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Is Viciedo on the Way?
The important subtext from last night's satisfying 3-2 victory over the Rangers is the shoulder injury to Carlos Quentin.
We're told he won't be in the lineup today and will be re-evaluated Tuesday in Anaheim after tomorrow's day off. The 800-pound elephant in the room, of course, is that Dayan Viciedo (pictured below) is waiting in the wings if Quentin goes on the disabled list.
I think we all agree that losing Quentin is not a good thing. Aside from Paul Konerko, he has been the club's most potent run producer. But if fate should have it that Quentin can't play, the seemingly major league-ready Viciedo will be welcomed with open arms with the hope he can provide an offensive spark. Lord knows, we need it.
Sox Note of Note: A bit ironic, don't you think, that last night's hero was Quentin's outfield replacement–the much-maligned Alex Rios, who doubled in the winning run?


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All Aboard
Children will love twisting and turning this bright board book to follow the train on its journey, and will enjoy guessing who will get on and where the train will go next.ISBN: 9781840896879
Age: Baby to 3
Baby Einstein: Mirror MeJ Aigner-Clark
Using novelty mirrors and bright animal illustrations, this small, sturdy board book is fun to share, and can be used to introduce babies to different facial expressions.ISBN: 9780439973274
Age: Baby to 3
Baby Touch: Beep! Beep!F Land
Ideal for babies from birth upwards. Use the vehicle-shaped tabs to turn the pages and look at all the different types of transport and the noises they make. Also available as an iPad app.ISBN: 9781409307914
Age: Baby to 3
Baby's Very First Touchy-Feely BookS Baggott
A perfect book for newborn babies with images that are easy to focus on as well as touchy-feely patches to bring the pictures to life. This padded 'soft touch' hardback is perfect for sharing or can be propped up for babies to see.ISBN: 9781409508502
Age: Baby to 3
Book of Nursery RhymesLadybird Books
A great first collection of nursery rhymes featuring all the classics. Each rhyme is brought to life through lively, colourful characters and a flap to lift on every page.ISBN: 9781844224890
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At the nurse's station, Sabrina is worried about making Patrick uncomfortable by working on the ball. Felix is concerned that without Sabrina the ball won't happen. She agrees she needs to start thinking like Lucy and they gossip about how weird her vampire thing is.
Land Of The Living.
Carly has a rough morning, Lucy begs Felicia and Duke for help, and Sam learns Todd hid the DNA results from her.
Duke meets Anna at her office. She understands it is not easy for him to be in Port Charles again, especially with her so busy. He thinks it will take time for both of them to adjust. A cop arrives and tells her Dante is in Turkey and McBain is in the hospital. Lucy Coe staked him. Anna leaves Duke with some money for a cab and goes to see McBain.
Carly wakes up in Todd's bed. She is hungover and worried she slept with Todd. AJ emerges from the shower in just a towel and taunts that it was he she slept with. She tries to piece together the night before and gets as far as leaving Kelly's. He cuddles up to her and she looks horrified. He eventually lets her know they did not really sleep together. He shows her the damage she did to Todd's clothes with the scissors. She is mortified, then screams when she sees her chopped hair. Last night sucked for AJ too. He hands her a bottle of water and leaves. Later, Felix comes by to book the MetroCourt ballroom, but is immediately more concerned about her hair.
Mac and Felicia enjoy French toast at Kelly's. She can't wait to see Lucy. Shawn overhears and tells them about Lucy's attempt to murder John. Alexis confirms with the latest edition of the Sun – "CoeCoe goes Cuckoo." Felicia leaves to hear her side of the story. Mac and Alexis discuss Lucy and decide she needs some help. Alexis knows just the person and leaves a message for Kevin Collins.
Sam watches over McBain in his hospital. She opens the blinds and they joke that the reason they felt they knew each other from before is they are vampires. Two souls connect, one soul waits centuries for the other to be reborn. He asks her to check on Todd and she leaves. Anna visits and fills him in on work. He wonders why she isn't happier that Duke is back. She admits she just sees Faison.
Todd and Diane chuckle about McBain getting staked in his hospital room. She admits it would have been easy getting Todd off with the initial charges, but that as before the bribe and escape attempt. At least she is the only one who still knows he covered up that DNA test who proved Jason was the father. Sam overhears. "You son of a bitch," she says to Todd. Diane takes a call from the court and leaves him alone with Sam. She blames him for Jason never knew Danny was his son. Now that she knows the truth so will everyone else and he will lose everything. Diane returns with guards to escort him to court.
Sam returns to John's room and tells him Todd is an even lower human being that she realized.
From the mansion, Monica leaves a voicemail for AJ. Tracy thinks he got drunk after his ELQ defeat. Monica accuses Tracy of trying to destroy the family by appointing Lucy as co-CEO. Tracy defends her actions as the only way to maintain control. She tweets that she is thrilled with her choice of new CEO, Lucy Coe, and her followers will be too. Meanwhile, Monica looks at the paper and waits for Tracy to post before showing her the headline. Tracy tries to recall her announcement, but she can't and stomps off. Later, AJ returns and Monica is relieved. They hug and she smells booze. He explains that Carly spilled on him, then he spots the paper. He is shocked by the story about Lucy and realizes that he may have a chance to run ELQ yet.
In her cell, Lucy has flashbacks of her time with Caleb. Duke hears her screaming and goes to her. She thinks he is Joshua Temple, Caleb's assistant. Felicia arrives and she and Duke have a sweet reunion. Lucy is assured by Felicia that he is really Duke. Lucy never told Felicia before about the vampires because she didn't want to worry her. She begs them to believe her and get her out of there. Duke pulls Felicia aside and tells her he will not go to the arraignment and Lucy begs him to go to hunt down Caleb instead. Soon, Alexis arrives as her lawyer. Outside, Anna stops Tracy from seeing Lucy.
Tomorrow's Port Charles spoilers for General Hospital:
Brit wants to get Patrick in a nice, big bed.
AJ tells Michael that if they play it the right way, ELQ is theirs for the taking.
Felix commiserates with Carly over liking bad boys.
John wants to personally supervise Todd's transfer to the courthouse.
Lucy begs Mac to kill Caleb.,
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Wednesday, 21 December 2011
The Highlighter battle: Becca V Rouge Bunny Rouge
I decided to compare the much rated Becca Shimmering Skin Perfector in Pearl against my favourite liquid highlighter formula, Rouge Bunny Rouge Highlighting Liquid Seas of Illumination in shade Sea of Clouds ( a shade I'd not tried before).
As soon as I swatched these for the photos I thought the Becca would be the one to win out. Hopefully you can see below that the Becca (on the left) looks like it has a sheen, whereas the RBR is noticeably more shimmered.
Blended out a bit
Once on my face and it was a different story. The Becca does indeed give a sheen to the skin, instead of shimmer. However I find it somewhat overpowering and felt it made my skin look too slick/shiny.
The RBR by contrast imparts a slightly shimmered pearly glow and gives a touch of brightness to the skin and is definitely my favourite of the two.
Both products blend in really well and have very good wear, in terms of texture the RBR has a much lighter consistency compared to the Becca. I have not experienced breakouts from either.
The RBR sample I ordered from Zuneta, they have a fantastic sample service on their site (including foundation), this is a great way to see if the product/shade is right for you before committing to a full size . The Becca was a sample from the lovely Jane from modestybrown
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I used the Becca Pearl for years, but only at night. Then RBR came into my life and I tossed all my Beccas within a day of trying those. The Seas highlighters are absolutely unparalleled in my experience.ReplyDelete
I love that you did this comparison! I've been wondering about the difference for a while. Thank you :)ReplyDelete
Oh, I found this fascinating. I actually have a sample of the RBR highlighter but hadn't thought to do this side by side comparison. I agree that the two formulas have a totally different texture. The Becca is very thick and I think it actually works best when sheered out under foundation. The Seas of Illumination is a dreamy texture to work with and I've yet to mess it up when applying over foundation which is a rarity for me! Thank you for the kind mention too xxReplyDelete
Hi Kate,ReplyDelete
I have found the RBR Seas highlighters to be the best as well, I really hope they bring out more shades in the line up :)
Hi pretty addicted,
I'm really glad if its been of some help :)
Hello Jane,
Thank you for your kindness in sending the sample! I do really rate the RBR, I've nearly finished up my pinky/white one which is saying something! xx
Darn, I wish I hadn't seen this! I agree the Becca finish can be a bit gooey. I have not yet tried the RBR highlighter, but now I shall have to.ReplyDelete
Zuzu's Petals,ReplyDelete
LOL, well at least you can order the sample to see if you like the RBR, I have a feeling you will... ;)


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MARTIN, TENN. - A three touchdown fourth quarter got Tennessee State back into the game at UT Martin, but the Tigers comeback just fell short in the final game of the season as they lost to the Skyhawks 35-26 on Saturday.
Trailing 28-6 heading into the fourth quarter, TSU (8-3, 4-3 OVC) scored touchdowns on its first three possessions of the quarter and was a two-point conversion away from tying the game.
It all started when Vernon Frett blocked a 44-yard field goal that was returned to the TSU 38 by Greg Barksdale. Michael German hit A.C. Leonard on the next play for a touchdown to cut the Skyhawks lead to 15.
German finished with career-highs with 28 completions, 44 attempts and 355 yards, along with three touchdowns.
