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Wainwright will get the nod for the National League, perhaps in part because his own manager made the final decision. Wainwright ultimately was chosen instead of Clayton Kershaw, though a strong argument could truly be made for either pitcher.
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St Margaret of Scotland School is a loving and welcoming environment for students in grades preschool through 8th grade. We offer a strong curriculum focused on the core subjects and helping to prepare our students for high school and beyond. We invite you to come check us out!
I love St. Margaret , It's a really great school, great teachers and family oriented. The office staff is very friendly and helpful. The kids are in good hands with this type of atmosphere. St. Margaret teaches your child the way of LIFE, and academics is of utmost importance.
St Margaret of Scotland has the most caring and loving staff I've ever come across in the school system. They are warm and make you feel like family. I really believe in the saying It takes a village to raise a child. This school gives your child that attention and more. Their class room size small too
I have been a parent for 5 years and I have seen some good times and bad. We are definitely heading in the right directions. There have been many visible changes and the staff and curriculum continues to be strong. The administration is holding the teachers accountable which were touch and go in the past. They are promoting pride in our school and accountability within the student body. The classes are small and the students can get the attention needed. They also have additional help through the Sylvan learning centers. The tuition is affordable. The principle is accessible at all times. They have before/after care for the working families. I stay because the school has improved and I expect that it will only get better. I also stay because it not just a school but a family.
I attended St .Margaret's from 1st-8th grade('76) a long time ago. I've since graduated from several other schools, and look back on my time there with mostly fond memories (kids can be kids, esp. when you are the only white kid in class). Nevertheless, I always loved school, and what it has taught me. I esp. appreciate it now, since my son attends public school in California.What a sorry state public education has become! I was SO blessed to have strong, sacrificing, imigrant parents that put me and my younger sister in this school, despite the tuition for them on Dad' s very low salary (tuition was in the $300's for them- for the whole year!) I look back fondly, and wish the same for its currrent & future students-and since I am currently visiting Chicago, hope they'll let an old alumnus come & visit the old school! -Sophie
St. Margaret of Scotland School had a chance to be a great school. Things have changed this school year. Negative commets that have been said about the teachers are not true. St. Margaret has great teachers that look for the students and they are there to help them in any way. As for the teacher being held accountable for things like lesson plans the has always done lesson plans,and this is not the first time the school has sponsored dress down days to help a cause. The school raise money for cancer,help the cheerleaders and the basketball teams. So of things are not to theschool as some of think. We need to check facts before we speak out of turn. Because we are hurting people.
Hi; I am an existing parent from the old school administration, my children have attended this school for the better part of four years now, I simply love the new principal and all the great changes she has brought to this school, I really feel like my kids will be challenged now, the teachers are being held accountable for things that they should have been doing all along like lesson plans, can you believe that before Ms Garcia, the teacher never did them. The children are sponsoring out of uniform days for the eight grade trip, if anyone would take the time to attend a PTA meeting, or even talk to the students and principal, they all know, so as a parent, you should feel ashamed for claiming you don't know.
I am a teacher at St. Margaret of Scotland and let me tell you, it has gotten better. The school is cleaner and actually smells good. The children aren't roaming the halls like they have done in the past. The new principal has brought new programs, ART, Laser Show and other FREE workshops for students. Are we teaching for the money? People, not in the Catholic Schools. I believe that she cares about me as a teacher and all of the students. She knows majority of the students by name and she has only been here for a little over 7 months. She has started a PTA, where parents can get involved. Please remember that people hate change, especially when it makes people do more work. So please don't listen or believe everything you read. Come out and see what St. Margaret's has to offer you and your child.
I don't understand where the negative remarks are coming from. Give the lady ( the principal) a chance to make change, before we start jumping on her. I have three children in the school and I enjoy the change. I'm on the PTA and I see her vision. Come by and see. Make St. Margaret your new 2nd home away from home. We are trying to make this school one of the best on the south side. Come and SEE!!
I am a grandparent whose children attended St. Margaret and now grandchildren attend the school. What I once loved about the school was the close knit family environment; the former principal was also a graduate of the school and teacher at the school. He and his family had close ties to the school. He also knew every child by name and at the time there were well over 300 students in the school. With the current administration there is no longer a family atmosphere. Also, several incidents have occurred involving students that have been minimized by the current Principal. Many times I have called the school and she was not there and there is no one in charge. My children are all in the 30 s and I hoped my grandchildren would graduate from St. Margaret but they will not return after this school year.
Those of you who may question as to weather or not to send your student to St. Margaret please be advised that there is a new principal on board. So may wonderful changes have come about with the new principal. So far this year s discipline has change 100% for the better. There are actual consequences for issues they may arise unlike the past when there was NO discipline action taken. It has been an adjust for students, parents, and teachers alike but what has changed has been 1000 % for better from the past lacking principal. Please come visit and see the changes from how clean the school is now to how well behaved the students are. So those of you have though of St. Margaret in a negative light in the past please con revisit us!
This is a GREAT school! For those who may not know, the principal is a former alumnus of the school. He completed his Master's at SXU, not too far from the school. Surely he could go elsewhere (CPS)and make much more money (esp. bcz he does coach & teach.) My point is that he CHOOSES to be here. If that doesn't prove his commitment and concern for the children of this school I'm not sure what does. Kids receive individual asstnce. with guidance counseling, even though there is not a true guidance counselor on staff. The teachers help with high school choices and they make sure that the students complete scholarship apps to potentially offset the cost of H.S. A good exp. of this school's caring enrironment is when a sutdent's home caught fire recently (last year too,) the teachers and staff & fellow students all rallied to raise money!
So far, so much better then what I experienced with my child in her CPS school last year. I couldn't believe how much better she has been doing with her reading and other school work. Though things could be better, we have experienced the alternative CPS equivalent and I dare not go back...
I must say the foundation Pre-K-3 at St. Margaret and the daily instructions of the catholic faith is highly commendable. My main concerns at this point of time is upper grade. I've had nothing but headaches and stress this school year. Frankly, do feel a child will not adequately be prepared going into high school. Communication with teachers via Edline was a big disappointing. Many of the teachers I feel no longer have the passion to teach in a loving and caring way (a paycheck). There is a lot of hollering and uncontrolled classrooms. Very understaffed (for example. the principal is coach and religion teacher), so child is subject to what's called busy work or no work. This may very well be lack of resources but ultimately the child pays. Finally, the overall cleaniness of the school is less than desireable.
The Principle and Staff of this establishment has a special gift for care about the future of their students. The Principle takes a special interet in every student indivually. I have two children that has attended, and I have no complaints.
excellent school, lots of parental support, several extended day activities, awesome new gym, great teachers, young staff, great leadership just a wonderful experience for your kid.
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Protect your productive time.
"The number one complaint I hear is, 'I don't have time to focus during the day because people are always interrupting me,' " says Morgenstern. When you say, "Sure, I've got a minute" to someone, you're effectively saying, "No, I don't have time" to the project on your desk.
And behind every project you're late on is a person you're letting down. "People hold up whole departments because they cannot control the flow of interruptions and focus on their work," says Morgenstern.
