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The Henry and Bryna David Lecture
Economics, Computer Science, and Policy
Cross-fertilization of ideas and techniques between economics and computer science is yielding fresh insights that can help inform policy decisions.
Perhaps as little as a decade ago, it might have seemed far-fetched for scientists to apply similar methodologies to problems as diverse as vaccination against infectious disease, the eradication of email spam, screening baggage for explosives, and packet forwarding in computer networks. But there are at least two compelling commonalities between these and many other problems. The first is that they can be expressed in a strongly economic or game-theoretic framework. For instance, individuals deciding whether to seek vaccination against a disease may consider how infectious the overall population is, which in turn depends on the vaccination decisions of others. The second commonality is that the problems considered take place over an underlying network structure that may be quite complex and asymmetric. The vulnerability of a party to infectious disease or spam or explosives depends strongly on the party's interactions with other parties.
The growing importance of network views of scientific and social problems has by now been well documented and even popularized in books such as Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point, but the central relevance of economic principles in such problems is only beginning to be studied and understood. The interaction between the network and economic approaches to diverse and challenging problems, as well as the impact that this interaction can have on matters of policy, are the subjects I will explore here. And nowhere is this interaction more relevant and actively studied than in the field of computer science.
Research at the intersection of computer science and economics has flourished in recent years and is a source of great interest and excitement for both disciplines. One of the drivers of this exchange has been the realization that many aspects of our most important information networks, such as the Internet, might be better understood, managed, and improved when viewed as economic systems rather than as purely technological ones. Indeed, such networks display all of the properties classically associated with economic behavior, including decentralization, mixtures of competition and cooperation, adaptation, free riding, and tragedies of the commons.
I will begin with simple but compelling examples of economic thought in computer science, including its potential applications to policy issues such as the management of spam. Later, I will argue that the power and scale of the models and algorithms that computer scientists have developed may in turn provide new opportunities for traditional economic modeling.
The economics of computer science
The Internet provides perhaps the richest source of examples of economic inspiration within computer science. These examples range from macroscopic insights about the economic incentives of Internet users and their service providers to very specific game-theoretic models for the behavior of low-level Internet protocols for basic functionality, such as packet routing. Across this entire range, the economic insights often suggest potential solutions to difficult problems.
To elaborate on these insights, let us begin with some background. At practically every level of detail, the Internet exhibits one of the most basic hallmarks of economic systems: decentralization. It is clear that the human users of the Internet are a decentralized population with heterogeneous needs, interests, and incentives. What is less widely known is that the same statement applies to the organizations that build, manage, and maintain what we call monolithically the Internet. In addition to being physically distributed, the Internet is a loose and continually changing amalgamation of administratively and economically distinct and disparate subnetworks (often called autonomous systems). These subnetworks vary dramatically in size and may be operated by institutions that simply need to provide local connectivity (such as the autonomous system administered by the University of Pennsylvania), or they may be in the business of providing services at a profit (such as large backbone providers like AT&T). There is great potential for insight from studying the potentially competing economic incentives of these autonomous systems and their users. Indeed, formal contractual and financial agreements between different autonomous systems specifying their connectivity, exchange of data and pricing, and other interactions are common.
Against this backdrop of decentralized administration, a number of prominent researchers have posited that many of the most common problems associated with the Internet, such as email spam, viruses, and denial-of-service attacks, are fundamentally economic problems at their core. They may be made possible by networking technology, and one may look for technological solutions, but it is often more effective to attack these problems at their economic roots.
For example, many observers argue that problems such as spam would be best addressed upstream in the network. They contend that it is more efficient to have Internet service providers (ISPs) filter spam from legitimate mail, rather than to have every end user install spam protection. But such purely technological observations ignore the question of whether the ISPs have an economic incentive to address such problems. Indeed, it has been noted that some ISPs have contractual arrangements with their corporate customers that charge fees based on the volume of data carried to and from the customer. Thus, in principle, an ISP could view spam or a denial-of-service attack as a source of potential revenue.
An economic view of the same problem is that spam has proliferated because the creation of a nearly free public resource (electronic mail) whose usage is unlimited has resulted in a favorable return on investment for email marketing, even under infinitesimal take rates for the products or services offered. One approach is to accept this economic condition and pursue technological defenses such as spam filters or whitelists and blacklists of email addresses. An alternative is to seek to alter the economic equation that makes spam profitable in the first place, by charging a fee for each email sent. The charge should be sufficiently small that email remains a nearly free resource (aside from Internet access costs) for nearly all non-spammers, but sufficiently large to eradicate or greatly reduce the spammer's profitability. There are many challenging issues to be worked out in any such scheme, including who is to be paid and how to aggregate all the so-called micropayments. But the mere fact that computer scientists are now incorporating real-world economics directly into their solutions or policy considerations represents a significant shift in their view of technology and its management.
As an example of economic thought at the level of the Internet's underlying protocols, consider the problem of routing, the multi-hop transmission of data packets across the network. Although a delay of a second or two is unimportant for email and many other Internet operations, it can be a serious problem for applications such as teleconferencing and Internet telephony, where any latency in transmission severely degrades usefulness. For these applications, the goal is not simply to move data from point A to point B in the Internet, but to find the fastest possible route among the innumerable possible paths through the distributed network. Of course, which route is the fastest is not static. The speed of electronic traffic, like the speed of road traffic, depends on how much other traffic is taking the same route, and the electronic routes can be similarly disrupted by "accidents" in the form of temporary outages or failures of links.
Recently, computer scientists have begun to consider this problem from a game-theoretic perspective. In this formulation, one regards a network user (whether human or software) as a player in a large-population game in which the goal is to route data from one point to another in the network. There are many possible paths between the source and destination points, and these different paths constitute the choice of actions available to the player. Being "rational" in this context means choosing the path that minimizes the latency suffered in routing the data. A series of striking recent mathematical results has established that the "price of anarchy"— a measure of how much worse the overall latency can be at competitive equilibrium in comparison to the best "socialist" or centrally mandated nonequilibrium choice of routes—is surprisingly small under certain conditions. In other words, in many cases there is not much improvement in network behavior to be had from even the most laborious centralized network design. In addition to their descriptive properties, such results also have policy implications. For example, a number of plausible schemes for levying taxes on transmission over congested links of the network have been shown to significantly reduce the price of anarchy.
These examples are just some of the many cases of computer scientists using the insights of economics to solve problems. Others include the study of electronic commerce and the analysis and design of complex digital markets and auctions.
The computer science of economics
The flow of ideas between computer science and economics is traveling in both directions, as some economists have begun to apply the insights and methods of computer science to new and old problems. The computer scientist's interest in economics has been accompanied by an explosion of research on algorithmic issues in economic modeling, due in large part to the fact that the economic models being entertained in computer science are often of extraordinarily large dimension. In the game-theoretic routing example discussed above, the number of players equals the number of network users, and the number of actions equals the number of routes through the network. Representing such models in the so-called normal form of traditional game theory (where one explicitly enumerates all the possibilities) is infeasible. In recent years, computer scientists have been examining new ways of representing or encoding such high-dimensional models.
Such new encodings are of little value unless there are attendant algorithms that can manipulate them efficiently (for instance, performing equilibrium and related computations). Although the computational complexity of certain basic problems remains unresolved, great strides have been made in the development of fast algorithms for many high-dimensional economic models. In short, it appears that from a computational perspective, many aspects of economic and game-theoretic modeling may be ready to scale up. We can now undertake the construction and algorithmic manipulation of numerical economic models whose complexity greatly exceeds those one could have contemplated a decade ago.
Finally, it also turns out that the analytical and mathematical methods of computer science are extremely well suited to examining the ways in which the structure of an economic model might influence the expected outcomes in the models; for instance, the way in which the topology of a routing network might influence the congestion experienced at game-theoretic equilibrium, the way in which the connectivity pattern of a goods exchange network might influence the variation in prices or the distribution of wealth, or (as we shall see shortly) the way in which transfers of passengers between air carriers might influence their investment decisions for improved security.
