews said...
Absolutely incredible. I'll have to add Lake Louise to my "MUST See" list.
- August 13, 2012 at 1:02 PM
- The Webbs said...
this is beautiful. when we were on our latest adventure I was telling my husband that its just so pretty outside I wanted to hug it. When its so pretty outside it almost feels impossible to breath it all in. cheesy yes-but super true.
that water looks amazing!!!
- August 13, 2012 at 3:45 PM
- kate said...
These photos are amazing. That lake is amazing. We are planning to visit Canada next summer and all these photos are just adding to the excitement!
- August 13, 2012 at 8:24 PM
I love these shots! I can't wait to get back to North America and do some more travelling. I have already printed out some pictures of Utah to put on my inspiration/travel planning board, now I'll have to add Canada too!
- August 14, 2012 at 6:46 PM
- mari dock said...
these are unbelievable and your family is so beautiful!
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One of the crafts I'm trying out is this shirt with a doily stamp.Super simple, I saw this at artful, and I knew it would be the perfect addition to
Super easy-you just need a doily, foam brush, paint of whatever color you choose and then another paint called textile paint (sold in the paint section). You add a few drops of this to any paint and it makes it so that once the shirt is ironed, the paint is set in and can be washed etc.
mer on a mission trip to the Amazon. I get emails from time to time after GMT about random things like this, so....if you want a cute necklace, you'd be getting it from a nice gal-I'm just going to skip the process and say you can email her at email@example.com. I'll be posting the rest of my project over the next week or so. :O)


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Seem to criticize religion from a Christian or western religious perspective? In other words, those religions which have their basis in Hebraism, Judaism, and Islam; the so-called "Abrahamic religions." They rarely are ever familiar with eastern religion or philosophy where "God" is thought of in a completely different and antipodal way. For starters, God is not thought of as an "entity," and that really boggles the mind of some atheists who've spent their entire lives conceptualizing "God" as some kind of entity.
Of course, most English-speaking atheists that we encounter here at Atheist-Nexus are from the U.K or the United States where western religion is predominant, and that may explain why that is. That's why I've always enjoyed when Sam Harris emphasizes ignosticism which aims to define "God" before any discussion or debate takes place.
There's an interesting video I came across on YouTube where an Indian guru spills his insight to a young "spiritual seeker." He makes an interesting comment about atheism.
Basically that the "God" from his perspective is not the same God in which some atheists reject, the God as "entity," but instead a "source" which he vaguely describes. Because the God that the atheist rejects, he also rejects.
It kind of makes you think, what if the entire theist vs. atheist argument is one of semantics? That this flexible term that we use "God" has a spectrum of meaning, and on one side of the spectrum makes no sense, but on another side, can correspond exactly to reality. After all, Einstein used this word, but of course, not in the same sense a zealous Christian might use it. Just a thought.
And if anyone's interested in eastern philosophy and how "God" is thought about in something like Buddhism for example, a good place to start is this video here, just listen out for "final self." Truly fascinating for anyone with an open-mind… Perhaps some of you have heard this one before…
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It is interesting to me that many religious people seem to accept a belief in "a god" as one and the same god.Therefore these people are accepted as "OK" whereas atheists are rejected. This must explain why many Christians considered Romney a Christian, when he is not.
Harris rescues Buddhism from his sharpest condemnations (with extra-heavy emphasis on the jihadist elements of the Quran), but I wonder if he didn't take the Universe of Hinduist Thought into consideration and simply relegated it, mentally, to "Other Polytheism," or some other subcategory. In any case, one of the triumvirate of Harris-Hitchens-Dawkins points out that these beliefs have not, so far, created the bitter in-fighting by the monotheisms. Plus, Harris has "nice" things to say about Buddhism. When going through that stage in my life, I found remarkable things in, e.g. the Hua Yin School, because their major text makes an astonishing ancient understanding of quantum theory: the mirror universe of Hua Yin, infinite mirrors mirroring mirrors, subatomically corresponds to Bohm's vast interconnectedness (the implicate order), and for some time, that was my own belief. We are all, all of us, vastly interconnected. I don't need "God" to understand that, much less The Priesthood.