TSU turned UT Martin (8-3, 6-2 OVC) over on downs when they couldn't convert a fourth-and-27 on the TSU 34. The Tigers took advantage going 66 yards on seven plays in just 1:36. Joe Bowens caught a German pass from four yards out as UTM led 28-20 with 6:42 remaining.
The Tiger defense forced a three-and-out to put the ball right back in the hands of its red hot offense. German extended the eventual scoring drive running for 10 yards on a fourth-and-four. Leonard grabbed his second score of the game from German in the right side of the end zone from four yards out.
Leonard had seven catches for 90 yards and two touchdowns. He finished the season with 51 catches for a team best 733 yards (the most for a FCS tight end) and six touchdowns.
With TSU needing to go for two trailing 28-26 with two minutes left, German was sacked. UTM recovered the onside kick and had the ball at the TSU 41 with 1:55 left and the Tigers only having one timeout remaining. The Skyhawks had an illegal block penalty and a run out-of-bounds to stop the clock twice. It came down to a fourth-and-two with just over a minute left.
The Skyhawks elected to go for it and it paid off as quarterback Derek Carr threw a 33-yard touchdown to Quentin Sims, their third scoring hookup of the game, to put the Tigers away 35-26.
Carr finished 21-for-40 with three touchdowns and an interception. Sims had eight catches for a game best 176 yards and three scores.
The Tigers first possession of the game ended with a 10-yard Jamin Godfrey punt that was shanked to the left, out of bounds at the Martin 32-yard line. The Skyhawks scored the very next play as Carr found Quentin Sims for the 7-0 lead.
Carr and Sims had similar results less than four minutes later as the senior connected for a 50-yard score as Sims streaked up the right sideline for the two touchdown advantage midway through the first quarter.
On its third possession, the Tigers finally got the offense rolling as three straight third down conversions resulted in a 29-yard field goal from Godfrey. Trabis Ward had two of the third down conversions rushing for 20 yards on a third-and-seven at the UTM 43 and for nine yards on a third-and-eight at the UTM 21. Ward had 106 yards on 24 carries.
With 8:01 remaining in the first half, Jason McNair extended the Skyhawks lead to 21-3 with a 75-yard punt return.
TSU responded with three straight completions to Travis James for 32 total yards, before a Leonard six-yard reception ended with a fumble caused by Julius McNair at the UTM 18.
James had a game-high nine catches for 139 yards.
UTM turned the ball over on its next possession as Ronn Vinson caught a floater from Carr at the UTM 43 and returned it 18 yards. The Tigers couldn't punch it in the end zone and settled for another Godfrey field goal, this one from 22 yards out to go into the locker room down 21-6.
German found James in the middle of the field for a 68-yard reception down to the UTM 17 on the first play of the second half. The drive ended on a missed Godfrey field goal from the 29-yard line that was wide left.
A German interception late in the third quarter gave the Skyhawks a short field at the TSU 36 and set up their fourth touchdown on the day, a one-yard run from D.J. McNeil, to put UTM up 28-6 with 2:47 left in the third quarter.
The eight wins for Tennessee State are the most since finishing 8-4 during the 2008 season. The last time TSU won more than eight games in an 11 game regular season was 1999.
GAME NOTES: Travis James ends his career with 1,698 receiving yards, fifth most all-time in TSU history. He finished the season with a team best 55 catches for 730 yards ... Trabis Ward had 309 carries (tied with Jordan McCord of Colgate for the most in the FCS) for 1,422 yards and 15 rushing touchdowns on the season. Le'Veon Bell of Michigan State (315) and Stefphon Jefferson of Nevada (313) are the only players in all four divisions of college football to have more carries than Ward ... German threw for 2,751 yards as a sophomore, the fourth most in a single season for the Tigers. Brian Ransom, Shannon Harris and Leon Murray are the only QB's to throw for more yards in a single-season. He now has 4,640 yards in his career, sixth best in school history.
MARTIN, TENN. - A three touchdown fourth quarter got Tennessee State back into the game at UT Martin, but the Tigers comeback just fell short in the final game of the season as they lost to the Skyhawks 35-26 on Saturday.


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Your iPhone Could Be Poisoned by Its Charger
Jun 4, 2013 5:00 AM PT
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a way to hack into iOS devices through a modified charger.
Billy Lau, a research scientist at the institute, together with two Ph.D. students, will present a paper on this at Black Hat USA 2013, to be held in Las Vegas July 27 through Aug. 1.
It took only 1 minute for an iOS device to be compromised after being plugged into a malicious charger. All users potentially could be affected because the team's approach doesn't require jailbreaking the device and does not involve any user interaction.
"Many people with iOS devices don't put antivirus on their devices because they believe they're less likely to be infected," Julien Blin, a directing analyst at Infonetics, told MacNewsWorld. "That's a misconception in my opinion, and that's an opportunity for hackers."
Apple did not respond to our request to comment for this story.
The Evil That Chargers May Do
The researchers built a proof-of-concept malicious charger they call "Mactans." For this, they used a Beagleboard, which is basically a Linux PC a tad larger than a credit card.
The researchers will describe how USB capabilities can be leveraged to bypass Apple's security mechanisms, and will show how attackers can hide their software in the same way Apple hides its own built-in applications to avoid detection.
Apple devs use Xcode to build OS X and iOS applications.
Mactans was built with constraints on time and budget, and the researchers will discuss briefly what hackers with better funding and more time might be able to do with the concept of poisoning chargers.
They will also recommend ways users might protect themselves, and suggest security features Apple could implement to help make such attacks more difficult.
The Georgia Institute of Technology's Billy Lau was not immediately available to provide further details.
What's a Beagleboard?
A Beagleboard is a low-power, open source hardware single-board computer produced jointly by Texas Instruments and Digi-Key. It was designed as a way of demonstrating TI's OMAP3530 system on a chip.
OMAP, or Open Multimedia Applications Platform, is a family of SoCs that process images and video for portable and mobile multimedia applications. They include a general-purpose ARM architecture processor core and one or more specialized coprocessors.
The Beagleboard measures 75mm square. Its OMAP3530 SoC has an ARM Cortex-A8 CPU that can run Linux, FreeBSD, Risc OS or Symbian. Android is being ported to the CPU. The SoC also has a TMS320C64x+ digital signal processor for accelerated video and audio decoding, and an Imagination Technologies PowerVR SGX530 graphics processing unit for accelerated 2D and 3D rendering.
The GPU supports OpenGL ES 2.0.
The Beagleboard has separate S-Video and HDMI connections, a single SD/MMC card slot, a USB On-The-Go port, an RS-232 serial connection, a JTAG connection, and two stereo 3.5 mm audio jacks.
It has 256 MB of NAND flash memory and 256 MB of RAM through a package-on-package chip.
The Beagleboard uses up to 2 W of power and can be powered from the USB connector.
A Clear and Present Danger?
With the Bring Your Own Device trend on the rise among enterprises, and the U.S. Department of Defense recently approving the use of iOS 6 devices in the military, as well as speeding up its process for approving mobile devices, the potential threat posed by a malware-bearing charger is very real.
There are at least three different possible attack scenarios, Randy Abrams, a research director at NSS Labs, told MacNewsWorld. One is to get these poisoned chargers into the supply chain, "but that's likely to get discovered quickly."
Another is to have chargers built to resemble Apple's chargers and swap them for the real ones when users are not looking, though this is not a likely mode of attack except for very high-profile, high-value targets.
"If you've got a specific target that's worth a lot of money, spending US$50 on building a charger that looks like the real thing is chump change," Abrams remarked.
A third vector of attack could become available when a user borrows someone else's charger for a number of reasons.
"It's quite common for people to borrow someone else's charger because they didn't bring theirs," Abrams said. "I've loaned mine to people in the past."


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Delicacies: The Finest Light Lyric Sopranos
Why LLS (Light Lyric Sopranos)? Why now?
In April, I attended the Cal Perfs recital of Sandrine Piau at Hertz Hall. I'll wait until my "Top 10" EOY post to review it, but needless to say, she was sensational. I bought my tickets well in advance, knowing it would be the sleeper of the season.
However, at the time it crossed my mind that the recital came and went without much fanfare, she had no SF Opera presence in this or any season to date, the hall was only half full despite its intimate size, AND even few if any of my opera friends in-the-know had it on their must list. The reasons? Her career has been almost entirely in Europe, she's essentially a "specialist" (ie: early music, Mozart, and lieder/art song), and she's an LLS. Unfortunately, this fach rarely commands the same mainstream attention as the big guns, and in more standard operatic fare usually serves ensemble or comprimario roles.
I've spent much time on jcm raving about my beloved coloraturas, dramatic sopranos, and at times full lyrics, but it's time I shed a spotlight on the finest LLS of our time (all of them active). I hope you discover an artist new to you.
Wikipedia shares that an LLS "has a bigger voice than a soubrette, but still possesses a youthful quality." SO, clearly this doesn't include the full lyrics, typified by a Fleming, Moffo, or Steber. Their predecessors are Elisabeth Schumann, Bonney, and Cotrubas.
What are the qualities I want in my LLS?
I look for well modulated technique, emission "on the breath" (unless for expressive purposes), singing within one's "column of sound" (— L. Price), a balance of sweetness and brightness (not too much of one), good taste (which is VERY important in this fach, lest they become cloying), and of course unique interpretive and expressive abilities/gifts.