Interdependence in computer security
To illustrate some of these computational trends, I will examine a case study drawn from my own work on a class of economic models known as interdependent security (IDS) games, which nicely capture a wide range of commonly occurring risk management scenarios. Howard Kunreuther of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and Geoffrey Heal of Columbia University introduced the notion of IDS games, which are meant to capture settings in which decisions to invest in risk mitigation may be heavily influenced by natural notions of risk "contagion." Interestingly, this class is sufficiently general that it models problems in areas as diverse as infectious disease vaccination, corporate compliance, computer network security, investment in research, and airline baggage screening. It also presents nontrivial computational challenges.
Let us introduce the IDS model with another example from computer science, the problem of securing a shared computer resource. Suppose you have a desktop computer with its own software and memory, but you also keep your largest and most important data files on a hard disk drive that is shared with many other users. Your primary security concern is thus that a virus or other piece of malicious software might erase the contents of this shared hard drive. Your desktop computer and its contents, including all of your email, any programs or files you download, and so on, is a potential point of entry for such "malware,'' but of course so are the desktop machines of all the other users of the hard disk.
Now imagine that you face the decision of whether to download the most recent updates to your standard desktop security software, such as Norton Anti-Virus. This is a distinct investment decision; not so much because of the monetary cost but because it takes time and energy for you to perform the update. If your diligence were the only factor in protecting the valued hard drive, your incentive to suffer the hassle would be high. But it is not the only factor. The safety of the hard drive is dependent on the diligence of all of the users whose desktop machines present potential points of compromise, since laziness on the part of just a single user could result in the breach that wipes the disk clean forever. Furthermore, some of those users may not keep any important files on the drive and therefore have considerably less concern than you about the drive's safety.
Thus, your incentive to invest is highly interdependent with the actions of the other players in this game. In particular, if there are many users, and essentially none of them are currently keeping their security software updated, your diligence would have at best an incremental effect on an already highly vulnerable disk, and it will not be worth your time to update your security software. At the other extreme, if the others are reliable in their security updates, your negligence would constitute the primary source of vulnerability, so you can have a first-order effect on the disk's safety by investing in the virus updates.
Kunreuther and Heal propose a game-theoretic model for this and many other related problems. Although the formal mathematical details of this model are beyond our current scope, the main features are as follows:
- Each player (such as the disk users above) in the game has an investment decision (such as downloading security updates) to make. The investment can marginally reduce the risk of a catastrophic event (such as the erasure of the disk).
- Each player's risk can be decomposed into direct and indirect sources. The direct risk is that which arises because of a players own actions or inactions, and it can be reduced or eradicated by sufficient investment. The indirect risk is entirely in the hands of the rest of the player population. In the current example, your direct risk is the risk that the disk will be erased by malware entering the system through your own desktop machine. Your remaining risk is the indirect risk that the disk will be erased by malware entering through someone else's machine. You can reduce the former by doing the updates, but you can do nothing about the latter.
- Rational players will choose to invest according to the tradeoff presented by the two sources of risk. In the current example, you would choose to invest the least update effort when all other parties are negligent (since the disk is so vulnerable already that there is little help you alone can provide) and the most when all other parties are diligent (since you constitute the primary source of risk).
- The predicted outcomes of the IDS model are the (Nash) equilibria that can arise when all players are rational; that is, the collective investment decisions in which no player can benefit by unilateral deviation. In such an equilibrium, every party is optimizing their behavior according to their own cost/benefit tradeoff and the behavior of the rest of the population.
Baggage screening unraveled
In the shared disk example, there is no interesting network structure per se, in the sense that users interact with each other solely through a shared resource, and the effect of any given user is the same on all other users: By being negligent, you reduce the security of the disk by the same amount for everyone, not differentially for different parties. In other words, there are no network asymmetries: All pairs of parties have the same interactions, even though specific individuals may influence the overall outcome differently by their different behaviors.
Kunreuther and Heal naturally first examined settings in which such asymmetries are absent, so that all parties have the same direct and indirect risks. Such models permit not only efficient computation but even the creation of simple formulas for the possible equilibria. But in more realistic settings, asymmetries among the parties will abound, precluding simple characterizations and presenting significant computational challenges. It is exactly in such problems that the interests and strengths of computer science take hold.
A practical numerical and computational example of IDS was studied in recent work done in my group. In this example, the players are air carriers, the investment decision pertains to the amount of resources devoted to luggage screening for explosives, the catastrophic event is a midair explosion, and the network structure arises from baggage transfers between pairs of carriers.
Before describing our experiments, I provide some background. In the United States, individual air carriers determine the procedures and investments they each make in baggage screening for explosives and other contraband, subject to meeting minimum federal requirements. Individual bags are thus subjected to the procedures of whichever carrier a traveler boards at the beginning of a trip. If a bag is transferred from one carrier to another, the receiving carrier does not rescreen according to its own procedures but simply accepts the implicit validation of the first carrier. The reasons for this have primarily to do with efficiency and the cost of repeated screenings. The fact that carriers are free to apply procedures that exceed the federal requirements is witnessed by the practices of El Al Airlines, which is also an exception in that it does in fact screen transferred bags.
As in the shared disk example, there is thus a clear interdependent component to the problem of baggage screening. If a carrier receives a great volume of transfers from other carriers with lax security, it may actually have little incentive to invest in improved security for the bags it screens directly: The explosion risk presented by the transferred bags is already so high that the expense of the marginal improvement in direct check security is unjustified. (Note: For simplicity, I am not considering the expensive proposition of rescreening transferred bags, but only of improving security on directly checked luggage.) Alternatively, if the other airlines maintain extremely high screening standards, a less secure carrier's main source of risk may be its own checked baggage, creating the incentive for improved screening. Kunreuther and Heal discuss how the fatal explosion aboard Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 can be viewed as a deliberate exploitation of the interdependent risks of baggage screening.
The network structure in this case arises from the fact that there is true pairwise interaction between carriers (as opposed to the shared disk setting, where all interactions were indirect and occurred via the shared resource). Since not all pairs of airlines may transfer bags with each other, or may not do so in equal volume, strong asymmetries may emerge. Within the same network of transfers, some airlines may find themselves receiving many transfers from carriers with lax security, and others may receive transfers primarily from more responsible parties. On a global scale, one can imagine that such asymmetries might arise from political or regulatory practices in different geographical regions, demographic factors, and many other sources. Such a network structure might be expected to have a strong influence on outcomes, since the asymmetries in transfers will create asymmetries of incentives and therefore of behavior.
In the work of my group, we conducted the first large-scale computational and simulation study of IDS games. This simulation was based on a data set containing 35,362 records of actual civilian commercial flight reservations (both domestic and international) made on August 26, 2002. Each record contains a complete flight itinerary for a single individual and thus documents passenger (and therefore presumably baggage) transfers between the 122 commercial air carriers appearing in the data set. The data set contained no identifying information for individuals. Furthermore, since I am describing an idealized simulation based on limited data, I will not identify specific carriers in the ensuing discussion.
I will begin by discussing the raw data itself—in particular, the counts of transfers between carriers. Figure 1 shows a visualization of the transfer counts between the 36 busiest carriers (as measured by the total flight legs on the carrier appearing in the data). Along each of the horizontal axes, the carriers are arranged in order of number of flight legs (with rank 1 being the busiest carrier, and rank 36 the least). At each grid cell, the vertical bar shows the number of transfers from one particular carrier to another. Thus, transfers between pairs of the busiest (highest-rank) carriers appear at the far corner of the diagram; transfers between pairs of the least busy carriers in the near corner; and so on.