@ Lille: Uh, Mormons are Christians. They believe in Jesus, the Gospels, &c. They do not believe in the Protestant or Catholic versions of Jesus. The idea they are not Christians is the "no true Scotsman" fallacy, oft used by the Evangelical movement to paint anyone who does not agree with them as "unChristian" (or Satanic).
Certainly Mormons are Christians in their belief in Christ and the Bible, but Mormonism adds so much to traditional Christianity—an additional set of scriptures of such length and an alternative history of such substance that a legitimate question can be raised whether these amendments are sufficiently transformative that traditional theology is overwhelmed. Is Mormonism just another version of Christianity or is it something radically different despite the formal resemblance?
I really appreciate the feedback from all you guys. I want to reply to a couple of your posts here, Allan, I'll start by quoting something you posted on page 5 on this thread:
"However there is another ground on which the atheist needs to do work separate from the rejection—dealing with objectively unverifiable claims made in both Eastern and Western religion about individual psychological experiences which follow the search for enlightenment through meditation, prayer, etc."
Perhaps you're familiar with the work of Dr. Rick Strassman who aimed to do precisely what you've mentioned here. Strassman speculates in his book "DMT: The Spirit Molecule" that the true culprit, so to speak, behind religious or mystical experience, what in Christianity you might call the "Beatific vision" or in eastern religion, you might hear as "satori" or "samadhi," may be a natural induction of endogenous DMT (N,N-Dimethyltryptamine). So, he administered DMT intravenously to several volunteers as a part of his research, all of whom, low and behold, had very profound, life-changing experiences under the influence of this very peculiar entheogen, all of whom came back uttering tales of religious revelation, UFO abduction, enlightenment, etc.
Shamans have been using substances to go into these altered states for millennia. Ayahuasca is a DMT-containing beverage, a kind of neurotransmitter cocktail and the use of it dates back thousands of years. Likewise, psilocybin, the psychoactive compound in the so-called 'psychedelic' mushroom is related to DMT and the ingestion of psychedelic mushrooms also dates back to thousands of years. These substances, if taken in a shamanic fashion meaning not taken recreationally but taken at 'effective doses,' can produce this so-called mystical experience on-demand.
But I agree with you that these things aren't easily assessed. I've noticed that most people who don't have direct experience with these things have certain preconceived notions about the effects of these substances such as people tend to assume that what happens is basically what you find depicted in the movies, i.e. pink elephants, prancing leprechauns, what have you or some kind of projection of the personal subconscious or unconscious. Having experience with this stuff, personally, I can tell you that it is not at all like that. What instead seems to happen is you seem to tap into a kind of universal phenomenon. In other words, there are motifs in the experience that aren't reducible to the individual. So, that's one thing that makes this a really hard to tease a part of what is traditionally called the subjective or a "personal experience," it's instead defined as impersonal or a transpersonal experience. That everyone, in a way, kind of goes to the "same place," so to speak. It's as though maybe because we're all perturbing the same substrate: the mind, the brain, we see the mind electrified to a reality-obliterating, ego-shattering, mind-boggling intensity and suddenly you're witness to the mind of nature or the multiverse itself. They can produce as I said before, staggeringly titanic, colossal, God-like altered states of mind of which ordinary experience is unrecognizable, often referred to as "ego death." Powerful emotions equated to agapé along with a kind of intuitive omniscience or a kind of intense, wordless understanding or insight, etc. It's like turning circuit board of reality over and seeing the circuitry and having this profound intuitive understanding of how it's all wired together. The so-called 'mystical' experience of the French philosopher Descartes involved a similar sudden revelation in which he saw in a flash the "order of all sciences," as he described it, he was also in a way obsessed with DMT with his obsession of the pineal gland which he referred to as "the seat of the soul" and which also is speculated to elaborate DMT in the human brain.