There's no hard line drawn between fachs, so some of these singers have characteristics of a coloratura, soubrette, and lyric, but I believe they are at their essence LLS. It should come as no surprise that many of their coloratura skills are astonishing, as a leaner voice is wont to move fast at times.
Karina Gauvin
She was the inspiration for this post, because, she, like Sandrine is offering a Bay Area recital this year (this weekend!), which I'm not going to miss. As with Sandrine, it likely won't be sold out, has been rather under-marketed, BUT will surely contain some of the finest singing the Bay Area has heard all year. Her holiday album Images de Noël is always a part of my Christmas. I also recommend her Baroque duet album with Marie-Nicole Lemieux: "Streams of Pleasure."
Sandrine Piau
She is the definition of good taste, portraying a supreme elegance, self-possessed carriage, and pristine tone. Her Mozart aria recital CD is superior to Dessays, but she's less flashy and more reserved, so not the mainstream marketing darling that Dessay has become. (I admire Dessay's art too for different reasons.)


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WASHINGTON (AP) — Major developments on immigration reform and gay marriage offer an early preview of potential lines of division among a group of Republicans who are viewed as potential White House candidates in 2016. Here's a look at where they stand on the issues.
— Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush: Bush, a longtime advocate of comprehensive immigration reform, said in a statement that the Senate vote was a "strong step for meaningful immigration reform and encouraging legal immigration for those that want to contribute to a better America." He said the legislation "secures our borders and allows the 11 million undocumented immigrants currently in our country the opportunity to earn a legal status."
— New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie: Christie has called for tighter border controls and a pathway to citizenship for legal immigrants. He has said in past interviews that those who are here illegally should "get to the back of the line." Sen. Jeff Chiesa, R-N.J., who was tapped by Christie to fill a Senate vacancy, voted for the plan. Christie said his former legal adviser has a "mind of his own" but Chiesa's vote was viewed as a possible reflection of Christie's outlook.
— Texas Sen. Ted Cruz: Cruz opposed the Senate bill because he said it granted "amnesty first" and repeated mistakes found in the 1986 immigration law approved by Congress. He said it would not secure the nation's border and "it doesn't fix our broken legal immigration system." He said he would support immigration reform that "secures the border before legalization, fixes our legal immigration system and upholds the rule of law. This bill isn't it."
— Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal: Jindal, the son of Indian immigrants, has said little about the current immigration debate, but in his 2010 book, "Leadership and Crisis," he cited the need to secure the nation's borders, enforce existing laws and attract high-skill workers.
— Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul: Paul opposed the Senate's immigration reform bill last week. He wrote in an op-ed in Politico that the nation "desperately" needs immigration reform but the legislation failed to adequately secure the border first. He proposed an amendment to the bill that included making immigration reform contingent upon Congress putting together a strong border security plan, annual congressional action on border security for five years, completion of a double-layered border fence and two new national security visa screening programs. The measure was defeated in a procedural vote.
— Texas Gov. Rick Perry: Perry has steadfastly opposed a border fence, saying it would take 10 to 15 years to build, cost $30 billion and wouldn't work. He was criticized by Mitt Romney and other opponents for being soft on immigration during a September 2011 presidential debate, but Perry defended a policy offering in-state tuition to the children of illegal immigrants who attend high school in the state, noting that it passed the Legislature with wide bipartisan support.
— Florida Sen. Marco Rubio: Rubio was a key member of a bipartisan group of senators who developed the Senate plan and has spent months developing comprehensive immigration reform legislation. He has tried to sell the plan to conservatives, pointing to border security measures that would add 20,000 new border agents, build 700 miles of fencing along the southern border and develop a tracking system to identify people who overstay their visas.
— Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan: Ryan has advocated for immigration reform and said in an interview with CBS News last week that the Senate's approval of border security measures would help the cause in the House. He said in the interview that "legal immigration is good for America."
— Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum: Santorum said in a radio interview that "the issue of immigration and respecting the rule of law in this country is a very, very important thing for Republican voters across the country." He warned that Republicans who suggested the rule of law isn't important and people entering the U.S. illegally would be treated the same as those entering legally would not "go over well on the Republican primary."
— Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker: Walker has said the current immigration system is broken and supports a bipartisan approach to providing people living here illegally some kind of provisional status to live in the country, but not necessarily citizenship. He said in February that people waiting to get citizenship should have priority and others need to have a legal pathway to live here legally. He has not commented directly on the bill pending in Congress.
— Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush: Bush has said gay marriage should be decided by individual states. In a speech in June, Bush told the Faith and Freedom Coalition that "families don't look all the time like they used to, and that's OK," and said the nation needs to be supportive of non-traditional families.
— New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie: Christie, in a radio interview, criticized the Supreme Court decision, saying it was "incredibly insulting" to members of Congress and President Bill Clinton, who helped pass the Defense of Marriage Act at the time. Christie vetoed a bill in 2012 that would let gay couples marry and said he would do it again if it reaches his desk.
— Texas Sen. Ted Cruz: Cruz called the Supreme Court decisions "a regrettable overreach against the will of the people." He called the family the "fundamental building block of society" and said he strongly supports traditional marriage between one man and one woman.
— Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal: Jindal opposes gay marriage and supports the state's constitutional ban on gay marriage. Following the Supreme Court's ruling, he said: "I believe every child deserves a mom and a dad. This opinion leaves the matter of marriage to the states where people can decide. In Louisiana, we will opt for traditional marriage. How about we let the people decide for themselves, via their representatives and via referendum?" As a Louisiana congressman, he voted in favor of a joint resolution in 2006 to propose a constitutional amendment defining marriage as a union of a man and a woman.
— Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul: Paul said he supported the historic and religious nature of marriage between a man and a woman and noted that the Supreme Court's ruling kept intact laws in "34 states that have decided in favor of traditional marriage." He said in an interview with ABC News that the Republican party "is going to have to agree to disagree on some of these issues."
— Texas Gov. Rick Perry: Shortly before entering the 2011 presidential race, Perry said he supports states' rights so much that he's fine with the approval of gay marriage in places like New York. Within days of formally declaring his White House run, however, Perry changed his mind. In August 2011, he signed a National Organization for Marriage pledge to defend the institution as between one man and one woman.
— Florida Sen. Marco Rubio: In a lengthy statement, Rubio said the Supreme Court "made a serious mistake" and "overstepped its important, but limited role." He said gay marriage should be decided through the democratic process and "not through litigation and court pronouncements."
— Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan: Following the Supreme Court's decision, Ryan said the institution of marriage is a "unique relationship between one man and one woman" and the "foundation for the family." He said it was now up to states "to decide this issue through the democratic process."
— Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum: Santorum said he was very disappointed with the Supreme Court rulings, calling the Defense of Marriage Act decision "another case of the high court overstepping its role, just as it did with Roe v. Wade." He said the issue "should be left to the democratic process, not to five activist judges."
— Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker: Walker has supported Wisconsin's constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, passed in 2006.


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Last year, in an effort to make sense of the overwhelming crush of products at New York's annual Toy Fair ("the largest international toy trade show in the Western Hemisphere"), I decided to focus on toys that I thought could stimulate an interest in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) skills in girls. I even went so far as to bestow an imaginary award upon my favorites: The STEMmy.
Striving for a Bechdel Test level of simplicity, I just asked of everything that I looked at:
- Will this toy promote STEM skill development?
- Can a girl still feel and act like a girl while playing with this toy?
- What does the advertising for the company look like? Are girls represented equally? Adequately?
As I'd previously stated in my GeekMom post STEM Careers Might Be the Best Thing for Our Daughters–But There are Challenges, "STEM jobs are among the most stable and profitable in the current economy." And yet, women have not been entering these more-profitable STEM careers in proportionate numbers–why? Is it the GPA-lowering freshman-year math-science death march? Is it (as author-educator Rachel Simmons posits) a middle-school psychological glass ceiling? Or, I wondered, does the STEM door shut even earlier on girls?
According to a 2010 report completed for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, "Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math," 15-year-old girls in most countries outperform boys in science – but not in the United States. Christianne Corbett, a co-author of the 2010 report, felt that this phenomenon was cultural, actually stating: "We see that very early in childhood — around age 4 — gender roles in occupations appear to be formed."
This meshes with questions I asked when I first looked at the Goldieblox toy at Maker Faire last fall:
Are we gifting our little girls with the same kinds of opportunities and dreamscapes that we give our sons? Is part of the problem with keeping women in the "STEM pipeline" that young women don't ever consider STEM careers an option in the first place? If so, do the toys kids play with impact who they become?
That's the question I continue to ask myself: How much do the toys we give our children shape who they become?
Don't get me wrong: I don't for a second believe that toy selection will turn kids into something they are not – but I suspect that toys (in combination with books, movies, teacher expectations, and family attitudes) do help foster interests that can turn into hobbies that can turn into careers.
With all of this then in mind, I present the 2013 STEMmy Awards...
QUORIDOR (ages 6 and up)
"This is a good game! You will hate me in three moves!" the Gigamic sales rep told the woman standing next to me at Toy Fair. A moment later, his opponent moaning, the rep laughed wickedly: "You see, you see?"
Like most of the Gigamic games I investigated at Toy Fair, Quoridor starts from a deceptively simple objective. In this case, 2 players take turns either moving their pawn across a playing board or placing a wall in the path of their opponent's pawn. Players are forewarned, though: what blocks your opponent on one turn could just as easily block you later in the game.