How can you say, "Not now" without sounding uncaring or rude? Tape a note to your cubicle: "Can it wait? Under deadline." When someone calls or stops by and says, "Do you have a minute?" you can say, for instance, "I'm in the middle of something that I need to finish in about 20 minutes." Then defer that person to a later time. Morgenstern suggests that you set aside certain parts of each day when you can give people your undivided attention. That way, if you say, "Can we talk at 3 o'clock?" you know you'll actually be available at that time. Work in some body language cues to reinforce your I-can't-talk-right-now message. "I wear headphones at work and when someone pops their head in my door, I only uncover one ear so they know I'm not going to kick back with them," says Megan Thome, a 31 year old publicity coordinator in Kansas City, MO. Other ways to keep a visitor from lingering: Stand up just as the person stops by your office, as if you're on your way to a meeting, to lunch, or to the bathroom.
Or keep your hands on your keyboard and turn your head just enough to make eye contact.


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Inflected formsexiles (noun plural)
exiled (verb past tense)
exiling (verb present participle)
exiles (verb present tense)
Definitions of ExileExile - noun
- a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country
- a person who is expelled from home or country by authority
- the act of expelling a person from their native land
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- the expatriation of wealthy farmers
- the sentence was one of transportation for life
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Is anybody surprised?
You have hundreds of dancers in intricately choreographed dance numbers to big tunes and not a homerseckshul in the bunch.
No wonder it sucks.
Is anybody surprised?
You have hundreds of dancers in intricately choreographed dance numbers to big tunes and not a homerseckshul in the bunch.
No wonder it sucks.
The dust-up over a certain reality TV personality's recent comments about sexual mores reminded me of something that has irritated me for some time about the Celebrate Diversity crowd, and a minor revelation I once had while watching a Will and Grace re-run.
But first, a minor detour. Back in 2002, not too long after college, I was living in the DC area working in what I would consider my first "real" job — something that didn't involve bussing restaurant tables or making inordinate amounts of photocopies. Rather suddenly, I found myself in need of a new place to live. I ended up finding an ad for a cheap, metro-accessible place. The ad said "gay friendly". Hmmm, not my ideal choice. But I needed new digs pronto, and it was cheap! As it turns out, it was three gay dudes living in a house, and I was the odd straight guy. Little wonder that I ended up watching a re-run of Will and Grace.
I've actually been too busy to birl the tubes, I was veeshired. I also changed the title, I always get that wrong.
Let's start with some "Smirt Daplomacy" stuff.
Lebanese acting kinda scares as they laugh at Obama arming jihadis in Syria.
Great quote, you know they're just shaking their heads and laughing/cringing.
The United States backed "the coalition's vision for a tolerant, inclusive Syria that respects the rights of all Syrians.
After noting that the guy people trusted said, "I'm outta here".
In Egypt, some more of that brillyents,
Islamic hard-liners stormed a mosque in suburban Cairo, turning it into torture chamber for Christians who had been demonstrating against the ruling Muslim Brotherhood
Now we see why Christians are now the most oppressed religion, Muslims have killed or ejected all the Jews, now they're working on Christians.
So as Syria is a nightmare, Egypt is becoming a nightmare and the Palestinians continue their rocket and mortar attacks on Israel, the AP knows who's to blame. Do you really need me to tell you?
This surprises me.
Recent photographs show workers in Saudi Arabia demolishing some of the oldest sections of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, London's Independent reports.
Not even Press TV (official Iranian mouthpiece, like MSNBC but they show the other side sometimes) is covering it.
I'm not surprised the grievance mongers who bash the Israelis for planting olives on the 13th holiest site in Islam are quiet, but since it appears Syria is a heat-up of the war between Iran (Hezbollah, Assad) and Saudi Arabia (al Quaeda, various, other terrorists), I'd expect Iran to make some noises. Huh.
I did notice this when I clicked.
An Egyptian minister says direct flights in the form of charter flights will resume between Iran and Egypt within the coming weeks.
More jihadis for Egypt! Yay. Dudes probably kept blowing up when they had to make a connection. I know it usually pisses me off.
I didn't have enough time for more overseas, I do have a bunch of hilarity in this one so just a couple, domestic, WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!! or at least GO TO THE GULAG!!!!
This one's confusing. Huckabee warning the GOP about gay marriage.This one's about Dem senators going gaga for gay marriage.
It seems awfully early in the election cycle to get people riled up on gay marriage, for both sides. I know the Supreme Court is taking it up, it's going to be interesting.
From the I Used To Live There files, VA has a voter ID law. Racist! I mean, just cuz you need an ID for everything else it's racist to require it for voting!
Via the Puppy Blender, Moe Lane notices Obama's tool responding to a tweet from a fictitious congress-critter.
Kinda puts that threatening tweet at the Norks in perspective.
Cruz birthers are going to be a hoot. I mean, the mental contortions of making fun of Obama birthers while being a Cruz birther will be infuriatingly funny, which is not as good as funny but better than infuriating.
Via Jay we see unions acting like their fine, Wisconsin brothers. So some cops are letting good behavior prisoners out to do work, ala the guy from Shawshank, but he just has them do stuff around the town like painting the police station and shoveling walks. So the unions are all, "Hey! That's union work!", I guess their wives don't make apple pies stuffed with hundred dollar bills.
But, as jay notes, there's one problem.
The head of Arlington's Housing Authority says, because of budget cuts, his agency would not have been able to hire the job out anyway.
Mudderpocking sonsomabatching iceholes.
Via the Jawas, Help a Brother Out. Dude's selling his autographed picture of Jim Carrey to buy a gun. He's up to $444 now, that's pretty darn close to a Glock to scare good ole' Jim. I'd love to see him get enough to buy the gun Mr Gabby Giffords was gonna buy. That would be funny.
Via Harvey we see this Ramirez comic.
Rush Limbaugh needs to get a fund going for buses to Mexico so the DHS can dump them and not pay for transportation back to Mexico. Airfare to the Europeans might be too expensive, but if we started a fund….
A little global warmmongering humor. Global worming is hitting Europe so hard,
Ornithologists have reported that migratory birds coming from the south have turned back.
I picture Daffy Duck saying, "Fuck that."
The swallows will be back in Capistrano next year. And you know it's going to be caused by Global Worming!
Russian scientists are predicting an ice age based on the Sun not doing what it's supposed to be doing. I don't know if I believe it, we just don't have a long enough baseline for how the Sun is supposed to act, but…
That might be better than an asteroid. It would be a targeted disaster. Leftist nitwits hardest hit, people with brains enough to go south out of the cold would have a good chance (Hello from sunny Arizona!).
Then the Mexicans will suddenly think a wall is a great thing as Abrams and Bradleys go strolling across the Sonoran desert and the Rio Grande.
Last, and most freaky, via that guy who better hope he's a lumberjack if he lives near the glaciers we get this bit of optic delusion.
I am kind of busy today, but I still birled the tubes so here's some endy, some funny and some hotassery.
A drudgetaposition, smart diplomacy edition
Turkey welcomes Israel apology for defending against terrorist flotilla!
Turkish PM Backtracks On Obama-Brokered Deal With Netanyahu.
Shit, now we have to apologize to Israel for two things. First, Obama getting Netanyahu to apologize to terrorists enableers, and now this.
Barbra Streisand to perform in Tel Aviv
Poor bastards.