But truly, if you see all of religion as a kind of attempt to describe this experience, then all these have been failed attempts to coin the perfect metaphor. That's why I think to really assess it, you're going to have to have this experience for yourself. So, if you accept this kind of perennial philosophical rap as true, then you have an explanation of Mormonism, that Joseph Smith is just another person, another average human being like you and I, who in history had this colossal experience and went on to become the founder of a religion, likewise Christ, Mohammad, Gautama, etc. An experience that each of us has the potential to undergo. However, I might mention that after having this experience nowadays, you probably wouldn't go on to become the founder of a religion, you'd probably end up in a psychiatric ward if you aren't careful with your words about it. If you're articulate enough, maybe you'll start some DMT-awareness religion that'll solve M-Theory, put to rest the mystery of synchronicity, dissolve the theist vs. atheist issue, etc. I mean, who knows? As an aside, I'd like to add that The Atheist Experience show has never in any episode ever addressed DMT. Maybe someone should call in and let these guys know what's up or maybe someone should send Matt Dillahunty 70mg DMT through the mail.
Ah! Well, I sort of went off in a tangent there, but I'm sure this sounds either redundant or familiar to you, Allan, as I know we've edged around this stuff in another thread. I'm not sure if you had taken a look at the link to another atheist forum's thread that I've been mentioning. The thread there goes over all these topics at a little more depth. I'll leave a couple of links if there's people out there that don't know what this stuff is… because despite the fact that people produce this naturally, most people don't know what it is. I don't think we'll ever put religion to rest unless we study these altered states and the substances that propel them.
Graham Hancock discussing "Ayahuasca"
Sam Harris on "Altered States"
Terence McKenna describes a typical 5 dried experience with Psilocy...
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What to Expect
Every tourist has his or her own preferences and needs. For example, my 76-year-old mother is a very out-going person and still loves to travel in spite of the artificial joint embedded in her ankle. She is vigorous in mind but can no longer walk as fast as people around her. But we can enjoy traveling by considered arrangement. Also, I have been astounded at the allergic reaction of my friend who is allergic to crustaceans. We weren't aware that shrimps were used for making soup stock of the ramen we ate. That experience made me more careful about food for people who have some allergy. Please feel free to tell me anything you worry about. Careful preparation makes you feel free from any anxiety and brings you wonderful travel memories
On the other hand, some people may have a strong urge to walk around Tokyo at their own pace and visit some places of their particular interests without being constrained by others. Why don't we make a special itinerary together? It's my pleasure to help you appreciate deep attractions in Japan.
Walking, Shopping and Culture:
1. Omotesando, Aoyama and Roppongi district: a street lined with zelkova trees on both sides that provides a relaxing atmosphere. It is also lined with refined shops including brand shops, cafés, as well as restaurants. Let's enjoy walking in the Minami Aoyama district to Roppongi! (1.5km form Omotesando to The National Art Center in Roppongi)
-The Nezu Museum in Aoyama: popular among foreigners not only for its collection but also its amazing garden.
-The National Art Center in Roppongi: designed by the famous architect, Kisho Kurokawa. The restaurant and café in this building are also fantastic!
2. Ginza: streets lined with good restaurants and a high-end shopping area. New landmarks have been built here recently.
-KABUKIZA Tower: office tower that emphasizes traditional Japanese aesthetics, built adjacent to the Kabukiza
-Tsukiji Outer Market: you can find anything from foods such as fresh fish, fresh meats, fresh fruit and vegetables,and dried foods to food-related products such as knives and dinnerware. Also a famous gourmet spot.