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Résumé and Client List
Deborah Brodie RÉsumÉ
June 2007–present
Freelance editor, book doctor, and writing coach
- Do intensive editorial work on fiction and nonfiction manuscripts for children, teens, and adult audiences
- Coach individual writers
- Conduct writing workshops for groups
- Consult on writing and publishing
- Clients include publishers, literary agents, organizations, and individuals. Please see Client List
January 2001–May 2007
Executive Editor, Roaring Brook Press, Macmillan, NY
- Cofounded the Roaring Brook Press imprint for the Millbrook Press, Brookfield, CT; since 2004 expanded and developed the imprint for Holtzbrinck USA (now Macmillan)
- Worked with acclaimed authors and illustrators, including Margaret Bechard, Don Brown, Peter Catalanotto, Seymour Chwast, Gail Giles, Betty Hicks, Ann Jaramillo, Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson, Tony Johnston, Adam McCauley, Jean Marzollo, Susanna Natti, Mary Pope Osborne, Robert Andrew Parker, Charlie Price, S. D. Schindler, Leda Schubert, Howard Schwartz, and Jacqueline Wilson
- Worked intensively with experienced authors exploring a new genre, new age group, or new approach—including 4 best-selling authors of books for adults starting to write for a younger audience
- Launched the careers of 21 debut authors and illustrators
1979 – 2001
Executive Editor (since 1985), Viking Children's Books, Penguin Young Readers Group, NY
- Worked with noted authors and illustrators, including David A. Adler, Sarah Dessen, Patricia Reilly Giff, Dan Greenburg, Esther Hautzig, James Marshall, Milton Meltzer, Susanna Natti, Zibby Oneal, James Stevenson, and Jane Yolen
- Conceived and edited early chapter-book series: Cam Jansen Adventures (titles still in print after 30 years), Once Upon America, and Women of Our Time
- Acquired and edited books for adults, including international best-seller The Eyes of the Dragon, by Stephen King
Summer 2009
Academic Director, Writing for Children and Teens, Stanford Publishing Courses Writers Workshop, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
- Created and led workshops on writing for children and young adults
- Led conference-wide session on overcoming writer's block
- Conducted group writing exercises
- Organized and moderated editor and agent panels
- Facilitated informal conversation about The Writer's Juggling Act: Balancing Work, Life, and Play
Spring 2008
Instructor, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, New York, NY
- Created and facilitated 3-session seminar for editorial staff
- Taught basics of line editing and writing selling copy
- Discussed and reinforced the mind-set of an editor
Fall 2007–present
MFA Mentor, Simmons College, Boston, MA
- Work with students to revise fiction
- Advise students on writing and publishing
June 2007–present
Instructor, Summer Writers Colony, The New School, New York, NY
- Conduct seminar for writers of adult fiction on writing for young readers
- Teach, advise and mentor students
- Conduct Literary Salons featuring award-winning authors
- Created intensive 3-week, 6-credit course
Visiting Faculty and Thesis Advisor, MFA in Creative Writing, Writing for Children, The New School, New York, NY
Instructor, MFA in Creative Writing, Writing for Children, The New School, New York, NY
- Designed and taught full-term courses
- Advised thesis writers
Moderator, Forum on Writing for Children, The New School, New York, NY
- Create programs with authors and publishing professionals
- Conduct and publicize 8 programs per year
August 2007
Instructor, Charlesbridge Publishing, Watertown, MA
- Developed and facilitated 2-day staff-development workshop for editorial, design, sales, and marketing staff
- Strategized with management and staff about growing the list
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Instructor, Holtzbrinck Children's Book Publishing Master Class, Holtzbrinck (now Macmillan), New York, NY
- Created and taught professional-development course for staff with less than 3 years' experience in publishing
- Developed collegiality and teamwork across imprints
Edited 2 collections of quotations, both published by St. Martins' Press:
- Untying the Knot: Ex-Husbands, Ex-Wives, and Other Experts on the Passage of Divorce (1999)
- Writing Changes Everything: The 627 Best Things Anyone Ever Said About Writing (1997)
And narrated one book-and-tape package of a picture book by Eric A. Kimmel that she edited. This Live Oak Readalong is now available as a CD:
- I Took My Frog to the Library (1990)
Client List
Clients have included
- Abrams Books for Young Readers
- Bloomsbury Children's Books
- Boxer Books {London}
- Capstone Publishers
- Charlesbridge Publishing
- Clarion Books (an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- Dutton Children's Books
- Feiwel & Friends
- Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
- Henry Holt Books for Young Readers
- Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
- Nextbook, Inc.
- Phoebe W. Yeh, HarperCollins Children's Books
- Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
- Thames & Hudson, Inc.
- Tricycle Press (an imprint of Random House)
Clients have included
- Adams Literary
- Anderson Literary Management LLC
- Anna Olswanger of Liza Dawson Associates
- Barbara Braun Associates, Inc.
- Barry Goldblatt Literary
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- Cheryl Pientka of Jill Grinberg Literary
- Chudney Agency
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- Elizabeth Fisher and Kerry Sparks of Levine Greenberg
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- George Nicholson of Sterling Lord Literistic
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- Jenni Ferrari-Adler of Brick House Literary Agents
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- Rodeen Literary Management
- Stimola Literary Studio
- Susanna Einstein of LJK Literary Management, LLC
- Transatlantic Literary Agency, Inc.
- Writers House Literary Agency
Clients have included
- Dorot, social service agency bringing generations together
- Jewish Milestones, for authentic, accessible, meaningful Jewish lifecycle rituals
- The Pacella Parent Child Center and the Bookstore of the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
- The PJ Library of the Harold Grinspoon Foundation
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The name's Einstein, a German-born physicist,
My most interest is science and mathematics.
I give up my religion, so I'm atheist,
But I'm the smartest dude, cuz I was guided by physics.
My talent was recognized by my friend, Marcel Grossmann,
Thanks to him, I got a patent in Switzerland.
I can prove everything, cuz my theories are logical,
Like the atoms that show that light is composed of particles.
The space and time, not construct of the mind,
My special theory of relativity can only shine.
I predicted the gravity waves,
Such as light waves, disperse, and saved.
I believed the universe has determined order,
The universe is not a probable disorder.
I worked to find a unified field theory,
But now that I'm dead, I can never finish my discovery.
Since the theory was verified, I became an urban legend,
Even though I'm gone, this is definitely not the end.
My fame gave me opportunity to draw attention,
To worthy causes of peace, freedom, and education.
Just keep your mind open and let it bend,
As time moves on, the universe extend.
Within you, without you, as I relate,
Imagination's more important than knowledge create.


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|Towards a Statistical Methodology to Evaluate Program Speedups and their Optimisation Techniques
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|The community of program optimisation and analysis, code performance evaluation, parallelisation and optimising compilation has published since many decades hundreds of research and engineering articles in major conferences and journals. These articles study efficient algorithms, strategies and techniques to accelerate programs execution times, or optimise other performance metrics (MIPS, code size, energy/power, MFLOPS, etc.). Many speedups are published, but nobody is able to reproduce them exactly. The non-reproducibility of our research results is a dark point of the art, and we cannot be qualified as {\it computer scientists} if we do not provide rigorous experimental methodology. This article provides a first effort towards a correct statistical protocol for analysing and measuring speedups. As we will see, some common mistakes are done by the community inside published articles, explaining part of the non-reproducibility of the results. Our current article is not sufficient by its own to deliver a complete experimental methodology, further efforts must be done by the community to decide about a common protocol for our future experiences. Anyway, our community should take care about the aspect of reproducibility of the results in the future.
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Why You Need to Choose the Right Water Bottles
Bisphenol A is known as an organic compound that has troubled the manufacturers of plastic products because of their environment and heat concern. There government in some countries and the major health organizations say that the compound is harmful to both human and animal health because it is toxic. Find out more information about bpa free water bottles. Though there is no agreement as to how harmful this compound is, but people should still be alarmed at how excessive the BPA products are utilized in everyday life.
The BPA is used as a main component in making plastic items that are used each day. A lot of these items have direct contact with the food that people consume. You should know that the different reusable and also disposable plastic bottles or the water bottles are using BPA. In making the canned food packaging, BPA is also utilized as an inner-coating. With this, you can say that you are drinking and eating BPA each day.