Lebanon's gov't dissolves itself. I figure Hezbollah will move in. Oh well, they had their Cedar Revolution and they allowed Jew-hatred to fuck it up.
Via the Jawas, A look at Hezbollah's politicking.
(Note: I have no idea where that is and I condemn myself for laughing every time I watch it)
Global worming attacks Ukraine!
Heavy snow, extremely rare for late March, virtually paralyzed traffic in Kyiv, and led to many international flights out of the city's airports delayed and cancelled.
I wonder if Al Gore was in the neighborhood.
A week or two ago I had a story about how
Britain Airstrip One investigated the assassination of one of Tsar Putin's enemies in London and they hid the results (Ignorance is Strength!). Tsar Putin I shows his gratitude as only a Bond-Villain/KBG Agent/Tsar can.
Boris Berezovsky, the Russian oligarch who helped broker Vladimir Putin's rise to the Kremlin's top job only to become his fierce enemy, has been found dead at his home in Britain in unclear circumstances.
Eh, so does that mean Oceania is…has always been at war with Eurasia?
Via Samizdata, more Airstrip One news, some friend of O'Brien's had this to say about their new restrictions on free speech, journalism and blogging.
Headline of the op-ed.
Press regulation: the royal charter deal is a move towards a better democracy
In the body
believe there is a need to totally re-evaluate the way we look at the relationship between the media and democracy. … I believe our developing concept of a duty of care should be extended to "a care" for our shared but fragile democratic values.
Freedom Is Slavery!
I was wrong, the Senate did pass a budget. It appears to be so full of poisoned pills that any Dem senator due for reelection next year voted against itand therefore, has no chance of being passed by the House so we still won't have a budget.
I linked to Minitrue (The Hill) just for this quote though
Democrats had been dogged by criticism for failing to approve a budget resolution since 2009 and the vote removes that GOP talking point from the political scene.
Assholes. GOP talking point? That should be journalists' talking point, you assholes pretend to be "impartial" even as you just root for your chosen side.
Fuck you.
Speaking of worrying about being reelected, we see these assholes are not worried and if people would pay attention they should be.
The list of 20 GOP senators who voted to fund Obamacare. Some of the usual suspects, Chambliss, Hatch, Collins. Some I"m surprised like Cornyn and Isakson, and one I'm utterly shocked isn't there, Fucking McCain. Of course, he's up for reelection and I'm hoping his primary isn't pretty. One I'm confused about, is Murkewkskey an Independent?
Alexander (R-TN) Barrasso (R-WY)
Blunt (R-MO) Boozman (R-AR)
Chambliss (R-GA) Coats (R-IN)
Cochran (R-MS) Collins (R-ME)
Corker (R-TN) Cornyn (R-TX)
Hatch (R-UT) Hoeven (R-ND)
Isakson (R-GA) Johanns (R-NE)
McConnell (R-KY) Murkowski (R-AK)
Sessions (R-AL) Shelby (R-AL)
Thune (R-SD) Wicker (R-MS)
Fuck you Mitch McConnell. You especially are a slimy piece of shit. I look forward to you voting yes on the Take Veeshir's Guns bill you and Feinstein are figuring out now.
Speaking of which…..
From the Barrel of a Gun (blog) we see this.
It would be funny if it weren't true.
Obama's EPA helping bestialists.
NCBA and the National Pork Producers Council are both furious with EPA for handing extremist groups illegally gathered data on farmers who operate confined animal feeding operations.
Motherfucking assholes are out of fucking control, they care not for laws, propriety or anything but advancing their religion.
This one is interesting, the Senate voted against any UN "Take Veeshir's Guns" Treaty.
Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) introduced an amendment that would prevent the United States from entering into the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty in order to uphold the Second Amendment. His amendment passed on a 53-46 vote.
It worked on Kyoto, but this bit of good paranoia from my favorite 'stan (SondraKistan) is good, paranoiac reading.
This is the conclusion, you'll have to actually make with the clicky to read the build-up (Hint: It has to do with the DHS buying all the ammo in America so the Police can't get any)
Okay, that's all for now, people. I want a report on my desk in the morning to include:
1. How this might lead to a federal "civilian defense force."
2. How this might lead to federal licensing of civilian ammunition purchases.
3. How this accommodates enforcement of the proposed UN arms treaty without a need to actually ratify it.
Good paranoia just keeps spreading, no one, and I mean no one (most especially his allies), trusts Obama to even pay lip-service to the Constitution.
Wherein Veeshir agrees with Obama!
President Barack Obama says each of his proposed steps to reduce gun violence should get a vote in Congress _ even an assault weapons ban that both parties agree stands little chance at passing.
First, get this shit over with. Second, if it fails then good, if it passes, then good. We need the fucking showdown soon. Nickle and diming our rights away is pissing me off.
I do wonder why he said it in Jordan, is he trying to make jihadis understand he's doing his best to disarm us for their attacks?
I cannot put anything, no matter how despicably murderous, past Mr Fast and Furious Benghazi.
Now, the hotassery, I believe this is the first actual sex show on DPUD!
Work that bitch!
Or is that Big Gay Al's Big Gay Animal Sanctuary?
Update: I hate it when I forget something that I wanted to put in the top of the post.
Breitbart died 1 year ago today and the world is a worse place for it.
What the hell is going on out there? Seriously, things are not so much scary and endy as confusing and WE'RE ALL GONNA something.
The Senate on Thursday rejected rival proposals to stop the sequester, ensuring the $85 billion in automatic spending cuts will begin on Friday.
Seriously? There's infighting in the Senate so they're cutting spending? WTF? Those assholes only fight to raise spending, not cut it. How am I supposed to hate you assholes if you don't stop cutting spending? (actually, as we all know, they're not cutting spending, they're cutting a minor part of the increase in spending in the important parts, but still)
Gateway Pundit says, "Awful" cuz Senate Dems haven't passed any sequester bills. I'm not picking on him, cuz I doubt he's the only one who feels that way, but why is that awful? The fewer spending bills Dems pass the happier I am.
This one is all about teh fucked up. Also via GP, apparently Boehner used the word "ass" and Reid has his petticoats in a bunch because the word "ass" reminds him of a whorehouse. First, Boehner wasn't calling either Obama or Reid an ass so don't get your hopes up, but more importantly, what exactly was Reid doing in a whorehouse that the word "Ass" reminds him of one?
Hey, DADT is over, I can ask.
At first this looks odd, but I would suggest it's not. Income is down over 3% and spending is up .2%.
Hey, eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die.
This is the Yelling at the Puppyblender section of the post.
First, PB notices a story about gov't workers who are involved in union stuff don't actually do any gov't work, they do union work. That's how it works. I only know the Patent Office for sure, but you fill out your hours and you have "other time", which means time not doing work on patents, it's for training or helping your boss or something like that, but the union assholes get other time for doing union work. It's fucking bullshit, but that's the gov't.
I love this one, PB links an article about how the Supreme Court is getting more powerful than Congress. Yawn, I've seen that story a bunch of times over the last 30 years. Why I'm linking is this.