3. Shinjuku: -Tokyo Metropolitan Government: One of Tokyo's landmarks, with an observatory on the 45th floor
-Department store with popular basement food floors, which offer fancy sweets, delicious prepared dishes, and beautiful box lunches
-huge electronics stores such as Yamada Denki, Bic Camera, and Yodobashi Camera, which offer plenty of equipment such as PCs and electrical home appliances
4. Ikebukuro: within 10 minutes from Shinjuku
-Sunshine Aquarium: first rooftop aquarium in Japan based on the concept of "an oasis in the sky"
-J-WORLD-TOKYO: indoor theme park full of animated cartoons from popular comic book "Jump" such as "One piece" "Dragon ball" and "Naruto"
-Nanjatown: indoor theme park that provides everything from amusement to food all at once, which is popular with groups as well as couples
5. Asakusa-Odaiba Tokyo Bay Cruise! : You can fully enjoy the color of Tokyo along the Sumida-gawa River toward Tokyo Bay and see many types of bridges spanning the river. (about one hour)
6. Asakusa: one of the most popular tourist destinations. Senso-ji Temple, famous for its huge red lantern is the biggest Buddhist temple in Tokyo. But do you know that Asakusa-jinja Shrine is in the same grounds? You can learn about the coexistence of Buddhism and Shintoism here. You can buy traditional Japanese souvenirs at the shopping arcade called Nakamise.
7. Odaiba: popular among both adults and kids. There are also several kids' places such as the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, an indoor amusement park along with fancy several attractive malls for adults.
8. Ueno: -Ueno Park: designated in 1873 as the first park in Japan. In the huge grounds are a museum complex, zoo, and Toshogu Shrine, which was built in 1627 upon request by Tokugwa Ieyasu in his will.
-Ameyoko (short for Ameya-yokocho) is famous for its extremely cheap seasonal goods and other wares such as cosmetics, shoes, sporting goods, leather jackets and jeans.
9. Kiyosumi-Shirakawa: old town with several popular coffee shops, temples and shrines, and a famous Kiyosumi-garden, which is one of the greatest masterpieces in the gardens in Tokyo.
10. Shibamata: Taishakuten Temple may not be so widely known to foreign tourist, but it's been popular among Japanese people because the temple and the approach lined with many long-established shops used to be a set of the movie titled 'Tora-san', which has been loved by the Japanese for many years.
11. Tokyo Sky Tree: the highest communications and observation tower in Japan, whose observation decks command a breath-taking panorama of Tokyo. There are also a planetarium, an aquarium, and a lot of shops and restaurants, so people from all age groups can enjoy there.
12. Marunouchi: -Tokyo Staion: completed in 1914, designated Important Cultural Property, was restored to its original form in 2012.
- KITTE: a commercial facility run by Japan Post. You can enjoy shops that let you experience Japanese craftsmanship as well as restaurants that serve delicious food from across Japan.
-Imperial Palace: The Edo Castle, formerly the Tokugawa Family's residence, became the Imperial Palace as the Emperor moved to Tokyo from the Kyoto Imperial Palace after the Meiji Restoration.
Anime, Games, Comics, and new fashion trend:
13. Akihabara: The center of electric, comic, card game shops, maid cafes, and anime products. The shop filled with many toy vending machine selling capsule toys called "Gasha-pon" is also popular along with the instant photo booth, Pri-Kura.
-Kanda Myojin Shrine: supposedly built in 730, which is dedicated to Taira no Masakado. The vermilion-lacquered main hall is spectacular. It's also a sanctuary for anime fans now because of the scene of a popular anime "Love Live". Adjacent to the Akihabara district, you can find omikuji sold in a capsule toy style.
14. Nakano, a Sanctuary for Otaku (geek, nerd, or freak); enjoy Japanese sub-culture fully at Nakano Broadway. If you love a certain anime character, you can even make your cell-phone case printed your favorite one. Anyway, everything Otaku want is here
15. Harajyuku, pop fashion shopping area: all sorts of fashion categories, popular snack such as colorful cotton candy, and unique cafes
16. Shibuya, teenager shopping area: Walking from Harajuku to Shibuya, you can see shop windows displaying the latest fashion for the young. And you can visit to Shibuya station to see the Hachiko statue and the 'human scramble' traffic crossing.
Shrines and Temples:
17. Meiji-jingu Shrine: Located in Harajuku, Shibuya, it's popular among foreign tourists. The Well of Kiyomasa in this garden has become famous as a so-called power spot. Pure water has been welling up for more than 400 years.