What I liked: Beautiful wooden board and pieces feel solid and well-made. Game rules are easy to pick up but game play can still be very challenging.
STEMmy bonus points: A great, gender-neutral strategy game for future boardroom members.
KATAMINO (ages 3 and up)
Katamino is the second Gigamic game to make my list and again the premise seems simple: take the recommended block shapes and place them together so that they completely fill the alotted grid space on the board. Start with four shapes and a 16-block grid. Once that is completed, expand your grid space and pick up additional blocks. You must use all of the suggested blocks and you must cover your entire grid.
__What I liked: __Just a minor change in game play – adding just one more block or one new line of grid space – increased complexity significantly. Like Quoridor, this is a game that sits beautifully in your hands, inviting you to touch and manipulate.
STEMmy bonus points: A great early game for exploring geometric relationships and fostering spatial understanding.
CRAZY FORTS (ages 5-9)
Connect the Crazy Forts balls and sticks to create the forts and castles of your dreams, then cover with your favorite sheet or blanket and your castle is now an intimate book nook, too. Sure, the building sets come in Barbie pink if that's what you'd prefer, but I'd opt for the glow-in-the-dark construction set and a pack of cool-to-the-touch Fort Lights. What could be more magical than sitting inside a glowing blanket fort and then reaching up to turn your private reading light on, after all?
I played with a set of these under the direction of a sales rep at Toy Fair without any trouble but reviews on Amazon mention the importance of reading the Crazy Forts directions with your kids: there is apparently a right and wrong way to insert the rods into the balls; failing to twist the rods as you insert them will impact structural integrity significantly.
__What I liked: __I am partial to building toys and I am a sucker for anything glow-in-the-dark. Also? Big fan of reading nooks.
STEMmy bonus points: Girl-friendly packaging in a toy that gets kids building and imagining.
SUKUGO (ages 6 and up)
This board-version of the logic game Soduku is meant to be played collaboratively with your kids. A book full of puzzle starters gets the game going: place your 1-9 number tokens in the appropriate spaces on the board and then work together to fill in the empty spaces, remembering that each number can only appear once in each line or grid. A handy covered tray neatly organizes the jewel-toned number tokens as well as the smaller numerical placeholders.
__What I liked: __The board and token tray stow away in a handy zippered carrier, making this a great travel toy.
STEMmy bonus points: Lots of scientific habits of the mind are reinforced through games like Soduku/Sukugo: patience, consistency, logical reasoning, and active prediction, to name a few.
LAQ (ages 6 and up)
Let me be clear: if you have toddlers at home, you will not want any LaQ building sets in the house. The pieces are teeny-tiny: the largest ones are about as big as my thumbnail, the smaller ones half that size. They are charming though, and click together in a simple and very satisfying manner, so if everyone has comfortably moved beyond Freud's oral stage of psychosexual development, I strongly encourage you to take a look at the sheer variety of sets LaQ has to offer: robots, rockets, dinosaurs, cars, bunny ears, carousels, sharks, oh my!
__What I liked: __LaQ sets allow angles in a way that other connecting building block systems do not – the name is a play on kyuu, the Japanese word for sphere. __
STEMmy bonus points: While LaQ's "Sweet" and "Imaginal Girls" collections are marketed specifically to girls (flowers, tiaras, pastel carousels), there are also plenty of sets that are gender-neutral, accommodating everyone from the Pink Brigade to tomboys. Additionally: flatter pieces will not hurt nearly as much when you step on them in the middle of the night.
KOONTZ SAFE (by American Educational Products)
I found this safe over at the American Educational Products exhibit, along with a number of other reinforced cardboard construction kits (including a clock and a combination lock). The kits look like a great, relatively inexpensive way to learn about mechanics but you'll have to go old-school when ordering – looks like the very-wonderful American Educational Products catalog is available for viewing online but to purchase this product, you'll have to call or send an email.
What I liked: You build your own working safe out of reinforced cardboard, learning how safes work in the process. __ __
STEMmy bonus points: Building a safe is the first step in a hacker's lock-picking journey!
BODY JUNIOR(ages 4 & up)
The *Body Junior IQ * game (as well as the equally well-conceived Body IQ and Food Fight games for 4th grade and up) are academic board games, more likely to be found in a classroom than in a home. However, if you're a home schooler or if you have a child that is passionately interested in biology and how the body works, this could be a great toy for them. Throw the dice, follow the blood vessels and ask each other questions in categories including "skin and hair," "brain/nerves," "senses" and "stomach/intestines." Each time you answer a card's question correctly you keep it. Each card is worth a "number of years." At the end of the body tour, add up your years – the person with the most years wins!
__What I liked: Best. Game board. Ever.
STEMmy bonus points: Even if you're child doesn't want to grow up to be a doctor or nurse, these games provide a great way to teach kids about how their bodies work.
GENES IN A BOTTLE KIT (8 and up)
Isolate your DNA in the included precipitate, dye it, and then wear the result in a keepsake bottle around your neck. Kit includes: 2 keepsakes, lab ware, and an educational instruction manual for 7 activities as well as 2 full color "I Love Your DNA" temporary tatoos.
__What I liked: Science meets jewelry. What's not to love?
STEMmy bonus points: Girl-friendliest girl-in-a-lab-coat packaging I've ever seen! Also: the two "inventors" of Bio-Rad's one-step DNA extraction buffer are both female scientists, as well as two of their three R&D scientists in the Biotechnology Explorer program and all three of their product managers!
My dad taught me to play Chess when I was in elementary school. Every night we'd play a couple games, loser setting up the board for the next round. I think that my dad was responsible for setting up the board once, maybe twice, my entire childhood. Bridling under the sheer indignity of all of those losses, some kids might have practiced chess strategy during the day while their dad was at work. Me? I took the set out most afternoons and made up Ivanhoe-styled stories about the pieces.
This may or may not have some bearing on why I was drawn to the Chess: Once a Pawn a Time setfrom Science Wiz, a Chess set sold together with a very clever story book that delves into the inner lives, motivations, and movements of the game's pieces. Whether this is more whimsy than you think is appropriate while learning Chess might correlate directly with how many hours of your childhood were spent crafting backstory for Rooks and Bishops. Sound ridiculous? Yup, the Lego Friends detractors would probably think so, too – and yet Lego says that in the past year, by adding accessories and backstories to their sets, the number of girls playing with Lego construction sets has tripled...
__What I liked: The new version of this set coming out in March will be released with chess pieces that look just like the anthropomorphized chess pieces in the enclosed story book (and seen on the cover of the board game).
STEMmy bonus points: It's Chess. With faces and personalities. What was your question?
Addendum: This chess set is released by Science Wiz, the company that also creates the award-winning Science Wiz science kits. Each topic of study (physics, chemistry, energy, DNA, etc.) has its' own "Portal to Discovery" on the Science Wiz website that links to free, high-quality, kid-friendly videos, presentations, games, and activities available on the web. The books and the site are both definitely worth checking out if you're a Geek Parent looking to take a topical deep-dive with your kids!
*What are your thoughts? What toys and companies do you think deserve a STEMmy?


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Not only is her work amazing, but she is also a pleasure to deal with. Very friendly, easy going and great ideas to work alongside your business.
I would highly recommend Kobi-Lee to anyone wanting professional images for their home or business!
Danielle; Owner/Director
I needed some professional headshots taken for use on my social media pages and also for general use in my business. I previously met Kobi at a business event and through our discussions I could tell Kobi was not only very knowledgeable about photography but that she genuinely enjoyed her work. I am really impressed with the photos Kobi took. Her care in getting the lighting right, making sure there were varying photos and her quick turn-around time leaves me no doubt that I will ask Kobi again if I need photos for any occasion, whether it be for my business or special occasion.
Dr. Terri Grote; Owner
Kobi-Lee Heibl is a magician! She went above and beyond to capture some sparkling images for our conference in Geelong last month. Not only was her photography excellent, she was so amenable and easy to work with. Plus her follow up was prompt and generous. Highly recommend!
Dianne Smith; Chief Executive VTIC
Professional, personable and capable, Kobi is an absolute joy to work with. I was pretty uncomfortable being in front of the camera however Kobi has the personality and skills to help me feel and look relaxed. Her attention to detail and super fast turn around time was the icing on the cake. What a talented artist and business woman!
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The photography work that Kobi has produced in the short term for our new facility at Airport West is fantastic. Her attention to detail is a credit to her and her ability to capture the moment and produce professional images highlight the importance of her work.
Kobi is a delight to work with which makes the experience really worth it.
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Thank you Kobi for your recent professional photographs of the Curve Group team. You were fun to work with, flexible and responsive. We were super happy with the final product and would recommend your business to anyone looking to get natural photos of their team!
Lauren Carnegie; Senior Consultant
We met Kobi-Lee through our cafe in Geelong and have got to know this delightful lady and her family over that last couple of years. A talented and aspiring photographer, she is a delight to work with and is passionate about her craft. The images she produced of our business perfectly captured the essence of the cafe and were creative, reflective and bold. We wish her all the best with her endeavours
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GSDM recently worked with Kobi on a Parks Victoria photo shoot for the Parks Discovery Magazine. This job had many challenges including early starts, long days and varying conditions but Kobi remained focused, delivering excellent images for this publication. I would highly recommend Kobi.
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For thousands of years, people have shared this beautiful region of Arizona with wildlife – and for good reason. The Verde River and its tributaries give life to birds and many other wildlife and plant species.