In the Voting Rights Act case, justices are weighing the constitutionality of part of the law Congress reauthorized in 2006 that requires areas with a history of racial discrimination…(get jerked around V)
Who decides which areas have that history? You know they're talking about them racist bastids in The South. I saw a documentary once on PBS in Boston. It was about the 50s when blacks were moving north to big cities to get jobs. They had some guy who was big in Boston gov't (read: Mafioso, just like now) and his quote was, "We didn't want the blacks mixing in so we decided to make sure they moved to Roxbury with the Jews." To this day, Roxbury is black and West Roxbury is Jewish.
Dollars to doughnuts that Boston is not included in that Voting Rights Act. Cuz Boston isn't racist. So long as black folks know their place.
Veeshir defends Obama! Mark your calendars, then have a shot. One of Obama's illegal aliens releases released an illegal alien who then murdered. So why do I say I'm defending Obama? Because I've seen people try to tie it to his sequester warnings that he's going to KILL US ALL!!!!, this is unrelated. It's just standard, Obama trying to make America suck as much as he thinks it does.
This one is beautiful. The EU has legislated that young people will have jobs! Fucking brilliant! Why can't our Congress here outlaw unemployment? Call your legislator, let's get people working again!
This is the revolution part.
The NYS boycott is up to 106 companies. I'd like to highlight one of them. Progressive Micro Devices does not make guns, they make sensors for stuff like the Virtual Border Fence.
Secondly, Progressive Micro has gone out on a limb here. They make ground sensors, which are not something that most regular citizens would buy. They are generally something that sold to governments. Progressive Micro is putting themselves in the position where they might actually be losing business because of their stance.
I'm praising a company called "Progressive" something. Good for them.
I also really want to praise the guys who named this gun making company that is on the list.
Umbrella Corporation! That's fucking awesome. It would be better if they made umbrellas, but I'll take it. That's almost as cool as the cul de sac where a buddy of mine lived, Kangaroo Court.
NYS pro-gun rally. Man oh man did NY pols (and I) underestimate their folks.
An aside, fuck you Dennis Rodman and ESPN for acting as if the Kim Jong KG is not a poofy-stomached maniac. Rodman tweeted something about hoping to see Gangnam style. Sigh, they only do that in the north when their guards shoot at their feet to get them to dance. I never liked Rodman, but I had to respect him, now I can't even do that.
Now here's Veeshir banging his chubby fist on his high chair and whining at the way the world is.
Chad and I had a deal about 'standing' and who has it. I understand he was right and I was wrong, so far as American jurisprudence has decided in this Brave New World, doesn't mean I agree with it or fucking like it. Quite the fucking opposite in point of fact.
Take this, according to 31 USC § 1105, Obama has to submit a budget by March, 1 every year. He has only made that deadline once, and never submitted any budget that got one vote, so far as I know, but that's not why I'm whining.
I'm whining because I should be able to sue him because I'm an American and his breaking of that law affects me personally.
But I don't have standing. Why not? Because fuck me, that's why.
Now, let's have a little Viva Italia!
I have a buddy who lived in Italy for a few years, he was involved in some organic cooking school, and I asked him about good old Beppo Grillo, he of the Italian Vaffanculo Day Protests, he responded and I've put it below the fold, with his permission.
I asked him about the literal meaning of Vaffanculo.
Yes, it literally means: ' to go-do-make up the ass'. But, more idiomatically, 'Fuck you up your ass!'
I've been using that word forever and knew what each part meant but never put it together. Harry Reid would love that word. Let's send him to Italy!
As for the below, like most of my friends from upstate NY, he's pretty lefty, so ignore the military industrial complex stuff.
Sonamabatch, I did that post yesterday and I just can't get my Teh Funny back.
Let's see if the FEOCE! can cheer me up.
Okay, now normally I would think is funny, but today I just cry for the youth. I don't know anything about that site except they're insane.
Four years later, as President Obama starts his second term as president, the country needs not just a mention of the need for more college graduates but also a comprehensive strategy for producing those college graduates — the kind of strategy that the administration has designed and executed for the education that comes before college.
Wait, what? You mean taking tasty food away from them? Because other than that and shooting down vouchers for poor blacks in DC, the only thing he's done in lower education is make the special ed class feel like fucking geniuses.
Damn, that should have been fucking hilarious, I mean, that moh-ron thinks Obama gives shit one about anything but power for the gov't and was actually happy about his SOTU, but yesterday just destroyed me for a day or so.
SMOD's dry run went well, don't you think?
meteorite plunged to earth in Russia's Ural Mountains Friday, exploding into flames in a powerful blast that smashed windows and injured around 1,000 people.
Dam, even that can't cheer me up.
Crap, more Islamists copying our God-President and firing generals before his putsch. Man that just sucks.
So why link it? Because I'm pissed off at Minitrue and these idjits piss me off.
his is yet another calculated maneuver by Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to ensure that the Turkish armed forces are never again able to illegally take over the government
Illegally? No, that's their job whenever the jihadi assholes try to take over Turkey. So actually what Erdogan is doing is probably illegal as he wants Islamist assholes to take over and KILL US ALL!!!!!
Shit, people trying to KILL US ALL!!!, usually makes me laugh. This just sucks.
More on that "debate" we're having over guns.
So in Minnesota they wanted to have a "conversation" on guns, so they called in some gun experts to discuss that assault weapon that's terrorized so many soda cans, the Ruger 10/22.
n the video, DFL legislators simply arise and exit without explanation. They avoid learning details from the presentation about the very firearms they seek to legislate out of existence.
They don't want a "conversation", fuck people, doesn't anybody pay any fucking attention?
No politicians want a "conversation" or "debate" on guns, most want to take them away from us and Rand Paul doesn't. The only "debate' is how much those assholes think they can get away with.
Dammit, still can't find the funny.
This is Ta Nehisi Coates (wow, I've been seeing that name for years, I thought it was an Egyptian god) struggling with how people can lionize that murderous asshole out west.
Because he believed the right things about the right people. Geez, it's not rocket science or brain surgery.
Dammit, I just keep blowing jokes. This is pissing me off. Is it 5 O'clock somewhere?
The Firearm Blog is freaking out because Amazon is going to stop selling something. They're not sure what, but it's related to guns so SOMETHING MUST BE DONE!!!
I checked Amazon's page, unless they've changed something and are trying to keep it quiet, it hasn't changed. 48 hour rule folks.
More bullshit 'science'.
Recent research suggests that warm weather impairs our ability to make complex decisions
So how do you explain global warmmongering Mr Smarty Pants? Huh?
As it's gotten cooler, they've gotten stupider and more vocally idiotic. Geez, doesn't anybody do science anymore?
Now a few mea dumbas.
Last week I mentioned that Chicago city pols are idiots, like Barbara Boxer or Maxine Waters only stupider. I could have just written, "They are basically just Sheila Jackson Lee"
I stand here as a freed slave because this Congress came together.
I wanted to do Drudge style, but that's not easy. I probably won't even be able to do Puppy Blender Style.
Proof Obama has gone skeet shooting(at least twice) NPR gets excited.
(I worry for the dog*)
The UN doing what it does best: Jews Out of Judea.
Does anybody think this is on accident? "The Chicago home where the late President Ronald Reagan grew up is slated to be demolished and potentially turned into a parking lot for President Obama's Library,"
Minorities worth less to CNN:Many staffers were stunned when Feder constantly complained that the viewership of "Early Start" and "Starting Point" was "too ethnic,
Heh Increase in plant food grows more plants. Film at Eleven.