18. Hie-jinja Shrine: famous for its Sanno Festival, one of the three biggest festivals in Japan. You can also see the National Diet Building and other important buildings nearby.
19. Zojoji Temple: situated near Tokyo Tower, Zojoji Temple is the chief temple of the Jodo-Buddhist sect. It had a deep connection to the Tokugawa Shogunate family.
20. Tokyo Daijingu: called 'o-Ise-sama in Tokyo', this shrine is especially popular among young women who want to encounter their future husband. You can get a pretty charm on which flowers or Hello Kitty is embroidered.
If you are interested in shrines, please visit my blog, "Visiting Tokyo ten shrines".


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1. physical material having form and weight under ordinary conditions; called also substance.
2. pus.
gray matter areas of the nervous system where the nerve fibers are unmyelinated (not enveloped by a myelin sheath); it contains the bodies of the nerve cells. Tissue composed of myelinated fibers is called white matter. The cerebral cortex is entirely composed of gray matter and the cerebellum also contains some deep-seated masses of it. The spinal cord has a central core of gray matter surrounded by white matter; in cross section, its gray matter is shaped approximately like the letter H. Called also substantia grisea and gray substance.
white matter areas of the nervous system composed mostly of myelinated nerve fibers (those having myelin sheaths) constituting the conducting portion of the brain and spinal cord. Tissue composed of unmyelinated fibers is called gray matter. Called also substantia alba and white substance.
Synonym(s): substantia [TA], matter
[L. substantia, essence, material, fr. sub- sto, to stand under, be present]
matter/mat·ter/ (mat´er)
1. substance; anything that occupies space.
2. pus.
gray matter substantia grisea.
white matter substantia alba.
1. A specific type of substance.
2. Discharge or waste, such as pus or feces, from a living organism.
Etymology: L, materia
1 anything that has mass and occupies space.
2 any substance not otherwise identified as to its constituents, such as gray matter, pus, or serum exuding from a wound.
Material substance that occupies cavities.
Material substance that occupies space.
matterAnatomy Stuff that occupies cavities. See Gray matter, White matter.
Synonym(s): substantia [TA] , matter.
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matterthat which constitutes the substance of physical forms, has mass, occupies space and can be quantified.
1. physical material having form and weight under ordinary conditions of gravity.
2. pus.
gray matter
matter of the central nervous system, which represents the aggregations of the nerve cells.
white matter
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WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced the latest edition of its federal sector Digest of Equal Employment Opportunity Law, which is available online at http://www.eeoc.gov/federal/digest/xxiv-3.cfm.
This quarterly publication, prepared by the EEOC's Office of Federal Operations (OFO), features recent agency decisions and federal court cases of interest. It also includes a special article entitled, Retaliation: An Evolving Area of the Law.
"The Digest's focus on retaliation should be particularly useful," said OFO Director Carlton M. Hadden, "as that continues to be the most frequently alleged basis for EEO complaints. The article provides solid information on recent decisions and cases."
The summer 2013 edition of the Digest contains a sampling of summaries of noteworthy decisions selected by OFO from among the volume of decisions issued by EEOC each fiscal year, including topics such as:
While these summaries are not intended to be exhaustive or definitive as to their subject matter, and may not be given the legal weight of case law in citations, they are a good source of relevant information.
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Prosecutor mocks Pistorius' version of events
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) The chief prosecutor laughed scornfully at an answer from Oscar Pistorius during the Olympic athlete's murder trial Thursday, mocking the man who shot his girlfriend. The judge sternly instructed the prosecutor to restrain himself and he apologized – then went right back to trying to pick holes in the testimony of the double-amputee runner.
It was a harsh day of cross-examination for Pistorius, challenged relentlessly about his account of the moments just before he killed Reeva Steenkamp, as well as circumstances related to several firearms charges against him, including the firing of a gun in a crowded restaurant.