Health is very important and delicate and you should avoid putting it at risk and because of the alarming report about the BPA, then you have to act immediately. There are several things that you should know on how you should tackle such problem. What you have to know first is how to start. The ones who are greatly exposed to the effects that BPA have on health are the young children, the infants and also the babies. Hence, it is quite important that you search for alternatives to plastic feeders, cups, and other baby-food containers. If you can, you need to make use of metal products instead of plastic. The plastic items have been discovered to release more toxins especially if they are hot. Because of this information, it is important that you avoid keeping hot foods and liquids in plastic containers especially for a long time. It is also very important that you should not expose them to any heat source and even sunlight. Take a look at the information about the water bottle bpa free.
If you are looking for BPA free water bottles then you can go for stainless steel water bottles. There is BPA in polycarbonate plastic bottles and because of this, they are great alternatives. There are also the soft plastic collapsible bottles which belong to the BPA-free category. These are flexible and lightweight water bottles. If they are empty, then you can flatten them and roll up so that you will be able to save space. The materials that are used in making these are floppy and thin unlike the traditional hard plastic materials,. It is really a great idea that you go for the BPA free collapsible water bottles that definitely look cool.
You can protect yourself from the harm that BPA brings. So that you will have a healthy life, then you should change the hard plastic water bottles with safer alternatives. When you use BPA free water bottles, then you can ensure your safety.


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What's the happiest country in the world?Denmark, according to author and self-described grump Eric Weiner, who relies on the Eurobarometer Survey for evidence in his opinion piece in yesterday's New York Times: More than two-thirds of Danes report being "very satisfied with their lives." The reason? Low expectations. Apparently, the Danes don't expect much to go well and when things do, they're, well, happy: Danes have low expectations and so "year after year they are pleasantly surprised to find out that not everything is rotten in the state of Denmark," says James W. Vaupel, a demographer who has investigated Danish bliss. If this all sounds vaguely Buddhist, Weiner thinks so, too: Though not an especially religious people, Danes would make good Buddhists. More »
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Who's the happiest man in the world?According to an opinion piece by Daniel Goleman in this morning's New York Times ("Sitting Quietly, Doing Something"), Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche is. And the reason is no secret: So how did he get that way? Apparently, the same way you get to Carnegie Hall. Practice. Buddhist meditation practice, that is. According to Goleman, Mingyur Rinpoche is an "Olympic-level meditator," logging more than 10,000 hours on the cushion. Goleman cites neuroscientist Richard Davidson's studies on meditation's effect on the brain to explain why these spiritual athletes are so cheerful. There is a strong correllation, Goleman explains, between committed meditation practice and increased activity in the areas of the brain associated with positive moods: The more lifetime hours of practice, the greater the increases tended to be. More »
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Living in the Moment with Alzheimer'sIn "Living in the Moment" on today's New York Times Happy Days blog, Elizabeth Kadetsky describes the ways in which she has been coping with her mother's increasing dementia after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's in the spring of 2008. Observing her mother's growing detachment from memory, Kadetsky discovers an aspect of the illness that is central to Buddhist practice: to live with Alzheimer's is to be continuously in the present moment. The disease has caused her mother's mind to gradually let go of the pleasure and pain of the past, eventually forcing her to exist only in the present. Kadetsky writes: Today, at 69, she has less of that charisma — she has been diagnosed with the disease in its early to middle stages. But she has at least as much of a quality that I, earlier, modeled myself on, and later came to admire in her: a quirky, rather peculiar nature that could be summarized as an insistence on living in the moment. More »
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More on mindfulness & BuddhismA few days back I blogged about a Washington Post article that discussed mindfulness's uses in dealing with diseases like cancer ("It's mindfulness but is it Buddhism? Does it matter?"). Given the number of comments and a few mentions on other blogs (our friend the Rev. Danny Fisher's, to name one), I invited B. Alan Wallace to comment. More »
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It's mindfulness, but is it Buddhism? Does it matter?In today's Washington Post, a New York clinical psychologist specializing in cancer treatment writes of her own stage II breast cancer diagnosis. A proponent of mindfulness, Mindy Greenstein remembers what she learned from another breast cancer patient before she herself was diagnosed: Every hour she spent ruminating about the pain that was awaiting her was another hour she wasn't fully engaged with her life, another hour she couldn't enjoy. She couldn't pretend she didn't know her prognosis. So she chose a different route. Quoting one of the most well-know Buddhist teachers in the West, she continues: Even the basic act of washing the dishes can be a mindful act if one is focusing only on washing the dishes and not on what activity comes next. More »


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10 year old kid takes down Malkin after a fierce bout, provoked by the latter.
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Vokoun stopped being the Tim Thomas of 2013 = the Penguins will be out in 5, the Bruins will regain their title.
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9.8… 9.8… 9.9… 9.7… and a 4.3 from the Pittsburgh judge.
Let's see how this playoff "beard" will play out this year — Crosby is cleared to play without the facial guard first time since he broke his jaw.
Strange that they can't spell SCUM right.
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Does anyone have a new edition of the Sierra bullet load data manual?
Mine's a few years old and doesn't have data for the 123gr Sierra Matchking bullet in 260 Remington.
If someone could look it up for me,I'd really appreciate it.I haven't found much on the net.
Powders that I'd like to use are
Reloader 15 or 19
I just need the min/max powder charge #'s
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Sierra #5 is the latest manual and it does not list the 123gr MK.
Go to Hodgdon's web site and use 125gr data for H4350, H4831 and Varget.http://data.hodgdon.com/cartridge_load.asp
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Welcome to Vengeance University!9 Reviews
What happens when Gerard Way transfers to an extraordinary school where he is accepted? where he makes friends? ...where he meets Frank Iero? (suckish summary, I know...)
The cold September air sends a shiver down my spine. why does it have to be so cold! I think to myself. I'm not dressed for this wether! I rub my arms, in a poor attempt to warm them up. I pull a tattered old Misfits hoodie from my messenger bag and put it on. I continued on my way down the street.
Why am I out in the cold? Well, I'm on my way to school. Actually, it's my first day at this particular school. You see, I got accepted there because of my art teacher at my old school, Mr. Martin, he said staying at Belleville High was just holding me back. I needed to go somewhere where I could 'let my talent shine' and whatever. He said I would benefit from being around 'my type of people'. So basically he wants me to go to a school full of art nerds, and draw rotted corpses all day long. At least its better than being the schools personal punch bag.
I ckeck the time. Shit! I'm 5minutes late! I clmb up the grey stone steps of the building, and go inside. wow. This didn't even look like a school, let alone a school for art nerds. The walls were purple, with black lockers lined up against them.
I looked around for somewhere that resembled a reception area. To my right there was a young woman sitting at a desk, typing quickly on her laptop. She brushed a stray black curl behind her ear, looked up and smiled. "You must be Gerard Way." "Yes ma'am" I answer politely. She rummaged through a drawer in her desk and pulled out a few sheets of paper, a purple notebook and a key. "Here's your journal, your timetable, your locker number and key, Mr.Way" She says handing me the items. I stuff the journal in my messenger bag, and the key in my pocket. "Thank you ms..." I looked at the sign on the desk "...Armstrong." She smiled. "Your welcome, dear." I nodded and turned around to find my locker.
I looked at the piece of paper in my hand 304, I looked back up at the lockers. 294... 296... 298... 300... 302... 304! Finally! I pulled the little key out of my pocket and opened the locker. I stuffed all my books in, and looked at the timetable. Registration, Art History, Drama, Music, then first break. The bell rang. Guess I just missed Registration.
The halls began to fill with people going to their next class. What the actual fuck!? These people looked NOTHING like art nerds! Mr.Martin was right, these were my kind of people. The majority of the kids looked like you could actually have a conversation with them without bitching about something, everyone actually seemed to feel at home with eachother. No jocks shoving guys, no cheerleaders snickering at other girls. There was even one girl kissing another, bafore walking hand-in-hand into a classroom, and NO ONE bothered them, not even a second glance!
ROOM 14 this must be my Art History room. I sat in a free seat, beside the right wall, second row from the back. I looked around the room and observed all the people filing into the room. I noticed the two girls from earlier sitting beside eachother holding hands. They looked like such a cute couple. One girl had mousy brown hair, just below her shoulder. Her velvety pale skin complemented her kind, chocolatey eyes. The other girl had bright red hair and milky, white skin which made her green eyes stand out. She leaned over and placed a soft kiss on the brown eyed girl's cheek. She just blushed, and smiled at the red-haired girl.