Personal foul: Illegal use of hands.Former NFL offensive tackle Kwame Harris reportedly was scheduled to appear in court Monday on assault charges stemming from an argument with his ex-boyfriend over soy sauce and underwear
Soy sauce and going out with guys. Hmmmmm. Lemur King was unavailable for comment.
Marco Rubio's pander on immigration might be a good thing. I've heard that song before. I didn't like it the first eighty times.
Syria says Israel flew under radar level, I wonder if Israel stealthed their jets or have stealth jets. Syria did admit it was a weapons facility. direct strike on a scientific research centre in charge of raising our level of resistance and self-defence,
That's it, for a true puppy blender style there would be about 40 more posts. How does he do it day after day, year after year? I can't imagine. He does provide a valuable service, I hope he makes decent money from it. We certainly don't see any of that sweet, sweet blog money. I figure AliceH keeps it all.
*This link and Pshop was from yesterday, I forgot it. That guy does great Pshops but has never once given me any firewood.
And yes, in case any of you were wondering, I do make myself laugh. I'm my own best audience.


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Inventions Ahead of Their Time: Lie Detector
CREDIT: Gabriel Rodr
The truth may be beauty, but extracting it can get very ugly.
The best interrogators rely on wit and persuasion to snare criminals, either tangling them in their own lies or milking a sordid compulsion to confess. Inevitably, the stubborn cases persist and most cultures have found a way to deal with them. Bedouins resort to a practice called "Bisha'a." The suspected criminal pulls a spoon from a clod of embers, licks it three times then offers up the tongue for inspection. If the flesh scars and bubbles, a guilty verdict is declared.
American law enforcement has developed a lie-detection ritual of its own: the polygraph test, which uses physiological measurements to determine the reliability of a suspect. Although use of the tool is quite new, the method and technology behind the polygraph has been around for centuries.
One of the primary figures behind the development of the lie detector, according to forensic scientist Jim Fisher, was a Harvard psychologist named William Marston. Later in life, Marston would invent the comic book character, Wonder Woman, whose "lasso of truth" could extract honesty from any man. But Marston spent the 1930s investigating the hard science of lie-detection, interviewing subjects while monitoring their vital signs . His first lie detector was simply a blood pressure cuff.
As Marston accumulated evidence, people in law enforcement took notice, including a medical student named John Larson. With support from the Berkley chief of police, Larson built the first polygraph machine. It was as big as a coffin and weighed thirty pounds, but the machine could record both blood pressure and respiration on a continuous graph, and for the first time, provided a way to reasonably test scientific theories of lie detection.
The field quickly splintered into competition. Larson continued running trials and accumulating evidence. Meanwhile, a former colleague named Charles Keeler, tried to gain public approval of the device by showing it off in petty demonstrations that combined science with card-trick magic.
By increments, their feuding resulted in a more reliable device. Keeler added a component that recorded the electrical conductance of the interviewee's skin and by 1943, according to Fisher, hundreds of companies in the United States were using the polygraph to screen employees. Today, that's illegal, and the polygraph continues to draw fierce criticism even as police and government agencies continue to use it.
This article is part of an ongoing series about inventions that arrived before the public was ready to accept them. You can read the rest of the series here.
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When Tyler Durden calls The Narrator back in the phone booth, the camera slowly tracks in towards the phone. On the left of the phone, a notice can be seen saying "No incoming calls allowed."
There's a light in all of us
Ralph McQuarrie's design's for the Star Wars Trilogy.
"Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull."
the game is on (x)
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Tommy Stinson can't slow down. The guy stays busy -- playing bass in Guns N' Roses (clocking nearly 14 years in the band, only Axl Rose and keyboardist Dizzy Reed have been in the band longer), releasing solo records (like this year's excellent One Man Mutiny), and playing in Soul Asylum. It' ... More >>
Ten albums that'll snap and fizz in your ear buds all winter long
A newly released two-CD anthology of Ian Hunter's solo recording only tells half of the rest of the story
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Tequesta Brewing Expands to New Brewhouse December
By David Minsky
El Bohio Offers Cuban, American Cuisine in Lantana
By Nicole Danna
Chima Now Offering Lighter Options
By Sara Ventiera
Closer Look: Bistro 1902 in Hollywood
By Candace West
Where To Watch the FIFA World Cup Final Match
By Emily Dabau
The Craft Beer 'Bubble' Is Not A Thing, Move Along
By Doug Fairall
Closer Look: Taps in Fort Lauderdale
By Candace West
Take a Look at the Best Drinks
By Laine Doss
Where, oh where, has my Little Italian Taverngone? Devoted patrons may have noticed that the homey joint vacated its well-known but rather scrubby location in front of a trailer park in Hallandale Beach a bunch of moons ago. Injury enough, no? Well, the owners have actually delivered the ultimate insult, at least according to some Browardites -- they've crossed the county line. Yup, that's right: The Little Italian Tavern is now comfortably installed in a more contemporary home in a shopping plaza in North Miami Beach (3439 NE 163rd St., North Miami Beach, 305-945-5646). Talk about habitat for humanity. Or is it domicile for diners?
800 S. Federal Highway
Hallandale Beach, FL 33009
Category: Restaurant > Italian
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Picnic and Barbecue area is available
Nice campground, new building and restaurant many activities. Says Camper (see picture)
New website for Friendship Acres Park and Restaurant is http://www.friendshipacres.com We now have a heated pool, game room and
Banquet Room. Says Bernie
i love this campground I have been a perment at this place for like 6 yrs. I love it the dances the powwows and much more. It rocks so much keep up the work Dave! see you in the summer!!!! Says maryssa
There's a nice restaurant at Friendship Acres Park that cooks wonderful meals. Swimming at Friendship Acres Park is great exercise and a lot of fun too, and of course there are showers at this campground. Some of the things you can do here at Friendship Acres Park are fishing, whitewater paddling, playing golf, swimming, and hiking, so running out of entertaining things to do won't happen. Continue to be able-bodied while here by playing volley
ball; you can also play golf here. Loads of people stay here for the purpose of being in the neighborhood of Quail Hollow State Park.
Restrooms are naturally at your disposal; bring your fishing hat since fishing here is splendid
. The delightful variety of local attractions and such an incredible array of things to do are good reasons to come.
The staff who's always there to help and all the glorious passtime activities will make you feel delightful. This segment of Ohio is always a bliss to have a look at during camping season.
Friendship Acres Park is incredibly well loved by people in Atwater.