The geographic area is small enough that you can base your trip in any of the cities mentioned below.
Day 1: Tour ancient ruins and hike through sacred Native American lands. Start your trip at the stunning red rocks of Sedona, just two hours north of Phoenix. Today, visit Honanki and Palatki - large and beautiful ancient ruins with impressive displays of rock art.
This afternoon, head out on the scenic Boynton Canyon Trail for a two-hour hike through the sacred Native American land. Next, enjoy a Jeep tour on the back roads of this beautiful Red Rock Country. Be sure to include time to enjoy the sunset at Airport Road Overlook - and don't forget your camera!
Enjoy dinner at one of the many area restaurants and overnight at one of Sedona's bed & breakfasts or luxury resorts.
Day 2: Shop Sedona's Tlaquepaque, then take a ride on the Verde Canyon Railroad. In the morning, visit Sedona's local shops and galleries for Native American jewelry, pottery, crafts, rugs and gifts. Enjoy lunch at one of the restaurants at internationally renowned – the view of Boynton Canyon alone is worth the visit.
Drive to Clarkdale (:30) where you will find the Verde Canyon Railroad train depot. In the afternoon, embark upon the four-hour train ride past Native American ruins and historic sites, watching for bald eagles, herons and other wildlife along the way. Afterward, drive a short distance to Blazin' M Ranch for a cowboy supper and entertainment. Overnight in Cottonwood.
Day 3: Discover ancient ruins at Montezuma Castle and Tuzigoot National Monument. Head over to Montezuma Castle (:20) to view this five-story, 20-room "castle," which stands in a cliff recess 100 feet above the valley floor. Nearby is Montezuma Well, where you can climb down into the sinkhole (not the water) and see the caves and the outlet of the springs.
Travel back to Cottonwood and visit Tuzigoot National Monument, an entire village centered on a pueblo that is two stories high and was built on a hill 120 feet above the Verde River.
In the afternoon, take a one-hour horseback ride or try your luck at Cliff Castle Casino on the Yavapai-Apache Nation. Enjoy dinner at the casino. Overnight in Camp Verde.
Day 4: Travel to Prescott for boating, fishing and historic fun. Take a leisurely drive south on Historic Highway 89A over Mingus Mountain to Prescott Valley (:45). This beautiful road is visually and physically enclosed by the vegetation and canyon walls. Stop at one of the many breathtaking overlooks.
Arrive in Prescott and spend time at one of the area lakes: Goldwater, Lynx, Watson, Willow Springs or Granite Basin. Fish, kayak or canoe – or, like the miners who built Prescott, Arizona's original state capital – spend time panning for gold in Lynx Creek. Dine at one of the many restaurants and microbreweries in historic downtown Prescott. Spend the evening saloon-hopping on Whiskey Row. Overnight in Prescott.
Day 5: Go from Victorian homes to the futuristic city of Arcosanti. Take the walking tour of Victorian homes and visit the Smoki Museum to explore Native American history, then move on to the Phippen Museum for one of the state's best displays of Western art. Or, if museums and history aren't what you're after, you can play a leisurely round of golf on any of five public courses.
Drive east to Cordes Junction (:40) and visit architect Paolo Soleri's futuristic city, Arcosanti. Afterward, head back to Sedona or the Verde Valley. If you're making your way down to the Greater Phoenix area, be sure to stop at the Rock Springs Café in Black Canyon City and try the pie – we guarantee you'll buy one to take with you.
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Americana Gets Huckleberry Soda Right
One of my favorite things about living in Montana was picking huckleberries in the late summer and early fall. We'd sleep in, sit for a long breakfast, then drive a little ways into the mountains looking for the fat purple berries. We'd climb steep hills, clinging to logs and loose rock, filling our plastic tubs. Then, depending on who was willing to cook, we'd work them into pies or cobblers or we'd sit on the porch and snack on them until we couldn't eat any more.
One of my least favorite things about living in Montana was the proliferation of "huckleberry"-flavored items in gas stations and airports and bookstores and anywhere else tourists might gather. Alright, maybe that situation was a long way behind springtime blizzards, back roads that popped my cheap tires, and lack of employment on my list of day-to-day issues, but it got to me.
I'm all for homemade huckleberry pies, jams, pancakes, and so on, but too many of the products in stores are artificially-flavored and made out-of-state. It breaks my heart to know that so many visitors will always think that huckleberries taste like the taffy they bought at a gas station in Missoula.
Even Flathead Lake Monstera soda that is named after a creature purported to live in a Northwestern Montana lake, but made in New Jerseyfalls flat with their huckleberry soda, a morass of corn syrup and artificial flavoring.
But Americana Huckleberry soda, made in Washington state, is flavored with honest-to-God huckleberry and elderberry extracts. The aroma is more blueberry than huckleberry, and the color is the pastel purple that chemical nightmares are made of. At 43 grams of cane sugar per bottle, it is very sweet.
Still, the tart flavor of huckleberry is unmistakable. I could tell you the main ingredient if I were blindfolded and had a cold. And isn't that a refreshing thing to be able to say about any soda, especially one made from an ingredient as scarce and frequently bastardized as the huckleberry? It's powerful, tooI left a bottle open on the kitchen counter, with just an inch or so of liquid in it, and came home to find my entire kitchen perfumed with the sweet smell of a trampled huckleberry patch. If you must get your huckleberry fix from a jar, bag, or bottle, I recommend this soda highly.
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Greenwich Village Chelsea Chamber of Commerce
Sunday, December 1, 2013 from 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM (EST)
Event Details
see our vendor lineup at www.chelseabazaar.com
Join thousands of other New Yorkers in supporting small businesses at a free indoor holiday market this Sunday, December 1st. From 11AM - 5PM, you can finally get everything on your wishlist! From cupcakes to children's clothing to pet care products to carefully handmade jewelry, we have the best of every world. Enjoy shopping, samples, tastings, and free giveaways!
FREE to spin, and very spin wins!
Prizes include:
- Tote Bags from Wix.com
- Handmade Stockings
- Gift Baskets from ELEMENT
- 5-Day Guest Passes to Crunch Gym
- Bracelets from OneMeaning
and much more!
FREE activities, performances, and fun for the kids!
Donate to the NY Foundling Childcare Needs Drive. Bring in donations of:
Baby Wipes, Diapers (Papers or Organic brand), Baby Rash Cream, Formula, Soap, or Giftcards.
They'll be hosting free kids' arts & crafts, including decorate-your-own-cupcake!
Haven's Kids Rock, an all-kids rock group, will be performing as well! Check out a sneak preview.
AVA Highline will be hosting an additional kids' arts & crafts area, so don't miss out!
see the whole vendor lineup at www.chelseabazaar.com
The Chelsea Bazaar is an initiative formed by the Greenwich Village-Chelsea Chamber of Commerce, a local non-profit organization aimed to help small businesses grow and develop. Held in the Altman Building in Chelsea, the Bazaar is a market for local vendors to expand their audiences as well as build their presence in this area.
Celebrate the holiday season by perusing handmade jewelry, local food vendors, and much, much more at the Chelsea Bazaar. Free and fun while supporting your local small businesses!
Special Thanks to our Chamber Champions
When & Where
The Altman Building
135 West 18th Street
New York,
Sunday, December 1, 2013 from 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM (EST)
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Greenwich Village Chelsea Chamber of Commerce
Our Vision: To provide dynamic business and civic leadership in New York City and position the Greenwich Village Chelsea Chamber of Commerce as the leading voice for business in the communities we serve.
Our Mission: Provide innovative and effective programs and services to support businesses throughout Greenwich Village, East Village, Union Square, Flatiron, Chelsea, NOHO, and SOHO in four key ways:
ADVOCATE: Champion the voice of business in government and community affairs.
EDUCATE: Keep members informed on relevant issues; provide opportunities for professional development.
NETWORK: Provide programs to connect members to customers, suppliers, and community leaders.
PROMOTE: Market our communities and member businesses to attract tourism, encourage new investment, and support the area's economic growth.
Our History: For over 60 years, the Greenwich Village-Chelsea Chamber of Commerce (GVCCC) has served as the leading voice of business in our communities. Founded in 1949 by a select group of small business entrepreneurs in Greenwich Village, the Chamber has steadily grown to service Greenwich Village, Chelsea, SoHo, NoHo, Union Square, Flatiron, and the East Village.
What started out as a few dozen businesses banding together, is now hundreds of members strong. The Chamber membership ranges from sole proprietorships to locally owned independent businesses, to major institutions and organizations. Our diversity is one of our greatest assets, providing our membership with unique opportunities and a strong voice from which to address business issues. The Chamber also offers numerous benefits and services including networking opportunities, business and educational seminars, government advocacy, marketing and promotional campaigns and much more.


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The supplies I used were a pair of pliers (particularly made for jewelry-making), mercerized cotton yarn, a small clasp, a small jump ring, a pair of scissors and, of course, my thrifted tea infuser.
Make sure that the yarn you use is thin enough to go through your infuser's holes.
Then, I open up my jump ring with my pliers, and inserted the clasp in the jump ring. Once the clasp was inserted, I put the jump ring through the top of my tea infuser's chain and closed it.
Then, I created a ball big enough to fit into my infuser from my yarn. A good tutorial for creating a yarn ball can be found here.
Then, I inserted the end of the yarn ball through one of the top holes of my infuser.