I was lost in thought, whislst observing all the students, which seem way cooler than the people I expected to attend an art school, until my view was blocked by someone standing infront of my desk. I looked up to meet a pair of big, black-rimmed, grey eyes staring into mine.
"uh, s-sorry, is this your seat?" I ask nervously, not prepared for the unexpected confrontation. A smile tugged her black lipstick-covered lips, causing dimples to appear on her soft, fair skin.
"No, but that one is." She said tapping her fingers on the desk next to mine. I shifted in my seat a little bit and glanced over at the seat next to me, then back up to meet her silvery-grey eyes. She giggled and set her messenger bag down on the floor next to the desk, then slipped into the seat next to me. I fiddled with the sleeves of my hoodie, people never chose to sit with me in Belleville high, unless they were planning on annoying me the whole way through the class. This girl seemed genuine enough though.
After taking out her art history book, which was so originally titled: Art History, a notepad, and a pencilcase, she turned her attention back to me.
"So, I haven't seen you here before, are you just starting here?" She asked curiously.
"uh yeah, I just transferred from Belleville High. My art teacher thought I'd be better-off going here instead." I told her. She nodded and made a noise of approval.
"I'm guessing that art's your thing, huh?" The girl continued.
"I guess so, yeah." I answered. She grinned in return.
"Art is my thing too, so is music. I play piano and electric guitar," She began. "I hate accoustic guitars. The damn strings are too thick..." the girl frowned, thoughtfully. She was silent for a moment before snapping back to reality.
"OH, my name's Ellie, by the way!" she exclaimed before giving me one of those 'oh shit, sorry' smiles. She stuck out her hand, for me to shake. I smiled back at her, from behind my messy hair.
"and I'm Gerard." I shook her hand.
"...Gerarrrrd" she repeated, exaggerating the 'r' sound. "Cool name."
"Thanks" I blushed. I dont usually get complimented by girls... or guys, come to think of it.
I jumped at the sound of the door slamming, and looked up. There was a man sipping a coffee, strolling to the teacher's desk at the top of the room. No way I thought to myself. There is no way that dude is a teacher. He looked to be in his mid-twenties. He had black spiked hair, a considerable ammount of tattoos (including a black star... ON HIS FACE!), and he dressed in tight black pants with chains hanging from the belt-loops, a leather jacket, and eyeliner to complete the look.
He leaned against the desk and took another sip from the Starbucks cup, before turning to the class.
"Sorry I'm late, kids. The caffeine was calling me." He smirked and raised the cup, before sipping again. I could do with some coffee right now I thought to myself, gazing longingly at the paper cup. He caught me looking, and grinned knowingly.
"You like coffee, Mr.Way?" he asked, teasingly.
"Umm yeah?" I replied cautiously, it was a wierd thing to ask, there was no 'why are you here?' or anything.
He gave me an approving nod, "Good answer, kid. Welcome to Vengeance University" he grinned, again, then turned to the computer on the desk to take the attendance. What a wierd place...
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"Grey's Anatomy" Deluxe Recap: Season 6 Finale
Still alone with no help in sight, Bailey and her patient try desperately to get Charles to the OR floor. Only after dragging someone twice her size across the entire floor, does Bailey find out the elevators have been shut off. Charles isn't going to make it. So, Bailey does something she never does. She loses it.
Charles knows the answer but asks anyway, "I'm dying, right?" Bailey and her patient sit with him and hold his hand. "You are not alone. You hear me? You are not alone."
Seems no one's alone. Owen finds Meredith and April on the floor in the scrub room, and Avery, Cristina and Derek in the OR. Owen also sees what Meredith and April can't: Gary has a gun to Cristina's head. Her voice quivers at the sight of him, "Ohh-wennn…"
Gary screams at Cristina, "Do you want me to shoot you? Stop fixing him!" Cristina doesn't stop. Avery doesn't stop. The old surgical nurse that looks like my grandmother doesn't stop. If you're wondering why Gary didn't just kill Derek when he first had him at the end of his gun barrel, or why he doesn't just shoot him now, you can forget it. When a person snaps, and they have so many bullets, they're falling out of his pants, logic and reason left the building a long time ago.
Owen says angrily, "Hey! That is the woman that I love. You shoot her, you touch her, and I will kill you!" With that PTSD rage, I have no doubt he would. With those forearms like hams, I have no doubt he could.
And just when you think it can't get any crazier in there, Meredith bursts in and says, "Shoot me." Sure, come on in. Now it's a party! She tells Gary if he wants an eye for an eye, he should kill Derek's wife, Lexie's sister and Webber's almost-daughter. Cristina blurts out she's pregnant. Gary shoots Owen just because it's been a while. Cristina screams. Avery puts his hands up. Cristina puts up her hands. It's over.
Avery tells Gary to just wait and watch the monitor. In a few seconds, the machine flat lines, sending Meredith to her knees, in a full-blown wail. McDreamy dreams no more. Omg, I need a drink.
Mission accomplished, Gary doesn't know what to do with himself. Hey I know. Why don't you go kill the person who printed your wife's DNR order? Or the person who sold the pen she used to sign it? Or maybe just kill the descendents of the person who invented paper. You'll have to go to China to do it, but so what?
As soon as Chuckles leaves the OR, Avery reconnects the wires to Derek's monitor. It starts beeping again. Cristina resumes operating while Meredith looks up, confused. Gary fell for the oldest trick in the book: The Pull the Leads and Surrender While a Crazy Person Waves a Gun Around trick. Nicely played. Cristina looks at Owen, who's still on the floor, and tells Meredith to save her guy, while she saves hers.
Charles doesn't have that kind of get-saved luck. Close to death on another floor, he asks Bailey to tell Reed he loved her very much. In five minutes, you can tell her yourself, buddy. "I know you don't like me. But you were always my favorite doctor," he says to Bailey, "I thought you should know." He's gone. And that is how the Neanderthals died out.
In the other OR, Meredith works on Owen. It's not fatal. April sees blood running down Meredith's thigh. She's having a miscarriage, right then and there, but doesn't stop working on Cristina's guy. OK, that's gross. But it's so hardcore, even her mother would be impressed.


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Sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson has gathered a strong contingent to bid for keeping the Kings where they are, but
Sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson has gathered a strong contingent to bid for keeping the Kings where they are, but
their level of commitment won't be certified until they make the same non-refundable payment of $30 million to the Maloofs that the group from Seattle already has made, a source said. Should the league's owners reject the Seattle group in favor of the Sacramento group without meeting that term, the source said, the Maloofs are almost certain to file an anti-trust suit against the league. The Sacramento group also has to deal with several different entities owning parcels of the land upon which the proposed arena would be built. Working through how much the land is worth and a sale price for each parcel is not a quick process; nor is the required cash-out by Warriors part-owner Vivek Ranadive to join the Kings' group. I also have to wonder, considering the potential benefit for the Warriors in having all of Northern California to themselves, how motivated they'll be to expedite the process if doing so enhances the chance of the Kings staying. For what it's worth, the league office is playing this "straight down the middle," according to one source, showing no preference toward either side.
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The Deadly Nadder is a species of dragons, said to be one of the most beautiful. They are well known for their poisonous and painful spines, and extremely hot fire that can melt metal or rock easily.
In appearance, the Deadly Nadder is very bird-like: it is bipedal and possesses winged forelimbs and it is about the same size as medium sized theropod dinosaurs such as Allosaurus. Its small yet keen eyes, equipped with poor binocular vision, are one of the tools it uses to stalk its targets.
Its body is a vivid colour, with a light beige underbelly, while its wings are mottled colours. In front of its eyes is its curved nasal horn, which is often used to batter opponents; its lower jaw is shorter and wider than its upper, giving it an overbite (this sets it apart from all the other dragons in the film, since-- with the exception of the Night Fury-- they all have underbites).