Rocking Horse Inn, Ravenna
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Days Inn Kent - Akron, Kent
8 miles away
Activities: fishing, swimming, volley ball and golf
Nice campground, new building and restaurant many activities. - says: Camper
Super 8 Kent/Akron Area, Kent
8 miles away
Hampton Inn Akron-Kent Area, Brimfield
8 miles away
Econo Lodge Kent, Kent
8 miles away
Other campgrounds near Friendship Acres Park, Ohio:
Cutty's Sunset, Louisville
, 4 miles away
Countryside Campground, Mogadore
, 7 miles away
Cherokee Park Co, Mogadore
, 7 miles away
Hidden Valley Campground, Ravenna
, 9 miles away
Tucaway Lake Campground, Ravenna
, 9 miles away
Clear Water Park Camping Resort, Uniontown
, 9 miles away
West Branch State Park, Wayland
, 11 miles away
West Branch State Park - Equestrian Camp, Wayland
, 11 miles away
Service Plaza-Brady's Leap, Hiram
, 12 miles away
Service Plaza-Portage, Hiram
, 12 miles away
Marinas near Friendship Acres Park, Ohio:
Walborn Marina, Hartville
, 7 miles away
Meyers Lake Fish Dock, Canton
, 15 miles away
Sandy Beach Marina, Akron
, 19 miles away
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Cuyahoga River, Portage/Summit County
, 10 miles away
Class II(III) - 0.25 miles long (Kent to Munroe Falls)
Cuyahoga River, Summit County
, 17 miles away
Class V - 1 miles long (Broad Blvd to Front St)
Cuyahoga River, Summit County
, 18 miles away
Class III-IV - 1 miles long (Ohio Edison Dam to Cascade Valley Metro Park)
Chagrin River - Aurora Branch, Cuyahoga County
, 23 miles away
Class III-IV - 1.55 miles long (Chagrin Reservation)
Cuyahoga River, Summit / Cuyahoga County
, 24 miles away
Class I-II - 2.7 miles long (Route 303 to Boston Mills Road)
Public Lands near Friendship Acres Park, Ohio:
Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area, Brecksville - OH
, 30 miles away
Quail Hollow State Park, Ohio
, 5 miles away
West Branch State Park, Ohio
, 12 miles away
Tinker's Creek State Park, Ohio
, 16 miles away
Lake Milton State Park, Ohio
, 19 miles away
Portage Lakes State Park, Ohio
, 21 miles away
Trails near Friendship Acres Park, Ohio:
Beech Ridge Trail, Portage County
, 18 miles away
Beaver Run Trail, Portage County
, 19 miles away
Clubmoss Trail, Portage County
, 19 miles away
Golf Courses Near Friendship Acres Park, Ohio:
Sable Creek Golf Course, Hartville
, 5 miles away
Suffield Springs Golf Club, Mogadore
, 6 miles away
Mulligan Springs Golf Course, Mogadore
, 6 miles away
Congress Lake Club, Hartville
, 6 miles away
Seven Hills Country Club, Hartville
, 6 miles away
Lakes Near Friendship Acres Park, Ohio:
Muzzy Lake, Portage County
, 4 miles away
Dale Walborn Reservoir, Stark County
, 6 miles away
Wingfoot Lake, Portage County
, 9 miles away
Mogadore Reservoir, Portage County
, 9 miles away
Deer Creek Reservoir, Stark County
, 10 miles away
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Local climate location: HIRAM 13 miles away
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'True Blood' "I Found You" Preview: Is Sookie Stepping Out on Alcide Already?
For better or worse, this past Sunday saw HBO's 'True Blood' spurting out its final premiere in season 7 opener "Jesus Gonna Be Here," accelerating the threat of Hep-V vampires with a few bloody deaths and some shocking reveals. Team Sookie will step up to investigate in this Sunday's coming "I Found You," so what do the first clips and photos from the hour reveal?
Following Sookie's mysterious discovery of a dead girl in the woods this past Sunday, it looks as if investigation of the infected vampires leads the group to a deserted nearby town, wherein Jason's "pizza forensics" deduce it had been abandoned only days earlier. The second clip sees Sookie confronting Bill on his doorstep, but what her intentions might be are anyone's guess.
Meanwhile, here's what HBO had to say of the final season's second hour, "I Found You":
Episode #72: "I Found You"
A trio of hostages taken in the Bellefleur's attack looks to a familiar face as a possible liberator from the H-vamps. Sookie and Jason (Ryan Kwanten) visit the neighboring town of Saint Alice, where a young woman's diary offers clues to the potential fate of Bon Temps. Spurned by Lafayette (Nelsan Ellis), a desperate Lettie Mae (Adina Porter) turns to Willa (Amelia Rose Blaire) to channel her family past. Vince whips his fellow vigilantes into a dangerous frenzy. Pam's (Kristin Bauer van Straten) search for her maker leads her to a very familiar place.
We've also included the full set of photos from the hour beneath the clip below, but what say you? Will "I Found You" improve upon Sunday's stunted premiere? Is that major death as permanent as it looked? Check out the latest 'True Blood' below, and give us your final season predictions in the comments!


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940 East 79th Street has a Walk Score of 82 out of 100. This location is Very Walkable so most errands can be accomplished on foot.
940 East 79th Street is a five minute walk from the ME Metra Electric at the 79th St. (Chatham) stop.
This location is in the East Chatham neighborhood in Chicago. Nearby parks include De Bow Park, Grand Crossing Park and Adams Park.
Nearby schools include Shabazz International Elementary Chartr School, Hirsch Metropolitan High School and The World Is Yours Childcare & Learning Center.
The closest grocery stores are Food Town, Eli's Food Mart and Jbj Mart.
Nearby coffee shops include D & M Soul Cafe, Fleck's Coffee and 300 Blue Cafe LLC. There are 28 restaurants within a 15 minute walk including Nine One Seven Cafe, Lotus Chop Suey and Harold's Chicken Shack.
940 East 79th Street is near Grand Crossing park, Adams Park and Avalon Park.
There are minimal bike lanes and the terrain is flat as a pancake. 940 East 79th Street is bikeable, there is some bike infrastructure.


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Portland Pilots (6-3) vs. Montana State Bobcats (3-5)
Tip-off: 2:00 p.m.
Arena: Chiles Center
Live Video: PilotsVideo.com Radio: 910 AM
For a program that is trying to establish themselves as a quality program, winning games that you are supposed to win is a must. Portland failed to do that last season when they went to Bozeman and were trampled 83-64 by the Bobcats of Montana State. They will try to avoid that fate today at the Chiles Center when they host Montana State.
The Opponent
Montana State is lead by Marcus Colbert and Paul Egwuonwu who each average 10.3 points per game. They have only 3 wins on the season beating Central Michigan, Cal State Northridge, and most recently Walla Walla.
Keys for Portland
Portland comes into this game playing some pretty good basketball, especially on the offensive side of the ball. The Pilots are currently in the top 50 in three offensive statistics (43rd in Points per game, 47th in rebounds per game, and 24th in assists per game). More importantly the Pilots are only turning the ball over 11.22 times per game, which is tied for 65th best in the country. Combine a couple of those stats and the Pilots have the 24th best assist to turnover margin. Again if the Pilots can maintain that level of team basketball they should continue to see success. One area where Portland can be exploited is from the three point line, so look for the Bobcats to be taking a few more threes than they normally do.
X Factor
Thomas van der Mars vs. Consistency.
The junior Center has strung together some fantastic games over the past few weeks including a 19 point, 18 rebound game against Portland State. When van der Mars is playing this well, it makes everyone's job easier for Portland. If van der Mars can continue to produce at such a high level, Portland should continue their nice little winning streak
Quick shots
Now that finals are over, it will be interesting to see how Portland comes out. Look for the first 5 minutes to really set the tone for the Pilots.