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(*This blog was picked up by Psychology Today and chosen as one of their essential reads. You can catch it here.)
I came into the world in the month of September. The great time of hurricanes. My birthday is only a few days away and Florida is heavy on my mind. Weighted on my heart. Saltwater runs through my veins and as I write this looking over this hill from Tennessee I can see those waves crashing, hear the pounding of the Gulf growing angrier by the minute, the slash and snap of the Palms wild from the wind. Along with the rest of the nation my eyes are now turned to the devastation that Irma has left in the Islands and fearing what is yet to come.
I've ridden out more tropical storms than I can remember. For about fifteen solid years I've made Tennessee my home but right now it's in my blood to stock up on batteries, water, canned food. To Hunker down and hope.Had our little brick house turned into Noah's Ark full of cousins and animals and family year after year. My mother managed a restaurant right on the beach where I worked every summer. People sat at tables by the water and watched the moonlight on the waves as they rolled up on the shore. Every year we saw that it was bordered up and prayed for the best through the hurricanes. Every single year. A part of life.
I witnessed the destruction first hand after Hurricane Camille - a raging category five - hit the coast of Mississippi on the way to see my Daddy at Ft. Polk right afterwards. My mother crept the car by a warship that had been tossed onto land and into someones yard like a toy boat. The destruction was eerie. It was like driving through a graveyard at the close of day.
Hurricane Opal was downgraded to a three before it hit but the storm surge of Opal came in at high tide and carved molehills out of the backside of condos. From the front they looked perfectly fine but when you walked around to the back of the building there actually was no building there. The storm surge is a deadly thing.
The first time I actually moved away from Northwest Florida was to transfer with my company to south Florida. A world away. The palm trees were taller than the buildings from my hometown. The scent on the air intoxicatingly exotic. The night blooming jasmine, the orchids. I was 21 and didn't know what to expect. North Florida is a land of old oaks, beautiful beaches, slow talkers, and porch rockers. Pine trees. Ft. Lauderdale was fast. It became home. I gave birth to a baby boy there in Hollywood just north of Miami where I had friends.
I evacuated one time when it looked like a 'cane was coming in fast and furious and might land as a strong four and my daddy wanted me to get out. Me and sister packed up two cars with two little boys, two dogs, four puppies, one cat, and all the family photos I could carry. My brakes went out as I skirted storms that sent crashing limbs into the roads. Tornadoes chased us all the way to my Aunt Kate's door up in Georgia. It was days upon days before we could get back (with new brakes), the National Guard still in charge, the power still out.
The world is full of refugees. It's a clamoring world problem but sometimes a distant drum from our side of the pond. Until Katrina sent refugees scattering everywhere trying to find a toehold to hang onto. Until Harvey just hit and took our breath away. After the big show, when all the tv crews have moved on, the recovery begins. Recovery is slow. Harvey's price tag might be close to 190 billion. But crunching the numbers says nothing about the amount of lives that will have to be rebuilt. And here's Irma with Jose right on her tail and barreling up the same path. This time - we are the refugees.
Millions have evacuated. Millions. I can't even fathom that number on the move in this country trying to avoid disaster, trying to save their loved ones. That's a lot of tired, scared, thirsty, hungry people. I saw on the news where a city in another state opened a shelter and advertised for Floridians to keep coming north, they have arms open. I was watching the news from Tennessee but I was watching it as a Floridian. Worrying about family and friends there in different counties. Watching the path of the storms twists and turns. Then I realized, I'm not the only one watching. That the entire nation is watching.
Should you be a praying kind of person, now would be a good time to give a pause, to say hello to God for a good cause. For the children losing homes, for the parents clinging to their children, for the first responders everywhere and those that are standing at the ready to work to rebuild what is about to be destroyed and can't be held back. For order, peace, provision.
Frank Sundram posted on Facebook a reminder from the old movie Starman. When the alien is asked why he wanted to come to Earth he replied, "Unlike the rest of the Universe, the people of Earth are at their best when things are at their worst."
With a storm that will be felt across the entire state of Florida barreling its way toward us I see the news reporting that campgrounds, hotels, shelters, cities are all opening their gates to evacuees, I cling to that truth. In the survival against what might be the worst to come that we may prove in a million ways be our very best.
Pennies and prayers. They both count more than you know. Give what you can, where you can from the heart of who you are.
Praying for your peace in the middle of all of life's storms within and without.
Thanks so much for reading, liking and sharing with friends.
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Wright's Bloomberg Op-Ed Examines History of NYSE
An op-ed in "Echoes," the business history blog of Bloomberg View, by Dr. Robert Wright, Nef Family Chair of Political Economy and director of the Thomas Willing Institute at Augustana, argues that since its earliest days, the history of the NYSE has been characterized by competition and consolidation. Its history, Wright argues, suggests that financial exchanges respond to evolving economic conditions like any other industry, and that bigger often isn't better.
The NYSE's Long History of Mergers and Rivalries
By Dr. Robert Wright
The recent announcement that Wall Street's most iconic institution, the New York Stock Exchange, would be acquired by Atlanta-based IntercontinentalExchange Inc. (ICE) seemed weighted with symbolism.
For one thing, it represented another marker in the decline of New York City as the center of global finance. It also suggested that the world of trading and exchanges was entering a uniquely modern age of technology-driven consolidation. You may recall, for example, the mergers that the NYSE conducted with Archipelago Holdings Inc. (2006), Euronext NV (2007) and the American Stock Exchange (2008).
Since the NYSE (then called the Stock and Exchange Board) first merged with another exchange shortly after the Civil War, its history has always been characterized by competition and consolidation. It suggests that financial exchanges respond to evolving economic conditions like any other industry, and that bigger often isn't better.
Early Competition
The first local rival of the NYSE, the New Board, was formed in 1835 in response to an economic boom and the formation of the first railroad corporations. The NYSE, which traditionally ran only one call session a day, quickly responded to the new competition by adding a second daily opportunity to buy or sell securities. After the New Board's brokers were crushed by the Panic of 1837 and the subsequent recession, the exchange faded until finally folding in 1848. ("Curb" or "outside" trading -- in which brokers and dealers traded directly with each other in the street near the exchange -- maintained a modest foothold not relinquished until the NYSE co- opted curb brokers in the early 20th century.)
In 1864, the Open Board of Stock Brokers was established to profit from the economic and investment boom sparked by the Civil War. The Open Board soon rivaled the NYSE in membership (354 to the NYSE's 533) because it used a more modern, continuous trading system superior to the NYSE's twice-daily call sessions.
The two exchanges merged in 1869. In addition to increasing the number of NYSE members, this merger increased trading volume in an era when several dozen regional exchanges were also competing with the NYSE for customers. Buyers, sellers and dealers all wanted to complete transactions as quickly and cheaply as technologically possible and that meant finding the markets with the most trading, or the greatest liquidity in today's parlance.
Minimizing competition was essential to keep a large number of orders flowing, and the merger helped the NYSE to maintain its reputation for providing superior liquidity. As L.W. Hamilton & Co., a New York broker, put it in 1875: "The Stock Exchange, with its enormous daily transactions, affords to institutions and private investors a regular market for buying and selling securities. It gives at all times to their bonds and stocks a definite price, at which they can be turned into money at a moment's notice."
The crucial importance of volume to maintaining the viability of exchanges also explains the long rivalry between the NYSE and the Consolidated Stock and Petroleum Exchange.
'Intense Rivalry'
Established by merger in 1885 and dubbed "the Little Board," the Consolidated Exchange averaged less than a quarter of the NYSE's volume over its almost 40-year existence. After an agreement broke down between the NYSE and one of the Consolidated Exchange's antecedent companies to trade only newer and more speculative petroleum and mining stocks -- and not the NYSE's bread-and-butter railroad securities -- competition between the two exchanges forced bid-ask spreads to narrow by more than 10 percent. In the words of the New York Times on Dec. 31, 1905, "ever since there has been an intense rivalry between the two institutions."
That rivalry peaked in 1909 when the NYSE tried to remove its tickers from the Consolidated Exchange, which relied on the Big Board for price discovery. Thwarted by the courts, the NYSE vowed to drive the Consolidated Exchange out of business. It eventually succeeded by vigorously enforcing a resolution designed, in the words of NYSE President James B. Mabon, "to prevent a man who is a member of another exchange from doing any business at all, and to drive him out of business."
Although the Consolidated Exchange continued to "prosper after a fashion" (as the New York Times put it) and enjoyed a banner year in 1922, the quality of its member brokerages deteriorated. In 1926, its "somewhat checkered" career ended due to a series of scandalous brokerage failures that implicated its president, William S. Silkworth.
The crucial importance of volume to exchanges has led some finance scholars to suggest that only regulators stand between investors and a single global superexchange. Rumors that CME Group Inc. (CME) will now move to acquire Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. (NDAQ), for instance, bolster such fears. But business historians know better. Rather than exhibiting a trend of constant consolidation, the number of exchanges active across the globe has waxed and waned several times over the past 200 years.
During periods of heightened regulation, political turmoil or communication advances, exchanges tend to fail or merge. Economic prosperity, increased financial speculation and high levels of market uncertainty, by contrast, drive new entries. Investors don't always need more liquidity -- they need sufficient liquidity provided at the lowest possible cost. Size can drive down costs but, as the NYSE learned in 1869 and during the Internet revolution, so can innovative approaches to trading.