Ringing its skull are a set of spikes. Coating the tail is a series of spines that can inject venom into a target. When relaxed, its head spikes and venomous tail spines lay flat, and when alarmed, they are shot upward to intimidate its foe. The tail spikes can also be used to make a rattling noise which it makes right before it attacks, similar to rattlesnakes.
In terms of behavior, the Deadly Nadder is fast and dangerous, though its potency as a hunter is hindered by the blind spot directly above its nose (possibly due to its large horn). As a result, the dragon relies on its keen sense of smell and hearing, often instead of its binocular vision, in order to find its prey. The Deadly Nadder also has, at its disposal, a tail that is covered in bristling poisonous spikes, which are used as projectiles to stun or immobilize its prey. Its tail spikes are its preferred weapon (probably due to the afore-mentioned blind spot). It can launch its tail spikes with devastating speed and accuracy. Its most devastating trait, however, may well be its ability to blow magnesium-fueled flames, which can easily melt metal. The Deadly Nadder is one of the most beautiful dragons, and unfortunately, it knows it. It is well-known for its vanity; it constantly grooms itself to stay clean and maintain the luster of its scales. Like the Night Fury, the Deadly Nadder is a picky eater whose diet comprises mostly of poultry and is allergic to domesticated hoofed animals. However, when it is trained, it becomes very affectionate, not unlike a pet dog, pet cat, pet bird or other sociable creature.
DescriptionThe official Website describes Deadly Nadder as follows: "One of the most beautiful dragons in the world is the DEADLY NADDER. It is easily recognized by the bright blue body and brilliant yellow spikes that cover it head to tail. This colorful dragon is active any time of the day or night. Nadders are quick and agile in the air and can fly for long distances, but will almost always land before attacking. Nadders travel and raid in groups, making them especially dangerous. The Deadly Nadder isn't the largest or fastest dragon, but it possesses the hottest fire in the dragon world. The blast of a Nadder can melt steel, or turn a man to ash in seconds. But the dangers of the Nadder don't stop there. The tail of the Nadder can be whipped around, releasing a volley of giant spikes that can penetrate trees, walls, and Vikings."[1]
"A tropically hued fellow who is nastier than he looks. "He or she has raptor-liked tendencies and is very alert," DeBlois says. "He or she is also highly curious and aggressive." The Nadder can attack in two ways: Breathing a super-hot fire made of pure magnesium across hundreds of yards, or shooting off spikes from its tail."[2]
Deadly Nadders have amazing abilities that set them apart from other dragon species. They are big enough to do well in combat, but small enough to be fast both on land and in the air. A specimen named Stormfly rivaled Toothless in speed. Astrid discovered that, when put on a diet of chicken, the Nadder's speed increases greatly. They are also quite agile and well-balanced, as Stormfly demonstrated in Trick Contests, and in the first movie in the Arena.
Nadders have been confirmed to have the hottest fire of all dragon species, despite Hiccup claiming the Fireworm's skin when alight is as hot as the sun. Its been said that the Nadder's fire is hot enough to melt metal, and turn Vikings into ash. Stormfly also has been seen melting rocks.
Despite having one of the most powerful breath weapons, Nadders mostly rely on their venomous tail spines in combat. They can launch these from their tail at will, with great accuracy. Though it has never been confirmed how poisonous the spines are, and what the effects are.
Nadder's have a great sense of smell, hence the reason they were reclassified as Tracker Class dragons. According to the Dragonpedia, a Nadder can smell a human from one-hundred feet away, though it hasn't been confirmed what the limit to this ability is.
In the Book
During his initiation test in How to Train Your Dragon, Fishlegs tries to capture a Deadly Nadder, but wakes up the entire cave of dragons, forcing the Vikings to flee for their lives. In How to Be a Pirate, a juvenile Deadly Nadder is wandering in the Caliban Caves crying for its mother. However, this dragon is eaten shortly after by the Monstrous Strangulator.
How To Train Your Dragon (film)
At the start of the movie, several Deadly Nadders attack Berk along with several other dragon species. At one point in the attack Stoick the Vast throws a cart at a Nadder and hits it successfully. During Hiccup's narration, he says killing a Nadder will get him at least noticed. Later on Stoick along with a couple more other Vikings subdue three Nadders using a net. These Nadders escape towards the end of the battle due to Hiccup's bad luck and clumsiness and they make off with a good amount of kill. The Deadly Nadder is one of the dragons the students fight during Dragon Training. The teenagers learn how to stay in the dragon's blind spot when she first appeared in training in a wooden maze. The dragon is seen laughing at Snotlout's pathetic attempt to hit her with a mace and is driven off when Astrid hits her with an axe stuck inside a shield. Hiccup later learns from experience with Toothless that dragons can be subdued by scratching them gently on the side of the neck and the chin. He uses this to subdue the same Deadly Nadder in a subsequent encounter in a training exercise. Hiccup later walks Astrid through training a Deadly Nadder (the same one that Astrid had hit with a shield and Hiccup used the chin scratch trick on); she fights with her during the battle with the Red Death, but falls off her during the battle due to the Red Death almost eating them both by inhaling deeply and sucking them in plus the force from the Night Fury's blast used to save both the Nadder and Astrid. Astrid is seen riding her as her pet, and afterwards named her Stormfly.
In the Game
In the game adaption of the movie, How to Train Your Dragon, Deadly Nadders are experts in strength, which allows them to dish out some of the most devastating attacks. They have the longest melee range, making them hard to reach, and also possess high agility and speed to sustain speedy flight. However, their low stamina, power, and fire leaves much to be desired and the Nadder is therefore not recommended for beginners or for obstacle courses. Players will start out with a Deadly Nadder if they choose Astrid as their main character.
Wild Skies
In Dreamworks Dragons: Wild Skies, the Deadly Nadder can be tamed. It lives in Unlandable Cove, and one must feed it mutton in order to tame it. To get mutton, you will need 3 Gold to buy a knife, then go to Berk Village, where you then chop pieces of mutton. The Deadly Nadder is a Sharp Class dragon. When the player rides it, the dragon's mouth is closed. When you press the space bar, it will open its mouth and blow fire at the target.
School of Dragons
In the game School of Dragons, a Deadly Nadder is trainable. The Deadly Nadder is trained by many players in the game. Like most dragons, they have three stages of life.
Notable Nadders
- To train a Deadly Nadder, one must very carefully approach the dragon from its tail. Then, you must gently smooth its poisonous spikes down.
- The Deadly Nadder is said to be one of the most beautiful dragon species around.
- A Deadly Nadder can burn a solid rock cliff in few seconds.
- It is said to have the hottest fire in the dragon world, along with the Fireworm.
- The Deadly Nadder used to be a Sharp Class dragon, but was moved to the Tracker Class in the second film.
- The Deadly Nadder may be based on the domestic chicken, porcupines, birds, and theropod dinosaurs.
- ↑ How to Train Your Dragon Official Website - Deadly Nadder Dragon Characters Section
- ↑ 'How to Train Your Dragon' takes flight - USA Today - Page 2 of 7


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He swung his legs over the edge of the bed, his eyes shut against both the sunlight and the fireworks that detonated inside his skull whenever he moved. He was naked. He fished under his pillow and pulled out his pajama shorts. This was just too weird. Trey forced his eyes open and bent down to pull the shorts on when he saw his shoes. His favorite shoes. What the hell…?
There was a sharp knock at the door.
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I'm Danielle. Some friends and family call me Dani, which I like because it is more informal.
I am married to the love of my life. We met and fell in love in England. Yes, he has a British accent.
Here we are 12 years ago at our wedding. It rained; riches, so they tell me!
I'm so lucky to have Luke. He is so supportive whether it be to help me build a headboard, fix all the furniture I bring home or drive hours to rescue a puppy. He truly is my soul mate and my best friend.
We live in our dream home, a 1927 Dutch Colonial, which we are making our own room by room. You can take a little tour here:
We share this home with our two very loving and very energetic boys.
This is our oldest.