I mentioned before the Pilots have struggled defending the 3, if they continue to allow teams to shoot open shots, they will get killed during WCC play.
I'm hoping the freshman Aitor Zubizeretta gets a little more run. In his limited minutes thus far in the season, its easy to see his flair he plays with. Just a fun player to watch.
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Alife – Fall/Winter 2008 – Shell Toe – Black + Grey
August 4th, 2008 by Thomas Won | No comments
With an Alife Fall Collection recently previewed on the site, two colorways of the Shell Toe skate sneaker are being added to the list. The sneaker is available in grey and black suede, with rubber toe caps, similar to the Adidas Superstar. Also, black and white Alife logos are featured on the heel and tongue of each sneaker. Both pairs are available now at Lafayette.
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After cleaning our floors and treating the rust, we use short-strand fiberglass body filler to fill a few pin holes in the floorboards. We were lucky we caught this rust just in time so our floors weren't rusty enough to need complete replacement. If your floors do need to have sheetmetal replaced, Year One has it for most applications.


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by S. James Gates
Physicists have long sought to describe the universe in terms of equations. Now, James Gates explains how research on a class of geometric symbols known as adinkras could lead to fresh insights into the theory of supersymmetry — and perhaps even the very nature of reality.
Complex ideas, complex shapes Adinkras — geometric objects that encode mathematical relationships between supersymmetric particles — are named after symbols that represent wise sayings in West African culture. This adinkra is called "nea onnim no sua a, ohu," which translates as "he who does not know can become knowledgeable through learning."
In the land of theoretical physics, equations have always been king. Indeed, it would probably be fair to caricature theoretical physicists as members of a company called "Equations-R-Us", since we tend to view new equations as markers of progress.
The modern era of equation prediction began with Maxwell in 1861, continued through the development of Einstein's equations of general relativity in 1916, and reached its first peak in the 1920s with the Schrödinger and Dirac equations. Then a second, postwar surge saw the development of equations describing the strong force and the electroweak force, culminating in the creation of the Standard Model of particle physics in about 1973. The equations trend continues today, with the ongoing struggle to create comprehensive equations to describe superstring theory. This effort — which aims to incorporate the force of gravity into physical models in a way that the Standard Model does not — marks the extant boundary of a long tradition.
Yet equations are not the only story. To an extent, geometrical representations of physical theories have also been useful when correctly applied. The most famous incorrect geometrical representation in physics is probably Johannes Kepler's model of planetary orbits; initially, Kepler believed the orbits could be described by five regular polygons successively embedded within each other, but he abandoned this proposition when more accurate data became available.
A less well known but much more successful example of geometry applied to physics is Murray Gell-Mann's "eightfold way", which is a means of organizing subatomic particles. This organization has an underlying explanation using triangles with quarks located at the vertices.
For the past five years, I and a group of my colleagues (including Charles Doran, Michael Faux, Tristan Hubsch, Kevin Iga, Greg Landweber and others) have been following the geometric-physics path pioneered by Kepler and Gell-Mann. The geometric objects that interest us are not triangles or octagons, but more complicated figures known as "adinkras", a name Faux suggested.
The word "adinkra" is of West African etymology, and it originally referred to visual symbols created by the Akan people of Ghana and the Gyamen of Côte d'Ivoire to represent concepts or aphorisms. However, the mathematical adinkras we study are really only linked to those African symbols by name. Even so, it must be acknowledged that, like their forebears, mathematical adinkras also represent concepts that are difficult to express in words. Most intriguingly, they may even contain hints of something more profound — including the idea that our universe could be a computer simulation, as in the Matrix films.
by Krista Tippett, host
The science-religion "debate" is an abstraction, and a distraction. It isn't true to the deep nature of science, or of religion, or to the history of interplay between them. These are convictions I'm left with after a cumulative conversation that began a decade ago. And after spending the spring traveling around the country talking about this in theaters packed with scientists and citizens, atheist to devout, I know that others share my sense that our sound-bite friendly, politically-fueled narrative of animosity has outlived its usefulness. There is a science-religion divide — these are two distinct and separate spheres of endeavor. But in the 21st century, we can't help but hear echoes passing back and forth across that divide and changing the way we understand our humanity, our relationship to each other and the natural world, the contours of the cosmos.
It's not just the passion and frequency with which mathematicians talk about beauty and physicists talk about mystery that intrigues me. It is also that every time the rest of us log on to our computers in the morning, or every time we eat a meal, we are steeped in the fruits of science. We may not be fluent in the language of science — mathematics — which Galileo called "the language in which the universe is written." But in the most ordinary moments in our doctors' offices, certainly in near-ordinary experiences like birth, illness, and death, we receive crash courses in science of many kinds. And we turn simultaneously, without time for debate, to inner territory of morality and meaning, which science has no language for addressing.
Einstein put it this way, helpfully: science is good at describing what is, but it does not describe what should be. That is one way to talk about the role that religious and spiritual practice, our sense of what is right and sacred, plays in human life. And for the record, I don't believe that spiritual and moral life ceases in the absence of belief in God. Einstein didn't believe in the personal God of traditional religion. But he did profess a "cosmic religious sense" driven by "inklings" and "wonderings" rather than answers and certainties. Its hallmarks were a reverence for beauty and a sense of wonder that, he acknowledged, he shared with lovers of art and religion.
And it's worth remembering that, in Einstein's day, zealous religion appeared less a threat to the future of humanity than science on the loose. He watched chemists and physicists become purveyors of weapons of unprecedented destructive power. He declared, chillingly, that science in his generation was like a razor blade in the hands of a three-year-old. Against this backdrop, he called his contemporary Gandhi — and other figures such as Jesus, Moses, St. Francis of Assisi, and Buddha — "spiritual geniuses." Einstein soberly observed that these kinds of "geniuses in the art of living" are "more necessary to the sustenance of global human dignity, security and joy than the discovers of objective knowledge."
It seems clearer and clearer to me that, in the 21st century, genius in the art of living must draw on the best insights of both science and religion, not as argued but as lived. Or, as the Anglican quantum physicist and theologian John Polkinghorne puts it, we come ever more vividly to see how science and religion are both necessary to interpret the "rich, varied and surprising way the world actually is." I think that the surge of spiritual energy and curiosity of our time is precisely a response to the complexity we know by way of science and technology — not a flight from that, but a turn to sources of discernment to sort, prioritize, make sense.
I was especially intrigued by how the subject of climate change came up when I discussed Einstein's God in a packed theater in Washington D.C. There the room included scientists from across government agencies — some of them personally religious, some of them not, but all open to engaging the moral aspects of human life that science touches but does not resolve. I heard from people who are working on frontiers of climate change research, including deliberation of how, in a worst-case scenario, we might intervene to change climate, change the weather. This is a cosmos-altering idea on the magnitude of those contemporaries of Einstein who split the atom. But they are deliberating now about the ethical ramifications of this burgeoning possibility, and they are aware of their need of all the resources humanity has to offer for thinking this through.
So what if, as a first step moving forward, we focused less on the competing answers of science and religion, and more on their kindred questions? The question of what it means to be human animates each of these vast fields of endeavor, though they approach and take it up in very different ways. If we just start seeing that, how much more cohesively might we be able to take in the best insights of science and religion, honoring more of the fullness of our humanity, living more gracefully and productively with all that we can know?