Prosecutor Gerrie Nel often sought to goad Pistorius, accusing him of being self-obsessed and hiding the truth about the death of Steenkamp, a 29-year-old model whom he shot through a closed toilet door in his home.
Dressed in a dark suit, Pistorius, 27, responded methodically and in a soft monotone, and only occasionally did his voice rise. He did not break down in tears as he has previously this week in the witness box and did not look at Nel, instead facing the red-robed judge, Thokozile Masipa, on the dais.
The prosecutor seized on virtually every opportunity to challenge the star athlete's credibility, asserting that he had a string of unlikely excuses for why he wasn't to blame in the gun charges he faces on top of murder. In casting doubt on the Olympian's honesty, Nel was pushing the prosecution's argument that Pistorius is also lying that he killed Steenkamp by mistake, thinking she was an intruder, in the pre-dawn hours of Valentine's Day last year.
Nel briefly erupted in laughter after Pistorius suggested that two witnesses who said they once saw him shoot out of a car sunroof had collaborated and fabricated their accounts.
"I apologize for laughing, I won't do it again," Nel said after people in the gallery murmured in surprise at his outburst.
Masipa sternly cautioned him: "If you possibly think this is entertaining, it's not. So please restrain yourself."
The judge will deliver a verdict because there is no jury system in South Africa. Possibly because of her critical role, Masipa has given away little of her thinking during the trial, interjecting only occasionally during testimony and keeping an impassive expression.
In the cross-examination, Nel asserted that Pistorius will not "accept responsibility for anything." He reacted incredulously to the athlete's explanation of why a gun he was handling went off under a table in a packed restaurant. The incident, for which he was charged with firing a gun in public without good reason, happened weeks before Steenkamp died.
Pistorius said a friend's pistol, a Glock, went off while he was holding it but insisted that he hadn't pulled the trigger. But a police expert testified earlier at the trial that the Glock could not be fired without pulling the trigger.
"We have you in possession of the gun, a shot went off, but you didn't discharge the gun?" Nel said. "You are lying."
"I respect Mr. Nel's comment," Pistorius replied, "but I didn't pull the trigger on that firearm."
Pistorius said he wasn't guilty of another charge against him, illegal possession of ammunition for .38-caliber ammunition found in a safe in his home after he killed Steenkamp. He said they belonged to his estranged father, who had put the bullets in the safe. Nel retorted that Pistorius' father, Henke, had "refused" to make a statement to police on the ammunition being his.
At another point, Nel said caustically: "It's the strangest day today. You just don't take responsibility for anything."
Two contrasting images of Pistorius have emerged in court: the defense-led portrayal of a contrite man worried about crime who made a tragic mistake, and the prosecution's depiction of an overbearing egotist obsessed with firearms who killed his girlfriend on purpose after a heated argument.
Pistorius, who faces 25 years to life in prison if convicted of premeditated murder, said he did not intentionally fire the four shots that penetrated the toilet door. Steenkamp was struck in the head, hip and arm.
"I didn't have time to think about if I wanted to or didn't want to," Pistorius said when Nel asked whether he intended to shoot.
Nel also accused him of egotistical behavior in his relationship with Steenkamp, and described Pistorius' courtroom apology to her family on Monday as an insincere "spectacle."
"Your life is just about you," Nel told Pistorius. He said the athlete was not "humble enough" to apologize in private to the family and away from the media glare of a murder trial broadcast live around the world.
Pistorius said his lawyers had been in touch with representatives of Steenkamp's family, and that he believed they were not ready to meet with him.
"I completely understand where they're coming from," he said. "It's not that I haven't thought about them."
Nel also pressed Pistorius about Steenkamp's objection to his playing a song by American rapper Kendrick Lamar on a car stereo. Pistorius referred to the song in a cellphone message to Steenkamp that acknowledged her objections and has been included as evidence in the trial.
The prosecutor asked if the name of the song was "Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe," but Pistorius said he couldn't remember the specific song. Nel responded that Steenkamp would have been right to take offense and caustically noted, "We can't ask her."


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