Who now looks like this, but looked like this when the I first started writing the blog three years ago…
John is very loving and very dramatic. He is obsessed with horses and nature. He loves to draw, create worlds on his computer, swim and run like the wind. He fell in love with England on our last visit and think might settle there one day. He is destined for greatness (a mother just knows).
This is our youngest and most mischievous. Who has grown into such a big boy.
But this how he looked when the blog began -
He always loves to help me hunt for treasures or paint and he loves to help his daddy build. He has quite an English palette and loves Branston Pickle, tartar sauce and crumpets. He is also destined for great things.
Finally this is Poppy, the puppy we drove miles for. We saved her!
We live in Scituate, MA and are just a stones throw away from the beach and Scituate Harbor. You will see that I LOVE the beach and all things shabby chic. I love rummaging for treasures just as much as I love to practice yoga and beach comb. I also love to cook and do crafts with my family. I could eat ice cream and pizza every day. My brain doesn't work until my morning cup of coffee. Blue is my favorite color.
I am obsessed with Annie Sloan's Chalk Paint® and Miss Mustard Seed Milk Paint. I will paint just about anything except the dark wood trim in our home. A bit of my heart goes into my painted pieces. Here are a few of my favorite ones:


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Hello, My name is Max, i live in Australia.
Im currently enrolled at tafe doing a cert 3 in arts.
I listen to all kinds of Metal,
I play Drums and i play in a band
^gahh hate the middle drawing xD
anyways please tell me what you think, ill return comments on your sketchbook
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thnx for passin by, glad you liked it
as it seems to me u dont draw that long, id recommend to start at the basics, get some anatomy books (there are some around here at CA, just look ) make study's and keep working, after some time you'll notice that you'll automaticly get better.
Never seen you draw like this ^_^
keep it up, you can only get better
still being bored
Its me ! =D
I like the guy with the beard best.
Draw much larger then you are now.
Keep it up
Bah hit submit reply twice -_- Sorry
tis ok my furry friend lol
I love coffee haha, this is my little coffee dude
i accualy might draw a detailed one soon - or like a mutant coffee cup haha
im pretty much addicted to coffee.... i could quit!!! i just don't want too
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This was drawn from a picture i found on failblog.org
Random and cool updates xD keep it goin
Yeah im going to re do this, but this is what ive finished, it looked pretty decent without colours
found image at alchemygothic.com (in art gallery)
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just been practing figures and a bit of proportion, im going to be doing a lot more haha, i feel that i've improved a little, and ive found that i can only draw late at night and when im by myself lol idk, its probably just me haha
eh lol only like the 2 on the right
gonna do this one again i dont like the hair but im like the body somewhat
Cool man keep it up youll get heaps better doin these
I'll say what Grafguy told you. Get some anatomy books, do them studies and draw from life.
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/sho...d.php?t=131117 this will help
try to analyse what ur drawing and build it out of basic shapes, circles squares etc. then its just amatter of making a few small changes here and there....
also unless im very much mistaken...tails come from above the bum....not from inside it :o
drawing from photos doesnt really help me improve i find, its much better to draw from life. do studies of ur hands or self portraitrs , draw ur friends etc. really helps with other stuff
hey, pls dont abandon this sketchbook, too! we need your cool work
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Nick: That's supposed to be his specialty. They have moved him inside to tackle for a few weeks to add some depth but now that he's back to his natural position, I would imagine he's ready to contribute. If anything else, his size (6-7) could be a factor to disrupt passing lanes. We'll see if Selvie is ready, but if not, I think Rayford has a shot to play.
David: After his five-sack performance in the preseason for the Colts, it would be a shame if he didn't even get a good look in some real action. With the defensive tackle depth taken care of, for the time being at least, hopefully Rayford will get a chance to showcase himself at a more natural position. A lot of that depends on Selvie being available, obviously.
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Nick: Let's go with the "bad game" part for now. It was actually just a handful of plays. I think he's a young, smart, athletic linebacker who is still adjusting back to THIS scheme. Yeah, he played 4-3 in college, but the scheme is different. He'll be fine, in my opinion.
David: Before he combusted in San Diego, we were talking about how well Carter was playing through three games. My biggest concern is what the poor performance might have done to his self-confidence, and this upcoming game against Denver doesn't seem like a good opportunity for him to win it back. I think he'll rebound in the long run, but maybe not this weekend – which explains why


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This is copied from an undated newspaper clipping.Henry Weidley mentioned at the end of the article died in 1871.
Presbyterian Church had you been standing on the shore at New Castle in the year 1704, you would have seen a ship coming up the Delaware Bay, with two families from the North of Ireland who were to take a prominent part in the history of the Chestnut Level Church. They came from the North of Ireland in 1704. Their names were James Clark and Scott. They had two children John was a boy born 1701, and Scott was a girl born 1702. In 1711 Rev. Thome came from Long Island NY to what is Centerville and organized a Presbyterian Church. John Clark took his son to church with him. He handed the practice down from generation to the fifth generation of the Clark family. The Clark family consists of eight generations
John Clark was born in 1701, North of Ireland. He came with his father to Drumore Lancaster county Pa. In 1704 his father was 33 years old, and John three years old, when they settled on the land now owned by A.S. Clark. When John was a boy of about ten or twelve years old he attended meeting at the house of Mr. Thompson; said house stood near the graveyard now known as Morrison graveyard, being the graveyard of the church, and the first graveyard in this section. Everything points to the building at the church in 1711.
Then the second church was built at what was known as five points, near where Samuel Rogers' House now stands, and also the old Presbyterian graveyard fifteen years ago there was an old gravestone stood inside the gate on the left, made of slate, inscribed 1726. The oldest stone now standing is Elizabeth Shaw wife of McPherson who departed this life Dec. 17, 1726. From the facts gathered there is no doubt that the second log church was built at the five points in the year 1717.
The third church was built of stone in what is now known as Chestnut Level. The building was commenced in the year 1765 and finished in 1769. The fact that it was built in 1765 is proven without a doubt. The land was sold for the church property only. It was recorded in 1765. David Bigham was born in 1762, David's father boarded the hands that built the church. David was a boy of between five and six years old. He was sent to call the hands to dinner . Boy like he climbed to the top of the lad r to the surprise of the workmen. His mother repeated the story to David time and time again and so it has been handed down to the present time. The old Rietchey House was built the same year the church was finished. with a stone in the chimney dated 1769, which has been seen by Mr. John Rietchey. When a small boy. Mr. Rietchey's father and Mr. Hugh McCollough, father of Sanders McCollough, were the first children to be baptized in the church after it was finished. They were born 1770 and 1771. The land was given by the Rietchey's who held a title given by the Penn Heirs.
- Written by Henry H. Weidley, sexton for 26 years at Chestnut Level and the father of William Weidley , of Bart Township, the latter dying last week ---- Sept 22nd
We have authentic information, however, that the first place of Presbyterian worship in this township was about a mile south of Chestnut Level, prior to 1730. The second meeting-house stood at the foot of the hill, near the old graveyard. The present substantial stone church has been standing a century and a quarter, and is a grand monument of the skill, energy, and Christian liberality of its builders, During the pastorate of Rev. John Patton some internal repairs were made, and in the early pastorate of Rev. Lindley C. Rutter the pews and pulpit were placed In their present positions. in Under the pastoral care of Rev. John 31. Galbreath, in 1833, extensive repairs and improvements were completed, the roof was reslated, the walls frescoed,a tower built over the entrance.way, a new pulpit furnished, and stained-glass windows, including a memorial window to the Rev. Lindley C. flutter, took the place of the old ones. The cost of repairs was three thousand dollars. A. Scott Clarke and James G. McSparran, of the building committee, made a full report on the completion of the work, and the church was rededicated to the service of God free of debt. It is a pleasant, venerable structure. The tooth of time has made but Blight impressions on its strong walls. Present appearances indicate that the present congregation and their descendants may worship for another century in their old church, around which cluster so many tender memories. Among the oldest elders of the church were Robert King, Robert Clarke, Hugh Martin, William Calhoun, David Scott, James Penny, Joseph Penny, John Long, and Edward Crawford. The present elders are Thomas A. Clarke, A. Scott Clark, James A. McPherson, Sanders McCullough, W. W. Watson, William T. Clarke, Samuel Boyd , William S. Hastings, and William R. Boyd. The pastoral roll, commencing back far as 1730 is headed with Rev. John Thompson until 1744; Samson Smith until 1771; James Latta, from 1771 to 1801; Charles Cummings, from 1804 to 1808; Francis Latta, son of James Latta, from 1810 to 1820; John Patton, from 1832 to 1834; Lindley C. Rutter, from 1835 to 1875; John M.. Galbreath, Oct. 12, 1876, the present pastor.