In the photo above, physicist Albert Einstein (left, standing behind girl) and theologian Paul Tillich (right, standing in front wearing glasses) at a conference in Davos, Switzerland on March 18, 1928. (Courtesy of Image Archive ETH-Bibliothek, Zurich)
Shubha Bala, associate producer
For the past few interviews, we have been diligently tweeting away while Krista converses with our guests. We hope that this is a unique way for you to experience some of the highlights — and get the conversation started — before you experience the full edited (or unedited!) show.
After our interview with Mario Livio, we all sat down to discuss what constitutes a good tweet. So, this week, we ask you: seeing the entire tweeting transcript below, what tweets are helpful? Do links help? Is it too much to break information between tweets?
- For the next 90 minutes, we'll be live-tweeting Krista's ISDN interview with Mario Livio, a Romanian astrophysicist who grew up in Israel.
- Mario Livio's latest book is "Is God a Mathematician?"
- Livio asks if mathematics discovered or is it an invention of the human mind. Picks up from Krista's interview with two Vatican astronomers.
- "Mathematics turns out to be too powerful in describing all these things." -Mario Livio
- Mario Livio: Newton takes observations that aren't so accurate, + his mathematical equations are more accurate than the observations!
- Livio: the theory of knots are very important application for string theory even though it was initially thought to have no application.
- Livio: The conclusion I reached about math being discovered or invented is that the question is being posed wrong. It's a mixture.
- Ex. of mixture: imaginary numbers like square root of -1. We invent the concept and then we discover the relationships among these concepts.
- Ancient Greeks invented concept of prime numbers. And then the discoveries were forced upon us.
- Livio: Roger Penrose, mathematical physicist: three worlds and three mysteries - physical world, consciousness, mathematical forms.
- Penrose's 3 mysteries: 1) out of the physical word, consciousness 2) consciousness gives access to math forms 3) math explains phys. world
- Livio: Chomsky will tell you that there is more universality to languages than we think.
- Livio "The Microsoft Effect": once a particular OS starts to dominate, all have to adapt it. Mathematical notation is a little bit of that.
- Mario Livio: "Our perception system is universal. This had to help in inventing natural numbers like 1,2,3,4,5…"
- "Like beauty in the arts, it is somewhat more vaguely defined [in mathematics] …but perhaps it is a little bit more defined." -Mario Livio
- We try to formulate a few laws of physics + try to explain all phenomena. We do the same thing in mathematics - like in symmetry. -M. Livio
- "I have heard very few people think that Einstein's general theory of relativity is not beautiful." -Mario Livio, astrophysicist
- Mario Livio: You could argue that the principal behind Einstein's general relativity is simpler than Newton's gravity.
- M. Livio: Symmetry is a quantity that does not change. Mathematicians came up with a system to describe ALL these symmetries. Group Theory.
- Funny moment where Krista starts to ask Livio about his love of art and Mario Livio responds, "You seem to be well prepared."
- Mario Livio, in response to Krista's question: "I don't have a good explanation for my passion for art."
- Livio: "…it would be false to say that science + art have influenced each other. Or that science + religion have influenced each other."M. Livio: "A person who feels a need for God does not want a God that created the universe and then left the universe to its own devices."
- M. Livio, picking up on that last point: "Science has nothing to say about this. … People try to force the connection."
- M.Livio-ppl who try to say Genesis is completely accurate scientifically does science & religion a disservice
- M.Livio-Is God a Mathematician? "I mean God as an Einsteinian God-synonym to the working of the cosmos."
- M.Livio-Physics has changed over time but "Mathematics has evolved, but the math the ancient greeks did is still true today." Eternal truth?
- M.Livio-As physics became more predictive, people went away from religion to talk about nature - talked about precise sciences
- M.Livio-cont. a development of 20th century-with quantum physics, things are no longer deterministic, can only calculate probabilities
- M.Livio-"Biology today is..at the state physics was…..-many of the major breakthroughs are yet to be made"
- Krista tells a funny story of Goedel, accompanied by Einstein, applying for US citizenship - http://www.ias.edu/people/godel/institute
- M. Livio - About math and life… well "in science, unless you have a well defined problem it is virtually impossible to try to answer it"
- Livio-"Things like life these are inherently complex situations where..often I don't..know what question to pose, let alone find the answer"
- Livio-April 24 is Hubble 20 year anniversary. He talks about the importance of Hubble images - http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/
- Krista and M. Livio recall SOF interview about human & mathematical limits with Janna Levin - http://bit.ly/axpPBy
- M.Livio-pushing boundaries-we used to think the earth was the center of a universe, and now "200 galaxies like ours just in the observable"
- M.Livio - but each discovery we make, we find out there's something "even more mysterious"
- M.Livio-In all this, our physical selves seem more&more minuscule, but our minds making the discoveries are more&more important & central
- Thank you Mario Livio! For more information on him and his book : http://www.mariolivio.com/


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a pilot for a new plastic man tv show pitched at cartoon newtwork. it was scrapped, but i hear they'll be making shorts of this show for the dc nation saturday morning lineup. anyone else kinda reminded of a mixture of ren and stimpy styled art and alittle gennedy tartakovsky?
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Wednesday, December 5th 2012 - 18:17 UTC
Royal Navy has a new Fleet Commander, Vice Admiral Philip Jones
Royal Navy has welcomed its newly-appointed Fleet Commander and Deputy Chief of Naval Staff at a handover ceremony in Portsmouth. Vice Admiral Philip Jones takes up the role from outgoing Fleet Commander Admiral Sir George Zambellas who will continue in his NATO role, Commander Maritime Command, at Northwood in North West London.
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December 18, 2012
Although the event at Newtown was still top center of the news cycle, I just couldn't go through day four of talking about the fate of the victims. Will was glued to the giant chess game that was the to and fro of the changing policy and politi-speak emerging from the White House, the gun lobby, far right Christians and Second Amendment fanatics that I predict won't be overtaken by the news cycle until some other topic strikes the fancy of the media. I don't and can't imagine what it will be from where I am sitting now.
A frightening story emerged from Syria that involved one of our colleagues Richard Engel who is the chief foreign correspondent for ABC news.
Richard was kidnapped five days ago along with his cameraman and producer while traveling in Syria with a group of Syrian rebels. In what is one of the few times in which members of the media closed ranks and agreed to a blackout of the story at the urging of NBC, Richard's identity wasn't revealed to the kidnapper's who could have used that information as valuable bargaining chips to achieve their goal. I can tell you that there is no scarier nightmare than a kidnapping scenario for any reporter. Thankfully all went well and Richard and his crew were released in what I am sure will be an evolving story.
In the newsroom Maggie, who incidentally was quite hungover this morning, was a bit more frazzled than usual and couldn't quite manage the day. The undertone of sexual tension between Mags and Jim can be a tad unbearable at times so I mentioned to Jim that he should just ask her out for lunch. He listened and politely declined to follow my advice, again.
Finally in financial news, Sloan was talking up a blue streak that the looming fiscal cliff would definitely be averted and that she had inside information from one of Boehner's aides that a compromise is imminent.
It is late, I am exhausted and going home.