In short, exchanges, like other industries, must achieve minimum efficient scale to remain viable, but bigger isn't better if size impedes innovation. So look for continued consolidation in the exchange business. But also look for signs of one merger too far.
(Robert E. Wright is the Nef Family Chair of Political Economy at Augustana College and the author of numerous books, including, with David Cowen, "Financial Founding Fathers: The Men Who Made America Rich." The opinions expressed are his own.)


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Thursday, September 11, 2008
Is it Lastt Standd or Lastt Stoodd?
We've all heard the story. WoW Player goes on vacation leaving a decent guild behind with every reason to believe that it will still be there when he gets back. WoW Player returns to learn about massive drama that occur ed while he was gone and is now guildless. I think every raider will agree that this is one of the worse things that can happen to a player.
My situation isn't this bad but it is still quite shocking. I logged of Tuesday night without concern. The guild was having some tough times but there was no reason to believe that the collapse was imminent.
Wednesday, I go to log into vent as I am bring up wow and it says I have the wrong password. I think, "No problem. They must have gotten a new vent server as they had talked about." So, I log into WoW to get the new vent info. Then I see the Guild tab grayed out and think "Oh Crap! I'm no longer in a guild."
At this point a lot of things ran through my head. Was I kicked on accident? Did they decide to reform the guild under a new name? What the heck happened?
As I said before the guild had been having some tough times. Attendance had dropped significantly due to people going back to school and trying to squeeze in end of summer vacations. That isn't all that surprising because that seems to happen every year. On top of that there was some drama between officers that resulted in unfortunate and hasty actions. Finally, a good old Gbank robbery was the straw that broke the camel's back. Apparently, one or two of the officers took a bunch of stuff out of the Gbank and gquit the guild. Given all of the issues we have had recently the GM decided to cut his loses and disbanded the guild.
I don't think this is a 10 on the guild drama meter but it is definitely an 8 or a 9.
Where do I go from here?
To be honest, I'm not all that upset. There were a lot of good people and good players in Lastt Standd, but I could tell pretty early that this guild was not going to survive for the long hall. The guild leaders tended to be a little hot headed and made rash choices at times. On top of that, the commitment to the guild just wasn't there for some of the officers. There were a couple that would stay on alts during raid time even though the raid was short and we needed their class desperately. Everyone needs a break every so often, but when this happens for several days in a row there is a problem.
So, I was already wondering if Lastt Standd was the best place for me. The positive side to this is I can look for a new guild without looking like a guild hopper. I got almost a full set of SR gear from the guild, and I picked up my Tier 6 gloves the night before LS disbanded. I may have been in the guild for a month, but I think it was time well spent. I got to raid and that is more then I can say for some of my friends from WA.
So what are my options?
1. Find a new guild on Hyjal - There are a bunch of good guilds on the server, that are at a similar or higher level of progression. Unfortunately, I don't see one that is interested in a moonkin and/or has a good raid schedule for me. Plus, I haven't been really happy with the server in general. Its better then Eitrigg, but I would have like a little more in the way of T5 pugs and such.
2. Find a new guild off server - It opens up a lot more possibilities, but will cost another 25 dollars. Plus, could fall into a situation that is similar to the one I just left.
3. Transfer to Garona to play with old WA friends - If I take this option I am pretty much giving up on raiding before the expansion comes out. I could get in some pugs but my friends aren't raiding 25 mans yet. However, if I have learned anything from my month with LS, it's that friends make this game a lot more fun.
4. Focus on Graysin or another Alt - I'll be honest. I don't like this option right of the bat. I'm not ready to give up on Graylo yet, and I still wouldn't be playing with friends. However, it could be fun and it would definitely be a new experience.
I've actually already made my choice. Its kind of a combination of options 2 and 3. I've apped to a guild on the Garona server. The guild looks just about perfect for me. The raid times are awesome. It seems to be a little more mature then average, and it is on a server where most of my friends play. On top of that, one of its members has been running successful pugs against Vashj and Kael lately.
I think this is the biggest reason why I am ok with LS disbanding. I REALLY hope I get into the new guild. I think I have a pretty good shot. They don't have a moonkin, and I talked to the GM last night and he seemed to like me. The problem is he says they have only one ranged DPS slot open and are also looking at a mage and a hunter.
Anyway, what ever happens will happen. Wish me luck.
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Man, it feels like everyone's getting hit with bad guild news.
Good luck with your new endeavors. Too bad about the disbanding, but it seems like a good thing you got out of it. I'm sure you'll do fine.
I think Blizz needs to be a bit more discrete with the next expansion, to keep people from freaking out.
- September 11, 2008 at 2:13 PM
I think a lot of servers are having the same issue. I also think a lot of players that raid and are not up to Sunwell progression are hesitant to progress since their gear will be semi-useless in the expansion.
A lot of people I raid with are just ready for the expansion to come out to bring new content and I couldn't agree more.
Good luck on the new guild and hopefully all works out for you!
- September 11, 2008 at 7:24 PM
- Unknown said...
Best of Luck man. Hope to see ya Garona side soon.
- September 11, 2008 at 9:57 PM
Whoa dude! I have a boomkin on Garona. Freaking Murmurs and Graylo on the same server? Doesn't leave much room for us little guys. Btw, I'm Vangoh and I will definitely be saying hello to you.
- September 12, 2008 at 4:39 PM


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From Pills to Penicillin (Jun, 1952)
From Pills to Penicillin
By Herb Baily
DON'T EVER MAKE the mistake of longing for the good old days—at least not in medicine. If you were born 50 years ago, the chances are you're alive today because you were born naturally strong and lucky. It isn't likely that the medicine of that period did much to save you for medicine was just learning to be scientific, which is another way of saying effective.
If medical progress hadn't advanced your life expectancy, last year you'd have been slated to die at the age of 49! In 1902 there were few diseases that could be cured; today there are few diseases that cannot be cured if treated in time.
Fifty years ago childhood diseases—diphtheria, scarlet fever, measles and whooping cough — were exacting terrible tolls. The doctors were nearly powerless. They had to let the diseases run their courses, keeping the patients as comfortable as possible. If children escaped these dread diseases, there was practically everything else in the book ready to ambush fhem before they grew up. The average age of adults dying in 1902 was only 30. Today this has been advanced to nearly 70!
Tuberculosis, malaria, pneumonia, syphilis, typhoid fever, typhus fever, diabetes, pernicious anemia, meningitis and cancer yearly claimed millions of victims even in "civilized" countries. Methods of antisepsis were not practiced as they are today; many patients died from infections contracted at the operating table; many died from shock.
Blood transfusion was almost unknown until 1912 and it was much later before it was generally practiced. Of course, such refinements as the matching of blood were little known; likewise, making counts of red and white corpuscles to diagnose disease, a practice now routine.
Vitamins were unheard of, the first being isolated around 1918. The first hormones— vital secretions of the ductless glands—had been used in treating thyroid deficiencies in 1891 but little else was done for years.
The control of disease by a specific medicine (chemotherapy) was in its infancy. In fact, a person couldn't even cure a headache safely and effectively for acetylsali-cylic acid, commonly known as aspirin, wasn't yet in wide use. You say there were fewer headaches in 1902? Well, maybe.
Though medicine was beginning to learn how to immunize humans against diseases by preparing serums made of weak or dead germs cultured in the bodies of animals, it was many years before such diseases as diphtheria were brought to bay. Yet today there are doctors who have never seen a case of diphtheria or typhoid fever!
While the mysterious X rays had been named in 1895 by Roentgen and first used in the treatment of cancer by Emil Grubbe shortly afterwards, they were still looked upon with much suspicion by conservative doctors in 1902. Later the infinitesimal rays were to save millions suffering from countless diseases and eventually they were used to treat diseases such as cancer, brain tumor, hyperthyroidism and leukemia.
A person suffering from a mental illness, or even a physical disease of mental origin (now called psychosomatic), was totally out of luck. He didn't even have the meager comfort of understanding. Psychiatry still was engaged in classifying the types of mental illnesses. The first work of Sigmund Freud, pathfinder of the intricate mental processes which govern us in both sickness and health barely had been published. None of the controversial storms concerning the relationship of sickness to the mind yet had shaken the medical profession. And, of course, none of the physical treatments for mental illnesses, such as electric shock, even had been dreamed of.
If you were crazy, you were crazy. That's all, brother, and you were put away in an institution which did nothing for you except provide guards to watch you closely. Or, if you kept complaining about symptoms for which doctors couldn't find any physical basis, most likely you'd be shrugged off as a malingerer or a neurotic. Today it's acknowledged that many organic diseases can be traced to emotional causes.
Before 1900 and for some time after, medicine was practiced as an art, not a science. Doctors based their treatments on what they learned from older doctors, whose greatest education was obtained in the school of experience.
In contrast to the 19th century, modern medicine doesn't guess. Medical laboratories test drugs sometimes for years before releasing them for use. But a good scientific reason has to be advanced before any testing occurs. This doesn't mean that today's findings are not the result of insight. Many great discoveries have occurred because of successful "hunches."
The laboratory methods of the "pure" scientists began to come into their own early in the 20th century. The result was that the first 51 years of this century—particularly the last 25 — zoomed into a revolution which affected you, me and our children more than any series of revolutions, wars or discoveries ever has affected the human race.