John Thompson came from Ireland a probationer in 1715. In 1730 he came to Chestnut Level from Middle Octorara. July 31, 1744, he was released from his pastoral relationship and went as a missionary to Western Virginia and North Carolina, after which an effort was made to bring him back to chestnut Level. He was very prominent in the discussions of his day, was the author of several religious works, and ranked with Dickson, Blair and Tennent and died in 1753. The pastorate of Rev. James Latta, from 1771, covers a space of thirty years. He was a noted scholar and a pioneer in thought; avocated the introduction of Watts ' psalmody in the church service, and published a work of one hundred and eight pages in their defense which reached four editions. In 1785 he defended the church-incorporation acts. Many of the congregation were displeased at the church innovations he presented to their consideration. Time has shown, however, the wisdom of his views. Many hearts have been made glad since then with the time sentiments of Watts' psalmody made vocal within the old church walls. The University of Pennsylvania conferred the title of D.D. on the Rev. James Latta for rare scholarship. The Rev. Lindley C.. Rutter came to Chestnut Level in 1835, and his stewardship extends over a period of forty years. He lived to see those he first baptized grow to man's estate, and also baptized their children. The elders present at. his installation slept in the churchyard before he went to his rest beside them. He svas always willing and able to maintain his principles, popular or unpopular. When but one vote was cast for the anti-slavery cause that vote was that of Rev. L. C. flutter. He was a warm advocate of temperance, and never during his long pastorate did he lose the respect and love of his people, however great might be the differences of their opinions.
Traditional history claims that the first Chestnut Level Church was organized in 1711 and located at Hensel near what is known as the Morrison Cemetery. The name "Chestnut Level" was received from its location on a flat chestnut-covered table-land.
The second meeting house was built in 1729 by the old cemetery at the foot of the hill just south of the village of Chestnut Level. This was a log structure. The third house of worship is the one in which we worship today. William R. Ritchie and his wife Jane, in the year 1765, for the sum of ten pounds, turned over the land to the church. This transaction is recorded in Record Book "0," page 94, in the Lancaster County Court House. In the deed Mr. Ritchie stipulates that a gallery should be provided in the Church for the accommodation of his slaves. Two traditions come down to us regarding this building. One claims that this house of worship was started in 1765 and completed in 1767. The other states that it was begun during the Revolutionary War, 118 stood unroofed for a time, and completed after the men returned from the War.
As originally constructed, there was an arched ceiling; the pulpit was on the west side; and the door in the east wall. Later this entrance was changed into a window, which explains the five windows on one side and the four on the other. The pulpit was placed in the north end and two doors in the south end. And later still, the pulpit was placed where it is today in the south end. In 1882 the tower was added.
The present sanctuary was renovated in 1941. This included redecoration, new light fixtures, alterations in the" choir 10ft, and installa-tion of a new organ. During 1959 and 1960, the sanctuary was again redecorated, a new organ installed, a parking area provided, and a new stone manse built.
Colonial Presbyterians were convinced that understanding, intelligence, and teaching were important facets of the Christian life. They demanded an educated ministry. Thus, when there was a church, t here was bound to be a school house, too. This was particularly true at Chestnut Level. Many of our ministers did double duty, serving both as preacher and teacher. It was John Thompson, first pastor at Chestnut Level, who proposed to Donegal Presbytery the erection of a seminary of learning. This was taken up by the Synod of Pennsylvania, and it is interesting to note that beginning in 1755 this semi-nary was located at Chestnut Level, and was in charge of Sampson Smith, pastor of this church. Thus, for a time Chestnut Level was the center of learning for the Presbyterian Church of Colonial Pennsylvania, but later Synod withdrew its support and made the college of New Jersey, now Princeton University, the authorized school. It is interesting to speculate on what might have happened if Synod had continued to support the school here. Today Chestnut Level, rather _ than Princeton, might be the center of a great University!
Then there was the famous Latin School founded by James Latta, pastor at Chestnut Level from 1771 to 1801. A relatively large institution of learning, it gave an impulse to higher education that has lasted ever since. It sent scores of young men into the learned professions , and other fields of great achievement, It is said that when news was heard at the school that the British had been defeated at Concord, many of the scholars ran away to enlist in the Revolutionary Army , A number of them became distinguished officers. After the, War, Dr. Latta's school regained its prosperity and was continued by his son Francis, also II distinguished pastor of this church,
Best known, however, to all of us, and attended by some still living, was the Chestnut Level Academy which was established in the year 1852, largely through the efforts of Lindley Rutter, forty years pastor of this church. Although located in a Presbyterian community and founded and supervised by Presbyterians, it was not sectarian in nature. It was attended by students of many denominations from a wide area. The training received at the Academy was thorough, and its influence across the years cannot be measured. Sampson Smith's Seminary, James Latta's Latin School, the Chestnut Level Academy are no more. Their place has been filled by other institutions of learning, but what they stood for remains with us; their influence lingers. The former dormitory of the Academy is now the center of education activity in the church. It was the center, likewise, of the Westminster Bible Conference, where young people of the Presbytery, summer after summer, met to study the Scriptures and learn to live together as Christians. The Westminster Bible Conference had its beginning in 1900 as "a Presbytery Ministerial Conference for Bible Study and the deepening of the spiritual life." The first Conference was held at the Chestnut Level Church on May 29, 30, and 31. The highlight of the Confer- ence was an address by the Rev. Robert E. Speer. It was decided to make this Conference an annual affair. In the first year, only ministers were invited to attend. In the fu- ture, it was thought that elders and young people from the churches should be encouraged to attend. The record would seem to show that from its inception, this Bible Conference was designed to attract and train the youth of the Church. Subsequent speakers at the Conference included such men as the Rev. William J. Erdman, D.D.; Dr. R. A. Torrey; Dr. J. Ross Stevenson, Moderator of the 127th General As- sembly and President of Princeton Theological Seminary; Dr. Lewis Seymour Mudge, Moderator of the 143rd General Assembly and Stated Clerk in 1921; Dr. Charles R Erdman; Dr. Clarence Edward Macartney, Moderator of the 136th General Assembly; Dr. Samuel M. Zwemer, missionary to the Moslem world; along with numerous others. Decisions for the ministry and the mission fields were made here. Many of the men now in the ministry are products of this Bible Conference. It continued to operate until 1953, a period of fifty-three years. Some of the early ministers of the Chestnut Level Church were John Thompson, David Thom, Sampson Smith, James Latta, Francis Latta, Lindley Rutter, John Galbreath. These men were preachers of power, missionaries, writers, and educators. We can focus our atten- tion on only one of them: James Latta, perhaps the most famous and distinguished minister ever to serve this church. Pastor here for thirty years, he was a soldier of the Revolution, chaplain in the Continental Army, teacher of the young, comissioner to the First General As-sembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. and Moderator of that body in 1793. His tombstone is in the old cemetery at the foot of the hill south of Chestnut Level village. The first regular pastor began his labors here in 1732. Since that time, only seventeen pastors have served this church. The present pastor, Rev. Richard E. Dunham, Jr. began serving the Chestnut Level Church in January of 1954.
Date of Organization 1711
Name Chestnut Level Presbyterian Church
(National Affiliation-The United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America)
Membership: Church- 500
Sunday School- 335
Hours of Services _ Morning Worship _ 11: 00 a.m.
Sunday School - 9: 45 a.m.
Youth Fellowship - 7: 30 p.m. address of the church is RD. 1, Quarryville, Pa.
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