Probably the most dramatic of the new methods of science to fight disease with chemicals came in 1909 when Paul Ehrlich in Germany announced his magic bullet 606, or Salvarsan, would destroy the deadly spirochetes that caused syphilis. This was indeed a monumental discovery. As revolutionary as the new magic bullet was, the treatment generally was long and costly, and it wasn't until the widespread use of penicillin in the 1940s that the treatment of syphilis was simplified.
By that time, however, syphilis — like many other diseases such as tuberculosis— had ceased to be a great public menace because of widespread public-health education in prevention and prompt treatment.
Equally famous in medical history was the discovery by Doctors Banting and Best in 1921 that insulin, a hormone secreted by the pancreas, could control diabetes. Until then there had been no treatment for the disease. Millions had died because of their bodies' mysterious inability to absorb, or "burn," sugar. According to estimates, nearly 500,000 persons in the U. S. alone are diabetic—without knowing it. About the same number do know it. Today diabetics can live normal lives, thanks to the miracle of insulin.
In 1926 Doctors Minot and Murphy discovered a half pound of liver daily would control most cases of pernicious anemia, a dread blood and nerve disease which had been fatal until then. Today we know the substance in the liver which set the red blood and nerve cells right was vitamin B12. Only a few micrograms of this vitamin will supplant the raw liver needed for control of pernicious anemia.
Use of the first "wonder" drugs in the early 1930s touched off a cycle of amazing cures. Beginning with sulfanilamide and continuing with the antibiotics, penicillin and the newer aureomycin and terramycin, these drugs did more to provide medicine with effective tools of treatment than any other methods in the preceding 500 years.
Sir Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1929. Not until 10 years later were its curative qualities demonstrated on human beings. Since most readers of Popular Mechanics want to know how and why anything works, here is the best explanation the physiologists give as to how the antibiotics work: Germs have to combine with red blood cells or other cells of the body in order to produce their deadly reaction. The molecules of the sulfa or the earth drugs such as penicillin imitate our body cells to such an extent they trap the germ cells into combining with them instead of our cells.
The discovery of chlorophyll as a wound healer (it's 2% times faster in this respect than penicillin) and deodorant deserves mention. In late 1951 proof by Dr. Gustav Rapp at Loyola University of Chicago that regular use of chlorophyll in a dentifrice would prevent or curb most simple gum troubles threatens to deal a staggering blow to the diseases which are responsible for many false teeth. Chlorophyll operates on gums as on wounds; it prevents the bacteria and enzymes which cause decay from uniting with the tissues.
Modern dentistry has followed medicine in scientific research. A good example of how science paid off in dentistry is discovery of the value of sodium fluoride. Added to drinking water or applied by a dentist, this hardens the teeth and cuts children's cavities about half.
The modern medical practitioner relies more and more on machines to diagnose and treat diseases. These machines range from the gigantic 450-million-volt synchrocyclotron at the University of Chicago to the common blood-pressure machine used by your family doctor. The synchrocyclotron is being used for basic research and is expected to answer many questions concerning the biochemistry of our cells.
The "isotron" at Northwestern University, a marvel of electronic science with its rows of intricate tubes and circuits, is being used to pin-point brain tumors. It is the first clinical machine to utilize atomic energy in medicine.
The suspected brain-tumor victim is first injected with radioactive material which has a special affinity for tumor tissue. When the hot atoms reach the site they emanate atomic discharges which, checked and recorded by the isotron, reveal the site of the tumor.
I was the only writer to see this first successful use of the atom to fight disease. I felt the occasion was more significant to mankind than the atom-bomb explosion which wiped out 100,000 human lives.
The development of the "clinitron," a machine which vastly speeds up blood analysis, makes possible easy testing for diabetes, our eighth-greatest killer.
A machine using terrific supersonic vibrations has disintegrated gallstones in animals and may prove effective in human beings. This machine, as a therapeutic measure, is also in wide use in Europe.
Artificial hearts and kidneys have been developed which already are responsible for saving many lives.
A more familiar example of machines in medicine is the electrocardiograph. This records the electrical impulses from the heart, telling the specialist how the heart is behaving. Similarly, the electroencephalograph takes the electrical pulse of the brain. These findings are invaluable in diseases like epilepsy or schizophrenia since the brain-wave machine can distinguish normal brain patterns from abnormal.
What of the future? What can we expect of medicine within our lifetimes?
Today, infectious diseases nearly are conquered. Even tuberculosis, the leading cause of death as late as 1910, is no longer a great menace. Medical men predict the white plague will be a rarity in 20 years. Now our worst foes are the old-age diseases: Heart and blood-vessel disorders, cancer and the neuroses produced by the strain of living in our exciting, exacting era.
Here's the newest in what probably concerns you the most—your heart. First of all, heart surgery has advanced to a point where operations can be performed while an artificial heart pumps blood. The most difficult of heart operations can be done with a minimum of risk.
Furthermore, Dr. Richard Krasno at the University of Illinois has developed an instrument, the "flicker photometer," which will not only call the shots on various types of heart disease but actually will predict whether you are likely to suffer from cardiovascular troubles. The instrument is based on a patient's response to the flickering of light. The tiny capillaries in one's eyes apparently reflect impending heart and blood-vessel diseases.
In the same field, Dr. John Gofman and others at the University of California have theorized that the substance cholesterol may be the villain in cases of hardening or aging of the arteries. Cholesterol deposits on the walls of the arteries force the heart to pump harder to keep blood circulating. Gofman found that by reducing the cholesterol intake (fatty foods, primarily) the stuff could be kept from laying its deadly deposit on the arterial walls.
The answer to the country's No. 2 destroyer, cancer, may come more quickly than most doctors thought possible even a year ago. Today, early recognition and prompt treatment with X rays, radium and surgery are saving millions. Yet 200,000 continue to die yearly from cancer in the U. S. Other treatments offering promise of control for certain types of cancer are injections of hormones and immunization.
Discovery that ACTH and cortisone give amazing relief in some types of arthritis, a disease affecting 7.5 million persons in the U. S., opened an exciting field. ACTH, derived from the pituitary gland, is a substance which stimulates the adrenal glands to produce cortisone. Recently, it has been found that hydrocortisone, rather than cortisone, is a true hormone and even more spectacular results have been achieved.
Cortisone dramatically reduces the symptoms of many diseases in addition to arthritis. In pneumonia, for instance, when given cortisone, sufferers are relieved of almost all symptoms including fever, coughing and others produced by the body's reactions to the pneumonia germs. The patient may feel well though the germs are still in there pitching for all they're worth. This teaches an important lesson to scientists. In many diseases, it's the body's allergic reaction to germs that kills the patient, not the germs themselves!
What about our century's particular sickness—neurosis? Almost everybody has that in varying degrees and manifestations. To most, it's evidenced by despondency, anxiety or feeling of insecurity. Happiness or peace of mind is as important to our bodies as penicillin is for specific diseases. Yet it's obvious that we can't all go to expensive psychiatrists.
The outlook for a quick, easy cure is hopeful, at least for 70 percent of us neurotics. The man who introduced shock therapy for the insane, Dr. L. J. Meduna, has come up with another device for curing psychoneuroses. It's carbon-dioxide gas. Breathed twice a week for several weeks, it's been amazingly effective in producing permanent cures, Doctor Meduna reports. I personally can report that his patients are extremely enthusiastic about CO2 therapy and the doctor's findings have been supported by studies at the Veterans Administration in Chicago.
How can the common soda-water gas, carbon dioxide, achieve the fantastic result of curing your neurosis? It does it by suppressing the harmful, neurotic stimulations which infiltrate our brain cells. CO2 raises the brain cells' ability to resist these abnormal stimulations.
Almost equally miraculous is the treatment of the truly insane with histamine injections. Based on the theory that insane people suffer from too little oxygen in the brain cells, the new histamine treatment which opens up the arteries is producing cures in schizophrenic and other mental disorders. Sometimes, in stubborn cases, histamine is used along with the electro-shock treatment.
So we see that medicine—now the science dedicated to the prolongation of human life as well as treatment of its afflictions—swept like a 50-year typhoon across the records of mankind. Disease, which frequently has struck down man in his prime of life, is being conquered.


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Get Ready For The Night Of Your Life!
The Dinner Detective is an experience unlike any other! We offer an amazing murder mystery show paired with a fantastic four-course plated dinner. From the very beginning, we will hide actors in the audience that are not dressed in costume. Anyone in the room can end up being part of the show, including YOU!
If you have any questions about The Dinner Detective that aren't answered below, please call our box office at (866) 496-0535, or email us at [email protected]!
Frequently Asked Questions
How Does The Show Work?
- PLEASE NOTE: Prop guns, loud simulated gunshots, and short lighting blackouts are used as part of the performance!
- Our show does not have a theme or time period, and our performers are not in costume! Unlike traditional murder mystery dinner shows, we do not set our shows in the Old West, on Kong Island, or in the 1800's. All of our stories are set in the present day, and all of our performers are dressed just like everyone else!
- The action happens throughout the entire room! Throughout the night, a crime will occur, hidden clues will come forth, and our Detectives will help everyone try to solve the crime. In the end, we have a Prize Package for the Top Sleuth who comes closest to cracking the case!
- You can choose whether or not to participate in the show! Our guests are encouraged but not required to perform or participate. However, since our actors are hidden in the audience, other audience members may interact with and interrogate you on their own.
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- DRESS CODE: Our dress code is business casual/dressy casual. No shorts, t-shirts, or hats are allowed. Guests not adhering to this dress code will be turned away at the door, so plan ahead!
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